Across

prep.	1.	From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. To come across to come upon or meet incidentally. To go across the country to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads. - Freeman.
adv.	1.	From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
	2.	Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. - Bp. Hall.

Adj.	1.	across - placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across" Synonyms: crossed
Adv.	1.	across - to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across"
	2.	across - in such a manner as to be understood and accepted; "she cannot get her ideas across" Synonyms: over
	3.	across - transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" Synonyms: crossways, crosswise

across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart, athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, facing, fronting, horseback, in front of, in opposition to, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, on, on horseback, over against, overthwart, past, sideways, sidewise, slant, straddle, straddle-legged, straddleback, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, versus