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A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.]

Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

See Crosslet.

Cross; peevish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Marked with the sign of the cross. [Obs.] Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.

See Cross, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

Bearing a cross.

A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions. The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix. Milman. And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew. Warner.…

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. Sir. T. Browne.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking. I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other. Shak. Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. H. Smith.

Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched. Crutched friar (Eccl.), one of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar.

A cross in the shape of the ankh.

A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.