Definition of Crss
Cross (kr&obreve;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
bottoné. See under Bottony. --
Cross estoilé (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&obreve;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° 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, 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, 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, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its
significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity,
but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been
believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic
worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that,
to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as
a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent
neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father
Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following:
"Be good, be good!" the sisterhood
Cry out in holy chorus,
And, to dissuade from sin, parade
Their various charms before us.
But why, O why, has ne'er an eye
Seen her of winsome manner
And youthful grace and pretty face
Flaunting the White Cross banner?
Now where's the need of speech and screed
To better our behaving?
A simpler plan for saving man
(But, first, is he worth saving?)
Is, dears, when he declines to flee
From bad thoughts that beset him,
Ignores the Law as 't were a straw,
And wants to sin -- don't let him.
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
CROSS. To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the
conclusion.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (also the Cross or the true Cross) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- A hand gesture made by Christians in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- (figuative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
It's a cross I must bear.
- Opposite to.
- Angry, annoyed.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
- (reflexive to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- (cricket) (reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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