Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   12. (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets
       perpendicular to the main course.

   13. (Mech.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of
       which usually form's right angle.

   {Cross and pile}, a game with money, at which it is put to
      chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which
      bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or
      reverse; the game called heads or tails.

   {Cross}

   {bottony or botton['e]}. See under {Bottony}.

   {Cross estoil['e]} (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is
      pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having
      four long points only.

   {Cross of Calvary}. See {Calvary}, 3.

   {Southern cross}. (Astron.) See under {Southern}.

   {To do a thing on the cross}, to act dishonestly; -- opposed
      to acting on the square. [Slang]

   {To take up the cross}, to bear troubles and afflictions with
      patience from love to Christ.