Thwart (?), a. [OE. wart, wert, a. and adv., Icel. vert, neut. of verr athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. weorh perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tvar cross, unfriendly, Goth. waørhs angry. Cf. Queer.]
1.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
Milton.
2.
Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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Thwart, adv. [See Thwart, a.]
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
[Obs.]
Milton.
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Thwart, prep.
Across; athwart.
Spenser.
Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.
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Thwart, n. Naut.
A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
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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.
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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.
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