Trabeated
Tra´be•a•ted, a. (Arch.) Furnished with an entablature.
Trabeation
Tra•be•a´tion, n. [L. trabs, trabis, a beam, a timber.] (Arch.) Same as Entablature.
Trabeculate
Tra•bec´u•late, a. (Bot.) Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
Trace, n. [F. trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.] One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
Trace, n. [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ]
1. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.
2. (Chem. & Min.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; — hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
"The shady empire shall retain no trace
Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase." Pope.
4. (Descriptive Geom. & Persp.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
5. (Fort.) The ground plan of a work or works. Syn.-Vestige; mark; token. See Vestige.
Trace, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. traced p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]
1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
"Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods." Hawthorne.
2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper.
"You may trace the deluge quite round the globe." T. Burnet.
"I feel thy power … to trace the ways
Of highest agents." Milton.
3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
"How all the way the prince on footpace traced." Spenser.
4. To copy; to imitate.
"That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
Of tracing word, and line by line." Denham.
5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
"We do tracethis alley up and down." Shak.
Trace, v. i. To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.]
"Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace." Spenser.
Traceable
Trace´a•ble, a. Capable of being traced. — Trace´a•ble•ness, n. — Trace"a/bly, adv.
Tracer/y
Tra"cer/y, n. ; pl. Traceries (Arch.) Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: — (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window. Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate of stone. Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the mullions. Window tracery is imitated in many decorative objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or in relief. See also Stump tracery under Stump, and Fan tracery under Fan. (b) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
Trachea
Tra´che•a, n. ; pl. Tracheae (#). [NL.,from L. trachia, Gr. trachei^a (sc. windpipe), from rough, rugged: cf. F. trachee.]
1. (Anat.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
3. (Bot.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
Tracheal
Tra´che•al, a. [Cf.F. tracheal.] Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
Tracheate
Tra´che•ate, a. (Zoöl.) Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
Tracheate
Tra´che•ate, n. (Zoöl.) Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.
Tracheitis
Tra•che•i´tis, n. [NL. See Trachea, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
Tracheitis
Tra•che•i´tis, n. [NL. See Trachea; -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
Trachelipoda
Tra•che•lip´o•da, n. pl. [NL. See Trachelipod.] (Zoöl.) An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
Tracheobranchia
Tra•che•o•bran´chi•a, n. ; pl. Tracheobranchlae (#). [NL. See Trachea, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.) One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
Trachinoid
Tra´chi•noid, a. (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. See Weever.
Trachycarpous
Tra•chy•car´pous, a. [Gr. rough + fruit.] (Bot.) Rough-fruited. Gray.
Trachyspermous
Tra•chy•sper´mous, a. [Gr. rough + seed.] (Bot.) Rough-seeded. Gray.
Trachytic
Tra•chyt´ic, a. [Cf. F. trachytique.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
Track, n. [OF. trac track of horses, mules, trace of animals; of Teutonic origin; cf.D. trek a drawing, trekken to draw, travel, march, MHG. trechen, pret. trach. Cf. Trick.]
1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
"The bright track of his fiery car." Shak.
2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
"Far from track of men." Milton.
3. (Zoöl.) The entire lower surface of the foot; — said of birds, etc.
4. A road; a beaten path.
"Behold Torquatus the same track pursue." Dryden.
5. Course; way; as the track of a comet.
6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
7. (Railroad) The permanent way; the rails.
8. [Perhaps a mistake for tract.] A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.] "Small tracks of ground." Fuller. Track scale, a railway scale. See under Railway.
Track, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. tracked p. pr. & vb. n. tracking.] To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as to track a deer in the snow.
"It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses." Macaulay.
2. (Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Trackage
Track´age, n. The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
Trackage
Track´age, n. (Railroads) Lines of track, collectively; as an extensive trackage.
Trackmaster
Track´mas•ter, n. (Railroad) One who has charge of the track; — called also roadmaster.
Tract, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.] A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
"The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared." Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.
Tract, n. [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due to confusion with track. See Trace, v. , and cf. Tratt.]
1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell." Milton.
2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as an unexplored tract of sea.
"A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth." Addison.
3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.]
"The discovery of a man’s self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness." Bacon.
4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] Dryden.
5. Track; trace. [Obs.]
"Efface all tract of its traduction." Sir T. Browne.
"But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon,
Leaving no tract behind." Shak.
6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] Shak.
7. Continuity or extension of anything; as the tract of speech. [Obs.] Older.
8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time." Milton.
9. (R. C. Ch.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; — so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.
Syn. — Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.
Tract, v. t. To trace out; to track; also to draw out; to protact. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
Tractable
Tract´a•ble, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, v. t.]
1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner.
"I shall find them tractable enough." Shak.
2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. —Tract´a•ble•ness, n. — Tract"a/bly, adv.
Tractarian
Trac•ta´ri•an, a. Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
Tractate
Tract´ate, n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.] A treatise; a tract; an essay.
"Agreeing in substance with Augustin’s, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated." Hare.
Tractility
Trac•til´i•ty, n. The quality of being tractile; ductility. Derham.
Tractitious
Trac•ti´tious, a. [See Tractate.] Treating of; handling. [R.]
Tractive
Tract´ive, a. Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as tractive power.
Tractrix
Tract´rix, n. [NL. See Tractor.] (Geom.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; — so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Trad, obs. imp. of Tread. Chaucer.
Trade, n. [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See Tread, n. & v. ]
1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also passage; travel; resort. [Obs.]
"A postern with a blind wicket there was
A common trade to pass through Priam’s house." Surrey.
"Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade." Spenser.
"Or, I’ll be buried in the king’s highway,
Some way of common trade, where subjects’ feet
May hourly trample on their sovereign’s head." Shak.
2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." Udall.
"There those five sisters had continual trade." Spenser.
"Long did I love this lady,
Long was my travel, long my trade to win her." Massinger.
"Thy sin’s not accidental but a trade." Shak.
3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.]
"Have you any further trade with us?" Shak.
4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water.
5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
"Accursed usury was all his trade." Spenser.
"The homely, slighted, shepherd’s trade." Milton.
"I will instruct thee in my trade." Shak.
6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.]
"The house and household goods, his trade of war." Dryden.
7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
8. pl. The trade winds.
9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.]
Syn. — Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board. — Trade dollar. See under Dollar. — Trade price, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. — Trade sale, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers. — Trade wind, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; — so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade. The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather.
Trade, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n. Trading.]
1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
"A free port, where nations … resorted with their goods and traded." Arbuthnot.
2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; — usually followed by with.
"How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?" Shak.
Tradeful
Trade´ful, a. Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.
Tradescantia
Trad•es•can´ti•a, n. (Bot.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
Tradesfolk
Trades´folk, n. People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.
Tradeswoman
Trades´wom•an, n. ; pl. Tradeswomen . A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
Tradition
Tra•di´tion, n. [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.]
1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.
2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
3. Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
"Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?" Shak.
"Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pre." Longfellow.
4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered." Mark vii. 13. (b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
"Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle." 2 Thess. ii. 15.Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; — so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.
Traditionalist
Tra•di´tion•al•ist, n. An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
Traditionally
Tra•di´tion•al•ly, adv. In a traditional manner.
Traditor
Trad´i•tor, n. [L., fr. tradere, traditum. See Traitor.] (Eccl. Hist.) A deliverer; — a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.
Traduce
Tra•duce´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Traduced p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing ] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See Duke.]
1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as to traduce mental qualities to one’s descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.
2. To translate from one language to another; as to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.
3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.]
"From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth." Sir M. Hale.
4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]
"I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers." Beau. & Fl.
5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.
6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
"The best stratagem that Satan hath … is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt." Hooker.
"He had the baseness … to traduce me in libel." Dryden.
Syn. — To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.
Traducent
Tra•du´cent, a. [L. traducens, p. pr. of traducere. See Traduce.] Slanderous. [R.] Entick.
Traducingly
Tra•du´cing•ly, adv. In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.
Traduction
Tra•duc´tion, n. [L. traductio a transferring: cf. F. traduction translation. See Traduce.]
1. Transmission from one to another. [Obs.]
"Traditional communication and traduction of truths." Sir M. Hale.
2. Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]
3. Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.]
"If by traduction came thy mind,
Our wonder is the less to find
A soul so charming from a stock so good." Dryden.
4. The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.
5. Transition. [Obs.] Bacon.
6. (Logic) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. Jevons.
Traductive
Tra•duc´tive, a. Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.
Traffic
Traf´fic, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trafficked p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking ] [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp. traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. übermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. Vicar).]
1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
Traffic
Traf´fic, v. t. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Traffic
Traf´fic, n. [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp. tráfico, tráfago, Pg. tráfego, LL. traficum, trafica. See Traffic, v. ]
1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
"A merchant of great traffic through the world." Shak.
"The traffic in honors, places, and pardons." Macaulay. This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
2. Commodities of the market. [R.]
"You ’ll see a draggled damsel
From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear." Gay.
3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. — Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.
Trafficable
Traf´fic•a•ble, a. Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Trafficker
Traf´fick•er, n. One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
Trafficless
Traf´fic•less, a. Destitute of traffic, or trade.
Tragedienne
Tra•ge•dienne´, n. [F.] A woman who plays in tragedy.
Tragedious
Tra•ge´di•ous, a. Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] "Tragedious history." Fabyan.
Tragedy
Trag´e•dy, n. ; pl. Tragedies (#). [OE. tragedie, OF. tragedie, F. tragedie, L. tragoedia, Gr., fr. a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; a goat (perhaps akin to to gnaw, nibble, eat, and E. trout) + to sing; from the oldest tragedies being exhibited when a goat was sacrificed, or because a goat was the prize, or because the actors were clothed in goatskins. See Ode.]
1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
"Tragedy is to say a certain storie,
As olde bookes maken us memorie,
Of him that stood in great prosperitee
And is yfallen out of high degree
Into misery and endeth wretchedly." Chaucer.
"All our tragedies are of kings and princes." Jer. Taylor.
"tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest." Coleridge.
2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. { Trag´ic, Trag´ic•al } a. [L. tragicus, Gr.: cf. F. tragique.]
1. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
"Why look you still so stern and tragical ?" Shak. — Trag´ic•al•ly, adv. — Trag´ic•al•ness, n.
Tragic
Trag´ic, n.
1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]
2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]
Tragi-comedy
Trag•i-com´e•dy, n. [Cf. F. tragicomedie, L. tragicocomoedia. See Tragic, and Comedy.] A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
"The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure."" Macaulay. { Trag•i-com´ic, Trag•i-com´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. tragi-comique.] Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. — Trag•- com"ic•al•ly, adv.
"Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy." Sir W. Scott.
Tragus
Tra´gus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a part of the inner ear.] (Anat.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
Trail, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trailed p. pr. & vb. n. Trailing.] [OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, F. trailler to trail a fishing line; probably from a derivative of L. trahere to draw; cf. L. traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small sledge, Sp. trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the ground, D. treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope for drawing a boat. See Trace, v. t.]
1. To hunt by the track; to track. Halliwell.
2. To draw or drag, as along the ground.
"And hung his head, and trailed his legs along." Dryden.
"They shall not trail me through their streets
Like a wild beast." Milton.
"Long behind he trails his pompous robe." Pope.
3. (Mil.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.
5. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon. [Prov. Eng.]
"I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance." C. Bronte.
Trail, n.
1. A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as a deer trail.
"They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail." Cooper.
"How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!" Shak.
2. A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as an Indian trail over the plains.
3. Anything drawn out to a length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
"When lightning shoots in glittering trails along." Rowe.
4. Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train. "A radiant trail of hair." Pope.
5. Anything drawn along, as a vehicle. [Obs.]
6. A frame for trailing plants; a trellis. [Obs.]
7. The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; — applied also sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
"The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish." Baird.
8. (Mil.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
9. The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition. [Prov. Eng.] Trail boards (Shipbuilding), the carved boards on both sides of the cutwater near the figurehead. — Trail net, a net that is trailed or drawn behind a boat. Wright.
Trailing
Trail´ing, a. & vb. n. from Trail. Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus. — Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. — Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also one of the hind wheels of a carriage.
Trailing edge
Trail"ing edge. (Aëronautics) A following edge. See Advancing edge, above.
Train, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trained p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] [OF. trahiner, traïner,F. traîner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.]
1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
"In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery." Milton.
2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
"If but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side." Shak.
"O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note." Shak.
"This feast, I’ll gage my life,
Is but a plot to train you to your ruin." Ford.
3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
"Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation." Milton.
"The warrior horse here bred he’s taught to train." Dryden.
4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as to train young trees.
"He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left." Jeffrey.
6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. — To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Prov. xxii. 6.
"The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory." Tillotson.
Train, n. [F. train, OF. traïn, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. traine. See Train, v. ]
1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.
2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell.
"With cunning trains him to entrap un wares." Spenser.
3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : — (a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. (b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. (c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.
4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
"The king’s daughter with a lovely train." Addison.
"My train are men of choice and rarest parts." Shak.
5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." I. Watts.
"The train of ills our love would draw behind it." Addison.
"Rivers now
Stream and perpetual draw their humid train." Milton.
"Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order." Locke.
6. Regular method; process; course; order; as things now in a train for settlement.
"If things were once in this train, … our duty would take root in our nature." Swift.
7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as a 12- inch train. Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. — Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; — called also mile run. — Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). — Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. — Train road, a slight railway for small cars, — used for construction, or in mining. — Train tackle (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out.
Syn. — Cars. — Train, Cars. Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars.
Trainbearer
Train´bear•er, n. One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
Training
Train´ing, n. The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. — Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. — Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. — Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] — Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.
Syn. — See Education.
Traipse, v. i. [Cf. G. trapsen, trappsen, trappen, to tread noisily, to walk stamping. See Trample, Trape.] To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope. { Trais, Trays }, n. pl. Traces. [Obs.]
"Four white bulls in the trays." Chaucer.
Trait, n. [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See Trace, v. , and cf. Tract a region, Trace a strap, Tret.]
1. A stroke; a touch.
"By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey." Broome.
2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as a trait of character. Formerly pronounced tr. , as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England.
Traiteur
Trai•teur´, n. [F.] The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. Simmonds.
Traitor
Trai´tor, n. [OE. traitour, OF. traïtor, traïteur, F. treître, L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date time, and cf. Betray,Tradition, Traditor, Treason.]
1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
"O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!" Shak.
2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." Chaucer.
Traitorly
Trai´tor•ly, a. Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.] "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
Traject
Tra•ject´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trajected; p. pr. & vb. n. Trajecting.] [L. trajectus, p. p. of trajicere to throw across; trans across + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] To throw or cast through, over, or across; as to traject the sun’s light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.
Traject
Traj´ect, n. [L. trajectus, fr. trajicere: cf. F. trajet, OF. traject. See Traject, v. t.]
1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
2. The act of trajecting; trajection.
3. A trajectory. [R.] I. Taylor.
Trajectory
Tra•ject´o•ry, n. ; pl. Trajectories (#). [Cf. F. trajectoire.] The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air. { Tra´jet, Tra´jet•our, Tra´jet•ry }, n. See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]
Tralation
Tra•la´tion, n. [L. tralatio, translatio.See Translation.] The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Tralatition
Tral•a•ti´tion, n. [See Tralatitious.] A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
Tralatitious
Tral•a•ti´tious, a. [L. tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.]
1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
"Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor." W. Withington.
2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.
Tralatitiously
Tral•a•ti´tious•ly, adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.
Tralucency
Tra•lu´cen•cy, n. Translucency; as the tralucency of a gem. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Tralucent
Tra•lu´cent, a. [L. tralucens, translucens, p. pr. See Translucent.] Translucent. [Obs.]
"The air’s tralucent gallery." Sir. J. Davies.
Tram, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trammed p. pr. & vb. n. Tramming.] To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.
Tram, v. i. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.
Tram, n. (Mech.) Same as Trammel, n. , 6.
Trammel
Tram´mel, n. [F. tramail, tremail, a net, LL. tremaculum, tremacle, a kind of net for taking fish; L. tres three + macula a mesh. See Three, and Mail armor.]
1. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. Carew.
2. A net for confining a woman’s hair. Spenser.
3. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
4. Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
"[They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract." Jeffrey.
5. An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
6. (Mech.) (a) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil. (b) A beam compass. See under Beam.
Trammel
Tram´mel, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trammeled or Trammelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trammeling, or Trammelling.]
1. To entangle, as in a net; to catch. [R.] Shak.
2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
Tramming
Tram´ming, n. (Silk Manuf.) The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.
Tramontana
Tra•mon•ta´na, n. [It. See Tramontane.] (Meteor.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
Tramontane
Tra•mon´tane, a. [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous. The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane.
