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crossed

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cross \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.

Source : WordNet®

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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