Sos Sos (part 10)

Note: 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. Tracheæ. Etym: [NL.,from L. trachia, Gr. trachei^a (sc. trachée.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf.F.tracheal.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

TRACHEARIA
Tra`che*a"ri*a, n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheæ. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.

TRACHEARY
Tra"che*a*ry, a.

Defn: Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ.
— n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trachearia.

TRACHEATA
Tra`che*a"ta, n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.

TRACHEATE
Tra"che*ate, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the
Tracheata.

TRACHEATE
Tra"che*ate, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any arthropod having tracheæ; one of the Tracheata.

TRACHEID
Tra"che*id, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.

TRACHEITIS
Tra`che*i"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Trachea, and -itis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

TRACHELIDAN
Tra*chel"i*dan, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

TRACHELIPOD
Tra*chel"i*pod, n. Etym: [Gr.-pod:cf.F. trachelipode.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trachelipoda.

TRACHELIPODA
Tra`che*lip"o*da, n.pl. Etym: [NL. See Trachelipod.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.

TRACHELIPODOUS
Tra`che*lip"o*dous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the
Trachelipoda.

TRACHELOBRANCHIATE
Tra`che*lo*bran"chi*ate, a. Etym: [Gr.tranchiate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the gills situated upon the neck; — said of certain mollusks.

TRACHELORRHAPHY
Tra`che*lor"rha*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

TRACHENCHYMA
Tra*chen"chy*ma, n. Etym: [NL.,fr. trachea + -enchyma as in
E.parenchyma.] (Bot.)

Defn: A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.

TRACHEOBRANCHIA
Tra`che*o*bran"chi*a, n.; pl. Tracheobranchlae. Etym: [NL. See
Trachea, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvæ. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.

TRACHEOBRONCHIAL
Tra`che*o*bron"chi*al, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; — said of the syrinx of certain birds.

TRACHEOCELE
Tra"che*o*cele, n. Etym: [Gr. tracheocele. ] (Med.)
(a) Goiter.
(b) A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. Morell
Mackenzie.

TRACHEOPHONAE Tra`che*oph"o*næ (, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from trachea + Gr. fonei^n to sound.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

TRACHEOSCOPY
Tra`che*os"co*py, n. Etym: [Trachea + -scopy.] (Med.)

Defn: Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

TRACHEOTOMY
Tra`che*ot"o*my, n. Etym: [Trachea + Gr. tracheotomie.] (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

TRACHINOID
Tra"chi*noid, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. See Weever.

TRACHITIS
Tra*chi"tis, n. Etym: [NL.] (Med.)

Defn: Tracheitis.

TRACHOMA
Tra*cho"ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. roughness, fr. rough.] (Med.)

Defn: Granular conjunctivitis due to a specific micrococcus. —
Tra*chom"a*tous (#), a.

TRACHYCARPOUS
Tra`chy*car"pous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Rough-fruited. Gray.

TRACHYMEDUSAE
Tra`chy*me*du"sæ, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr.Gr. medusa.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusæ.

TRACHYSPERMOUS
Tra`chy*sper"mous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Rough-seeded. Gray.

TRACHYSTOMATA
Tra`chy*stom"a*ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL.,fr.Gr. stoma.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

TRACHYTE
Tra"chyte, n. Etym: [Gr. trachyte.] (Geol.)

Defn: An igneous rock,usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

TRACHYTIC
Tra*chyt"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. trachytique.]

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.

TRACHYTOID
Trach"y*toid, a. Etym: [Trachyte + -oid.] (Min.)

Defn: Resembling trachyte; — used to define the structure of certain rocks.

TRACING
Tra"cing, n.

1. The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

2. A regular path or track; a course. Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.

TRACK
Track, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect.

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, ect.

7. (Raolroad)

Defn: The permanent way; the rails.

8. Etym: [Perhaps a mistake for tract.]

Defn: A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.] "Small tracks of ground."
Fuller. Track scale, a railway scale. See under Railway.

TRACK
Track, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tracked; p. pr. & vb. n. tracking.]

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

TRACKER
Track"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

TRACKLAYER
Track"lay`er, n. (Railroads)

Defn: Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. [U. S. & Canada] — Track"lay`ing, n.

TRACKLESS
Track"less, a.

Defn: Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a
trackless desert.
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron.
— Track"less*ly, adv.-Track"less*ness, n.

TRACKMAN
Track"man, n.; pl. -men. (Railroads)

Defn: One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.

TRACKMASTER; ROADMASTER
Track"mas`ter, Road"mas`ter, n. (Railroad)

Defn: One who has charge of the track; —called also roadmaster.

TRACK-ROAD
Track"-road`, n.

Defn: A towing path.

TRACKSCOUT
Track"scout, n.

Defn: See Trackschuyt.

TRACKWALKER
Track"walk`er, n. (Railroads)

Defn: A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.

TRACKWAY
Track"way`, n.

Defn: Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

TRACT
Tract, n. Etym: [Abbrev.fr. tractate.]

Defn: A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

TRACT Tract, n. Etym: [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 narrowtract 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.)

Defn: 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
Tract, v. t.

Defn: To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.]
Spenser. B. Jonson.

TRACTABILITY
Tract`a*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. tractabilitas: cf.F. tractabilite.]

Defn: The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

TRACTABLE Tract"a*ble, a. Etym: [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, n. (Ch. of England)

Defn: One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite.

TRACTARIAN
Trac*ta"ri*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.

TRACTARIANISM
Trac*ta"ri*an*ism, n. (Ch. of England)

Defn: The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."

TRACTATE
Tract"ate, n. Etym: [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See
Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.]

Defn: A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

TRACTATION
Trac*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. tractatio.]

Defn: Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [Obs.]
A full tractation of the points controverted. Bp. Hall.

TRACTATOR
Trac*ta"tor, n. Etym: [L., a handler.]

Defn: One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [R.] C. Kingsley.

TRACTILE
Tract"ile, a. Etym: [L. trahere, tractum, to draw.]

Defn: Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

TRACTILITY
Trac*til"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality of being tractile; ductility. Derham.

TRACTION
Trac"tion, n. Etym: [L. trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. F. traction.]

1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.

3. Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.]

4. The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. Knight. Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. — Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.

TRACTIONAL
Trac"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of or relating to traction.

TRACTION WHEEL Traction wheel. (Mach.) (a) A locomotive driving wheel which acts by friction adhesion to a smooth track. (b) A smooth-rimmed friction wheel for giving motion to an endless link belt or the like.

TRACTITE
Tract"ite, n.

Defn: A Tractarian.

TRACTITIOUS
Trac*ti"tious, a. Etym: [See Tractate.]

Defn: Treating of; handling. [R.]

TRACTIVE
Tract"ive, a.

Defn: Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

TRACTOR
Tract"or, n. Etym: [NL., from L. trahere, tractum, to draw.]

1. That which draws, or is used for drawing.

2. pl. (Med.)

Defn: Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

TRACTORATION
Trac`to*ra"tion, n.

Defn: See Perkinism.

TRACTOR SCREW; TRACTOR PROPELLER
Tractor screw or propeller. (Aviation)

Defn: A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

TRACTORY Tract"o*ry, n. Etym: [L. tractorius of drawing, fr. trahere, tractum, to draw.] (Geom.)

Defn: A tractrix.

TRACTRIX
Tract"rix, n. Etym: [NL. See Tractor.] (Geom.)

Defn: 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
Trad, obs.

Defn: imp. of Tread. Chaucer.

TRADE Trade, n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.

Defn: 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.

Note: 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
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.

TRADE
Trade, v. t.

Defn: To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
They traded the persons of men. Ezek. xxvii. 13.
To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. Cooper.

TRADE
Trade, obs.

Defn: imp. of Tread.

TRADED
Trad"ed, a.

Defn: Professional; practiced. [Obs.] Shak.

TRADEFUL
Trade"ful, a.

Defn: Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.

TRADELESS
Trade"less, a.

Defn: Having no trade or traffic. Young.

TRADE-MARK
Trade"-mark`, n.

Defn: A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

TRADE NAME
Trade name.

1. (a) The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. (b) An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him.

2. The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in the case of trade-marks.

TRADER
Trad"er, n.

1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

TRADESCANTIA
Trad`es*can"ti*a, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

TRADESFOLK
Trades"folk`, n.

Defn: People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.

TRADESMAN
Trades"man, n.; pl. Tradesmen (.

1. One who trades; a shopkeeper.

2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U.S.] Burrill.

TRADESPEOPLE
Trades"peo`ple, n.

Defn: People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION trades" un`ion, or Trade" un`ion.

Defn: An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
Trades"-un`ion*ist, or Trade"-un`ion*ist, n.

Defn: A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

TRADESWOMAN
Trades"wom`an, n.; pl. Tradeswomen (.

Defn: A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

TRADING
Trad"ing, a.

1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

2. Frequented by traders. [R.] "They on the trading flood." Milton.

3. Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

TRADITION Tra*di"tion, n. Etym: [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-Pré. 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.

TRADITION
Tra*di"tion, v. t.

Defn: To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.] The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. Fuller.

TRADITIONAL
Tra*di"tion*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. traditionnel, LL. traditionalis.]

1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [R.] Shak.

TRADITIONALISM
Tra*di"tion*al*ism, n.

Defn: A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

TRADITIONALIST
Tra*di"tion*al*ist, n.

Defn: An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

TRADITIONALLY
Tra*di"tion*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a traditional manner.

TRADITIONARILY
Tra*di"tion*a*ri*ly, adv.

Defn: By tradition.

TRADITIONARY
Tra*di"tion*a*ry, a.

Defn: Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

TRADITIONARY Tra*di"tion*a*ry, n.; pl. Traditionaries (. Etym: [Cf. F. traditionnare.]

Defn: One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them.

TRADITIONER; TRADITIONIST
Tra*di"tion*er, Tra*di"tion*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. traditionniste.]

Defn: One who adheres to tradition.

TRADITIVE Trad"i*tive, a. Etym: [L. tradere, traditum, to transmit, give up: cf. F. traditif.]

Defn: Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [R.] Jer. Taylor. Suppose we on things traditive divide. Dryden.

TRADITOR
Trad"i*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. tradere, traditum. See Traitor.] (Eccl.
Hist.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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.

TRADUCEMENT
Tra*duce"ment, n.

Defn: The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.

TRADUCENT
Tra*du"cent, a. Etym: [L. traducens, p. pr. of traducere. See
Traduce.]

Defn: Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

TRADUCER
Tra*du"cer, n.

1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.

2. One who derives or deduces. [Obs.] Fuller.

TRADUCIAN
Tra*du"cian, n.

Defn: A believer in traducianism.

TRADUCIANISM
Tra*du"cian*ism, n. (Theol.)

Defn: The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; — opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

TRADUCIBLE
Tra*du"ci*ble, a.

1. Capable of being derived or propagated. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

2. Capable of being traduced or calumniated. [R.]

TRADUCINGLY
Tra*du"cing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

TRADUCT
Tra*duct", v. t. Etym: [L. traducere, traductum. See Traduce.]

Defn: To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.]
Fotherby.

TRADUCT
Tra*duct", n.

Defn: That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. [Obs.] Howell.

TRADUCTION Tra*duc"tion, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

TRAFFIC Traf"fic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking.] Etym: [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.

Defn: To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

TRAFFIC Traf"fic, n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.

Defn: Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp.
Hall.

TRAFFICKER
Traf"fick*er, n.

Defn: One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

TRAFFICLESS
Traf"fic*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of traffic, or trade.

TRAFFIC MILE
Traf"fic mile. (Railroad Accounting)

Defn: Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; — a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse for the erroneous practice of adding together two things (ton miles and passenger miles) which, being of different kinds, cannot properly be added. Hadley.

TRAGACANTH Trag"a*canth, n. Etym: [L. tragacanthum tragacanth, tragacantha the plant producing tragacanth, Gr. tragacanthe.]

Defn: A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

TRAGEDIAN
Tra*ge"di*an, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tragédien.]

1. A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. Milton.

2. An actor or player in tragedy. Shak.

TRAGEDIENNE
Tra`gé`dienne", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A woman who plays in tragedy.

TRAGEDIOUS
Tra*ge"di*ous, a.

Defn: Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] "Tragedious history." Fabyan.

TRAGEDY Trag"e*dy, n.; pl. Tragedies. Etym: [OE.tragedie, OF.tragedie, F. tragédie, L. tragoedia, Gr. trout) + 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.

TRAGIC; TRAGICAL
Trag"ic, Trag"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. tragicus, Gr.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. Etym: [Cf. F. tragicomédie, L. tragicocomoedia.
See Tragic, and Comedy.]

Defn: 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.

TRAGI-COMIC; TRAGI-COMICAL
Trag`i-com"ic, Trag`i-com"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tragi-comique.]

Defn: 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.

TRAGI-COMI-PASTORAL
Trag`i-com`i-pas"tor*al, a.

Defn: Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [R.] Gay.

TRAGOPAN
Trag"o*pan, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tragopan a fabulous Ethiopian bird,
Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.

TRAGUS
Tra"gus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)

Defn: The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See
Illust. under Ear.

T RAIL
T" rail`.

Defn: See under T.

TRAIL Trail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trailing.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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
Trail, v. i.

1. To be drawn out in length; to follow after. When his brother saw the red blood trail. Spenser.

2. To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.

TRAIL
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.)

Defn: 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.

TRAILER
Trail"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, trails.

Defn: A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.

TRAILING
Trail"ing,

Defn: 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)

Defn: A following edge. See Advancing edge, above.

TRAIL ROPE
Trail rope. (Aëronautics)

Defn: Same as Guide rope, above.

TRAIN
Train, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] Etym:
[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.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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
Train, v. i.

1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.

2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.

TRAIN Train, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

TRAINABLE
Train"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

TRAINBAND
Train"band`, n.; pl. Trainbands (.

