Thesaurus: across
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
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Definitions
- n. From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
- adv. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
- adv. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
- adv. to the opposite side
- adv. transversely
- From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a directionopposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman.-- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across aregion without following the roads.
- i:91/r:9 r. to the opposite side r. transversely