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word: Trammel₂
definition:
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.


word: Trammeled
definition:
Trammeled

Tram"meled
(?)
a.
(Man.)
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.]


word: Trammeler
definition:
Trammeler

Tram"mel*er
(?)
n.
[Written also trammeller.]
1.
One who uses a trammel net.
Nares.

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


word: Trammel wheel
definition:
Trammel wheel

Tram"mel wheel`
(Mach.)
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.


word: Tramontana
definition:
Tramontana

Tra`mon*ta"na
(?)
n.
[It. See Tramontane.]
(Meteor.)
A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.


word: Tramontane
definition:
Tramontane

Tra*mon"tane
(?)
a.
[OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.]
Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

&hand_; 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.


word: Tramp
definition:
Tramp

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


word: Tramp₃
definition:
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.


word: Trample
definition:
Trample

Tram"ple
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trampled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling (?).]
[OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.]
1.
To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
Dryden.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
Matt. vii. 6.

2.
Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
Cowper.


word: Trample₂
definition:
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.


word: Trample₃
definition:
Trample

Tram"ple
n.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
Milton.

The huddling trample of a drove of sheep.
Lowell.


word: Trampler
definition:
Trampler

Tram"pler
(?)
n.
One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.
Cowper.


word: Trampoose
definition:
Trampoose

Tram*poose"
(?)
v. i.
[See Tramp, Trample, and Traipse.]
To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp.
[Law, U. S.]
Bartlett.


word: Tramrail
definition:
Tramrail

Tram"rail`
(?)
n.
(Mach.)
An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.


word: Tramroad
definition:
Tramroad

Tram"road`
(?)
n.
[Tram a coal wagon + road.]
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.


word: Tramway
definition:
Tramway

Tram"way`
(?)
n.
1.
Same as Tramroad.

2.
A street railway  laid in the streets of a town or city, or an interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains drawn by steam or electric locomotives.


word: Tranation
definition:
Tranation

Tra*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. tranare, transnare, to swim over; trans across, over + nare to swim.]
The act of swimming over.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Trance
definition:
Trance

Trance
(?)
n.
[F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.]

1.
A tedious journey.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
Acts. x. 10.

My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
Spenser.

3.
(Med.)
A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

He fell down in a trance.
Chaucer.


word: Trance₂
definition:
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.


word: Trangram
definition:
Trangram

Tran"gram
(?)
n.
[OE. trangrain a strange thing, trangame a toy. See Tangram.]
Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.
[Cant & Obs.]
Arbuthnot.


word: Tranquil
definition:
Tranquil

Tran"quil
(?)
a.
[L. tranquillus; probably fr. trans across, over + a word akin to quietus quiet: cf. F. tranquille. See Quiet.]
Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.

A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow.
De Quincey.


word: Tranquillization
definition:
Tranquillization

Tranquilization

{ Tran`quil*i*za"tion, Tran`quil*li*za"tion  }
(?)
n.
The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.


word: Tranquillize
definition:
Tranquillize

Tranquilize

{Tran"quil*ize, Tran"quil*lize  }
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tranquilized (?) or Tranquilliized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tranquilizing (?) or Tranquillizing.]
[Cf. F. tranquilliser.]
To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.


word: Tranquillizer
definition:
Tranquillizer

Tranquilizer

{ Tran"quil*i`zer, Tran"quil*li`zer  }
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, tranquilizes.


word: Tranquillizing
definition:
Tranquillizing

Tranquilizing

{ Tran"quil*i`zing, Tran"quil*li`zing  }
(?)
a.
Making tranquil; calming.
tranquilizing
Wordsworth.
Tran"quil*i`zing*ly or Tran"quil*li`zing*ly, adv.


word: Tranquillity
definition:
Tranquillity

Tran*quil"li*ty
(?)
n.
[F. tranquillité, L. tranquillitas.]
The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.


word: Trans-
definition:
Trans-

Trans-
(?)
[L. trans across, over.]
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.


word: Transact
definition:
Transact

Trans*act"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transacting.]
[L. transactus, p. p. of transigere. See Transaction.]
To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.


word: Transaction
definition:
Transaction

Trans*ac"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.]
1.
The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

2.
That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

3.
(Civil Law)
An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.

&hand_; “ 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.


word: Transactor
definition:
Transactor

Trans*act"or
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business.
Derham.


word: Transalpine
definition:
Transalpine

Trans*al"pine
(?)
a.
[L. transalpinus; trans across, beyond + Alpinus Alpine, from Alpes the Alps: cf. F. transalpin.]
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
Beau. & Fl.


word: Transalpine₂
definition:
Transalpine

Trans*al"pine
n.
A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.


word: Transanimate
definition:
Transanimate

Trans*an"i*mate
(trăns*ăn"ĭ*māt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transanimated (trăns*ăn"ĭ*mā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Transanimating.]
[Trans- + animate.]
To animate with a soul conveyed from another body.
[R.]
Bp. J. King (1608).


word: Transanimation
definition:
Transanimation

Trans*an`i*ma"tion
(trăns*ăn`ĭ*mā"shŭn)
n.
[Cf. F. transanimation.]
The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.
[R.]
Fuller.


word: Transatlantic
definition:
Transatlantic

Trans`at*lan"tic
(trăns*ăt*lăn"tĭk)
a.
[Pref. trans- + Atlantic: cf. F. transatlantique.]
1.
Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

&hand_; 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; as, a transatlantic flight.


word: Transaudient
definition:
Transaudient

Trans*au"di*ent
(trăns*&asuml_;"dĭ*ent)
a.
[See Trans-, and Audient.]
Permitting the passage of sound.
[R.]
Lowell.


word: Transcalency
definition:
Transcalency

Trans*ca"len*cy
(trăns*kā"len*s&ybreve_;)
n.
The quality or state of being transcalent.


word: Transcalent
definition:
Transcalent

Trans*ca"lent
(trăns*kā"lent)
a.
[Pref. trans- + L. calens, p. pr. of calere to grow warm.]
Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.


word: Transcend
definition:
Transcend

Tran*scend"
(trăn*sĕnd")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transcended; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcending.]
[L. transcendere, transcensum; trans beyond, over + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
1.
To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
Howell.

2.
To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.

Such popes as shall transcend their limits.
Bacon.

8.
To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.

How much her worth transcended all her kind.
Dryden.


word: Transcend₂
definition:
Transcend

Tran*scend"
(trăn*sĕnd")
v. i.
1.
To climb; to mount.
[Obs.]

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


word: Transcendency
definition:
Transcendency

Transcendence

{ Tran*scend"ence (-ens), Tran*scend"en*cy (-en*s&ybreve_;), }
[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.


word: Transcendent
definition:
Transcendent

Tran*scend"ent
(?)
a.
[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.)
Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.


word: Transcendent₂
definition:
Transcendent

Tran*scend"ent
n.
That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.


word: Transcendental
definition:
Transcendental

Tran`scen*den"tal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.]
1.
Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.

2.
(Philos.)
In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.

3.
Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.

&hand_; 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.


word: Transcendentalism
definition:
Transcendentalism

Tran`scen*den"tal*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transcendantalisme, G. transcendentalismus.]
1.
(Kantian Philos.)
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

&hand_; 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.


word: Transcendentalist
definition:
Transcendentalist

Tran`scen*den"tal*ist
n.
[Cf. F. transcendantaliste.]
One who believes in transcendentalism.


word: Transcension
definition:
Transcension

Tran*scen"sion
(?)
n.
[See Transcend.]
The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.
[Obs.]
Chapman.


word: Transcolate
definition:
Transcolate

Trans"co*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transcolated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transcolating.]
[Pref. trans- + L. colare, colatum, to filter, to strain.]
To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.
[Obs.]
Harvey.


word: Transcolation
definition:
Transcolation

Trans`co*la"tion
(?)
n.
Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.
[Obs.]
Bp. Stillingfleet.


word: Transcontinental
definition:
Transcontinental

Trans*con`ti*nen"tal
(?)
a.
[Pref. trans- + continental.]
Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.


word: Transcorporate
definition:
Transcorporate

Trans*cor"po*rate
(?)
v. i.
[Pref. trans- + corporate.]
To transmigrate.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Transcribbler
definition:
Transcribbler

Tran*scrib"bler
(trăn*skrĭb"blẽr)
n.
A transcriber; -- used in contempt.

He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
Gray.


word: Transcribe
definition:
Transcribe

Tran*scribe"
(trăn*skrīb")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transcribed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transcribing.]
[L. transcribere, transcriptum; trans across, over + scribere to write. See Scribe.]
To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.


word: Transcriber
definition:
Transcriber

Tran*scrib"er
(-ẽr)
n.
One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.


word: Transcript
definition:
Transcript

Tran"script
(trăn"skrĭpt)
n.
[L. transcriptum, neut. of transcriptus, p. p. of transcribere. See Transcribe.]
1.
That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.

The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript.
South.

2.
A copy of any kind; an imitation.

The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.
Glanvill.


word: Transcription
definition:
Transcription

Tran*scrip"tion
(trăn*skrĭp"shŭn)
n.
[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.)
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 composers 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, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.


word: Transcriptive
definition:
Transcriptive

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


word: Transcur
definition:
Transcur

Trans*cur"
(?)
v. i.
[L. transcurrere, transcursum; trans across, over + currere to run.]
To run or rove to and fro.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Transcurrence
definition:
Transcurrence

Trans*cur"rence
(?)
n.
[L. transcurrens, p. pr. of transcurrere.]
A roving hither and thither.


word: Transcursion
definition:
Transcursion

Trans*cur"sion
(?)
n.
[Cf. L. transcursio a passing over. See Transcur.]
A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.
[Obs.]
Howell.


word: Transdialect
definition:
Transdialect

Trans*di"a*lect
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + dialect.]
To change or translate from one dialect into another.
[R.]
Bp. Warburton.


word: Transduction
definition:
Transduction

Trans*duc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transducere, traducere, -dictum, to lead across or over. See Traduce.]
The act of conveying over.
[R.]
Entick.


word: Transelementate
definition:
Transelementate

Transelement

{ Trans*el"e*ment (?), Trans*el`e*men"tate (?), }
v. t.
[Pref. trans- element.]
To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Transelementation
definition:
Transelementation

Trans*el`e*men*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transélémentation.]
(Eccl.)
Transubstantiation.
[Obs.]


word: Transept
definition:
Transept

Tran"sept
(?)
n.
[Pref. trans- + L. septum an inclosure. See Septum.]
(Arch.)
The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.


word: Transexion
definition:
Transexion

Tran*sex"ion
(?)
n.
[Pref. trans- + L. sexus sex.]
Change of sex.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Transfeminate
definition:
Transfeminate

Trans*fem"i*nate
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + L. femina woman.]
To change into a woman, as a man.
[Obs. & R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Transfer
definition:
Transfer

Trans*fer"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transferred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transferring.]
[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.


word: Transfer₂
definition:
Transfer

Trans"fer
(?)
n.
1.
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

2.
(Law)
The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property.
Burke.

3.
That which is transferred.

4.
(Med.)
A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock.  Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. Bithell. -- Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made. -- Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions. -- Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.


word: Transferable
definition:
Transferable

Trans*fer"a*ble
(?; 277)
a.
[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.


word: Transferography
definition:
Transferography

Trans`fer*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Transfer + -graphy.]
The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.


word: Transfiguratien
definition:
Transfiguratien

Trans*fig`u*ra"tien
(?)
n.
[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.)
A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.


word: Transfigure
definition:
Transfigure

Trans*fig"ure
(?; 135)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transfigured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transfiguring.]
[F. transfigurer, L. transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure, v. t.]
1.
To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

2.
Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.

[Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Matt. xvii. 2.


word: Transfix
definition:
Transfix

Trans*fix"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transfixed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transfixing.]
[L. transfixus, p. p. of transfigure to transfix; trans across, through + figere to fix, fasten. See Fix.]
To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.


word: Transfixion
definition:
Transfixion

Trans*fix"ion
(?)
n.
The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
Bp. Hall.


word: Transfluent
definition:
Transfluent

Trans"flu*ent
(?)
a.
[Pref. trans- + fluent.]
1.
Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

2.
(Her.)
Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water.
Wright.


word: Transforate
definition:
Transforate

Trans"fo*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. transforatus, p. p. of transforare to pierce through; trans through + forare to bore.]
To bore through; to perforate.
[Obs.]


word: Transform
definition:
Transform

Trans*form"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transformed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transforming.]
[L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.]
1.
To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.

Love may transform me to an oyster.
Shak.

2.
To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

3.
To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Rom. xii. 2.

4.
(Math.)
To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.


word: Transform₂
definition:
Transform

Trans*form"
v. i.
To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.
[R.]

His hair transforms to down.
Addison.


word: Transformation
definition:
Transformation

Trans`for*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transformatio: cf. transformation.]
The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.


word: Transformative
definition:
Transformative

Trans*form"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transformatif.]
Having power, or a tendency, to transform.


word: Transformer
definition:
Transformer

Trans*form"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

2.
(1990's)
a toy consisting of a figure or representation of an object, constructed of interlocking parts in such a way that a series of turning or twisting motions of the parts can transform the object from one type of object to a different type of object, such as from an animal to an automobile.

-- Multiple transformer. (Elec.) (a) A transformer connected in multiple or in parallel with the primary circuit. (b) A transformer with more than one primary or more than one secondary coil. -- Parallel transformer (Elec.), a transformer connected in parallel.


word: Transformism
definition:
Transformism

Trans*form"ism
(?)
n.
[F. transformisme.]
(Biol.)
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.


word: Transfretation
definition:
Transfretation

Trans`fre*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transfretatio. See Transfrete.]
The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
[Obs.]
Sir J. Davies.


word: Transfrete
definition:
Transfrete

Trans*frete"
(?)
v. i.
[L. transfretare; trans across, over + fretum a strait: cf. OF. transfreter.]
To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
[Written also transfreight.]
[Obs.]
E. Hall.


word: Transfugitive
definition:
Transfugitive

Transfuge

{ Trans"fuge (?), Trans*fu"gi*tive (?), }
n.
[L. transfuga; trans across, over + fugere to flee.]
One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.
[R.]


word: Transfund
definition:
Transfund

Trans*fund"
(?)
v. t.
[L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse.]
To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse.
[Obs.]
Barrow.


word: Transfuse
definition:
Transfuse

Trans*fuse"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transfused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transfusing.]
[L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser. See Transfund.]
1.
To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

2.
(Med.)
To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.

3.
To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters.

Into thee such virtue and grace
Immense I have transfused.
Milton.


word: Transfusion
definition:
Transfusion

Trans*fu"sion
(?)
n.
[L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.]
1.
The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
Howell.

2.
(Med.)
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.


word: Transgress
definition:
Transgress

Trans*gress"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transgressed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transgressing.]
[Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.]
1.
To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
[R.]

Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
Dryden.

2.
Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the _;imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.

For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
And easily transgress the sole command.
Milton.

3.
To offend against; to vex.
[Obs.]

Why give you peace to this imperate beast
That hath so long transgressed you ?
Beau. & Fl.


word: Transgress₂
definition:
Transgress

Trans*gress"
v. i.
To offend against the law; to sin.

Who transgressed in the thing accursed.
I Chron. ii. 7.


word: Transgression
definition:
Transgression

Trans*gres"sion
(?)
n.
[L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. transgression. See Grade.]
The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.

Forgive thy people . . . all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee.
I Kings viii. 50.

What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass
On his transgression, death denounced that day ?
Milton.

The transgression is in the stealer.
Shak.


word: Transgressional
definition:
Transgressional

Trans*gres"sion*al
(?)
a.
Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.


word: Transgressive
definition:
Transgressive

Trans*gress"ive
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. transgressivus passing over into another class. F. transgressif.]
Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -


word: Transgressively
definition:
Transgressively

Trans*gress"ive*ly
adv.

Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Transgressor
definition:
Transgressor

Trans*gress"or
(?)
n.
[L.: cf. F. transgresseur.]
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.


word: Transhuman
definition:
Transhuman

Trans*hu"man
(?)
a.
[Pref. trans- + human.]
More than human; superhuman.
[R.]

Words may not tell of that transhuman change.
H. F. Cary.


word: Transhumanize
definition:
Transhumanize

Trans*hu"man*ize
(?)
v. t.
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.


word: Transiency
definition:
Transiency

Transience

{ Tran"sience (?), Tran"sien*cy (?), }
n.
The quality of being transient; transientness.


word: Transient
definition:
Transient

Tran"sient
(?)
a.
[L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]
1.
Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.
transient
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.]

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.


word: Transiliency
definition:
Transiliency

Transilience

{ Tran*sil"i*ence (?), Tran*sil"i*en*cy (?), }
n.
[L. transiliens, p. pr. of transilire to leap across or over; trans across, over + salire to leap.]
A leap across or from one thing to another.
[R.]
transiliency
Glanvill.


word: Transire
definition:
Transire

Trans*i"re
(?)
n.
[L. transire to pass through or across, to pass.]
(End. Law)
A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.


word: Transistor
definition:
Transistor

Trans*ist"or
(?)
n.
[transfer + resistor, from its ability to tranfer a current across a resistor.]
(Electronics)
a component used in electronic devices consisting of three regions of at least two types of a semiconducting material, such as doped silicon, connected to each other and to three electrodes in a conducting path so as to modify the current or voltage in an electronic circuit.
Transistors are used in almost all modern electronic devices, having replaced the vacuum tube in most applications.  Since they are based on the electronic characteristics of solids, they are called solid-state devices.  Typically a transistor is composed of p, n, and p-type semiconductors in series, or of n, p, and n, with the center region being a thin layer between the two outer regions.  An electronic signal input to the central layer may be substantially amplified by such a device.  In integrated circuits, many thousands of transistors may be etched into a single small wafer of silicon.


word: Transit
definition:
Transit

Trans"it
(?)
n.
[L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See Transient.]
1.
The act of passing; passage through or over.

In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another.
Burke.

2.
The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

3.
A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
E. G. Squier.

4.
(Astron.)
(a)
The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
(b)
The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

5.
An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

&hand_; 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.


word: Transition
definition:
Transition

Tran*si"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]
1.
Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

There is no death, what seems so is transition.
Longfellow.

2.
(Mus.)
A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.

3.
(Rhet.)
A passing from one subject to another.

[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.
Milton.

4.
(Biol.)
Change from one form to another.

&hand_; 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.


word: Transitional
definition:
Transitional

Tran*si"tion*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.


word: Transition zone
definition:
Transition zone

Tran*si"tion zone
(Biogeography)
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.


word: Transitive
definition:
Transitive

Tran"si*tive
(?)
a.
[L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]
1.
Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
[R.]
Bacon.

2.
Effected by transference of signification.

By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
Stewart.

3.
(Gram.)
Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.


word: Transitoriness
definition:
Transitoriness

Tran"si*to*ri*ness
n.
The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.


word: Transitory
definition:
Transitory

Tran"si*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See Transient.]
Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.

Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.
Bk. of Com. Prayer.

It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing.
South.

Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.


word: Translatable
definition:
Translatable

Trans*lat"a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.


word: Translate
definition:
Translate

Trans*late"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.]
[f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]
1.
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
[Archaic]
Dryden.

In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.
Evelyn.

2.
To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

3.
To remove to heaven without a natural death.

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.
Heb. xi. 5.

4.
(Eccl.)
To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
translated
Camden.

5.
To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.

Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
Macaulay.

6.
To change into another form; to transform.

Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Shak.

7.
(Med.)
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

8.
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
[Obs.]
J. Fletcher.


word: Translation
definition:
Translation

Trans*la"tion
(?)
n.
[F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.]
1.
The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

2.
The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

3.
That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

4.
(Rhet.)
A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

5.
(Metaph.)
Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
A. Tucker.

6.
(Kinematics)
Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.


word: Translatitious
definition:
Translatitious

Trans`la*ti"tious
(?)
a.
[See Tralatitious.]
Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic.
[Obs.]
Evelyn.


word: Translative
definition:
Translative

Trans*lat"ive
(?)
a.
[L. translativus that is to be transferred: cf. F. translatif.]
tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense.
[R.]
Puttenham.


word: Translator
definition:
Translator

Trans*lat"or
(?)
n.
[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.)
A repeating instrument.
[Eng.]


word: Translavation
definition:
Translavation

Trans`la*va"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. trans- + L. lavatio, -onis, washing.]
A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Transliterate
definition:
Transliterate

Trans*lit"er*ate
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + L. litera, littera letter.]
To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters.
A. J. Ellis.


word: Transliteration
definition:
Transliteration

Trans*lit`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.


word: Translocation
definition:
Translocation

Trans`lo*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. trans- + location.]
removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.

There happened certain translocations at the deluge.
Woodward.


word: Translucency
definition:
Translucency

Translucence

{ Trans*lu"cence (?), Trans*lu"cen*cy (?), }
n.
The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Translucent
definition:
Translucent

Trans*lu"cent
(?)
a.
[L. translucens, -entis, p. pr. of translucere to shine through; trans across, through = lucere to shine. See Lucid.]
1.
Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

2.
Transparent; clear.
[Poetic]
translucent
Milton.

Replenished from the cool, translucent springs.
Pope.


word: Translucid
definition:
Translucid

Trans*lu"cid
(?)
a.
[L. translucidus; trans across, through + lucidus lucid: cf. F. translucide. See Translucent.]
Translucent.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Translunary
definition:
Translunary

Trans"lu*na*ry
(?)
a.
[Pref. trans- + L. luna moon.]
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.


word: Transmarine
definition:
Transmarine

Trans`ma*rine"
(?)
a.
[L. transmarinus; trans beyond + marinus marine: cf. F. transmarin. See Marine.]
Lying or being beyond the sea.
Howell.


word: Transmeatable
definition:
Transmeatable

Transmeable

{ Trans"me*a*ble (?), Trans`me*at"a*ble (?), }
a.
[L. transmeabilis.]
Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable.
[Obs.]


word: Transmeate
definition:
Transmeate

Trans"me*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. transmeatus, p. p. of transmeare to pass across; trans across, over + meare to go.]
To pass over or beyond.
[Obs.]


word: Transmew
definition:
Transmew

Trans*mew"
(?)
v. t. & i.
[F. transmuer, L. transmutare. See Transmute.]
To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.
[Archaic]
Chaucer. Spenser.

To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Transmigrant
definition:
Transmigrant

Trans"mi*grant
(?)
a.
[L. transmigrans, p. pr. See Transmigrate.]
Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another.
n. One who transmigrates.


word: Transmigrate
definition:
Transmigrate

Trans"mi*grate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Transmigrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transmigrating.]
[L. transmigrare, transmigratum; trans across + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
1.
To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.

2.
To pass from one body or condition into another.

Their may transmigrate into each other.
Howell.


word: Transmigration
definition:
Transmigration

Trans`mi*gra"tion
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Transmissibility
definition:
Transmissibility

Trans*mis`si*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transmissibilité.]
The quality of being transmissible.


word: Transmissible
definition:
Transmissible

Trans*mis"si*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transmissible.]
Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.


word: Transmission
definition:
Transmission

Trans*mis"sion
(?)
n.
[L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit.]
1.
The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

2.
(Law)
The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

3.
(Mech.)
The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft.

4.
The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.


word: Transmission dynamometer
definition:
Transmission dynamometer

Trans*mis"sion dy`na*mom"e*ter
(Mach.)
A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.


word: Transmissionist
definition:
Transmissionist

Trans*mis"sion*ist
n.
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.


word: Transmissive
definition:
Transmissive

Trans*mis"sive
(?)
a.
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.


word: Transmit
definition:
Transmit

Trans*mit"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.]
[L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]
1.
To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.

The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel.
Milton.

The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile.
Prescott.

