A‐cross″ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en croix. See Cross, n.] 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.