Both Uses of
transverse
in
Washington Square
- After a while the Doctor descried a footpath which, leading through a transverse valley, would bring them out, as he justly supposed, at a much higher point of the ascent.†
Chpt 24 *
- Catherine continued to live in her father's house in spite of its being represented to her that a maiden lady of quiet habits might find a more convenient abode in one of the smaller dwellings, with brown stone fronts, which had at this time begun to adorn the transverse thoroughfares in the upper part of the town.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(transverse) in a crosswise direction (at a right angle to the long axis); or something in such a direction