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Crisscross   Listen
adverb
Crisscross  adv.  
1.
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."
2.
With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.





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"Crisscross" Quotes from Famous Books



... each in its own little garden. At one end was the forge of Champion Harrison, with his house behind it, and at the other was Mr. Allen's school. The yellow cottage, standing back a little from the road, with its upper story bulging forward and a crisscross of black woodwork let into the plaster, is the one in which we lived. I do not know if it is still standing, but I should think it likely, for it was not a place much ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... tears started to my eyes, and I could hardly gulp out a word or two of thanks. What a crisscross of qualities in one human soul! It was not the deed or the words; but it was the almost womanly look in the eyes of this broken, drink-sodden old Bohemian—the sympathy and the craving for sympathy which I read there. Only for an instant though, ...
— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro


Words linked to "Crisscross" :   cut across, reticulate, mark, marking, get across, cross, get over


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