2.
To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.


word: Transmitter
definition:
Transmitter

Trans*mit"ter
(?)
n.
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.


word: Transmogrification
definition:
Transmogrification

Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
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.


word: Transmogrify
definition:
Transmogrify

Trans*mog"ri*fy
(?)
v. t.
[A humorous coinage.]
To change into a different shape; to transform.
[Colloq.]
Fielding.


word: Transmove
definition:
Transmove

Trans*move"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans + move.]
To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Transmutability
definition:
Transmutability

Trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transmutabilité.]
The quality of being transmutable.


word: Transmutable
definition:
Transmutable

Trans*mut"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.]
Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.

The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another.
Arbuthnot.


word: Transmutation
definition:
Transmutation

Trans`mu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See Transmute.]
1.
The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

2.
(Geom.)
The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square.
[R.]

3.
(Biol.)
The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
Bacon.

Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.


word: Transmutationist
definition:
Transmutationist

Trans`mu*ta"tion*ist
n.
One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.


word: Transmute
definition:
Transmute

Trans*mute"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmuting.]
[L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.]
To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols.
Buckminster.

Transmuting sorrow into golden joy
Free from alloy.
H. Smith.


word: Transmutual
definition:
Transmutual

Trans*mu"tu*al
(?; 135)
a.
[Pref. trans + mutual.]
Reciprocal; commutual.
[R.]
Coleridge.


word: Transnatation
definition:
Transnatation

Trans`na*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transnatare to swim over; trans across, over + natare to swim.]
The act of swimming across, as a river.


word: Transnature
definition:
Transnature

Trans*na"ture
(?; 135)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + nature.]
To transfer or transform the nature of.
[Obs.]

We are transelemented, or transnatured.
Jewel.


word: Transom
definition:
Transom

Tran"som
(?)
n.
[Probably fr. L. transtrum a crossbeam, transom, from trans across.  Cf. Trestle.]
1.
(Arch.)
A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

2.
(Naut.)
One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.

3.
(Gun.)
The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

4.
(Surg.)
The vane of a cross-staff.
Chambers.

5.
(Railroad)
One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Transom knees (Shipbuilding), knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers. -- Transom window. (Arch.) (a) A window divided horizontally by a transom or transoms. (b) A window over a door, with a transom between.


word: Transpadane
definition:
Transpadane

Trans"pa*dane`
(?)
a.
[L. transpadanus; trans across + Padus the Po.]
Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.


word: Transpalatine
definition:
Transpalatine

Trans*pal"a*tine
(?)
a.
[Pref. trans- + palatine.]
(Anat.)
Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.


word: Transpare
definition:
Transpare

Trans*pare"
(?)
v. t. & i.
[See Transparent.]
To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.
[Obs.]
Stirling.


word: Transparence
definition:
Transparence

Trans*par"ence
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transparence.]
The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.


word: Transparency
definition:
Transparency

Trans*par"en*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Transparencies (#).
[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.


word: Transparent
definition:
Transparent

Trans*par"ent
(?)
a.
[F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.]
1.
Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.
Transparent
Milton.

2.
Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
Dryden.


word: Transpass
definition:
Transpass

Trans*pass"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + pass: cf. LL. transpassare.  Cf. Trespass.]
To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river.
[Obs.]
J. Gregory.


word: Transpatronize
definition:
Transpatronize

Trans*pat"ron*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Trans- + patronize.]
To transfer the patronage of.
[Obs.]
Warner.


word: Transpeciate
definition:
Transpeciate

Tran*spe"ci*ate
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + L. species form.]
To change from one species to another; to transform.
[Obs.]

Power to transpeciate a man into a horse.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Transpicuous
definition:
Transpicuous

Tran*spic"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. transpicere to see or look through + specere, spicere, to see.  Cf. Conspicuous.]
Transparent; pervious to the sight.
[R.]
transpicuous
Milton.


word: Transpierce
definition:
Transpierce

Trans*pierce"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transpierced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiercing (?).]
[Pref. trans- + pierce: cf. F. transpercer.]
To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

The sides transpierced return a rattling sound.
Dryden.


word: Transpirable
definition:
Transpirable

Tran*spir"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transpirable.]
Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.


word: Transpiration
definition:
Transpiration

Tran`spi*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[F. transpiration.]
1.
(Physiol.)
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.)
The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.

3.
(Physics)
The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.


word: Transpire
definition:
Transpire

Tran*spire"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Transpired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiring.]
[F. transpirer; L. trans across, through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
1.
(Physiol.)
To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

2.
(Bot.)
To evaporate from living cells.

3.
To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired.

The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers.
De Quincey.

4.
To happen or come to pass; to occur.

&hand_; 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.


word: Transpire₂
definition:
Transpire

Tran*spire"
v. t.
1.
(Physiol.)
To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

2.
(Bot.)
To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.


word: Transplace
definition:
Transplace

Trans*place"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transplaced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transplacing (?).]
[Pref. trans- + place.]
To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.
[R.]

It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place.
Bp. Wilkins.


word: Transplant
definition:
Transplant

Trans*plant"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting.]
[F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.]
1.
To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
Dryden.

2.
To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.

Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate.
Clarendon.


word: Transplantation
definition:
Transplantation

Trans`plan*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[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.)
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.


word: Transplendency
definition:
Transplendency

Tran*splen"den*cy
(?)
n.
Quality or state of being transplendent.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Transplendent
definition:
Transplendent

Tran*splen"dent
(?)
a.
[Trans- + splendent.]
Resplendent in the highest degree.
[R.]
Tran*splen"dent*ly, adv. [R.]


word: Transport
definition:
Transport

Trans*port"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.]
[F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]
1.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
Hakluyt.

2.
To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

3.
To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion.
Milton.

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.
South.


word: Transport₂
definition:
Transport

Trans"port
(?)
n.
[F. See Transport, v.]
1.
Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
Arbuthnot.

2.
A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.

3.
Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne.
Pope.

Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled.
Doddridge.

4.
A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.


word: Transportable
definition:
Transportable

Trans*port"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transportable.]
1.
Capable of being transported.

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


word: Transportal
definition:
Transportal

Trans*port"al
(?)
n.
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.
transportal
Darwin.


word: Transportant
definition:
Transportant

Trans*port"ant
(?)
a.
Transporting; _;avishing; as, transportant love.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Transportation
definition:
Transportation

Trans`por*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Transported
definition:
Transported

Trans*port"ed
(?)
a.
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced.
Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.


word: Transporting
definition:
Transporting

Trans*port"ing
a.
That transports; fig., ravishing.

Your transporting chords ring out.
Keble.


word: Transportment
definition:
Transportment

Trans*port"ment
(?)
n.
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.
[R.]


word: Transposal
definition:
Transposal

Trans*pos"al
(?)
n.
The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.


word: Transpose
definition:
Transpose

Trans*pose"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transposed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transposing.]
[F. transposer; pref. trans- (L. trans across) + poser to put. See Pose.]

1.
To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.

2.
To change; to transform; to invert.
[R.]

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Shak.

3.
(Alg.)
To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.

4.
(Gram.)
To change the natural order of, as words.

5.
(Mus.)
To change the key of.


word: Transposition
definition:
Transposition

Trans`po*si"tion
(?)
n.
[F. transposition, from L. transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over + ponere to place. See Position.]
The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.


word: Transpositional
definition:
Transpositional

Trans`po*si"tion*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition.
Pegge.


word: Transpositive
definition:
Transpositive

Trans*pos"i*tive
(?)
a.
Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.


word: Transprint
definition:
Transprint

Trans*print"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + print.]
To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.
[R.]
Coleridge.


word: Transprose
definition:
Transprose

Trans*prose"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + prose.]
To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Transshape
definition:
Transshape

Trans*shape"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transshaped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transshaping.]
[Pref. trans- + shape.]
To change into another shape or form; to transform.
[Written also transhape.]
Shak.


word: Transship
definition:
Transship

Trans*ship"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + ship.]
To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.
[Written also tranship.]


word: Transshipment
definition:
Transshipment

Trans*ship"ment
(?)
n.
The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.
[Written also transhipment.]


word: Transubstantiate
definition:
Transubstantiate

Tran`sub*stan"ti*ate
(?)
v. t.
[LL. transubstantiatus, p. p. of transubstantiare to transubstantiate; L. trans across, over + substantia substance. See Substance.]
1.
To change into another substance.
[R.]

The spider love which transubstantiates all,
And can convert manna to gall.
Donne.

2.
(R. C. Theol.)
To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.


word: Transubstantiation
definition:
Transubstantiation

Tran`sub*stan`ti*a"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. transubstantiatio: cf. F. transsubstantiation.]
1.
A change into another substance.

2.
(R. C. Theol.)
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.


word: Transubstantiator
definition:
Transubstantiator

Tran`sub*stan"ti*a`tor
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transsubstantiateur.]
One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Barrow.


word: Transudation
definition:
Transudation

Tran`su*da"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. transsudation.]
1.
The act or process of transuding.

2.
(Physics)
Same as Exosmose.


word: Transude
definition:
Transude

Tran*sude"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Transuded; p. pr. & vb. n. Transuding.]
[Pref. trans- + L. sudare to sweat: cf. F. transsuder.]
To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.


word: Transume
definition:
Transume

Tran*sume"
(?)
v. t.
[L. transumere, transsumere, to take from one to another; trans across + sumere to take.]
To change; to convert.
[R.]
Crashaw.


word: Transumpt
definition:
Transumpt

Tran*sumpt"
(?)
n.
[L. transumere, transumptum, to take from one to another, in LL., to transcribe. See Transume.]
A copy or exemplification of a record; a transcript.
[Obs.]
Lord Herbert.


word: Transumption
definition:
Transumption

Tran*sump"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transumptio.]
Act of taking from one place to another.
[R.]
South.


word: Transumptive
definition:
Transumptive

Tran*sump"tive
(?)
a.
[L. transumptivus.]
Taking from one to another; metaphorical.
[R.]
transumptive
Drayton.

Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive.
Lowell.


word: Transvasate
definition:
Transvasate

Trans*va"sate
(?)
v. t.
[See Transvasation.]
To pour out of one vessel into another.
[Obs.]
Cudworth.


word: Transvasation
definition:
Transvasation

Trans`va*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. trans- + L. vas, vasis, vessel.]
The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Transvection
definition:
Transvection

Trans*vec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transvectio, from transvehere to carry across; trans across + vehere to carry.]
The act of conveying or carrying over.
[R.]


word: Transverberate
definition:
Transverberate

Trans*ver"ber*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. transverberatus, p. p. of transverberare to strike or pierce through.]
To beat or strike through.
[Obs.]


word: Transversal
definition:
Transversal

Trans*ver"sal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. transversal. See Transverse.]
Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.


word: Transversal₂
definition:
Transversal

Trans*ver"sal
n.
[Cf. F. transversale.]
(Geom.)
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.


word: Transverse
definition:
Transverse

Trans*verse"
(?)
a.
[L. transversus, p. p.  of transvertere to turn on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse. See Verse, and cf. Traverse.]
Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.

Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.


word: Transverse₂
definition:
Transverse

Trans"verse
(?)
n.
1.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.

2.
(Geom.)
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.


word: Transverse₃
definition:
Transverse

Trans*verse"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Transversed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Transversing.]
To overturn; to change.
[R.]
C. Leslie.


word: Transverse₄
definition:
Transverse

Trans*verse"
v. t.
[Pref. trans- + verse, n.  Cf.Transpose.]
To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
[Obs.]
Duke of Buckingham.


word: Transversion
definition:
Transversion

Trans*ver"sion
(?)
n.
The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.


word: Transvert
definition:
Transvert

Trans*vert"
(?)
v. t.
[L. transvertere. See Transverse, a.]
To cause to turn across; to transverse.
[Obs.]
Craft of Lovers (1448).


word: Transvolation
definition:
Transvolation

Trans`vo*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. transvolare to fly over or across; trans across + volare to fly.]
The act of flying beyond or across.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Trant
definition:
Trant

Trant
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. OD. tranten to walk slowly, LG. & D. trant walk, pace.]
To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.
[Written also traunt.]
[Obs.]


word: Tranter
definition:
Tranter

Trant"er
(?)
n.
One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
[Written also traunter.]
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Trap
definition:
Trap

Trap
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trapping.]
[Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.]
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.
Chaucer.

To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.
Spenser.

There she found her palfrey trapped
 In purple blazoned with armorial gold.
Tennyson.


word: Trap₂
definition:
Trap

Trap
n.
[Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe, G. treppe, D. trap; -- so called because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps. See Tramp.]
(Geol.)
An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

Trap tufa, Trap tuff, a kind of fragmental rock made up of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.


word: Trap₄
definition:
Trap

Trap
n.
[OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD. trappe, OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.]
1.
A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

She would weep if that she saw a mouse
Caught in a trap.
Chaucer.

2.
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap.
Rom. xi. 9.

God and your majesty
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
The trap is laid for me!
Shak.

3.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

4.
The game of trapball.

5.
A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

6.
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

7.
A wagon, or other vehicle.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.

8.
A kind of movable stepladder.
Knight.

Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. -- Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.


word: Trap₅
definition:
Trap

Trap
(?)
v. t.
[AS. treppan. See Trap a snare.]

1.
To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

2.
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
trapped
Dryden.

3.
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.


word: Trap₆
definition:
Trap

Trap
v. i.
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.


word: Trapan
definition:
Trapan

Tra*pan"
(?)
n.
[OF. trappan. See Trap, and cf. Trepan a snare.]
A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
South.


word: Trapan₂
definition:
Trapan

Tra*pan"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trapanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trapanning.]
To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia.
Anson.


word: Trapdoor
definition:
Trapdoor

Trap"door`
(?)
n.
1.
(Arch.)
A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

2.
(Mining)
A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Raymond.

Trapdoor spider (Zool.), 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 (Cteniza Californica).


word: Trape
definition:
Trape

Trape
(?)
v. i.
[See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]
To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.
[Obs. or Colloq.]


word: Trapes
definition:
Trapes

Trapes
(?)
n.
[See Trape.]
A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
[Obs. or Colloq.]


word: Trapes₂
definition:
Trapes

Trapes
v. i.
To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.
[Colloq.]
Thackeray.


word: Trapeze
definition:
Trapeze

Tra*peze"
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. trapèze.]
1.
(Geom.)
A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

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


word: Trapeziform
definition:
Trapeziform

Tra*pe"zi*form
(?)
a.
[Trapezium + -form: cf. F. trapéziforme.]
Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.


word: Trapezium
definition:
Trapezium

Tra*pe"zi*um
(?)
n.
pl. E. Trapeziums (#), L. Trapezia (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. of _; a table, for _;; _; (see Tetra-) + _; foot, akin to _; foot; hence, originally, a table with four feet. See Foot.]
1.
(Geom.)
A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

2.
(Anat.)
(a)
A bone of the carpus at  the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
(b)
A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.


word: Trapezohedron
definition:
Trapezohedron

Trap`e*zo*he"dron
(?)
n.
[NL., from trapezium + Gr. _; seat, base, fr. _; to sit.]
(Crystalloq.)
(a)
A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.
(b)
A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.


word: Trapezoid
definition:
Trapezoid

Trap"e*zoid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; trapezoid-shaped; _; table + _; shape, likeness: cf. F. trapézoïde. See Trapezium.]
1.
(Geom.)
A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.

2.
(Anat.)
A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.


word: Trapezoid₂
definition:
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.)
Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.


word: Trapezoidal
definition:
Trapezoidal

Trap`e*zoid"al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. trapézoïdal.]

1.
Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

2.
(Min.)
Trapezohedral.


word: Trappean
definition:
Trappean

Trap"pe*an
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. trappéen. See Trap a kind of rock.]
(Min.)
Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.


word: Trapper
definition:
Trapper

Trap"per
(?)
n.
[From Trap to insnare.]
1.
One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
W. Irving.

2.
(Mining)
A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Raymond.


word: Trappings
definition:
Trappings

Trap"pings
(?)
n. pl.
[From Trap to dress with ornaments.]
1.
That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.
Dryden.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Shak.

2.
Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.

Caparisons and steeds,
Bases and tinsel trappings.
Milton.


word: Trappist
definition:
Trappist

Trap"pist
(?)
n.
[F. trappiste.]
(R. C. Ch.)
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.


word: Trappous
definition:
Trappous

Trap"pous
(?)
n.
[From Trap a kind of rock.]
(Min.)
Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.


word: Traps
definition:
Traps

Traps
(?)
n. pl.
[See Trappings, and Trap to dress.]
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
[Colloq.]


word: Trap shooting
definition:
Trap shooting

Trap shooting
(Sport)
Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap.
Trap shooter.


word: Trapstick
definition:
Trapstick

Trap"stick`
(?)
n.
A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.
Addison.


word: Trash
definition:
Trash

Trash
(?)
n.
[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.

&hand_; 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.


word: Trash₂
definition:
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.


word: Trashy
definition:
Trashy

Trash"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Trashier (?); superl. Trashiest.]
Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.


word: Trass
definition:
Trass

Trass
(?)
n.
[D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace. See Terrace.]
(Geol.)
A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.
[Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.]

&hand_; The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.


word: Traulism
definition:
Traulism

Trau"lism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a lisping, fr. _; to lisp, to mispronounce.]
A stammering or stuttering.
[Obs.]
Dalgarno.


word: Traumatic
definition:
Traumatic

Trau*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[L. traumaticus, Gr. _;, from _;, _;, a wound: cf. F. 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. A traumatic medicine.


word: Traumatism
definition:
Traumatism

Trau"ma*tism
(?)
n.
(Med.)
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.


word: Travail
definition:
Travail

Trav"ail
(?; 48)
n.
[F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave).  Cf. Travel.]
1.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

As everything of price, so this doth require travail.
Hooker.

2.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.


word: Travail₂
definition:
Travail

Tra`vail"
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v. i.]
Same as Travois.


word: Travail₃
definition:
Travail

Trav"ail
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Travailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.]
[F.  travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]
1.
To labor with pain; to toil.
[Archaic]
travail
Latimer.

2.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.


word: Travail₄
definition:
Travail

Trav"ail
v. t.
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.


word: Travailous
definition:
Travailous

Trav"ail*ous
(?)
a.
Causing travail; laborious.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.
Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Wyclif.


word: Trave
definition:
Trave

Trave
(?)
n.
[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.)
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.


word: Travel
definition:
Travel

Trav"el
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Traveled (?) or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.]
[Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]
1.
To labor; to travail.
[Obsoles.]
Hooker.

2.
To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

3.
To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

4.
To pass; to go; to move.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
Shak.


word: Travel₂
definition:
Travel

Trav"el
(?)
v. t.
1.
To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
travel
Milton.

2.
To force to journey.
[R.]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.
Spenser.


word: Travel₃
definition:
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.
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.)
The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

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


word: Traveled
definition:
Traveled

Trav"eled
(?)
a.
Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced.
[Written also travelled.]

The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen.
Byron.


word: Traveler
definition:
Traveler

Trav"el*er
(?)
n.
[Written also traveler.]
1.
One who travels; one who has traveled much.

2.
A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

3.
(Mach.)
A traveling crane. See under Crane.

4.
(Spinning)
The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

5.
(Naut.)
An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. -- Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.


word: Travers
definition:
Travers

Trav"ers
(?)
adv.
[F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.]
Across; athwart.
[Obs.]

The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.
Ld. Berners.


word: Traversable
definition:
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.


word: Traverse
definition:
Traverse

Trav"erse
(?)
a.
[OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers.]
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
Sir H. Wotton.

The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
Hayward.

Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.


word: Traverse₃
definition:
Traverse

Trav"erse
n.
[F. traverse. See Traverse, a.]
1.
Anything that traverses, or crosses.

Men drinken and the travers draw anon.
Chaucer.

And the entrance of the king,
The first traverse was drawn.
F. Beaumont.

2.
A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
[Obs.]

To work a traverse or To solve a traverse (Naut.), to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse. -- Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole. -- Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. -- Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship. -- Traverse table. (a) (Naut. & Surv.) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.


word: Traverse₄
definition:
Traverse

Trav"erse
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Traversed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing.]
[Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.]
1.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
Dryden.

2.
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.

What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought.
Pope.

4.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude.
South.

5.
(Gun.)
To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

6.
(Carp.)
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

7.
(Law)
To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.

And save the expense of long litigious laws,
Where suits are traversed, and so little won
That he who conquers is but last undone.
Dryden.

To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.


word: Traverse₅
definition:
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.


word: Traverse drill
definition:
Traverse drill

Trav"erse 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.


word: Traverser
definition:
Traverser

Trav"ers*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

2.
(Law)
One who traverses, or denies.

3.
(Railroad)
A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.


word: Traversing
definition:
Traversing

Trav"ers*ing
a.
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.


word: Travertine
definition:
Travertine

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


word: Travesty
definition:
Travesty

Trav"es*ty
(?)
a.
[F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.]
Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
[R.]


word: Travesty₂
definition:
Travesty

Trav"es*ty
n.
pl. Travesties (_;).
A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.

The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
De Quincey.


word: Travesty₃
definition:
Travesty

Trav"es*ty
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Travestied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting.]
To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor.
Bentley.


word: Travois
definition:
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]


word: Trawl
definition:
Trawl

Trawl
(?)
v. i.
[OF. trauler, troller, F. trôter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin.  Cf. Troll, v. t.]
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.


word: Trawl₂
definition:
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.


word: Trawler
definition:
Trawler

Trawl"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, trawls.

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


word: Trawlerman
definition:
Trawlerman

Trawl"er*man
(?)
n.
pl. Trawlermen (_;).
A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
[Obs.]
Cowell.


word: Trawlwarp
definition:
Trawlwarp

Trawl"warp`
(?)
n.
A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.


word: Tray
definition:
Tray

Tray
(?)
v. t.
[OF. traïr, F. trahir, L. tradere. See Traitor.]
To betray; to deceive.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Tray₂
definition:
Tray

Tray
n.
pl. Trays (#).
[OE. treye, AS. treg.  Cf. Trough.]
1.
A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

2.
A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

3.
A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.


word: Treacher
definition:
Treacher

Treach"er
(?)
n.
[OE. trichour, trichur, OF. tricheor deceiver, traitor, F. tricheur a cheat at play, a trickster. See Treachery.]
A traitor; a cheat.
[Obs.]

Treacher and coward both.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Treacherous
definition:
Treacherous

Treach"er*ous
(?)
a.
[See Treacher.]
Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.

Loyal father of a treacherous son.
Shak.

The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate.
Cowper.


word: Treachery
definition:
Treachery

Treach"er*y
(?)
n.
[OE. trecherïe, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See Trickery, Trick.]
Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Be ware, ye lords, of their treachery.
Chaucer.

In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption.
Macaulay.


word: Treachour
definition:
Treachour

Treachetour

{ Treach"e*tour (?), Treach"our (?), }
n.
[See Treacher.]
A traitor.
[Obs.]
Treachour
Spenser.


word: Treacle
definition:
Treacle

Trea"cle
(trē"k'l)
n.
[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. _;, fr. _; of wild or venomous beasts, fr. qhri`on a beast, a wild beast, dim. of qh`r a beast.  Cf. Theriac.]
1.
(Old Med.)
A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

We kill the viper, and make treacle of him.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
A sovereign remedy; a cure.
[Obs.]

Christ which is to every harm treacle.
Chaucer.

3.
Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.

&hand_; 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 Erysimum 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.


word: Tread
definition:
Tread

Tread
(?)
v. i.
[imp. Trod (?); p. p. Trodden (?), Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.]
[OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro_;a, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. _; a running, Skr. dram to run.  Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]
1.
To set the foot; to step.

Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
Pope.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Pope.

The hard stone
Under our feet, on which we tread and go.
Chaucer.

2.
To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.

Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
Milton.

3.
To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
Shak.

To tread on or To tread 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.


word: Tread₂
definition:
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.
tread
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.


word: Tread₃
definition:
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.)
The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.

