Across: Definition and part of speech

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Across

  1. adv. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
  2. n. From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
  3. adv. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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