Tramontane
Tra•mon´tane, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
Tramp, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tramped p. pr. & vb. n. Tramping.] [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. ana trimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v. i., Tread.]
1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
2. To travel or wander through; as to tramp the country. [Colloq.]
3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Tramper
Tramp´er, n. One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.
Trample
Tram´ple, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trampled p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling ] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.]
1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as to trample grass or flowers. Dryden.
"Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet." Matt. vii. 6.
2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. Cowper.
Trampler
Tram´pler, n. One who tramples; one who treads down; as a trampler on nature’s law. Cowper.
Trampoose
Tram•poose´, v. i. [See Tramp, Trample, and Traipse.] To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.
Tramway
Tram´way, n.
1. Same as Tramroad.
2. A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
Trance, n. [F. transe fright, in OF. also trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.]
1. A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
"And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance." Acts. x. 10.
"My soul was ravished quite as in a trance." Spenser.
3. (Med.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
"He fell down in a trance." Chaucer.
Trance, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tranced p. pr. & vb. n. Trancing ]
1. To entrance.
"And three I left him tranced." Shak.
2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic]
"Trance the world over." Beau. & Fl.
"When thickest dark did trance the sky." Tennyson.
Tranect
Tran´ect, n. [Cf. Traject.] A ferry. [Obs.] Shak.
Trangram
Tran´gram, n. [OE. trangrain a strange thing, trangame a toy. See Tangram.] Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. [Cant & Obs.] Arbuthnot.
Tranquil
Tran´quil, a. [L. tranquillus; probably fr. trans across, over + a word akin to quietus quiet: cf. F. tranquille. See Quiet.] Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.
"A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow." De Quincey. { Tran•quil•i•za´tion, Tran•quil•li•za´tion }, n. The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized. {Tran´quil•ize, Tran´quil•lize }, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tranquilized or Tranquilliized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tranquilizing or Tranquillizing.] [Cf. F. tranquilliser.] To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.
Syn. — To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify. { Tran´quil•i•zer, Tran´quil•li•zer }, n. One who, or that which, tranquilizes. { Tran´quil•i•zing, Tran´quil•li•zing }, a. Making tranquil; calming. " The tranquilizing power of time." Wordsworth. — Tran´quil•i•zing•ly orTran´quil•li•zing•ly, adv.
Tranquilness
Tran´quil•ness, n. Quality or state of being tranquil.
Transact
Trans•act´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transacting.] [L. transactus, p. p. of transigere. See Transaction.] To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
Transact
Trans•act´, v. i. To conduct matters; to manage affairs. [R.] South.
Transaction
Trans•ac´tion, n. [L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.]
1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
2. That which is done; an affair; as the transactions on the exchange.
3. (Civil Law) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.
Syn. — Proceeding; action; process. — Transaction, Proceeding. A transaction is something already done and completed; a proceeding is either something which is now going on, or, if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress or successive stages. " We the word proceeding in application to an affray in the street, and the word transaction to some commercial negotiation that has been carried on between certain persons. The proceeding marks the manner of proceeding, as when we speak of the proceedings in a court of law. The transaction marks the business transacted; as the transactions on the Exchange." Crabb.
Transactor
Trans•act´or, n. [L.] One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
Transanimate
Trans•an´i•mate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transanimated p. pr. & vb. n. Transanimating.] [ Trans- + animate.] To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J. King (1608).
Transaudient
Trans•au´di•ent, a. [See Trans-, and Audient.] Permitting the passage of sound. [R.] Lowell.
Transcalency
Trans•ca´len•cy, n. The quality or state of being transcalent.
Transcend
Tran•scend´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transcended; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcending.] [L. transcendere, transcensum; trans beyond, over + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
1. To rise above; to surmount; as lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds. Howell.
2. To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.
"Such popes as shall transcend their limits." Bacon.
8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.
"How much her worth transcended all her kind." Dryden.
Transcendental
Tran•scen•den´tal, a. [Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.]
1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as transcendental being or qualities.
2. (Philos.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
3. Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction. In mathematics, a quantity is said to be transcendental relative to another quantity when it is expressed as a transcendental function of the latter; thus, ax, 102x, log x, sin x, tan x, etc., are transcendental relative to x. Transcendental curve (Math.), a curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other. — Transcendental equation (Math.), an equation into which a transcendental function of one of the unknown or variable quantities enters. — Transcendental function. (Math.) See under Function.
Syn. — Transcendental, Empirical. These terms, with the corresponding nouns, transcendentalism and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. Empirical refers to knowledge which is gained by the experience of actual phenomena, without reference to the principles or laws to which they are to be referred, or by which they are to be explained. Transcendental has reference to those beliefs or principles which are not derived from experience, and yet are absolutely necessary to make experience possible or useful. Such, in the better sense of the term, is the transcendental philosophy, or transcendentalism. Each of these words is also used in a bad sense, empiricism applying to that one-sided view of knowledge which neglects or loses sight of the truths or principles referred to above, and trusts to experience alone; transcendentalism, to the opposite extreme, which, in its deprecation of experience, loses sight of the relations which facts and phenomena sustain to principles, and hence to a kind of philosophy, or a use of language, which is vague, obscure, fantastic, or extravagant.
Transcendental
Tran•scen•den´tal, n. A transcendentalist. [Obs.]
Transcendentality
Tran•scen•den•tal´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being transcendental.
Transcendentally
Tran•scen•den´tal•ly, adv. In a transcendental manner.
Transcendently
Tran•scend´ent•ly, adv. In a transcendent manner.
Transcendentness
Tran•scend´ent•ness, n. Same as Transcendence.
Transcension
Tran•scen´sion, n. [See Transcend.] The act of transcending, or surpassing; also passage over. [Obs.] Chapman.
Transcolate
Trans´co•late, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transcolated p. pr. & vb. n. Transcolating.] [Pref. trans- + L. colare, colatum, to filter, to strain.] To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve. [Obs.] Harvey.
Transcribe
Tran•scribe´ (tran•skrib"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transcribed p. pr. & vb. n. Transcribing.] [L. transcribere, transcriptum; trans across, over + scribere to write. See Scribe.] To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.
Transcriber
Tran•scrib´er (-er), n. One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Transcript
Tran´script (tran"skript), n. [L. transcriptum, neut. of transcriptus, p. p. of transcribere. See Transcribe.]
1. That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
"The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript." South.
2. A copy of any kind; an imitation.
"The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian." Glanvill.
Transcursion
Trans•cur´sion, n. [Cf. L. transcursio a passing over. See Transcur.] A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. [Obs.] Howell.
Transduction
Trans•duc´tion, n. [L. transducere, traducere, -dictum, to lead across or over. See Traduce.] The act of conveying over. [R.] Entick.
Transe, n. See Trance. [Obs.] { Trans•el´e•ment, Trans•el•e•men´tate } v. t. [Pref. trans- element.] To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Transept
Tran´sept, n. [Pref. trans- + L. septum an inclosure. See Septum.] (Arch.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
Transexion
Tran•sex´ion, n. [Pref. trans- + L. sexus sex.] Change of sex. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Transfer
Trans•fer´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transferred p. pr. & vb. n. Transferring.] [L. transferre; trans across, over + ferre to bear: cf. F. transferer. See Bear to carry.]
1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as the title to land is transferred by deed.
3. To remove from one substance or surface to another; as to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.
Syn. — To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.
Transfer
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. Fairholt. (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.
Transferability
Trans•fer•a•bil´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being transferable.
Transferee
Trans•fer•ee´, n. The person to whom a transfer in made.
Transference
Trans´fer•ence, n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
Transferrer
Trans•fer´rer, n. One who makes a transfer or conveyance.
Transferrible
Trans•fer´ri•ble, a. Capable of being transferred; transferable.
Transfigurate
Trans•fig´u•rate, v. t. To transfigure; to transform. [R.]
Transfigure
Trans•fig´ure ( 135), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfigured p. pr. & vb. n. Transfiguring.] [F. transfigurer, L. transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure, v. t.]
1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
"[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Matt. xvii. 2.
Transfix
Trans•fix´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfixed p. pr. & vb. n. Transfixing.] [L. transfixus, p. p. of transfigure to transfix; trans across, through + figere to fix, fasten. See Fix.] To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as to transfix one with a dart.
Transflux
Trans´flux, n. [Pref. trans- + flux.] A flowing through, across, or beyond. [R.]
Transform
Trans•form´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transformed p. pr. & vb. n. Transforming.] [L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.]
1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
"Love may transform me to an oyster." Shak.
2. To change into another substance; to transmute; as the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
3. To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.
"Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." Rom. xii. 2.
4. (Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.
Transformable
Trans•form´a•ble, a. Capable of being transformed or changed.
Transformation
Trans•for•ma´tion, n. [L. transformatio: cf. transformation.] The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: — (a) (Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis. (b) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis. (c) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation. (d) (Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion. (e) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.
Transfreight
Trans•freight´, v. i. To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
Transfretation
Trans•fre•ta´tion, n. [L. transfretatio. See Transfrete.] The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.
Transfund
Trans•fund´, v. t. [L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse.] To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [Obs.] Barrow.
Transfuse
Trans•fuse´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfused p. pr. & vb. n. Transfusing.] [L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser. See Transfund.]
1. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
2. (Med.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.
3. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters.
"Into thee such virtue and grace
Immense I have transfused." Milton.
Transfusible
Trans•fu´si•ble, a. Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.
Transfusive
Trans•fu´sive, a. Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.
Transgress
Trans•gress´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transgressed p. pr. & vb. n. Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.]
1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.]
"Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature’s law." Dryden.
2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
"For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
And easily transgress the sole command." Milton.
3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.]
"Why give you peace to this imperate beast
That hath so long transgressed you ?" Beau. & Fl.
Transgression
Trans•gres´sion, n. [L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. transgression. See Grade.] The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.
"Forgive thy people … all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee." I Kings viii. 50.
"What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass
On his transgression, death denounced that day ?" Milton.
"The transgression is in the stealer." Shak.
Syn. — Fault; offense; crime; infringement; misdemeanor; misdeed; affront; sin.
Transgressional
Trans•gres´sion•al, a. Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.
Transhape
Tran•shape´, v. t. To transshape. [R.] J. Webster (1623).
Transient
Tran´sient, a. [L. transiens, - entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]
1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world." Milton.
2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as a transient view of a landscape.
3. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as a transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U. S.]
Syn. — Transient, Transitory, Fleeting. Transient represents a thing as brief at the best; transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away. Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are transitory; its hours are fleeting.
"What is loose love? A transient gust." Pope
"If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day." Donne.
"O fleeting joys
Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes." Milton. — Tran´sient•ly (#), adv. — Tran´sient•ness, n.
Transisthmian
Trans•isth´mi•an, a. Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.
Transit
Trans´it, n. [L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See Transient.]
1. The act of passing; passage through or over.
"In France you are now … in the transit from one form of government to another." Burke.
2. The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as the transit of goods through a country.
3. A line or route of passage or conveyance; as the Nicaragua transit. E. G. Squier.
4. (Astron.) (a) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope. (b) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun’s disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
5. An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; — called also transit compass, and surveyor’s transit. The surveyor’s transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the telescope which is not mounted in Y’s and can be turned completely over about the axis. Lower transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is below the polar axis. — Surveyor’s transit. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit circle (Astron.), a transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination at one observation. See Circle, n. , 3. — Transit compass. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit duty, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country. — Transit instrument. (Astron.) (a) A telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, — used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor’s transit. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit trade (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their destination. — Upper transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is above the polar axis.
Transit
Trans´it, v. t. (Astron.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
Transition
Tran•si´tion, n. [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]
1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
"There is no death, what seems so is transition." Longfellow.
2. (Mus.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
3. (Rhet.) A passing from one subject to another.
"[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes." Milton.
4. (Biol.) Change from one form to another. This word is sometimes pronounced tran•sish"un; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is tran•sizh"un, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say tran•zish"un. Transition rocks (Geol.), a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.
Transitive
Tran´si•tive, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] Bacon.
2. Effected by transference of signification.
"By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy." Stewart.
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. — Tran´si•tive•ly, adv. — Tran´si•tive•ness, n.
Transitorily
Tran´si•to•ri•ly, adv. In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
Transitory
Tran´si•to•ry, a. [L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See Transient.] Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
"Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble." Bk. of Com. Prayer.
"It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then … vanishes into nothing." South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; — opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Syn. — transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.
Translatable
Trans•lat´a•ble, a. Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
Translate
Trans•late´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]
1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as to translate a tree. [Archaic] Dryden.
"In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome." Evelyn.
2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
"By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim." Heb. xi. 5.
4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, … refused." Camden.
5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.
"Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls." Macaulay.
6. To change into another form; to transform.
"Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style." Shak.
7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as to translate a disease.
8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
Translate
Trans•late, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
Translation
Trans•la´tion, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.]
1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also the state of being translated or removed; as the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as the translation of idioms is difficult.
3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as a translation of the Scriptures.
4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker.
6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; — opposed to rotation.
Translatitious
Trans•la•ti´tious, a. [See Tralatitious.] Metaphorical; tralatitious; also foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Translatorship
Trans•lat´or•ship, n. The office or dignity of a translator.
Translatory
Trans•lat´o•ry, a. Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.
Translucent
Trans•lu´cent, a. [L. translucens, -entis, p. pr. of translucere to shine through; trans across, through = lucere to shine. See Lucid.]
1. Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
2. Transparent; clear. [Poetic] "Fountain or fresh current … translucent, pure." Milton.
"Replenished from the cool, translucent springs." Pope.
Syn. — Translucent, Transparent. A thing is translucent when it merely admits the passage of light, without enabling us to distinguish the color and outline of objects through it; it is transparent when we can clearly discern objects placed on the other side of it. Glass, water, etc., are transparent; ground glass is translucent; a translucent style.
Translucently
Trans•lu´cent•ly, adv. In a translucent manner.
Translucid
Trans•lu´cid, a. [L. translucidus; trans across, through + lucidus lucid: cf. F. translucide. See Translucent.] Translucent. [R.] Bacon.
Transmarine
Trans•ma•rine´, a. [L. transmarinus; trans beyond + marinus marine: cf. F. transmarin. See Marine.] Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell. { Trans´me•a•ble, Trans•me•at´a•ble } a. [L. transmeabilis.] Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. [Obs.]
Transmeation
Trans•me•a´tion, n. The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. [Obs.]
Transmew
Trans•mew´, v. t. & i. [F. transmuer, L. transmutare. See Transmute.] To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser.
"To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester." Sir W. Scott.
Transmigrant
Trans´mi•grant, a. [L. transmigrans, p. pr. See Transmigrate.] Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. — n. One who transmigrates.
Transmigrate
Trans´mi•grate, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Transmigrated p. pr. & vb. n. Transmigrating.] [L. transmigrare, transmigratum; trans across + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
1. To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
2. To pass from one body or condition into another.
"Their may transmigrate into each other." Howell.
Transmigrator
Trans´mi•gra•tor, n. One who transmigrates. J. Ellis.
Transmigratory
Trans•mi´gra•to•ry, a. Passing from one body or state to another.
Transmission
Trans•mis´sion, n. [L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit.]
1. The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.
2. (Law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
Transmit
Trans•mit´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.] [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]
1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.
"The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel." Milton.
"The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile." Prescott.
2. To suffer to pass through; as glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.
Transmittible
Trans•mit´ti•ble, a. Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.
Transmutability
Trans•mu•ta•bil´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. transmutabilite.] The quality of being transmutable.
Transmutable
Trans•mut´a•ble, a. [Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.] Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.
"The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another." Arbuthnot. — Trans•mut´a•ble•ness, n. — Trans•mut´a•bly, adv.
Transmutation
Trans•mu•ta´tion, n. [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See Transmute.]
1. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as the transmutation of metals.
2. (Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square. [R.]
3. (Biol.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism. Bacon. Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher’s stone, under Philosopher.
Transmute
Trans•mute´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmuting.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.] To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.
"The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols." Buckminster.
"Transmuting sorrow into golden joy
Free from alloy." H. Smith.
Transmutual
Trans•mu´tu•al ( 135), a. [Pref. trans + mutual.] Reciprocal; commutual. [R.] Coleridge.
Transom
Tran´som, n. [Probably fr. L. transtrum a crossbeam, transom, from trans across. Cf. Trestle.]
1. (Arch.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.
2. (Naut.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; — called also transsummer.
3. (Gun.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
4. (Surg.) The vane of a cross-staff. Chambers.
5. (Railroad) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other. Transom knees (Shipbuilding), knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers. — Transom window. (Arch.) (a) A window divided horizontally by a transom or transoms. (b) A window over a door, with a transom between.
Transpare
Trans•pare´, v. t. & i. [See Transparent.] To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.
