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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thwacked p. pr. & vb. n. Thwacking. ] [ Cf. OE. thakken to stroke, AS. þaccian, E. whack. ] 1. To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. “A distant thwacking sound.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill to overflow. [ Obs. ] Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. Icel. þveit a piece of land, fr. þvīta to cut. See Thwite, and cf. Doit, and Twaite land cleared of woods. ] Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Thwaite occurs in composition as the last element in many names of places in the north of England; as, in Rosthwaite, Stonethwaite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The twaite. [ 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 ]

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 ]