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<blockquote>I should bear no <b>cross</b> if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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 consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted bu a cross, set up in a public place; <as>as, a market <ex>cross</ex>; a boundary <ex>cross</ex>; Charing <ex>Cross</ex> in London.</as></def>

<blockquote>Dun-Edin's <b>Cross</b>, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.</def>

<blockquote>Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and <b>crosses</b>. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Church lands.</def> <mark>[Ireland]</mark> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir J. Davies.</i>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A line drawn across or through another line.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.</def>

<blockquote> Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a <b>cross</b> between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. <i>Lord Dufferin.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>12.</b> <fld>(Surveying)</fld> <def>An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.</def>

<p><b>13.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.</def>

<cs><col>Cross and pile</col>, <cd>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 <i>pile</i>, or <i>reverse</i>; the game called <i>heads or tails</i>.</cd> -- <col>Cross bottony</col> &or; <col>botton\'82</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bottony</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross estoil\'82</col> <fld>(Her.)</fld>. <cd>a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only.</cd> -- <col>Cross of Calvary</col>. <cd>See <er>Calvary</er>, 3.</cd> -- <col>Southern cross</col>. <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Southern</er>.</cd> -- <col>To do a thing on the cross</col>, <cd>to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting <i>on the square</i>.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> -- <col>To take up the cross</col>, <cd>to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Cross</hw> <tt>(kr?s)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>cross</b> refraction of the second prism. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.</def> "A <i>cross</i> fortune."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>cross</b> and unlucky issue of my design. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously <b>cross</b> to the common experience of mankind. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We are both love's captives, but with fates so <b>cross</b>, One must be happy by the other's loss. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or ill humor; <as>as, a <ex>cross</ex> man or woman</as>.</def>

<blockquote>He had received a <b>cross</b> answer from his mistress. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; <as>as, <ex>cross</ex> interrogatories; <ex>cross</ex> marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.</as></def>

<cs><col>Cross action</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>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. <i>Burrill</i>.</cd> -- <col>Cross aisle</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.</cd> -- <col>Cross axie</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <cd>A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. <sd>(b)</sd> A driving axle. with cranks set at an angle of 90&deg; with each other.</cd> -- <col>Cross bedding</col> <fld>(Geol.</cd>)</fld>, <cd>oblique lamination of horizontal beds, -- <col>Cross bill</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Cross bitt</col>. <cd>Same as <er>Crosspiece</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross bond</col>, <cd>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 <er>Bond</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 8.</cd> -- <col>Cross breed</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Cross breeding</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breeding</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross buttock</col>, <cd>a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.</cd> <i>Smollet</i>. -- <col>Cross country</col>, <cd>across the country; not by the road.</cd> "The <i>cross-country</i> ride." <i>Cowper</i>. -- <col>Cross fertilization</col>, <cd>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 <er>Fertilization</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross file</col>, <cd>a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheells.</cd> -- <col>Cross fire</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other.</cd> -- <col>Cross forked</col>. <fld>(Her.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Forked</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross frog</col>. <cd>See under <er>Frog</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cross furrow</col>, <cd>a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field.</cd> -- <col>Cross handle</col>, <cd>a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur.</cd> <i>Knight</i>. -- <col>Cross lode</col> <fld>(Mining)</fld>, <cd>a vein intersecting the true or principal lode.</cd> -- <col>Cross purpose</col>. <cd>See <er>Cross-purpose</er>, in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Cross reference</col>, <cd>a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of.</cd> -- <col>Cross sea</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions.</cd> -- <col>Cross stroke</col>, <cd>a line or stroke across something, as across the letter <i>t</i>.</cd> -- <col>Cross wind</col>, <cd>a side wind; an unfavorable wind.</cd> -- <col>Cross wires</col>, <cd>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 <i>cross wires</i> are also used in microscopes, etc.</cd></cs>