Cross, kros, s

a gibbet consisting of two pieces of timber placed acro each other, either in form ofa +, T, or an X: the cro on which Christ suffered; Christ's sufferings or pa ion; the symbol of the Christian ornament, religion; monument, the mark, Christian ., religion like a cro itself; a line; an drawn acro another: anything that cro es, thwarts, obstructs, perplexes, or distre es a mixing of breeds in producing animals. To take; up the cro , to be resolved to sacrifice self for some sacred interest in the spirit of Christ. Cro of Calvary, a cro on three steps. Latin cro , one with cro beam two-thirds up. Tau cro , one like T. St. Andrew's cro , one like X. (L. crux, allied to crook).