How do you spell Cross
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1) 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.
2) 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.
3) n. - Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) n. - A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
8) n. - The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
9) n. - Church lands.
10) n. - A line drawn across or through another line.
11) n. - A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
12) n. - An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
13) n. - A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
14) a. - Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
15) a. - Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
16) a. - Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
17) 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.
18) prep. - Athwart; across.
19) v. t. - To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
20) v. t. - To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
21) v. t. - To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
22) v. t. - To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
23) v. t. - To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
24) v. t. - To interfere and cut off; to debar.
25) v. t. - To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
26) 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.
27) v. t. - To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
28) v. i. - To lie or be athwart.
29) 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.
30) v. i. - To be inconsistent.
31) v. i. - To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
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