Crŏss'-grāined, a.
a. 1. Having the grain or fibers crossed or intertwined.
If the stuff proves cross-grained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
Sense 2. Having a perverse and untractable nature; contrary; vexatious.
She was none of your cross-grained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.