(1):
(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.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
(5):
(prep.) Athwart; across.
(6):
(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
(7):
(v. t.) To cause to interbreed; - said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
(8):
(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
(9):
(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; - followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
(10):
(v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
(11):
(v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
(12):
(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.
(13):
(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.
(14):
(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
(15):
(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.
(16):
(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.
(17):
(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
(18):
(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
(19):
(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
(20):
(n.) Church lands.
(21):
(n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
(22):
(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
(23):
(v. i.) To be inconsistent.
(24):
(v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
(25):
(a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
(26):
(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
(27):
(v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
(28):
(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.
(29):
(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
(30):
(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
(31):
(v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.