Defn: A band or company of an organized military force instituted by
James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; — afterwards applied to the
London militia. [Eng.]
He felt that, without some better protection than that of the
trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be
secure. Macaulay.
A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

TRAINBEARER
Train"bear`er, n.

Defn: One who holds up a train, as of a robe.

TRAIN DISPATCHER
Train dispatcher.

Defn: An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.

TRAINEL
Train"el, n. Etym: [OF.]

Defn: A dragnet. [Obs.] Holland.

TRAINER
Train"er, n.

1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.

2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [U. S.] Bartlett.

TRAINING
Train"ing, n.

Defn: 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.

TRAIN OIL
Train" oil` (oil`). Etym: [D. or LG. traan train oil, blubber (cf.
Dan. & Sw. tran, G. thran) + E. oil.]

Defn: Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.

TRAINY
Train"y, a.

Defn: Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] Gay.

TRAIPSE Traipse, v. i. Etym: [Cf. G. trapsen, trappsen, trappen, to tread noisily, to walk stamping. See Trample, Trape.]

Defn: To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.

TRAIS; TRAYS
Trais, Trays, n. pl.

Defn: Traces. [Obs.]
Four white bulls in the trays. Chaucer.

TRAIT Trait, n. Etym: [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.

Note: Formerly pronounced tra, as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England.

TRAITEUR
Trai`teur", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
Simmonds.

TRAITOR Trai"tor, n. Etym: [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.

TRAITOR
Trai"tor, a.

Defn: Traitorous. [R.] Spenser. Pope.

TRAITOR
Trai"tor, v. t.

Defn: To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] " But time, it traitors me." Lithgow.

TRAITORESS
Trai"tor*ess, n.

Defn: A traitress. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

TRAITORLY
Trai"tor*ly, a.

Defn: Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.] "Traitorly rascals." Shak.

TRAITOROUS
Trai"tor*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. traîtreux.]

1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak.

2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of
allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.
— Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv.
— Trai"tor*ous*ness, n.

TRAITORY
Trai"tor*y, n.

Defn: Treachery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRAITRESS
Trai"tress, n. Etym: [F. traîtresse.]

Defn: A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
Dryden.

TRAJECT
Tra*ject", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trajected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trajecting.] Etym: [L. trajectus, p. p. of trajicere to throw across;
trans across + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

TRAJECTION
Tra*jec"tion, n. Etym: [L. trajectio a crossing over, transposition.]

1. The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.

2. Transposition. [R.] Knatchbull.

TRAJECTORY
Tra*ject"o*ry, n.; pl. Trajectories. Etym: [Cf. F. trajectoire.]

Defn: The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

TRAJET; TRAJETOUR; TRAJETRY
Tra"jet, Tra"jet*our, Tra"jet*ry, n.

Defn: See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]

TRALATION
Tra*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. tralatio, translatio.See Translation.]

Defn: The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

TRALATITION
Tral`a*ti"tion, n. Etym: [See Tralatitious.]

Defn: A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

TRALATITIOUS Tral`a*ti"tious, a. Etym: [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

Defn: , adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.

TRALINEATE Tra*lin"e*ate, v. i. Etym: [L. trans across + linea a line: cf. It tralineare, tralignare.]

Defn: To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

TRALUCENCY
Tra*lu"cen*cy, n.

Defn: Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.

TRALUCENT
Tra*lu"cent, a. Etym: [L. tralucens, translucens, p. pr. See
Translucent.]

Defn: Translucent. [Obs.]
The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.

TRAM Tram, n. Etym: [Prov. E. tram a coal wagon, the shaft of a cart or carriage, a beam or bar; probably of Scand, origin; cf. OSw. tråm, trum, a beam, OD. drom, Prov. & OHG. tram.]

1. A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.

2. The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

3. One of the rails of a tramway.

4. A car on a horse railroad. [Eng.] Tram car, a car made to run on a tramway, especially a street railway car. — Tram plate, a flat piece of iron laid down as a rail. — Tram pot (Milling), the step and support for the lower end of the spindle of a millstone.

TRAM
Tram, n. Etym: [Sp. trama weft, or F. trame.]

Defn: A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

TRAMA
Tra"ma, n. [L., woof.] (Bot.)

Defn: The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.

TRAMBLE
Tram"ble, v. t. (Mining)

Defn: To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

TRAMMEL Tram"mel, n. Etym: [F. tramail, trémail, 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.

TRAMMELED
Tram"meled, a. (Man.)

Defn: Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; — said of a horse. [Written also trammelled.]

TRAMMELER
Tram"mel*er, n. Etym: [Written also trammeller.]

1. One who uses a trammel net. Nares.

2. One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.

TRAMMEL WHEEL
Tram"mel wheel`. (Mach.)

Defn: A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

TRAMMING
Tram"ming, n. (Silk Manuf.)

Defn: The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.

TRAMONTANA
Tra`mon*ta"na, n. [It. See Tramontane.] (Meteor.)

Defn: A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

TRAMONTANE Tra*mon"tane, a. Etym: [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.]

Defn: Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Note: 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.

Defn: One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

TRAMP
Tramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tramped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramping.] Etym:
[OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen,
Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan 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.

TRAMP
Tramp, v. i.

Defn: To travel; to wander; to stroll.

TRAMP
Tramp, n.

1. A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. Blackie.

2. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond. Halliwell.

3. The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching. Sir W. Scott.

4. A tool for trimming hedges.

5. A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

TRAMPER
Tramp"er, n.

Defn: 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.]
Etym: [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.

TRAMPLE
Tram"ple, v. i.

1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

2. To tread in contempt; — with on or upon. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of Tongue.

TRAMPLE
Tram"ple, n.

Defn: The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.

TRAMPLER
Tram"pler, n.

Defn: One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

TRAMPOOSE
Tram*poose", v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, Trample, and Traipse.]

Defn: To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.]
Bartlett.

TRAMRAIL
Tram"rail`, n. (Mach.)

Defn: An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

TRAMROAD
Tram"road`, n. Etym: [Tram a coal wagon + road.]

Defn: A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

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.

TRANATION Tra*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. tranare, transnare, to swim over; trans across, over + nare to swim.]

Defn: The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

TRANCE Trance, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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
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.

TRANCE
Trance, v. i.

Defn: To pass; to travel. [Obs.]

TRANECT
Tran"ect, n. Etym: [Cf. Traject.]

Defn: A ferry. [Obs.] Shak.

TRANGRAM
Tran"gram, n. Etym: [OE. trangrain a strange thing, trangame a toy.
See Tangram.]

Defn: Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. [Cant &
Obs.] Arbuthnot.

TRANNEL
Tran"nel, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A treenail. [R.] Moxon.

TRANQUIL Tran"quil, a. Etym: [L. tranquillus; probably fr. trans across, over + a word akin to quietus quiet: cf. F. tranquille. See Quiet.]

Defn: 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.

TRANQUILIZATION; TRANQUILLIZATION
Tran`quil*i*za"tion, Tran`quil*li*za"tion, n.

Defn: The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.

TRANQUILIZE; TRANQUILLIZE
Tran"quil*ize, Tran"quil*lize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranquilized or
Tranquilliized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tranquilizing or Tranquillizing.]
Etym: [Cf. F. tranquilliser.]

Defn: 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.

TRANQUILIZER; TRANQUILLIZER
Tran"quil*i`zer, Tran"quil*li`zer, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, tranquilizes.

TRANQUILIZING; TRANQUILLIZING
Tran"quil*i`zing, Tran"quil*li`zing, a.

Defn: Making tranquil; calming. " The tranquilizing power of time."
Wordsworth.
— Tran"quil*i`zing*ly or Tran"quil*li`zing*ly, adv.

TRANQUILLITY
Tran*quil"li*ty, n. Etym: [F. tranquillité, L. tranquillitas.]

Defn: The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.

TRANQUILLY
Tran"quil*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tranquil manner; calmly.

TRANQUILNESS
Tran"quil*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being tranquil.

TRANS-
Trans-. Etym: [L. trans across, over.]

Defn: A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.

TRANSACT
Trans*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transacted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transacting.] Etym: [L. transactus, p. p. of transigere. See
Transaction.]

Defn: To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

TRANSACT
Trans*act", v. i.

Defn: To conduct matters; to manage affairs. [R.] South.

TRANSACTION Trans*ac"tion, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

Note: " 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. Etym: [L.]

Defn: One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.

TRANSALPINE
Trans*al"pine, a. Etym: [L. transalpinus; trans across, beyond +
Alpinus Alpine, from Alpes the Alps: cf. F. transalpin.]

Defn: Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; — opposed to cisalpine. " Transalpine garbs." Beau. & Fl.

TRANSALPINE
Trans*al"pine, n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

TRANSANIMATE
Trans*an"i*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transanimated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transanimating.] Etym: [Trans- + animate.]

Defn: To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J.
King (1608).

TRANSANIMATION
Trans*an`i*ma"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transanimation.]

Defn: The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. [R.] Fuller.

TRANSATLANTIC Trans`at*lan"tic, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + Atlantic: cf. F. transatlantique.]

1. Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

Note: When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa, especially the former.

2. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

TRANSAUDIENT
Trans*au"di*ent, a. Etym: [See Trans-, and Audient.]

Defn: Permitting the passage of sound. [R.] Lowell.

TRANSCALENCY
Trans*ca"len*cy, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transcalent.

TRANSCALENT Trans*ca"lent, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. calens, p. pr. of calere to grow warm.]

Defn: Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

TRANSCEND
Tran*scend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transcending.] Etym: [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.

TRANSCEND
Tran*scend", v. i.

1. To climb; to mount. [Obs.]

2. To be transcendent; to excel. [R.]

TRANSCENDENCE; TRANSCENDENCY Tran*scend"ence, Tran*scend"en*cy,Etym: [Cf. L. transcendentia, F. transcendance.]

1. The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen.

2. Elevation above truth; exaggeration. [Obs.] "Where transcendencies are more allowed." Bacon.

TRANSCENDENT Tran*scend"ent, a. Etym: [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.]

1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. Clothed with transcendent brightness. Milton.

2. (Kantian Philos.)

Defn: Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; — applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.

TRANSCENDENT
Tran*scend"ent, n.

Defn: That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.

TRANSCENDENTAL Tran`scen*den"tal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.]

1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.

2. (Philos.)

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

Defn: A transcendentalist. [Obs.]

TRANSCENDENTALISM Tran`scen*den"tal*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transcendantalisme, G. transcendentalismus.]

1. (Kantian Philos.)

Defn: The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

Note: As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things and human conceptions of them, the Kantian distinction between transcendent and transcendental ideas can have no place in their philosophy; and hence, with them, transcendentalism claims to have a true knowledge of all things, material and immaterial, human and divine, so far as the mind is capable of knowing them. And in this sense the word transcendentalism is now most used. It is also sometimes used for that which is vague and illusive in philosophy.

2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

TRANSCENDENTALIST
Tran`scen*den"tal*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transcendantaliste.]

Defn: One who believes in transcendentalism.

TRANSCENDENTALITY
Tran`scen*den*tal"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transcendental.

TRANSCENDENTALLY
Tran`scen*den"tal*ly, adv.

Defn: In a transcendental manner.

TRANSCENDENTLY
Tran*scend"ent*ly, adv.

Defn: In a transcendent manner.

TRANSCENDENTNESS
Tran*scend"ent*ness, n.

Defn: Same as Transcendence.

TRANSCENSION
Tran*scen"sion, n. Etym: [See Transcend.]

Defn: 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.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. colare, colatum, to filter,
to strain.]

Defn: To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve. [Obs.] Harvey.

TRANSCOLATION
Trans`co*la"tion, n.

Defn: Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated. [Obs.]
Bp. Stillingfleet.

TRANSCONTINENTAL
Trans*con`ti*nen"tal, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + continental.]

Defn: Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.

TRANSCORPORATE
Trans*cor"po*rate, v. i. Etym: [Pref. trans- + corporate.]

Defn: To transmigrate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TRANSCRIBBLER
Tran*scrib"bler, n.

Defn: A transcriber; — used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.

TRANSCRIBE
Tran*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcribed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transcribing.] Etym: [L. transcribere, transcriptum; trans across,
over + scribere to write. See Scribe.]

Defn: 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, n.

Defn: One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

TRANSCRIPT Tran"script, n. Etym: [L. transcriptum, neut. of transcriptus, p. p. 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.

Defn: A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.

TRANSCRIPTION Tran*scrip"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.]

1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

2. A copy; a transcript. Walton.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; — a name applied by modern composes for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Listzt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.

TRANSCRIPTIVE
Tran*scrip"tive, a.

Defn: Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription. [R.] — Tran*scrip"tive*ly, adv. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TRANSCUR Trans*cur", v. i. Etym: [L. transcurrere, transcursum; trans across, over + currere to run.]

Defn: To run or rove to and fro. [Obs.] Bacon.

TRANSCURRENCE
Trans*cur"rence, n. Etym: [L. transcurrens, p. pr. of transcurrere.]

Defn: A roving hither and thither.

TRANSCURSION
Trans*cur"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. L. transcursio a passing over. See
Transcur.]

Defn: A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.
[Obs.] Howell.

TRANSDIALECT
Trans*di"a*lect, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + dialect.]

Defn: To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp.
Warburton.

TRANSDUCTION Trans*duc"tion, n. Etym: [L. transducere, traducere, -dictum, to lead across or over. See Traduce.]

Defn: The act of conveying over. [R.] Entick.

TRANSE
Transe, n.

Defn: See Trance. [Obs.]

TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE Trans*el"e*ment, Trans*el`e*men"tate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- element.]

Defn: To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.
[Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

TRANSELEMENTATION
Trans*el`e*men*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transélémentation.] (Eccl.)

Defn: Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

TRANSENNE
Tran"senne, n.

Defn: A transom. [Obs.]

