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. 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.