Bible Dictionaries
Crossgrained

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.

(2):

(a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crossgrained'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/crossgrained.html. 1828.