(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial;
disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many
varieties. See the Illustration, above.
(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by
those unable to write.
(n.) Church lands.
(n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding;
or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the
main course.
(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually
form's right angle.
(a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique;
intersecting.
(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting;
adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness,
fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
(a.) 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.
(prep.) Athwart; across.
(v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to
cross the arms.
(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross
the letter t.
(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move
over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the
same time.
(v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to
clash or interfere with.
(v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the
reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or
races; to mix the breed of.
(v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To be inconsistent.
(v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
