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[syn: across, crosswise, crossways]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Across \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.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Across \A*cross"\, adv.
1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
--Shak.
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2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]
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The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the
actions of Christ. --Bp. Hall.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
across
adv 1: to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet
across"
2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn:
across, crosswise, crossways]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "across":
across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart,
athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise,
catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise,
crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise,
diagonal, facing, fronting, horseback, in front of,
in opposition to, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, on,
on horseback, over against, overthwart, past, sideways, sidewise,
slant, straddle, straddle-legged, straddleback, thwart, thwartly,
thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely,
traverse, versus