Cross

Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage.

She made the cross after swearing.

She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

It's a cross I must bear.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses.

It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know

A quick cross of the road.

Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler

And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.

the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross

At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

the cross refraction of the second prism

His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

a cross fortune

the cross and unlucky issue of my designs

The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.

We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, / One must be happy by the other's loss.

They exchanged a few cross words.

She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.

Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.

1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living He had received a cross answer from his mistress.

cross interrogatories

cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.

She walked cross the mountains.

A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.

The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

She frowned and crossed her arms.

to cross the letter t

Cross the box which applies to you.

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.

"Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."

2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

You need to cross the street at the lights.

Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.

Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year.

Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.

November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq. Your kind letter crossed mine.

He crossed the ball into the penalty area.

England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.

At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.

But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it / Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of / You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin' / Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

to cross me from the golden time I look for

They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

Question: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? Answer : El-if-I-no.

The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.

Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.