{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. Cross-buttock
\Cross"-but`tock\, n. (Wrestling)
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his
opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his
opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an
unexpected defeat or repulse.
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 botton['e]}. See under {Bottony}.
{Cross estoil['e]} (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.
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[deg]
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.
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.]
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.
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.