To cause to move across; propel.Situated or acting across or athwart; thwart; transverse; crossing.In heraldry, crossing the escutcheon from side to side, so as to touch both the dexter and sinister edges.n. Anything that traverses or crosses; a bar or barriern. A railing or lattice of wood or metal.n. A seat or stall in a church with a lattice, curtain, or screen before it.n. A strong beam of hard wood laid across several loose pieces of square timber, and having these pieces secured to it so as to form a crib; also, a transverse piece in a timber-framed roof.n. In weaving, a skeleton frame to hold the bobbins of yarn, which are wound from it upon the warp-frame.n. That which thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; an untoward accident.n. A dispute; a controversy.n. In fortification, an earthen mask, similar to a parapet, thrown across the covered way of a permanent work to protect it from the effects of an enfilading five.n. The act of traversing or traveling over; a passage; a crossing.n. In gunnery, the turning of a gun so as to make it point in any required direction.n. Nautical, the crooked or zigzag line or track described by a ship when compelled by contrary winds or currents to sail on different courses. See traverse sailing, under sailing.n. In architecture, a gallery or loft of communication from one side or part of the building to another, in a church or other large structure.n. In law, a denial; especially, a denial, in pleading, of any allegation of matter of fact made by the adverse party.n. In geometry, a line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.n. A turning; a trick; a pretext.n. In heraldry, a bearing resembling a point or pile—that is, a triangle, of which one side corresponds with either the sinister or dexter edge of the escutcheon, and the point of which reaches nearly or quite to the opposite edge. It is, therefore, the same as point dexter removed or point sinister removed.n. A sliding screen or barrier.n. In the manufacture of playing-cards, one of the eight strips into which each sheet of cardboard is cut. Each traverse makes five cards.n. Same as trevis, 2.n. A bolster.n. Across; in opposition.n. The postpouement of the trial of an indictment after a plea of not guilty thereto.Athwart; crosswise; transversely.To lay athwart, or in a cross direction; cause to cross.To pass across; pass over or through transversely; wander over; cross in traveling.To pass in review; survey carefully.In gunnery, to turn and point in any direction.In carpentry, to plane in a direction across the grain of the wood: as, to traverse a board.To cross by way of opposition; thwart; obstruct.To deny; specifically, in law, to deny in pleading: said of any matter of fact which the opposite party has alleged in his pleading.To cross; cross over.To march to and fro.In fencing, to nse the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction.To turn, as on a pivot; move round; swivel: as, the needle of a compass traverses.To digress in speaking.In the manège, to move or walk crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.A lifting-jack with a standard movable upon its bed, so that it can be applied to different parts of an object, or can move an object horizontally while the bed remains fixed.