Thwart

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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

2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] Shak.

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] Milton.

Part of speech: preposition (prep.)

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