adv athwart; across; crosswise.
2. traverse ·adj a turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
3. traverse ·adj anything that traverses, or crosses.
4. traverse ·adj a line surveyed across a plot of ground.
5. traverse ·adj to pass over and view; to survey carefully.
6. traverse ·adj a line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
7. traverse ·adj to lay in a cross direction; to cross.
8. traverse ·adj a barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
9. traverse ·adj the turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
10. traverse ·adj to wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
11. traverse ·vi to use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
12. traverse ·adj to plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
13. traverse ·adj a gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
14. traverse ·adj lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
15. traverse ·adj to turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
xvi. traverse ·adj a work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
xvii. traverse ·adj the zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
xviii. traverse ·vi to tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
xix. traverse ·adj to cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
xx. traverse ·adj 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.
xxi. traverse ·vi 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.
xxii. traverse ·adj 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.
xxiii. traverse ·adj 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.