Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thwart"

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) 1.7 (wn)

thwart
n : a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat
in a rowboat [syn: {cross thwart}]
v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What
ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's
amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {queer},
{spoil}, {scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle},
{bilk}]
2: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of [syn:
{frustrate}, {spoil}]


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