[CROSS- 4 b.]
1. A grain running across the regular grain of any substance.
1681. Grew, Musæum Reg. Soc., 282. Between the Grain and the Vein of a Diamond, there is this difference, that the former furthers; the latter, being so insuperably hard, hinders the splitting of it. Altho … a Vein, sometimes is nothing else, but a Cross-Grain.
2. The grain (of wood, etc.) cut across.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N. Y.), XI. 404. A wood pavement must expose the cross-grain of the wood.
