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cross

[kraws, kros]

noun, verb, adjective, -er, -est.

–noun

1.	a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to death.

2.	any object, figure, or mark resembling a cross, as two intersecting lines.

3.	a mark resembling a cross, usually an X, made instead of a signature by a person unable to write.

4.	the Cross, the cross upon which Jesus died.

5.	a figure of the Cross as a Christian emblem, badge, etc.

6.	the Cross as the symbol of Christianity.

7.	a small cross with a human figure attached to it, as a representation of Jesus crucified; crucifix.

8.	a sign made with the right hand by tracing the figure of a cross in the air or by touching the foreheard, chest, and shoulders, as an act of devotion.

9.	a structure or monument in the form of a cross, set up for prayer, as a memorial, etc.

10.	any of various conventional representations or modifications of the Christian emblem used symbolically or for ornament, as in heraldry or art: a Latin cross; a Maltese cross.

11.	the crucifixion of Jesus as the culmination of His redemptive mission.

12.	any suffering endured for Jesus' sake.

13.	the teaching of redemption gained by Jesus' death.

14.	the Christian religion, or those who accept it; Christianity; Christendom.

15.	an opposition; thwarting; frustration.

16.	any misfortune; trouble.

17.	a crossing of animals or plants; a mixing of breeds.

18.	an animal, plant, breed, etc., produced by crossing; crossbreed.

19.	a person or thing that is intermediate in character between two others.

20.	Boxing. a punch thrown across and over the lead of an opponent.

21.	Slang. a contest the result of which is dishonestly arranged beforehand.

22.	a crossing.

23.	a place of crossing.

24.	Plumbing. a four-way joint or connection.

25.	Theater. an actor's movement from one area of a stage to another.

26.	Also called cross-trade. Stock Exchange. an arrangement for the simultaneous sale and purchase of a block of stock handled by a single broker.

27.	Machinery. spider (def. 6b).

28.	(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Southern Cross.

–verb (used with object)

29.	to move, pass, or extend from one side to the other side of (a street, river, etc.).

30.	to put or draw (a line, lines, etc.) across.

31.	to cancel by marking with a cross or with a line or lines (often fol. by off or out).

32.	to mark with a cross.

33.	to lie or pass across; intersect.

34.	to meet and pass.

35.	to transport across something.

36.	to assist or guide (a person) across a street or intersection: The guard crossed the child at the traffic light.

37.	to place in the form of a cross or crosswise.

38.	Biology. to cause (members of different genera, species, breeds, varieties, or the like) to interbreed.

39.	to oppose openly; thwart; frustrate.

40.	Slang. to betray; double-cross.

41.	to make the sign of a cross upon or over, as in devotion: to cross oneself.

42.	Nautical. to set (a yard) in proper position on a mast.

43.	Obsolete. to confront in a hostile manner.

–verb (used without object)

44.	to lie or be athwart; intersect.

45.	to move, pass, or extend from one side or place to another: Cross at the intersection.

46.	to meet and pass.

47.	to interbreed.

48.	Theater. to move from one side of the stage to the other, esp. by passing downstage of another actor.

–adjective

49.	angry and annoyed; ill-humored; snappish: Don't be cross with me.

50.	lying or passing crosswise or across each other; athwart; transverse: cross timbers.

51.	involving a reciprocal action, interchange, or the like: a cross-endorsement of political candidates; cross-marketing of related services.

52.	contrary; opposite: They were at cross purposes with each other.

53.	adverse; unfavorable.

54.	crossbred; hybrid.

—Verb phrases

55.

cross over,

a.	Biology. (of a chromosome segment) to undergo crossing over.

b.	to switch allegiance, as from one political party to another.

c.	to change successfully from one field of endeavor, genre, etc., to another: to cross over from jazz to rock.

d.	Also, cross over to the other side. to die; pass away.

56.

cross up,

a.	to change arrangements made with; deceive: He crossed me up after we had agreed to tell the police the same story.

b.	to confuse: I was supposed to meet him at the station, but got crossed up.

