Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crossgrained"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crossgrained \Cross"grained\ (-gr?nd`), a.
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less
transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with
splitting or planing.
If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you
must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way.
--Moxon.
2. Perverse; untractable; contrary.
She was none of your crossgrained, termagant,
scolding jades. --Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cross-grained
adj 1: difficult to deal with [syn: {contrarious}]
2: of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in
parallel
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