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Marking consisting of crossing lines
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crisscross
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
marked with crossed lines adv. crossing one another n. 1 A pattern of crossed lines. 2 A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write. 3 A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818, from Middle English crist(s)-crosse "Christ's cross" (late 15c.), earlier cros-kryst (late 14c.), "referring to the mark of a cross formerly written before the alphabet in hornbooks. The mark itself stood for the phrase Christ-cross me speed ('May ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crisscross \Criss"cross`\ (kr?s"kr?s`;115), 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. --W. E. Boardman. With opposition or ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked with crossing lines [syn: crisscrossed ]
Usage examples of crisscross.
Squadrons of combat Remoras crisscrossed the sky, dropping incendiary bombs primarily in unoccupied areas, though a few struck warehouses and governmental buildings.
By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.
Tom was trying to peer through the crisscrossed aisleways which were formed by the hundreds of big trees.
The little room was hung all about with locust twigs, for their sweet scent, and was furnished only with a charcoal brazier and a charpai, which is a crude bed made of a wooden frame laced crisscross with ropes.
They sat down by an old spikka, its trunk crisscrossed with knife cuts.
Men yelled and screamed, explosions went off, and the hallways were crisscrossed in automatic weapons fire.
Lexie watched as she retrieved the boots, pulled them on and expertly crisscrossed the rawhide laces from ankles to boot-tops and fastened them tightly.
Resentment flared in her eyes as she crisscrossed the rawhide strips from ankle to the top of the boot.
Scars crisscrossed the faces and sparse tufts of ginger hair could be seen on the otherwise bald heads.
Lights flared, crisscrossed, catching the mask in a web of stark white beams.
Eisenhart of the Rocking B even brought his rifle and wore crisscrossed ammunition bandoliers.
They flew, screaming, crisscrossed in midair, and both found their mark.
Sisko yanked the ship into a fierce upward zigzag as two sets of phaser beams crisscrossed the place they would have been in another second.
Dozens of them crisscrossed her arms, striping her dusty feet, and spotting her face like chalk marks.
An interior designer crisscrossed the floor and walls with beige-and-raspberry tiles, put in a French bakery, and sold vendor permits to hawkers with cute green carts filled with ties, fudge, and sun hats, as well as toys to bring home to the kiddies.