—Idioms

57.	bear one's cross, to accept trials or troubles patiently.

58.	cross one's heart. heart (def. 23).

59.	cross one's mind. mind (def. 36).

60.	cross one's path. path (def. 6).

61.	cross someone's palm. palm ¹ (def. 19).

62.	take the cross, to make the vows of a crusader.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, late OE cros < ON kross < OIr cros (< British Celtic) < L crux; see crux

Related forms:

cross⋅a⋅ble, adjective

cross⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
29, 33. traverse, span, bridge. 39. baffle, foil, contradict. 49. petulant, fractious, irascible, waspish, crabbed, churlish, sulky, cantankerous, cranky, ill-tempered, impatient, irritable, fretful, touchy, testy. Cross, ill-natured, peevish, sullen refer to being in a bad mood or ill temper. Cross means temporarily in an irritable or fretful state, and somewhat angry: a cross reply. Ill-natured implies a more permanent condition, without definite cause, and means unpleasant, unkind, inclined to snarl or be spiteful: an ill-natured dog; ill-natured spite. Peevish means complaining and snappish: a peevish child. Sullen suggests a kind of glowering silent gloominess and means refusing to speak because of bad humor, anger, or a sense of injury or resentment: sullen and vindictive.

Antonyms:
39. aid. 49. good-natured, agreeable.

Cross

[kraws, kros]

–noun

Wilbur Lucius, 1862–1948, U.S. educator: governor of Connecticut 1931–39.

cross-

a combining form of cross.

Southern Cross

–noun

1.	Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.

2.	U.S. History. the battle flag of the Confederate States of America.

Compare Stars and Bars.

Origin:
1690–1700, for def. 1

spi⋅der

[spahy-der]

–noun

1.	any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey.

2.	(loosely) any of various other arachnids resembling or suggesting these.

3.	any of various things resembling or suggesting a spider.

4.	a frying pan, originally one with legs or feet.

5.	a trivet or tripod, as for supporting a pot or pan on a hearth.

Machinery.

a.	a part having a number of radiating spokes or arms, usually not connected at their outer ends.

b.	Also called cross. (in a universal joint) a crosslike part pivoted between the forked ends of two shafts to transmit motion between them.

7.	a computer program that automatically retrieves Web pages for use by search engines.

8.	an evil person who entraps or lures others by wiles.

9.	a device attached to a cultivator, for pulverizing the soil.

Origin:
bef. 1150; ME spithre, OE spīthra, akin to spinnan to spin; c. Dan spinder

Related forms:

spi⋅der⋅less, adjective

spi⋅der⋅like, adjective

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cross (krôs, krŏs)

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n.

1. An upright post with a transverse piece near the top, on which condemned persons were executed in ancient times.
2. often Cross The upright post with a transverse piece upon which Jesus was crucified.
3. A crucifix.
4. Any of various modifications of the cross design, such as a Latin cross or Maltese cross.
5. A medal, emblem, or insignia in the form of a cross.
6. A plant or animal produced by crossbreeding; a hybrid.
7. The process of crossbreeding; hybridization.
The Christian religion; Christianity.
In Christianity, a sign made by tracing the outline of a cross with the right hand upon the forehead and chest as a devotional act.
A trial, affliction, or frustration. See Synonyms at burden¹.
A mark or pattern formed by the intersection of two lines, especially such a mark (X) used as a signature.
A movement from one place to another, as on a stage; a crossing.
A pipe fitting with four branches in upright and transverse form, used as a junction for intersecting pipes.
Biology
1. A plant or animal produced by crossbreeding; a hybrid.
2. The process of crossbreeding; hybridization.
One that combines the qualities of two other things: a novel that is a cross between romance and satire.
Sports A hook thrown over an opponent's punch in boxing.
Law An act or instance of cross-examining; a cross-examination.
The Southern Cross.
Slang A contest whose outcome has been dishonestly prearranged.

v. crossed, cross·ing, cross·es

v. tr.