Transparent
Trans•par´ent, a. [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.]
1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as transparent glass; a transparent diamond; — opposed to opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.
2. Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as a transparent veil. Dryden.
Syn. — Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid; diaphanous. See Translucent. — Trans•par´ent•ly, adv. — Trans•par´ent•ness, n.
Transpass
Trans•pass´, v. t. [Pref. trans- + pass: cf. LL. transpassare. Cf. Trespass.] To pass over; as Alexander transpassed the river. [Obs.] J. Gregory.
Transpass
Trans•pass´, v. i. To pass by; to pass away. [Obs.]
Transpassable
Trans•pass´a•ble, a. Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over. [Obs.]
Transpicuous
Tran•spic´u•ous, a. [L. transpicere to see or look through + specere, spicere, to see. Cf. Conspicuous.] Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] "The wide, transpicuous air." Milton.
Transpierce
Trans•pierce´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transpierced p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiercing ] [Pref. trans- + pierce: cf. F. transpercer.] To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.
"The sides transpierced return a rattling sound." Dryden.
Transpiratory
Tran•spir´a•to•ry, a. Of or relating to transpiration.
Transpire
Tran•spire´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Transpired p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiring.] [F. transpirer; L. trans across, through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
1. (Physiol.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
2. (Bot.) To evaporate from living cells.
3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as the proceedings of the council soon transpired.
"The story of Paulina’s and Maximilian’s mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers." De Quincey.
4. To happen or come to pass; to occur. This sense of the word, which is of comparatively recent introduction, is common in the United States, especially in the language of conversation and of newspaper writers, and is used to some extent in England. Its use, however, is censured by critics of both countries.
Transplace
Trans•place´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transplaced p. pr. & vb. n. Transplacing ] [Pref. trans- + place.] To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.]
"It [an obelisk] was transplaced … from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place." Bp. Wilkins.
Transplant
Trans•plant´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting.] [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.]
1. To remove, and plant in another place; as to transplant trees. Dryden.
2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as to transplant inhabitants.
"Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate." Clarendon.
Transplanter
Trans•plant´er, n. One who transplants; also a machine for transplanting trees.
Transplendency
Tran•splen´den•cy, n. Quality or state of being transplendent. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Transport
Trans•port´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as music transports the soul.
"[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion." Milton.
"We shall then be transported with a nobler … wonder." South.
Transport
Trans´port, n. [F. See Transport, v. ]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
"The Romans … stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war." Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; — called also transport ship, transport vessel.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
"With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne." Pope.
"Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled." Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Transportability
Trans•port•a•bil´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being transportable.
Transportance
Trans•port´ance, n. Transportation. [Obs.] "Give me swift transportance." Shak.
Transportant
Trans•port´ant, a. Transporting; avishing; as transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Transposable
Trans•pos´a•ble, a. That may transposed; as a transposable phrase.
Transposal
Trans•pos´al, n. The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.
Transpose
Trans•pose´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transposed p. pr. & vb. n. Transposing.] [F. transposer; pref. trans- (L. trans across) + poser to put. See Pose.]
1. To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
2. To change; to transform; to invert. [R.]
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity." Shak.
3. (Alg.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.
4. (Gram.) To change the natural order of, as words.
5. (Mus.) To change the key of.
Transposition
Trans•po•si´tion, n. [F. transposition, from L. transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over + ponere to place. See Position.] The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically: — (a) (Alg.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation. (b) (Gram.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. (c) (Mus.) A change of a composition into another key.
Transpositive
Trans•pos´i•tive, a. Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
Transregionate
Trans•re´gion•ate, a. [Pref. trans- + region.] Foreign. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Transshape
Trans•shape´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transshaped p. pr. & vb. n. Transshaping.] [Pref. trans- + shape.] To change into another shape or form; to transform. [Written also transhape.] Shak.
Transubstantiate
Tran•sub•stan´ti•ate, v. t. [LL. transubstantiatus, p. p. of transubstantiare to transubstantiate; L. trans across, over + substantia substance. See Substance.]
1. To change into another substance. [R.]
"The spider love which transubstantiates all,
And can convert manna to gall." Donne.
2. (R. C. Theol.) To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.
Transudation
Tran•su•da´tion, n. [Cf. F. transsudation.]
1. The act or process of transuding.
2. (Physics) Same as Exosmose.
Transudatory
Tran•su´da•to•ry, a. Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.
Transude
Tran•sude´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Transuded; p. pr. & vb. n. Transuding.] [Pref. trans- + L. sudare to sweat: cf. F. transsuder.] To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Transumpt
Tran•sumpt´, n. [L. transumere, transumptum, to take from one to another, in LL., to transcribe. See Transume.] A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.
Transvasate
Trans•va´sate, v. t. [See Transvasation.] To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.
Transversal
Trans•ver´sal, a. [Cf. F. transversal. See Transverse.] Running or lying across; transverse; as a transversal line. — Trans•ver´sal•ly, adv.
Transverse
Trans•verse´, a. [L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse. See Verse, and cf. Traverse.] Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; — often opposed to longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. — Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.
Transverse
Trans•verse´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transversed p. pr. & vb. n. Transversing.] To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie.
Transverse
Trans•verse´, v. t. [Pref. trans- + verse, n. Cf.Transpose.] To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.
Transversion
Trans•ver´sion, n. The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Transvert
Trans•vert´, v. t. [L. transvertere. See Transverse, a.] To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Craft of Lovers (1448).
Transvertible
Trans•vert´i•ble, a. Capable of being transverted. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Trap, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trapped p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; — said especially of horses.
"Steeds … that trapped were in steel all glittering." Chaucer.
"To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed." Spenser.
"There she found her palfrey trapped
In purple blazoned with armorial gold." Tennyson.
Trap, n. [Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe, G. treppe, D. trap; — so called because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps. See Tramp.] (Geol.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic- augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock. Trap tufa, Trap tuff, a kind of fragmental rock made up of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.
Trap, a. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as a trap dike.
Trap, n. [OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD. trappe, OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.]
1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as a trap for foxes.
"She would weep if that she saw a mouse
Caught in a trap." Chaucer.
2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
"Let their table be made a snare and a trap." Rom. xi. 9.
"God and your majesty
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
The trap is laid for me!" Shak.
3. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. also a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
4. The game of trapball.
5. A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas but permits the flow of liquids.
6. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
7. A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
8. A kind of movable stepladder. Knight. Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. — Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; - - so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.
Trap, v. t. [AS. treppan. See Trap a snare.]
1. To catch in a trap or traps; as to trap foxes.
2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the foe." Dryden.
3. To provide with a trap; as to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
Trap, v. i. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as to trap for beaver.
Trapan
Tra•pan´, n. [OF. trappan. See Trap, and cf. Trepan a snare.] A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. South.
Trapan
Tra•pan´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trapanned p. pr. & vb. n. Trapanning.] To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
"Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia." Anson.
Trapball
Trap´ball, n. An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.
Trape, v. i. [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.] To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes, n. [See Trape.] A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapezate
Trap´e•zate, a. [See Trapezium.] Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.
Trapeze
Tra•peze´, n. [Cf. F. trapèze.]
1. (Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.
2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts.
Trapezium
Tra•pe´zi•um, n. ; pl. E. Trapeziums (#), L. Trapezia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. a little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. of a table, for ; (see Tetra-) + foot, akin to foot; hence, originally, a table with four feet. See Foot.]
1. (Geom.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
2. (Anat.) (a) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb. (b) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Trapezohedral
Trap•e•zo•he´dral, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.
Trapezohedron
Trap•e•zo•he´dron, n. [NL., from trapezium + Gr. seat, base, fr. to sit.] (Crystalloq.) (a) A solid bounded by twenty- four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron. (b) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.
Trapezoid
Trap´e•zoid, n. [Gr. trapezoid- shaped; table + shape, likeness: cf. F. trapezoïde. See Trapezium.]
1. (Geom.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.
Trappean
Trap´pe•an, a. [Cf. F. trappeen. See Trap a kind of rock.] (Min.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
Trapper
Trap´per, n. [From Trap to insnare.]
1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.
2. (Mining) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond.
Trappings
Trap´pings, n. pl. [From Trap to dress with ornaments.]
1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
"Trappings of life, for ornament, not use." Dryden.
"These but the trappings and the suits of woe." Shak.
2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.
"Caparisons and steeds,
Bases and tinsel trappings." Milton.
Trappous
Trap´pous, n. [From Trap a kind of rock.] (Min.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
Trappures
Trap´pures, n. pl. [See Trap to dress.] Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Traps, n. pl. [See Trappings, and Trap to dress.] Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]
Trash, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trashed p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.]
1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards.
2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]
3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
Trash, v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan (1607).
Trashiness
Trash´i•ness, n. The quality or state of being trashy.
Trashy
Trash´y, a. [ Compar. Trashier superl. Trashiest.] Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as a trashy novel.
Trass, n. [D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace. See Terrace.] (Geol.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; — sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.] The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.
Traunce, n. & v. See Trance. [Obs.]
Traunt, v. i. Same as Trant. [Obs.]
Traunter
Traunt´er, n. Same as Tranter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Travail
Trav´ail ( 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.]
1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
"As everything of price, so this doth require travail." Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as an easy travail.
Travail
Trav´ail, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Travailed p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n. ]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Travail
Tra•vail´, n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v. i.] Same as Travois.
Travel
Trav´el, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]
1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as to travel over the city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move.
"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons." Shak.
Traveler
Trav´el•er, n. [Written also traveler.]
1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. Traveler’s joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. — Traveler’s tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
Travel-tainted
Trav´el-taint•ed, a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.
Travers
Trav´ers, adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a. ] Across; athwart. [Obs.]
"The earl … caused … high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another." Ld. Berners.
Traverse
Trav´erse, a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches.
"Oak … being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work." Sir H. Wotton.
"The ridges of the fallow field traverse." Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
Traverse
Trav´erse, adv. Athwart; across; crosswise.
Traverse
Trav´erse, n. [F. traverse. See Traverse, a. ]
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. Gwilt. (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, or 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.
Traverse
Trav´erse, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Traversed p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing.] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a. ]
1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
"The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds." Dryden.
2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
"I can not but … admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse." Sir W. Scott.
3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as to traverse the habitable globe.
"What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought." Pope.
4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
"My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude." South.
5. (Gun.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as to traverse a cannon.
6. (Carp.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as to traverse a board.
7. (Law) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
"And save the expense of long litigious laws,
Where suits are traversed, and so little won
That he who conquers is but last undone." Dryden. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.
Traverser
Trav´ers•er, n.
1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
2. (Law) One who traverses, or denies.
3. (Railroad) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.
Travesty
Trav´es•ty, a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; - - applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]
Travesty
Trav´es•ty, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Travestied p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
"I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor." Bentley.
Travois
Tra•vois´, n. [Cf. Travail.]
1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.
"On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments." Julian Ralph.
2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]
Trawl, v. i. [OF. trauler, troller, F. trôter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin. Cf. Troll, v. t.] To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
Trawlboat
Trawl´boat, n. A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
Trawlnet
Trawl´net, n. Same as Trawl, n. , 2.
Trawlwarp
Trawl´warp, n. A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.
Tray, v. t. [OF. traïr, F. trahir, L. tradere. See Traitor.] To betray; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tray, n. ; pl. Trays (#). [OE. treye, AS. treg. Cf. Trough.]
1. A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
2. A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
3. A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
Trayful
Tray´ful, n. ; pl. Trayfuls . As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.
Trays, n. pl. [Obs.] See Trais. Chaucer.
Tray-trip
Tray´-trip, n. [From Trey a three.] An old game played with dice. [Obs.] Shak.
Treacher
Treach´er, n. [OE. trichour, trichur, OF. tricheor deceiver, traitor, F. tricheur a cheat at play, a trickster. See Treachery.] A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.]
"Treacher and coward both." Beau. & Fl.
Treacherous
Treach´er•ous, a. [See Treacher.] Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
"Loyal father of a treacherous son." Shak.
"The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate." Cowper.
Syn. — Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious; plotting. — Treach´er•ous•ly, adv. — Treach´er•ous•ness, n.
Treachery
Treach´er•y, n. [OE. trecherïe, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See Trickery, Trick.] Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
"Be ware, ye lords, of their treachery." Chaucer.
"In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption." Macaulay. { Treach´e•tour, Treach´our } n. [See Treacher.] A traitor. [Obs.] "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.
Treacle
Trea´cle (tre"k’l), n. [OE. triacle a sovereign remedy, theriac, OF. triacle, F. theriaque (cf. Pr. triacla, tiriaca, Sp. & It. triaca, teriaca), L. theriaca an antidote against the bite of poisonous animals, Gr., fr. of wild or venomous beasts, fr. qhri•on a beast, a wild beast, dim. of qh•r a beast. Cf. Theriac.]
1. (Old Med.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
"We kill the viper, and make treacle of him." Jer. Taylor.
2. A sovereign remedy; a cure. [Obs.]
"Christ which is to every harm treacle." Chaucer.
3. Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses. In the United States molasses is the common name; in England, treacle.
4. A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like. Treacle mustard (Bot.), a name given to several species of the cruciferous genus Erysimum, especially the E. cheiranthoides, which was formerly used as an ingredient in Venice treacle, or theriac. — Treacle water, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. — Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.
Tread, v. i. [ imp. Trod p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. troa, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. traede, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]
1. To set the foot; to step.
"Where’er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise." Pope.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Pope.
"The hard stone
Under our feet, on which we tread and go." Chaucer.
2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
"Ye that … stately tread, or lowly creep." Milton.
3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. — To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton.
"One woe doth tread upon another’s heel." Shak.
Tread, n.
1. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
"She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat." Tennyson.
2. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as the horse has a good tread.
3. Way; track; path. [R.] Shak.
4. The act of copulation in birds.
5. (Arch.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
6. (Fort.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
7. (Mach.) (a) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. (b) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
8. (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird’s egg; the treadle.
9. (Far.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Treadle
Trea´dle, n. [OE. tredyl a step, AS. tredel. See Tread.]
1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
2. (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird’s egg; the tread.
Tread-softly
Tread´-soft•ly, n. (Bot.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Treadwheel
Tread´wheel, n. A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.
Treague, n. [It. tregua; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. true.] A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.
Treason
Trea´son, n. [OE. tresun, treisun, traisoun, OF. traïson, F. trahison, L. traditio a giving up, a delivering up, fr. tradere to give up, betray. See Traitor, and cf. Tradition.]
1. The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
"The treason of the murthering in the bed." Chaucer. In monarchies, the killing of the sovereign, or an attempt to take his life, is treason. In England, to imagine or compass the death of the king, or of the queen consort, or of the heir apparent to the crown, is high treason, as are many other offenses created by statute. In the United States, treason is confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or to an adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
2. Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
"If he be false, she shall his treason see." Chaucer. Petit treason. See under Petit.
Treasure
Treas´ure, n. [OE. tresor, tresour, F. tresor, L. thesaurus, Gr. a stone laid up, treasure, probably from the root of to put, place. See Thesis, and cf. Thesaurus.]
1. Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
"This treasure hath fortune unto us given." Chaucer.
2. A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.
"We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey." Jer. xli. 8.
3. That which is very much valued.
"Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me." Ex. xix. 5.
"From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure." Milton. Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines. Ex. i. 11.
Treasure
Treas´ure, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Treasured p. pr. & vb. n. Treasuring.] To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as to treasure up gold.
Treasure-house
Treas´ure-house, n. A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
Treasure-trove
Treas´ure-trove, n. [ Treasure + OF. trove, F. trouve, p. p. of OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.] (Common Law) Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.
Treasury
Treas´ur•y, n. ; pl. Treasuries (#). [OE. tresorie, F. tresorerie.]
1. A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
2. That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
3. A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
4. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as " Maunder’s Treasury of Botany."
5. A treasure. [Obs.] Marston. Board of treasury, the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign’s civil list or other revenues. [Eng.] Brande & C. — Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; — so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown. [Eng.] — Treasury lord. See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer. [Eng.] — Treasury note (U. S. Finance), a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.
Treat, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Treated; p. pr. & vb. n. Treating.] [OE. treten, OF. traitier, F. traiter, from L. tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. intens. from trahere, tractum, to draw. See Trace, v. t., and cf. Entreat, Retreat, Trait.]
1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one’s self toward; as to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
2. To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as to treat a subject diffusely.
3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as to treat the whole company.
4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. [Obs.]
"To treat the peace, a hundred senators
Shall be commissioned." Dryden.
5. (Med.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.
6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
7. To entreat; to beseech. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
Treatable
Treat´a•ble, a. [OE. tretable, F. traitable, L. tractabilis. See Treat, and cf. Tractable.] Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr.
