[f. CROSS v. + -ER1.] One who crosses, in various senses; one who makes the sign of the cross; one who thwarts, opposes or contravenes; one who passes over, etc.
1565. Calfhill, Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846), 82. I know the most crossers are not the best Christians.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, I. 229. Any crosser of thy lust.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 104. An obstinate crosser of men wiser than himselfe.
1876. Birch, Monum. Hist. Egypt, 23. These Shasu are not merely shepherds, but nomads, the crossers of the desert.
