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a. (Zool.) 1. Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of Christcross. ] 1. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion. W. E. Boardman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Christcross-row. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Crissa [ NL.; cf. L. crisso to move the haunches. ] (Zool.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. hérisson, prop., hedgehog. ] (fort.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

An overissue of government paper. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To issue in excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; odd, from &unr_; over. ] (Chem.) Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perish. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Perissodactyla. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; odd (fr. &unr_; over) + &unr_; finger. ] (Zool.) A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. périssologique. ] Redundant or excessive in words. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. perissologia, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; odd, superfluous + &unr_; discourse. ] Superfluity of words. [ R. ] G. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Rise. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. Rissoa, the typical genus ( fr. A. Risso, an Italian naturalist) + -oid. ] (Zool.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. rissoler to fry meat till it is brown. ] (Cookery) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. varice varix. Cf. Varix. ] (Far.) An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and often growing to an unsightly size. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]