Dictionary entry

Cross (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cross, v. i. 1. To lie or be athwart.

2. To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

3. To be inconsistent.

Men's actions do not always cross with reason.

Sir P. Sidney.

4. To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.

If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either.

Coleridge.