Assembly (n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment. |
Assembly (n.) A collection of inanimate objects. |
Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. |
Traverse (a.) Lying across |
Traverse (adv.) Athwart |
Traverse (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses. |
Traverse (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs |
Traverse (a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. |
Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. |
Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. |
Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this |
Traverse (a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another |
Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines |
Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground. |
Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction. |
Traverse (a.) A turning |
Traverse (a.) To lay in a cross direction |
Traverse (a.) To cross by way of opposition |
Traverse (a.) To wander over |
Traverse (a.) To pass over and view |
Traverse (a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction |
Traverse (a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood |
Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it. |
Traverse (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. |
Traverse (v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot |
Traverse (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other. |
Westminster Assembly () See under Assembly. |