\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.