CROSS

Definitions

1. 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
2. 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
3. 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. 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." J. D. Forbes.
5. 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 onlove. Sheridan.
6. 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. Shak.
7. 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
8. 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. 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stoocks or races; to mix the breed of. To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. Macualay.