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CROSSGRAINED

Definition: CROSSGRAINED

CROSSGRAINED

Adjective

1. Perverse; untractable; contrary.

2. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: CROSSGRAINED

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Obstinacy	Willful, self-willed, perverse; resty, restive, restiff; pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete; contumacious; crossgrained.
Sullenness	Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: CROSSGRAINED

English words defined with "CROSSGRAINED": Knurl. (references)

Anagrams: CROSSGRAINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: corianders, corrigenda, disgracers, garrisoned, grandsires, organisers, recordings, recrossing.
	-3 letters: acridness, caressing, codesigns, considers, cordgrass, coriander, corrading, cosigners, diagnoses, diocesans, disgracer, disgraces, endosarcs, garrisons, grandiose, grandsire, grandsirs, idocrases, incrossed, indorsers, ordainers, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, recording, reordains, rescoring, resorcins, scenarios, serranids.
	-4 letters: acidness, acidoses, acrogens, adenosis, adonises, adorners, agonised, agonises, aneroids, arcsines, argosies, aridness.
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Alternative Orthography: CROSSGRAINED

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 4F 53 53 47 52 41 49 4E 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .-. --- ... ... --. .-. .- .. -. . -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010011 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#83 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 004F 0053 0053 0047 0052 0041 0049 004E 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

375249535341523543483938

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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