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eing 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 mustard.…

In a transverse manner.

Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

e balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis. -- Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. -- Axis of a telescope or microscope, the straight line with which coincide the axes of t…

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

y strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

t may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

g elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.