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a. [ L. aversus, p. p. of avertere. See Avert. ] 1. Turned away or backward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The tracks averse a lying notice gave,
And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Averse alike to flatter, or offend. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The prevailing usage now is to employ to after averse and its derivatives rather than from, as was formerly the usage. In this the word is in agreement with its kindred terms, hatred, dislike, dissimilar, contrary, repugnant, etc., expressing a relation or an affection of the mind to an object. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Averse, Reluctant, Adverse. Averse expresses an habitual, though not of necessity a very strong, dislike; as, averse to active pursuits; averse to study. Reluctant, a term of the of the will, implies an internal struggle as to making some sacrifice of interest or feeling; as, reluctant to yield; reluctant to make the necessary arrangements; a reluctant will or consent. Adverse denotes active opposition or hostility; as, adverse interests; adverse feelings, plans, or movements; the adverse party. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To turn away. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See Avert. ] 1. A turning away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is now generally followed by to before the object. [ See Averse. ] Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete. [ 1913 Webster ]

A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

His aversion towards the house of York. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The object of dislike or repugnance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to aversion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. exhibiting avoidance or causing avoidance. aversive conditioning aversive behavior [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Cleave to stick. ] (Bot.) A species of Galium (Galium Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. extra- + L. vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. extraversion. ] The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. havresac, G. habersack, sack for oats. See 2d Haver, and Sack a bag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gunner's case or bag used to carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. quaqua wheresoever, whithersoever + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. ] 1. Turning or dipping in any or every direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a. ] Across; athwart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers. ] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Athwart; across; crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. traverse. See Traverse, a. ] 1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the entrance of the king,
The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) (Law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course. [ 1913 Webster ]

(g) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal. [ 1913 Webster ]

(h) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

(i) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To work a traverse or
To solve a traverse (Naut.), to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse. --
Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole. --
Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. --
Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship. --
Traverse table. (a) (Naut. & Surv.) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Traversed p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing. ] [ Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a. ] 1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gun.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Carp.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. [ 1913 Webster ]

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who traverses, or denies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Railroad) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Traversing plate (Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Wilhelm. --
Traversing platform (Mil.), a platform for traversing guns. [ 1913 Webster ]