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11 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\, v. t. {To cross a check} (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words ``and company'', with or without the words ``not negotiable'', or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. Cross-buttock \Cross"-but`tock\, n. (Wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence an unexpected defeat or repulse. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]s; 115), n. [OE. crois, croys, cros; the former fr OF crois, croiz, F. croix, fr L. crux; the second is perh. directly fr Prov. cros, crotz. fr the same L. crux; cf Icel. kross. Cf {Crucial}, {Crusade}, {Cruise}, {Crux}.] 1. A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. --Milton. 2. The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old --Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. --Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. --Cowper. 3. Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune. Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. --B. Jonson 4. A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence money in general. I should bear no cross if I did bear you for I think you have no money in your purse. --Shak. 5. An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form thus the Cross of the British Order of St George and St Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it 6. (Arch.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place as a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. --Sir W. Scott. 7. (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. 8. The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. --Fuller. 9. Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies. 10. A line drawn across or through another line 11. Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. --Lord Dufferin From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 12. (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. 13. (Mech.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. {Cross and pile}, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. {Cross} {bottony or botton['e]}. See under {Bottony}. {Cross estoil['e]} (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is a star having four long points only. {Cross of Calvary}. See {Calvary}, 3. {Southern cross}. (Astron.) See under {Southern}. {To do a thing on the cross}, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang] {To take up the cross}, to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]s), a. 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. ``A cross fortune.'' --Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. --Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. --South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss --Dryden. 3. Characterized by or in a state of peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. --Jer. Taylor. 4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other {Cross action} (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. --Burrill. {Cross aisle} (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church. {Cross axle}. a (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends as in the copperplate printing press. b A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other {Cross bedding} (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds. {Cross bill}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross bitt}. Same as {Crosspiece}. {Cross bond}, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See {Bond}, n., 8. {Cross breed}. See in the Vocabulary. {Cross breeding}. See under {Breeding}. {Cross buttock}, a particular throw in wrestling; hence an unexpected defeat or repulse. --Smollet. {Cross country}, across the country; not by the road. ``The cross-country ride.'' --Cowper. {Cross fertilization}, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See {Fertilization}. {Cross file}, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels. {Cross fire} (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other {Cross forked}. (Her.) See under {Forked}. {Cross frog}. See under {Frog}. {Cross furrow}, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. {Cross handle}, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. --Knight. {Cross lode} (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode. {Cross purpose}. See {Cross-purpose}, in the Vocabulary. {Cross reference}, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part where the same or an allied subject is treated of {Cross sea} (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. {Cross stroke}, a line or stroke across something as across the letter t. {Cross wind}, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. {Cross wires}, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\, prep. Athwart; across [Archaic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. --L'Estrange. {To go cross lots}, to go across the fields; to take a short cut. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr?st; 115); p. pr & vb n. {Crossing}.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as to cross the arms. 2. To lay or draw something as a line across as to cross the letter t. 3. To pass from one side to the other of to pass or move over to traverse; as to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts. 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. ``Your kind letter crossed mine.'' --J. D. Forbes. 5. To run counter to to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with In each thing give him way cross him in nothing. --Shak. An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan. 6. To interfere and cut off to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for --Shak. 7. To make the sign of the cross upon -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as he crossed himself. 8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over or drawing a line across to erase; -- usually with out off or over as to cross out a name 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of {To cross one's path}, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cross \Cross\, v. i. 1. To lie or be athwart. 2. To move or pass from one side to the other or from place to place to make a transit; as to cross from New York to Liverpool. 3. To be inconsistent. [Obs.] Men's actions do not always cross with reason. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds. If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either --Coleridge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cross adj 1: extending or lying across in a crosswise direction; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations" [syn: {cross(a)}, {crossing(a)}, {transverse}, {transversal}, {thwartwise}] 2: perversely irritable [syn: {crabbed}, {crabby}, {fussy}, {grouchy}, {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}] n 1: a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece 2: marking consisting of crossing lines [syn: {crisscross}, {mark}] 3: a cross as an emblem of Christianity; used in heraldry 4: any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns" [syn: {crown of thorns}] 5: the act of mixing different breeds of animals [syn: {hybridization}, {hybridisation}, {crossbreeding}, {crossing}, {interbreeding}, {hybridizing}] v 1: travel across or pass over "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: {traverse}, {track}, {cover}, {pass over}, {get over}, {get across}, {cut through}, {cut across}] 2: meet at a point [syn: {intersect}] 3: to hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge." [syn: {thwart}, {queer}, {spoil}, {scotch}, {foil}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}] 4: fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" [ant: {uncross}] 5: to cover a wide area; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres" [syn: {traverse}, {span}, {sweep}] 6: meet and pass; "the trains crossed" From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Cross, SC Zip code(s): 29436 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Cross in the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used to denote any severe affliction or trial (Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Mark 8:34; 10:21). The forms in which the cross is represented are these: 1. The crux simplex (I), a "single piece without transom." 2. The crux decussata (X), or St Andrew's cross. 3. The crux commissa (T), or St Anthony's cross. 4. The crux immissa (t), or Latin cross, which was the kind of cross on which our Saviour died. Above our Lord's head, on the projecting beam, was placed the "title." (See {CRUCIFIXION}.) After the conversion, so-called, of Constantine the Great (B.C. 313), the cross first came into use as an emblem of Christianity. He pretended at a critical moment that he saw a flaming cross in the heavens bearing the inscription, "In hoc signo vinces", i.e., By this sign thou shalt conquer, and that on the following night Christ himself appeared and ordered him to take for his standard the sign of this cross. In this form a new standard, called the Labarum, was accordingly made and borne by the Roman armies. It remained the standard of the Roman army till the downfall of the Western empire. It bore the embroidered monogram of Christ, i.e., the first two Greek letters of his name X and P (chi and rho), with the Alpha and Omega. (See {A}.) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the _crux ansata_ of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first is he worth saving?) Is dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him
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