Crossword clues for traversed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traverse \Trav"erse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed; p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing.] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.]
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To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
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To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
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To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought.
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To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude.
--South. (Gun.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
(Carp.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
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(Law) 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.
And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone.
--Dryden.To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: traverse)
Usage examples of "traversed".
Coango, an affluent of the Congo, and after having traversed the continent from the extreme south to the east he reached St.
She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose, where it terminated.
In the region of the great lakes, throughout the vast district which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornu and Fezzan, further south on the banks of the Nyassa and Zambesi, further west in the districts of the Upper Zaire, just traversed by the intrepid Stanley, everywhere there is the recurrence of the same scenes of ruin, slaughter, and devastation.
Portuguese authorities, but the interior of the country, traversed only by slave caravans, driven under the lash of the havildars.
He paused upon re-entry long enough to release his urine, then traversed the white again.
As they traversed the gate he flung out his hand in time to stop them short of the facing wall on Cherry Lane, where he was gratified to see that the lamp he had lit still burned in the hall.
As she spoke the original machine roused from its berth and traversed the bottle to a cubby-hole from which an arm extracted a small rectangular solid.
The orgasm occurred as they traversed the hall, announcing itself in resounding shouts and screams.
On the part projecting beyond the muzzle there is a double square, each arm of which is divided into equal parts and traversed by a fine slit.
With full rations the Greek soldiers under Xenophon suffered intense hunger as they traversed the snow-clad mountains of Armenia.
He also seemed to have the ability to judge distance, and was said to have known how far he had walked, and by the velocity he could even tell the distance traversed in a vehicle.
Arsens Blondin traversed one river after another in France on a wire stretched at high altitudes.
Malcom several times traversed the Meuse at Sedan on a wire at about a height of 100 feet.
Philonides, the courier of Alexander the Great, who in nine hours traversed the distance between the Greek cities Sicyone and Elis, a distance of over 150 miles.
His courier was dispatched in great haste to another house in his domain, 15 miles distant, and returned in two hours with the necessary article, having traversed a distance of over 30 miles.