"A kind of treatable dissolution." Hooker.
"The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us." Sir W. Temple.
Treatise
Trea´tise, n. [OE. tretis, OF. treitis, traitis, well made. See Treat.]
1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer.
"He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity." Macaulay. A treatise implies more form and method than an essay, but may fall short of the fullness and completeness of a systematic exposition.
2. Story; discourse. [R.] Shak.
Treatment
Treat´ment, n. [Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as unkind treatment; medical treatment.
2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.]
"Accept such treatment as a swain affords." Pope.
Treaty
Trea´ty, n. ; pl. Treaties (#). [OE. tretee, F. traite, LL. tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. See Treat, and cf. Tractate.]
1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer.
"He cast by treaty and by trains
Her to persuade." Spenser.
2. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.
3. A proposal tending to an agreement. [Obs.] Shak.
4. A treatise; a tract. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Treble
Tre´ble, a. [OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple.]
1. Threefold; triple.
"A lofty tower, and strong on every side
With treble walls." Dryden.
2. (Mus.) (a) Acute; sharp; as a treble sound. Bacon. (b) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as a treble violin or voice.
Treble
Tre´ble, adv. Trebly; triply. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
Treble
Tre´ble, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trebled p. pr. & vb. n. Trebling.]
1. To make thrice as much; to make threefold. "Love trebled life." Tennyson.
2. To utter in a treble key; to whine. [Obs.]
"He outrageously
(When I accused him) trebled his reply." Chapman.
Trebleness
Tre´ble•ness, n. The quality or state of being treble; as the trebleness of tones. Bacon.
Trecentist
Tre•cen´tist, n. A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.
Trechometer
Tre•chom´e•ter, n. [Gr. to run + - meter.] An odometer for vehicles. Knight.
Treckschuyt
Treck´schuyt, n. [D. trekschuit; trekken to draw + schuit a boat. Cf. Trackscout.] A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
Treddle
Tred´dle, n. [See Treadle.]
1. See Treadle.
2. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obs.] Ford.
3. pl. The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.
Tree (tre), n. [OE. tree, tr. , treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr. , OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr. , Dan. trae, Sw. tr. , träd, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree, oak, do•ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, daru wood. rad.63, 241. Cf. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n. , Trough.]
1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc.
2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as a genealogical tree.
3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; — used in composition, as in axle tree, boot tree, chess tree, cross tree, whiffle tree, and the like.
4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
"[Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree." Acts x. 39.
5. Wood; timber. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth." Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20).
6. (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. Tree bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] — Tree beetle (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. — Tree bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to Arma, Pentatoma, Rhaphigaster, and allied genera. — Tree cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure ( Paradoxurus musang). — Tree clover (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot ( Melilotus alba). See Melilot. — Tree crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. See under Purse. — Tree creeper (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3. — Tree cricket (Zoöl.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket ( Ecanthus nivœus) which is noted for its loud stridulation; — called also white cricket. — Tree crow (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to Crypsirhina and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. — Tree dove (Zoöl.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to Macropygia and allied genera. They have long and broad tails, are chiefly arboreal in their habits, and feed mainly on fruit. — Tree duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species of ducks belonging to Dendrocygna and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. — Tree fern (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. — Tree fish (Zoöl.), a California market fish ( Sebastichthys serriceps). — Tree frog. (Zoöl.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidae. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under Flying) is an example. — Tree goose (Zoöl.), the bernicle goose. — Tree hopper (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. — Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] — Tree kangaroo. (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo. — Tree lark (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] — Tree lizard (Zoöl.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards ( Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons. — Tree lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Tree crab, above. — Tree louse (Zoöl.), any aphid; a plant louse. — Tree moss. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. — Tree mouse (Zoöl.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinae. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. — Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. — Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. — Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree ( Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. — Tree of life (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vitae. — Tree onion (Bot.), a species of garlic ( Allium proliferum) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. — Tree oyster (Zoöl.), a small American oyster ( Ostrea folium) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; — called also raccoon oyster. — Tree pie (Zoöl.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus Dendrocitta. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. — Tree pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to Megaloprepia, Carpophaga, and allied genera. — Tree pipit. (Zoöl.) See under Pipit. — Tree porcupine (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera Chaetomys and Sphingurus. They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species ( S. villosus) is called also couiy; another ( S. prehensilis) is called also cœndou. — Tree rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera Capromys and Plagiodon. They are allied to the porcupines. — Tree serpent (Zoöl.), a tree snake. — Tree shrike (Zoöl.), a bush shrike. — Tree snake (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of snakes of the genus Dendrophis. They live chiefly among the branches of trees, and are not venomous. — Tree sorrel (Bot.), a kind of sorrel ( Rumex Lunaria) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Teneriffe. — Tree sparrow (Zoöl.) any one of several species of small arboreal sparrows, especially the American tree sparrow ( Spizella monticola), and the common European species ( Passer montanus). — Tree swallow (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus Hylochelidon which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also martin in Australia. — Tree swift (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. — Tree tiger (Zoöl.), a leopard. — Tree toad (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to Hyla and allied genera of the family Hylidae. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species ( Hyla arborea) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States ( H. versicolor) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also tree frog. See also Piping frog, under Piping, and Cricket frog, under Cricket. — Tree warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of arboreal warblers belonging to Phylloscopus and allied genera. — Tree wool (Bot.), a fine fiber obtained from the leaves of pine trees.
Tree, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Treed p. pr. & vb. n. Treeing.]
1. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.
2. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as to tree a boot. See Tree, n. , 3.
Treeful
Tree´ful, n. ; pl. Treefuls . The quantity or number which fills a tree.
Treen, obs. pl. of Tree. " The shady treen." Fairfax.
Trefle
Tre´fle, n. [F. trefle. See Trefoil.] (Fort.) A species of time; — so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.
Trefle
Tre•fle´, a. [F. trefle. See Trefoil.] (Her.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.
Trefoil
Tre´foil, n. [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.]
1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; — less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
2. (Arch.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
3. (Her.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
Treget
Treg´et, n. [See Tregetour.] Guile; trickery. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Tregetour
Treg´et•our, n. [OE. tresgeteor. See Trans-, and Jet a shooting forth.] A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.]
"Divers appearances
Such as these subtle tregetours play." Chaucer.
Tregetry
Treg´et•ry, n. Trickery; also a trick. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Trehalose
Tre´ha•lose, n. (Chem.) Mycose; — so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.
Treillage
Treil´lage, n. [F. treillage. See Trellis.] Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis. Spectator.
"I shall plant the roses against my treillage to- morrow." Walpole.
Trek, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trekked p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking.] [Written also treck.] [D. trekken. See Track, n. ] [South Africa]
1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
2. To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
"One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony." James Bryce.
Trek, n. [Written also treck.] [D. Cf. Track, n. ] The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration. [Chiefly South Africa]
"To the north a trek was projected, and some years later was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the Mashonaland." James Bryce. Great Trek, the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the South African Republic and Orange Free State.
Trekker
Trek´ker, n. [D.] One that treks. [Written also trecker.] [South Africa] James Bryce.
Trekometer
Trek•om´e•ter, n. [Cf. Trechometer.] (Mil.) A field range finger used in the British service.
Trematode
Trem´a•tode, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.
Trematodea
Trem•a•to´de•a, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. having holes, from,, a hole.] (Zoöl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
Tremble
Trem´ble, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trembled p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling ] [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr., Lith. trimti. Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.]
1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; — said of a person or an animal.
"I tremble still with fear." Shak.
"Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke." Dryden.
2. To totter; to shake; — said of a thing.
"The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top
Shall tremble." Milton.
3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.
Tremendous
Tre•men´dous, a. [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.] Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
"A tremendous mischief was a foot." Motley.
Syn. — Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. — Tre•men´dous•ly, adv. — Tre•men´dous•ness, n.
Tremex
Tre´mex, n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail. The pigeon tremex ( Tremex columba), a common American species, infests the elm, pear, and other trees.
Tremolo
Tre´mo•lo, n. [It. Cf. Tremulous.] (Mus.) (a) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect. (b) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; — called also tremolant, and tremulant.
Tremor
Tre´mor, n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v. ] A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
"He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints." Harvey. { Trem´u•lant, Trem´u•lent } a. Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.
Tremulous
Trem´u•lous, a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]
1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
"The tender, tremulous Christian." Dr. H. More. — Trem´u•lous•ly, adv. — Trem´u•lous•ness, n.
Tren, n. [See Treen wooden.] A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Trench, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trenched p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.] [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]
1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
"The wide wound that the boar had trenched
In his soft flank." Shak.
"This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour’s heat
Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form." Shak.
2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope.
"No more shall trenching war channel her fields." Shak.
3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as to trench a garden for certain crops.
Trench, n. [OE. trenche, F. tranchee. See Trench, v. t.]
1. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land. Mortimer.
2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.]
"In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she." Chaucer.
3. (Fort.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. — Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way. — Trench plow, orTrench plough, a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.
Trenchant
Trench´ant, a. [OF. trenchant, F. tranchant, p. pr. See Trench, v. t.]
1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer.
2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as trenchant wit.
Trenchantly
Trench´ant•ly, adv. In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
Trencher
Trench´er, n. [OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See Trench, v. t.]
1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
"It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers." South. Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. — Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L’Estrange. — Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. — Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.
Trend, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n. Trending.] [OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.] To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Trend, v. t. [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.] To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Trender
Trend´er, n. One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]
Trendle
Tren´dle, n. [AS. trendel, tryndel, circle, ring. See Trend, v. i., and cf. Trundle.] A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.]
"The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns." Sylvester.
Trental
Tren´tal, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.
2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trente et quarante
Trente" et• qua•rante" [F., lit., thirty and forty.] Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.
Trenton period
Tren"ton pe"ri•od (Geol.) A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; — so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
Trepan
Tre•pan´, n. [F. trepan (cf. Sp. trepano, It. trepano, trapano), LL. trepanum, fr. Gr. a borer, auger, trepan, fr. to bore, a hole. Cf. Trephine.]
1. (Surg.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2. (Mining) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Trepan
Tre•pan´, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Trepanned p. pr. & vb. n. Trepanning.] [Cf. F. trepaner. See Trepan a saw.] (Surg.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
Trepan
Tre•pan´, n. [See Trapan.]
1. A snare; a trapan.
"Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way." South.
2. a deceiver; a cheat.
"He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan." Macaulay.
Trepanize
Trep´an•ize, v. t. To trepan. [Obs.] "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.
Trepanner
Tre•pan´ner, n. One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.
Trephine
Tre•phine´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trephined p. pr. & vb. n. Trephining.] To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Trepid
Trep´id, a. [L. trepidus.] Trembling; quaking. Thackeray.
Tresayle
Tres´ayle (tres"al•), n. [F. trisaïeul, from L. tris, tres, three + F. aïeul grandfather. Cf. Besaiel, and see Ayle.] A grandfather’s grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather’s grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor’s death. Mozley & W.
Trespass
Tres´pass, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trespassed p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.] [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. trepasser to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass, v. i., and cf. Transpass.]
1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.]
"Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce … trespassed out of this uncertain world." Ld. Berners.
2. (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; — often followed by against.
"In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord." 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.
Trespass
Tres´pass, n. [OF. trespas, F. trepas death. See Trespass, v. ]
1. Any injury or offence done to another.
"I you forgive all wholly this trespass." Chaucer.
"If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matt. vi. 15.
2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
"The fatal trespass done by Eve." Milton.
"You … who were dead in trespasses and sins." Eph. if. 1.
3. (Law) (a) An unlawful act committed with force and violence ( vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another. (b) An action for injuries accompanied with force. Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass. — Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.
Syn. — Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.
Tress, n. [OE. tresse, OF. trece, F. tresse, LL. tricia, fr. Gr. tri•cha threefold, because a tress is usually formed by interlacing three pieces; akin to trei^s three. See Three.]
1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress." Chaucer.
"Fair tresses man’s imperial race insnare." Pope.
2. Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Keats.
Tressure
Tres´sure, n. [F. tresser to twist, plait. See Tress, n. ] (Her.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
Trestle
Tres´tle, n. [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. treteau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. Transom.] [Written also tressel.]
1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
2. The frame of a table. Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; — so called because commonly supported by trestles. — Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Tres-tyne
Tres´-tyne, n. [L. tris, tres, three + E. tyne.] (Zoöl.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres- tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.
Tret, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. Chaucer.
Tret, n. [F. traite a drawing, trading, journey, tax on wares in transit, anything diminishing the value of coins, fr. OF. traire to draw, L. trahere. See Trait.] (Com.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. M’Culloch.
Tretable
Tret´a•ble, a. [See Treatable.] Tractable; moderate. [Obs.]
"By nature debonaire and tretable." Chaucer.
Trething
Treth´ing, n. [W. treth an allowance, contribution, tribute, or tax, trethu to rate or tax.] A tax; an impost. [Obs.] Johnson. { Tre´tis, Tre´tys }, n. [See Treatise.] A treatise; also a treaty. [Obs.] Chaucer. { Tre•tis´, Tre•tys´ }, a. [OF. traitis.] Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. [Obs.] "Her nose tretys." Chaucer.
Trevet
Trev´et, n. [See Trivet.] A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet. { Trew, Trewe }, a. True. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Trey, n. [OF. treis three, F. trois, L. tres. See Three, and cf. Tray-trip.] Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
"Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey." Chaucer.
Tri- [Gr. tri- or L. tri-, sometimes through French; akin to L. tres three, and E. three. See Three.]
1. A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tr. colored, tr. dentate.
2. (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in tr. sulphide, tr. oxide, tr. chloride.
Triable
Tri´a•ble, a. [From Try.]
1. Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." Boyle.
2. (Law) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
Triableness
Tri´a•ble•ness, n. Quality or state of being triable.
Triacle
Tri´a•cle, n. See Treacle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Triacontahedral
Tri•a•con•ta•he´dral, a. [Gr. thirty + seat, base.] Having thirty sides.
Triad
Tri´ad, n. [L. trias, - adis, Gr.,, fr.,, three: cf. F. triade. See Three, and cf. Trias, Trio.]
1. A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as a triad of deities.
2. (Mus.) (a) A chord of three notes. (b) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
3. (Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three. Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. — Hindu triad. See Trimurti.
Triadelphous
Tri•a•del´phous, a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. brother.] (Bot.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
Triadic
Tri•ad´ic, a. (Chem.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as boron is triadic.
Trial
Tri´al, n. [From Try.]
1. The act of trying or testing in any manner. Specifically: — (a) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
"[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight." Milton. (b) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
"Repeated trials of the issues and events of actions." Bp. Wilkins. (c) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
2. The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
"Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings." Heb. xi. 36.
3. That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as his child’s conduct was a sore trial.
"Every station is exposed to some trials." Rogers.
4. (Law) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Syn. — Test; attempt; endeavor; effort; experiment; proof; essay. See Test, and Attempt.
Triality
Tri•al´i•ty, n. [L. tres, tria, three.] Three united; state of being three. [R.] H. Wharton.
Trialogue
Tri´a•logue, n. [LL. trialogus; tri- (see Tri-) + -logus as in L. dialogus, E. dialogue.] A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
Triamide
Tri•am´ide, n. [ tri- + amine.] (Chem.) An amide containing three amido groups.
Triamine
Tri•am´ine, n. [Pref. tri- + amine.] (Chem.) An amine containing three amido groups.
Triandria
Tri•an´dri•a, n. pl. [NL. See Tri-, and -androus.] (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens. { Tri•an´dri•an, Tri•an´drous } a. [Cf. F. triandre.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
Triangle
Tri´an•gle, n. [L. triangulum, fr. triangulus triangular; tri- (see Tri-) + angulus angle: cf. F. triangle. See Angle a corner.]
1. (Geom.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A plane triangle is designated as scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, according as it has no two sides equal, two sides equal, or all sides equal; and also as right-angled, or oblique-angled, according as it has one right angle, or none; and oblique-angled triangle is either acute-angled, or obtuse-angled, according as all the angles are acute, or one of them obtuse. The terms scalene, isosceles, equilateral, right-angled, acute- angled, and obtuse-angled, are applied to spherical triangles in the same sense as to plane triangles.
2. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
3. A draughtsman’s square in the form of a right- angled triangle.
4. (Mus.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, — now disused.
5. (Astron.) (a) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda. (b) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars. Triangle spider (Zoöl.), a small American spider ( Hyptiotes Americanus) of the family Ciniflonidae, living among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web, or net, usually composed of four radii crossed by a double elastic fiber. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.
Triangular
Tri•an´gu•lar, a. [L. triangularis: cf. F. triangulaire.]
1. Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
2. (Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. — Triangular crab (Zoöl.), any maioid crab; — so called because the carapace is usually triangular. — Triangular numbers (Math.), the series of numbers formed by the successive sums of the terms of an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.
