The Meaning of cross

• (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.

Synonyms

crisscross , mark , Cross , crown of thorns , hybrid , crossbreed , hybridization , hybridisation , crossbreeding , crossing , interbreeding , hybridizing , traverse , track , cover , pass over , get over , get across , cut through , cut across , intersect , thwart , queer , spoil , scotch , foil , frustrate , baffle , bilk , traverse , span , sweep , crossbreed , hybridize , hybridise , interbreed , transverse , transversal , thwartwise , crabbed , crabby , fussy , grouchy , grumpy , bad-tempered , ill-tempered

Antonyms

uncross

Homophones

cros , kross

Rhymes

aase , abbas , across , albatross , alsace , amoss , applesauce , blas , bloss , bos , boss , bosse , bras , bross , caguas , chandross , chavous , clauss , clos , closs , cos , coss , criss-cross , crisscross , cros , crosse , dazs , demoss , devoss , dos , doss , dross , emboss , fauss , floss , foss , fosse , fross , gloss , goss , gosse , grosse , haas , haase , haass , hahs , hamas , hammas , hasse , hawse , helios , hoss , hot-cross , joss , kaas , kiryas , kjos , klaas , klos , kloss , knauss , knosp , knous , kos , koss , kross , lacoss , lacrosse , lafosse , las , loss , mauss , mohs , moss , nauss , noss , os , oss , pangloss , ploss , pos , pross , recross , ros , ross , rosse , sauce , schloss , semigloss , sloss , soss , stauss , stoss , tomas , toss , vandross , vanoss , vause , vohs , vos , voss , vyas , wass