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3 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See {Cross}, v. t. ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as the crossing of the ocean. 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street. 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crossing adj : 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}] n 1: traveling across 2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: {ford}] 3: a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect 4: a place where one street or road crosses another [syn: {intersection}, {crossroad}, {crossway}, {carrefour}] 5: a place (often marked) where a street or railroad can be crossed [syn: {crosswalk}] 6: the act of mixing different breeds of animals [syn: {hybridization}, {hybridisation}, {crossbreeding}, {cross}, {interbreeding}, {hybridizing}] 7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
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