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Word Meanings - TRANSVERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp,

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Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard. (more info) on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse.

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    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
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    Beastliness. Spenser.
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    To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
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    To leave or to be left. May.
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    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
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    A small brass Venetian coin.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
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    1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
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    To beslobber.
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    To take away. Ire . . . benimeth the man fro God. Chaucer.
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    One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
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    Good friend; dear friend. Chaucer.
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    1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
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    Safely. Chaucer.
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    In a familiar manner.
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    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
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    With laughter or merriment.
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    See ETC
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