Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.2. (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise. 3. (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses. 4. (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. 5. (n.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. 6. (n.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. 7. (n.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. 8. (n.) 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. 9. (n.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course. 10. (n.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal. 11. (n.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground. 12. (n.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction. 13. (n.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. 14. (v.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross. 15. (v.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. 16. (v.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. 17. (v.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully. 18. (v.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon. 19. (v.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board. 20. (v.) 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. 21. (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. 22. (v. i.) 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. 23. (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other. Greek 4097. piprasko -- to sell ... A reduplicated and prolonged form of prao (prah'-o); (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses) contracted from perao (to traverse; from the base of ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4097.htm - 7k 4013. periago -- to lead around, to go about 1330. dierchomai -- to go through, go about, to spread 4198. poreuomai -- to go 4063. peritrecho -- to run about Strong's Hebrew 8308. sarak -- to twist... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to twist NASB Word Usage entangling (1). traverse. A primitive root; to interlace -- traverse. 8307, 8308. sarak. 8309 ... /hebrew/8308.htm - 5k Library Shoes of Iron, and Strength Sufficient: a New Year's Promise The Martyrdom The Royal Marriage Feast. The Greatest Trial on Record The Word of the Truth of the Gospel He Maketh Me to Lie Down in Pastures of Tender Grass; He Leadeth ... The Apology of Aristides as it is Preserved in the History of ... Open the History of America, the History of England... God Neither Known nor Loved by the World The Service Common to the Holy Angels and Other Bodiless Ones. Thesaurus Traverse (5 Occurrences)... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. ... /t/traverse.htm - 10k Travels (10 Occurrences) Voyage (5 Occurrences) Journey (214 Occurrences) Wander (43 Occurrences) Walk (315 Occurrences) Trace (7 Occurrences) Traversing (2 Occurrences) Travel (25 Occurrences) Trance (7 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Traverse (5 Occurrences)Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves. Judges 18:2 And the sons of Dan send, out of their family, five men of them, men, sons of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to traverse the land, and to search it, and they say unto them, 'Go, search the land;' and they come into the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodge there. Judges 18:14 And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say unto their brethren, 'Have ye known that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and graven image, and molten image? and now, know what ye do.' Judges 18:17 yea, the five men, those going to traverse the land, go up -- they have come in thither -- they have taken the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image -- and the priest is standing at the opening of the gate, and the six hundred men who are girded with weapons of war -- Psalms 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following. Subtopics Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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