TRANSEPT
Tran"sept, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. septum an inclosure. See
Septum.] (Arch.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. sexus sex.]

Defn: Change of sex. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TRANSFEMINATE
Trans*fem"i*nate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. femina woman.]

Defn: To change into a woman, as a man. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. Browne.

TRANSFER
Trans*fer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transferred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transferring.] Etym: [L. transferre; trans across, over + ferre to
bear: cf. F. transférer. 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)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The quality or state of being transferable.

TRANSFERABLE
Trans*fer"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transférable.]

1. Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

2. Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable.

TRANSFEREE
Trans`fer*ee", n.

Defn: The person to whom a transfer in made.

TRANSFERENCE
Trans"fer*ence, n.

Defn: The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

TRANSFEROGRAPHY
Trans`fer*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Transfer + -graphy.]

Defn: The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.

TRANSFERRENCE
Trans*fer"rence, n.

Defn: See Transference.

TRANSFERRER
Trans*fer"rer, n.

Defn: One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

TRANSFERRIBLE
Trans*fer"ri*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transferred; transferable.

TRANSFIGURATE
Trans*fig"u*rate, v. t.

Defn: To transfigure; to transform. [R.]

TRANSFIGURATION Trans*fig`u*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. transfiguratio: cf. transfiguration.]

1. A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

2. (Eccl.)

Defn: A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

TRANSFIGURE
Trans*fig"ure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transfigured; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transfiguring.] Etym: [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.] Etym: [L. transfixus, p. p. of transfigure to transfix;
trans across, through + figere to fix, fasten. See Fix.]

Defn: To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

TRANSFIXION
Trans*fix"ion, n.

Defn: The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. Bp. Hall.

TRANSFLUENT
Trans"flu*ent, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + fluent.]

1. Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

2. (Her.)

Defn: Passing or flowing through a bridge; — said of water. Wright.

TRANSFLUX
Trans"flux, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + flux.]

Defn: A flowing through, across, or beyond. [R.]

TRANSFORATE Trans"fo*rate, v. t. Etym: [L. transforatus, p. p. of transforare to pierce through; trans through + forare to bore.]

Defn: To bore through; to perforate. [Obs.]

TRANSFORM
Trans*form", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transformed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transforming.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.

TRANSFORM
Trans*form", v. i.

Defn: To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. [R.]
His hair transforms to down. Addison.

TRANSFORMABLE
Trans*form"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transformed or changed.

TRANSFORMATION
Trans`for*ma"tion, n. Etym: [L. transformatio: cf. transformation.]

Defn: The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: —(a) (Biol.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TRANSFORMATIVE
Trans*form"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transformatif.]

Defn: Having power, or a tendency, to transform.

TRANSFORMER
Trans*form"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

TRANSFORMISM
Trans*form"ism, n. Etym: [F. transformisme.] (Biol.)

Defn: The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; — opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.

TRANSFREIGHT
Trans*freight", v. i.

Defn: To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

TRANSFRETATION
Trans`fre*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. transfretatio. See Transfrete.]

Defn: The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Obs.] Sir J.
Davies.

TRANSFRETE Trans*frete", v. i. Etym: [L. transfretare; trans across, over + fretum a strait: cf. OF. transfreter.]

Defn: To pass over a strait or narrow sea. [Written also transfreight.] [Obs.] E. Hall.

TRANSFUGE; TRANSFUGITIVE Trans"fuge, Trans*fu"gi*tive, n. Etym: [L. transfuga; trans across, over + fugere to flee.]

Defn: One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. [R.]

TRANSFUND Trans*fund", v. t. Etym: [L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse.]

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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 2 (Med.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

TRANSFUSION
Trans*fu"sion, n. Etym: [L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.]

1. The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. Howell.

2. (Med.)

Defn: The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.

TRANSFUSIVE
Trans*fu"sive, a.

Defn: Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.

TRANSGRESS
Trans*gress", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transgressed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transgressing.] Etym: [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 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.

TRANSGRESS
Trans*gress", v. i.

Defn: To offend against the law; to sin.
Who transgressed in the thing accursed. I Chron. ii. 7.

TRANSGRESSION Trans*gres"sion, n. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.

TRANSGRESSIVE Trans*gress"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. L. transgressivus passing over into another class. F. transgressif.]

Defn: Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -

TRANSGRESSIVELY
Trans*gress"ive*ly, adv.

Defn: In a transgressive manner Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone. Sir T. Browne.

TRANSGRESSOR
Trans*gress"or, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. transgresseur.]

Defn: One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a
command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a
sinner.
The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. xiii. 15.

TRANSHAPE
Tran*shape", v. t.

Defn: To transshape. [R.] J. Webster (1623).

TRANSHIP
Tran*ship", v. t.

Defn: Same as Transship.

TRANSHIPMENT
Tran*ship"ment, n.

Defn: Same as Transshipment.

TRANSHUMAN
Trans*hu"man, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + human.]

Defn: More than human; superhuman. [R.]
Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.

TRANSHUMANIZE
Trans*hu"man*ize, v. t.

Defn: To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity.
[R.]
Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the
divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

TRANSIENCE; TRANSIENCY
Tran"sience, Tran"sien*cy, n.

Defn: The quality of being transient; transientness.

TRANSIENT Tran"sient, a. Etym: [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.

TRANSIENT
Tran"sient, n.

Defn: That which remains but for a brief time. Glanvill.

TRANSILIENCE; TRANSILIENCY Tran*sil"i*ence, Tran*sil"i*en*cy, n. Etym: [L. transiliens, p. pr. of transilire to leap across or over; trans across, over + salire to leap.]

Defn: A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised transiliency." Glanvill.

TRANSIRE Trans*i"re, n. Etym: [L. transire to pass through or across, to pass.] (End. Law)

Defn: A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

TRANSISTHMIAN
Trans*isth"mi*an, a.

Defn: Extending across an isthmus, as at Suez or Panama.

TRANSIT Trans"it, n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.)

Defn: To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

TRANSITION
Tran*si"tion, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

3. (Rhet.)

Defn: A passing from one subject to another.
[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes. Milton.

4. (Biol.)

Defn: Change from one form to another.

Note: 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.

TRANSITIONAL
Tran*si"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

TRANSITIONARY
Tran*si"tion*a*ry, a.

Defn: Transitional.

TRANSITION ZONE
Tran*si"tion zone. (Biogeography)

Defn: The zone lying between the Boreal and Sonoran zones of North
America. It includes an eastern or humid subdivision and a western
arid one of corresponding temperature comprising the northern Great
Plains and the lower slopes of the mountains of the western United
States and Mexico. Called also Neutral zone.

TRANSITIVE
Tran"si*tive, a. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.

TRANSITORINESS
Tran"si*to*ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

TRANSITORY
Tran"si*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See
Transient.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.

TRANSLATE Trans*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

TRANSLATION
Trans*la"tion, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

5. (Metaph.)

Defn: Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A.
Tucker.

6. (Kinematics)

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Tralatitious.]

Defn: Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.]
Evelyn.

TRANSLATIVE Trans*lat"ive, a. Etym: [L. translativus that is to be transferred: cf. F. translatif.]

Defn: tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. [R.] Puttenham.

TRANSLATOR
Trans*lat"or, n. Etym: [L. translator: cf. F. translateur.]

1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

2. (Teleg.)

Defn: A repeating instrument. [Eng.]

TRANSLATORSHIP
Trans*lat"or*ship, n.

Defn: The office or dignity of a translator.

TRANSLATORY
Trans*lat"o*ry, a.

Defn: Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.

TRANSLATRESS
Trans*lat"ress, n.

Defn: A woman who translates.

TRANSLAVATION Trans`la*va"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. lavatio, -onis, washing.]

Defn: A laving or lading from one vessel to another. [Obs.] Holland.

TRANSLITERATE Trans*lit"er*ate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. litera, littera letter.]

Defn: To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

TRANSLITERATION
Trans*lit`er*a"tion, n.

Defn: The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

TRANSLOCATION
Trans`lo*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + location.]

Defn: removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.

TRANSLUCENCE; TRANSLUCENCY
Trans*lu"cence, Trans*lu"cen*cy, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency. Sir T. Browne.

TRANSLUCENT Trans*lu"cent, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: In a translucent manner.

TRANSLUCID Trans*lu"cid, a. Etym: [L. translucidus; trans across, through + lucidus lucid: cf. F. translucide. See Translucent.]

Defn: Translucent. [R.] Bacon.

TRANSLUNARY
Trans"lu*na*ry, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. luna moon.]

Defn: Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; — opposed to
sublunary. [Obs.]
Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave,
translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.

TRANSMARINE Trans`ma*rine", a. Etym: [L. transmarinus; trans beyond + marinus marine: cf. F. transmarin. See Marine.]

Defn: Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

TRANSMEABLE; TRANSMEATABLE
Trans"me*a*ble, Trans`me*at"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. transmeabilis.]

Defn: Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. [Obs.]

TRANSMEATE Trans"me*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. transmeatus, p. p. of transmeare to pass across; trans across, over + meare to go.]

Defn: To pass over or beyond. [Obs.]

TRANSMEATION
Trans`me*a"tion, n.

Defn: The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. [Obs.]

TRANSMEW
Trans*mew", v. t. & i. Etym: [F. transmuer, L. transmutare. See
Transmute.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. transmigrans, p. pr. See Transmigrate.]

Defn: Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. — n.

Defn: One who transmigrates.

TRANSMIGRATE
Trans"mi*grate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transmigrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transmigrating.] Etym: [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.

TRANSMIGRATION
Trans`mi*gra"tion, n. Etym: [F. transmigration, L. transmigratio.]

1. The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

2. The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

TRANSMIGRATOR
Trans"mi*gra`tor, n.

Defn: One who transmigrates. J. Ellis.

TRANSMIGRATORY
Trans*mi"gra*to*ry, a.

Defn: Passing from one body or state to another.

TRANSMISSIBILITY
Trans*mis`si*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transmissibilité.]

Defn: The quality of being transmissible.

TRANSMISSIBLE
Trans*mis"si*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transmissible.]

Defn: Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

TRANSMISSION
Trans*mis"sion, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

TRANSMISSION DYNAMOMETER
Trans*mis"sion dy`na*mom"e*ter. (Mach.)

Defn: A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.

TRANSMISSIONIST
Trans*mis"sion*ist, n.

Defn: An adherent of a theory, the transmission theory, that the brain serves to "transmit," rather than to originate, conclusions, and hence that consciousness may exist independently of the brain.

TRANSMISSIVE
Trans*mis"sive, a.

Defn: Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one
to another.
Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to
human sight. Prior.

TRANSMIT
Trans*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transmitting.] Etym: [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.

TRANSMITTAL
Trans*mit"tal, n.

Defn: Transmission. Swift.

TRANSMITTANCE
Trans*mit"tance, n.

Defn: Transmission.

TRANSMITTER
Trans*mit"ter, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; — opposed to receiver.

TRANSMITTIBLE
Trans*mit"ti*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.

TRANSMOGRIFICATION
Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion, n.

Defn: The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

TRANSMOGRIFY
Trans*mog"ri*fy, v. t. Etym: [A humorous coinage.]

Defn: To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.]
Fielding.

TRANSMOVE
Trans*move", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans + move.]

Defn: To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
[Obs.] Spenser.

TRANSMUTABILITY
Trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transmutabilité.]

Defn: The quality of being transmutable.

TRANSMUTABLE
Trans*mut"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See
Transmute.]

1. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

2. (Geom.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TRANSMUTATIONIST
Trans`mu*ta"tion*ist, n.

Defn: One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.

TRANSMUTE
Trans*mute", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transmuting.] Etym: [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across +
mutare to change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.]

Defn: 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.

TRANSMUTER
Trans*mut"er, n.

Defn: One who transmutes.

TRANSMUTUAL
Trans*mu"tu*al, a. Etym: [Pref. trans + mutual.]

Defn: Reciprocal; commutual. [R.] Coleridge.

TRANSNATATION Trans`na*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. transnatare to swim over; trans across, over + natare to swim.]

Defn: The act of swimming across, as a river.

TRANSNATURE
Trans*na"ture, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + nature.]

Defn: To transfer or transform the nature of. [Obs.]
We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.

TRANSOM Tran"som, n. Etym: [Probably fr. L. transtrum a crossbeam, transom, from trans across. Cf. Trestle.]

1. (Arch.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

4. (Surg.)

Defn: The vane of a cross-staff. Chambers.

5. (Railroad)

Defn: 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.

TRANSPADANE
Trans"pa*dane`, a. Etym: [L. transpadanus; trans across + Padus the
Po.]

Defn: Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; — opposed to cispadane.

TRANSPALATINE
Trans*pal"a*tine, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + palatine.] (Anat.)

Defn: Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; — said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

TRANSPARE
Trans*pare", v. t. & i. Etym: [See Transparent.]

Defn: To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.

TRANSPARENCE
Trans*par"ence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transparence.]

Defn: The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

TRANSPARENCY
Trans*par"en*cy, n.; pl. Transparencies. Etym: [Cf. F. transparence.]

1. The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

2. That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it. Fairholt.

TRANSPARENT Trans*par"ent, a. Etym: [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 Ant: 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. Etym: [Pref. trans- + pass: cf. LL. transpassare.
Cf. Trespass.]

Defn: To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river. [Obs.] J.
Gregory.

TRANSPASS
Trans*pass", v. i.

Defn: To pass by; to pass away. [Obs.]

TRANSPASSABLE
Trans*pass"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over. [Obs.]

TRANSPATRONIZE
Trans*pat"ron*ize, v. t. Etym: [Trans- + patronize.]

Defn: To transfer the patronage of. [Obs.] Warner.

TRANSPECIATE
Tran*spe"ci*ate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. species form.]

Defn: To change from one species to another; to transform. [Obs.]
Power to transpeciate a man into a horse. Sir T. Browne.

