Word Meanings - CIRCULARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Circular; illogical. "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.
Related words: (words related to CIRCULARY)
- CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CIRCULARLY
In a circular manner. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - CIRCULARITY
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - CROSS-CROSSLET
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses. - CROSSWORT
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. - CROSS-TAIL
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. - CROSS-EYE
See STRABISMUS - CROSS-STAFF
1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - HOLY CROSS
The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross , a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph.