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[ Those streetes that be thwart are faire and large. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 234. The slant lightning, whose thwart flame, driven down, Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton , P. L., x. 1075. IMG:content-0385.png:[graphic] 21. Antithetical. It is observable that Solomon's proverbial says are so many select aphorisms, containing, for the most part, a pair of cro and thwart sentences, handled rather by cols at i on than relation, whose conjunction is disjunctive. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 216. 3. Perverse; contrary; cro -grained. His herte tho wurth thwert . Genesis and Exodus , 1. 3099. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her! Shak ., Lear, i. 4. 305. Now he would make that love prevail in the world and become its law; the world, still thwart and untoward, foils his purpose, and he dies. E. Dowden , Shelley, II. 130. thwart1 (thwart), n. [ thwart1 , v .] Opposition; defiance. A certain discourteous person, who calleth himself the devil, even now, and in thwart of your fair inclinations, keepeth and detaineth your irradiant frame in hostile thraldom. Mi Burney , Cecilia, ii. 3. thwart1 (thwart), v. [ cro . Pericles Is now again thwarting the wayward seas. Shak., Pericles, iv. 4. 10. Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night.