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2. 7. To debar or preclude. [Rare or obsolete.] 'Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all, That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring, To cro me from the golden time I look for! Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. He in ye end crost this petition from taking any further effecte in this kind. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 329. 8. To cause to interbreed; mix the breed or strain of, as animals or plants. Those who rear up animals take all po ible pains to cro the strain, in order to improve the breed. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixxii. Species belonging to distinct genera can rarely, and those belonging to distinct families can never, be cro ed , Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 164. 9. Naut ., to hoist from the deck and put in place on the mast, as any of the lighter yards of a square-rigged ve el. Toward morning, the wind having become light, we cro ed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royals and skysails fore and aft. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 35. 10. To meet and pa . [Rare.] Men shun him at length as they would doe an infection, and he is neuer crost in his way, if there be but a lane to escape him. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Sharke. To cro a check, to indorse it. See cro ed check , under check1 . To cro bookst, to cancel accounts. So the money was produced, releases and discharges drawn, signed and sealed, books cro ed, and all things confirmed. Bunyan , Mr. Badman. To cro one's hand, to make the sign of the cro on another's hand with a piece of money; hence, to give money. IMG:content-1669.png:[blocks in formation]