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noun

Crisscross n.

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

A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

verb

Crisscross v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

adverb

Crisscross adv.

In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. "Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion."

With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.

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Etymology of 'Crisscross'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crisscross" Quotes from Famous Books

... never before quite realized the place of the Fence in civilization. This is the Land of the Unfenced, where crouch on either hand scores of ugly one-room cabins, cheerless and dirty. Here lies the Negro problem in its naked dirt and penury. And here are no fences. But now and then the crisscross rails or straight palings break into view, and then we know a touch of culture is near. Of course Harrison Gohagen,—a quiet yellow man, young, smooth-faced, and diligent,—of course he is lord of some hundred acres, and we expect to see a vision of well-kept rooms and fat beds and laughing children. ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois

... hands, reaching to catch in and tear his red coat and to scratch his face and hands. There were little open places where wild-eyed young cattle fed on the short grass. They had made many little paths all crisscross among the bushes, and when you tried to follow one of these paths you never could tell where ...

— Old Granny Fox • Thornton W. Burgess

... us lay no shady, amiably crooked country roads and bosky dells, wherein one might lounge and dawdle over Hazlitt, yet we knew how crisscross cattle-trails should take us skirting down the river's sixteen ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... as it melts through underground pipes hundreds of miles to the spot where we desire vegetation to grow. There we deliver it directly to the roots of the plants so there is no waste. Great bands of cultivated areas crisscross the planet where the soil is of unusual fertility. A certain number of plants are allowed to flower and to bear fruit for the sustenance of the reproductive form of life and to replace themselves. The others we devour while they ...

— Giants on the Earth • Sterner St. Paul Meek

... acquaintances and patrons in the audience by throwing them kisses. Rose Feral turned deadly pale at the sight of the bloody rags on the Judge's table, and could not utter a word. Madame Bancal remembered that Monsieur Fualdes was dragged into her house by six men, that he was made to sign a number of papers, crisscross, as she said. The day following, she had found one of these bills, made out upon stamped paper, but as it was stained with blood, had burned it. More than that she positively refused to confess, met all questions with a stolid silence, and declared finally ...

— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various

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