transverse dehiscence

Bot .: Dehiscence by a transverse opening, as in the fruit of A nag all is, Hyoscyamus, and Alchemilla. transverse-partition, s. Bot . ( of a fruit ): A partition at a right angle to the valves, as in a siliqua. pine, pit, sire, sir, Syrian. æ, marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-1357.png:[blocks in formation] Mech.: The strain to which a beam is subjected when a force acts on it in a direction at right angles to its length, tending to bend it or break it acro . transverse-tension, s . Bot.: Tension exerted by the bark on the wood, and vice vers a , in the of tree, when, after its growth in length has ceased, a permanent increase takes place in its thickne . *trănş-verse', (1) v . t . & i . [TRANSVERSE, a . ] A. Trans.: Το overturn, to change, to thwart. "Nothing can be believed to be religion by any people but what they think to be divine; that is, sent immediately from God: and they can think nothing to be so, that is in the power of man to alter or transverse."-Lesley. B. In trans.: To transgre . "Ac treuthe that trespa ede nevere, ne transversed agens the lawe." Piers Plowman , p. 241. *trăng-vērse (2), v. t . [Pref. trans- , and English verse (q. v.).] To turn from prose into verse. "I take a book in my hand, either at home, or elsewhere, for that's all one; if they be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is if it be prose put it into verse (but that takes up some time), and if it be verse put into prose. -Methinks, Mr. Bayes, that putting verse into prose should be call'd trans prosing.-By my troth, sir, 'tis a very good notion, and hereafter it shall be so." - Duke of Bucking ham: The Rehearsal, 1. 1. trănş-verse'-ly, adv. [Eng. transverse, a.; -ly.] In a transverse or cro direction; acro . "Transversely fixing one end to the first thread that was span."-Goldsmith: The Bee , No. iv.