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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Crossgrainedadjective
Etymology: cross and grain.
If the stuff proves crossgrained in any part of its length, then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way, so far as it runs cross-grained. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.
We find in sullen writs,
And cross-grain’d works of modern wits,
The wonder of the ignorant. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 1.The spirit of contradiction, in a cross-grained woman, is incurable. Roger L'Estrange.
She was none of your cross-grained, termagant, scolding jades, that one had as good be hanged as live in the house with. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.
But wisdom, peevish and cross-grain’d,
Must be oppos’d, to be sustain’d. Matthew Prior.
Webster Dictionary
Crossgrainedadjective
having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing
Crossgrainedadjective
perverse; untractable; contrary
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crossgrained in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crossgrained in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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