Triangulares
Tri•an•gu•la´res, n. pl. [L.] (Zoöl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
Triangularity
Tri•an•gu•lar´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.
Triangularly
Tri•an´gu•lar•ly, adv. In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. Dampier.
Triangulate
Tri•an´gu•late, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Triangulated p. pr. & vb. n. Triangulating.]
1. To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
2. To make triangular, or three-cornered.
Triarchy
Tri´ar•chy, n. ; pl. Triarchies (#). [Gr. ; (see Tri-) + to rule.] Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also a country under three rulers. Holland.
Triarticulate
Tri•ar•tic´u•late, a. [Pref. tri- + articulate.] (Zoöl.) Having three joints.
Trias
Tri´as, n. [L., triad. See Triad.] (Geol.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
Triatic
Tri•at´ic, a. (Naut.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
Tribal
Trib´al, a. Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton.
Tribble
Trib´ble, n. (Paper Manuf.) A frame on which paper is dried. Knight.
Tribrach
Tri´brach, n. [L. tribrachys, Gr. consisting of three short syllables; (see Tri-) + short.] (Gr. & L. Pros.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as melius.
Tribulation
Trib•u•la´tion, n. [OE. tribulacium, F. tribulation, L. tribulatio, from tribulare to press, afflict, fr. tribulum a thrashing sledge, akin to terere, tritum, to rub. See Trite.] That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
"When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended." Matt. xiii. 21.
"In the world ye shall have tribulation." John. xvi. 33.
Tribunal
Tri•bu´nal, n. [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]
1. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
2. Hence, a court or forum; as the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
Tribunary
Trib´u•na•ry, a. Of or pertaining to tribunes; as tribunary powers or authority.
Tribune
Trib´une, n. [L. tribunus, properly, the chief of a tribe, fr. tribus tribe: cf. F. tribun. See Tribe.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls. The tribunes were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, of whom there were from four to six in each legion. Other officers were also called tribunes; as tribunes of the treasury, etc.
2. Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
Tribunitious
Trib•u•ni´tious, a. Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] Bacon.
Tributariness
Trib´u•ta•ri•ness, n. The quality or state of being tributary.
Tributary
Trib´u•ta•ry, a. [OE. tributaire, F. tributaire, L. tributarius. See Tribute.]
1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
"[Julius] unto Rome made them tributary." Chaucer.
2. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
"He to grace his tributary gods." Milton.
3. Paid in tribute. "Tributary tears." Shak.
4. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
Tribute
Trib´ute, n. [OE. tribut, L. tributum, fr. tribuere, tributum, to bestow, grant, pay, allot, assign, originally, to a tribe, from tribus tribe; cf. F. tribut. See Tribe, and cf. Attribute, Contribute.]
1. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." C. C. Pinckney.
2. A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as a tribute of affection.
"Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Gray.
3. (Mining) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense. Pryce. Tomlinson.Tribute money, money paid as a tribute or tax. — Tribute pitch. (Mining) See under Tributer. [Eng.]
Syn. — See Subsidy.
Tribute
Trib´ute, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tributing.] To pay as tribute. [R.] Whitlock (1654).
Tricarbimide
Tri•car´bi•mide, n. [Pref. tri- + carbimide.] (Chem.) See under Cyanuric.
Tricennarious
Tri•cen•na´ri•ous, a. Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]
Triceps
Tri´ceps, n. [NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.] (Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
Trichinosis
Trich•i•no´sis, n. [NL. See Trichina.] (Med.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
Trichite
Trich´ite, n. [Gr.,, hair.]
1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
2. (Zoöl.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.
Trichiuroid
Trich•i•u´roid, a. [ Trichiurus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.
Trichiurus
Trich•i•u´rus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. tri•x, tricho•s, a hair + o’yra• tail.] (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.
Trichocyst
Trich´o•cyst, n. [Gr. tri•x, tricho•s, a hair + bag.] (Zoöl.) A lasso cell.
Trichomatose
Tri•chom´a•tose, a. [Gr.,, a growth of hair.] (Med.) Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; — said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.
Trichome
Trich´ome, n. [See Trichomatose.] (Bot.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes. — Tri•chom´a•tous (#), a.
Trichophore
Trich´o•phore, n. [Gr. tri•x, tricho•s, hair + to bear.]
1. (Bot.) The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise. — Trich•o•phor´ic (#), a.
Trichopteran
Tri•chop´ter•an, (Zoöl.) One of the Trichoptera.
Trichopterous
Tri•chop´ter•ous, a. (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.
Trichord
Tri´chord, n. [Gr. three stringed; (see Tri-) + chord, or string.] (Mus.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
Trichotomous
Tri•chot´o•mous, a. [See Trichotomy.] Divided into three parts, or into threes; three- forked; as a trichotomous stem. Martyn.
Trichroic
Tri•chro´ic, a. Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.
Trichromatism
Tri•chro´ma•tism, n. (Zoöl.) The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.
Trichromic
Tri•chro´mic, a. [Pref. tri- + chromic.] (Chem.) Containing three atoms of chromium.
Tricipital
Tri•cip´i•tal, a. [See Triceps.] (Anat.) Having three heads, or three origins; as a tricipital muscle.
Trick, n. [D. trek a pull, or drawing, a trick, trekken to draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. traekke, and OFries. trekka. Cf. Track, Trachery, Trig, a. , Trigger.]
1. An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as a trick in trade.
"He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick." South.
"I know a trick worth two of that." Shak.
2. A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as a bear’s tricks; a juggler’s tricks.
3. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as the tricks of boys. Prior.
4. A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
"The trick of that voice I do well remember." Shak.
"He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion’s face." Shak.
5. A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
6. (Card Playing) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
"On one nice trick depends the general fate." Pope.
7. (Naut.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, — usually two hours.
8. A toy; a trifle; a plaything. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn. — Stratagem; wile; fraud; cheat; juggle; finesse; sleight; deception; imposture; delusion; imposition.
Trick, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tricked p. pr. & vb. n. Tricking.]
1. To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as to trick another in the sale of a horse.
2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; — often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." Pope.
"People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds." Locke.
"They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been." Macaulay.
3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
"They forget that they are in the statutes: … there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees." B. Jonson.
Trickery
Trick´er•y, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Tricking
Trick´ing, a. Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
Trickle
Tric´kle (trik"k’l), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trickled (trik"k’ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling (trik"kling).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strican. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
"His salt tears trickled down as rain." Chaucer.
"Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream." Spenser.
Trickment
Trick´ment, n. Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.
Tricksiness
Trick´si•ness, n. The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
Trickster
Trick´ster, n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Tricksy
Trick´sy, a. [From Trick.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak.
"he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom." Coleridge.
Tricktrack
Trick´track, n. [F. trictrac. Cf. Ticktack backgammon.] An old game resembling backgammon.
Tricky
Trick´y, a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Tricliniary
Tri•clin´i•a•ry, a. [L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.] Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
Triclinic
Tri•clin´ic, a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. to incline.] (Crystallog.) Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.
Triclinium
Tri•clin´i•um, n. ; pl. Triclinia (#). [L., from Gr., ; (see Tri- ) + a couch.] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. (b) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Tricoccous
Tri•coc´cous, a. [Gr. tri•kokkos with three grains or berries; (see Tri-) + ko•kkos grain, seed.] (Bot.) Having three cocci, or roundish carpels. Gray.
Tricolor
Tri´col•or, n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three- colored; tr. (see Tri-) + L. color color.] [Written also tricolour.]
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
Tricornigerous
Tri•cor•nig´er•ous, a. [L. tricorniger; tricornis three-horned (see Tri-, and Horn) + -gerere to bear.] Having three horns. { Tri•cor´po•ral, Tri•cor´po•rate } a. [L. tricorpor; tri- (see Tri-) + corpus, -oris, body.] (Her.) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
Tricrotous
Tri´cro•tous (tri"kro•tus), a. (Physiol.) Tricrotic.
Tricurvate
Tri•cur´vate (tri•kûr"vat), a. [Pref. tri- + curvate.] (Zoöl.) Curved in three directions; as a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
Tricuspid
Tri•cus´pid, a. [L. tricuspis, -idis; tri- (see Tri-) + cuspis a point: cf. F. tricuspide.]
1. Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as a tricuspid molar.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tricuspid valves; as tricuspid obstruction. Tricuspid valve (Anat.), the valve, consisting of three triangular membranous flaps, at the opening of the right auricle into the right ventricle in the heart of most mammals; — sometimes called the tricuspid valves, each flap being regarded as a valve.
Tricuspidate
Tricus´pid•ate, a. Three-pointed; ending in three points; as a tricuspidate leaf.
Tricycle
Tri´cy•cle, n. [Pref. tri- + cycle as in bicycle.] A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.
Tridacna
Tri•dac´na, n. [L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. eaten at three bites, tri- + to bite.] (Zoöl.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species ( T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell. { Tri•dac´tylTri•dac´tyle }, a. [Gr. : (see Tri-) + digit: cf. F. tridactyle.] (Biol.) Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
Trident
Tri´dent (tri"d ent), n. [L. tridens, -entis; tri- (see Tri-) + dens tooth: cf. F. trident. See Tooth.]
1. (Class Myth.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, — the common attribute of Neptune.
2. (Rom. Antiq.) A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also the weapon used by one class of gladiators.
3. A three-pronged fish spear.
4. (Geom.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction. Trident bat (Zoöl.), an Asiatic rhinolophid bat ( Triaenops Persicus), having the nose membrane in the shape of a trident.
Trident
Tri´dent, a. [L. tridens.] Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate. { Tri•den´tate, Tri•den´ta•ted } a. [NL. tridentatus. See Trident.] Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.
Tried, imp. & p. p. of Try. Also adj. Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as a tried friend.
Triennial
Tri•en´ni•al, a. [L. triennium the space of three years; tri- (see Tri-) + annus year. See Annual.]
1. Continuing three years; as triennial parliaments; a triennial reign. Howell.
2. Happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation. T. Warton.
Triennial
Tri•en´ni•al, n. Something which takes place or appears once in three years.
Triens
Tri´ens, n. [L., from tres, tria, three.] (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.
Trier
Tri´er, n. [From Try.]
1. One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard. Boyle.
2. One who tries judicially.
3. (Law) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior. Burrill.
4. That which tries or approves; a test. Shak.
Trierarchy
Tri´er•arch•y, n. ; pl. Trierarchises (#). [ Gr. .] The office duty of a trierarch.
Trieterical
Tri•e•ter´ic•al, a. [L. trietericus, Gr., fr. (sc. ) a triennial festival; (see Tri-.) + a year.] Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial. [R.] J. Gregory.
Trifacial
Tri•fa´cial, a. [Pref. tri- + facial.] (Anat.) See Trigeminal.
Trifallow
Tri´fal•low, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trifallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Trifallowing.] [Pref. tri- + fallow. Cf. Thryfallow.] To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.
Trifarious
Tri•fa´ri•ous, a. [L. trifarius of three sorts or ways, threefold; cf. Gr. . Cf. Bifarious.] (Bot.) Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.
Trifid
Tri´fid, a. [L. trifidus; tri- (see Tri-) + the root of findere to split: cf. F. trifide.] Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.
Trifle
Tri´fle, n. [OE. trifle, trufle, OF. trufle mockery, raillery, trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being applied to any small or worthless object. See Truffle.]
1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
"With such poor trifles playing." Drayton.
"Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmation strong
As proofs of holy writ." Shak.
"Small sands the mountain, moments make year,
And frifles life." Young.
2. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
Trifle
Tri´fle, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trifled p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling ] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n. ] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
"They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us." Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as to trifle with one’s feelings, or with sacred things.
Trifluctuation
Tri•fluc•tu•a´tion, n. [Pref. tri- + fluctuation.] A concurrence of three waves. [Obs.] "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne. { Tri•fo´li•ate, Tri•fo´li•a•ted } a. [ Tri- + foliate. Cf. Trefoil.] (Bot.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.
Trifoliolate
Tri•fo´li•o•late, a. [Pref. tri- + foliolate.] (Bot.) Having three leaflets.
Trifolium
Tri•fo´li•um, n. [L., clover.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.
Trifoly
Tri´fo•ly, n. [L. trifolium. See Trifoliate, Trefoil.] (Bot.) Sweet trefoil. [Obs.]
"She was crowned with a chaplet of trifoly." B. Jonson.
Triforium
Tri•fo´ri•um, n. [LL., fr. L. tri- (see Tri-) + foris, pl. fores, a door.] (Arch.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.
Triform
Tri´form, a. [L. triformis; tri- (see Tri-) + forma form.] Having a triple form or character. "This triform antagonism." I. Taylor.
"Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell." Lowell.
Triformity
Tri•form´i•ty, n. [L. triformitas.] The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape. { Tri•fur´cate, Tri•fur´ca•ted } a. [L. trifurcus; tri- (see Tri-) + furca fork.] Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
Trig, v. t. [Cf. Dan. trykke to press, Sw. trycka.] To fill; to stuff; to cram. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Trig, v. t. [See Trigger.] To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
Trig, n. [See Trigger.] A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. [Eng.] Wright.
Trigamist
Trig´a•mist, n. [See Trigamy.] One who has been married three times; also one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.
Trigamous
Trig´a•mous, a. [L. trigamus a thrice-married man, Gr. thrice married; (see Tri-) + marriage: cf. F. trigame.] (Bot.) Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, — male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.
Trigamy
Trig´a•my, n. [L. trigamia,Gr. : cf. F. trigamie. See Trigamous.] The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
Trigeminal
Tri•gem´i•nal, a. [See Trigeminous.] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.
Trigeminous
Tri•gem´i•nous, a. [L. trigeminus born three together; tri- (see Tri-) + geminus twin. Cf. Tergeminous.] Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also threefold. E. Phillip.
Trigger
Trig´ger, n. [For older tricker, from D. trekker, fr. trekken to draw, pull. See Trick, n. ]
1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
2. (Mech.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece. Trigger fish (Zoöl.), a large plectognath fish ( Balistes Carolinensis or B. capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.
Trigintal
Tri•gin•tal, n. [LL. trigintate, fr. L. triginta thirty. See Trental.] (R. C. Ch.) A trental.
Triglyph
Tri´glyph, n. [L. triglyphus, Gr. ; (see Tri-) + to carve: cf. F. triglyphe.] (Arch.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature. { Tri•glyph´ic, Tri•glyph´ic•al } a.
1. Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.
2. Containing three sets of characters or sculptures.
Trigness
Trig´ness, n. [See Trig trim, neat.] The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.
"Their spars had no man-of-war trigness." Kane.
Trigon
Tri´gon, n. [L. trigonum, Gr. ; (see Tri-) + a corner, angle: cf. F. trigone.]
1. A figure having three angles; a triangle.
2. (Astrol.) (a) A division consisting of three signs. (b) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. Hutton.
3. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) (a) A kind of triangular lyre or harp. (b) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
Trigonia
Tri•go´ni•a, n. [NL. See Trigon. So called in allusion to the triangular shape of some species.] (Zoöl.) A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.
Trigonocerous
Trig•o•noc´er•ous, a. [Gr. triangle + horn.] (Zoöl.) Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats. { Trig•o•no•met´ric, Trig•o•no•met´ric•al, }[Cf. F. trigonometrique.] Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry. —Trig•o•no•met´ric•al•ly, adv. Trigonometrical curve, a curve one of whose coördinates is a trigonometric function of the other. — Trigonometrical function. See under Function. — Trigonometrical lines, lines which are employed in solving the different cases of plane and spherical trigonometry, as sines, tangents, secants, and the like. These lines, or the lengths of them, are trigonometrical functions of the arcs and angles to which they belong. — Trigonometrical survey. See under Survey.
Trigonodont
Trig´o•no•dont, a. [See Trigon; Odonto.] See Trituberculy.
Trigonometry
Trig•o•nom´e•try, n. ; pl. -tries (#). [Gr. a triangle + -metry: cf. F. trigonometrie. See Trigon.]
1. That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles.
2. A treatise in this science. Analytical trigonometry, that branch of trigonometry which treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions. — Plane trigonometry, andSpherical trigonometry, those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangles respectively.
Trigonous
Trig´o•nous, a. [L. trigonus, Gr. . See Trigon.] Same as Trigonal.
Trigram
Tri´gram, n. [Pref. tri- + - gram.] Same as Trigraph.
Trigrammic
Tri•gram´mic, a. [Gr. . See Trigrammatic.] Same as Trigrammatic.
Trigynia
Tri•gyn´i•a, n. pl. [NL., Gr. (see Tri-) + a woman, a female.] (Bot.) A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles. { Tri•gyn´i•an, Trig´y•nous } a. (Bot.) Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.
