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
His literary education likewise had been so carefully attended to, that he was considered as more versant in these things than his situation required.
Most of the rivers of the northern versant are comparatively small, as the island narrows into a kind of promontory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
He was a native of Fife, and in early life became versant in occult science.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
Those versant in the matter can alone venture to undertake it with common hives, whereas, every cultivator can do it himself with the leaf hives.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