6.
(Fort.)
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

7.
(Mach.)
(a)
The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(b)
The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.

8.
(Biol.)
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

9.
(Far.)
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.


word: Treadle
definition:
Treadle

Trea"dle
(?)
n.
[OE. tredyl a step, AS. tredel. See Tread.]
1.
The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

2.
(Biol.)
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.


word: Treadmill
definition:
Treadmill

Tread"mill`
(?)
n.
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.


word: Treadwheel
definition:
Treadwheel

Tread"wheel`
(?)
n.
A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.


word: Treague
definition:
Treague

Treague
(?)
n.
[It. tregua; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. true.]
A truce.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Treason
definition:
Treason

Trea"son
(?)
n.
[OE. tresun, treisun, traisoun, OF. traïson, F. trahison, L. traditio a giving up, a delivering up, fr. tradere to give up, betray. See Traitor, and cf. Tradition.]
1.
The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

The treason of the murthering in the bed.
Chaucer.

&hand_; 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.


word: Treasonable
definition:
Treasonable

Trea"son*a*ble
(?)
a.
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.


word: Treasonous
definition:
Treasonous

Trea"son*ous
(?)
a.
Treasonable.
Shak.

The treasonous book of the Court of King James.
Pepys.


word: Treasure
definition:
Treasure

Treas"ure
(?)
n.
[OE. tresor, tresour, F. trésor, L. thesaurus, Gr. _; a stone laid up, treasure, probably from the root of _; to put, place.  See Thesis, and cf. Thesaurus.]
1.
Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

This treasure hath fortune unto us given.
Chaucer.

2.
A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.

We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey.
Jer. xli. 8.

3.
That which is very much valued.

Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
Ex. xix. 5.

From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure.
Milton.

Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines. Ex. i. 11.


word: Treasure₂
definition:
Treasure

Treas"ure
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Treasured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Treasuring.]
To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.


word: Treasurer
definition:
Treasurer

Treas"ur*er
(?)
n.
[OE. tresourer, F. trésorier.]
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.


word: Treasure-trove
definition:
Treasure-trove

Treas"ure-trove`
(?)
n.
[Treasure + OF. trové, F. trouvé, p. p. of OF. trover to find, F. trouver.  See Trover.]
(Common Law)
Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.


word: Treasury
definition:
Treasury

Treas"ur*y
(?)
n.
pl. Treasuries (#).
[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.


word: Treasury stock
definition:
Treasury stock

Treas"ur*y stock
(Finance)
Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.


word: Treat
definition:
Treat

Treat
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Treated; p. pr. & vb. n. Treating.]
[OE. treten, OF. traitier, F. traiter, from L. tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. intens. from trahere, tractum, to draw. See Trace, v. t., and cf. Entreat, Retreat, Trait.]
1.
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

2.
To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.

3.
To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company.

4.
To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for.
[Obs.]

To treat the peace, a hundred senators
Shall be commissioned.
Dryden.

5.
(Med.)
To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

6.
To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid.
Ure.

7.
To entreat; to beseech.
[Obs.]
Ld. Berners.


word: Treat₂
definition:
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.


word: Treat₃
definition:
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.


word: Treatable
definition:
Treatable

Treat"a*ble
(?)
a.
[OE. tretable, F. traitable, L. tractabilis. See Treat, and cf. Tractable.]
Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent.
[Obs.]
treatable
R. Parr.

A kind of treatable dissolution.
Hooker.

The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us.
Sir W. Temple.


word: Treater
definition:
Treater

Treat"er
(?)
n.
One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.


word: Treatise
definition:
Treatise

Trea"tise
(?)
n.
[OE. tretis, OF. treitis, traitis, well made. See Treat.]
1.
A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
Chaucer.

He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity.
Macaulay.

&hand_; 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.


word: Treatment
definition:
Treatment

Treat"ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]
1.
The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

2.
Entertainment; treat.
[Obs.]

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
Pope.


word: Treaty
definition:
Treaty

Trea"ty
(?)
n.
pl. Treaties (#).
[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.
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.


word: Treble
definition:
Treble

Tre"ble
(?)
a.
[OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple.]
1.
Threefold; triple.

A lofty tower, and strong on every side
With treble walls.
Dryden.

2.
(Mus.)
(a)
Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.
Bacon.
(b)
Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.


word: Treble₃
definition:
Treble

Tre"ble
n.
[“ 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.)
The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

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


word: Treble₄
definition:
Treble

Tre"ble
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trebled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trebling.]
1.
To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
trebled
Tennyson.

2.
To utter in a treble key; to whine.
[Obs.]

He outrageously
(When I accused him) trebled his reply.
Chapman.


word: Trebleness
definition:
Trebleness

Tre"ble*ness
n.
The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.
Bacon.


word: Trebucket
definition:
Trebucket

Trebuchet

{ Treb"u*chet (?), Tre"buck*et (?), }
n.
[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.]


word: Trecento
definition:
Trecento

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


word: Treckschuyt
definition:
Treckschuyt

Treck"schuyt`
(?)
n.
[D. trekschuit; trekken to draw + schuit a boat.  Cf. Trackscout.]
A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.


word: Treddle
definition:
Treddle

Tred"dle
(?)
n.
[See Treadle.]
1.
See Treadle.

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

3.
pl.
The dung of sheep or hares.
Holland.


word: Tree
definition:
Tree

Tree
(trē)
n.
[OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin to OFries. trē, OS. treo, trio, Icel. trē, Dan. trae, Sw. trä, träd, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree, oak, do`ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, dāru wood. √63, 241.  Cf. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.]

1.
(Bot.)
Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

&hand_; 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.)
A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

Tree bear (Zool.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] -- Tree beetle (Zool.) 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the purse crab. See under Purse. -- Tree creeper (Zool.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3. -- Tree cricket (Zool.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket (Ecanthus nivœus) which is noted for its loud stridulation; -- called also white cricket. -- Tree crow (Zool.), 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 (Zool.) 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serriceps). -- Tree frog. (Zool.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidae. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under Flying) is an example. -- Tree goose (Zool.), the bernicle goose. -- Tree hopper (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] -- Tree kangaroo. (Zool.) See Kangaroo. -- Tree lark (Zool.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tree lizard (Zool.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (formerly grouped as the Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons; also applied to various lizards belonging to the families Agamidae or Iguanidae, especially those of the genus Urosaurus, such as the lined tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) of the southwestern U.S. -- Tree lobster. (Zool.) Same as Tree crab, above. -- Tree louse (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinae. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. -- Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. -- Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. -- Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree (Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. -- Tree of life (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vitae. -- Tree onion (Bot.), a species of garlic (Allium proliferum) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. -- Tree oyster (Zool.), a small American oyster (Ostrea folium) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; -- called also raccoon oyster. -- Tree pie (Zool.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus Dendrocitta. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. -- Tree pigeon (Zool.), 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. (Zool.) See under Pipit. -- Tree porcupine (Zool.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera Chaetomys and Sphingurus.  They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles.  One South American species (Sphingurus villosus) is called also couiy; another (Sphingurus prehensilis) is called also cœndou. -- Tree rat (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a tree snake. -- Tree shrike (Zool.), a bush shrike. -- Tree snake (Zool.), 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 Tenerife. -- Tree sparrow (Zool.) 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. -- Tree tiger (Zool.), a leopard. -- Tree toad (Zool.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to Hyla and allied genera of the family Hylidae. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees.  Only one species (Hyla arborea) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia.  The common tree toad of the Northern United States (Hyla 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 (Zool.), 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.


word: Tree₂
definition:
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.


word: Treebeard
definition:
Treebeard

Tree"beard`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.


word: Tree burial
definition:
Tree burial

Tree burial
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.


word: Tree calf
definition:
Tree calf

Tree calf
A bright brown polished calfskin binding of  books, stained with a conventional treelike design.


word: Treen
definition:
Treen

Treen
(?)
a.
[AS. treówen.]
1.
Made of wood; wooden.
[Obs.]
Treen
Camden.

2.
Relating to, or drawn from, trees.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Treen liquors, especially that of the date.
Evelyn.


word: Treenail
definition:
Treenail

Tree"nail`
(?)
n.
[Tree + nail.]
(Shipbuilding)
A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.
[Written also trenail, and trunnel.]


word: Tref
definition:
Tref

Tref
(trĕf)
a.
[Yiddish, fr. Heb. tĕrēphāh an animal torn by wild beasts.]
Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; -- opposed to kosher.


word: Trefle
definition:
Trefle

Tre"fle
(?)
n.
[F. tréfle. See Trefoil.]
(Fort.)
A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.


word: Trefle₂
definition:
Trefle

Tré`flé"
(?)
a.
[F. tréflé. See Trefoil.]
(Her.)
Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.


word: Trefoil
definition:
Trefoil

Tre"foil
(?)
n.
[L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.]
1.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

3.
(Her.)
A charge representing the clover leaf.


word: Tregetour
definition:
Tregetour

Treg"et*our
(?)
n.
[OE. tresgeteor. See Trans-, and Jet a shooting forth.]
A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.
[Obs.]

Divers appearances
Such as these subtle tregetours play.
Chaucer.


word: Trehala
definition:
Trehala

Tre*ha"la
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, Larinus 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.


word: Trehalose
definition:
Trehalose

Tre"ha*lose`
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.


word: Treillage
definition:
Treillage

Treil"lage
(?)
n.
[F. treillage. See Trellis.]
Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
Spectator.

I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow.
Walpole.


word: Trek
definition:
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.


word: Trek₂
definition:
Trek

Trek
n.
[Written also treck.]
[D. Cf. Track, n.]
The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration.
[Chiefly South Africa]
To the north a trek was projected, and some years later was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the Mashonaland.
James Bryce.
Great Trek, the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the South African Republic and Orange Free State.


word: Trekometer
definition:
Trekometer

Trek*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Cf. Trechometer.]
(Mil.)
A field range finger used in the British service.


word: Trellis
definition:
Trellis

Trel"lis
(?)
n.
[OE. relis, F. treillis, fr. treille vine arbor, fr. L. tricla, triclea, triclia, a bower, arbor, summer house.]
A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.


word: Trellised
definition:
Trellised

Trel"lised
(?)
a.
Having a trellis or trellises.

Cottages trellised over with exotic plants.
Jeffrey.


word: Tremando
definition:
Tremando

Tre*man"do
(?)
a.
[It.]
(Mus.)
Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.


word: Trematodea
definition:
Trematodea

Trem`a*to"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; having holes, from _;, _;, a hole.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Trematoid
definition:
Trematoid

Trem"a*toid
(?)
a.
[From Gr. _;, _;, a hole + e'i^dos form.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Tremble
definition:
Tremble

Trem"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trembled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling (?).]
[F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. _;, Lith. trimti.  Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.]
1.
To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

I tremble still with fear.
Shak.

Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke.
Dryden.

2.
To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.

The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top
Shall tremble.
Milton.

3.
To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.


word: Tremble₂
definition:
Tremble

Trem"ble
n.
An involuntary shaking or quivering.

I am all of a tremble when I think of it.
W. Black.


word: Trembler
definition:
Trembler

Trem"bler
(?)
n.
One who trembles.

2.
Any of certain West Indian birds of the genera Cinclocerthia and Rhamphocinclus, of the family Mimidae.

3.
(Elec.)
The vibrating hammer, or spring contact piece of a hammer break, as of the electric ignition apparatus for an internal-combustion engine.


word: Trembling
definition:
Trembling

Trem"bling
(?)
a.
Shaking; tottering; quivering.
Trem"bling*ly, adv.

Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.


word: Tremella
definition:
Tremella

Tre*mel"la
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. tremere, to tremble: cf. It. tremella, F. tremelle.]
(Bot.)
A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.


word: Tremendous
definition:
Tremendous

Tre*men"dous
(?)
a.
[L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]
Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.

A tremendous mischief was a foot.
Motley.


word: Tremex
definition:
Tremex

Tre"mex
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; The pigeon tremex (Tremex columba), a common American species, infests the elm, pear, and other trees.


word: Tremie
definition:
Tremie

Trem"ie
(?)
n.
[F. trémie hopper.]
(Hydraulic Engin.)
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.


word: Tremolite
definition:
Tremolite

Trem"o*lite
n.
[From Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered.]
(Min.)
A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.


word: Tremolo
definition:
Tremolo

Tre"mo*lo
(?)
n.
[It.  Cf. Tremulous.]
(Mus.)
(a)
The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
(b)
A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.


word: Tremor
definition:
Tremor

Tre"mor
(?)
n.
[L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.]
A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.
Harvey.


word: Tremulent
definition:
Tremulent

Tremulant

{ Trem"u*lant (?), Trem"u*lent (?), }
a.
Tremulous; trembling; shaking.
[R.]
tremulent
Carlyle.


word: Tremulous
definition:
Tremulous

Trem"u*lous
(?)
a.
[L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]
1.
Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

2.
Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.

The tender, tremulous Christian.
Dr. H. More.


word: Trench
definition:
Trench

Trench
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.]
[OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]
1.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

The wide wound that the boar had trenched
In his soft flank.
Shak.

This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
Shak.

2.
(Fort.)
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
Pope.

No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Shak.

3.
To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

4.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.


word: Trench₂
definition:
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.


word: Trench₃
definition:
Trench

Trench
n.
[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.)
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.


word: Trenchant
definition:
Trenchant

Trench"ant
(?)
a.
[OF. trenchant, F. tranchant, p. pr. See Trench, v. t.]
1.
Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
Trenchant
Chaucer.

2.
Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.


word: Trencher
definition:
Trencher

Trench"er
(?)
n.
[OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See Trench, v. t.]
1.
One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

2.
A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.

3.
The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.

It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their “summum bonum” upon their trenchers.
South.

Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L'Estrange. -- Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.


word: Trencher-man
definition:
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.


word: Trenchmore
definition:
Trenchmore

Trench"more
(?)
n.
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.


word: Trench-plough
definition:
Trench-plough

Trench-plow

{ Trench"-plow", Trench"-plough`  }
(-plou`)
v. t.
To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.


word: Trend
definition:
Trend

Trend
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n. Trending.]
[OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.]
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.


word: Trend₂
definition:
Trend

Trend
v. t.
To cause to turn; to bend.
[R.]

Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends
Her silver stream.
W. Browne.


word: Trend₃
definition:
Trend

Trend
n.
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.


word: Trendle
definition:
Trendle

Tren"dle
(?)
n.
[AS. trendel, tryndel, circle, ring. See Trend, v. i., and cf. Trundle.]
A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
[Obs.]

The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns.
Sylvester.


word: Trental
definition:
Trental

Tren"tal
(?)
n.
[LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.]
1.
(R. C. Ch.)
An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
trentals
Spenser.

2.
Hence, a dirge; an elegy.


word: Trente et quarante
definition:
Trente et quarante

Trente" et` qua`rante"
(?)
[F., lit., thirty and forty.]
Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.


word: Trenton period
definition:
Trenton period

Tren"ton pe"ri*od
(?)
(Geol.)
A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.


word: Trepan
definition:
Trepan

Tre*pan"
(?)
n.
[F. trépan (cf. Sp. trépano, It. trepano, trapano), LL. trepanum, fr. Gr. _; a borer, auger, trepan, fr. _; to bore, _; a hole.  Cf. Trephine.]
1.
(Surg.)
A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

2.
(Mining)
A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.


word: Trepan₂
definition:
Trepan

Tre*pan"
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Trepanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trepanning.]
[Cf. F. trépaner. See Trepan a saw.]
(Surg.)
To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.


word: Trepan₃
definition:
Trepan

Tre*pan"
n.
[See Trapan.]
1.
A snare; a trapan.

Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.
South.

2.
a deceiver; a cheat.

He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.
Macaulay.


word: Trepan₄
definition:
Trepan

Tre*pan"
v. t.
To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations.
De Quincey.


word: Trepang
definition:
Trepang

Tre*pang"
(?)
n.
[Malay trīpang.]
(Zool.)
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.]

&hand_; The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially Holothuria 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.


word: Trephine
definition:
Trephine

Tre*phine"
(?; 277)
n.
[A dim. of 1st trepan: cf. F. tréphine.]
(Surg.)
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.


word: Trephine₂
definition:
Trephine

Tre*phine"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trephined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trephining.]
To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.


word: Trepidation
definition:
Trepidation

Trep`i*da"tion
(?)
n.
[F. trépidation, L. trepidatio, fr. trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble, from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. trepit he turns, Gr. _; to turn, E. 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.)
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.


word: Tresayle
definition:
Tresayle

Tres"ayle`
(trĕs"āl`)
n.
[F. trisaïeul, from L. tris, tres, three + F. aïeul grandfather.  Cf. Besaiel, and see Ayle.]
A grandfather's grandfather.
[Obs.]

Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.


word: Trespass
definition:
Trespass

Tres"pass
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trespassed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.]
[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)
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.


word: Trespass₂
definition:
Trespass

Tres"pass
(?)
n.
[OF. trespas, 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.


word: Trespasser
definition:
Trespasser

Tres"pass*er
(?)
n.
One who commits a trespass
(a)
(Law)
One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights.
(b)
A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.


word: Tress
definition:
Tress

Tress
(?)
n.
[OE. tresse, OF. trece, F. tresse, LL. tricia, fr. Gr. tri`cha threefold, because a tress is usually formed by interlacing three pieces; akin to trei^s three. See Three.]
1.
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

Her yellow hair was braided in a tress.
Chaucer.

Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare.
Pope.

2.
Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Keats.


word: Tressed
definition:
Tressed

Tressed
(?)
a.
1.
Having tresses.

2.
Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
Spenser. Drayton.


word: Tressure
definition:
Tressure

Tres"sure
(?)
n.
[F. tresser to twist, plait. See Tress, n.]
(Her.)
A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.


word: Tressured
definition:
Tressured

Tres"sured
(?)
a.
(Her.)
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.


word: Tres-tine
definition:
Tres-tine

Tres"-tine`
(?)
n.
[Cf. L. tris, tres, three, and E. tyne, tine, a prong.]
The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royal antler.


word: Trestle
definition:
Trestle

Tres"tle
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Trestletree
definition:
Trestletree

Tres"tle*tree`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
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.


word: Trestlework
definition:
Trestlework

Tres"tle*work`
(?)
n.
A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.


word: Tres-tyne
definition:
Tres-tyne

Tres"-tyne`
(?)
n.
[L. tris, tres, three + E. tyne.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Tret₂
definition:
Tret

Tret
n.
[F. traite a drawing, trading, journey, tax on wares in transit, anything diminishing the value of coins, fr. OF. traire to draw, L. trahere. See Trait.]
(Com.)
An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
M'Culloch.


word: Tretable
definition:
Tretable

Tret"a*ble
(?)
a.
[See Treatable.]
Tractable; moderate.
[Obs.]

By nature debonaire and tretable.
Chaucer.


word: Trething
definition:
Trething

Treth"ing
(?)
n.
[W. treth an allowance, contribution, tribute, or tax, trethu to rate or tax.]
A tax; an impost.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Tretys
definition:
Tretys

Tretis

{ Tre"tis (?), Tre"tys  }
n.
[See Treatise.]
A treatise; also, a treaty.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Tretys₂
definition:
Tretys

Tretis

{ Tre*tis" (?), Tre*tys"  }
a.
[OF. traitis.]
Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty.
[Obs.]
tretys
Chaucer.


word: Trevat
definition:
Trevat

Tre"vat
(?)
n.
A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.


word: Trey
definition:
Trey

Trey
(?)
n.
[OF. treis three, F. trois, L. tres. See Three, and cf. Tray-trip.]
Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.

Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey.
Chaucer.


word: Tri-
definition:
Tri-

Tri-
(?)
[Gr. tri- or L. tri-, sometimes through French; akin to L. tres three, and E. three. See Three.]

1.
A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.

2.
(Chem.)
A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.


word: Triable
definition:
Triable

Tri"a*ble
(?)
a.
[From Try.]
1.
Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.
triable
Boyle.

2.
(Law)
Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.


word: Triacid
definition:
Triacid

Tri*ac"id
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + acid.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Triaconter
definition:
Triaconter

Tri"a*con`ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; thirty.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.


word: Triad
definition:
Triad

Tri"ad
(?)
n.
[L. trias, -adis, Gr. _;, _;, fr._;, _;, three: cf. F. triade. See Three, and cf. Trias, Trio.]
1.
A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

2.
(Mus.)
(a)
A chord of three notes.
(b)
The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.

3.
(Chem.)
An element or radical whose valence is three.

Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. -- Hindu triad. See Trimurti.


word: Triadelphous
definition:
Triadelphous

Tri`a*del"phous
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; brother.]
(Bot.)
Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.


word: Triakisoctahedron
definition:
Triakisoctahedron

Tri"a*kis*oc`ta*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; thrice + E. octahedron.]
(Crystalloq.)
A trigonal trisoctahedron.


word: Trial
definition:
Trial

Tri"al
(?)
n.
[From Try.]
1.
The act of trying or testing in any manner.

[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight.
Milton.

Repeated trials of the issues and events of actions.
Bp. Wilkins.

2.
The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.

Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings.
Heb. xi. 36.

3.
That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.

Every station is exposed to some trials.
Rogers.

4.
(Law)
The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.


word: trial and error
definition:
trial and error

tri"al and er"ror
The method of discovering something desirable by trying many different things until one works; as, the traditional method of finding new drugs is by trial and error.

And millions miss for one that hits.
Swift.


word: Trial balance
definition:
Trial balance

Tri"al bal`ance
(Bookkeeping)
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.


word: Triality
definition:
Triality

Tri*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. tres, tria, three.]
Three united; state of being three.
[R.]
H. Wharton.


word: Trialogue
definition:
Trialogue

Tri"a*logue
n.
[LL. trialogus; tri- (see Tri-) + -logus as, in L. dialogus, E. dialogue.]
A discourse or colloquy by three persons.


word: Triandria
definition:
Triandria

Tri*an"dri*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Tri-, and -androus.]
(Bot.)
A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.


word: Triandrous
definition:
Triandrous

Triandrian

{ Tri*an"dri*an (?), Tri*an"drous (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. triandre.]
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.


word: Triangle
definition:
Triangle

Tri"an`gle
(?)
n.
[L. triangulum, fr. triangulus triangular; tri- (see Tri-) + angulus angle: cf. F. triangle. See Angle a corner.]
1.
(Geom.)
A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

&hand_; A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A plane triangle is designated as scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, according as it has no two sides equal, two sides equal, or all sides equal; and also as right-angled, or oblique-angled, according as it has one right angle, or none; and oblique-angled triangle is either acute-angled, or obtuse-angled, according as all the angles are acute, or one of them obtuse. The terms scalene, isosceles, equilateral, right-angled, acute-angled, and obtuse-angled, are applied to spherical triangles in the same sense as to plane triangles.

2.
(Mus.)
An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.

3.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

4.
(Mus.)
A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.

5.
(Astron.)
(a)
A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
(b)
A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.

Triangle spider (Zool.), a small American spider (Hyptiotes Americanus) of the family Ciniflonidae, living among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web, or net, usually composed of four radii crossed by a double elastic fiber. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.


word: Triangular
definition:
Triangular

Tri*an"gu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. triangularis: cf. F. triangulaire.]
1.
Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.

2.
(Bot.)
Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.

Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab (Zool.), 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.


word: Triangulares
definition:
Triangulares

Tri*an`gu*la"res
(?)
n. pl.
[L.]
(Zool.)
The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.


word: Triangularly
definition:
Triangularly

Tri*an"gu*lar*ly
(?)
adv.
In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle.
Dampier.


word: Triangulate
definition:
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.


word: Triangulation
definition:
Triangulation

Tri*an`gu*la"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. triangulation.]
(Surv.)
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.


word: Triarchy
definition:
Triarchy

Tri"ar*chy
(?)
n.
pl. Triarchies (#).
[Gr. _;; _;  (see Tri-) + _; to rule.]
Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.
Holland.


word: Triarian
definition:
Triarian

Tri*a"ri*an
(?)
a.
[L. triarii, pl., a class of Roman soldiers who formed the third rank from the front, fr. tres, tria, three.]
Occupying the third post or rank.
[Obs.]
Cowley.


word: Trias
definition:
Trias

Tri"as
(?)
n.
[L., triad. See Triad.]
(Geol.)
The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.


word: Triassic
definition:
Triassic

Tri*as"sic
(?)
a.
(Geol.)
Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
n. The Triassic formation.


word: Triatomic
definition:
Triatomic

Tri`a*tom"ic
(?)
a.
[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.


word: Tribalism
definition:
Tribalism

Trib"al*ism
(?)
n.
The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.


word: Tribasic
definition:
Tribasic

Tri*ba"sic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + basic.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Tribe
definition:
Tribe

Tribe
(?)
n.
[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.
tribe
Rev. v. 5.

A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.
Shak.

2.
(Bot.)
A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

&hand_; By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate 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)
A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.


word: Tribe₂
definition:
Tribe

Tribe
v. t.
To distribute into tribes or classes.
[R.]

Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
Abp. Nicolson.


word: Tribolet
definition:
Tribolet

Triblet

{ Trib"let (?), Trib"o*let (?) }
n.
[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)
A tapering mandrel.


word: triboelectricity
definition:
triboelectricity

trib`o*e*lec*tric"i*ty
(?)
n.
[tribo- + electricity.]
electrical charge developed by rubbing objects together, suc as amber on cat fur.


word: tribology
definition:
tribology

tri*bol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[tribo- + -ology.]
the study of the effects of friction on parts of machinery moving in contact with each other, and of methods, such as lubrication, to counteract negative effects such as wear.


word: Tribometer
definition:
Tribometer

Tri*bom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. tri`bein to rub + -meter: cf. F. tribomètre.]
An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces.
Brande & C.


word: Tribrach
definition:
Tribrach

Tri"brach
(?)
n.
[L. tribrachys, Gr. _; consisting of three short syllables; _; (see Tri-) + _; short.]
(Gr. & L. Pros.)
A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, mêlîûs.


word: Tribromphenol
definition:
Tribromphenol

Tribromophenol

{ Tri*bro`mo*phe"nol (?), Tri`brom*phe"nol (?) }
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless crystalline substance (C6H3OBr3) prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.  The predominant isomer is 2,4,6-tribromophenol; -- called also bromol.


word: Tribular
definition:
Tribular

Tribual

{ Trib"u*al (?), Trib"u*lar (?), }
a.
Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
[R.]

The tribual lispings of the Ephraimites.
Fuller.


word: Tribulation
definition:
Tribulation

Trib`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[OE. tribulacium, F. tribulation, L. tribulatio, from tribulare to press, afflict, fr. tribulum a thrashing sledge, akin to terere, tritum, to rub. See Trite.]
That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.

When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Matt. xiii. 21.

In the world ye shall have tribulation.
John. xvi. 33.


word: Tribunal
definition:
Tribunal

Tri*bu"nal
(?)
n.
[L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]
1.
The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

2.
Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.


word: Tribunal₂
definition:
Tribunal

Tri`bu*nal"
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the  tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.


word: Tribunate
definition:
Tribunate

Trib"u*nate
(?)
n.
[L. tribunatus: cf. F. tribunat.]
The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.


word: Tribune
definition:
Tribune

Trib"une
(?)
n.
[L. tribunus, properly, the chief of a tribe, fr. tribus tribe: cf. F. tribun. See Tribe.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

&hand_; 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.


word: Tribunitian
definition:
Tribunitian

Tribunitial

Tribunician

{ Trib`u*ni"cian (?), Trib`u*ni"tial (?), Trib`u*ni*tian (?), }
a.
[L. tribunicius, tribunitius: cf. F. tribunitien.]
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.


word: Tributary
definition:
Tributary

Trib"u*ta*ry
(?)
a.
[OE. tributaire, F. tributaire, L.  tributarius. See Tribute.]
1.
Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.

[Julius] unto Rome made them tributary.
Chaucer.

2.
Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.

He to grace his tributary gods.
Milton.

3.
Paid in tribute.
Tributary
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.


word: Tributary₂
definition:
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.


word: Tribute
definition:
Tribute

Trib"ute
(?)
n.
[OE. tribut, L. tributum, fr. tribuere, tributum, to bestow, grant, pay, allot, assign, originally, to a tribe, from tribus tribe; cf. F. tribut. See Tribe, and cf. Attribute, Contribute.]
1.
An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.
C. C. Pinckney.

2.
A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Gray.

3.
(Mining)
A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.
Pryce. Tomlinson.

Tribute money, money paid as a tribute or tax. -- Tribute pitch. (Mining) See under Tributer. [Eng.]


word: Tribute₂
definition:
Tribute

Trib"ute
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tributing.]
To pay as tribute.
[R.]
Whitlock (1654).


word: Tributer
definition:
Tributer

Trib"u*ter
(?)
n.
(Mining)
One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.
[Eng.]

&hand_; 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.


word: Trica
definition:
Trica

Tri"ca
(?)
n.
pl. Tricae (#).
[NL.]
(Bot.)
An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.


word: Tricarballylic
definition:
Tricarballylic

Tri*car`bal*lyl"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Trice
definition:
Trice

Trice
(?)
v. t.
[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.)
To haul and tie up by means of a rope.


word: Trice₂
definition:
Trice

Trice
n.
[Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.]
A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
trice
Turbervile.
trice
Shak.

A man shall make his fortune in a trice.
Young.


word: Tricennial
definition:
Tricennial

Tri*cen"ni*al
(?)
a.
[L. tricennium thirty years; triginta thirty + annus year: cf. L. tricennalis.]
Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.


word: Tricentenary
definition:
Tricentenary

Tri*cen"te*na*ry
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + centenary.]
Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
n. A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.


word: Triceps
definition:
Triceps

Tri"ceps
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.]
(Anat.)
A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.


word: Trichiasis
definition:
Trichiasis

Tri*chi"a*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair.]
(Med.)
A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.


word: Trichina
definition:
Trichina

Tri*chi"na
(-nȧ)
n.
pl. Trichinae (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; hairy, made of hair, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair.]
(Zool.)
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 larvae 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.


word: Trichinize
definition:
Trichinize

Trich"i*nize
(?)
v. t.
To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.


word: Trichinoscope
definition:
Trichinoscope

Tri*chi"no*scope
(?)
n.
[Trichina + -scope.]
An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.


word: Trichinosis
definition:
Trichinosis

Trich`i*no"sis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Trichina.]
(Med.)
The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.


word: Trichinous
definition:
Trichinous

Trich"i*nous
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.


word: Trichite
definition:
Trichite

Trich"ite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, hair.]

1.
(Min.)
A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.

2.
(Zool.)
A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.

Trichite sheaf (Zool.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.


word: Trichiuriform
definition:
Trichiuriform

Trich`i*u"ri*form
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.


word: Trichiuroid
definition:
Trichiuroid

Trich`i*u"roid
(?)
a.
[Trichiurus + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.


word: Trichiurus
definition:
Trichiurus

Trich`i*u"rus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, a hair + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.


word: Trichloride
definition:
Trichloride

Tri*chlo"ride
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + chloride.]
(Chem.)
A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.


word: Trichobranchia
definition:
Trichobranchia

Trich`o*bran"chi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair + branchia.]
(Zool.)
The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.


word: Trichogyne
definition:
Trichogyne

Trich"o*gyne
(?)
n.
[F., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair + _; woman, female.]
(Bot.)
The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.
Trich`o*gyn"ic (#), a.


word: Trichomanes
definition:
Trichomanes

Tri*chom"a*nes
(?)
n.
[L., a kind of plant, from Gr. _;.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Trichomatose
definition:
Trichomatose

Tri*chom"a*tose`
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, a growth of hair.]
(Med.)
Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.


word: Trichome
definition:
Trichome

Trich"ome
(?)
n.
[See Trichomatose.]
(Bot.)
A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
Tri*chom"a*tous (#), a.


word: Trichophore
definition:
Trichophore

Trich"o*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair + fe`rein to bear.]
1.
(Bot.)
The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

2.
(Zool.)
One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.


word: Trichoptera
definition:
Trichoptera

Tri*chop"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, a hair + _; wing.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Trichopterous
definition:
Trichopterous

Tri*chop"ter*ous
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.


word: Trichord
definition:
Trichord

Tri"chord
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; three stringed; _; (see Tri-) + _; chord, or string.]
(Mus.)
An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.


word: Trichoscolices
definition:
Trichoscolices

Trich`o*scol"i*ces
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair + skw`lhx a worm.]
(Zool.)
An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.


word: Trichotomous
definition:
Trichotomous

Tri*chot"o*mous
(?)
a.
[See Trichotomy.]
Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem.
Martyn.


word: Trichotomy
definition:
Trichotomy

Tri*chot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. tri`cha threefold, in three parts + te`mnein to cut or divide: cf. F. trichotomie.]
Division into three parts.


word: Trichroism
definition:
Trichroism

Tri"chro*ism
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; color: cf. F. trichroïsme.]
(Min.)
The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.


word: Trichromatic
definition:
Trichromatic

Tri`chro*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + chromatic.]
(Zool.)
Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.


word: Trichromatism
definition:
Trichromatism

Tri*chro"ma*tism
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.


word: Trichromic
definition:
Trichromic

Tri*chro"mic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; color.]
(Opt.)
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.


word: Tricipital
definition:
Tricipital

Tri*cip"i*tal
(?)
a.
[See Triceps.]
(Anat.)
Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.


word: Trick
definition:
Trick

Trick
(?)
n.
[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.

He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick.
South.

I know a trick worth two of that.
Shak.

2.
A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.

3.
Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
Prior.

4.
A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.

The trick of that voice I do well remember.
Shak.

He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
Shak.

5.
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

6.
(Card Playing)
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.

On one nice trick depends the general fate.
Pope.

7.
(Naut.)
A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.

8.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Trick₂
definition:
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
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.


word: Trickish
definition:
Trickish

Trick"ish
a.
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.


word: Trickle
definition:
Trickle

Tric"kle
(trĭk"k'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trickled (trĭk"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling (trĭk"klĭng).]
[OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strīcan. See Strike, v. t.]
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

His salt tears trickled down as rain.
Chaucer.

Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.
Spenser.


word: Trickle₂
definition:
Trickle

Tric"kle
(?)
n.
The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
James Bryce.


word: Tricksy
definition:
Tricksy

Trick"sy
(?)
a.
[From Trick.]
Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.
tricksy
Shak.

he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom.
Coleridge.


word: Tricktrack
definition:
Tricktrack

Trick"track`
(?)
n.
[F. trictrac.  Cf. Ticktack backgammon.]
An old game resembling backgammon.


word: Tricliniary
definition:
Tricliniary

Tri*clin"i*a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.]
Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.


word: Triclinic
definition:
Triclinic

Tri*clin"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; to incline.]
(Crystallog.)
Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.


word: Triclinium
definition:
Triclinium

Tri*clin"i*um
(?)
n.
pl. Triclinia (#).
[L., from Gr. _;, _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; a couch.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
(b)
A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.


word: Tricoccous
definition:
Tricoccous

Tri*coc"cous
(?)
a.
[Gr. tri`kokkos with three grains or berries; _; (see Tri-) + ko`kkos grain, seed.]
(Bot.)
Having three cocci, or roundish carpels.
Gray.


word: Tricolor
definition:
Tricolor

Tri"col`or
(?)
n.
[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.


word: Tricornigerous
definition:
Tricornigerous

Tri`cor*nig"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. tricorniger; tricornis three-horned (see Tri-, and Horn) + -gerere to bear.]
Having three horns.


word: Tricorporate
definition:
Tricorporate

Tricorporal

{ Tri*cor"po*ral (?), Tri*cor"po*rate (?), }
a.
[L. tricorpor; tri- (see Tri-) + corpus, -oris, body.]
(Her.)
Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.


word: Tricostate
definition:
Tricostate

Tri*cos"tate
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + costate.]
(Bot.)
Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.


word: Tricot
definition:
Tricot

Tri`cot"
(?)
n.
[F.]
A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.


word: Tricrotic
definition:
Tricrotic

Tri*crot"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; to beat.]
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.


word: Tricrotism
definition:
Tricrotism

Tri"cro*tism
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
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.


word: Tricurvate
definition:
Tricurvate

Tri*cur"vate
(tri̝*kûr"va̝t)
a.
[Pref. tri- + curvate.]
(Zool.)
Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).


word: Tricuspid
definition:
Tricuspid

Tri*cus"pid
(?)
a.
[L. tricuspis, -idis; tri- (see Tri-) + cuspis a point: cf. F. tricuspide.]
1.
Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.

2.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the tricuspid valves; as, tricuspid obstruction.

Tricuspid valve (Anat.), the valve, consisting of three triangular membranous flaps, at the opening of the right auricle into the right ventricle in the heart of most mammals; -- sometimes called the tricuspid valves, each flap being regarded as a valve.


word: Tricuspidate
definition:
Tricuspidate

Tricus"pid*ate
(?)
a.
Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.


word: Tricycle
definition:
Tricycle

Tri"cy*cle
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + cycle as inbicycle.]
A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede.  Cf. Bicycle.


word: Tridacna
definition:
Tridacna

Tri*dac"na
(?)
n.
[L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. _; eaten at three bites, _; tri- + _; to bite.]
(Zool.)
A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (Tridacna gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.


word: Tridactyle
definition:
Tridactyle

Tridactyl

{ Tri*dac"tyl Tri*dac"tyle }
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;: _; (see Tri-) + _; digit: cf. F. tridactyle.]
(Biol.)
Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.


word: Tride
definition:
Tride

Tride
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. tride lively, quick.]
Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen.
Bailey.


word: Tridecane
definition:
Tridecane

Tri*dec"ane
(tri̝*dĕk"ān)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; ten. So called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Tridecatoic
definition:
Tridecatoic

Tri`dec*a*to"ic
(tri̝`dĕk*ȧ*t&omacr"ĭk)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. de`katos tenth.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.


word: Tridecatylene
definition:
Tridecatylene

Tri`de*cat"y*lene
(tri̝`de̝*kăt"ĭ*lēn)
n.
[Pref. tri-+ Gr. de`katos tenth + E. ethylene.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Trident
definition:
Trident

Tri"dent
(trī"dent)
n.
[L. tridens, -entis; tri- (see Tri-) + dens tooth: cf. F. trident. See Tooth.]
1.
(Class Myth.)
A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.

2.
(Rom. Antiq.)
A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.

3.
A three-pronged fish spear.

4.
(Geom.)
A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.

Trident bat (Zool.), an Asiatic rhinolophid bat (Triaenops Persicus), having the nose membrane in the shape of a trident.


word: Tridentated
definition:
Tridentated

Tridentate

{ Tri*den"tate (?), Tri*den"ta*ted (?), }
a.
[NL. tridentatus. See Trident.]
Having three teeth; three-toothed.
Lee.


word: Tridented
definition:
Tridented

Tri"dent*ed
(?)
a.
Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace.
[R.]
Quarles.


word: Tridentiferous
definition:
Tridentiferous

Tri`dent*if"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. tridentifer; tridens trident + ferre to bear.]
Bearing a trident.


word: Tridentine
definition:
Tridentine

Tri*den"tine
(?)
a.
[From L. Tridentum Trent.]
Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.


word: Tridiapason
definition:
Tridiapason

Tri*di`a*pa"son
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + diaposon.]
(Anc. Mus.)
A triple octave, or twenty-second.
Busby.


word: Tridimensional
definition:
Tridimensional

Tri`di*men"sion*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + dimensional.]
(Chem.)
Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.


word: Triduan
definition:
Triduan

Trid"u*an
(?)
a.
[L. triduanus, fr. triduum space of three days; tri- + dies day.]
Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.
[R.]
Blount.


word: Tridymite
definition:
Tridymite

Trid"y*mite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; threefold. So called in allusion to the supposed threefold nature of the twin crystals.]
(Min.)
Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.


word: Tried
definition:
Tried

Tried
(?)
imp. & p. p. of Try.
Also adj. Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.


word: Triennial
definition:
Triennial

Tri*en"ni*al
(?)
a.
[L. triennium the space of three years; tri- (see Tri-) + annus year. See Annual.]
1.
Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
Howell.

2.
Happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation.
T. Warton.


word: Triens
definition:
Triens

Tri"ens
(?)
n.
[L., from tres, tria, three.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.


word: Trier
definition:
Trier

Tri"er
(?)
n.
[From Try.]
1.
One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
Boyle.

2.
One who tries judicially.

3.
(Law)
A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
Burrill.

4.
That which tries or approves; a test.
Shak.


word: Trierarch
definition:
Trierarch

Tri"er*arch
(?)
n.
[L. trierarchus, Gr. _;; _; a trireme + _; a leader, a chief.]
(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.


word: Trieterical
definition:
Trieterical

Tri`e*ter"ic*al
(?)
a.
[L. trietericus, Gr. _;, fr. _; (sc. _;) a triennial festival; _; (see Tri-.) + _; a year.]
Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial.
[R.]
J. Gregory.


word: Trieterics
definition:
Trieterics

Tri`e*ter"ics
(?)
n. pl.
[L. trieterica, pl., fr. Gr. _; of a triennial festival.]
(Class. Antiq.)
Festival games celebrated once in three years.
[R.]
May.


word: Triethylamine
definition:
Triethylamine

Tri*eth`yl*am"ine
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + ethylamine.]
(Chem.)
A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine.


word: Trifallow
definition:
Trifallow

Tri"fal`low
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trifallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trifallowing.]
[Pref. tri- + fallow.  Cf. Thryfallow.]
To plow the third time before sowing, as land.
Mortimer.


word: Trifarious
definition:
Trifarious

Tri*fa"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. trifarius of three sorts or ways, threefold; cf. Gr. _;.  Cf. Bifarious.]
(Bot.)
Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.


word: Trifasciated
definition:
Trifasciated

Tri*fas"ci*a`ted
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + fasciated.]
Having, or surrounded by, three fasciae, or bands.


word: Trifid
definition:
Trifid

Tri"fid
a.
[L. trifidus; tri- (see Tri-) + the root of findere to split: cf. F. trifide.]
Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.


word: Trifistulary
definition:
Trifistulary

Tri*fis"tu*la*ry
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + fistula, fistular.]
Having three pipes.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Trifle
definition:
Trifle

Tri"fle
(?)
n.
[OE. trifle, trufle, OF. trufle mockery, raillery, trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being applied to any small or worthless object. See Truffle.]
1.
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

With such poor trifles playing.
Drayton.

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmation strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Shak.

Small sands the mountain, moments make year,
And frifles life.
Young.

2.
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.


word: Trifle₂
definition:
Trifle

Tri"fle
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trifled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling (?).]
[OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.]
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.
Hooker.

To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.


word: Trifle₃
definition:
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.
trifle
Shak.


word: Trifling
definition:
Trifling

Tri"fling
(?)
a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.


word: Triflorous
definition:
Triflorous

Trifloral

{ Tri*flo"ral (?), Tri*flo"rous (?), }
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. flos, floris, flower.]
(Bot.)
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.


word: Trifluctuation
definition:
Trifluctuation

Tri*fluc`tu*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + fluctuation.]
A concurrence of three waves.
[Obs.]
trifluctuation
Sir T. Browne.


word: Trifoliated
definition:
Trifoliated

Trifoliate

{ Tri*fo"li*ate (?), Tri*fo"li*a`ted (?), }
a.
[Tri- + foliate.   Cf. Trefoil.]
(Bot.)
Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.


word: Trifolium
definition:
Trifolium

Tri*fo"li*um
(?)
n.
[L., clover.]
(Bot.)
A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.


word: Trifoly
definition:
Trifoly

Tri"fo*ly
(?)
n.
[L. trifolium. See Trifoliate, Trefoil.]
(Bot.)
Sweet trefoil.
[Obs.]

She was crowned with a chaplet of trifoly.
B. Jonson.


word: Triforium
definition:
Triforium

Tri*fo"ri*um
(?)
n.
[LL., fr. L. tri- (see Tri-) + foris, pl. fores, a door.]
(Arch.)
The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.


word: Triform
definition:
Triform

Tri"form
(?)
a.
[L. triformis; tri- (see Tri-) + forma form.]
Having a triple form or character.
triform
I. Taylor.

Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell.
Lowell.


word: Triformity
definition:
Triformity

Tri*form"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. triformitas.]
The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.


word: Trifurcated
definition:
Trifurcated

Trifurcate

{ Tri*fur"cate (?), Tri*fur"ca*ted (?), }
a.
[L. trifurcus; tri- (see Tri-) + furca fork.]
Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.


word: Trig
definition:
Trig

Trig
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Dan. trykke to press, Sw. trycka.]
To fill; to stuff; to cram.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Trig₂
definition:
Trig

Trig
a.
[Formerly written trick, akin to trick to dress.]
Full; also, trim; neat.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To sit on a horse square and trig.
Brit. Quart. Rev.


word: Trig₃
definition:
Trig

Trig
v. t.
[See Trigger.]
To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.


word: Trig₄
definition:
Trig

Trig
n.
[See Trigger.]
A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
[Eng.]
Wright.


word: Trigamist
definition:
Trigamist

Trig"a*mist
(?)
n.
[See Trigamy.]
One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.


word: Trigamous
definition:
Trigamous

Trig"a*mous
(?)
a.
[L. trigamus a thrice-married man, Gr. _; thrice married; _; (see Tri-) + _; marriage: cf. F. trigame.]
(Bot.)
Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.


word: Trigamy
definition:
Trigamy

Trig"a*my
(?)
n.
[L. trigamia,Gr. _;: cf. F. trigamie. See Trigamous.]
The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.


word: Trigastric
definition:
Trigastric

Tri*gas"tric
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; belly.]
(Anat.)
Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle.
Dunglison.


word: Trigeminal
definition:
Trigeminal

Tri*gem"i*nal
(?)
a.
[See Trigeminous.]
(Anat.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.


word: Trigeminous
definition:
Trigeminous

Tri*gem"i*nous
(?)
a.
[L. trigeminus born three together; tri- (see Tri-) + geminus twin.  Cf. Tergeminous.]
Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold.
E. Phillip_;.


word: Trigenic
definition:
Trigenic

Tri*gen"ic
(?)
a.
[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.)
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-biuret or ethylidene-biuret.


word: Triger process
definition:
Triger process

Tri`ger proc"ess
(?)
[After M. Triger, French engineer.]
(Engin. & Mining)
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.


word: Trigesimo-secundo
definition:
Trigesimo-secundo

Tri*ges"i*mo-se*cun"do
(?)
a.
[L. in trigesimo-secundo in the thirty-second.]
Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.


word: Trigesimo-secundo₂
definition:
Trigesimo-secundo

Tri*ges"i*mo-se*cun"do
n.
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 32°, and called thirty-twomo.


word: Trigger
definition:
Trigger

Trig"ger
(?)
n.
[For older tricker, from D. trekker, fr. trekken to draw, pull. See Trick, n.]
1.
A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

2.
(Mech.)
A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.

Trigger fish (Zool.), a large plectognath fish (Balistes Carolinensis or Balistes 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.


word: Trigintal
definition:
Trigintal

Tri*gin`tal
(?)
n.
[LL. trigintate, fr. L. triginta thirty. See Trental.]
(R. C. Ch.)
A trental.


word: Triglyceride
definition:
Triglyceride

Tri*glyc"er*ide
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + glyceride.]
(Chem.)
A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.


word: Triglyph
definition:
Triglyph

Tri"glyph
(?)
n.
[L. triglyphus, Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; to carve: cf. F. triglyphe.]
(Arch.)
An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.


word: Triglyphical
definition:
Triglyphical

Triglyphic

{ Tri*glyph"ic (?), Tri*glyph"ic*al (?), }
a.
1.
Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.