TRANSPICUOUS Tran*spic"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. transpicere to see or look through + specere, spicere, to see. Cf. Conspicuous.]

Defn: 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.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + pierce: cf. F. transpercer.]

Defn: To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.
The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

TRANSPIRABLE
Tran*spir"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transpirable.]

Defn: Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.

TRANSPIRATION
Tran`spi*ra"tion, n. Etym: [F. transpiration.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration. Cudworth.

2. (bot.)

Defn: The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.

3. (Physics)

Defn: The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

TRANSPIRATORY
Tran*spir"a*to*ry, a.

Defn: Of or relating to transpiration.

TRANSPIRE
Tran*spire", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transpired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transpiring.] Etym: [F. transpirer; L. trans across, through +
spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

TRANSPIRE
Tran*spire", v. t.

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

TRANSPLACE
Trans*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transplaced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transplacing.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + place.]

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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.

TRANSPLANTATION
Trans`plan*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transplantation.]

1. The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome.

2. (Surg.)

Defn: The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty. 3. (Surg.)

Defn: The removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver.

TRANSPLANTER
Trans*plant"er, n.

Defn: One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

TRANSPLENDENCY
Tran*splen"den*cy, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being transplendent. [R.] Dr. H. More.

TRANSPLENDENT
Tran*splen"dent, a. Etym: [Trans- + splendent.]

Defn: Resplendent in the highest degree. [R.] — Tran*splen"dent*ly, adv. [R.]

TRANSPORT
Trans*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transporting.] Etym: [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. Etym: [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.

Defn: The quality or state of being transportable.

TRANSPORTABLE
Trans*port"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transportable.]

1. Capable of being transported.

2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.

TRANSPORTAL
Trans*port"al, n.

Defn: Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.

TRANSPORTANCE
Trans*port"ance, n.

Defn: Transportation. [Obs.] "Give me swift transportance." Shak.

TRANSPORTANT
Trans*port"ant, a.

Defn: Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

TRANSPORTATION Trans`por*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. transportatio: cf. F. transportation.]

1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton.

2. Transport; ecstasy. [R.] South.

TRANSPORTED
Trans*port"ed, a.

Defn: Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away
with passion or pleasure; entranced.
— Trans*port"ed*ly, adv.
— Trans*port"ed*ness, n.

TRANSPORTER
Trans*port"er, n.

Defn: One who transports.

TRANSPORTING
Trans*port"ing, a.

Defn: That transports; fig., ravishing.
Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.

TRANSPORTINGLY
Trans*port"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: So as to transport.

TRANSPORTMENT
Trans*port"ment, n.

Defn: The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation. [R.]

TRANSPOSABLE
Trans*pos"a*ble, a.

Defn: That may transposed; as, a transposable phrase.

TRANSPOSAL
Trans*pos"al, n.

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: To change the natural order of, as words.

5. (Mus.)

Defn: To change the key of.

TRANSPOSER
Trans*pos"er, n.

Defn: One who transposes.

TRANSPOSITION Trans`po*si"tion, n. Etym: [F. transposition, from L. transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over + ponere to place. See Position.]

Defn: The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
Specifically: —(a) (Alg.)

Defn: 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.

TRANSPOSITIONAL
Trans`po*si"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition.
Pegge.

TRANSPOSITIVE
Trans*pos"i*tive, a.

Defn: Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

TRANSPRINT
Trans*print", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + print.]

Defn: To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place. [R.] Coleridge.

TRANSPROSE
Trans*prose", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + prose.]

Defn: To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose. [Obs.] Dryden.

TRANSREGIONATE
Trans*re"gion*ate, a. Etym: [Pref. trans- + region.]

Defn: Foreign. [Obs.] Holinshed.

TRANSSHAPE
Trans*shape", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transshaped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transshaping.] Etym: [Pref.trans- + shape.]

Defn: To change into another shape or form; to transform. [Written also transhape.] Shak.

TRANSSHIP
Trans*ship", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + ship.]

Defn: To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also tranship.]

TRANSSHIPMENT
Trans*ship"ment, n.

Defn: The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]

TRANSSUMMER
Trans"sum`mer, n. (Naut.)

Defn: See Transom, 2.

TRANSUBSTANTIATE Tran`sub*stan"ti*ate, v. t. Etym: [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.)

Defn: To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION Tran`sub*stan`ti*a"tion, n. Etym: [LL. transubstantiatio: cf. F. transsubstantiation.]

1. A change into another substance.

2. (R. C. Theol.)

Defn: The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; — distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.

TRANSUBSTANTIATOR
Tran`sub*stan"ti*a`tor, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transsubstantiateur.]

Defn: One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

TRANSUDATION
Tran`su*da"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transsudation.]

1. The act or process of transuding.

2. (Physics)

Defn: Same as Exosmose.

TRANSUDATORY
Tran*su"da*to*ry, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.

TRANSUDE
Tran*sude", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transuded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transuding.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. sudare to sweat: cf. F.
transsuder.]

Defn: To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

TRANSUME Tran*sume", v. t. Etym: [L. transumere, transsumere, to take from one to another; trans across + sumere to take.]

Defn: To change; to convert. [R.] Crashaw.

TRANSUMPT Tran*sumpt", n. Etym: [L. transumere, transumptum, to take from one to another, in LL., to transcribe. See Transume.]

Defn: A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

TRANSUMPTION
Tran*sump"tion, n. Etym: [L. transumptio.]

Defn: Act of taking from one place to another. [R.] South.

TRANSUMPTIVE
Tran*sump"tive, a. Etym: [L. transumptivus.]

Defn: Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] "A transumptive
kind of speech." Drayton.
Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal
definitive. Lowell.

TRANSVASATE
Trans*va"sate, v. t. Etym: [See Transvasation.]

Defn: To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.

TRANSVASATION
Trans`va*sa"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. vas, vasis, vessel.]

Defn: The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
[Obs.] Holland.

TRANSVECTION Trans*vec"tion, n. Etym: [L. transvectio, from transvehere to carry across; trans across + vehere to carry.]

Defn: The act of conveying or carrying over. [R.]

TRANSVERBERATE Trans*ver"ber*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. transverberatus, p. p. of transverberare to strike or pierce through.]

Defn: To beat or strike through. [Obs.]

TRANSVERSAL
Trans*ver"sal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transversal. See Transverse.]

Defn: Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
— Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.

TRANSVERSAL
Trans*ver"sal, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transversale.] (Geom.)

Defn: A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.

TRANSVERSE
Trans*verse", a. Etym: [L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn
on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse.
See Verse, and cf. Traverse.]

Defn: Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; — often opposed to Ant: 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, n.

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.

2. (Geom.)

Defn: The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

TRANSVERSE
Trans*verse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transversed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transversing.]

Defn: To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie.

TRANSVERSE
Trans*verse", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + verse, n. Cf.Transpose.]

Defn: To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.

TRANSVERSELY
Trans*verse"ly, adv.

Defn: In a transverse manner.

TRANSVERSION
Trans*ver"sion, n.

Defn: The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

TRANSVERT
Trans*vert", v. t. Etym: [L. transvertere. See Transverse, a.]

Defn: To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Craft of Lovers (1448).

TRANSVERTIBLE
Trans*vert"i*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transverted. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TRANSVOLATION Trans`vo*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. transvolare to fly over or across; trans across + volare to fly.]

Defn: The act of flying beyond or across. Jer. Taylor.

TRANT Trant, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OD. tranten to walk slowly, LG. & D. trant walk, pace.]

Defn: To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle. [Written also traunt.] [Obs.]

TRANTER
Trant"er, n.

Defn: One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Written also traunter.]
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

TRAP
Trap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.] Etym:
[Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of
the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.]

Defn: 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 Trap, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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
Trap, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

TRAP Trap, n. Etym: [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
Trap, v. t. Etym: [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; to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

TRAP
Trap, v. i.

Defn: To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

TRAPAN
Tra*pan", n. Etym: [OF. trappan. See Trap, and cf. Trepan a snare.]

Defn: A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. South.

TRAPAN
Tra*pan", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Trapanning.]

Defn: To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. Anson.

TRAPANNER
Tra*pan"ner, n.

Defn: One who trapans, or insnares.

TRAPBALL
Trap"ball`, n.

Defn: An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

TRAPDOOR
Trap"door`, n.

1. (Arch.)

Defn: A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

2. (Mining)

Defn: A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; — called also weather door. Raymond. Trapdoor spider (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus Cteniza, as the California species (C. Californica).

TRAPE
Trape, v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]

Defn: To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

TRAPES
Trapes, n. Etym: [See Trape.]

Defn: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or
Colloq.]

TRAPES
Trapes, v. i.

Defn: To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

TRAPEZATE
Trap"e*zate, a. Etym: [See Trapezium.]

Defn: Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

TRAPEZE
Tra*peze", n. Etym: [Cf. F. trapèze.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts.

TRAPEZIFORM
Tra*pe"zi*form, a. Etym: [Trapezium + -form: cf. F. trapéziforme.]

Defn: Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

TRAPEZIUM
Tra*pe"zi*um, n.; pl. E. Trapeziums, L. Trapezia. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Tetra-) + Foot.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

TRAPEZOHEDRON Trap`e*zo*he"dron, n. Etym: [NL., from trapezium + Gr. (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. Etym: [Gr. trapézoïde. See Trapezium.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.

TRAPEZOID
Trap"e*zoid, a.

1. Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.

TRAPEZOIDAL
Trap`e*zoid"al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. trapézoïdal.]

1. Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Tranpezohedral.

TRAPHOLE
Trap"hole, n. (Mil.)

Defn: See Trou-de-loup.

TRAPPEAN
Trap"pe*an, a. Etym: [Cf. F. trappéen. See Trap a kind of rock.]
(Min.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.

TRAPPER
Trap"per, n. Etym: [From Trap to insnare.]

1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.

2. (Mining)

Defn: A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Raymond.

TRAPPINGS
Trap"pings, n. pl. Etym: [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.

TRAPPIST
Trap"pist, n. Etym: [F. trappiste.] (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rancé in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

TRAPPOUS
Trap"pous, n. Etym: [From Trap a kind of rock.] (Min.)

Defn: Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.

TRAPPURES
Trap"pures, n. pl. Etym: [See Trap to dress.]

Defn: Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRAPPY
Trap"py, a. (Min.)

Defn: Same as Trappous.

TRAPS
Traps, n. pl. Etym: [See Trappings, and Trap to dress.]

Defn: Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]

TRAP SHOOTING
Trap shooting. (Sport)

Defn: Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. — Trap shooter.

TRAPSTICK
Trap"stick`, n.

Defn: A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.

TRASH Trash, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a rag, tatter.]

1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor.

2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. B. Edwards.

3. A worthless person. [R.] Shak.

4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. Markham. Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.

TRASH
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
Trash, v. i.

Defn: To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan (1607).

TRASHILY
Trash"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a trashy manner.

TRASHINESS
Trash"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being trashy.

TRASHY
Trash"y, a. [Compar. Trashier; superl. Trashiest.]

Defn: Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

TRASS Trass, n. Etym: [D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace. See Terrace.] (Geol.)

Defn: 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.]

Note: The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.

TRAULISM
Trau"lism, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

TRAUMATIC Trau*mat"ic, a. Etym: [L. traumaticus, Gr. traumatique.] (Med.) (a) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. Coxe. (b) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. Wiseman. (c) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. — n.

Defn: A traumatic medicine.

TRAUMATISM
Trau"ma*tism, n. (Med.)

Defn: A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.

TRAUNCE
Traunce, n. & v.

Defn: See Trance. [Obs.]

TRAUNT
Traunt, v. i.

Defn: Same as Trant. [Obs.]

TRAUNTER
Traunt"er, n.

Defn: Same as Tranter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

TRAVAIL Trav"ail (; 48), n. Etym: [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.]
Etym: [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
Trav"ail, v. t

Defn: To harass; to tire. [Obs.] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.

TRAVAILOUS
Trav"ail*ous, a.

Defn: Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif.
— Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Wyclif.

TRAVE Trave, n. Etym: [Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. tref a beam, also F. travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. trave, trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two beams.]

1. (Arch.)

Defn: A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.

2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. She sprung as a colt doth in the trave. Chaucer.

TRAVEL
Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Traveling or Travelling.] Etym: [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.

TRAVEL
Trav"el, v. t.

1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.

2. To force to journey. [R.] They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.

TRAVEL
Trav"el, n.

1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a
journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak.
His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.

2. pl.

Defn: An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; — often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

3. (Mach.)

Defn: The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]

TRAVELED
Trav"eled, a.

Defn: Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.] The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.

TRAVELER
Trav"el*er, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A traveling crane. See under Crane.

4. (Spinning)

Defn: The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

5. (Naut.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.

TRAVERS Trav"ers, adv. Etym: [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.]

Defn: Across; athwart. [Obs.] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.

TRAVERSABLE
Trav"ers*a*ble, a.

1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.

2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.

TRAVERSE
Trav"erse, a. Etym: [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of
transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf.
Travers.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Athwart; across; crosswise.

TRAVERSE
Trav"erse, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

6. (Carp.)

Defn: To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

7. (Law)

Defn: 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.

TRAVERSE
Trav"erse, v. i.

1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak.

2. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.

3. To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

TRAVERSE DRILL
Trav"erse drill. (Mach.)

Defn: 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.

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)

Defn: One who traverses, or denies.

3. (Railroad)

Defn: A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.

TRAVERSING
Trav"ers*ing, a.

Defn: Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. Traversing plate (Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Wilhelm. — Traversing platform (Mil.), a platform for traversing guns.

TRAVERTINE
Trav"er*tine, n. Etym: [F. travertin, It. travertino, tiburtino, L.
lapis Tiburtinus, fr. Tibur an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli.]
(Min.)

