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Transverse
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.
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Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.