adv. [CROSS- 4 + -WAYS.] = CROSSWISE.

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1564.  in Hawkins’ Voy. (1878), 18. Which maketh their townes crosse waies.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 272, margin. Of pleasures which men seeke crossewayes.

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1665.  Hooke, Microgr., 101. Breaking off a very thin sliver of the Coal cross-ways.

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1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 52 a. A defect that runs crossways of the beam.

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1871.  trans. Schellen’s Spectr. Anal., ix. 24. A series of dark stripes breaking crossways through the light.

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