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2 definitions found 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crossed adj 1: placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across" [syn: {across}] [ant: {uncrossed}] 2: (of a check) for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it [ant: {uncrossed}] 3: produced by crossbreeding [syn: {hybrid}, {interbred}, {intercrossed}]
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