Defn: A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

TRAVESTY Trav"es*ty, a. Etym: [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.]

Defn: Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; — applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]

TRAVESTY
Trav"es*ty, n.; pl. Travesties (.

Defn: A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.

TRAVESTY
Trav"es*ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Travestied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Travesting.]

Defn: 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 Trawl, v. i. Etym: [OF. trauler, troller, F. trôter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin. Cf. Troll, v. t.]

Defn: To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

TRAWL
Trawl, n.

1. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. [U. S. & Canada]

2. A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, — used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.

TRAWLBOAT
Trawl"boat`, n.

Defn: A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.

TRAWLER
Trawl"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, trawls.

2. A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.

TRAWLERMAN
Trawl"er*man, n.; pl. Trawlermen (.

Defn: A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
[Obs.] Cowell.

TRAWLNET
Trawl"net`, n.

Defn: Same as Trawl, n., 2.

TRAWLWARP
Trawl"warp`, n.

Defn: A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.

TRAY
Tray, v. t. Etym: [OF. traïr, F. trahir, L. tradere. See Traitor.]

Defn: To betray; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRAY
Tray, n.; pl. Trays. Etym: [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 (.

Defn: As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

TRAYS
Trays, n. pl. [Obs.]

Defn: See Trais. Chaucer.

TRAY-TRIP
Tray"-trip`, n. Etym: [From Trey a three.]

Defn: An old game played with dice. [Obs.] Shak.

TREACHER Treach"er, n. Etym: [OE. trichour, trichur, OF. tricheor deceiver, traitor, F. tricheur a cheat at play, a trickster. See Treachery.]

Defn: A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.]
Treacher and coward both. Beau. & Fl.

TREACHEROUS
Treach"er*ous, a. Etym: [See Treacher.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

TREACHETOUR; TREACHOUR
Treach"e*tour, Treach"our, n. Etym: [See Treacher.]

Defn: A traitor. [Obs.] "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.

TREACLE Trea"cle (tre"k'l), n. Etym: [OE. triacle a sovereign remedy, theriac, OF. triacle, F. thériaque (cf. Pr. triacla, tiriaca, Sp. & It. triaca, teriaca), L. theriaca an antidote against the bite of poisonous animals, Gr. qhri`on a beast, a wild beast, dim. of qh`r a beast. Cf. Theriac.]

1. (Old Med.)

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

TREACLY
Trea"cly, a.

Defn: Like, or composed of, treacle.

TREAD Tread, v. i. [imp. Trod; p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] Etym: [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. 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
Tread, v. t.

1. To step or walk on. Forbid to tread the promised land he saw. Prior. Methought she trod the ground with greater grace. Dryden.

2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

3. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. " I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem." Beau. & Fl. They have measured many a mile, To tread a measure with you on this grass. Shak.

4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to
subdue.
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Ps. xliv. 5.

5. To copulate with; to feather; to cover; — said of the male bird. Chaucer. To tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. — To tread the stage, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.

TREAD
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.)

Defn: The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.

6. (Fort.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

9. (Far.)

Defn: A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

TREADBOARD
Tread"board`, n. [Arch.]

Defn: See Tread, n., 5.

TREADER
Tread"er, n.

Defn: One who treads. Isa. xvi. 10.

TREADFOWL
Tread"fowl`, n.

Defn: A cock. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TREADLE
Trea"dle, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.

TREADMILL
Tread"mill`, n.

Defn: A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.

TREAD-SOFTLY
Tread"-soft`ly, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

TREADWHEEL
Tread"wheel`, n.

Defn: A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.

TREAGUE Treague, n. Etym: [It. tregua; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. true.]

Defn: A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.

TREASON Trea"son, n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.

TREASONABLE
Trea"son*a*ble, a.

Defn: Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon.

Syn.
— Treacherous; traitorous; perfidious; insidious. —
Trea"son*a*ble*ness, n.
— Trea"son*a*bly, adv.

TREASONOUS
Trea"son*ous, a.

Defn: Treasonable. Shak.
The treasonous book of the Court of King James. Pepys.

TREASURE
Treas"ure, n. Etym: [OE. tresor, tresour, F. trésor, L. thesaurus,
Gr. 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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

TREASURER
Treas"ur*er, n. Etym: [OE. tresourer, F. trésorier.]

Defn: One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation. Lord high treasurer of England, formerly, the third great officer of the crown. His office is now executed by five persons styled the lords commissioners of the treasury, or treasury lords.

TREASURERSHIP
Treas"ur*er*ship, n.

Defn: The office of treasurer.

TREASURESS
Treas"ur*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who is a treasurer. [R.]

TREASURE-TROVE
Treas"ure-trove`, n. Etym: [Treasure + OF. trové, F. trouvé, p. p. of
OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.] (Common Law)

Defn: 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. Etym: [OE. tresorie, F. trésorerie.]

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.

TREASURY STOCK
Treas"ur*y stock. (Finance)

Defn: Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.

TREAT Treat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treated; p. pr. & vb. n. Treating.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

TREAT
Treat, v. i.

1. To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; — usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties. And, shortly of this story for to treat. Chaucer. Now of love they treat. Milton.

2. To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; — often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France. Inform us, will the emperor treat! Swift.

3. To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or drink, as a compliment.

TREAT
Treat, n.

1. A parley; a conference. [Obs.] Bid him battle without further treat. Spenser.

2. An entertainment given as an expression of regard.

3. That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.

TREATABLE
Treat"a*ble, a. Etym: [OE. tretable, F. traitable, L. tractabilis.
See Treat, and cf. Tractable.]

Defn: 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.

TREATABLY
Treat"a*bly, adv.

Defn: In a treatable manner. [Obs.]

TREATER
Treat"er, n.

Defn: One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

TREATISE
Trea"tise, n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.

TREATISER
Trea"tis*er, n.

Defn: One who writes a treatise. [Obs.]

TREATMENT
Treat"ment, n. Etym: [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.

TREATURE
Trea"ture, n.

Defn: Treatment. [Obs.] Fabyan.

TREATY Trea"ty, n.; pl. Treaties. Etym: [OE. tretee, F. traité, 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. Etym: [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.

Defn: Trebly; triply. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

TREBLE
Tre"ble, n. Etym: [" It has been said to be a corruption of triplum
[Lat.], a third part, superadded to the altus and bassus (high and
low)." Grove.] (Mus.)

Defn: The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

Note: This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices.

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.

TREBLE
Tre"ble, v. i.

Defn: To become threefold. Swift.

TREBLENESS
Tre"ble*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones. Bacon.

TREBLET
Treb"let, n.

Defn: Same as Triblet.

TREBLY
Tre"bly, adv.

Defn: In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift.

TREBUCHET; TREBUCKET Treb"u*chet, Tre"buck*et, n. Etym: [OF. trebuchet, trebukiet, an engine of war for hurling stones, F. trébuchet a gin, trap, a kind of balance, fr. OF. trebuchier, trebuquier, to stumble, trip, F. trébucher.]

1. A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

2. A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force.

3. A kind of balance for weighing. [Obs.]

TRECENTIST
Tre*cen"tist, n.

Defn: A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.

TRECENTO
Tre*cen"to, n. & a. [It., three hundred, abbr. for thirteen hundred.]

Defn: The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

TRECHOMETER
Tre*chom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.]

Defn: An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

TRECKSCHUYT Treck"schuyt`, n. Etym: [D. trekschuit; trekken to draw + schuit a boat. Cf. Trackscout.]

Defn: A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and
Flemish canals.

TREDDLE
Tred"dle, n. Etym: [See Treadle.]

1. See Treadle.

2. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obs.] Ford.

3. pl.

Defn: The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.

TREDILLE
Tre*dille", n.

Defn: A game at cards for three.

TREE Tree, n. Etym: [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr, OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr, Dan. træ, Sw. trä, träd, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dru tree, wood, daru wood. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Note: 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 axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, 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.)

Defn: 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 nivoeus) 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 Ranidæ. 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 Dendromyinæ. 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 vitæ. — 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 Chætomys 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 coendou. — 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 Hylidæ. 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
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.

TREEBEARD
Tree"beard`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); — so called from its resemblance to hair.

TREE BURIAL
Tree burial.

Defn: Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.

TREE CALF
Tree calf.

Defn: A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.

TREEFUL
Tree"ful, n.; pl. Treefuls (.

Defn: The quantity or number which fills a tree.

TREELESS
Tree"less, a

Defn: Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.

TREEN
Treen, a. Etym: [AS. treówen.]

1. Made of wood; wooden. [Obs.] " Treen cups." Camden.

2. Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.

TREEN
Treen, obs.

Defn: pl. of Tree. " The shady treen." Fairfax.

TREENAIL
Tree"nail`, n. Etym: [Tree + nail.] (Shipbuilding)

Defn: A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]

TREF
Tref, a. [Yiddish, fr. Heb. terephah an animal torn by wild beasts.]

Defn: Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; — opposed to kosher.

TREFLE
Tre"fle, n. Etym: [F. tréfle. See Trefoil.] (Fort.)

Defn: A species of time; — so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

TREFLE
Tré`flé", a. Etym: [F. tréflé. See Trefoil.] (Her.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

3. (Her.)

Defn: A charge representing the clover leaf.

TREFOILED
Tre"foiled`, a. (Her.)

Defn: Same as Tréflé.

TREGET
Treg"et, n. Etym: [See Tregetour.]

Defn: Guile; trickery. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

TREGETOUR Treg"et*our, n. Etym: [OE. tresgeteor. See Trans-, and Jet a shooting forth.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Trickery; also, a trick. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

TREHALA
Tre*ha"la, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

TREHALOSE
Tre"ha*lose`, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Mycose; — so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

TREILLAGE
Treil"lage, n. Etym: [F. treillage. See Trellis.]

Defn: Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
Spectator.
I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

TREK
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
Trek, n. [Written also treck.] [D. Cf. Track, n.]

Defn: 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.]

Defn: One that treks. [Written also trecker.] [South Africa] James
Bryce.

TREKOMETER
Trek*om"e*ter, n. [Cf. Trechometer.] (Mil.)

Defn: A field range finger used in the British service.

TRELLIS Trel"lis, n. Etym: [OE. relis, F. treillis, fr. treille vine arbor, fr. L. tricla, triclea, triclia, a bower, arbor, summer house.]

Defn: A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

TRELLISED
Trel"lised, a.

Defn: Having a trellis or trellises.
Cottages trellised over with exotic plants. Jeffrey.

TREMANDO
Tre*man"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Trembling; — used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

TREMATODE
Trem"a*tode, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.

TREMATODEA
Trem`a*to"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

TREMATOID
Trem"a*toid, a. Etym: [From Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: f or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in
Appendix.

TREMBLE
Trem"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling.]
Etym: [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere
to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. 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.

TREMBLE
Trem"ble, n.

Defn: An involuntary shaking or quivering.
I am all of a tremble when I think of it. W. Black.

TREMBLER
Trem"bler, n.

Defn: One who trembles.

TREMBLING
Trem"bling, a.

Defn: Shaking; tottering; quivering.
— Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

TREMELLA Tre*mel"la, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tremere, to tremble: cf. It. tremella, F. tremelle.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

TREMENDOUS Tre*men"dous, a. Etym: [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The pigeon tremex (Tremex columba), a common American species, infests the elm, pear, and other trees.

TREMIE
Trem"ie, n. [F. trémie hopper.] (Hydraulic Engin.)

Defn: An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

TREMOLANDO
Tre*mo*lan"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Same as Tremando.

TREMOLITE Trem"o*lite, n. Etym: [From Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered.] (Min.)

Defn: A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

TREMOLO Tre"mo*lo, n. Etym: [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. Etym: [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.]

Defn: 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.

TREMULANT; TREMULENT
Trem"u*lant, Trem"u*lent, a.

Defn: Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.

TREMULOUS
Trem"u*lous, a. Etym: [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
Tren, n. Etym: [See Treen wooden.]

Defn: A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

TRENAIL
Tre"nail`, n. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: Same as Treenail.

TRENCH
Trench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.]
Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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
Trench, v. i.

1. To encroach; to intrench. Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature I. Taylor.

2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] Bacon. To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. Young.

TRENCH
Trench, n. Etym: [OE. trenche, F. tranchée. 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.)

Defn: 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, or Trench plough, a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

TRENCHAND
Trench"and, a.

Defn: Trenchant. [Obs.] Spenser.

TRENCHANT Trench"ant, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.

TRENCHER Trench"er, n. Etym: [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.

TRENCHER-MAN
Trench"er-man, n.; pl. Trencher-men (.

1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak.

2. A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.

3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.

TRENCHMORE
Trench"more, n.

Defn: A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

TRENCHMORE
Trench"more, v. i.

Defn: To dance the trenchmore. [Obs.] Marston.

TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
Trench"-plow", Trench"-plough` v. t.

Defn: To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

TREND Trend, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n. Trending.] Etym: [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.]

Defn: To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

TREND
Trend, v. t.

Defn: To cause to turn; to bend. [R.]
Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W.
Browne.

TREND
Trend, n.

Defn: Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

TREND
Trend, v. t. Etym: [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.]

Defn: To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]

TREND
Trend, n.

Defn: Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]

TRENDER
Trend"er, n.

Defn: One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

TRENDLE Tren"dle, n. Etym: [AS. trendel, tryndel, circle, ring. See Trend, v. i., and cf. Trundle.]

Defn: A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.]
The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

TRENNEL
Tren"nel, n.

Defn: Corrupt form of Treenail.

TRENTAL Tren"tal, n. Etym: [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.]

1. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: 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.]

Defn: Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

TRENTON PERIOD
Tren"ton pe"ri*od. (Geol.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. trépan (cf. Sp. trépano, It. trepano, trapano), LL. trepanum, fr. Gr. Trephine.]

1. (Surg.)

