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criss-cross
  1. (alternative spelling of crisscross English) adv. (alternative spelling of crisscross English) n. (alternative spelling of crisscross English) v

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Criss-cross

Criss Cross and variants thereof may refer to:

Criss-Cross (album)

Criss-Cross is Thelonious Monk's second with Columbia Records. The album consists of previously released Monk compositions that were re-recorded and re-released under Columbia Records by the Thelonious Monk Quartet.

Usage examples of "criss-cross".

The trail had not yet crossed any of the narrow, muddy creeks that criss-crossed that end of Canaan, but several times it had swung so close to one of them that we glimpsed the black streak that was water glinting dully in the shadows of the thick growth.

From just below her shoulder blades to the base of her spine, her back was a ridged mess of criss-crossing scars.

The whole world is criss-crossed with causal arrows joining genes to phenotypic effects, far and near.

Laid diagonally over the tramlines, the single raised ridges created a criss-cross design that would have been worthy of any modern artist.

And in the sky, above the highest to the criss-crossing beltways, Alp saw a flying shape like a monstrous mosquito, its wings invisible.

The zig-zagging lace of her camiknickers, the criss-crossing ribbon holding the silk across her body.

His skin was criss-crossed with innumerable fine wrinkles and dappled with age spots.

Dozens of air conditioner ducts also criss-crossed the room –.

Dozens of air conditioner ducts also criss-crossed the room - the cooling systems were necessary to keep the massive computers from overheating and catching fire.

The heat of the sun had scorched the grass brown, and in places the hard ground showed enormous bald patches, criss-crossed where the earth was cracked, as though wrinkled by age.

It did it in absolute silence to begin with, sending up a spire of eye-torturing flame that turned the whole kingdom into a criss-cross of black shadow and white light, a flame that might have turned any watchers not just into a pillar of salt but into a complete condiment set of their choice.

Suspended in the field, all his body a huge bruise, medical doers like tiny golden worms criss-crossing, touching his bruised flesh, nothing touching him but the golden worms, mouth dry but not parched, top of head burning.

He nodded his head enthusiastically as he turned, waving at the dolphins, criss-crossing each other as they made for deeper water.

For some exorcistic ceremonies bone aprons were worn, consisting of short plaques of human bone carved with small figures and connected in a criss-cross pattern by strings of round beads also made of human bone.

He located the English instructions, which read with the clarity of the criss-cross golf tee language.