Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CROSS, a. [craus.]

1. Transverse; oblique; passing from side to side; falling athwart; as, a cross beam. The cross refraction of a second prism. – Newton.
2. Adverse; opposite; obstructing; sometimes with to; as, an event cross to our inclinations.
3. Perverse; untractable; as, the cross circumstances of a man's temper. – South.
4. Peevish; fretful; ill humored; applied to persons or things; as, a cross woman or husband; a cross answer.
5. Contrary; contradictory; perplexing. Contradictions that seem to lie cross and uncouth. – South.
6. Adverse; unfortunate. Behold the cross and unlucky issue of my design. – Glanville.
7. Interchanged; as, a cross marriage, when a brother and sister intermarry with two persons who have the same relation to each other. – Bailey.
8. Noting what belongs to an adverse party; as, a cross interrogatory. – Kent.