"cross someone's palm with silver" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "cross someone's palm"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "As we drove off I was inclined to ask myself, a little bitterly — and perhaps unjustly — if it were not characteristic of the average London policeman to almost forget the most important part of his information, — at any rate to leave it to the last and only to bring it to the front on having his palm crossed with silver.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of cross someone's palm"
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          "cross someone's palm",
          "cross someone's palm#English"
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  "word": "cross someone's palm with silver"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed someone's palm with silver",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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          "word": "cross someone's palm"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "As we drove off I was inclined to ask myself, a little bitterly — and perhaps unjustly — if it were not characteristic of the average London policeman to almost forget the most important part of his information, — at any rate to leave it to the last and only to bring it to the front on having his palm crossed with silver.",
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        "Alternative form of cross someone's palm"
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          "cross someone's palm",
          "cross someone's palm#English"
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  "word": "cross someone's palm with silver"
}