Defn: A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

2. (Mining)

Defn: A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

TREPAN
Tre*pan", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Trepanned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trepanning.] Etym: [Cf. F. trépaner. See Trepan a saw.] (Surg.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

TREPAN
Tre*pan", v. t.

Defn: To insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.

TREPANG
Tre*pang", n. Etym: [Malay tripang.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; — called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]

Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria,
especially H. edulis. They are taken in vast quantities in the East
Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China.
They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup.

TREPANIZE
Trep"an*ize, v. t.

Defn: To trepan. [Obs.] "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.

TREPANNER
Tre*pan"ner, n.

Defn: One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.

TREPEGET
Trep"e*get, n. (Mil.)

Defn: A trebuchet. [Obs.]

TREPHINE
Tre*phine", n. Etym: [A dim. of 1st trepan: cf. F. tréphine.] (Surg.)

Defn: An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

TREPHINE
Tre*phine", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trephined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trephining.]

Defn: To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

TREPID
Trep"id, a. Etym: [L. trepidus.]

Defn: Trembling; quaking. Thackeray.

TREPIDATION Trep`i*da"tion, n. Etym: [F. trépidation, L. trepidatio, fr. trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble, from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. trepit he turns, Gr. torture.]

1. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.

2. Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.

3. (Anc. Astron.)

Defn: A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

Syn.
— Tremor; agitation; disturbance; fear.

TREPIDITY
Tre*pid"i*ty, n.

Defn: Trepidation. [R.]

TRESAYLE Tres"ayle` (três"al`), n. Etym: [F. trisaïeul, from L. tris, tres, three + F. aïeul grandfather. Cf. Besaiel, and see Ayle.]

Defn: 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.

TRESOR
Tres"or, n.

Defn: Treasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRESPASS
Tres"pass, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trespassing.] Etym: [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress,
F. trépasser 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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [OF. tr, F. trépas 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.

TRESPASSER
Tres"pass*er, n.

Defn: One who commits a trespass; as: (a) (Law) One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights. (b) A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

TRESS
Tress, n. Etym: [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.

TRESSED
Tressed, a.

1. Having tresses.

2. Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. Spenser. Drayton.

TRESSEL
Tres"sel, n.

Defn: A trestle.

TRESSFUL
Tress"ful, a.

Defn: Tressy. [R.] Sylvester.

TRESSURE
Tres"sure, n. Etym: [F. tresser to twist, plait. See Tress, n.]
(Her.)

Defn: A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

TRESSURED
Tres"sured, a. (Her.)

Defn: Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a
tressure.
The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W.
Scott.

TRESSY
Tress"y, a.

Defn: Abounding in tresses. J. Baillie.

TRES-TINE Tres"-tine`, n. [Cf. L. tris, tres, three, and E. tyne, tine, a prong.]

Defn: The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royal antler.

TRESTLE
Tres"tle, n. Etym: [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tréteau; 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.

TRESTLETREE
Tres"tle*tree`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; — generally used in the plural. Totten.

TRESTLEWORK
Tres"tle*work`, n.

Defn: A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

TRES-TYNE
Tres"-tyne`, n. Etym: [L. tris, tres, three + E. tyne.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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
Tret, obs.

Defn: 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. Chaucer.

TRET Tret, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Treatable.]

Defn: Tractable; moderate. [Obs.]
By nature debonaire and tretable. Chaucer.

TRETHING Treth"ing, n. Etym: [W. treth an allowance, contribution, tribute, or tax, trethu to rate or tax.]

Defn: A tax; an impost. [Obs.] Johnson.

TRETIS; TRETYS
Tre"tis, Tre"tys, n. Etym: [See Treatise.]

Defn: A treatise; also, a treaty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRETIS; TRETYS
Tre*tis", Tre*tys", a. Etym: [OF. traitis.]

Defn: Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. [Obs.] "Her nose tretys." Chaucer.

TREVAT
Tre"vat, n.

Defn: A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

TREVET
Trev"et, n. Etym: [See Trivet.]

Defn: A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

TREW; TREWE
Trew, Trewe, a.

Defn: True. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TREWS
Trews, n. pl.

Defn: Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders. "He wore the trews, or close trowsers, made of tartan." Sir W. Scott.

TREWTH
Trewth, n.

Defn: Truth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TREY Trey, n. Etym: [OF. treis three, F. trois, L. tres. See Three, and cf. Tray-trip.]

Defn: 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-
Tri-. Etym: [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 tricolored, tridentate.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: 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 trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.

TRIABLE
Tri"a*ble, a. Etym: [From Try.]

1. Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." Boyle.

2. (Law)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Quality or state of being triable.

TRIACID
Tri*ac"id, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + acid.] (Chem.)

Defn: Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; — said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.

TRIACLE
Tri"a*cle, n.

Defn: See Treacle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TRIACONTAHEDRAL
Tri`a*con`ta*he"dral, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Having thirty sides.

TRIACONTER
Tri"a*con`ter, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

TRIAD
Tri"ad, n. Etym: [L.trias, -adis, Gr. 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.)

Defn: 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.
— Hindoo triad. See Trimurti.

TRIADELPHOUS
Tri`a*del"phous, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See
Illust. under Adelphous.

TRIADIC
Tri*ad"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.

TRIAKISOCTAHEDRON
Tri"a*kis*oc`ta*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. octahedron.] (Crystalloq.)

Defn: A trigonal trisoctahedron.

TRIAL
Tri"al, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

TRIAL BALANCE
Tri"al bal`ance. (Bookkeeping)

Defn: The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were all correctly posted.

TRIALITY
Tri*al"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. tres, tria, three.]

Defn: Three united; state of being three. [R.] H. Wharton.

TRIALOGUE
Tri"a*logue, n. Etym: [LL.trialogus; tri- (see Tri-) + -logus as, in
L. dialogus, E. dialogue.]

Defn: A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

TRIAMIDE
Tri*am"ide, n. Etym: [tri- + amine.] (Chem.)

Defn: An amide containing three amido groups.

TRIAMINE
Tri*am"ine, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + amine.] (Chem.)

Defn: An amine containing three amido groups.

TRIANDER
Tri"an`der, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any one of the Triandria.

TRIANDRIA
Tri*an"dri*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tri-, and -androus.] (Bot.)

Defn: A Linnæan class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.

TRIANDRIAN; TRIANDROUS
Tri*an"dri*an, Tri*an"drous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. triandre.] (Bot.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.

TRIANGLE Tri"an`gle, n. Etym: [L. triangulum, fr. triangulus triangular; tri- (see Tri-) + angulus angle: cf. F. triangle. See Angle a corner.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

Note: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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 Ciniflonidæ, 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.

TRIANGLED
Tri"an`gled, a.

Defn: Having three angles; triangular.

TRIANGULAR
Tri*an"gu*lar, a. Etym: [L. triangularis: cf. F. triangulaire.]

1. Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and
Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.

TRIANGULARITY
Tri*an`gu*lar"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.

TRIANGULARLY
Tri*an"gu*lar*ly, adv.

Defn: 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.

TRIANGULATION
Tri*an`gu*la"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. triangulation.] (Surv.)

Defn: The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.

TRIARCHY
Tri"ar*chy, n.; pl. Triarchies. Etym: [Gr. Tri-) +

Defn: Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

TRIARIAN Tri*a"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. triarii, pl., a class of Roman soldiers who formed the third rank from the front, fr. tres, tria, three.]

Defn: Occupying the third post or rank. [Obs.] Cowley.

TRIARTICULATE
Tri`ar*tic"u*late, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + articulate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having three joints.

TRIAS
Tri"as, n. Etym: [L., triad. See Triad.] (Geol.)

Defn: 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.

TRIASSIC
Tri*as"sic, a. (Geol.)

Defn: Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
— n.

Defn: The Triassic formation.

TRIATIC
Tri*at"ic, a. (Naut.)

Defn: A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.

TRIATOMIC Tri`a*tom"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + atomic.] (Chem.) (a) Having three atoms; — said of certain elements or radicals. (b) Having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic.

TRIBAL
Trib"al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
Bp. Warburton.

TRIBALISM
Trib"al*ism, n.

Defn: The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.

TRIBASIC
Tri*ba"sic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + basic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; — said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.

TRIBBLE
Trib"ble, n. (Paper Manuf.)

Defn: A frame on which paper is dried. Knight.

TRIBE Tribe, n. Etym: [L. tribus, originally, a third part of the Roman people, afterwards, a division of the people, a tribe; of uncertain origin: cf. F. tribu.]

1. A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." Rev. v. 5. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.family is between order and genus.

3. A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.

4. A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.

5. (Stock Breeding)

Defn: A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

TRIBE
Tribe, v. t.

Defn: To distribute into tribes or classes. [R.]
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. Abp. Nicolson.

TRIBLET; TRIBOLET
Trib"let, Trib"o*let, n.} Etym: [F. triboulet.]

1. A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. Ainsworth.

2. A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson.

3. (Blacksmithing)

Defn: A tapering mandrel.

TRIBOMETER
Tri*bom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter: cf. F. tribomètre.]

Defn: An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. Brande & C.

TRIBRACH
Tri"brach, n. Etym: [L. tribrachys, Gr. Tri-) + (Gr. & L. Pros.)

Defn: A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, mèlì\'dcs.

TRIBRACTEATE
Tri*brac"te*ate, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + bracteate.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having three bracts.

TRIBROMOPHENOL; TRIBROMPHENOL
Tri*bro`mo*phe"nol, Tri`brom*phe"nol, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.

TRIBUAL; TRIBULAR
Trib"u*al, Trib"u*lar, a.

Defn: Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship. [R.] The tribual lispings of the Ephraimites. Fuller.

TRIBULATION Trib`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [OE. tribulacium, F. tribulation, L. tribulatio, from tribulare to press, afflict, fr. tribulum a thrashing sledge, akin to terere, tritum, to rub. See Trite.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.

TRIBUNATE
Trib"u*nate, n. Etym: [L. tribunatus: cf. F. tribunat.]

Defn: The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.

TRIBUNE Trib"une, n. Etym: [L. tribunus, properly, the chief of a tribe, fr. tribus tribe: cf. F. tribun. See Tribe.]

1. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

TRIBUNESHIP
Trib"une*ship, n.

Defn: The office or power of a tribune.

TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN Trib`u*ni"cian, Trib`u*ni"tial, Trib`u*ni*tian, a. Etym: [L. tribunicius, tribunitius: cf. F. tribunitien.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.

TRIBUNITIOUS
Trib`u*ni"tious, a.

Defn: Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] Bacon.

TRIBUTARILY
Trib"u*ta*ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tributary manner.

TRIBUTARINESS
Trib"u*ta*ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tributary.

TRIBUTARY Trib"u*ta*ry, a. Etym: [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.

TRIBUTARY
Trib"u*ta*ry, n.; pl. Tributaries (.

1. A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.

2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.

TRIBUTE Trib"ute, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.]

Defn: To pay as tribute. [R.] Whitlock (1654).

TRIBUTER
Trib"u*ter, n. (Mining)

Defn: One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.
[Eng.]

Note: Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as agreed upon, of the value of what they raise. Weale.

TRICA
Tri"ca, n.; pl. Tricæ. Etym: [NL.] (Bot.)

Defn: An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

TRICARBALLYLIC
Tri*car`bal*lyl"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic.]
(Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.

TRICARBIMIDE
Tri*car"bi*mide, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + carbimide.] (Chem.)

Defn: See under Cyanuric.

TRICE Trice, v. t. Etym: [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.]

1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

TRICE Trice, n. Etym: [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.]

Defn: A very short time; an instant; a moment; — now used only in
the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice."
Shak.
A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.

TRICENNARIOUS
Tri`cen*na"ri*ous, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]

TRICENNIAL Tri*cen"ni*al, a. Etym: [L. tricennium thirty years; triginta thirty + annus year: cf. L. tricennalis.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

TRICENTENARY
Tri*cen"te*na*ry, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + centenary.]

Defn: Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. — n.

Defn: A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.

TRICEPS
Tri"ceps, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres,
tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.]
(Anat.)

Defn: A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

TRICHIASIS
Tri*chi"a*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)

Defn: A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

TRICHINA
Tri*chi"na (-na), n.; pl. Trichinæ. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.

TRICHINIASIS
Trich`i*ni"a*sis, n. Etym: [NL.] (Med.)

Defn: Trichinosis.

TRICHINIZE
Trich"i*nize, v. t.

Defn: To render trichinous; to affect with trichinæ; — chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.

TRICHINOSCOPE
Tri*chi"no*scope, n. Etym: [Trichina + -scope.]

Defn: An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

TRICHINOSIS
Trich`i*no"sis, n. Etym: [NL. See Trichina.] (Med.)

Defn: The disease produced by the presence of trichinæ in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.

TRICHINOUS
Trich"i*nous, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.

TRICHITE
Trich"ite, n. Etym: [Gr.

1. (Min.)

Defn: A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

TRICHIURIFORM
Trich`i*u"ri*form, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family
Trichiuridæ, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

TRICHIUROID
Trich`i*u"roid, a. Etym: [Trichiurus + -oid.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.

TRICHIURUS
Trich`i*u"rus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.

TRICHLORIDE
Tri*chlo"ride, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + chloride.] (Chem.)

Defn: A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

TRICHOBRANCHIA
Trich`o*bran"chi*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. branchia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.

TRICHOCYST
Trich"o*cyst, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A lasso cell.

TRICHOGYNE
Trich"o*gyne, n. Etym: [F., fr. Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. — Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.

TRICHOMANES
Tri*chom"a*nes, n. Etym: [L., a kind of plant, from Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.

TRICHOMATOSE
Tri*chom"a*tose`, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Trichomatose.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr.

1. (Bot.)

Defn: The special cell in red algæ which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the saclike organs from which the setæ of annelids
arise.
— Trich`o*phor"ic, a.

