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One who raves.

uality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

One who craves or begs.

One who deprave or corrupts.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.

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

Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.

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 machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

rally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. Traversing plate (Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Wilhelm. -- Traversing platform (Mil.), a platform for traversing guns.…

A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

rsected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

e neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.