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a. Furnished with an architrave. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. betterave; bette beet + rave radish. ] The common beet (Beta vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contravened p. pr. & vb. n. Contravening. ] [ LL. contravenire; L. contra + venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See Come. ] 1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson.

Syn. -- To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who contravenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. contravention. ] The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ Pref. extra- + L. vena vein. ] Let out of the veins. [ Obs. ] “Extravenate blood.” Glanvill. [ 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 ]

a. 1. Within the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Administered by injection into a vein; as, an intravenous antibiotic infusion. [ PJC ]

a. Within or between ventricles. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not visited by many travelers; as, the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To exceed in speed or distance traveled. Mad. D' Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the process of travelling in or into outer space. [ PJC ]

n. [ Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. tref a beam, also F. travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. trave, trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two beams. ] 1. (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

She sprung as a colt doth in the trave. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Traveled r Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling. ] [ Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail. ] 1. To labor; to travail. [ Obsoles. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass; to go; to move. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. “I travel this profound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To force to journey. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Labor; parturition; travail. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [ Written also travelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also traveler. ] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. --
Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 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 ]

n. [ F. travertin, It. travertino, tiburtino, L. lapis Tiburtinus, fr. Tibur an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli. ] (Min.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest. ] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Travesties A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. [ 1913 Webster ]

The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Travestied p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting. ] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. [ 1913 Webster ]

I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also untravelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]