CROSS-GRAINED, adjective
1. Having the grain or fibers across or irregular; as in timber, where a branch shoots from the trunk, there is a curling of the grain.
2. Perverse; untractable; not condescending.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.