Across

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

II. Across ·adv From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

III. Across ·noun 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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