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traversing
Word definitions for traversing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traverse \Trav"erse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing .] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse , a.] To lay in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. --Dryden. To cross ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A traversal. vb. (present participle of traverse English)
Usage examples of traversing.
Their other ally, Grigoriev, was of little use at the time, as he was traversing the most chaotic and anarchic period of his life.
Cerryl slipped back toward Beryal, his eyes traversing the square-no sign of golden-red hair.
Grecian altar screen of Bishop Bisse they were struck by the traces of Norman mouldings, whilst on traversing the clerestory gallery the remains of Norman ornaments were everywhere to be found, the gallery itself being still existent at each side, returned behind the wooden coverings, up to the splays of the eastern windows.
He committed the wild imprudence of traversing the Maremma in August, and was killed by the poisonous exhalations.
She faced the cold, colorless stars, the stars she loved, the stars that would be lost to the Meth if she made one misstep traversing her middle road.
Guthrie has mentioned a parallel instance of a ball traversing the thoracic cavity, the patient completely recovering after treatment.
Traversing the long dark upstairs halls, keeping my bearings by brushing fingertips against the plaster walls.
Robes and skins were destined to become clothing, blankets, shields, or lightweight bullboats for traversing the rivers.
Though coated with a thick, calcareous crust, an iron nail could be seen traversing the calcaneus from side to side.
Meanwhile French explorers were traversing this mighty interior valley with all the spirit of Cartier, Joliet, Champlain, and La Salle.
Of all the sixty odd British columns which were traversing the Boer states there was not one which had a better record than that commanded by Colonel Benson.
He crossed one field, then another, climbing through barbed wire fences, his beer and Slim Jims hi a bag cradled carefully hi one arm, and, traversing a mile of fallow, though once irrigated, earth, he reached the sage.
Walpi promontory is so abrupt and difficult of access that there is no trail by which horses can be brought to the village without passing through Hano and Sichumovi, traversing the whole length of the mesa tongue, and crossing a rough break or depression in the mesa summit close to the village.
From its rise at Lake Linderman the Yukon runs twenty-five hundred miles to Bering Sea, traversing an almost unknown region, the remote recesses of which had never felt the moccasined foot of the pathfinder.
Halla left the wyrm beside the shelves and pools, and sprang off through the milkwood trees, traversing meadow and dale and grove to gather the unicorns to come parley with the wyrms.