| 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. tvär cross, unfriendly, Goth. þwaírhs angry. Cf. Queer. ] 1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. [ 1913 Webster ] Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. [ 1913 Webster ] If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South. [ 1913 Webster ] |
