What does "overthwart" mean?
Overthwart: Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Clarendon.
Additional senses
- 2.Across; crosswise; transversely. "Y'clenched overthwart and endelong." Chaucer.
- 3.Across; from alde to side of. "Huge trees overthwart one another." Milton.
- 4.That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [Obs.] Surrey.
- 5.To cross; to oppose. [Obs.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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