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Webster 1913 Edition

Thwart

Thwart

,
Adj.
[OE.
þwart
,
þwert
, a. and adv., Icel.
þvert
, neut. of
þverr
athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS.
þweorh
perverse, transverse, cross, D.
dwars
, OHG.
dwerah
,
twerh
, G.
zwerch
,
quer
, Dan. & Sw.
tver
athwart, transverse, Sw.
tvär
cross, unfriendly, Goth.
þwaírhs
angry. Cf.
Queer
.]
1.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Moved contrary with
thwart
obliquities.
Milton.
2.
Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Thwart

,
adv.
[See
Thwart
,
Adj.
]
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Thwart

,
p
rep.
Across; athwart.
Spenser.
Thwart ships
.
See
Athwart ships
, under
Athwart
.

Thwart

,
Noun.
(Naut.)
A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

Thwart

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
The proposals of the one never
thwarted
the inclinations of the other.
South.

Thwart

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Thwart

THWART

,
Adj.
thwort. [L. verto, versus.] Transverse; being across something else.
Mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities.

THWART

,
Verb.
T.
thwort. To cross; to be, lie or come across the direction of something.
Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night.
1.
To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. We say, to thwart a purpose, design or inclination; or to thwart a person.
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.

THWART

,
Verb.
I.
To be in opposition.
--A proposition that shall thwart at all with these internal oracles. [Unusual and improper.]

THWART

,
Noun.
The seat or bench of a boat on which the rowers sit.

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