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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton.

A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.

Transversely; obliquely.

The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.

The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a quest…

A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

ote; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. To checkmate and control my just demands. Ford.

o truth can contradict another truth. Hooker. A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Shak.

To contradict or oppose; to thwart. [Obs.] I was advised not to contrary the king. Bp. Latimer.

To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. Sir I. Newton.