7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, v. i.
1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]
2. Hence to be in opposition; to clash. [R.]
Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with
internal oracles. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, a. [OE. [thorn]wart, [thorn]wert, a. and adv.,
Icel. [thorn]vert, neut. of [thorn]verr athwart, transverse,
across akin to AS [thorn]weorh perverse, transverse, cross,
D. dwars, OHG. dwerah twerh, G. zwerch quer, Dan. & Sw
tver athwart, transverse, Sw tv["a]r cross, unfriendly,
Goth. [thorn]wa['i]rhs angry. Cf {Queer}.]
1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse;
oblique.
Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. --Milton.
2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, adv [See {Thwart}, a.]
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, prep.
Across athwart. --Spenser.
{Thwart ships}. See {Athwart ships}, under {Athwart}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, n. (Naut.)
A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other
or athwart the boat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Thwarting}.]
1. To move across or counter to to cross; as an arrow
thwarts the air. [Obs.]
Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the
night. --Milton.
2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to to
contravene; hence to frustrate or defeat.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me --Shak.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the
inclinations of the other --South.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
thwart
n : a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat
in a rowboat [syn: {cross thwart}]
v 1: to hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of:
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's
amazing September surge." [syn: {queer}, {spoil}, {scotch},
{foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}]
2: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
thwart [syn: {frustrate}, {spoil}]
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