ppl. a. Also 6–7 trauerst. [f. TRAVERSE v. + -ED1.]
1. Placed or laid across; crossed; transverse.
1607. Shaks., Timon, V. iv. 2. [We] Haue wander’d with our trauerst Armes, and breath Our sufferance vainly.
1621. Lodge, Summary Du Bartas, I. 286. The Stomake … cloaseth it selfe on euery side, by meanes of the trauersed fibers.
2. Passed or traveled over; traced continuously; penetrated, pierced.
1599. T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 61. Lifelesse in midway of their trauerst round.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 357. Traversed heart must tell its story uncommented on.
1905. J. C. Wilson, Traversing Geometr. Figures, I. § 4. 10. If B was intermediate, the traversed lines at B are even in number.
3. Of a horse: see quots. Cf. TRAVERSE v. 19 b.
1611. Cotgr., Travat, a horse which is trauersed; viz. hath two white feet on the right, or left side.
1678. in Phillips (ed. 4).
1720. W. Gibson, Diet. Horses, i. 5. Those which are cross-traversed, having the Fore-foot on the Near Side, and Hinder Foot on the Far Side, or [vice versa] White.
4. Her. See quot., and cf. TRAVERSE a. 2, 2 b.
c. 1828. Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss., Traversed, (French, contourné) turned to the sinister side of the shield.
