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/krˈɪskrˌɔs/ Listen

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

... year, singing William's praises as a business man when I knew he was as innocent of business as the angels in Heaven. If he had been the kind of man I represented him to be, he would have been a sort of hallelujah cross and crisscross between Daniel Webster, John D. Rockefeller and St. Paul. And I remember the genial patience with which the gray-headed elders used to listen to my Williamanic paeans. But they could not have believed me, for he was never sent to a place where visible mortar and stone work had to be accomplished ...

— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

... guest finds it needful to rub his scorched shins with his great red hands! The melted snow drips from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth. His puckered forehead unravels its entanglement of crisscross wrinkles. We lose much of the enjoyment of fireside heat without such an opportunity of marking its genial effect upon those who have been looking the inclement weather in the face. In the course of the day our clergyman himself strides forth, perchance to pay ...

— Fire Worship (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... possible. It does not look reasonable, but it is roundly asserted and maintained, nevertheless; I am sure of one thing—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable. Some of these scars are of a very strange and dreadful aspect; and the effect is striking when several such accent the milder ones, which form a city map on a man's face; they suggest the "burned ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... spur red-hot, draw it across the fresh VP again and again, and finally drag it crisscross once or twice to make assurance an absolute certainty, did not take long. Kent was particular about not wasting any seconds. The calf stopped its dismal blatting, and when Kent released it and coiled his rope, it jumped up and ran for its life, the cows ...

— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower

... the torch upward when she pressed the button, for the round circle of light appeared on the supporting timbers above the door. They both looked up, fascinated for a moment. The old oak had been laid in a crisscross pattern, the best support possible in the days when ...

— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

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