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ght has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. Addison. -- To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonit…

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] "I journeyed many a land." Sir W. Scott.

The space traversed by a leap.

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

l, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

A machine for registering the distance traversed by a vehicle or pedestrain.

An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed.

d in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

uring a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.

a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.

hich a refracted ray makes with the perpendicular to the surface separating the two media traversed by the ray. -- Conical refraction (Opt.), the refraction of a ray of light into an infinite number of rays, forming a hollow cone. This occurs when a ray of light is passed through crystals of some substances, under cer…

A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.

A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.

n; deviation. Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that . . . goes still round in the same track. Locke.