Traverse
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
Traverse
[Adverb]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. The ridges of the field lay traverse
Traverse
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
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.
Traverse
[Preposition]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. He traverse
3. The whole
battalion views their order due. [Little used.]
Traverse
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--
3. To turn, as on a
pivot; to move round; to
swivel. The needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
Traverse
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
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.
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.
12. To traverse a yard, in sailing, is to
brace it
aft.
Traverse
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
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.
Traverse
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. To turn, as on a
pivot; to move round; to
swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
3. To
tread or move
crosswise, as a horse that throws his
croup to one side and his head to the other.
In a ship, a small board to be hung in the
steerage, and bored full of holes upon lines, showing the points of compass upon it. By moving a
peg on this, the
steersman keeps an account of the number of glasses a ship is
steered on any point.
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.
