adv. [f. TRANSVERSE a. + -LY2.] In a transverse manner or direction; across, athwart; crosswise.

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1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., 225. Another membrane, which transversely … doth cover the chink of the Hymen.

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1658.  Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, i. 96. Not transversly or rectangularly intersected, but in a decussation, after the form of an Andrean or Burgundian cross.

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1777.  Cook, Voy. Pacific Ocean, II. i. (1784), I. 178. An open end, which represented an ellipse divided transversely.

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1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 180. A … transversely oblong bivalve.

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1878.  W. H. Dall, Later Preh. Man, 16. There are eighteen threads to the inch longitudinally and twenty-four transversely.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 347. A layer of transversely elongated, partly thick-walled elements.

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