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A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row. And from the crossrow plucks the letter G. Shak.

The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.

Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

See Crossroad.

In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

See Christcross-row.

The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arn…

To cross each other, as lines.

so in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

To cross a second time.

member or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

Not favored by the stars; ill-fated. [Poetic] Shak. Such in my star-crossed destiny. Massinger.