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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr[o^]st; 115); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Crossing}.]
     1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to
        cross the arms.
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     2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross
        the letter t.
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     3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move
        over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
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              A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former
              track.                                -- I. Watts.
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     4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the
        same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." --J. D.
        Forbes.
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     5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to
        clash or interfere with.
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              In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
                                                    --Shak.
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              An oyster may be crossed in love.     -- Sheridan.
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     6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
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              To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak.
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     7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the
        reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
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     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.
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     9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or
        races; to mix the breed of.
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     {To cross a check} (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel
        transverse lines across the face of a check, with or
        without adding between them the words "and company", with
        or without the words "not negotiable", or to draw the
        transverse lines simply, with or without the words "not
        negotiable" (the check in any of these cases being crossed
        generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a
        check the name of a banker, with or without the words "not
        negotiable" (the check being then crossed specially). A
        check crossed generally is payable only when presented
        through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented
        through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     {To cross one's path}, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crossed
       adj 1: placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed
              fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across"
              [syn: {across}] [ant: {uncrossed}]
       2: (of a check) for deposit only as indicated by having two
          lines drawn across it [ant: {uncrossed}]
       3: produced by crossbreeding [syn: {hybrid}, {interbred}, {intercrossed}]

















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