Trihedral
Tri•he´dral, a. [See Trihedron.] (Geom.) Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles. [Written also triedral.]
Trihedron
Tri•he´dron, n. [Pref. tri- + Gr. a seat, base.] (Geom.) A figure having three sides.
Trihoral
Tri•ho´ral, a. [Pref. tri- + horal.] Occurring once in every three hours.
Trijugate
Trij´u•gate, a. [See Trijugous.] (Bot.) In three pairs; as a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.
Trijugous
Trij´u•gous, a. [L. trijugus threefold; tri- + jugum a yoke.] (Bot.) Same as Trijugate.
Trilateral
Tri•lat´er•al, a. [L. trilaterus; tri- (see Tri-) + latus, lateris, side: cf. F. trilateral. See Lateral.] (Geom.) Having three sides; being three-sided; as a trilateral triangle. — Tri•lat´er•al•ly, adv. — Tri•lat´er•al•ness, n.
Trilemma
Tri•lem´ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (see Tri-) + any thing received, in logic, an assumption. Cf. Dilemma.]
1. (Logic) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.
2. A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.
Trilingual
Tri•lin´gual, a. [L. trilinguis; tri- (see Tri-) + lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.] Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.
"The much-noted Rosetta stone … bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription." I. Taylor.
Triliteralism
Tri•lit´er•al•ism, n. Same as Triliterality. { Tri•lit•er•al´i•ty, Tri•lit´er•al•ness } n. The quality of being triliteral; as the triliterality of Hebrew roots. W. D. Whitney.
Trilith
Tri´lith, n. Same as Trilithon. Mollett.
Trilithon
Tril´i•thon (tril"i•thon), n. ; pl. Trilithons (#). [NL., fr. Gr. of or with three stones; (see Tri-) + stone.] (Archaeol.) A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.
Trill, v. i. [OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. þyrla to whirl, and E. thrill. Cf. Thrill.] To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott.
"And now and then an ample tear trilled down
Her delicate cheek." Shak.
"Whispered sounds
Of waters, trilling from the riven stone." Glover.
Trill, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trilled p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] [It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.] To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as or with, a trill; as to trill the r; to trill a note.
"The sober-suited songstress trills her lay." Thomson.
Trill, n. [It. trillo, fr. trillare. See Trill to shake.]
1. A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth — tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip — against another part; as the r is a trill in most languages.
2. The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as to give a trill to the tongue. d
3. (Mus.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.
Trillachan
Tril´la•chan, n. (Zoöl.) The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Trillion
Tril´lion, n. [F. trillion, formed from the pref. tri- in imitation of million a million. Cf. Billion.] According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Trillo
Tril´lo, n. [It. See Trill.] (Mus.) A trill or shake. See Trill.
Trilobate
Tri•lo´bate, a. [Pref. tri- + lobate.] Having three lobes.
Trilobed
Tri´lobed, a. [Pref. tri- + lobe.] Same as Trilobate.
Trilobite
Tri´lo•bite (tri"lo•bit), n. [Cf. F. trilobite. See Trilobate.] (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.
Trilobitic
Tri•lo•bit´ic, a. Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as trilobitic rocks.
Trilogy
Tril´o•gy, n. [Gr. trilogi•a; pref. tri- (see Tri-) + lo•gos speech, discourse: cf. F. trilogie.] A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare’s " Henry VI." is an example.
"On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day." Coleridge. { Tri•lu´mi•nar, Tri•lu´mi•nous } a. [Pref. tri- + L. lumen, luminis, light.] Having three lights [R.]
Trim, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trimmed p. pr. & vb. n. Trimming.] [OE. trimen, trumen, AS. trymian, trymman, to prepare, dispose, make strong, fr. trum firm, strong; of uncertain origin.]
1. To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
"The hermit trimmed his little fire." Goldsmith.
2. To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as to trim a hat.
"A rotten building newly trimmed over." Milton.
"I was trimmed in Julia’s gown." Shak.
3. To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.
4. (Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
5. (Naut.) (a) To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as to trim a ship, or a boat. (b) To arrange in due order for sailing; as to trim the sails.
6. To rebuke; to reprove; also to beat. [Colloq.] To trim in (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work. — To trim up, to dress; to put in order.
"I found her trimming up the diadem
On her dead mistress." Shak.
Trim, v. i. To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.
Trim, a. [ Compar. Trimmer superl. Trimmest.] [See Trim, v. t.] Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.
"With comely carriage of her countenance trim." Spenser.
"So deemed I till I viewed their trim array
Of boats last night." Trench.
Trimaculated
Tri•mac´u•la•ted, a. [Pref. tri- + maculated.] Marked with three spots, or maculae.
Trimembral
Tri•mem´bral, a. [L. trimembris triplemembered. See Tri-, and Member.] Having, or consisting of, three members.
Trimera
Tri´me•ra, n. pl. [NL. See Tri-, and -mere.] (Zoöl.) A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
Trimeran
Tri´mer•an, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.
Trimerous
Tri´mer•ous, a. [See Trimera.] (Bot.) Having the parts in threes.
Trimester
Tri•mes´ter, n. [L. trimestris of three months; tri- (see Tri-) + mensis month: cf. F. trimestre.] A term or period of three months.
Trimeter
Trim´e•ter, a. [L. trimetrus, Gr. ; (see Tri-) + measure. See Meter measure.] (Pros.) Consisting of three poetical measures. — n. A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures. Lowth.
Trimetric
Tri•met´ric, a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. measure.] (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic.
Trimmer
Trim´mer, n.
1. One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
2. One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.
"Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle." Macaulay.
3. An instrument with which trimming is done.
4. (Arch.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
Trimming
Trim´ming, a. from Trim, v.
"The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party." Jeffrey. Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.
Trimorph
Tri´morph, n. [See Trimorphous.] (Crystallog.) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1. { Tri•mor´phic, Tri•mor´phous } a. [Gr. three-formed; (see Tri-) + form.] Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; — contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.
Trimorphism
Tri•mor´phism, n. [See Trimorphic.]
1. (Crystallog.) The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.
2. (Biol.) The coëxistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; — contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism. Heterogonous trimporphism (Bot.), that condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one individual plant having short and medium stamens and a long style, those of another having short and long stamens and a style of medium length, and those of a third having medium and long stamens and a short style, the style of each blossom thus being of a length not represented by its stamens.
Trinal
Tri´nal, a. [L. trinus triple, trini three each, fr. tres, tria, three. See Three, and cf. Trine, a. & n., Tern, a. ] Threefold. "Trinal unity." Milton.
"In their trinal triplicities on high." Spenser.
Trine, a. [See Trinal.] Threefold; triple; as trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.
Trine, n. [F. trine, trin. See Trinal.]
1. (Astrol.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.
"In sextile, square, and trine." Milton.
2. A triad; trinity. [R.]
"A single trine of brazen tortoises." Mrs. Browning.
"Eternal One, Almighty Trine!" Keble.
Trinervate
Tri•nerv´ate, a. [NL. trinervatus; pref. tri- + L. nervus nerve.] (Bot.) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; — said of a leaf. Gray. { Tri´nerve•, Tri´nerved• } a. [Pref. tri- + nerve.] (Bot.) Same as Trinervate.
Tringa
Trin´ga, n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.
Tringle
Trin´gle, n. [F. tringle.] A curtain rod for a bedstead.
Trinitarian
Trin•i•ta´ri•an, a. [Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.] Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
Trinity
Trin´i•ty, n. [OE. trinitee, F. trinite, L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See Trinal.]
1. (Christian Theol.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
2. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
3. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle. Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. — Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; — so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. — Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n. , 5.
Triniunity
Trin•i•u´ni•ty, n. [See Trinity, and Unity.] Triunity; trinity. [Obs.]
"As for terms of trinity, triniunity, … and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions." Milton.
Trinket
Trin´ket, n. [OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence, probably, a toy knife worn as an ornament; probably from an Old French dialectic form of trenchier to cut. Cf. Trench, v. t.]
1. A knife; a cutting tool. Tusser.
2. A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
3. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
Trinket
Trin´ket, v. i. To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [Obs.] South.
Trinkle
Trin´kle, v. i. To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper. [Obs.] Wright.
Trinoctial
Tri•noc´tial, a. [L. trinoctialis for three nights; tri- (see Tri-) + nox, noctis, night.] Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
Trinodal
Tri•nod´al, a. [L. trinodis three- knotted; tri- (see Tri-) + nodus knot.]
1. (Bot.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as a trinodal stem.
2. (Geom.) Having three nodal points.
Trio
Tri´o, n. [It., fr. L. tres, tria, three: cf. F. trio, from the Italian. See Three.]
1. Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
"The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest." Dickens.
2. (Mus.) (a) A composition for three parts or three instruments. (b) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; — not limited to three parts or instruments. { Tri•ob´o•lar, Tri•ob´o•la•ry } a. [LL. triobolaris, fr. L. triobolus a piece of three oboli, Gr. . See Tri-, and Obolus.] Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless. [Obs.]
"It may pass current … for a triobolar ballad." Cheyne.
Triœcia
Tri•œ"ci•a (-e"shi•a), n. pl. [NL. See Triœcious.] (Bot.) The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.
Triole
Tri´ole (tre"ol), n. [See Triolet.] (Mus.) Same as Triplet.
Triolein
Tri•o´le•in (tri•o"le•in), n. [Pref. tri- + olein.] (Physiol. Chem.) See Olein.
Triolet
Tri´o•let (tri"o•let), n. [F. triolet. See Trio.] A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth. Brande & C.
Trionychoidea
Tri•on•y•choi´de•a, n. pl. [NL. See Trionyx, and -old.] (Zoöl.) A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; — called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.
Trionyx
Tri•on´yx, n. [NL., fr. Gr. (see Tri-) + a claw.] (Zoöl.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle. The common American species ( Trionyx, or Aspidonectus, ferox) becomes over a foot in length and is very voracious. Similar species are found in Asia and Africa.
Trior
Tri´or, n. (Law) Same as Trier, 2 and 3.
Trip, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tripped p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]
1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; — sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
"This horse anon began to trip and dance." Chaucer.
"Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe." Milton.
"She bounded by, and tripped so light
They had not time to take a steady sight." Dryden.
2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as to trip to Europe.
3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one’s balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. "Till his tongue trip." Locke.
"A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble." South.
"Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure." Dryden.
"What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?" R. Browning.
Tripalmitin
Tri•pal´mi•tin, n. [Pref. tri- + palmitin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See Palmitin.
Tripartient
Tri•par´tient, a. [See Tripartite.] (Arith.) Dividing into three parts; — said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.
Tripartite
Trip´ar•tite, a. [L. tripartitus; tri- (see Tri-) + partitus, p. p. of partiri to part, to divide. See Part, v. i.]
1. Divided into three parts; triparted; as a tripartite leaf.
2. Having three corresponding parts or copies; as to make indentures tripartite. A. Smith.
3. Made between three parties; as a tripartite treaty.
Tripaschal
Tri•pas´chal, a. [Pref. tri- + paschal.] Including three passovers.
Tripedal
Trip´e•dal, a. [L. tripedalis; tri- (see Tri-) + pes, pedis, a foot.] Having three feet.
Tripe-de-roche
Tripe•-de-roche´, n. [F.] (Bot.) Same as Rock tripe, under Rock.
Tripeman
Tripe´man, n. ; pl. - men . A man who prepares or sells tripe.
Tripennate
Tri•pen´nate, a. [Pref. tri- + pennate.] (Bot.) Same as Tripinnate.
Triphane
Tri´phane, n. [Gr. appearing three- fold; (see Tri-) + to appear cf. F. triphane.] (Min.) Spodumene.
Triphyllous
Triph´yl•lous, a. [Gr. ; (see Tri-) + a leaf: cf. F. triphylle.] (Bot.) Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Triplasian
Tri•pla´sian, a. [Gr. thrice as many.] Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] Cudworth.
Triple
Tri´ple, a. [L. triplus; tri- (see Tri-) + -plus, as in duplus double: cf. F. triple. See Double, and cf. Treble.]
1. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as a triple knot; a triple tie.
"By thy triple shape as thou art seen." Dryden.
2. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
3. One of three; third. [Obs.] Shak. Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2. — Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively. — Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented. — Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3. — Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt. — Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity. — Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts. — Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.
Triple
Tri´ple, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tripled p. pr. & vb. n. Tripling ] [Cf. F. tripler. See Triple, a. ] To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as to triple the tax on coffee.
Triple-crowned
Tri´ple-crowned, a. Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
Triplet
Trip´let, n. [From Triple.]
1. A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
2. (Poetry) Three verses rhyming together.
3. (Mus.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.
4. pl. Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Triplicate
Trip´li•cate, a. [L. triplicatus, p. p. of triplicare to triple, treble; tri- (see Tri-) + plicare to fold. See Ply, v. t.] Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.
Triplicate
Trip´li•cate, n. A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Triplicate-ternate
Trip´li•cate-ter•nate, a. (Bot.) Triternate.
Triplication
Trip´li•ca´tion, n. [L. triplicatio: cf. F. triplication.]
1. The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.
2. (Civil Law) Same as Surrejoinder.
Triplicity
Tri•plic´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. triplicite, fr. L. triplex, triplicis, threefold. See Triplicate, a. ] The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
"In their trinal triplicities on high." Spenser.
Triplicostate
Trip•li•cos´tate, a. [ Triple + costate.] (Bot.) Three-ribbed.
Triplite
Trip´lite, n. [Cf. F. triplite. See Triple.] (Min.) A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Tripmadam
Trip´mad•am, n. [F. tripe-madame, trique-madame.] (Bot.) Same as Prickmadam.
Tripod
Tri´pod, n. [L. tripus, - odis, Gr. ; (see Tri-) +,, foot. See Foot, and cf. Tripos, Trivet.]
1. Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet. On such, a stool, in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Pythian priestess sat while giving responses to those consulting the Delphic oracle.
2. A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; — so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.
Tripos
Tri´pos, n. ; pl. Triposes (#). [Gr. a tripod. See Tripod.]
1. A tripod. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. A university examination of questionists, for honors; also a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng.] Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. C. A. Bristed. — Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. C. A. Bristed.
Trippant
Trip´pant, a. (Her.) See Tripping, a. , 2.
Tripsis
Trip´sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr., fr. to rub.] (Med.) (a) Trituration. [R.] (b) Shampoo. [R.]
Triptote
Trip´tote, n. [L. triptotum, Gr. with three cases; (see Tri-) + falling, fr. to fall.] (Gram.) A noun having three cases only.
Triptych
Trip´tych, n. [Gr. consisting of three layers or plates; (see Tri-) +,, a fold, layer.] Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically: — (a) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part. (b) A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.
Tripudiate
Tri•pu´di•ate, v. i. [L. tripudiare, tripudiatum.] To dance. [R.] Cockeram.
Tripudiation
Tri•pu•di•a´tion, n. [L. tripudiatio.] The act of dancing. [R.] Bacon. Carlyle.
Triquetrum
Tri•que´trum, n. ; pl. Triquetra (#). [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b). { Tri•ra´di•ate, Tri•ra´di•a•ted }, a. [Pref. tri- + radiate.] Having three rays.
Trirectangular
Tri•rec•tan´gu•lar, a. [Pref. tri- + rectangular.] (Spherical Trig.) Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.
Trireme
Tri´reme, n. [L. triremis; tri- (see Tri-) + remus an oar, akin to E. row. See Row to propel with an oar.] (Class. Antiq.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
Trirhomboidal
Tri•rhom•boid´al, a. [Pref. tri- + rhomboidal.] Having three rhombic faces or sides.
Trisaccharide
Tri•sac´cha•ride, n. Also - rid. (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules. { Tris•kel´i•on, or Tris´kele }, n. [Gr. three-legged. See Tri-; Isosceles.] A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
Trisacramentarian
Tri•sac•ra•men•ta´ri•an, n. [Pref. tri- + sacramentarian.] (Eccl.) One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; — namely, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
Trisagion
Tris•ag´i•on, n. [NL., fr. Gr. thrice holy; thrice + holy.] (Eccl.) An ancient anthem, — usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.
Trisect
Tri•sect´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trisected; p. pr. & vb. n. Trisecting.] [Pref. tri- + L. sectus, p. p. of secare to cut. See Section.]
1. To cut or divide into three parts.
2. (Geom.) To cut or divide into three equal parts.
Trismus
Tris´mus, n. [NL., form Gr. gnashing of the teeth.] (Med.) The lockjaw.
Trisoctahedron
Tris•oc•ta•he´dron, n. [Gr. thrice + FE. octahedron.] (Crystallog.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron. — Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle. { Tri´spast, Tri•spas´ton } n. [NL. trispaston, fr. Gr. drawn threefold; (see Tri-) + to draw.] (Mech.) A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.
