cross vb. (2 the commonest S. sense)
1.
to meet, face
Ham. I. i. 127.
2.
to thwart, go counter
to MND. I. i. 150,
Mac. III. i. 81
“How . . . borne in
hand, how cross'd,”
Ven. 734.
3.
to debar “from”
3H6 III. ii. 127
“To me from the
golden time I look for.”
4.
pass. to have one's
debts crossed off or cancelled (quibblingly) Tim. I. ii. 170*
“When all's spent, he'd be
cross'd then, an he could.”