2.
Containing three sets of characters or sculptures.


word: Trigness
definition:
Trigness

Trig"ness
(?)
n.
[See Trig trim, neat.]
The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

Their spars had no man-of-war trigness.
Kane.


word: Trigon
definition:
Trigon

Tri"gon
(?)
n.
[L. trigonum, Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; a corner, angle: cf. F. trigone.]

1.
A figure having three angles; a triangle.

2.
(Astrol.)
(a)
A division consisting of three signs.
(b)
Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
Hutton.

3.
(Gr. & Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
A kind of triangular lyre or harp.
(b)
A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.


word: Trigonid
definition:
Trigonid

4.
(Zool.)
The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid (_;).


word: Trigonal
definition:
Trigonal

Trig"o*nal
(?)
a.
Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.


word: Trigone
definition:
Trigone

Tri`gone"
(?)
n.
[F., literally, a trigon.]
(Anat.)
A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.


word: Trigonia
definition:
Trigonia

Tri*go"ni*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Trigon. So called in allusion to the triangular shape of some species.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Trigonocerous
definition:
Trigonocerous

Trig`o*noc"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; triangle + _; horn.]
(Zool.)
Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats.


word: Trigonometrical
definition:
Trigonometrical

Trigonometric

{ Trig`o*no*met"ric (?), Trig`o*no*met"ric*al (?), }
[Cf. F. trigonométrique.]
Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry.

Trigonometrical curve, a curve one of whose coordinates 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.


word: Trigonometry
definition:
Trigonometry

Trig`o*nom"e*try
(?)
n.
pl. -tries (#).
[Gr. _; a triangle + -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.


word: Trigrammatic
definition:
Trigrammatic

Tri`gram*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; + _; a letter.]
Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.


word: Trigraph
definition:
Trigraph

Tri"graph
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + -graph.]
Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.


word: Trigynia
definition:
Trigynia

Tri*gyn"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., Gr. _; (see Tri-) + _; a woman, a female.]
(Bot.)
A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles.


word: Trigynous
definition:
Trigynous

Trigynian

{ Tri*gyn"i*an (?), Trig"y*nous (?), }
a.
(Bot.)
Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.


word: Trihedral
definition:
Trihedral

Tri*he"dral
(?)
a.
[See Trihedron.]
(Geom.)
Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles.
[Written also triedral.]


word: Trihedron
definition:
Trihedron

Tri*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; a seat, base.]
(Geom.)
A figure having three sides.


word: Trihybrid
definition:
Trihybrid

Tri*hy"brid
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.


word: Trijugate
definition:
Trijugate

Trij"u*gate
(?)
a.
[See Trijugous.]
(Bot.)
In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.


word: Trijugous
definition:
Trijugous

Trij"u*gous
(?)
a.
[L. trijugus threefold; tri- + jugum a yoke.]
(Bot.)
Same as Trijugate.


word: Trikosane
definition:
Trikosane

Tri"ko*sane
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; twenty.]
(Chem.)
A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling paraffin; -- so called because it has twenty-three atoms of carbon in the molecule.


word: Trilateral
definition:
Trilateral

Tri*lat"er*al
(?)
a.
[L. trilaterus; tri- (see Tri-) + latus, lateris, side: cf. F. trilatéral. See Lateral.]
(Geom.)
Having three sides; being three-sided; as, a trilateral triangle.
Tri*lat"er*al*ly, adv. -- Tri*lat"er*al*ness, n.


word: Trilemma
definition:
Trilemma

Tri*lem"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; (see Tri-) + _; any thing received, in logic, an assumption.  Cf. Dilemma.]
1.
(Logic)
A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.

2.
A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.


word: Trilinear
definition:
Trilinear

Tri*lin"e*ar
(?)
a.
(Math.)
Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.


word: Trilingual
definition:
Trilingual

Tri*lin"gual
(?)
a.
[L. trilinguis; tri- (see Tri-) + lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.]
Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.

The much-noted Rosetta stone . . . bears upon its surface a trilingual inscription.
I. Taylor.


word: Triliteral
definition:
Triliteral

Tri*lit"er*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + literal.]
Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word.
n. A triliteral word.


word: Triliteralness
definition:
Triliteralness

Triliterality

{ Tri*lit`er*al"i*ty (?), Tri*lit"er*al*ness (?), }
n.
The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots.
W. D. Whitney.


word: Trilithon
definition:
Trilithon

Tril"i*thon
(trĭl"ĭ*th&obreve_;n)
n.
pl. Trilithons (#).
[NL., fr. Gr._; of or with three stones; _; (see Tri-) + _; stone.]
(Archaeol.)
A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.


word: Trill
definition:
Trill

Trill
(?)
v. i.
[OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. þyrla to whirl, and E. thrill.  Cf. Thrill.]
To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
Sir W. Scott.

And now and then an ample tear trilled down
Her delicate cheek.
Shak.

Whispered sounds
Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.
Glover.


word: Trill₂
definition:
Trill

Trill
(?)
v. t.
[OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.]
To turn round; to twirl.
[Obs.]
Gascoigne.

Bid him descend and trill another pin.
Chaucer.


word: Trill₃
definition:
Trill

Trill
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.]
[It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.]
To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
Thomson.


word: Trill₄
definition:
Trill

Trill
v. i.
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.


word: Trill₅
definition:
Trill

Trill
n.
[It. trillo, fr. trillare. See Trill to shake.]

1.
A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.

2.
The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

3.
(Mus.)
A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.


word: Trilling
definition:
Trilling

Tril"ling
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. drilling.]
1.
One of tree children born at the same birth.
Wright.

2.
(Crystallog.)
A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals.


word: Trillion
definition:
Trillion

Tril"lion
(?)
n.
[F. trillion, formed from the pref. tri- in imitation of million a million.  Cf. Billion.]
According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.


word: Trillium
definition:
Trillium

Tril"li*um
(?)
n.
[NL.; cf. L. trilix triple-woven, triple.]
(Bot.)
A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.


word: Trilobita
definition:
Trilobita

Tri`lo*bi"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Paleon.)
An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.


word: Trilobite
definition:
Trilobite

Tri"lo*bite
(trī"lo̝*bīt)
n.
[Cf. F. trilobite. See Trilobate.]
(Paleon.)
Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.


word: Trilobitic
definition:
Trilobitic

Tri`lo*bit"ic
(?)
a.
Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.


word: Trilocular
definition:
Trilocular

Tri*loc"u*lar
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + locular: cf. F. triloculaire.]
Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.


word: Trilogy
definition:
Trilogy

Tril"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. trilogi`a; pref. tri- (see Tri-) + lo`gos speech, discourse: cf. F. trilogie.]
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's “ Henry VI.” is an example.

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
Coleridge.


word: Triluminous
definition:
Triluminous

Triluminar

{ Tri*lu"mi*nar (?), Tri*lu"mi*nous (?), }
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. lumen, luminis, light.]
Having three lights
[R.]


word: Trim
definition:
Trim

Trim
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trimmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trimming.]
[OE. trimen, trumen, AS. trymian, trymman, to prepare, dispose, make strong, fr. trum firm, strong; of uncertain origin.]
1.
To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

The hermit trimmed his little fire.
Goldsmith.

2.
To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.

A rotten building newly trimmed over.
Milton.

I was trimmed in Julia's gown.
Shak.

3.
To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.
trimmed
Byron.

4.
(Carp.)
To dress, as timber; to make smooth.

5.
(Naut.)
(a)
To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.
(b)
To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.

6.
To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
[Colloq.]

To trim in (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work. -- To trim up, to dress; to put in order.

I found her trimming up the diadem
On her dead mistress.
Shak.


word: Trim₃
definition:
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.
trim
Chapman.

3.
The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

4.
(Arch)
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.


word: Trim₄
definition:
Trim

Trim
a.
[Compar. Trimmer (?); superl. Trimmest.]
[See Trim, v. t.]
Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.

With comely carriage of her countenance trim.
Spenser.

So deemed I till I viewed their trim array
Of boats last night.
Trench.


word: Trimaculated
definition:
Trimaculated

Tri*mac"u*la`ted
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + maculated.]
Marked with three spots, or maculae.


word: Trimellic
definition:
Trimellic

Tri*mel"lic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. mel, gen. mellis, honey.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.


word: Trimembral
definition:
Trimembral

Tri*mem"bral
a.
[L. trimembris triplemembered. See Tri-, and Member.]
Having, or consisting of, three members.


word: Trimera
definition:
Trimera

Tri"me*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Tri-, and -mere.]
(Zool.)
A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.


word: Trimesitic
definition:
Trimesitic

Tri`me*sit"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + mesitylene + -ic.]
(Chem.)
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.]


word: Trimester
definition:
Trimester

Tri*mes"ter
(?)
n.
[L. trimestris of three months; tri- (see Tri-) + mensis month: cf. F. trimestre.]
A term or period of three months.


word: Trimestrial
definition:
Trimestrial

Tri*mes"tri*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.


word: Trimeter
definition:
Trimeter

Trim"e*ter
(?)
a.
[L. trimetrus, Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; measure.  See Meter measure.]
(Pros.)
Consisting of three poetical measures.
n. A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.
Lowth.


word: Trimethyl
definition:
Trimethyl

Tri*meth"yl
(?)
(Chem.)
A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.


word: Trimethylamine
definition:
Trimethylamine

Tri*meth`yl*am"ine
(?)
n.
[Trimethyl- + amine.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Trimethylene
definition:
Trimethylene

Tri*meth"yl*ene
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
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.


word: Trimmer
definition:
Trimmer

Trim"mer
(?)
n.
1.
One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.

2.
One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.

Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle.
Macaulay.

3.
An instrument with which trimming is done.

4.
(Arch.)
A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.

5.
(Coal Storage)
An apparatus used for piling the coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.


word: Trimming
definition:
Trimming

Trim"ming
(?)
a. from Trim, v.

The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party.
Jeffrey.

Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.


word: Trimming₂
definition:
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 plural.

3.
The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming.
[Colloq.]


word: Trimness
definition:
Trimness

Trim"ness
n.
The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.


word: Trimorph
definition:
Trimorph

Tri"morph
(?)
n.
[See Trimorphous.]
(Crystallog.)
A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.


word: Trimorphous
definition:
Trimorphous

Trimorphic

{ Tri*mor"phic (?), Tri*mor"phous (?), }
a.
[Gr. _; three-formed; _; (see Tri-) + morfh` form.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.


word: Trimorphism
definition:
Trimorphism

Tri*mor"phism
(?)
n.
[See Trimorphic.]
1.
(Crystallog.)
The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

2.
(Biol.)
The coexistence 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.


word: Trimurti
definition:
Trimurti

Tri*mur"ti
(?)
n.
[Skr. trimūrti; tri three + mūrti body.]
(Hindu Myth.)
The triad, or trinity, of Hindu gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
[Spelled also Trimurtti.]


word: Trimyarian
definition:
Trimyarian

Trim`y*a"ri*an
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri + Gr. _;, _;, a muscle.]
(Zool.)
A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.


word: Trinal
definition:
Trinal

Tri"nal
(?)
a.
[L. trinus triple, trini three each, fr. tres, tria, three. See Three, and cf. Trine, a. & n., Tern, a.]
Threefold.
Trinal
Milton.

In their trinal triplicities on high.
Spenser.


word: Trine
definition:
Trine

Trine
(?)
a.
[See Trinal.]
Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.


word: Trine₂
definition:
Trine

Trine
n.
[F. trine, trin. See Trinal.]
1.
(Astrol.)
The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.

In sextile, square, and trine.
Milton.

2.
A triad; trinity.
[R.]

A single trine of brazen tortoises.
Mrs. Browning.

Eternal One, Almighty Trine!
Keble.


word: Trine₃
definition:
Trine

Trine
v. t.
To put in the aspect of a trine.
[R.]

By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
Dryden.


word: Trinervate
definition:
Trinervate

Tri*nerv"ate
(?)
a.
[NL. trinervatus; pref. tri- + L.  nervus nerve.]
(Bot.)
Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf.
Gray.


word: Trinerved
definition:
Trinerved

Trinerve

{ Tri"nerve` (?), Tri"nerved` (?), }
a.
[Pref. tri- + nerve.]
(Bot.)
Same as Trinervate.


word: Tringa
definition:
Tringa

Trin"ga
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.


word: Tringoid
definition:
Tringoid

Trin"goid
(?)
a.
[Tringa + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.


word: Trinitarian
definition:
Trinitarian

Trin`i*ta"ri*an
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.]
Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.


word: Trinitarian₂
definition:
Trinitarian

Trin`i*ta"ri*an
n.
1.
One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.

2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
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 Moslems.


word: Trinitarianism
definition:
Trinitarianism

Trin`i*ta"ri*an*ism
(?)
n.
The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.


word: Trinitrocellulose
definition:
Trinitrocellulose

Tri*ni`tro*cel"lu*lose"
(?)
n.
Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.


word: Trinity
definition:
Trinity

Trin"i*ty
(?)
n.
[OE. trinitee, F. trinité, L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See Trinal.]
1.
(Christian Theol.)
The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.

2.
Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.

3.
Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.

Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.


word: Triniunity
definition:
Triniunity

Trin`i*u"ni*ty
(?)
n.
[See Trinity, and Unity.]
Triunity; trinity.
[Obs.]

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions.
Milton.


word: Trinket
definition:
Trinket

Trin"ket
(?)
n.
[F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular.]
(Naut.)
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.


word: Trinket₂
definition:
Trinket

Trin"ket
n.
[OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence, probably, a toy knife worn as an ornament; probably from an Old French dialectic form of trenchier to cut.  Cf. Trench, v. t.]
1.
A knife; a cutting tool.
Tusser.

2.
A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.

3.
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.


word: Trinketry
definition:
Trinketry

Trin"ket*ry
(?)
n.
Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.

No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast.
Southey.


word: Trinoctial
definition:
Trinoctial

Tri*noc"tial
(?)
a.
[L. trinoctialis for three nights; tri- (see Tri-) + nox, noctis, night.]
Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.


word: Trinodal
definition:
Trinodal

Tri*nod"al
(?)
a.
[L. trinodis three-knotted; tri- (see Tri-) + nodus knot.]
1.
(Bot.)
Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

2.
(Geom.)
Having three nodal points.


word: Trinomial
definition:
Trinomial

Tri*no"mi*al
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + -nomial as in binomial: cf. F. trinôme.]
(Math.)
A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -; as, x + y + z, or ax + 2b - c2.


word: Trinomial₂
definition:
Trinomial

Tri*no"mi*al
a.
1.
(Math.)
Consisting of three terms; of or pertaining to trinomials; as, a trinomial root.

2.
(Nat. Hist.)
Consisting of, or involving the use of, three terms; as, a trinomial systematic name specifying the genus, species, and variety.


word: Trinominal
definition:
Trinominal

Tri*nom"i*nal
(?)
n. & a.
[Pref. tri- + L. nomen, nominis, name: cf. L. trinominis three-named.]
(Math.)
Trinomial.


word: Trinucleus
definition:
Trinucleus

Tri*nu"cle*us
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + nucleus.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.


word: Trio
definition:
Trio

Tri"o
(?)
n.
[It., fr. L. tres, tria, three: cf. F. trio, from the Italian. See Three.]
1.
Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.

The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest.
Dickens.

2.
(Mus.)
(a)
A composition for three parts or three instruments.
(b)
The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.


word: Triobolary
definition:
Triobolary

Triobolar

{ Tri*ob"o*lar (?), Tri*ob"o*la*ry (?), }
a.
[LL. triobolaris, fr. L. triobolus a piece of three oboli, Gr. _;. See Tri-, and Obolus.]
Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless.
[Obs.]

It may pass current . . . for a triobolar ballad.
Cheyne.


word: Trioctile
definition:
Trioctile

Tri*oc"tile
(-&obreve_;k"tĭl)
n.
[Pref. tri- + octile.]
(Astrol.)
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.


word: Trioecia
definition:
Trioecia

Tri*œ"ci*a
(-ē"shĭ*ȧ)
n. pl.
[NL. See Triœcious.]
(Bot.)
The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.


word: Trioecious
definition:
Trioecious

Tri*œ"cious
(-shŭs)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; house.]
(Bot.)
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 Triœcia.


word: Triolet
definition:
Triolet

Tri"o*let
(trī"o̝*lĕt)
n.
[F. triolet. See Trio.]
A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Brande & C.


word: Trional
definition:
Trional

Tri"o*nal
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + sulphonal; -- so called because it contains three ethyls.]
(Chem.)
A compound similar to sulphonal, used as a hypnotic in medicine.


word: Trionychoidea
definition:
Trionychoidea

Tri*on`y*choi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Trionyx, and -old.]
(Zool.)
A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.


word: Trionyx
definition:
Trionyx

Tri*on"yx
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; (see Tri-) + _; a claw.]
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; The common American species (Trionyx ferox syn. Aspidonectus ferox) becomes over a foot in length and is very voracious.  Similar species are found in Asia and Africa.


word: Triose
definition:
Triose

Tri"ose
(?)
n.
[Tri- + -ose.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol
(b)
A trisaccharide.


word: Trioxide
definition:
Trioxide

Tri*ox"ide
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + oxide.]
(Chem.)
An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.


word: Trip
definition:
Trip

Trip
(trĭp)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tripped (trĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.]
[OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]

1.
To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

This horse anon began to trip and dance.
Chaucer.

Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe.
Milton.

She bounded by, and tripped so light
They had not time to take a steady sight.
Dryden.

2.
To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.

3.
To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.

4.
Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
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.


word: Trip₂
definition:
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; also called trip up.
[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.)
To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm.


word: Trip₃
definition:
Trip

Trip
n.
1.
A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.

His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.

I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
Pope.

3.
A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

Imperfect words, with childish trips.
Milton.

Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
Harte.

4.
A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
[Obs.]
trip
Chaucer.

5.
A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.

And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
Dryden.

It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
South.

6.
(Naut.)
A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

7.
A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
[Prov. Eng. & Scott.]

8.
A troop of men; a host.
[Obs.]
Robert of Brunne.

9.
(Zool.)
A flock of widgeons.


word: Tripalmitate
definition:
Tripalmitate

Tri*pal"mi*tate
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + palmitate.]
(Chem.)
A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.


word: Triparted
definition:
Triparted

Tri"part`ed
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + parted.]

1.
(Her.)
Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.

2.
(Bot.)
Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.


word: Tripartient
definition:
Tripartient

Tri*par"tient
(?)
a.
[See Tripartite.]
(Arith.)
Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.


word: Tripartite
definition:
Tripartite

Trip"ar*tite
(?)
a.
[L. tripartitus; tri- (see Tri-) + partitus, p. p. of partiri to part, to divide. See Part, v. i.]
1.
Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.

2.
Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite.
A. Smith.

3.
Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.


word: Tripartition
definition:
Tripartition

Trip`ar*ti"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. tripartition.]
A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.


word: Tripe
definition:
Tripe

Tripe
(?)
n.
[OE. tripe, F. tripe; of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. & Pg. tripa, It. trippa, OD. tripe, W. tripa, Armor. stripen.]
1.
The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ?
Shak.

2.
The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Howell.


word: Tripedal
definition:
Tripedal

Trip"e*dal
(?)
a.
[L. tripedalis; tri- (see Tri-) + pes, pedis, a foot.]
Having three feet.


word: Tripersonal
definition:
Tripersonal

Tri*per"son*al
(tri̝*pẽr"sŭn*al)
a.
[Pref. tri- + personal.]
Consisting of three persons.
Milton.


word: Tripersonality
definition:
Tripersonality

Tri*per`son*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.


word: Tripery
definition:
Tripery

Trip"er*y
(trīp"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
[Cf. F. triperie.]
A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
London Quart. Rev.


word: Tripestone
definition:
Tripestone

Tripe"stone`
(trīp"st&omacrn`)
n.
(Min.)
A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.


word: Tripetaloid
definition:
Tripetaloid

Tri*pet"al*oid
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + petaloid.]
(Bot.)
Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.


word: Tripetalous
definition:
Tripetalous

Tri*pet"al*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + petalous: cf. F. tripétale.]
(Bot.)
Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.


word: Triphane
definition:
Triphane

Tri"phane
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; appearing three-fold; _; (see Tri-) + _; to appear cf. F. triphane.]
(Min.)
Spodumene.


word: Triphthong
definition:
Triphthong

Triph"thong
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + -phthong, as in diphthong: cf. F. triphthonque.]
(Orthoepy)
A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.


word: Triphthongal
definition:
Triphthongal

Triph*thon"gal
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.


word: Triphylite
definition:
Triphylite

Triph"y*lite
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; a family, class. So called in allusion to its containing three phosphates.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.

&hand_; A salmon-colored or clove-brown variety containing but little iron is known as lithiophilite.


word: Triphyllous
definition:
Triphyllous

Triph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; a leaf: cf. F. triphylle.]
(Bot.)
Having three leaves; three-leaved.


word: Tripinnate
definition:
Tripinnate

Tri*pin"nate
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + pinnate.]
(Bot.)
Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.


word: Tripinnatifid
definition:
Tripinnatifid

Tri`pin*nat"i*fid
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + pinnatifid.]
(Bot.)
Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.


word: Tripitaka
definition:
Tripitaka

Tri*pit"a*ka
(?)
n.
[Skr. tripi&tsdot_;aka.]
The three divisions, or “baskets” (pitakas), of buddhist scriptures, -- the Vinayapitaka [Skr. Vinayapi&tsdot_;aka] , or Basket of Discipline; Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.


word: Triple
definition:
Triple

Tri"ple
(?)
a.
[L. triplus; tri- (see Tri-) + -plus, as in duplus double: cf. F. triple. See Double, and cf. Treble.]
1.
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

By thy triple shape as thou art seen.
Dryden.

2.
Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

3.
One of three; third.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2. -- Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively. -- Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented. -- Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3. -- Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt. -- Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity. -- Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts. -- Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.


word: Triple₂
definition:
Triple

Tri"ple
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tripled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripling (?).]
[Cf. F. tripler. See Triple, a.]
To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.


word: Triple-crowned
definition:
Triple-crowned

Tri"ple-crowned`
(?)
a.
Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.


word: Triple-headed
definition:
Triple-headed

Tri"ple-head`ed
(?)
a.
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.


word: Triplet
definition:
Triplet

Trip"let
(?)
n.
[From Triple.]
1.
A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

2.
(Poetry)
Three verses rhyming together.

3.
(Mus.)
A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.

4.
pl.
Three children or offspring born at one birth.


word: Triple-tail
definition:
Triple-tail

Tri"ple-tail`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.


word: Triplex
definition:
Triplex

Tri"plex
(?)
a.
(Mach.)
Having three principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.


word: Triplicate
definition:
Triplicate

Trip"li*cate
(?)
a.
[L. triplicatus, p. p. of triplicare to triple, treble; tri- (see Tri-) + plicare to fold. See Ply, v. t.]
Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.

Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.


word: Triplication
definition:
Triplication

Trip"li*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. triplicatio: cf. F. triplication.]
1.
The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
Glanvill.

2.
(Civil Law)
Same as Surrejoinder.


word: Triplicity
definition:
Triplicity

Tri*plic"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. triplicité, fr. L. triplex, triplicis, threefold. See Triplicate, a.]
The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.

