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- English Word Traverse Definition To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
- English Word Traverse Definition To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- English Word Traverse Definition To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
- English Word Traverse Definition To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
- English Word Traverse Definition 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.
- English Word Traverse Definition To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
- English Word Traverse Definition 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.
- English Word Traverse Definition To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
- English Word Traversed Definition of Traverse
- English Word Traverser Definition One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
- English Word Traverser Definition One who traverses, or denies.
- English Word Traverser Definition A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.
- English Word Traversing Definition of Traverse
- English Word Traversing Definition Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
- English Word Travertine Definition A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.
- English Word Travestied Definition of Travesty
- English Word Travesties Definition of Travesty
- English Word Travesting Definition of Travesty
- English Word Travesty Definition Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
- English Word Travesty Definition A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.