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transversely, adv.|trɑːnsˈvɜːslɪ, træns-, -nz-| [f. transverse a. + -ly2.] In a transverse manner or direction; across, athwart; crosswise.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 225 Another membrane, which transversely..doth cover the chink of the Hymen. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus i. 96 Not transversly or rectangularly intersected, but in a decussation, after the form of an Andrean or Burgundian cross. 1777Cook Voy. Pacific Ocean ii. i. (1784) I. 178 An open end, which represented an ellipse divided transversely. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 180 A..transversely oblong bivalve. 1878W. H. Dall Later Preh. Man 16 There are eighteen threads to the inch longitudinally and twenty-four transversely. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 347 A layer of transversely elongated, partly thick-walled elements. |