crisscross

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To mark with crossing lines.
2. v. To move back and forth through or over: crisscrossed the country on a speaking tour.
3. v. To move back and forth.
4. n. A mark or pattern made of crossing lines.
5. n. A state of being at conflicting or contrary purposes.
6. adj. Crossing one another or marked by crossings.
7. adv. In a manner or direction that crosses or is marked by crossings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as christ-cross.
2. n. A crossing or intersection; a congeries of intersecting lines.
3. n. A game played on a slate, or on paper, by children, in which two players set down alternately, in a series of squares, the one a cross, the other a cipher. The object of the game is to get three of the same characters in a row. Also called tit-tat-to.
4. Like a cross or a series of crosses; crossed and recrossed; going back and forth.
5. To form a crisscross; intersect frequently.

Wiktionary

1. v. To move back and forth (over something.)
2. v. To mark something with crossed lines.
3. n. A pattern of crossed lines.
4. adj. marked with crossed lines
5. adv. crossing one another

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
2. n. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
3. v. To mark or cover with cross lines.
4. adv. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
5. adv. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cross in a pattern, often random
2. n. a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
3. v. mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines
4. v. mark with a pattern of crossing lines
5. adv. crossing one another in opposite directions
6. adj. marked with crossing lines