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Definition of Crossed

1. Adjective. Placed crosswise. "Seated with arms across"

2. Adjective. (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it.

Definition of Crossed

1. Verb. (past of cross) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crossed

1. cross [v] - See also: cross

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossed

crossculturally crosscurrent crosscurrents crosscut crosscut saw crosscut saws crosscuts crosscutting crosscuttings crossdisciplinary

crossdress crossdresser crossdressers crosse crossectional crossed (current term) crossed adductor jerk crossed adductor reflex crossed anaesthesia crossed aphasia

crossed cylinders crossed embolism crossed extension reflex crossed eye crossed eyes crossed fingers crossed fixation crossed hemianesthesia crossed hemianopia crossed hemiplegia

Literary usage of Crossed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1900)
"The subject is in many ways important for us, more especially as the sterility of species when first crossed, and that of their hybrid offspring, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"As the twenty-third parallel was approached, weed became more abundant and the quantity increased until nightfall, when the twenty-fifth was crossed. ..."

3. The variation of animals and plants under domestication by Charles Darwin (1877)
"When grown to their full height under the above unfavourable conditions, the four tallest crossed plants averaged 7 62, and the four tallest self-fertilised ..."

4. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"All things must be crossed a little or they would cease to live—but holy things, such for example as Giovanni Bellini's saints, have been crossed with ..."

5. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"crossed and Keif-fertilised Plants of the Sixth Generation.—Seeds from plants of the fifth generation crossed and self-fertilised in the usual manner were ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"10) Direct Trochlear and crossed Oculomotor Fibers. LJ Kinn. ... Direct trochlear fibers are few in number: the crossed have increased enormously in the ..."

7. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XVII HOW THE YELLOW COG crossed THE BAR OF GIRONDE FOR two days the yellow cog ran swiftly before a north-easterly wind, and on the dawn of the ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... E. On his return journey Oxley again crossed the Lachlan about 160 m., measured along the river, below the point where he leit it on his journey south. ..."

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