To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: crossed the room to greet us; a bridge that crosses the bay.
To carry or conduct across something: crossed the horses at the ford.
To extend or pass through or over; intersect: Elm Street crosses Oak Street.
1. To delete or eliminate by or as if by drawing a line through: crossed tasks off her list as she did them.
2. To make or put a line across: Cross your t's.
To place crosswise one over the other: cross one's legs.
To make the sign of the cross upon or over as a sign of devotion.
To encounter in passing: His path crossed mine.
To combine the qualities of two things: a movie that crosses horror with humor.
Informal To interfere with; thwart or obstruct: Don't cross me.
To betray or deceive; double-cross. Often used with up.
Biology To crossbreed or cross-fertilize (plants or animals).

v. intr.

To lie or pass across each other; intersect.
1. To move or extend from one side to another: crossed through Canada en route to Alaska.
2. To make a crossing: crossed into Germany from Switzerland.
To meet in passing; come into conjunction: Their paths crossed at the health club.
To move or be conveyed in opposite directions at the same time: Our letters must have crossed in the mail.
Biology To crossbreed or cross-fertilize.

adj.

Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting: a cross street.
Contrary or counter; opposing.
Showing ill humor; annoyed.
Involving interchange; reciprocal.
Crossbred; hybrid.

adv. Crosswise.
prep.

Across.

Phrasal Verbs:

cross over

To change from one condition or loyalty to another.
Genetics To exchange genetic material. Used of homologous chromosomes.

Phrasal Verb(s):
cross over

To change from one condition or loyalty to another.
Genetics To exchange genetic material. Used of homologous chromosomes.

cross upTo ruin completely: Their lack of cooperation crossed up the whole project.

Idiom(s):
cross (one's) mindTo come to know; realize: It crossed my mind that you might want to leave early.

Idiom(s):
cross (someone's) palmTo pay, tip, or bribe.

Idiom(s):
cross swordsTo quarrel or fight.

[Middle English cros, from Old English, probably from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux.]
cross'er n., cross'ly adv., cross'ness n.

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Cross

Cross\ (kr[o^]s; 115), n. [OE. crois, croys, cros; the former fr. OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, fr. L. crux; the second is perh. directly fr. Prov. cros, crotz. fr. the same L. crux; cf. Icel. kross. Cf. Crucial, Crusade, Cruise, Crux.]

1. 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.

Nailed to the cross By his own nation. --Milton.

2. 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.

The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very old. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. --Sir W. Scott.

Tis where the cross is preached. --Cowper.

3. Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. --B. Jonson.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. (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.

7. (Her.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.

8. The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.

Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. --Fuller.

9. Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] --Sir J. Davies.

10. A line drawn across or through another line.

11. 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.

12. (Surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

13. (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 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

Cross\ (kr[o^]s), a. 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) 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

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.]

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.

Cross

Cross\, v. i. 1. To lie or be athwart.

2. 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. To be inconsistent. [Obs.]

Men's actions do not always cross with reason. --Sir P. Sidney.

4. 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

Cross\, v. t.

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. Cross-buttock \Cross"-but`tock\, n. (Wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

Language Translation for : cross

Spanish: enfadado, cabreado, enojado, malhumorado,

German: ärgerlich,

Japanese: 不きげんな

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cross

O.E. cros, from O.Ir. cros, probably via Scand., from L. crux (gen. crucis) "stake, cross," orig. a tall, round pole, possibly of Phoenician origin. Replaced O.E. rood. The adjective meaning "ill-tempered" is 1639, probably from 16c. sense of "contrary, athwart," especially with reference to winds and sailing ships. Cross-stitch is first recorded 1710; cross-examine is from 1664; cross-fire from 1860; and cross-eye from 1826. Cross-dressing is from 1911, a translation of Ger. Transvestismus. Crossword puzzle is from Jan. 1914; the first one ran in "New York World" newspaper Dec. 21, 1913, but at first was called word-cross.

Cross

When a broker receives a buy and sell order for the same stock at the same price, and subsequently makes a simultaneous trade between two separate customers.

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This is legal only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.

Also known as a cross order or crossing.

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