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Cross"way` (-w?`), n. See
Crossroad.

Cross"-week` (-w?k`), n.
Rogation week, when the cross was borne in
processions.

Cross"wise` (-w?z`), adv. In
the form of a cross; across; transversely.
Longfellow.

Cross"wort` (-w?rt`), n.
(Bot.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants
having leaves in whorls of four, as species of
Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

||Crot`a*la"ri*a (kr?t`?-l?"r?-? or kr?`t?-l?"r?-A),
n. [NL. See Crotalum.] (Bot.)
A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

&fist; Crotalaria juncea furnishes the fiber called
sunn or Bombay hemp.

Crot"a*line (kr?t"?-l?n or kr?`t?-),
a. [See Crotalus.] (Zoöl.)
Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or
Rattlesnake family.

||Crot"a*lo (-l?), n. A
Turkish musical instrument.

||Crot"a*lum (-l?m), n. [L., fr.
Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; rattle.


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