Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex.
Wandering from place to place or market to market.
(of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
To alter or transform.
To lie or run across; to cross.
To overturn.
To traverse or thwart.