TRICHOPTER
Tri*chop"ter, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trichoptera.

TRICHOPTERA
Tri*chop"te*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

TRICHOPTERAN
Tri*chop"ter*an, (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trichoptera.

TRICHOPTEROUS
Tri*chop"ter*ous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.

TRICHORD
Tri"chord, n. Etym: [Gr. Tri-) + , or string.] (Mus.)

Defn: An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

TRICHOSCOLICES Trich`o*scol"i*ces, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair + skw`lhx a worm.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.

TRICHOTOMOUS
Tri*chot"o*mous, a. Etym: [See Trichotomy.]

Defn: Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. Martyn.

TRICHOTOMY Tri*chot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. tri`cha threefold, in three parts + te`mnein to cut or divide: cf. F. trichotomie.]

Defn: Division into three parts.

TRICHROIC
Tri*chro"ic, a.

Defn: Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.

TRICHROISM
Tri"chro*ism, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. trichroïsme.] (Min.)

Defn: The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.

TRICHROMATIC
Tri`chro*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + chromatic.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; — said of certain birds and insects.

TRICHROMATISM
Tri*chro"ma*tism, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.

TRICHROMIC
Tri*chro"mic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Opt.)

Defn: If, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.

TRICHROMIC
Tri*chro"mic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + chromic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Containing three atoms of chromium.

TRICIPITAL
Tri*cip"i*tal, a. Etym: [See Triceps.] (Anat.)

Defn: Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.

TRICK
Trick, n. Etym: [D. trek a pull, or drawing, a trick, trekken to
draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, 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. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. 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 Coeur de Lion's face. Shak.

5. A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

6. (Card Playing)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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
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.

TRICKER
Trick"er, n.

Defn: One who tricks; a trickster.

TRICKER
Trick"er, n.

Defn: A trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Boyle.

TRICKERY
Trick"er*y, n.

Defn: The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

TRICKINESS
Trick"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being tricky.

TRICKING
Trick"ing, a.

Defn: Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.

TRICKING
Trick"ing, n.

Defn: Dress; ornament. Shak.

TRICKISH
Trick"ish, a.

Defn: Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception
and cheating; knavish.
— Trick"ish*ly, adv.
— Trick"ish*ness, n.

TRICKLE
Tric"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling.]
Etym: [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow,
AS. str. See Strike, v. t.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.

TRICKSINESS
Trick"si*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.

TRICKSTER
Trick"ster, n.

Defn: One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

TRICKSY
Trick"sy, a. Etym: [From Trick.]

Defn: Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

TRICKTRACK
Trick"track`, n. Etym: [F. trictrac. Cf. Ticktack backgammon.]

Defn: An old game resembling backgammon.

TRICKY
Trick"y, a.

Defn: Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

TRICLINATE
Tric"li*nate, a. (Min.)

Defn: Triclinic.

TRICLINIARY
Tri*clin"i*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.

TRICLINIC
Tri*clin"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.

TRICLINIUM Tri*clin"i*um, n.; pl. Triclinia. Etym: [L., from Gr. 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. Etym: [Gr. tri`kokkos with three grains or berries;
Tri-) + ko`kkos grain, seed.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having three cocci, or roundish carpels. Gray.

TRICOLOR
Tri"col`or, n. Etym: [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored
flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (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.

TRICOLORED
Tri"col`ored, a.

Defn: Having three colors.

TRICORNIGEROUS Tri`cor*nig"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. tricorniger; tricornis three-horned (see Tri-, and Horn) + -gerere to bear.]

Defn: Having three horns.

TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
Tri*cor"po*ral, Tri*cor"po*rate, a. Etym: [L. tricorpor; tri- (see
Tri-) + corpus, -oris, body.] (Her.)

Defn: Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.

TRICOSTATE
Tri*cos"tate, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + costate.] (Bot.)

Defn: Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.

TRICOT
Tri`cot", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

TRICROTIC
Tri*crot"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Physiol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

TRICROTISM
Tri"cro*tism, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

TRICROTOUS
Tri"cro*tous, a. (Physiol.)

Defn: Tricrotic.

TRICURVATE
Tri*cur"vate, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + curvate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see
Illust. of Spicule).

TRICUSPID Tri*cus"pid, a. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.

TRICYCLE
Tri"cy*cle, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + cycle as inbicycle.]

Defn: A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf.
Bicycle.

TRIDACNA
Tri*dac"na, n. Etym: [L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

TRIDACTYL; TRIDACTYLE
Tri*dac"tyl Tri*dac"tyle, a. Etym: [Gr. Tri-) + tridactyle.] (Biol.)

Defn: Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.

TRIDACTYLOUS
Tri*dac"tyl*ous, a. (Biol.)

Defn: Tridactyl.

TRIDDLER
Trid"dler, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The jacksnipe. [Local, U.S.]

TRIDE
Tride, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tride lively, quick.]

Defn: Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; — a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.

TRIDECANE
Tri*dec"ane, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.

TRIDECATOIC
Tri`dec*a*to"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. de`katos tenth.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.

TRIDECATYLENE
Tri`de*cat"y*lene, n. Etym: [Pref. tri-+ Gr. ylene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; — called also tridecylene, and tridecene.

TRIDENT Tri"dent, n. Etym: [L. tridens, -entis; tri- (see Tri-) + dens tooth: cf. F. trident. See Tooth.]

1. (Class Myth.)

Defn: A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, — the common attribute of Neptune.

2. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in the direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction. Trident bat (Zoöl.), an Asiatic rhinolophid bat (Triænops Persicus), having the nose membrane in the shape of a trident.

TRIDENT
Tri"dent, a. Etym: [L. tridens.]

Defn: Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

TRIDENTATE; TRIDENTATED
Tri*den"tate, Tri*den"ta*ted, a. Etym: [NL. tridentatus. See
Trident.]

Defn: Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.

TRIDENTED
Tri"dent*ed, a.

Defn: Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace.
[R.] Quarles.

TRIDENTIFEROUS Tri`dent*if"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. tridentifer; tridens trident + ferre to bear.]

Defn: Bearing a trident.

TRIDENTINE
Tri*den"tine, a. Etym: [From L. Tridentum Trent.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.

TRIDIAPASON
Tri*di`a*pa"son, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + diaposon.] (Anc. Mus.)

Defn: A triple octave, or twenty-second. Busby.

TRIDIMENSIONAL
Tri`di*men"sion*al, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + dimensional.] (Chem.)

Defn: Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

TRIDING
Tri"ding, n.

Defn: A riding. See Trithing.

TRIDUAN Trid"u*an, a. Etym: [L. triduanus, fr. triduum space of three days; tri- + dies day.]

Defn: Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day. [R.]
Blount.

TRIDYMITE
Trid"y*mite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)

Defn: Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.

TRIED
Tried,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Try. Also adj.

Defn: Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

TRIEDRAL
Tri*e"dral, a.

Defn: See Trihedral.

TRIENNIAL Tri*en"ni*al, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: Something which takes place or appears once in three years.

TRIENNIALLY
Tri*en"ni*al*ly, adv.

Defn: Once in three years.

TRIENS
Tri"ens, n. Etym: [L., from tres, tria, three.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.

TRIER
Tri"er, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior. Burrill.

4. That which tries or approves; a test. Shak.

TRIERARCH Tri"er*arch, n. Etym: [L. trierarchus, Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) (a) The commander of a trireme. (b) At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

TRIERARCHY
Tri"er*arch`y, n.; pl. Trierarchises. Etym: [ Gr.

Defn: The office duty of a trierarch.

TRIETERICAL
Tri`e*ter"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. trietericus, Gr. Tri-.) +

Defn: Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial. [R.] J.
Gregory.

TRIETERICS
Tri`e*ter"ics, n. pl. Etym: [L. trieterica, pl., fr. Gr. (Class.
Antiq.)

Defn: Festival games celebrated once in three years. [R.] May.

TRIETHYLAMINE
Tri*eth`yl*am"ine, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + ethylamine.] (Chem.)

Defn: A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine.

TRIFACIAL
Tri*fa"cial, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + facial.] (Anat.)

Defn: See Trigeminal.

TRIFALLOW
Tri"fal`low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trifallowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trifallowing.] Etym: [Pref. tri- + fallow. Cf. Thryfallow.]

Defn: To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.

TRIFARIOUS Tri*fa"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. trifarius of three sorts or ways, threefold; cf. Gr. Bifarious.] (Bot.)

Defn: Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

TRIFASCIATED
Tri*fas"ci*a`ted, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + fasciated.]

Defn: Having, or surrounded by, three fasciæ, or bands.

TRIFID Tri"fid, a. Etym: [L. trifidus; tri- (see Tri-) + the root of findere to split: cf. F. trifide.]

Defn: Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

TRIFISTULARY
Tri*fis"tu*la*ry, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + fistula, fistular.]

Defn: Having three pipes. Sir T. Browne.

TRIFLE Tri"fle, n. Etym: [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.]
Etym: [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.]

Defn: 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.

TRIFLE
Tri"fle, v. t.

1. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time." Shak.

TRIFLER
Tri"fler, n.

Defn: One who trifles. Waterland.

TRIFLING
Tri"fling, a.

Defn: Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair.
— Tri"fling*ly, adv.
— Tri"fling*ness, n.

TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS Tri*flo"ral, Tri*flo"rous, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + L. flos, floris, flower.] (Bot.)

Defn: Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

TRIFLUCTUATION
Tri*fluc`tu*a"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + fluctuation.]

Defn: A concurrence of three waves. [Obs.] "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.

TRIFOLIATE; TRIFOLIATED
Tri*fo"li*ate, Tri*fo"li*a`ted, a. Etym: [Tri- + foliate. Cf.
Trefoil.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of
Shamrock.

TRIFOLIOLATE
Tri*fo"li*o*late, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + foliolate.]

Defn: (Bot.) Having three leaflets.

TRIFOLIUM
Tri*fo"li*um, n. Etym: [L., clover.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. trifolium. See Trifoliate, Trefoil.] (Bot.)

Defn: Sweet trefoil. [Obs.]
She was crowned with a chaplet of trifoly. B. Jonson.

TRIFORIUM Tri*fo"ri*um, n. Etym: [LL., fr. L. tri- (see Tri-) + foris, pl. fores, a door.] (Arch.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. triformis; tri- (see Tri-) + forma form.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. triformitas.]

Defn: The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

TRIFURCATE; TRIFURCATED Tri*fur"cate, Tri*fur"ca*ted, a. Etym: [L. trifurcus; tri- (see Tri-) + furca fork.]

Defn: Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.

TRIG
Trig, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Dan. trykke to press, Sw. trycka.]

Defn: To fill; to stuff; to cram. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

TRIG
Trig, a. Etym: [Formerly written trick, akin to trick to dress.]

Defn: Full; also, trim; neat. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
To sit on a horse square and trig. Brit. Quart. Rev.

TRIG
Trig, v. t. Etym: [See Trigger.]

Defn: To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

TRIG
Trig, n. Etym: [See Trigger.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Trigamy.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. trigamus a thrice-married man, Gr. Tri-) + trigame.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, — male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

TRIGAMY
Trig"a*my, n. Etym: [L. trigamia,Gr. trigamie. See Trigamous.]

Defn: 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.

TRIGASTRIC
Tri*gas"tric, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Anat.)

Defn: Having three bellies; — said of a muscle. Dunglison.

TRIGEMINAL
Tri*gem"i*nal, a. Etym: [See Trigeminous.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. trigeminus born three together; tri- (see Tri-) + geminus twin. Cf. Tergeminous.]

Defn: Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

TRIGENIC Tri*gen"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + gen- + -ic. So named in reference to its composition, it being supposed to contain the radicals of three molecules of cyanic acid.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; — called also ethidene- or ethylidene-biuret.

TRIGER PROCESS
Tri`ger proc"ess. [After M. Triger, French engineer.] (Engin. &
Mining)

Defn: A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.

TRIGESIMO-SECUNDO Tri*ges"i*mo-se*cun"do, a. Etym: [L. in trigesimo-secundo in the thirty-second.]

Defn: Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

TRIGESIMO-SECUNDO
Tri*ges"i*mo-se*cun"do, n.

Defn: A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty- two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; — usually written 32mo, or 32º, and called thirty-twomo.

TRIGGER Trig"ger, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [LL. trigintate, fr. L. triginta thirty. See
Trental.] (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: A trental.

TRIGLYCERIDE
Tri*glyc"er*ide, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + glyceride.] (Chem.)

Defn: A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.

TRIGLYPH
Tri"glyph, n. Etym: [L. triglyphus, Gr. Tri-) + triglyphe.] (Arch.)

Defn: 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.

TRIGLYPHIC; TRIGLYPHICAL
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. Etym: [See Trig trim, neat.]

Defn: The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.
Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. Kane.

TRIGON
Tri"gon, n. Etym: [L. trigonum, Gr. Tri-) + 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.

TRIGON; TRIGONID
Tri"gon, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid.

TRIGONAL
Trig"o*nal, a.

Defn: Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

TRIGONE
Tri`gone", n. Etym: [F., literally, a trigon.] (Anat.)

Defn: A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

TRIGONIA Tri*go"ni*a, n. Etym: [NL. See Trigon. So called in allusion to the triangular shape of some species.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats.

TRIGONODONT
Trig"o*no*dont`, a. [See Trigon; Odonto.]

Defn: See Trituberculy.

TRIGONOMETRIC; TRIGONOMETRICAL Trig`o*no*met"ric, Trig`o*no*met"ric*al,Etym: [Cf. F. trigonométrique.]

Defn: 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.

TRIGONOMETRY Trig`o*nom"e*try, n.; pl. -tries. Etym: [Gr. -metry: cf. F. trigonométrie. 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, and Spherical trigonometry, those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangles respectively.

