Crŏss'-bill1, n.
n. (Law.) A bill which is brought by a defendant, in a chancery or equity suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. Bouvier.
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Crossbill
Crŏss'-bill2, n.
n. (Ornith.) A bird or a genus of birds of the order Passeres and family Fringillidæ; the Loxia, the mandibles of whose bill curve in opposite directions, and cross each other.
Baird.
