n. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; anything twisted. ] (Bot.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To put forth the first sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; fruit. ] (Bot.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having acrospores. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en croix. See Cross, n. ] From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. --
To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. broad in scope or content limited, exclusive
Syn. -- all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pr>(&unr_;), n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; extreme + &unr_; order, line, verse. ] 1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of an acrostic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. la crosse, lit., the crosier, hooked stick. Cf. Crosier. ] 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 with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Macro- + Gr. &unr_; to view. ] Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic. -- Mac`ro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL. See Macro-, and Sporangium. ] (Bot.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Macro- + spore. ] (Bot.) One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to macrospores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. para- + acrostic. ] A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + acrostic. ] A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sucrosanctus. ] Sacred; inviolable. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone. [ 1913 Webster ]