[CROSS- 4 b.] A path that crosses between two roads or points. Also fig.

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1558.  Phaër, Æneid., IV. L ij b. Diana deepe, whose name by night al townes in crospathes crie.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, xxiv. 373. To light him in the way of welfare, and to turne him from all crosspathes and bywaies.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 415. Taking good caution that in his necessary deviations from the solid road of reason he does not tear up the ground of any cross paths.

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