In their trinal triplicities on high.
Spenser.


word: Triplite
definition:
Triplite

Trip"lite
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. triplite. See Triple.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.


word: Triploblastic
definition:
Triploblastic

Trip`lo*blas"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; threefold + -blast + -ic.]
(Biol.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.


word: Triploidite
definition:
Triploidite

Trip*loi"dite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.


word: Tripod
definition:
Tripod

Tri"pod
(?)
n.
[L. tripus, -odis, Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _;, _;, foot. See Foot, and cf. Tripos, Trivet.]
1.
Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

&hand_; On such, a stool, in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Pythian priestess sat while giving responses to those consulting the Delphic oracle.

2.
A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.

Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; -- so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.


word: Tripodian
definition:
Tripodian

Tri*po"di*an
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.


word: Tripody
definition:
Tripody

Trip"o*dy
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + -pody, as in dipody.]
(Pros.)
Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.


word: Tripoli
definition:
Tripoli

Trip"o*li
(?)
n.
(Min.)
An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.


word: Tripoline
definition:
Tripoline

Trip"o*line
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.

2.
Of or pertaining to tripoli, the mineral.


word: Tripolitan
definition:
Tripolitan

Tri*pol"i*tan
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
n. A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.


word: Tripos
definition:
Tripos

Tri"pos
(?)
n.
pl. Triposes (#).
[Gr. _; a tripod. See Tripod.]
1.
A tripod.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

2.
A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
[Cambridge University, Eng.]

Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. C. A. Bristed. -- Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. C. A. Bristed.


word: Tripper
definition:
Tripper

Trip"per
(?)
n.
1.
One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.

2.
An excursionist.


word: Trippet
definition:
Trippet

Trip"pet
(?)
n.
(Mach.)
A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.


word: Tripping
definition:
Tripping

Trip"ping
(?)
a.
1.
Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

2.
(Her.)
Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.


word: Tripping₂
definition:
Tripping

Trip"ping
n.
1.
Act of one who, or that which, trips.

2.
A light dance.

Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes.
Milton.

3.
(Naut.)
The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. Luce.


word: Trippingly
definition:
Trippingly

Trip"ping*ly
adv.
In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.

Sing, and dance it trippingly.
Shak.

Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue.
Shak.


word: Tripsis
definition:
Tripsis

Trip"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to rub.]
(Med.)
(a)
Trituration.
[R.]
(b)
Shampoo.
[R.]


word: Triptote
definition:
Triptote

Trip"tote
(?)
n.
[L. triptotum, Gr. _; with three cases; _; (see Tri-) + _; falling, fr. _; to fall.]
(Gram.)
A noun having three cases only.


word: Triptych
definition:
Triptych

Trip"tych
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; consisting of three layers or plates; _; (see Tri-) + _;, _;, a fold, layer.]
Anything in three parts or leaves.
(a)
A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.


word: Tripudiary
definition:
Tripudiary

Tri*pu"di*a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. tripudium a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance.]
Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing.
[R.]
Tripudiary
Sir T. Browne.


word: Triquadrantal
definition:
Triquadrantal

Tri`quad*ran"tal
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + quadrantal.]
(Spherical Trig.)
Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.


word: Triquetrous
definition:
Triquetrous

Tri*que"trous
(?)
a.
[L. triquetrus.]
Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.


word: Triquetrum
definition:
Triquetrum

Tri*que"trum
(?)
n.
pl. Triquetra (#).
[NL.]
(Anat.)
One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).


word: Triradiated
definition:
Triradiated

Triradiate

{ Tri*ra"di*ate (?), Tri*ra"di*a`ted (?) }
a.
[Pref. tri- + radiate.]
Having three rays.


word: Trirectangular
definition:
Trirectangular

Tri`rec*tan"gu*lar
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + rectangular.]
(Spherical Trig.)
Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.


word: Trireme
definition:
Trireme

Tri"reme
(?)
n.
[L. triremis; tri- (see Tri-) + remus an oar, akin to E. row. See Row to propel with an oar.]
(Class. Antiq.)
An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.


word: Trirhomboidal
definition:
Trirhomboidal

Tri`rhom*boid"al
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + rhomboidal.]
Having three rhombic faces or sides.


word: -rid₂
definition:
-rid

Trisaccharide

Tri*sac"cha*ride (?), n. Also -rid
(Chem.)
A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.


word: Trisacramentarian
definition:
Trisacramentarian

Tri*sac`ra*men*ta"ri*an
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + sacramentarian.]
(Eccl.)
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.


word: Trisagion
definition:
Trisagion

Tris*ag"i*on
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; thrice holy; _; thrice + _; holy.]
(Eccl.)
An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.


word: Trisect
definition:
Trisect

Tri*sect"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trisected; p. pr. & vb. n. Trisecting.]
[Pref. tri- + L. sectus, p. p. of secare to cut. See Section.]
1.
To cut or divide into three parts.

2.
(Geom.)
To cut or divide into three equal parts.


word: Trisected
definition:
Trisected

Tri*sect"ed
a.
(Bot.)
Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.


word: Trisection
definition:
Trisection

Tri*sec"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. trisection.]
The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts.


word: Triseralous
definition:
Triseralous

Tri*ser"al*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + sepal.]
(Bot.)
Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.


word: Triseriate
definition:
Triseriate

Triserial

{ Tri*se"ri*al (?), Tri*se"ri*ate (?), }
a.
[Pref. tri- + serial, seriate.]
(Bot.)
Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.


word: Triskele
definition:
Triskele

Triskelion

{ Tris*kel"i*on (?), or Tris"kele (?) }
n.
[Gr. _; three-legged. See Tri-; Isosceles.]
A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.


word: Trisnitrate
definition:
Trisnitrate

Tris*ni"trate
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; thrice + E. nitrate.]
(Chem.)
A nitrate formed from three molecules of nitric acid; also, less properly, applied to certain basic nitrates; as, trisnitrate of bismuth.


word: Trisoctahedron
definition:
Trisoctahedron

Tris*oc`ta*he"dron
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; thrice + FE. octahedron.]
(Crystallog.)
A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.

Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron. -- Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.


word: Trispaston
definition:
Trispaston

Trispast

{ Tri"spast (?), Tri*spas"ton (?), }
n.
[NL. trispaston, fr. Gr. _; drawn threefold; _; (see Tri-) + _; to draw.]
(Mech.)
A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
Brande & C.


word: Trispermous
definition:
Trispermous

Tri*sper"mous
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; seed.]
(Bot.)
Containing three seeds; three-seeded; as, a trispermous capsule.


word: Trisplanchnic
definition:
Trisplanchnic

Tri*splanch"nic
(?)
a.
[Tri- + splanchnic.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system.


word: Trist₂
definition:
Trist

Trist
n.
[See Tryst.]
1.
Trust.
[Obs.]

2.
A post, or station, in hunting.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

3.
A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.
[Obs.]

George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.
Letter dated Sept., 1543.


word: Tristful
definition:
Tristful

Trist"ful
(trĭst"f&usdot_;l)
a.
Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
Shak.

Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful,
Heart so full of care and cumber.
Longfellow.


word: Tristichous
definition:
Tristichous

Tris"tich*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; in three rows; _; (see Tri-) + _; a row.]
(Bot.)
Arranged in three vertical rows.


word: Tristigmatose
definition:
Tristigmatose

Tristigmatic

{ Tri`stig*mat"ic (?), Tri*stig"ma*tose` (?), }
a.
[Pref. tri- + stigma.]
(Bot.)
Having, or consisting of, three stigmas.
Gray.


word: Tristitiate
definition:
Tristitiate

Tris*ti"ti*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. tristitia sadness, fr. tristis sad.]
To make sad.
[Obs.]
Feltham.


word: Tristoma
definition:
Tristoma

Tris"to*ma
(trĭs"to̝*mȧ)
n.
[NL., from Gr. tri- (see Tri-) + sto`ma mouth.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.


word: Trisulc
definition:
Trisulc

Tri"sulc
(trī"sŭlk)
n.
[L. trisulcus; tri- (see Tri-) + sulcus a furrow.]
Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.
[Obs.]
trisulc
Sir T. Browne.


word: Trisulcate
definition:
Trisulcate

Tri*sul"cate
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + sulcate.]
Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.


word: Trisulphide
definition:
Trisulphide

Tri*sul"phide
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + sulphide.]
(Chem.)
A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.


word: Trisyllabical
definition:
Trisyllabical

Trisyllabic

{ Tris`yl*lab"ic (?), Tris`yl*lab"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. trisyllabus, Gr. _;; _; (see Tri-) + _; a syllable: cf. F. trissyllabique.]
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, “syllable” is a trisyllabic word.
Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Trisyllable
definition:
Trisyllable

Tri*syl"la*ble
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + syllable.]
A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.


word: Trite
definition:
Trite

Trite
(trīt)
a.
[L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See Throw, and cf. Contrite, Detriment, Tribulation, Try.]
Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.


word: Triternate
definition:
Triternate

Tri*ter"nate
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + ternate.]
(Bot.)
Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.


word: Tritheism
definition:
Tritheism

Tri"the*ism
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + Gr. _; God: cf. F. trithéisme.]
The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.


word: Tritheistical
definition:
Tritheistical

Tritheistic

{ Tri`the*is"tic (?), Tri`the*is"tic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to tritheism.
Bolingbroke.


word: Trithing
definition:
Trithing

Tri"thing
(?)
n.
[See Ist Riding.]
One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.
[Written also riding.]
Blackstone.


word: Trithionic
definition:
Trithionic

Tri`thi*on"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + thionic.]
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.


word: Tritiated
definition:
Tritiated

Trit"i*at*ed
(trĭt"ĭ*āt*ĕd)
a.
(Chem.)
containing tritium; -- of chemical compounds; as, tritiated thymine.
Compounds which are tritiated are, as a consequence, radioactive, and may be used as tracers in biochemical or chemical analysis.


word: Tritical
definition:
Tritical

Trit"ic*al
(?)
a.
Trite.
[Obs.]
T. Warton.
Trit"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Trit"ic*al*ness, n. [Obs.]


word: Triticin
definition:
Triticin

Trit"i*cin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum repens, formerly Triticum repens) as a white amorphous substance.


word: Triticum
definition:
Triticum

Trit"i*cum
(?)
n.
[L., perhaps fr. tritus, p. p. of terere to grind.]
(Bot.)
A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.


word: tritium
definition:
tritium

trit"i*um
(trĭt"ĭ*ŭm)
n.
(Chem.)
A radioactive isotope of hydrogen having one proton and two neutrons in the nucleus.  It decays spontaneously to Helium-3 by the emission of an electron (beta ray), with a half-life of 12.3 years.  Symbol 1H3.  Atomic weight 3.01605 (C-12 = 12.0000). It is one of the radioisotopes commonly used to label chemical compounds for use as tracers in biochemistry and chemistry.  It is also used as one of the fusionable components of a hydrogen bomb.


word: Triton
definition:
Triton

Tri"ton
(trī"t&obreve_;n)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. Tri`twn.]
(Gr. Myth.)
A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune.  He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Wordsworth.

2.
(Zool.)
Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.

3.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and Molge alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.


word: Tritone
definition:
Tritone

Tri"tone`
(?)
n.
[Gr. tri`tonos of three tones; tri- tri- + to`nos a tone.]
(Mus.)
A superfluous or augmented fourth.
[R.]


word: Tritovum
definition:
Tritovum

Tri*to"vum
(?)
n.
pl. Tritova (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; third + L. ovum egg.]
(Zool.)
An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.


word: Tritozooid
definition:
Tritozooid

Tri`to*zo"oid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; third + zw^,on an animal.]
(Zool.)
A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.


word: Tritubercular
definition:
Tritubercular

Tri`tu*ber"cu*lar
(?)
a.
(a)
Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid.
(b)
Pertaining to trituberculy.


word: Trituberculy
definition:
Trituberculy

Tri`tu*ber"cu*ly
(?)
n.
[Pref. tri- + L. tuberculum tubercle.]
(Zool.)
A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the trigon or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared.


word: Triturate
definition:
Triturate

Trit"u*rate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Triturated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Triturating.]
[L. trituratus, p. p. of triturate to thrash (grain), fr. terere, tritum, to rub, rub to pieces. See Trite.]
1.
To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.

2.
To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.


word: Trituration
definition:
Trituration

Trit`u*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. trituration, L. trituratio a thrashing of grain.]
The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.
Paley.


word: Triture
definition:
Triture

Trit"ure
(?)
n.
[L. tritura, from terere, tritum, to rub, rub to pieces.]
A rubbing or grinding; trituration.
[Obs.]
Cheyne.


word: Triturium
definition:
Triturium

Tri*tu"ri*um
(?)
n.
[NL.; cf. L. terere, tritum to rub.]
A vessel for separating liquids of different densities.
[Written also tritorium.]


word: Triumph
definition:
Triumph

Tri"umph
(?)
n.
[L. triumphus, OL. triumpus; of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. _; a procession in honor of Bacchus: cf. F. triomphe.  Cf. Trump at cards.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

&hand_; The general was allowed to enter the city crowned with a wreath of laurel, bearing a scepter in one hand, and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a circular chariot, of a peculiar form, drawn by four horses. He was preceded by the senate and magistrates, musicians, the spoils, the captives in fetters, etc., and followed by his army on foot in marching order. The procession advanced in this manner to the Capitoline Hill, where sacrifices were offered, and victorious commander entertained with a public feast.

2.
Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
[Obs.]

Our daughter,
In honor of whose birth these triumphs are,
Sits here, like beauty's child.
Shak.

3.
A state of joy or exultation for success.

Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven.
Milton.

Hercules from Spain
Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain.
Dryden.

4.
Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.

5.
A trump card; also, an old game at cards.
[Obs.]


word: Triumph₂
definition:
Triumph

Tri"umph
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Triumphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Triumphing.]
[L. triumphare: cf. F. triompher. See Triumph, n.]
1.
To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.

How long shall the wicked triumph?
Ps. xciv. 3.

Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
That triumph thus upon my misery!
Shak.

2.
To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.

Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time.
Milton.

On this occasion, however, genius triumphed.
Macaulay.

3.
To be prosperous; to flourish.

Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales.
Trumbull.

4.
To play a trump card.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Triumph₃
definition:
Triumph

Tri"umph
v. t.
To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.
[Obs.]

Two and thirty legions that awe
All nations of the triumphed word.
Massinger.


word: Triumphal
definition:
Triumphal

Tri*um"phal
(?)
a.
[L. triumphalis: cf. F. triomphal.]
Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.

Messiah his triumphal chariot turned.
Milton.


word: Triumphal₂
definition:
Triumphal

Tri*um"phal
n.
A token of victory.
[Obs.]

Joyless triumphals of his hoped success.
Milton.


word: Triumphant
definition:
Triumphant

Tri*um"phant
(?)
a.
[L. triumphans, p. pr. of triumphare: cf. F. triomphant. See Triumph, v. i.]

1.
Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.

Successful beyond hope to lead ye forth
Triumphant out of this infernal pit.
Milton.

2.
Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode.

3.
Graced with conquest; victorious.

Athena, war's triumphant maid.
Pope.

So shall it be in the church triumphant.
Perkins.

4.
Of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal.
[Obs.]

Captives bound to a triumphant car.
Shak.

Church triumphant, the church in heaven, enjoying a state of triumph, her warfare with evil being over; -- distinguished from church militant. See under Militant.


word: Triumpher
definition:
Triumpher

Tri"umph*er
(?)
n.
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.

2.
One who triumphs or rejoices for victory.


word: Triumphing
definition:
Triumphing

Tri"umph*ing
a.
Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant.
Tri"umph*ing*ly, adv.


word: Triumvir
definition:
Triumvir

Tri*um"vir
(?)
n.
pl. L. Triumviri (#), E. Triumvirs (#).
[L., fr. res, gen. trium, three + vir a man. See Three, and Virile.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
One of tree men united in public office or authority.

&hand_; In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last.


word: Triumvirate
definition:
Triumvirate

Tri*um"vi*rate
(?)
n.
[L. triumviratus: cf. F. triumvirat.]
1.
Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.

2.
A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.


word: Triune
definition:
Triune

Tri"une
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. unus one. See One.]
Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.


word: Triungulus
definition:
Triungulus

Tri*un"gu*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Triunguli (#).
[NL. See Tri-, and Ungulate.]
(Zool.)
The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.


word: Trivalent
definition:
Trivalent

Triv"a*lent
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. valens, -entis, p. pr. See Valence.]
(Chem.)
Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.


word: Triverbial
definition:
Triverbial

Tri*ver"bi*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + L. verbum a word.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.


word: Trivet
definition:
Trivet

Triv"et
(?)
n.
[Probably through French fr. L. tripes, -edis, three-footed; tri- (see Tri-)+ pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. trépied. See Foot, and cf. Tripod.]
1.
A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.
[Written also trevet.]

2.
A weaver's knife. See Trevat.
Knight.

Trivet table, a table supported by three legs. Dryden.


word: Trivial
definition:
Trivial

Triv"i*al
(?)
a.
[L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see Tri-) + via a way: cf. F. trivial. See Voyage.]
1.
Found anywhere; common.
[Obs.]

2.
Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor.
De Quincey.

3.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

The trivial round, the common task.
Keble.

4.
Of or pertaining to the trivium.

Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), the specific name.


word: Triviality
definition:
Triviality

Triv`i*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Trivialities (#).
[Cf. F. trivialité]
1.
The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

2.
That which is trivial; a trifle.

The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities.
Lyon Playfair.


word: Trivium
definition:
Trivium

Triv"i*um
(?)
n.
[LL. See Trivial.]
1.
The three “ liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

&hand_; The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.

2.
(Zool.)
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.


word: Triweekly
definition:
Triweekly

Tri"week`ly
(?)
a.
[Pref. tri- + weekly.]
Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper.
adv. Three times a week.
n. A triweekly publication.

&hand_; This is a convenient word, but is not legitimately formed. It should mean occurring once in three weeks, as triennial means once in three years.  Cf. Biweekly.


word: Troat
definition:
Troat

Troat
(?)
v. i.
[Either onomatopoetic, or akin to throat.]
To cry, as a buck in rutting time.


word: Trocar
definition:
Trocar

Tro"car
(?)
n.
[F. trocart (or trois-quarts, i. e., three quarters); trois three (L. tres) + carre the side of a sword blade; -- so called from its triangular point.]
(Surg.)
A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
[Written also trochar.]


word: Trocha
definition:
Trocha

Tro"cha
(?)
n.
[Sp., bypath, crossroad.]
(Mil.)
A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region.
[Sp. Amer.]


word: Trochaical
definition:
Trochaical

Trochaic

{ Tro*cha"ic (?), Tro*cha"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. trochaïcus, Gr. _; or _;. See Trochee.]
(Pros.)
Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.


word: Trochal
definition:
Trochal

Tro"chal
(?)
a.
[From Gr. _; a wheel.]
(Zool.)
Resembling a wheel.

Trochal disk (Zool.), the cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.


word: Trochanter
definition:
Trochanter

Tro*chan"ter
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Anat.)
One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

2.
(Zool.)
The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.


word: Trochantine
definition:
Trochantine

Tro*chan"tine
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.


word: Troche
definition:
Troche

Tro"che
(tr&omacr"kē)
n.
[Gr. trocho`s anything round or circular, a wheel, properly, a runner, fr. tre`chein to run.  Cf. Trochee.]
(Pharm.)
A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.


word: Trochee
definition:
Trochee

Tro"chee
(?)
n.
[L. trochaeus, Gr. _; (sc._;), from _; running, from _; to run.  Cf. Troche, Truck a wheel.]
(Pros.)
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.


word: Trochil
definition:
Trochil

Tro"chil
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. trochile. See Trochilus.]
(Zool.)
The crocodile bird.

The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Trochili
definition:
Trochili

Troch"i*li
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Trochilus.]
(Zool.)
A division of birds comprising the humming birds.


word: Trochilic
definition:
Trochilic

Tro*chil"ic
(?)
a.
[See Trochilics.]
OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.
trochilic
Camden.


word: Trochilics
definition:
Trochilics

Tro*chil"ics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; the sheaf of a pulley, roller of a windlass, from _; to run.]
The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work.
Wilkins.


word: Trochilidist
definition:
Trochilidist

Tro*chil"i*dist
(?)
n.
[See Trochilus.]
One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae.
Gould.


word: Trochilus
definition:
Trochilus

Troch"i*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Trochili (#).
[L. trochilus a kind of small bird. Gr. _;, fr. _; to run.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
(b)
Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets.
[Obs.]
(c)
The crocodile bird.

2.
(Arch.)
An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.


word: Troching
definition:
Troching

Tro"ching
(?)
n.
[OF. troche cluster, group; cf. F. trochure a surantler, trochée branches of a seedling, trochet cluster of flowers or fruits.]
(Zool.)
One of the small branches of a stag's antler.


word: Trochiscus
definition:
Trochiscus

Tro*chis"cus
(?)
n.
pl. Trochisci (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _; a small ball, dim. of _; a wheel. See Troche.]
(Pharm.)
A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.


word: Trochite
definition:
Trochite

Tro"chite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a wheel.]
(Paleon.)
A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.


word: Trochlea
definition:
Trochlea

Troch"le*a
(?)
n.
[L., a case or sheaf containing one or more pulleys, Gr. _;. See Trochilics.]
1.
(Mach.)
A pulley.
[Obs.]

2.
(Anat.)
A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.


word: Trochlear
definition:
Trochlear

Troch"le*ar
(?)
n.
[L. trochlea block or pulley.]
(Anat.)
Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.

Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.


word: Trochleary
definition:
Trochleary

Troch"le*a*ry
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.


word: Trochoid
definition:
Trochoid

Tro"choid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a wheel + -oid; cf. F. trochoïde. See Troche.]
(Geom.)
The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.


word: Trochoid₂
definition:
Trochoid

Tro"choid
a.
1.
(Anat.)
Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

2.
(Zool.)
Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.

3.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.


word: Trochoidal
definition:
Trochoidal

Tro*choid"al
(?)
a.
1.
(Geom.)
Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.

2.
(Anat. &  Zool.)
See Trochoid, a.


word: Trochometer
definition:
Trochometer

Tro*chom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a wheel + -meter.]
A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.


word: Trochosphere
definition:
Trochosphere

Troch"o*sphere
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a wheel + sphere.]
(Zool.)
A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.


word: Trochus
definition:
Trochus

Tro"chus
(?)
n.
pl. Trochi (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a wheel.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.


word: Trode₂
definition:
Trode

Trode
n.
[AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See Tread.]
Tread; footing.
[Written also troad.]
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Troglodyte
definition:
Troglodyte

Trog"lo*dyte
(?)
n.
[L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. _; one who creeps into holes; _; a hole, cavern (fr. _; to gnaw) + _; enter: cf. F. troglodyte.]
1.
(Ethnol.)
One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, or cave man. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.

In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the “mad lake.”
Holland.

2.
(Zool.)
An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

3.
(Zool.)
The wren.


word: Troglodytes
definition:
Troglodytes

Trog`lo*dy"tes
(?)
n.
[NL. See Troglodyte.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of apes including the chimpanzee.
The chimpanzee is now named Pan troglodytes.
Pan

2.
(Zool.)
A genus of singing birds including the common wrens.


word: Troglodytical
definition:
Troglodytical

Troglodytic

{ Trog`lo*dyt"ic (?), Trog`lo*dyt"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. troglodyticus, Gr. _;.]
Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.


word: Trogon
definition:
Trogon

Tro"gon
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.

