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crossgrained

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CROSSGRAINED

CROSSGRAINED Cross "grained (-grnd `), 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.

 

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