Cross

kros, n. A gibbet, consisting of two timbers placed transversely; the theological and religious import of the death of Christ; the Christian doctrine; the gospel; the symbol of Christ's death, and hence, of Christianity; affliction regarded Crosiers. as a test of virtue; trial; vexation; disappointment. (Arch.) a. Bishop's. A cro -shaped ornament. The 6. Archbishop's cro -like mark signed by those unable to write; a mixing of breeds or stock, esp. in cattle-breeding; product of such intermixture. (Surv.) An instrument for laying off offsets perpendicular to the main course. —a. Lying athwart; transverse; intersecting; adverse; contrary; perverse; unfortunate; peevish or fretful; ill-humored; mutually inverse; interchanged.— v. t. [cro ed (krost), cro ing.] To put acro or athwart; to draw something, as a line, acro ; to pa from one side to the other of; to run counter to, thwart, clash or interfere with; to debar; to make the sign of the cro upon; to cancel, erase; to mix the breed of. — v. i. To lie or be athwart; to pa from one side toward the other, or from place to place; to interbreed. — Cro 'ly, -It, adv. In a cro way; peevishly.— Cro 'ne , n. — Cro '' wise, adv. In the form of a cro ; acro . — Cro ing, n. Act by which anything is cro ed; act of interbreeding; intersection of roads; paved walk acro a street. — Cro '-exam'ine, v. t. [examined (-ind), -ining.] (Law.) To examine for the purpose of eliciting facts not brought out in direct examination or controverting the direct testimony. exarn'ma'tion, n. Exsun, cube, full; moon, fo"6t; cow, oil; animation of a witne , called by one party, by the opposite party. — (jro 'let, n. A small cro . (Her.) A cro whose arms are terminated with small cro es, or again cro ed near the end. — Crucial, kroo'"shal, a. Formed like, or pert, to, a cro ; severe; searching, as if by suffering on the cro .— Cru'cify, -sT-fT, v. t. [-Cified (-fid), -fying.] To fasten to a cro , destroy the power of, subdue completely. — Crucifixion, -fik's hun, n. Act of, etc.; death on the cro , intense suffering. — Cru'cifix, n. Figure of a cro , with Christ upon it. — Cru'ciform, a. Cro shaped. (Bot.) Having 4 equal petals, disposed cro wise. — Crucigerous, -sij'er-us, a. Bearing, or marked with, etc. — Crusade, -sad', n. A mediaeval military expedition to recover the Holy Land from the Mohammedans; any expedition for a religious purpose; a hot-headed or fanatical 4-r enterprise.