THWART
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Thwart (?), a. [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. tv&ä;r cross, unfriendly, Goth. þwaírhs angry. Cf. Queer.] 1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
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Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
Milton.
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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.
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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.]
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Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night.
Milton.
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2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
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If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
Shak.
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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.]
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2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.]
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Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles.
Locke.
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