TRIGONOUS
Trig"o*nous, a. Etym: [L. trigonus, Gr. Trigon.]

Defn: Same as Trigonal.

TRIGRAM
Tri"gram, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + -gram.]

Defn: Same as Trigraph.

TRIGRAMMATIC
Tri`gram*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.

TRIGRAMMIC
Tri*gram"mic, a. Etym: [Gr. Trigrammatic.]

Defn: Same as Trigrammatic.

TRIGRAPH
Tri"graph, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + -graph.]

Defn: Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

TRIGYN
Tri"gyn, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any one of the Trigynia.

TRIGYNIA
Tri*gyn"i*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., Gr. Tri-) + (Bot.)

Defn: A Linnæan order of plants having three pistils or styles.

TRIGYNIAN; TRIGYNOUS
Tri*gyn"i*an, Trig"y*nous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the
Trigynia.

TRIHEDRAL
Tri*he"dral, a. Etym: [See Trihedron.] (Geom.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Geom.)

Defn: A figure having three sides.

TRIHORAL
Tri*ho"ral, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + horal.]

Defn: Occurring once in every three hours.

TRIHYBRID
Tri*hy"brid, n. (Biol.)

Defn: A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting
Mendelian characters.

TRIJUGATE
Trij"u*gate, a. Etym: [See Trijugous.] (Bot.)

Defn: In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

TRIJUGOUS
Trij"u*gous, a. Etym: [L. trijugus threefold; tri- + jugum a yoke.]
(Bot.)

Defn: Same as Trijugate.

TRIKOSANE
Tri"ko*sane, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling paraffin; — so called because it has twenty-three atoms of carbon in the molecule.

TRILATERAL Tri*lat"er*al, a.Etym: [L. trilaterus; tri- (see Tri-) + latus, lateris, side: cf. F. trilatéral. See Lateral.] (Geom.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Tri-) + any thing received, in logic, an assumption. Cf. Dilemma.]

1. (Logic)

Defn: 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.

TRILINEAR
Tri*lin"e*ar, a. (Math.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coördinates.

TRILINGUAL Tri*lin"gual, a. Etym: [L. trilinguis; tri- (see Tri-) + lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.]

Defn: Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in
three languages.
The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a
trilingual inscription. I. Taylor.

TRILINGUAR
Tri*lin"guar, a.

Defn: See Trilingual.

TRILITERAL
Tri*lit"er*al, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + literal.]

Defn: Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word. — n.

Defn: A triliteral word.

TRILITERALISM
Tri*lit"er*al*ism, n.

Defn: Same as Triliterality.

TRILITERALITY; TRILITERALNESS
Tri*lit`er*al"i*ty, Tri*lit"er*al*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of
Hebrew roots. W. D. Whitney.

TRILITH
Tri"lith, n.

Defn: Same as Trilithon. Mollett.

TRILITHIC
Tri*lith"ic a.

Defn: Pertaining to a trilith.

TRILITHON
Tril"i*thon (trîl"î*thôn), n.; pl. Trilithons Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.Tri-
) + (Archæol.)

Defn: A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.

TRILL Trill, v. i. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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
Trill, v. t. Etym: [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.]

Defn: To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and trill another pin. Chaucer.

TRILL
Trill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] Etym:
[It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.]

Defn: 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
Trill, v. i.

Defn: To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

TRILL
Trill, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]

TRILLING
Tril"ling, n. Etym: [Cf. G. drilling.]

1. One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.

2. (Crystallog.)

Defn: A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals.

TRILLION Tril"lion, n. Etym: [F. trillion, formed from the pref. tri- in imitation of million a million. Cf. Billion.]

Defn: 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.

TRILLIUM
Tril"li*um, n. Etym: [NL.; cf. L. trilix triple-woven, triple.]
(Bot.)

Defn: A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; — so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

TRILLO
Tril"lo, n. Etym: [It. See Trill.] (Mus.)

Defn: A trill or shake. See Trill.

TRILOBATE
Tri*lo"bate, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + lobate.]

Defn: Having three lobes.

TRILOBATION
Tri`lo*ba"tion, n.

Defn: The state of being trilobate.

TRILOBED
Tri"lobed, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + lobe.]

Defn: Same as Trilobate.

TRILOBITA
Tri`lo*bi"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.

TRILOBITE
Tri"lo*bite (tri"lo*bit), n. Etym: [Cf. F. trilobite. See Trilobate.]
(Paleon.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.

TRILOCULAR
Tri*loc"u*lar, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + locular: cf. F. triloculaire.]

Defn: Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.

TRILOGY
Tril"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. Tri-) + trilogie.]

Defn: 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.

TRILUMINAR; TRILUMINOUS Tri*lu"mi*nar, Tri*lu"mi*nous, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + L. lumen, luminis, light.]

Defn: Having three lights [R.]

TRIM
Trim, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trimmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trimming.] Etym:
[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. trim a Christmas tree. 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.)

Defn: 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
Trim, v. i.

Defn: To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

TRIM
Trim, n.

1. Dress; gear; ornaments. Seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim. Sir W. Scott.

2. Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim. " The trim of an encounter." Chapman.

3. The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

4. (Arch)

Defn: The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points. In ballast trim (Naut.), having only ballast on board. R. H. Dana, Jr. — Trim of the masts (Naut.), their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distant, far forward or much aft, erect or raking. — Trim of sails (Naut.), that adjustment, with reference to the wind, witch is best adapted to impel the ship forward.

TRIM
Trim, a. [Compar. Trimmer; superl. Trimmest.] Etym: [See Trim, v. t.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Pref. tri- + maculated.]

Defn: Marked with three spots, or maculæ.

TRIMELLIC
Tri*mel"lic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + L. mel, gen. mellis, honey.]
(Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.

TRIMEMBRAL
Tri*mem"bral, a. Etym: [L. trimembris triplemembered. See Tri-, and
Member.]

Defn: Having, or consisting of, three members.

TRIMERA
Tri"me*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tri-, and -mere.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.

TRIMERAN
Tri"mer*an, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.

TRIMEROUS
Tri"mer*ous, a. Etym: [See Trimera.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having the parts in threes.

TRIMESITIC
Tri`me*sit"ic, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + mesitylene + -ic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a tribasic acid, C6H3.(CO2)3, of the aromatic series, obtained, by the oxidation of mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance. [Written also trimesic.]

TRIMESTER Tri*mes"ter, n. Etym: [L. trimestris of three months; tri- (see Tri-) + mensis month: cf. F. trimestre.]

Defn: A term or period of three months.

TRIMESTRAL
Tri*mes"tral, a.

Defn: Trimestrial. Southey.

TRIMESTRIAL
Tri*mes"tri*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

TRIMETER Trim"e*ter, a. Etym: [L. trimetrus, Gr. Tri-) + measure. See Meter measure.] (Pros.)

Defn: Consisting of three poetical measures.
— n.

Defn: A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.
Lowth.

TRIMETHYL
Tri*meth"yl.

Defn: (Chem.) A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.

TRIMETHYLAMINE
Tri*meth`yl*am"ine, n. Etym: [Trimethyl- + amine.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.

TRIMETHYLENE
Tri*meth"yl*ene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.

TRIMETRIC
Tri*met"ric, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Same as Orthorhombic.

TRIMETRICAL
Tri*met"ric*al, a.

Defn: Same as Trimeter.

TRIMLY
Trim"ly, adv.

Defn: In a trim manner; nicely.

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.)

Defn: 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,

Defn: 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.

TRIMMING
Trim"ming, n.

1. The act of one who trims.

2. That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; — usually in the pluraltrimmings..

3. The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]

TRIMMINGLY
Trim"ming*ly, adv.

Defn: In a trimming manner.

TRIMNESS
Trim"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.

TRIMORPH
Tri"morph, n. Etym: [See Trimorphous.] (Crystallog.)

Defn: 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.

TRIMORPHIC; TRIMORPHOUS
Tri*mor"phic, Tri*mor"phous, a. Etym: [Gr. Tri-) +

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; — contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.

TRIMORPHISM
Tri*mor"phism, n. Etym: [See Trimorphic.]

1. (Crystallog.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TRIMURTI
Tri*mur"ti, n. Etym: [Skr. trim; tri three + m body.] (Hindoo Myth.)

Defn: The triad, or trinity, of Hindoo gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. [Spelled also Trimurtti.]

TRIMYARIAN
Trim`y*a"ri*an, n. Etym: [Pref. tri + Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.

TRINAL Tri"nal, a. Etym: [L. trinus triple, trini three each, fr. tres, tria, three. See Three, and cf. Trine, a. & n., Tern, a.]

Defn: Threefold. "Trinal unity." Milton.
In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

TRINDLE
Trin"dle, v. t. & n.

Defn: See Trundle.

TRINE
Trine, a. Etym: [See Trinal.]

Defn: Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

TRINE
Trine, n. Etym: [F. trine, trin. See Trinal.]

1. (Astrol.)

Defn: 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.

TRINE
Trine, v. t.

Defn: To put in the aspect of a trine. [R.]
By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined. Dryden.

TRINERVATE Tri*nerv"ate, a. Etym: [NL. trinervatus; pref. tri- + L. nervus nerve.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; — said of a leaf. Gray.

TRINERVE; TRINERVED
Tri"nerve`, Tri"nerved`, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + nerve.] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Trinervate.

TRINGA
Trin"ga, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.

TRINGLE
Trin"gle, n. Etym: [F. tringle.]

Defn: A curtain rod for a bedstead.

TRINGOID
Trin"goid, a. Etym: [Tringa + -oid.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.

TRINITARIAN
Trin`i*ta"ri*an, a. Etym: [Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.

TRINITARIAN
Trin`i*ta"ri*an, n.

1. One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.

2. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.

TRINITARIANISM
Trin`i*ta"ri*an*ism, n.

Defn: The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.

TRINITROCELLULOSE
Tri*ni`tro*cel"lu*lose", n.

Defn: Gun cotton; — so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.

TRINITROPHENOL
Tri*ni`tro*phe"nol, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Picric acid.

TRINITY Trin"i*ty, n. Etym: [OE. trinitee, F. trinité, L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See Trinal.]

1. (Christian Theol.)

Defn: 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 Hindoo 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. Etym: [See Trinity, and Unity.]

Defn: Triunity; trinity. [Obs.] As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.

TRINK
Trink, n.

Defn: A kind of fishing net. [Obs.] Crabb.

TRINKET Trin"ket, n. Etym: [F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular.] (Naut.)

Defn: A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast,
probably on a lateen yard.
Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our
hands. Hakluyt.

TRINKET Trin"ket, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [Obs.]
South.

TRINKETER
Trin"ket*er, n.

Defn: One who trinkets. [Obs.]

TRINKETRY
Trin"ket*ry, n.

Defn: Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.
No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

TRINKLE
Trin"kle, v. i.

Defn: To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper. [Obs.]
Wright.

TRINOCTIAL
Tri*noc"tial, a. Etym: [L. trinoctialis for three nights; tri- (see
Tri-) + nox, noctis, night.]

Defn: Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.

TRINODAL Tri*nod"al, a. Etym: [L. trinodis three-knotted; tri- (see Tri-) + nodus knot.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

2. (Geom.)

Defn: Having three nodal points.

TRINOMIAL Tri*no"mi*al, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + -nomial as in binomial: cf. F. trinôme.] (Math.)

Defn: A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -; as, x + y + z, or ax + 2b - c2.

TRINOMIAL
Tri*no"mi*al, a. (Math.)

Defn: Consisting of three terms; of or pertaining to trinomials; as, a trinomial root.

TRINOMINAL Tri*nom"i*nal, n. & a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + L. nomen, nominis, name: cf. L. trinominis three-named.] (Math.)

Defn: Trinomial.

TRINUCLEUS
Tri*nu"cle*us, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + nucleus.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

TRIO
Tri"o, n. Etym: [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.

TRIOBOLAR; TRIOBOLARY Tri*ob"o*lar, Tri*ob"o*la*ry, a. Etym: [LL. triobolaris, fr. L. triobolus a piece of three oboli, Gr. Tri-, and Obolus.]

Defn: Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless. [Obs.]
It may pass current . . . for a triobolar ballad. Cheyne.

TRIOCTILE
Tri*oc"tile, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + octile.] (Astrol.)

Defn: An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. Hutton.

TRIOECIA
Tri*oe"ci*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Trioecious.] (Bot.)

Defn: The third order of the Linnæan class Polygamia.

TRIOECIOUS
Tri*oe"cious, a. Etym: [Pref. tri- + Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.

TRIOLE
Tri"ole, n. Etym: [See Triolet.] (Mus.)

Defn: Same as Triplet.

TRIOLEIN
Tri*o"le*in, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + olein.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: See Olein.

TRIOLET
Tri"o*let, n. Etym: [F. triolet. See Trio.]

Defn: 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.

TRIONAL Tri"o*nal, n. [Pref. tri- + sulphonal; — so called because it contains three ethyls.] (Chem.)

Defn: A compound similar to sulphonal, used as a hypnotic in medicine.

TRIONYCHOIDEA
Tri*on`y*choi"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Trionyx, and -old.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; — called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.

TRIONYX
Tri*on"yx, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Tri-) + (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: 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)

Defn: Same as Trier, 2 and 3.

TRIOSE
Tri"ose, n. [Tri- + -ose.] (Chem.)
(a) A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol.
(b) A trisaccharide.

TRIOXIDE
Tri*ox"ide, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + oxide.] (Chem.)

Defn: An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; — formerly called tritoxide.

TRIP
Trip, n. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] Etym:
[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; 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.

TRIP
Trip, v. t.

1. To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; — often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. Abp. Bramhall.

2. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword. Shak.

3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. [R.] These her women can trip me if I err. Shak.

4. (Naut.) (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

5. (Mach.)

Defn: To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.

TRIP
Trip, n.