Trist, v. t. & i. [ imp. Triste.] To trust. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Trist, n. [See Tryst.]
1. Trust. [Obs.]
2. A post, or station, in hunting. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst. [Obs.]
"George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally." Letter dated Sept., 1543.
Trist, a. [F. triste, L. tristis.] Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] Fairfax.
Tristearin
Tri•ste´a•rin, n. [Pref. tri- + stearin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See Stearin.
Tristichous
Tris´tich•ous, a. [Gr. in three rows; (see Tri-) + a row.] (Bot.) Arranged in three vertical rows. { Tri•stig•mat´ic, Tri•stig´ma•tose• } a. [Pref. tri- + stigma.] (Bot.) Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. Gray.
Tristoma
Tris´to•ma (tris"to•ma), n. [NL., from Gr. tri- (see Tri-) + sto•ma mouth.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.
Tristy
Trist´y, a. See Trist, a. [Obs.] Ashmole.
Trisulc
Tri´sulc (tri"sulk), n. [L. trisulcus; tri- (see Tri-) + sulcus a furrow.] Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident. [Obs.] "Jupiter’s trisulc." Sir T. Browne.
Trisulphide
Tri•sul´phide, n. [Pref. tri- + sulphide.] (Chem.) A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur. { Tris•yl•lab´ic, Tris•yl•lab´ic•al } a. [L. trisyllabus, Gr. ; (see Tri-) + a syllable: cf. F. trissyllabique.] Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. — Tris•yllab´ic•al•ly, adv.
Trite (trit), a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.] Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as a trite remark; a trite subject. — Trite´ly, adv. — Trite´ness, n.
Tritheite
Tri´the•ite, n. [Cf. F. tritheite.] A tritheist. [Obs.] E. Phillips.
Trithing
Tri´thing, n. [See Ist Riding.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; — now called riding. [Written also riding.] Blackstone.
Trithionate
Tri•thi´on•ate, n. (Chem.) A salt of trithionic acid.
Triton
Tri´ton, n. [L., fr. Gr..] (Gr. Myth.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.
"Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." Wordsworth.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.
3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.
Triturable
Trit´u•ra•ble, a. [Cf. F. triturable.] Capable of being triturated. Sir T. Browne.
Triturate
Trit´u•rate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Triturated p. pr. & vb. n. Triturating.] [L. trituratus, p. p. of triturate to thrash (grain), fr. terere, tritum, to rub, rub to pieces. See Trite.]
1. To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.
2. To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.
Triumph
Tri´umph, n. [L. triumphus, OL. triumpus; of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. a procession in honor of Bacchus: cf. F. triomphe. Cf. Trump at cards.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy. The general was allowed to enter the city crowned with a wreath of laurel, bearing a scepter in one hand, and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a circular chariot, of a peculiar form, drawn by four horses. He was preceded by the senate and magistrates, musicians, the spoils, the captives in fetters, etc., and followed by his army on foot in marching order. The procession advanced in this manner to the Capitoline Hill, where sacrifices were offered, and victorious commander entertained with a public feast.
2. Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant. [Obs.]
"Our daughter,
In honor of whose birth these triumphs are,
Sits here, like beauty’s child." Shak.
3. A state of joy or exultation for success.
"Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven." Milton.
"Hercules from Spain
Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain." Dryden.
4. Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as the triumph of knowledge.
5. A trump card; also an old game at cards. [Obs.]
Triumph
Tri´umph, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Triumphed p. pr. & vb. n. Triumphing.] [L. triumphare: cf. F. triompher. See Triumph, n. ]
1. To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
"How long shall the wicked triumph?" Ps. xciv. 3.
"Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
That triumph thus upon my misery!" Shak.
2. To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.
"Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time." Milton.
"On this occasion, however, genius triumphed." Macaulay.
3. To be prosperous; to flourish.
"Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales." Trumbull.
4. To play a trump card. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Triumphant
Tri•um´phant, a. [L. triumphans, p. pr. of triumphare: cf. F. triomphant. See Triumph, v. i.]
1. Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.
"Successful beyond hope to lead ye forth Triumphant out of this infernal pit." Milton.
2. Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as a triumphant song or ode.
3. Graced with conquest; victorious.
"Athena, war’s triumphant maid." Pope.
"So shall it be in the church triumphant." Perkins.
4. Of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal. [Obs.]
"Captives bound to a triumphant car." Shak. Church triumphant, the church in heaven, enjoying a state of triumph, her warfare with evil being over; — distinguished from church militant. See under Militant.
Triumvir
Tri•um´vir, n. ; pl. L. Triumviri (#), E. Triumvirs (#). [L., fr. res, gen. trium, three + vir a man. See Three, and Virile.] (Rom. Antiq.) One of tree men united in public office or authority. In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last.
Triune
Tri´une, a. [Pref. tri- + L. unus one. See One.] Being three in one; — an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.
Triungulus
Tri•un´gu•lus, n. ; pl. Triunguli (#). [NL. See Tri-, and Ungulate.] (Zoöl.) The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.
Triunity
Tri•u´ni•ty, n. The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.
Trivalence
Triv´a•lence, n. (Chem.) The quality or state of being trivalent.
Trivalent
Triv´a•lent, a. [Pref. tri- + L. valens, -entis, p. pr. See Valence.] (Chem.) Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; — said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.
Trivalve
Tri´valve, n. [Pref. tri- + valve.] Anything having three valves, especially a shell.
Trivalvular
Tri•val´vu•lar, a. [Pref. tri- + valvular.] Having three valves; three-valved.
Trivet
Triv´et, n. [Probably through French fr. L. tripes, -edis, three-footed; tri- (see Tri- )+ pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. trepied. See Foot, and cf. Tripod.]
1. A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]
2. A weaver’s knife. See Trevat. Knight. Trivet table, a table supported by three legs. Dryden.
Trivial
Triv´i•al, a. [L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see Tri-) + via a way: cf. F. trivial. See Voyage.]
1. Found anywhere; common. [Obs.]
2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
"As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor." De Quincey.
3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as a trivial subject or affair.
"The trivial round, the common task." Keble.
4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), the specific name.
Trivial
Triv´i•al, n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] Skelton. Wood.
Trivialism
Triv´i•al•ism, n. A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle.
Trivialness
Triv´i•al•ness, n. Quality or state of being trivial.
Trivium
Triv´i•um, n. [LL. See Trivial.]
1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; — being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.
2. (Zoöl.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
Triweekly
Tri´week•ly, a. [Pref. tri- + weekly.] Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as a triweekly newspaper. — adv. Three times a week. — n. A triweekly publication. This is a convenient word, but is not legitimately formed. It should mean occurring once in three weeks, as triennial means once in three years. Cf. Biweekly.
Troad, n. See Trode. [Obs.]
Troat, v. i. [Either onomatopoetic, or akin to throat.] To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
Trochaic
Tro•cha´ic, n. (Pros.) A trochaic verse or measure. Dryden. { Tro•cha´ic, Tro•cha´ic•al } a. [L. trochaïcus, Gr. or . See Trochee.] (Pros.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as trochaic measure or verse.
Trochanteric
Tro•chan•ter´ic, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
Troche
Tro´che (tro"ke), n. [Gr. trocho•s anything round or circular, a wheel, properly, a runner, fr. tre•chein to run. Cf. Trochee.] (Pharm.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.
Trochee
Tro´chee, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. (sc.), from running, from to run. Cf. Troche, Truck a wheel.] (Pros.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
Trochil
Tro´chil, n. [Cf. F. trochile. See Trochilus.] (Zoöl.) The crocodile bird.
"The crocodile … opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding." Sir T. Herbert.
Trochili
Troch´i•li, n. pl. [NL. See Trochilus.] (Zoöl.) A division of birds comprising the humming birds.
Trochilic
Tro•chil´ic, a. [See Trochilics.] OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.
Trochilidist
Tro•chil´i•dist, n. [See Trochilus.] One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae. Gould.
Trochilos
Troch´i•los, n. [NL. See Trochilus.] (Zoöl.) The crocodile bird, or trochil.
Trochiscus
Tro•chis´cus, n. ; pl. Trochisci (#). [L., fr. Gr. a small ball, dim. of a wheel. See Troche.] (Pharm.) A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.
Trochisk
Tro´chisk, n. [Cf. F. trochisque.] See Trochiscus. [Obs.] Bacon.
Trochite
Tro´chite, n. [Gr. a wheel.] (Paleon.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
Trochlea
Troch´le•a, n. [L., a case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys, Gr. . See Trochilics.]
1. (Mach.) A pulley. [Obs.]
2. (Anat.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.
Trochlear
Troch´le•ar, n. [L. trochlea block or pulley.] (Anat.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.
Trochoid
Tro´choid, n. [Gr. a wheel + - oid; cf. F. trochoïde. See Troche.] (Geom.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.
Trochoidal
Tro•choid´al, a.
1. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.
2. (Anat. & Zoöl.) See Trochoid, a.
Troco
Tro´co, n. An old English game; — called also lawn billiards.
Trode, archaic imp. of Tread.
"On burnished hooves his war-horse trode." Tennyson.
Trode, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See Tread.] Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] Spenser.
Troglodytes
Trog•lo•dy´tes, n. [NL. See Troglodyte.]
1. (Zoöl.) A genus of apes including the chimpanzee.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of singing birds including the common wrens. { Trog•lo•dyt´ic, Trog•lo•dyt´ic•al } a. [L. troglodyticus, Gr. .] Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
Trogon
Tro´gon, n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. Some of the species have a train of long brilliant feathers lying over the tail and consisting of the upper tail coverts. Unlike other birds having two toes directed forward and two backward, they have the inner toe turned backward. A few species are found in Africa and India, but the greater number, including the most brilliant species, are found in tropical America. See Illust. of Quesal.
Trogonoid
Tro´gon•oid, a. [ Trogon + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the trogons.
Trogue, n. [Cf. G. trog trough, E. trough.] (Mining) A wooden trough, forming a drain. Raymond.
Troic
Tro´ic, a. [L. Troicus, Gr., fr. . See Trojan.] Pertaining to Troy; Trojan. Gladstone.
Troll, n. [Icel. troll. Cf. Droll, Trull.] (Scand. Myth.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).
Troll, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trolled p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. Trot.). Cf. Trawl.]
1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
"To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye." Milton.
2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
"Then doth she troll to the bowl." Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
"Troll the brown bowl." Sir W. Scott.
3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also to sing loudly or freely.
"Will you troll the catch ?" Shak.
"His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortal trolled aloud." Hudibras.
4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
"With patient angle trolls the finny deep." Goldsmith.
Trolley car
Trol"ley car. (Elec.) A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of a trolley.
Trollop
Trol´lop, n. [From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull.] A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
Trollopee
Trol•lop•ee´, n. A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.
Trombone
Trom´bone, n. [It., aug. of tromba a trumpet: cf. F. trombone. See Trump a trumpet.]
1. (Mus.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.
2. (Zoöl.) The common European bittern.
Tromp, n. [F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet.] A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.] { Tromp, Trompe }, n. [See Trump a trumpet.] A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Trompil
Tromp´il, n. [OF. trompille, equiv. to F. trompette a trumpet.] An aperture in a tromp.
Tron, n. See 3d Trone, 2. [Obs. or Scott.]
Tronage
Tron´age, n. [From Trone a steelyard.] A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also the act of weighing wool. [Obs.] Nares.
Tronator
Tro•na´tor, n. [LL. See Tronage.] An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool. [Obs.]
Troop, n. [F. troupe, OF. trope, trupe, LL. troppus; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. þorp a hamlet, village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, E. thorp. Cf. Troupe.]
1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
"That which should accompany old age —
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends —
I must not look to have." Shak.
2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; — now generally used in the plural.
"Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars." Shak.
"His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines." Macaulay.
3. (Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also a company of horse artillery; a battery.
4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe.
5. (Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Troop, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trooped p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping.]
1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. "Armies … troop to their standard." Milton.
2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
"Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men." Shak.
Troop, n. See Boy scout, above.
Trooper
Troop´er, n. A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also the horse of a cavalryman.
Troopfowl
Troop´fowl, n. (Zoöl.) The American scaup duck. [Local, U. S.]
Troopship
Troop´ship, n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]
Troostite
Troost´ite, n. [So named after Dr. Gerard Troost, of Nashville, Tenn.] (Min.) Willemite.
Trope, n. [L. tropus, Gr., fr. to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used.
"In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips." Bancroft. Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.
Trophic
Troph´ic, a. [Gr. nursing. See Trophi.] (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
Trophied
Tro´phied, a. Adorned with trophies.
"The trophied arches, storied halls, invade." Pope.
Trophosperm
Troph´o•sperm, n. [Gr. a feeder + seed: cf. F. trophosperme. See Trophi.] (Bot.) The placenta.
Trophy
Tro´phy, n. ; pl. Trophies (#). [F. trophee (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr., strictly, a monument of the enemy’s defeat, fr. a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. to turn. See Trope.]
1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people. A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol.
2. The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
"Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears,
And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars,
And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars." Dryden.
4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace. Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia. Trop´ic a. [ Atropine + -ic.] (Chem.) Of pertaining to or designating an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
Tropic
Trop´ic, n. [F. tropique, L. tropicus of or belonging to a turn, i. e., of the sun, Gr. of the solstice, (sc. ) the tropic or solstice, fr. to turn. See Trope.]
1. (Astron.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23° 28&min;, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
2. (Geog.) (a) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names. (b) pl. The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
"The brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the greenhouse and the saloon." Bancroft.
Tropical
Trop´ic•al, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. . See Tropic, n. ]
1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor.
"The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it." South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. — Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
Tropically
Trop´ic•al•ly, adv. In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
Tropidine
Trop´i•dine, n. [See Tropine.] (Chem.) An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
Tropilidene
Tro•pil´i•dene, n. [See Tropine.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
Tropine
Tro´pine, n. [From Atropine.] (Chem.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
Tropist
Trop´ist, n. [Cf. F. tropiste. See Trope.] One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech. { Trop•o•log´ic, Trop•o•log´ic•al } a. [Gr. : cf. F. tropologique. See Tropology.] Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton. — Trop•o•log´ic•al•ly, adv.
Troppo
Trop´po, adv. [It.] (Mus.) Too much; as allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.
Trot, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trottn to tread. See Tread.]
1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
"He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night." Franklin.
Trot, n. [F. See Trot, v. i.]
1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
3. One who trots; a child; a woman.
"An old trot with ne’er a tooth." Shak.
Troth, n. [A variant of truth. See Truth.]
1. Belief; faith; fidelity.
"Bid her alight
And her troth plight." Shak.
2. Truth; verity; veracity; as by my troth. Shak.
"In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs." Addison.
3. Betrothal.
Trothplight
Troth´plight, v. t. To betroth. [Obs.]
Trothplight
Troth´plight, a. Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.] Shak.
Trothplight
Troth´plight, n. The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.
Trottoir
Trot´toir, n. [F., from trotter to trot. See Trot.] Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.
"Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs." Froude.
Troubadour
Trou´ba•dour, n. [F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf. Trouvre.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Troublable
Trou´bla•ble, a. Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] "troublable ire." Chaucer.
Trouble
Trou´ble, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Troubled p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.] [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr., and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. Turbid.]
1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
"An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water." John v. 4.
"God looking forth will trouble all his host." Milton.
2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
"Now is my soul troubled." John xii. 27.
"Take the boy to you; he so troubles me
’T is past enduring." Shak.
"Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure." Locke.
3. To give occasion for labor to; — used in polite phraseology; as I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
Syn. — To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.
Trouble
Trou´ble, a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." Chaucer.
Trouble
Trou´ble, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]
1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
"Lest the fiend … some new trouble raise." Milton.
"Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles." Shak.
2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
3. (Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] — To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one’s self; to give one’s self inconvenience.
"She never took the trouble to close them." Bryant.
Syn. — Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
Trough, n. [OE. trough, trogh, AS. trog, troh; akin to D., G., & Icel. trog, Sw. tråg, Dan. trug; probably originally meaning, made of wood, and akin to E. tree. & 241. See Tree, and cf. Trug.]
1. A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
2. Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as trough between two ridges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V- shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. — Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.
Trough-shell
Trough´-shell, n. (Zoöl.) Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.
Trounce, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trounced p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing ] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.] To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]
Troupe, n. [F., troop. See Troop.] A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
Trousering
Trou´ser•ing, n. Cloth or material for making trousers.
Trousers
Trou´sers, n. pl. [OF. trousses breeches worn by pages, from trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See Truss, and cf. Trossers, Trouse.] A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
Trousse, n. [F. See Truss; cf. Trousseau.] A case for small implements; as a surgeon’s trousse.
