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We are both love's captives, but with fates so
cross,

One must be happy by the other's loss.

Dryden.

3. Characterized by, or in a state of,
peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or
woman.

He had received a cross answer from his
mistress.

Jer. Taylor.

4. Made in an opposite direction, or an
inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as,
cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a
brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to
each other.

Cross action (Law), an action
brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued
him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same
contract. Burrill. -- Cross aisle
(Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a
cruciform church. -- Cross axle.
(a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or
roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate
printing press. (b) A driving axle, with
cranks set at an angle of 90° with each other. --
Cross bedding (Geol.


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