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Webster 1913 Edition
Crossbill
Cross′billˊ
(-bĭlˊ)
. (Law)
A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Bouvier.
☞ In criminal practice, cross bills of indictment for assault, in which the prosecutor in once case is the defendant in another, may be tried together.
Cross′billˊ
,Noun.
(Zool.)
A bird of the genus
Loxia
, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.