adv. 1. Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. [ 1913 Webster ]

All athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Pref. a- + thwart. ] 1. Across; from side to side of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. --
Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Obs. ] See Forswat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. “Our overthwart neighbors.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. “Overthwart humor.” Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Across; crosswise; transversely. “Y'clenched overthwart and endelong.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. Across; from alde to side of. “Huge trees overthwart one another.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [ Obs. ] Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cross; to oppose. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [ Obs. ] Lord Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stalwart manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being stalwart. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ OE. stalworth, AS. staelwyrð serviceable, probably originally, good at stealing, or worth stealing or taking, and afterwards extended to other causes of estimation. See Steal, v. t., Worth, a. ] Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. “A stalwart tiller of the soil.” Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair man he was and wise, stalworth and bold. R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Stalworth is now disused, or but little used, stalwart having taken its place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An overseer or superintendent. [ R. ] “The stewartry of provisions.” Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of a steward; stewardship. [ R. ] Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sward. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd. ] 1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. “Swart attendants.” Trench. “Swart savage maids.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gloomy; malignant. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swart; swarthy. “A swarth complexion.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [ Prov. Eng. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sward. ] Sward; short grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Swath. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Swarthiness. [ R. ] Dr. R. Clerke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Swarthier superl. Swarthiest. ] [ See Swart, a. ] Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. “A swarthy Ethiope.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make swarthy. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Swarthiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being swart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swarthy; tawny. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. þwart, þwert, a. and adv., Icel. þvert, neut. of þverr athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. þweorh perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tvär cross, unfriendly, Goth. þwaírhs angry. Cf. Queer. ] 1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Thwart, a. ] Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. Across; athwart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwarting. ] 1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Far.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Transversely; obliquely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. vårta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fig wart,
Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. L. A. Duhring. --
Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine. --
Wart snake (Zool.), any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. --
Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacochœrus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacochœrus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (Phacochœrus Aeliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no wart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Wartwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warty egg (Zool.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]