Across; athwart. [Not used.]
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That may be traversed or denied; as a traversable allegation.
1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment.
1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches.
2. Oak--may be trusted in traverse work for summers.
2. The ridges of the field lay traverse
1. Any thing laid or built across.
2. There is a traverse placed in the loft where she sitteth.
3. Something that thwarts, crosses or obstructs; a cross accident. He is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not in his power.
4. In fortification, a trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also, a wall raised across a work.
5. In navigation, traverse-sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns, to one longer course.
6. In law, a denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any state of the pleadings. When the traverse or denial comes from the defendant, the issue is tendered in this manner, 'and of this he puts himself on the country.' When the traverse lies on the plaintiff, he prays 'this may be inquired of by the country.'
7. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
8. A turning; a trick.
2. To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--
1. To cross; to lay in a cross direction.
2. The parts should be often traversed or crossed by the flowing of the folds.
4. Frog thought to traverse this new project.
5. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
6. What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought.
7. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
8. My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles and properties of this detestable vice, ingratitude.
9. To turn and point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
10. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
11. In law pleadings, to deny what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. So to traverse an indictment or an office, is to deny it.
1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
2. Anything that traverses, or crosses.
3. Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
4. A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
5. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
6. A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
7. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
8. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
9. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
10. A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
11. The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
12. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
13. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
15. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
16. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
17. To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
18. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
19. To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
In navigation, a table of difference of latitude and departure.
1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
2. One who traverses, or denies.
Crossing; passing over; thwarting; turning; denying.
Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
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1 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Travers”
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;