crossbill Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed
    Loxia curvirostra.

WordNet

Cross"bill`
Definitions
  1. (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"bill` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.

Webster 1913