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(1):

(a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; - often opposed to longitudinal.

(2):

(n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.

(3):

(n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

(4):

(v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

(5):

(v. t.) To overturn; to change.