Trans·fer n.
 1. The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
 2. Law The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
    I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property.   --Burke.
 3. That which is transferred. Specifically: --
 (a) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.
 (b) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
 (c) Mil. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
 4. Med. A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
 Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock.  Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. --Bithell.
 Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.
 Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.
 Transfer table. Railroad Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.

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 Trav·erse, n.
 1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: --
 (a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
 (b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
    Men drinken and the travers draw anon.   --Chaucer.
 And the entrance of the king,
 The first traverse was drawn.   --F. Beaumont.
 (c) Arch. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
 (d) Fort. A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
 (e) Law 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; that is, without this which follows.
 (f) Naut. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
 (g) Geom. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
 (h) Surv. A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
 (i) Gun. The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
 2. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [Obs.]
 To work a traverse or  To solve a traverse Naut., to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse.
 Traverse board Naut., a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole.
 Traverse jury Law, a jury that tries cases; a petit jury.
 Traverse sailing Naut., a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.
 Traverse table. (a) Naut. & Surv. A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) Railroad A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.