crossbones

pl. The representation of two bones laid acro each other on tombstones. "Here's neither head nor foot stone, plate of bra , Cro -bones or skull." Words worth: The Brothers. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, IMG:content-1379.png:[blocks in formation] "I saw him draw a cro - bow stiff, And his true arrow struck afar." cro -bow. cro -breed, s. IMG:content-1380.png:[blocks in formation] his chief busine was to examine and cro examine the most hardened miscreants of a great capital." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. cro -examined, pa. par.ora. [CROSS-EXAMINE.] cro -examining, pr. par., a. & 8. [CROSS EXAMINE. IMG:content-1381.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] izing intellect vol ii., p. 146. cro -fish, s. Ichthy.: A kind of star-fish. "The typical asterias-the cro - fish (uraster), -Ansted: The Channel Islands, p. 237.