crossed

Verb

cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)

1. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
   • She frowned and crossed her arms.
2. To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
   • to cross the letter t
3. To mark with an X.
   • Cross the box which applies to you.
4. To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.( Crossed letter on WikipediaWikipedia )
   • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN
5. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
   • Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
6. (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
   • "Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298

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