Cross word meaning and definition

[noun] the act of mixing different breeds of animals
[noun] a cross as an emblem of Christianity; used in heraldry
[noun] a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
[noun] marking consisting of crossing lines
[noun] any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
[adjective] perversely irritable
[verb] 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"
[verb] trace a line through or across; "cross your 't'"
[verb] travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
[verb] meet and pass; "the trains crossed"
[verb] fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs"
[verb] meet at a point
[verb] hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
[verb] to cover a wide area; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"

\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\ (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}.

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