Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having one leg over and across the other 2 Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart adv. In a cross-legged position
WordNet
adv. with the legs crossed; "he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated"
Usage examples of "cross-legged".
Merchants in flowing silk robes sat cross-legged before their booths, extolling the quality of their goods--Mosul silk, matchlocks from Herat, edged weapons from India, and seed pearls from Baluchistan, hawk-like Afghans and weapon-girdled Uzbeks jostled him.
Availing himself of the previous permission of his master, Baroni, having arranged the pipe, seated himself cross-legged on the floor.
She sat cross-legged at the table as Jared placed salad, breadsticks, and a steaming bowl of spaghetti in front of her.
MIK took the severed tail, sat down cross-legged near the eyebolt, poured sand on the cutting line, and began to rub it across the line with his tail.
Joan Grenville, who was sitting cross-legged contemplating the fire, her dress hiked back to her thighs.
Sitting cross-legged on a dolly was the little guy who was a legman for Johnny Whistler.
Here was Hideyoshi lightheartedly dictating some very frank words, almost as if he were sitting cross-legged in front of his correspondent, having a friendly chat.
Back in her rooms, Cimela slipped the minidisc into her computer and waited curled cross-legged in her chair.
Two mujahedin were sitting cross-legged on the floor, wrapped in blankets and cradling their AKs.
Sitting down cross-legged on the deck near the wheel, he opened the small pail and produced a piece of raw fish, which he gravely offered to Gypsy.
STEPPING to his cushion, Prex seated himself cross-legged in one easy motion.
Unconsciously, Koja settled into the cross-legged pose assumed by the priests of his temple when at their lessons.
I tired I dropped cross-legged on the floor and strove to empty my mind, think only of the cats as I had seen them at their festival, and I strove to somehow tap the essence of that memory and make it mine.
He sat cross-legged, palms upward, eyes closed blissfully, like an icon in an old temple, the kind that you still chanced across if you traveled far enough into the swamps or high enough into the mountains, abandoned hundreds of years back.
I had seen her sitting cross-legged on her bed whispering to her belly, telling it how great the world was going to be, that there were horses and birthdays, white cats and ice cream.