Available Definitions:
1) a. - Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
2) n. - Anything that is transverse or athwart.
3) n. - The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
4) v. t. - To overturn; to change.
5) v. t. - To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.