3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See {Cross}, v. t. ]
1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of
the ocean.
2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall.
3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved
walk across a street.
6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
I do not bear these crossings. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crossing
n 1: traveling across
2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: {ford}]
3: a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
4: a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: {intersection},
{crossroad}, {crossway}, {carrefour}]
5: a path (often marked) where something (as a street or
railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
[syn: {crosswalk}, {crossover}]
6: (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties
of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: {hybridization},
{hybridisation}, {crossbreeding}, {cross}, {interbreeding},
{hybridizing}]
7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic
Ocean)