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Traverse :: Traverse (a.) 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..

Course :: Course (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) 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..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe..

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed..

Traverse :: Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

Pathfinder :: Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..

Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..

Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..

Electrotonic :: Electrotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

Traversing :: Traversing (a.) Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion..

Contraversion :: Contraversion (n.) A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.

Absque Hoc :: Absque hoc () The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated..

Basin :: Basin (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river..

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast..

Bowshot :: Bowshot (n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

Transversal :: Transversal (n.) A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced..

Passable :: Passable (a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats..

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