crossing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CROSSING, participle present tense Drawing; running or passing a line over; erasing; canceling; thwarting; opposing; counteracting; passing over. CROSSING, noun A thwarting; impediment; vexation.
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