[See prec.] trans. To mark with crossing lines, to cross repeatedly; to trace in crossing lines.
1818. Keats, in Life & Lett., I. 112. To criss-cross the letter.
1867. Le Fanu, Tenants of Malory, III. xx. 240. How dulled it [a pretty portrait] was by time and neglect—how criss-crossed over with little cracks.
1883. W. H. Bishop, in Harper’s Mag., 826/2. The passing vessels criss-cross the white lines of their wakes upon it like pencil-marks on the slate.
