[See prec.; now treated as a mere reduplication of cross; cf. zigzag.]
A. adj. Arranged or placed in crossing lines, crossing, crossed; marked by crossings or intersections. B. adv. In the manner of crossing lines, crosswise; fig. in a contrary way, awry, askew.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, I. vii. 132. His puckered forehead unravels its entanglement of criss-cross wrinkles.
1864. Thoreau, Maine W., iii. 244. Others prostrate and criss-across.
1878. C. R. Conder, Tent Work Pal., I. 352. A regular ‘criss-cross’ pattern, never found in the later masonry.
