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To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.

The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.

To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic] Trance the world over. Beau. & Fl. When thickest dark did trance the sky. Tennyson.

Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.

Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

A flowing through, across, or beyond. [R.]

Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world." Milton.…

A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised transiliency." Glanvill.

Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.

The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

The act of swimming across, as a river.

a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.

Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line. -- Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.

Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustar…

To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Craft of Lovers (1448).

The act of flying beyond or across. Jer. Taylor.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which…

A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region. [Sp. Amer.]