Trousseau
Trous•seau´ (troo•so"), n. [F., fr. OF. trossel, dim. of trousse a bundle, truss. See Truss.] The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
Trout (trout), n. [AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trw•kths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw•gein to gnaw.]
1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity. The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout ( Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada; the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma); the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout ( Salmo purpuratus); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout (see under Salmon.) The European trout has been introduced into America.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; — called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock. Trout perch (Zoöl.), a small fresh- water American fish ( Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth.
Troutbird
Trout´bird (trout"berd•), n. (Zoöl.) The American golden plover. [Local, U. S.]
Troutlet
Trout´let (-let), n. A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
Troutling
Trout´ling (-ling), n. A little trout; a troutlet. { Trou•vère", Trou•veur´ } n. [F. trouveur, trouvère. See Troubadour.] One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
Trover
Tro´ver (tro"ver), n. [OF. trover, truver, to find, F. trouver; probably originally, to invent or compose (melodies), fr. (assumed) LL. tropare. See Troubadour, Trope, and cf. Contrive, Reirieve, Trouveur.] (Law) (a) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means. (b) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
Trow, n. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.
Trow, v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS. treówan to trust, believe, fr. treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.] To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic]
"So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize." Chaucer.
"A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is." Chaucer.
"It never yet was worn, I trow." Tennyson. I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise.
"What tempest, I trow, threw this whale … ashore?" Shak.
"What is the matter, trow?" Shak.
Trowel
Trow´el, n. [OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L. trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. a stirrer, ladle, G. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril. Cf. Twirl.]
1. A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2. A gardener’s tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
3. (Founding) A tool used for smoothing a mold. Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. — Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.
Trowelful
Trow´el•ful, n. ; pl. Trowelfuls . As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.
Troyounce
Troy´ounce, n. See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.
Truage
Tru´age, n. [Cf. OF. truage a tax. See True.]
1. A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
2. A tax or impost; tribute. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.
Trub, n. [Cf. Truffle.] A truffle. [Obs.]
Truce, n. [OE. trewes, triwes, treowes, pl. of trewe a truce, properly, pledge of fidelity, truth, AS. treów fidelity, faith, troth. See True.]
1. (Mil.) A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.
2. Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.
"Where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts." Milton. Flag of truce (Mil.), a white flag carried or exhibited by one of the hostile parties, during the flying of which hostilities are suspended. — Truce of God, a suspension of arms promulgated by the church, which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, putting a stop to private hostilities at or within certain periods.
Trucebreaker
Truce´break•er, n. One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.
Truchman
Truch´man, n. [Cf. F. trucheman. See Dragoman.] An interpreter. See Dragoman. [Obs.]
"And after, by the tongue,
Her truchman, she reports the mind’s each throw." B. Jonson.
Truck, n. [L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. a wheel, fr. to run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle, v. i.]
1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
2. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
"Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs." Macaulay.
3. (Railroad Mach.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; — sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
4. (Naut.) (a) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. (b) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
5. A freight car. [Eng.]
6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; — used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
Truck, v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks.
Truck, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trucked p. pr. & vb. n. trucking.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin.] To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as to truck knives for gold dust.
"We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another." J. S. Mill.
Truckage
Truck´age, n. Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
Trucking
Truck´ing, n. The business of conveying goods on trucks.
Truckle
Truc´kle, n. [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.] A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
Truckle
Truc´kle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Truckled p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling ] To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
Truckler
Truc´kler, n. One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Truckman
Truck´man, n. ; pl. Truckmen (#).
1. [From Truck barter.] One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
2. [From Truck a carriage.] One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks. { Tru´cu•lence, Tru´cu•len•cy } n. [L. truculentia.] The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
Trudge, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trudged p. pr. & vb. n. Trudging.] [Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. þruga.] To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
"And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet." Dryden.
True, a. [ Compar. Truer superl. Truest.] [OE. trewe, AS. treówe faithful, true, from treów fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue, n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n. , Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan. tr. , adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tr. , n., Goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith. Cf. Trow, Trust, Truth.]
1. Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
2. Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
"Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time." Sir W. Scott.
3. Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
"Thy so true,
So faithful, love unequaled." Milton.
"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie." Herbert.
4. Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
"The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." John i. 9.
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance." Pope. True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true. Out of true, varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; — said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.] — A true bill (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true. — True time. See under Time.
True-blue
True´-blue, a. Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; — a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.
True-blue
True´-blue, n. A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
Truelove
True´love, n.
1. One really beloved.
2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.
3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury.
"Under his tongue a truelove he bore." Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; - - called also true-lover’s knot.
Truffle
Truf´fle ( 277), n. [OF. trufle, F. truffe; akin to Sp. trufa, tartufo; of uncertain origin; perhaps from L. tuber a tumor, knob, truffle. Cf. Tuber, Trifle.] Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle ( Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle ( T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles.
Truffled
Truf´fled, a. Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as a truffled turkey.
Trug, n. [Cf. Trough.]
1. A trough, or tray. Specifically: (a) A hod for mortar. (b) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel. Bailey.
2. A concubine; a harlot. [Obs.] Taylor (1630).
Trugging-house
Trug´ging-house, n. [See Trug, n. , 2.] A brothel. [Obs.] Robert Greene.
Truism
Tru´ism, n. [From True.] An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; — opposed to falsism.
"Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words." J. P. Smith.
Truismatic
Tru•is•mat´ic, a. Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms. [R.]
Trull, n. [G. trolle, trulle; cf. OD. drol a jester, Dan. trold an elf, imp, Sw. troll a goblin, Icel. troll, tröll, a giant, fiend, demon. Cf. Droll, Troll.]
1. A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. Shak.
2. A girl; a wench; a lass. [Obs.]
Truly
Tru´ly, adv. [From True.]
1. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
"I can not truly say how I came here." Shak.
2. Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
3. Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country. Burke.
4. Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
"His innocent babe [is] truly begotten." Shak.
5. In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.
"Beauty is excelled by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair." Milton.
Trump, n. [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n. , and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis.] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; — used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
"We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump." 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
"The wakeful trump of doom." Milton.
Trump, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.] To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).
Trump, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet.]
1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.
2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; — called also ruff. Decker.
3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]
"Alfred is a trump, I think you say." Thackeray. To put to one’s trumps, or To put on one’s trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
"But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump." Milton.
"Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them." W. Irving.
Trump, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trumped p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Trump, v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as she trumped the first trick.
Trump, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]
1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] "To trick or trump mankind." B. Jonson.
2. To impose unfairly; to palm off.
"Authors have been trumped upon us." C. Leslie.To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as to trump up a charge.
Trumpery
Trump´er•y, n. [F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See Trump to trick.]
1. Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] Grenewey.
2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
"The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves." Shak.
"Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world." South.
Trumpery
Trump´er•y, a. Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring." Thackeray.
Trumpet
Trump´et, n. [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
"The trumpet’s loud clangor
Excites us to arms." Dryden.
2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. Clarendon.
3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. Shak.
"That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times … to be the trumpet of his praises." Dryden.
4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See under Ear. — Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed ( Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. — Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. — Trumpet animalcule (Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. — Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] — Trumpet conch (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell, or triton. - - Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant ( Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; — called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. — Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. — Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. — Trumpet fly (Zoöl.), a botfly. — Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant ( Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; — called also trumpet flower. — Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. — Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. — Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; — said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to "its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." Grove. — Trumpet shell (Zoöl.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. — Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.
Trumpet
Trump´et, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.] [Cf. F. trompeter.] To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as to trumpet good tidings.
"They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish." Bacon.
Trumpet
Trump´et, v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
Trumpeting
Trump´et•ing, n. (Mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.
Trumpets
Trump´ets, n. pl. (Bot.) A plant ( Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
Trumpet-tongued
Trump´et-tongued, a. Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
Trumpie
Trum´pie, n. (Zoöl.) The Richardson’s skua ( Stercorarius parasiticus).
Trumplike
Trump´like, a. Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as a trumplike voice. Chapman.
Truncate
Trun´cate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Truncated p. pr. & vb. n. Truncating.] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.] To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Trunch, n. [See Truncheon.] A stake; a small post. [Obs.]
Truncheon
Trun´cheon, n. [OE. tronchoun the shaft of a broken spear, broken piece, OF. tronchon, tronon, F. tronon, fr. OF. & F. tronce, tronche, a piece of wood; cf. OF. trons, tros, trois; all perhaps from L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, staff. See Thyrsus, and cf. Trounce.]
1. A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
"With his truncheon he so rudely struck." Spenser.
2. A baton, or military staff of command.
"The marshal’s truncheon nor the judges robe." Shak.
3. A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. Gardner.
Truncheoneer
Trun•cheon•eer´, n. A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]
Truncus
Trun´cus, n. [L.] (Zoöl.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n. , 5.
Trundle
Trun´dle, n. [AS. tryndel a little shield. See Trend, v. i.]
1. A round body; a little wheel.
2. A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
3. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
4. (Mach.) (a) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern. (b) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
Trundle
Trun´dle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trundled p. pr. & vb. n. Trundling ]
1. To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
2. To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.
Trundletail
Trun´dle•tail, n. A round or curled-up tail; also a dog with such a tail. Shak.
Trunk, n. [F. tronc, L. truncus, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as trompe a trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of a tree (see Trump a trumpet). Cf. Truncate.]
1. The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
"About the mossy trunk I wound me soon,
For, high from ground, the branches would require
Thy utmost reach." Milton.
2. The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
3. The main body of anything; as the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
4. (Arch) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
5. (Zoöl.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
6. (Zoöl.) (a) The proboscis of an elephant. (b) The proboscis of an insect.
7. A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
"He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk." Howell.
8. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
"Locked up in chests and trunks." Shak.
9. (Mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
10. (Steam Engine) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
11. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc. Trunk engine, a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10. — Trunk hose, large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees. — Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance. — Trunk turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.
Trunk, v. t. [Cf. F. tronquer. See Truncate.]
1. To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] "Out of the trunked stock." Spenser.
2. (Mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n. , 9. Weale.
Trunk engine. An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
Trunked, a. Having (such) a trunk.
"Thickset with strong and well- trunked trees." Howell.
Trunkful
Trunk´ful, n. ; pl. Trunkfuls . As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
Trunkwork
Trunk´work, n. Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem. [Obs.]
Trunnion
Trun´nion, n. [OF. trognon the stock, stump, or truck of a tree, F. trognon a core, stalk, fr. tron a trunk, stem. Cf. Trunk.]
1. (Gun.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
2. (Steam Engine) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam. Trunnion plate (Gun.), a plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. — Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon next before the trunnions. [R.]
Truss, n. [OE. trusse, F. trousse, OF. also tourse; perhaps fr. L. tryrsus stalk, stem. Cf. Thyrsus, Torso, Trousers, Trousseau.]
1. A bundle; a package; as a truss of grass. Fabyan.
"Bearing a truss of trifles at his back." Spenser. A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs.
2. A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also a part of a woman’s dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares.
"Puts off his palmer’s weed unto his truss, which bore
The stains of ancient arms." Drayton.
3. (Surg.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
4. (Bot.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
5. (Naut.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
6. (Arch. & Engin.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style. Truss rod, a rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.
Truss, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trussed p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.] [F. trousser. See Truss, n. ]
1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak.
"It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet." Chaucer.
2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.]
"Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey." Spenser.
3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
5. To execute by hanging; to hang; — usually with up. [Slang.] Sir W. Scott.To truss a person or one’s self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." J. Webster (1607). — To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. — Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.
Trust, n. [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tröst comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See True, and cf. Tryst.]
1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing trust in mortal strength!" Milton.
"Most take things upon trust." Locke.
2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as to sell or buy goods on trust.
3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. "Such trust have we through Christ." 2 Cor. iii. 4.
"His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed
Equal in strength." Milton.
4. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
5. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
"[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust." Shak.
"Reward them well, if they observe their trust." Denham.
6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
"O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth." Ps. lxxi. 5.
7. (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
8. An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as a sugar trust. [Cant]
Syn. — Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation. Trust deed (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use.
Trust, a. Held in trust; as trust property; trustmoney.
Trust, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n. ]
1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as we can not trust those who have deceived us.
"I will never trust his word after." Shak.
"He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived." Johnson.
2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
"Trust me, you look well." Shak.
3. To hope confidently; to believe; — usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
"I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face." 2 John 12.
"We trustwe have a good conscience." Heb. xiii. 18.
4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
"Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust,
Now to suspect is vain." Dryden.
5. To commit, as to one’s care; to intrust.
"Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war." Macaulay.
6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
7. To risk; to venture confidently.
"[Beguiled] by thee
to trust thee from my side." Milton.
Trustee process
Trus•tee" proc"ess. (Law) The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]
Trustee stock. (Finance) High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]
Trusteeship
Trus•tee´ship, n. The office or duty of a trustee.
Trustiness
Trust´i•ness, n. The quality or state of being trusty.
Trustworthy
Trust´wor•thy, a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. — Trust´wor•thi•ness (#), n.
Trusty
Trust´y, a. [ Compar. Trustier superl. Trustiest.]
1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
"Your trusty and most valiant servitor." Shak.
2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
"His trusty sword he called to his aid." Spenser.
3. Involving trust; as a trusty business. [R.] Shak.
Truth, n. ; pl. Truths (#). [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
1. The quality or being true; as: — (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
"Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork." Mortimer. (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
"Alas! they had been friends in youth,
But whispering tongues can poison truth." Coleridge. (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
"If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth." Shak.
2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
"Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor." Zech. viii. 16.
"I long to know the truth here of at large." Shak.
"The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material." Coleridge.
3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as the great truths of morals.
"Even so our boasting … is found a truth." 2 Cor. vii. 14.
4. Righteousness; true religion.
"Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." John i. 17.
"Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." John xvii. 17.In truth, in reality; in fact. — Of a truth, in reality; certainly. — To do truth, to practice what God commands.
"He that doeth truth cometh to the light." John iii. 21.
Truthful
Truth´ful, a. Full of truth; veracious; reliable. — Truth´ful•ly, adv. — Truth´ful•ness, n.
Truth-lover
Truth´-lov•er, n. One who loves the truth.
"Truth-lover was our English Duke." Tennyson.
Truthy
Truth´y, a. Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
Trutination
Tru•ti•na´tion, n. [L. trutinari to weigh, from trutina a balance. See Trone a steelyard.] The act of weighing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Truttaceous
Trut•ta´ceous, a. [LL. trutta a trout, L. tructa. See Trout.] (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as fish of the truttaceous kind.
Try, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. tried p. pr. & vb. n. Trying.] [OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum, to rub, bruise, grind, thresh. See Trite.]
1. To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; — frequently followed by out; as to tr. out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
2. To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. Shak.
"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." Ps. xii. 6.
"For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried." Ps. lxvi. 10.
3. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as to tr. weights or measures by a standard; to tr. a man’s opinions.
"Let the end tr. the man." Shak.
4. To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
"Thus far to tr. thee, Adam, I was pleased." Milton.
5. To experiment with; to test by use; as to tr. a remedy for disease; to tr. a horse.
"Come, tr. upon yourselves what you have seen me." Shak.
"To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries." Swift.
6. To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments tr. one’s patience.
7. (Law) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as to tr. a cause, or a criminal.
8. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as to tr. rival claims by a duel; to tr. conclusions.
"Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried." Shak.
9. To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience. Milton.
"Or tr. the Libyan heat or Scythian cold." Dryden.
10. To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
"Let us tr. … to found a path." Milton. To try on. (a) To put on, as a garment, to ascertain whether it fits the person. (b) To attempt; to undertake. [Slang] Dickens.
Syn. — To attempt; endeavor; strive; aim; examine. — Try, Attempt. To tr. is the generic, to attempt is the specific, term. When we tr. , we are usually uncertain as to success; when we attempt, we have always some definite object in view which we seek to accomplish. We may be indifferent as to the result of a trial, but we rarely attempt anything without a desire to succeed.
"He first deceased: she for a little tried
To live without him; liked it not, and died." Sir H. Wotton.
"Alack, I am afraid they have a waked,
And ’t is not done. The attempt, and not the deed,
Confounds us." Shak.
Try, n.
1. A screen, or sieve, for grain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Holland.
2. Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
"This breaking of his has been but a tr. for his friends." Shak. Try cock, a gauge cock. See under Gauge.
Try, a. [Cf. Try, v. t.] Refined; select; excellent; choice. [Obs.] "Sugar that is tr. ." Chaucer.
Try cock. A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.
Tryst, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n. ]
1. Trust. [Obs.]
2. An appointment to meet; also an appointed place or time of meeting; as to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment.
"The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever bided tryst at village stile." Tennyson.
Tryst, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n. ]
1. To trust. [Obs.]
2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] Burns.
Tryst, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
Tryster
Tryst´er, n. One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.