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Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

Contrarry :: Contrarry (a.) To contradict or oppose; to thwart.

Cross :: Cross (prep.) Athwart; across.

Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart..

Thwart :: Thwart (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash..

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat..

Overthwart :: Overthwart (a.) Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing.

Intervent :: Intervent (v. t.) To thwart; to obstruct.

Thwarting :: Thwarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thwar.

Cross :: Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart.

Thwarted :: Thwarted (imp. & p. p.) of Thwar.

Overthwartness :: Overthwartness (n.) The state of being overthwart; perverseness.

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

Portate :: Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control..

Traverse :: Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Thaught :: Thaught (n.) See Thwart.

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

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