[CROSS a. 2: see POINT.]
† 1. Name of a step in dancing. Obs.
a. 1592. Greene, James IV., IV. iii. Nay but, my friends, one hornpipe further, a refluence back, and two doubles forward: what, not one cross-point against Sundays?
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., II. vi. (Arb.), 32. Seeing him practise his lusty pointes, as his crospoynt backcaper.
2. One of the points of the compass intermediate between two cardinal points.
1709. Tatler, No. 42. When the Wind is in a cross Point.
1865. F. Hall, in Wilson, trans. Vishṅu-puráṅa, II. 241, note. All the cardinal points, and so the cross-points.
