versant

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A gadget lover, Alexander is known to roll up his sleeves to become versant with the latest security technologies.

From Reuters • May 26, 2013

I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Llan means a level place generally, as most of your readers who are versant in those subjects know.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The Golfo Dulce region and the Caribbean versant are humid and inhabited by Hyla elaeochroa.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.

Vous souvient-il? que plus tard, sous les armes     Plusieurs donons, désignés par le sort,     Loin des parents; versant d’amères larmes,     Allaient trouver ou la gloire ou la mort.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick