Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 152
Cross (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.
I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. -- Shak.
Cross (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.
Cross (n.) (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.
Cross (n.) (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
Cross (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. -- Fuller.
Cross (n.) Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] -- Sir J. Davies.
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
Cross (n.) 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.
Cross (n.) (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Cross (n.) (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 Cross 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.
Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
The cross refraction of the second prism. -- Sir I. Newton.
Cross (a.) 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.
Cross (a.) 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.
Cross (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.
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. (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing ress.
Cross axle. 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.
Syn: Fretful; peevish. See Fretful.
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.]
Crossed (imp. & p. p.) of Cross
Crossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross
Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
Cross (v. t.) 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.
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." -- J. D. Forbes.
Cross (v. t.) 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.
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
To cross me from the golden time I look for. -- Shak.
Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
Cross (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.
Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
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.
To cross one's path, To oppose one's plans. -- Macaulay.
Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
Cross (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.
Cross (v. i.) To be inconsistent. [Obs.]
Men's actions do not always cross with reason. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Cross (v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. -- Coleridge.
Cross (a.) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise].
Cross (a.) Annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered].
Cross (n.) A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.
Cross (n.) A marking that consists of lines that cross each other [syn: crisscross, cross, mark].
Cross (n.) A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.
Cross (n.) Any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns" [syn: cross, crown of thorns].
Cross (n.) (Genetics) An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross].
Cross (n.) (Genetics) The act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing].
Cross (v.) Travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across].
Cross (v.) Meet at a point [syn: intersect, cross]
Cross (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk].
Cross (v.) Fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" [ant: uncross].
Cross (v.) To cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep].
Cross (v.) Meet and pass; "the trains crossed".
Cross (v.) Trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'".
Cross (v.) Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed].
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.)
CROSS. contracts. A mark made by persons who are unable to write, instead of their names.
CROSS. When properly attested, and proved to have been made by the party whose name is written with the mark, it is generally admitted as evidence of the party's signature.
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.
Cross -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 19526
Housing Units (2000): 8030
Land area (2000): 615.846482 sq. miles (1595.034998 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.486676 sq. miles (16.800413 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 622.333158 sq. miles (1611.835411 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.279599 N, 90.786115 W
Headwords:
Cross
Cross, AR
Cross County
Cross County, AR
Cross-armed (a.) With arms crossed.
Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.
Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
Crossbarred (a.) Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
Crossbarred (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.
Crossbeam (n.) A girder.
Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Crossbill (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
Cross-birth (n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.
Crossbite (n.) A deception; a cheat.
Crossbite (b. t.) To deceive; to trick; to gull.
Crossbones (n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbow (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
Crossbower (n.) A crossbowman.
Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
Crossbreed (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
Crossbreed (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
Cross-bun (n.) A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
Cross-country skiing (n.) The sport of skiing across the countryside, often through woods and usually on relatively flat terrain, using narrow skis with boots that can be raised off the ski at the heel when striding. Also called Ski touring.
Related forms: Cross-country skier (n.)
Cross-crosslet (n.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
Crosscut (v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.
Crosscut (n.) A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
Cross-dressing (n.) [ U ] The act of wearing clothes usually worn by the opposite sex.
// There's a lot of cross-dressing in British pantomimes, where men dress up as Dames and a woman plays the part of the young hero.
Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
Crossette (n.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
Cross-examination (n.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
Cross-examined (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-examine
Cross-examining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-examine
Cross-examine (v. t.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
Cross-examiner (n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
Cross-eye (n.) See Strabismus.
Cross-eyed (a.) Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
Crossfish (n.) A starfish.
Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
Cross-garnet (n.) A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.
Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.
Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.
Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.
Crossing (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
Crossing (v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
Crossing (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
CRosslegged (a.) Having the legs crossed.
Crosslet (n.) A small cross.
Crosslet (n.) A crucible.
Crosslet (a.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.
Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Crossopterygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygian (n.) One of the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygii (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
Crosspatch (n.) An ill-natured person.
Cross-pawl (n.) Same as Cross-spale.
Crosspiece (n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
Cross-purpose (n.) A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
Cross-purpose (n.) A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
Cross-questioned (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-question
Cross-questioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-question
Cross-question (v. t.) To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.