across

across
    adv 1: to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet
           across"
    2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn:
       {across}, {crosswise}, {crossways}]
    

Across \A*cross"\ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en
   croix. See Cross, n.]
   From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction
   opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a
   river. --Dryden.
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   {To come across}, to come upon or meet incidentally.
      --Freeman.

   {To go across the country}, to go by a direct course across a
      region without following the roads.
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Across \A*cross"\, adv.
   1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
      --Shak.
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   2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]
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            The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the
            actions of Christ.                    --Bp. Hall.
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "across":
      across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart,
      athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise,
      catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise,
      crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise,
      diagonal, facing, fronting, horseback, in front of,
      in opposition to, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, on,
      on horseback, over against, overthwart, past, sideways, sidewise,
      slant, straddle, straddle-legged, straddleback, thwart, thwartly,
      thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely,
      traverse, versus