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thwart(1) (iou) and cervicoaxillary canal (medicine)


thwart(1) (iou)



thwart adjective, adverb, & preposition. ME.
[Old Norse Tvert orig. neut. of Tverr transverse, cross = Old English Twe(o)rh crooked, cross, perverse, Old High German dwerh, twerh (German zwerch in Zwerchfell diaphragm), Gothic Twairhs cross, angry, from Germanic from Indo-European base also of Latin torquere twist.]
A. adjective.
a. Of a person, attribute, etc.: disposed to offer resistance; cross-grained; perverse; obstinate, stubborn. ME.
Bacon Ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous. R. L. Stevenson The crass public or the thwart reviewer.
b. Of a thing: adverse, unfavourable, untoward, unpropitious; spec. (of a wind or current) cross. E17.
Lying or extending across something, transverse. LME.
W. Irving Thwart pieces from side to side about three inches thick. R. A. Proctor The actual rate of any star's thwart motion.
b. adverb.
= ATHWART adverb 2. Long arch. ME.
From one side to the Other. Cf. ATHWART adverb 3. arch. E16.
a. Nautical. To seaward of. M16-L17.
b. Across the direction of. Only in M17.
C. preposition.
= ATHWART preposition 1. Now arch. & poet. LME.
T. Busby When shines the God of Day, And thwart the darkened chamber darts his ray. W. Morris A pink-tinged cloud spread thwart the shore.
Chiefly Nautical. Across the course or direction of. Cf. ATHWART preposition 2. L15.
Comb.: thwart-saw (obsolete exc. dial.) a cross-cut saw; thwartship adjective & adverb (Nautical) (placed, fixed, or facing) across the length of a ship; thwart-ships adverb (Nautical) across a ship from side to side.
thwartly adverb (now rare) in a thwart manner, transversely, across LME.
thwartness noun (long rare) the condition or quality of being thwart; esp. contrariness, perversity: M16.
thwartways adverb (rare) thwartwise M17.
thwartwise adverb & adjective cross(wise), transverse(ly) L16.

cervicoaxillary canal (medicine)


cervicoaxillary canal
Superior opening to the axilla, bounded by clavicle anteriorly, scapula posteriorly and first rib medically. Axillary vessels and brachial plexus are transmitted.