&hand_; Some of the species have a train of long brilliant feathers lying over the tail and consisting of the upper tail coverts. Unlike other birds having two toes directed forward and two backward, they have the inner toe turned backward. A few species are found in Africa and India, but the greater number, including the most brilliant species, are found in tropical America. See Illust. of Quesal.


word: Trogue
definition:
Trogue

Trogue
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. trog trough, E. trough.]
(Mining)
A wooden trough, forming a drain.
Raymond.


word: Troic
definition:
Troic

Tro"ic
(?)
a.
[L. Troicus, Gr. _;, fr. _;. See Trojan.]
Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.
Gladstone.


word: Troilite
definition:
Troilite

Tro"i*lite
(?)
n.
[Named after Dominico Troili, an Italian of the 18th century.]
(Min.)
Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.


word: Troilus
definition:
Troilus

Tro"i*lus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Troili (#), E. Troiluses (#).
[NL., fr. L. Troilus, Gr. _;, the son of Priam.]
(Zool.)
A large, handsome American butterfly (Euphœades troilus, or Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings; -- also called troilus butterfly.


word: Troilus butterfly
definition:
Troilus butterfly

Tro"i*lus butterfly
(?)
A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear; -- also called troilus.


word: Trois point
definition:
Trois point

Trois` point"
(?)
[F. trois three.]
(Backgammon)
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.


word: Trojan
definition:
Trojan

Tro"jan
(?)
a.
[L. Trojanus, fr. Troja, Troia, Troy, from Tros, Gr. Trw`s, Trwo`s, Tros, the mythical founder of Troy.]
1.
Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
n. A native or inhabitant of Troy.

2.
One who shows the pluck, endurance, determined energy, strength, or the like, attributed to the defenders of Troy; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase like a Trojan; as, he endured the pain like a Trojan; he studies like a Trojan.

Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed.
Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)


word: Trojan horse
definition:
Trojan horse

Tro"jan horse`
(?)
n.
[from the incident described in Homer's Iliad.]
1.
(Classical mythology)
a large hollow wooden horse built by Greek soldiers besieging Troy during the Trojan War, and left as a “gift” when they pretended to abandon their seige.  It was taken into the city by the Trojans, and Greek soldiers concealed inside came out and opened the gates to the city, enabling the capture of the city by the Greeks.

2.
Hence, any thing or person which appears harmless but is designed to destroy or attack from within.  It may sometimes refer to a group; -- see also fifth column.

3.
(Computers)
A computer program designed to evade the security precautions within a computer system and perform illicit operations, or to do malicious damage, and often designed to look like a different kind of program, such as a game, archiver, or directory lister.  This term is not applied to a program that replicates itself, such as a virus.


word: Troll
definition:
Troll

Troll
(?)
n.
[Icel. troll.  Cf. Droll, Trull.]
(Scand. Myth.)
A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.

Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).


word: Troll₂
definition:
Troll

Troll
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.]
[OE. trollen to roll, F. trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. Trot.).  Cf. Trawl.]
1.
To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Milton.

2.
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

Then doth she troll to the bowl.
Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Troll the brown bowl.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.

Will you troll the catch ?
Shak.

His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.
Hudibras.

4.
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

5.
To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.

With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
Goldsmith.


word: Troll₃
definition:
Troll

Troll
v. i.
1.
To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.

2.
To move rapidly; to wag.
F. Beaumont.

3.
To take part in trolling a song.

4.
To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.

Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.
Bancroft.


word: Troll₄
definition:
Troll

Troll
n.
1.
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
Burke.

2.
A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.

Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.
Prof. Wilson.

3.
A trolley.

Troll plate (Mach.), a rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.


word: Trolly
definition:
Trolly

Trolley

{ Trol"ley, Trol"ly  }
(?)
n.
(a)
A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.
[Eng.]
(b)
A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.
[Eng.]
(c)
(Mach.)
A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
(d)
(Electric Railway)
A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
(e)
A trolley car.


word: Trolley car
definition:
Trolley car

Trol"ley car
(Elec.)
A motor car powered by electricity drawn from a trolley, and thus constrained to follow the trolley lines.


word: Trolley wire
definition:
Trolley wire

Trolley wire
A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current.


word: Trollmydames
definition:
Trollmydames

Troll"my*dames`
(?)
n.
[F. trou-madame pigeon holes.]
The game of nineholes.
[Written also trolmydames.]
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Trollop
definition:
Trollop

Trol"lop
(?)
n.
[From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull.]
A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.


word: Trombone
definition:
Trombone

Trom"bone
(?)
n.
[It., aug. of tromba a trumpet: cf. F. trombone. See Trump a trumpet.]
1.
(Mus.)
A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell.  The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded.  It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin.  Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

2.
(Zool.)
The common European bittern.


word: Trommel
definition:
Trommel

Trom"mel
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. trommel a drum.]
(Mining)
A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.
Raymond.


word: Tromp
definition:
Tromp

Tromp
(?)
n.
[F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine.  Cf. Trump a trumpet.]
A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
[Written also trompe, and trombe.]


word: Trompil
definition:
Trompil

Tromp"il
(?)
n.
[OF. trompille, equiv. to F. trompette a trumpet.]
An aperture in a tromp.


word: Trona
definition:
Trona

Tro"na
(?)
n.
[Of Egyptian or North African origin.]
(Chem. & Min.)
A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.


word: Tronage
definition:
Tronage

Tron"age
(?)
n.
[From Trone a steelyard.]
A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.
[Obs.]
Nares.


word: Tronator
definition:
Tronator

Tro*na"tor
(?)
n.
[LL. See Tronage.]
An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
[Obs.]


word: Trones
definition:
Trones

Trone

{ Trone (?), Trones (?), }
n.
[LL. trona, fr. L. trutina a balance; cf. Gr. _;.]
1.
A steelyard.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] -- Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.


word: Troop
definition:
Troop

Troop
(?)
n.
[F. troupe, OF. trope, trupe, LL. troppus; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. þorp a hamlet, village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, E. thorp.  Cf. Troupe.]
1.
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

That which should accompany old age --
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --
I must not look to have.
Shak.

2.
Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
Shak.

His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
Macaulay.

3.
(Mil.)
Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

4.
A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
W. Coxe.

5.
(Mil.)
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

6.
See Boy scout, above.


word: Troop₂
definition:
Troop

Troop
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping.]
1.
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
troop
Milton.

2.
To march on; to go forward in haste.

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men.
Shak.


word: Troop₃
definition:
Troop

Troop
v. t.
-- To troop the colors or To troop the colours (Mil.), in the British army, to perform a ceremony consisting essentially in carrying the colors, accompanied by the band and escort, slowly before the troops drawn up in single file and usually in a hollow square, as in London on the sovereign's birthday.


word: Trooper
definition:
Trooper

Troop"er
n.
1.
A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

2.
A state police officer; -- also called state trooper.
[U. S.]

3.
A mounted policeman.
[Australia]
The black troopers of Queensland are a regiment of aboriginal police, employed chiefly for dispersing wild aborigines who encroach on sheep runs.

4.
Trouper.

like a trooper, with energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.


word: Troopmeal
definition:
Troopmeal

Troop"meal`
(?)
adv.
[Troop + -meal as in piecemeal.]
By troops; in crowds.
[Obs.]

So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts.
Chapman.


word: Troopship
definition:
Troopship

Troop"ship`
(?)
n.
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
[Eng.]


word: Troostite
definition:
Troostite

Troost"ite
(?)
n.
[So named after Dr. Gerard Troost, of Nashville, Tenn.]
(Min.)
Willemite.


word: Tropaeolin
definition:
Tropaeolin

Tro*pae"o*lin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropaeolum).


word: Trope
definition:
Trope

Trope
(?)
n.
[L. tropus, Gr. _;, fr. _; to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.]
(Rhet.)
(a)
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
(b)
The word or expression so used.

In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips.
Bancroft.

&hand_; Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.


word: Tropeine
definition:
Tropeine

Tro*pe"ine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.


word: Trophi
definition:
Trophi

Tro"phi
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a feeder, fr. _; to feed.]
(Zool.)
The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.


word: Trophic
definition:
Trophic

Troph"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; nursing. See Trophi.]
(Physiol.)
Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.


word: Trophied
definition:
Trophied

Tro"phied
(?)
a.
Adorned with trophies.

The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.
Pope.


word: Trophonian
definition:
Trophonian

Tro*pho"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Trophonianus, fr. Trophonius, Gr. _;, a Grecian architect, fabled to have been the builder of the first temple of Apollo at Delphi. He was worshiped after death, and had a celebrated oracle in a cave in Bœotia.]
Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.


word: Trophosome
definition:
Trophosome

Troph"o*some
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a feeder + -some body.]
(Zool.)
The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.


word: Trophosperm
definition:
Trophosperm

Troph"o*sperm
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a feeder + _; seed: cf. F. trophosperme. See Trophi.]
(Bot.)
The placenta.


word: Trophy
definition:
Trophy

Tro"phy
(?)
n.
pl. Trophies (#).
[F. trophée (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr. _;, strictly, a monument of the enemy's defeat, fr._; a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. _; to turn. See Trope.]
1.
(Gr. & Rom. Antiq.)
A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.

&hand_; A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol.

2.
The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

3.
Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.

Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears,
And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars,
And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
Dryden.

4.
Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia.


word: Tropic
definition:
Tropic

Trop"ic
(?)
a.
[Atropine + -ic.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.


word: Tropic₂
definition:
Tropic

Trop"ic
n.
[F. tropique, L. tropicus of or belonging to a turn, i. e., of the sun, Gr. _; of the solstice, _; (sc. _;) the tropic or solstice, fr. _; to turn. See Trope.]
1.
(Astron.)
One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23° 28′, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

2.
(Geog.)
(a)
One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
(b)
pl.
The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

The brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the greenhouse and the saloon.
Bancroft.


word: Tropic₃
definition:
Tropic

Trop"ic
a.
Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

Tropic bird (Zool.), any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Phaethon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Phaethon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.


word: Tropical
definition:
Tropical

Trop"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. _;. See Tropic, n.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

2.
[From Trope.]
Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Jer. Taylor.

The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.
South.

Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.


word: Tropidine
definition:
Tropidine

Trop"i*dine
(?)
n.
[See Tropine.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.


word: Tropilidene
definition:
Tropilidene

Tro*pil"i*dene
(?)
n.
[See Tropine.]
(Chem.)
A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.


word: Tropine
definition:
Tropine

Tro"pine
(?)
n.
[From Atropine.]
(Chem.)
A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.


word: Tropism
definition:
Tropism

Tro"pism
(tr&omacr"pĭz'm)
n.
[Gr. troph` a turning, tre`pein to turn + -ism.]
(Physiol.)
Modification of the direction of growth, caused by some external influence, such as light; -- sometimes used for motion of an organism toward or away from an external stimulus, more properly called taxis.


word: Tropist
definition:
Tropist

Trop"ist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. tropiste. See Trope.]
One who deals in tropes;
specifically,
one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.


word: Tropological
definition:
Tropological

Tropologic

{ Trop`o*log"ic (?), Trop`o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. tropologique. See Tropology.]
Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
Burton.
Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Tropologize
definition:
Tropologize

Tro*pol"o*gize
(?)
v. t.
To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
[R.]

If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence.
Cudworth.


word: Tropology
definition:
Tropology

Tro*pol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; a trope + _; discourse: cf. F. tropologie.]
A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Troppo
definition:
Troppo

Trop"po
(?)
adv.
[It.]
(Mus.)
Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.


word: Trot
definition:
Trot

Trot
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.]
[OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott_;n to tread. See Tread.]
1.
To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

2.
Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.
Franklin.


word: Trot₂
definition:
Trot

Trot
v. t.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]


word: Trot₃
definition:
Trot

Trot
n.
[F. See Trot, v. i.]
1.
The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
trot
Stillman (The Horse in Motion).

2.
Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

3.
One who trots; a child; a woman.

An old trot with ne'er a tooth.
Shak.


word: Troth
definition:
Troth

Troth
(?)
n.
[A variant of truth. See Truth.]
1.
Belief; faith; fidelity.

Bid her alight
And hertroth plight.
Shak.

2.
Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.
Shak.

In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs.
Addison.

3.
Betrothal.


word: Trothless
definition:
Trothless

Troth"less
a.
Faitless; false; treacherous.

Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.
Fairfax.


word: Trotter
definition:
Trotter

Trot"ter
(?)
n.
1.
One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

2.
The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.


word: Trottoir
definition:
Trottoir

Trot"toir
(?)
n.
[F., from trotter to trot. See Trot.]
Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs.
Froude.


word: Troubadour
definition:
Troubadour

Trou"ba*dour`
(?)
n.
[F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. _; a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf. Trouv_;re.]
One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.


word: Trouble
definition:
Trouble

Trou"ble
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Troubled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.]
[F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. _;, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten.  Cf. Turbid.]
1.
To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
John v. 4.

God looking forth will trouble all his host.
Milton.

2.
To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

Now is my soul troubled.
John xii. 27.

Take the boy to you; he so troubles me
'T is past enduring.
Shak.

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
Locke.

3.
To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.


word: Trouble₃
definition:
Trouble

Trou"ble
n.
[F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.]
1.
The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
Milton.

Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles.
Shak.

2.
That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

3.
(Mining)
A fault or interruption in a stratum.

To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] -- To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience.
[1913 Webster]
She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.


word: Troubler
definition:
Troubler

Trou"bler
(?)
n.
One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.

The rich troublers of the world's repose.
Waller.


word: Troublesome
definition:
Troublesome

Trou"ble*some
(?)
a.
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

This troublesome world.
Book of Common Prayer.

These troublesome disguises that we wear.
Milton.

My mother will never be troublesome to me.
Pope.


word: Troublous
definition:
Troublous

Trou"blous
(?)
a.
Full of trouble; causing trouble.
troublous
Byron.

A tall ship tossed in troublous seas.
Spenser.


word: Trou-de-loup
definition:
Trou-de-loup

Trou"-de-loup"
(?)
n.
pl. Trous-de-loup (_;).
[F. trou hole + de of + loup wolf.]
(Mil.)
A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.


word: Trough
definition:
Trough

Trough
(tr&obreve_;f)
n.
[OE. trough, trogh, AS. trog, troh; akin to D., G., & Icel. trog, Sw. tråg, Dan. trug; probably originally meaning, made of wood, and akin to E. tree. √63 & 241. See Tree, and cf. Trug.]
1.
A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

2.
Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

3.
(Meteor.)
The transverse section of a cyclonic area where the barometric pressure, neither rising nor falling, has reached its lowest point.

Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.


word: Trounce
definition:
Trounce

Trounce
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing (?).]
[F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.]
To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
[Colloq.]


word: Troupe
definition:
Troupe

Troupe
(?)
n.
[F., troop. See Troop.]
A company or troop, especially the company of performers in a play or an opera.


word: Troupial
definition:
Troupial

Troup"i*al
(?)
n.
[F. troupiale.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America.  Many of the species are called orioles in America.
[Written also troopial.]


word: Trousers
definition:
Trousers

Trou"sers
(?)
n. pl.
[OF. trousses breeches worn by pages, from trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See Truss, and cf. Trossers, Trouse.]
A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.


word: Trousse
definition:
Trousse

Trousse
(trōs)
n.
[F. See Truss; cf. Trousseau.]
A case for small implements; as, a surgeon's trousse.


word: Trousseau
definition:
Trousseau

Trous`seau"
(trō`s&omacr")
n.
[F., fr. OF. trossel, dim. of trousse a bundle, truss. See Truss.]
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.


word: Trout
definition:
Trout

Trout
(trout)
n.
[AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trw`kths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw`gein to gnaw.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae.  They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh.  All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.

&hand_; The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout (Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada; the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma); the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo purpuratus); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout (see under Salmon.)  The European trout has been introduced into America.

2.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.

Trout perch (Zool.), a small fresh-water American fish (Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth.


word: Trout-colored
definition:
Trout-colored

Trout"-col`ored
(-kŭl`ẽrd)
a.
White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.


word: Trouveur
definition:
Trouveur

Trouvere

{ &VerbarTrou`vère" (?), &VerbarTrou`veur" (?), }
n.
[F. trouveur, trouvère. See Troubadour.]
One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.


word: Trover
definition:
Trover

Tro"ver
(tr&omacr"vẽr)
n.
[OF. trover, truver, to find, F. trouver; probably originally, to invent or compose (melodies), fr. (assumed) LL. tropare. See Troubadour, Trope, and cf. Contrive, Reirieve, Trouveur.]
(Law)
(a)
The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.
(b)
An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.


word: Trow₂
definition:
Trow

Trow
(?)
v. i. & t.
[OE. trowen, AS. treówan to trust, believe, fr. treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.]
To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
[Archaic]

So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize.
Chaucer.

A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is.
Chaucer.

It never yet was worn, I trow.
Tennyson.

&hand_; I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise.

What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore?
Shak.

What is the matter, trow?
Shak.


word: Trowel
definition:
Trowel

Trow"el
(?)
n.
[OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L. trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. _; a stirrer, ladle, G. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril.  Cf. Twirl.]
1.
A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

2.
A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

3.
(Founding)
A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. -- Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.


word: Troweled
definition:
Troweled

Trow"eled
(?)
Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.
[Written also trowelled.]


word: Trowelful
definition:
Trowelful

Trow"el*ful
(?)
n.
pl. Trowelfuls (_;).
As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.


word: Troy
definition:
Troy

Troy
(?)
n.
Troy weight.

Troy weight, the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains. The avoirdupois pound contains 7000 troy grains; so that 175 pounds troy equal 144 pounds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 117/175 or 1.09714 ounce avoirdupois. Troy weight when divided, the pound into 12 ounces, the ounce into 8 drams, the dram into 3 scruples, and the scruple into 20 grains, is called apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the 1/10000 part.


word: Truage
definition:
Truage

Tru"age
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. truage a tax. See True.]
1.
A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.
[Obs.]
Ld. Berners.

2.
A tax or impost; tribute.
[Obs.]
R. of Gloucester.


word: Truancy
definition:
Truancy

Tru"an*cy
(?)
n.
The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.


word: Truant
definition:
Truant

Tru"ant
n.
[F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
Dryden.

I have a truant been to chivalry.
Shak.

To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave. Sir T. Browne


word: Truant₂
definition:
Truant

Tru"ant
a.
Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

While truant Jove, in infant pride,
Played barefoot on Olympus' side.
Trumbull.


word: Truant₃
definition:
Truant

Tru"ant
v. i.
[Cf. F. truander.]
To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
Shak.

By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.
Lowell.


word: Truant₄
definition:
Truant

Tru"ant
v. t.
To idle away; to waste.
[R.]

I dare not be the author
Of truanting the time.
Ford.


word: Truantship
definition:
Truantship

Tru"ant*ship
n.
The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.
Ascham.


word: Trubtall
definition:
Trubtall

Trub"tall`
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. trub slut; cf. Sw. trubbig stumpy.]
A short, squat woman.
[Obs.]
Ainsworth.


word: Trubu
definition:
Trubu

Tru*bu"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.


word: Truce
definition:
Truce

Truce
(?)
n.
[OE. trewes, triwes, treowes, pl. of trewe a truce, properly, pledge of fidelity, truth, AS. treów fidelity, faith, troth. See True.]
1.
(Mil.)
A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

2.
Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.

Where he may likeliest find
Truce to his restless thoughts.
Milton.

Flag of truce (Mil.), a white flag carried or exhibited by one of the hostile parties, during the flying of which hostilities are suspended. -- Truce of God, a suspension of arms promulgated by the church, which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, putting a stop to private hostilities at or within certain periods.


word: Truceless
definition:
Truceless

Truce"less
a.
Without a truce; unforbearing.

Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest.
H. Brooke.


word: Truchman
definition:
Truchman

Truch"man
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. trucheman. See Dragoman.]
An interpreter. See Dragoman.
[Obs.]

And after, by the tongue,
Her truchman, she reports the mind's each throw.
B. Jonson.


word: Trucidation
definition:
Trucidation

Tru`ci*da"tion
(?)
n.
[L. trucidatio, fr. trucidare to slaughter.]
The act of killing.
[Obs.]


word: Truck
definition:
Truck

Truck
(?)
n.
[L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. _; a wheel, fr. _; to run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle, v. i.]
1.
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

2.
A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.

Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.
Macaulay.

3.
(Railroad Mach.)
A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
(b)
A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.

5.
A freight car.
[Eng.]

6.
A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

7.
a motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight;
esp.
(a)
such a vehicle with an inflexible body.
(b)
A vehicle with a short body and a support for attaching a trailer; -- also called a tractor{4}.
(c)
the combination of tractor and trailer, also called a tractor-trailer (a form of articulated vehicle); it is a common form of truck, and is used primarily for hauling freight on a highway.
(d)
a tractor with more than one trailer attached in a series.  In Australia, often referred to as a road train.


word: Truck₃
definition:
Truck

Truck
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. trucking.]
[OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin.]
To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.

We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another.
J. S. Mill.


word: Truck₄
definition:
Truck

Truck
v. i.
To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.

A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them.
Palfrey.

Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster.
Burke.

To truck and higgle for a private good.
Emerson.


word: Truck₅
definition:
Truck

Truck
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. troc.]
1.
Exchange of commodities; barter.
Hakluyt.

2.
Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
[Colloq.]

3.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.

Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]


word: Truckage
definition:
Truckage

Truck"age
(?)
n.
The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.

The truckage of perishing coin.
Milton.


word: Trucker
definition:
Trucker

Truck"er
(?)
n.
One who trucks; a trafficker.

No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls.
South.


word: Truckle
definition:
Truckle

Truc"kle
(?)
n.
[Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys.  See Truck a wheel.]
A small wheel or caster.
Hudibras.


word: Truckle₂
definition:
Truckle

Truc"kle
v. i.
[From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.]
To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
trucking
Burke.

Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey.
Norris.


word: Truckle₃
definition:
Truckle

Truc"kle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Truckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling (?).]
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.


word: Truckle-bed
definition:
Truckle-bed

Truc"kle-bed`
(?)
n.
A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.
truckle-bed
Shak.


word: Truckman
definition:
Truckman

Truck"man
(?)
n.
pl. Truckmen (#).
1.
[From Truck barter.]
One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

2.
[From Truck a carriage.]
One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.


word: Truculency
definition:
Truculency

Truculence

{ Tru"cu*lence (?), Tru"cu*len*cy (?), }
n.
[L. truculentia.]
The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.


word: Truculent
definition:
Truculent

Tru"cu*lent
(?)
a.
[L. truculentus, fr. trux, gen. trucis, wild, fierce: cf. F. truculent.]
1.
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Ray.

2.
Cruel; destructive; ruthless.

More or less truculent plagues.
Harvey.


word: Trudge
definition:
Trudge

Trudge
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trudged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trudging.]
[Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. þrūga.]
To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet.
Dryden.


word: Trudgen stroke
definition:
Trudgen stroke

Trudg"en stroke
(?)
(Swimming)
A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.


word: True
definition:
True

True
(tr&usuml_;)
a.
[Compar. Truer (tr&usuml_;"ẽr); superl. Truest.]
[OE. trewe, AS. treówe faithful, true, from treów fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue, n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n., Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan. tro, adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tro, n., Goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith.  Cf. Trow, Trust, Truth.]

1.
Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.

2.
Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.

Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.

Thy so true,
So faithful, love unequaled.
Milton.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.
Herbert.

4.
Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.

The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John i. 9.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
Pope.

5.
(Biol.)
Genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.

&hand_; True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.

Out of true, varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.] -- A true bill (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true. -- True time. See under Time.


word: True-blue
definition:
True-blue

True"-blue`
(?)
a.
Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; -- a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.


word: True-born
definition:
True-born

True"-born`
(?)
a.
Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.


word: True-bred
definition:
True-bred

True"-bred`
(?)
a.
1.
Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.
Shak.

2.
Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman.


word: True-hearted
definition:
True-hearted

True"-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.
True"-heart`ed*ness, n.


word: Truelove
definition:
Truelove

True"love`
(?)
n.
1.
One really beloved.

2.
(Bot.)
A plant. See Paris.

3.
An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
T. R. Lounsbury.

Under his tongue a truelove he bore.
Chaucer.

Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.


word: Trueness
definition:
Trueness

True"ness
n.
The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.


word: Truffle
definition:
Truffle

Truf"fle
(?; 277)
n.
[OF. trufle, F. truffe; akin to Sp. trufa, tartufo; of uncertain origin; perhaps from L. tuber a tumor, knob, truffle.  Cf. Tuber, Trifle.]
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (Tuber aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

Truffle worm (Zool.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles.


word: Truffled
definition:
Truffled

Truf"fled
(?)
a.
Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.


word: Trug
definition:
Trug

Trug
(?)
n.
[Cf. Trough.]
1.
A trough, or tray.
(a)
A hod for mortar.
(b)
An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Bailey.

2.
A concubine; a harlot.
[Obs.]
Taylor (1630).


word: Truism
definition:
Truism

Tru"ism
(?)
n.
[From True.]
An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words.
J. P. Smith.


word: Truite
definition:
Truite

Trui`té"
(?)
a.
[F., fr. truite trout.]
Having a delicately crackled surface; -- applied to porcelian, etc.


word: Trull
definition:
Trull

Trull
(?)
n.
[G. trolle, trulle; cf. OD. drol a jester, Dan. trold an elf, imp, Sw. troll a goblin, Icel. troll, tröll, a giant, fiend, demon.  Cf. Droll, Troll.]
1.
A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
Shak.

2.
A girl; a wench; a lass.
[Obs.]


word: Trullization
definition:
Trullization

Trul`li*za"tion
(?)
n.
[L. trullissatio, from trullissare to trowel, to plaster, fr. trulla a trowel.]
The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.


word: Truly
definition:
Truly

Tru"ly
(?)
adv.
[From True.]
1.
In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.

I can not truly say how I came here.
Shak.

2.
Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

3.
Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
Burke.

4.
Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.

His innocent babe [is] truly begotten.
Shak.

5.
In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.

Beauty is excelled by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
Milton.


word: Trump
definition:
Trump

Trump
(?)
n.
[OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis.]
A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.
1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.

The wakeful trump of doom.
Milton.


word: Trump₂
definition:
Trump

Trump
v. i.
[Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.]
To blow a trumpet.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).


word: Trump₃
definition:
Trump

Trump
n.
[A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet.]
1.
A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

2.
An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
Decker.

3.
A good fellow; an excellent person.
[Slang]

Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
Thackeray.

To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.

But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump.
Milton.

Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them.
W. Irving.


word: Trump₄
definition:
Trump

Trump
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Trumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.]
To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.


word: Trump₅
definition:
Trump

Trump
v. t.
To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.


word: Trump₆
definition:
Trump

Trump
v. t.
[F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]
1.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
[Obs.]
trump
B. Jonson.

2.
To impose unfairly; to palm off.

Authors have been trumped upon us.
C. Leslie.

To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.


word: Trumpery
definition:
Trumpery

Trump"er*y
(?)
n.
[F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See Trump to trick.]
1.
Deceit; fraud.
[Obs.]
Grenewey.

2.
Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.

The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves.
Shak.

Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.
South.


word: Trumpet
definition:
Trumpet

Trump"et
(?)
n.
[F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.]
1.
(Mus.)
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms.
Dryden.

2.
(Mil.)
A trumpeter.
Clarendon.

3.
One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
Shak.

That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises.
Dryden.

4.
(Mach)
A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Ear trumpet. See under Ear. -- Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. -- Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. -- Trumpet animalcule (Zool.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. -- Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] -- Trumpet conch (Zool.), a trumpet shell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zool.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. -- Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. -- Trumpet fly (Zool.), a botfly. -- Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. -- Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. -- Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. -- Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to “its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape.” Grove. -- Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. -- Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.


word: Trumpet₂
definition:
Trumpet

Trump"et
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.]
[Cf. F. trompeter.]
To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
Bacon.


word: Trumpeter
definition:
Trumpeter

Trump"et*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who sounds a trumpet.

2.
One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.

These men are good trumpeters.
Bacon.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry.  Called also agami, and yakamik.
(b)
A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(c)
An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.

4.
(Zool.)
A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.


word: Trumpet-shaped
definition:
Trumpet-shaped

Trump"et-shaped`
(?)
a.
Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.


word: Trumpetweed
definition:
Trumpetweed

Trump"et*weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
(b)
The sea trumpet.


word: Trumpetwood
definition:
Trumpetwood

Trump"et*wood`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.


word: Truncate
definition:
Truncate

Trun"cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Truncated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Truncating.]
[L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.]
To cut off; to lop; to maim.


word: Truncate₂
definition:
Truncate

Trun"cate
(?)
a.
[L. truncatus, p. p. ]
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.


word: Truncated
definition:
Truncated

Trun"ca*ted
(?)
a.
1.
Cut off; cut short; maimed.

2.
(Min.)
Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

3.
(Zool.)
Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.

Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), a cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.


word: Truncation
definition:
Truncation

Trun*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. truncatio.]
1.
The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

2.
The state of being truncated.

3.
(Min.)
The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.


word: Truncheon
definition:
Truncheon

Trun"cheon
(?)
n.
[OE. tronchoun the shaft of a broken spear, broken piece, OF. tronchon, tron_;on, F. tron_;on, fr. OF. & F. tronce, tronche, a piece of wood; cf. OF. trons, tros, trois; all perhaps from L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, staff. See Thyrsus, and cf. Trounce.]
1.
A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.

With his truncheon he so rudely struck.
Spenser.

2.
A baton, or military staff of command.

The marshal's truncheon nor the judges robe.
Shak.

3.
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
Gardner.


word: Trundle
definition:
Trundle

Trun"dle
(?)
n.
[AS. tryndel a little shield. See Trend, v. i.]
1.
A round body; a little wheel.

2.
A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.

3.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

4.
(Mach.)
(a)
A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
(b)
One of the bars of a lantern wheel.


word: Trundle₂
definition:
Trundle

Trun"dle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trundled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trundling (?).]
1.
To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

2.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.
R. A. Proctor.


word: Trundle₃
definition:
Trundle

Trun"dle
v. i.
1.
To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

2.
To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.


word: Trundle-bed
definition:
Trundle-bed

Trun"dle-bed`
(?)
n.
A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels.
Chapman.


word: Trundlehead
definition:
Trundlehead

Trun"dle*head`
(?)
n.
1.
(Gearing)
One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

2.
The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.


word: Trunk
definition:
Trunk

Trunk
(?)
n.
[F. tronc, L. truncus, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as trompe a trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of a tree (see Trump a trumpet).  Cf. Truncate.]
1.
The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

About the mossy trunk I wound me soon,
For, high from ground, the branches would require
Thy utmost reach.
Milton.

2.
The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

3.
The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

4.
(Arch)
That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

5.
(Zool.)
That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

6.
(Zool.)
(a)
The proboscis of an elephant.
(b)
The proboscis of an insect.

7.
A long tube through which pellets of clay, p_;as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk.
Howell.

8.
A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

Locked up in chests and trunks.
Shak.

9.
(Mining)
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

10.
(Steam Engine)
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

11.
A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunk engine, a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10. -- Trunk hose, large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees. -- Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance. -- Trunk turtle (Zool.), the leatherback.


word: Trunk₂
definition:
Trunk

Trunk
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. tronquer. See Truncate.]
1.
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
[Obs.]
trunked
Spenser.

2.
(Mining)
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
Weale.


word: Trunked
definition:
Trunked

Trunked
(?)
a.
Having (such) a trunk.

Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees.
Howell.


word: Trunkfish
definition:
Trunkfish

Trunk"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.


word: Trunkful
definition:
Trunkful

Trunk"ful
(?)
n.
pl. Trunkfuls (_;).
As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.


word: Trunk piston
definition:
Trunk piston

Trunk piston
In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.


word: Trunk steamer
definition:
Trunk steamer

Trunk steamer
A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.


word: Trunnion
definition:
Trunnion

Trun"nion
(?)
n.
[OF. trognon the stock, stump, or truck of a tree, F. trognon a core, stalk, fr. tron a trunk, stem.  Cf. Trunk.]
1.
(Gun.)
A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

2.
(Steam Engine)
A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.

Trunnion plate (Gun.), a plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon next before the trunnions. [R.]


word: Trunnioned
definition:
Trunnioned

Trun"nioned
(?)
a.
Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.


word: Trusion
definition:
Trusion

Tru"sion
(?)
n.
[L. trudere, trusum, to thrust, shove: cf. F. trusion.]
The act of pushing or thrusting.
[R.]
Bentley.


word: Truss
definition:
Truss

Truss
(?)
n.
[OE. trusse, F. trousse, OF. also tourse; perhaps fr. L. tryrsus stalk, stem.  Cf. Thyrsus, Torso, Trousers, Trousseau.]
1.
A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
Fabyan.

Bearing a truss of trifles at his back.
Spenser.

&hand_; A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs.

2.
A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
[Obs.]
Nares.

Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore
The stains of ancient arms.
Drayton.

3.
(Surg.)
A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

4.
(Bot.)
A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

5.
(Naut.)
The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

6.
(Arch. & Engin.)
An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.

Truss rod, a rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.


word: Truss₂
definition:
Truss

Truss
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trussed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trussing.]
[F. trousser. See Truss, n.]
1.
To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.
Shak.

It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet.
Chaucer.

2.
To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
[Obs.]

Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey.
Spenser.

3.
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

4.
To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

5.
To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
[Slang.]
Sir W. Scott.

To truss a person or To truss one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] “Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.” J. Webster (1607). -- To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight. -- Trussed beam, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.


word: Trussing
definition:
Trussing

Truss"ing
(?)
n.
1.
(Arch. & Engin.)
The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
Weale.

2.
(Arch. & Engin.)
The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.

3.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
[Obs.]


word: Trust
definition:
Trust

Trust
(?)
n.
[OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tröst comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See True, and cf. Tryst.]
1.
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
trust
Milton.

Most take things upon trust.
Locke.

2.
Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

3.
Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
trust
2 Cor. iii. 4.

His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed
Equal in strength.
Milton.

4.
That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.

5.
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
Shak.

Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
Denham.

6.
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
Ps. lxxi. 5.

7.
(Law)
An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.

8.
An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.

9.
A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the  supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.

Trust deed (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use.


word: Trust₃
definition:
Trust

Trust
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.]
[OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.]
1.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.

I will never trust his word after.
Shak.

He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
Johnson.

2.
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

Trust me, you look well.
Shak.

3.
To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.

I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
2 John 12.

We trustwe have a good conscience.
Heb. xiii. 18.

4.
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust,
Now to suspect is vain.
Dryden.

5.
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.

Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
Macaulay.

6.
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

7.
To risk; to venture confidently.

[Beguiled] by thee
to trust thee from my side.
Milton.


word: Trust₄
definition:
Trust

Trust
v. i.
1.
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

More to know could not be more to trust.
Shak.

2.
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

I will trust and not be afraid.
Isa. xii. 2.

3.
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
Johnson.

To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. “Trust in the Lord, and do good.” Ps. xxxvii. 3. “A priest . . . on whom we trust.” Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Her widening streets on new foundations trust. Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
-- To trust to or To trust unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck.
[1913 Webster]
They trusted unto the liers in wait. Judges xx. 36.


word: Trust company
definition:
Trust company

Trust company
Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee.  Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.


word: Trustee
definition:
Trustee

Trus*tee"
(?)
n.
(Law)
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]


word: Trustee₂
definition:
Trustee

Trus*tee"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

2.
(Law)
To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
[U. S.]


word: Trustee stock
definition:
Trustee stock

Trustee stock
(Finance)
High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested.
[Colloq.]


word: Truster
definition:
Truster

Trust"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who trusts, or credits.

2.
(Scots Law)
One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee.


word: Trustful
definition:
Trustful

Trust"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of trust; trusting.

2.
Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.


word: Trusting
definition:
Trusting

Trust"ing
a.
Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.
Trust"ing*ly, adv.


word: Trustless
definition:
Trustless

Trust"less
a.
That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.
Trust"less*ness, n.


word: Trustworthy
definition:
Trustworthy

Trust"wor`thy
(?)
a.
Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty.
Trust"wor`thi*ness (#), n.


word: Trusty
definition:
Trusty

Trust"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Trustier (?); superl. Trustiest.]
1.
Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

Your trusty and most valiant servitor.
Shak.

2.
Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.

His trusty sword he called to his aid.
Spenser.

3.
Involving trust; as, a trusty business.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Truth
definition:
Truth

Truth
(?)
n.
pl. Truths (#).
[OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów_;. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
1.
The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
Mortimer.

Alas! they had been friends in youth,
But whispering tongues can poison truth.
Coleridge.

If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth.
Shak.

2.
That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
Zech. viii. 16.

I long to know the truth here of at large.
Shak.

The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
Coleridge.

3.
A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.
2 Cor. vii. 14.

4.
Righteousness; true religion.

Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John i. 17.

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
John xvii. 17.

In truth, in reality; in fact. -- Of a truth, in reality; certainly. -- To do truth, to practice what God commands.

He that doeth truth cometh to the light.
John iii. 21.


word: Truth₂
definition:
Truth

Truth
v. t.
To assert as true; to declare.
[R.]

Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
Ford.


word: Truthful
definition:
Truthful

Truth"ful
(?)
a.
Full of truth; veracious; reliable.
Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.


word: Truthless
definition:
Truthless

Truth"less
a.
Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.
Truth"less*ness, n.


word: Truth-lover
definition:
Truth-lover

Truth"-lov`er
(?)
n.
One who loves the truth.

Truth-lover was our English Duke.
Tennyson.


word: Truth-teller
definition:
Truth-teller

Truth"-tell`er
(?)
n.
One who tells the truth.

Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named.
Tennyson.


word: Trutination
definition:
Trutination

Tru`ti*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. trutinari to weigh, from trutina a balance. See Trone a steelyard.]
The act of weighing.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Truttaceous
definition:
Truttaceous

Trut*ta"ceous
(?)
a.
[LL. trutta a trout, L. tructa. See Trout.]
(Zool.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.


word: Try
definition:
Try

Try
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. tried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trying.]
[OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum, to rub, bruise, grind, thresh. See Trite.]
1.
To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Elyot.

2.
To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
Shak.

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Ps. xii. 6.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Ps. lxvi. 10.

3.
To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.

Let the end try the man.
Shak.

4.
To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.

Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased.
Milton.

These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine (1776)

5.
To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
Shak.

To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries.
Swift.

6.
To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.

7.
(Law)
To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

8.
To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.

Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.
Shak.

9.
To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.
Milton.

Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.
Dryden.

10.
To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

Let us try . . . to found a path.
Milton.

To try on. (a) To put on, as a garment, to ascertain whether it fits the person. (b) To attempt; to undertake. [Slang] Dickens.

He first deceased: she for a little tried
To live without him; liked it not, and died.
Sir H. Wotton.

Alack, I am afraid they have a waked,
And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed,
Confounds us.
Shak.


word: Try₂
definition:
Try

Try
(?)
v. i.
1.
To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.

2.
To do; to fare; as, how do you try!
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Try₃
definition:
Try

Try
n.
1.
A screen, or sieve, for grain.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Holland.

2.
Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.
Shak.

3.
In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; -- so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).


word: Trygon
definition:
Trygon

Try"gon
(trī"g&obreve_;n)
n.
[L., a sting ray, from Gr._; a kind of fish with a prickle in the tail.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.


word: Trying
definition:
Trying

Try"ing
a.
Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.


word: Tryout
definition:
Tryout

Try"out
(?)
n.
1.
a test of the performance capability of a person, to ascertain fitness for a particular task; in sports, a test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

2.
(Theater)
one or more performances of a play prior to the official opening, held at a location outside of the city where it is to be formally presented, conducted for the purpose of determining audience response or ascertaining weaknesses needing correction.


word: Try out
definition:
Try out

Try out
(?)
v. i.
to compete for a postition, as on a sports team or in a theatrical presentation.


word: Try out₂
definition:
Try out

Try out
(?)
v. t.
to use (something not previously used) to determine its fitness for a particular purpose; also, to attempt (a deed) to determine if it will accomplish a particular purpose.


word: Trypsin
definition:
Trypsin

Tryp"sin
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a rubbing, fr. _; to rub, grind. So called because it causes protein to break up or to fall apart.]
(physiol.)
A proteolytic enzyme present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.


word: Trypsinogen
definition:
Trypsinogen

Tryp*sin"o*gen
(?)
n.
[Trypsin + -gen.]
(Physiol.)
The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.


word: Tryptic
definition:
Tryptic

Tryp"tic
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.


word: Tryptone
definition:
Tryptone

Tryp"tone
(?)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.


word: Trysail
definition:
Trysail

Try"sail
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.
Totten.


word: Try-square
definition:
Try-square

Try"-square`
(?)
n.
An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.


word: Tryst
definition:
Tryst

Tryst
(?)
n.
[OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.]
1.
Trust.
[Obs.]

2.
An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
[Scot. or Poetic]

To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment.

The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever bided tryst at village stile.
Tennyson.


word: Tryst₂
definition:
Tryst

Tryst
v. t.
[OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]

1.
To trust.
[Obs.]

2.
To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
[Scot.]
Burns.


word: Trysting
definition:
Trysting

Tryst"ing
n.
An appointment; a tryst.

Trysting day, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like.
[1913 Webster]
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array. Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
-- Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. Byron.


word: Tsaritsa
definition:
Tsaritsa

Tsarina

{ Tsa*ri"na (?), Tsa*rit"sa (?), }
n.
[Russ. tsaritsa.  Cf. Czarina.]
The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.


word: Tschego
definition:
Tschego

Tsche"go
(?)
n.
[From a native name.]
(Zool.)
A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.


word: Tsetse
definition:
Tsetse

Tset"se
n.
(Zool.)
A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.
[Written also tzetze, and tsetze.]


word: Tsung-li Yamen
definition:
Tsung-li Yamen

Tsung"-li Ya"men
(?)
[Written also Tsung-li-Yamen or Tsungli Yamen.]
[Chin.]
The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.


word: Tsung tu
definition:
Tsung tu

Tsung" tu`
(?)
A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.


word: Tuatara
definition:
Tuatara

Tu`a*ta"ra
(?)
n.
[Maori tuatàra; tua on the farther side (the back) + tara spine.]
(Zool.)
A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but by 1900 confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.  It is the only surviving member of the order Rhyncocephala.  Also called tuatera and hatteria.


word: Tub
definition:
Tub

Tub
(?)
n.
[OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.]
1.
An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

2.
The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

3.
Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
South.

4.
A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
[Obs.]
Shak.

5.
A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

6.
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. -- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.


word: Tub₂
definition:
Tub

Tub
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tubbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tubbing.]
To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.


word: Tub₃
definition:
Tub

Tub
v. i.
To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
[Colloq.]

Don't we all tub in England ?
London Spectator.


word: Tubal
definition:
Tubal

Tub"al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.


word: Tubbing
definition:
Tubbing

Tub"bing
(?)
n.
1.
The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

2.
A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.


word: Tubby
definition:
Tubby

Tub"by
(?)
a.
Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.


word: Tube
definition:
Tube

Tube
(?)
n.
[L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]
1.
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

2.
A telescope.
tube
Milton.

3.
A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

4.
(Bot.)
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

5.
(Gun.)
A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

6.
(Steam Boilers)
A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

7.
(Zool.)
(a)
A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(b)
One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

8.
(Elec. Railways)
A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.
[Chiefly Eng.]
In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.

Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary. -- Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. -- Tube coral. (Zool.) Same as Tubipore. -- Tube foot (Zool.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. -- Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under Flue. -- Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. -- Tube spinner (Zool.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera. -- Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.


word: Tube₂
definition:
Tube

Tube
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tubed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tubing.]
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.


word: Tube-nosed
definition:
Tube-nosed

Tube"-nosed`
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
(b)
Belonging to the Tubinares.


word: Tuber
definition:
Tuber

Tu"ber
(?)
n.
[L., a hump. knob; probably akin to tumere to swell.  Cf. Tumid.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
(b)
A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

2.
(Anat.)
A tuberosity; a tubercle.


word: Tube railway
definition:
Tube railway

Tube rail"way
n.
an electrically powered railroad with tracks running through a tunnel underground; a subway.


word: Tubercle
definition:
Tubercle

Tu"ber*cle
(?)
n.
[L. tuberculum, dim. of tuber: cf. F. tubercule, OF. also tubercle. See Tuber.]

1.
A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

2.
(Med.)
A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.

Tubercle bacillus (Med.), a minute vegetable organism (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, formerly Bacillus tuberculosis, and also called Koch's bacillus) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the causative agent of tuberculosis.


word: Tubercled
definition:
Tubercled

Tu"ber*cled
(?)
a.
Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.


word: Tubercular
definition:
Tubercular

Tu*ber"cu*lar
(?)
a.
1.
Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

2.
Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.

3.
(Med.)
Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.


word: Tubercularize
definition:
Tubercularize

Tu*ber"cu*lar*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. i-zing (?).]
[Tubercular + -ize.]
(Med.)
To infect with tuberculosis.
Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.


word: Tuberculated
definition:
Tuberculated

Tuberculate

{ Tu*ber"cu*late (?), Tu*ber"cu*la`ted (?), }
a.
[NL. tuberculatus: cf. F. tuberculé.]
Tubercled; tubercular.


word: Tuberculin
definition:
Tuberculin

Tu*ber"cu*lin
(?)
n.
[See Tubercle.]
A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.


word: Tuberculin test
definition:
Tuberculin test

Tu*ber"cu*lin test
(?)
The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, used as a test for past or present infection with tuberculosis.  It is used both for humans and cattle.
In humans, a previous or acive infection with tuberculosis will cause a distinct reaction to the injection of tuberculin.  The test is thus used to screen populations to discover those who may harbor an active tuberculosis infection, and more definitive tests are performed on those showing a positive reaction, to determine if the infection is active.  In cattle there is little or no effect of the injection of tuberculin on healthy animals, but there is a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.


word: Tuberculization
definition:
Tuberculization

Tu*ber`cu*li*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Med.)
The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.


word: Tuberculocidal
definition:
Tuberculocidal

Tu*ber"cu*lo*cid`al
(?)
a.
[Tuberculum + root of L. caedere to kill.]
able to kill Mycobacterum tuberculosis.


word: Tuberculocidin
definition:
Tuberculocidin

Tu*ber"cu*lo*ci`din
(?)
n.
[Tuberculum + root of L. caedere to kill.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.


word: Tuberculous
definition:
Tuberculous

Tuberculose

{ Tu*ber"cu*lose` (?), Tu*ber"cu*lous (?), }
a.
Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.


word: Tuberculosis
definition:
Tuberculosis

Tu*ber`cu*lo"sis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Tubercle.]
(Med.)
A constitutional disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (also called the Tubercle bacillus), characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary phthisis (consumption).  The Mycobacteria are slow-growing and without cell walls, and are thus not affected by the beta-lactam antibiotics; treatment is difficult, usually requiring simultaneous administration of multiple antibiotics to effect a cure.  Prior to availability of antibiotic treatment, the cure required extensive rest, for which special sanatoriums were constructed.


word: Tuberculum
definition:
Tuberculum

Tu*ber"cu*lum
(?)
n.
pl. Tubercula (#).
[L., dim. of tuber a swelling.]
(Zool.)
A tubercle.


word: Tuberose
definition:
Tuberose

Tube"rose`
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. tuberose, F. tubéreuse, NL. Polianthes tuberosa. See Tuberous.]
(Bot.)
A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.


word: Tuberosity
definition:
Tuberosity

Tu`ber*os"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Tuberosities (#).
[Cf. F. tubérosité.]
1.
The state of being tuberous.

2.
An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.


word: Tuberous
definition:
Tuberous

Tu"ber*ous
(?)
a.
[L. tuberosus: cf. F. tubéreux. See Tuber, and cf. also Tuberose.]

1.
Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.

2.
(Bot.)
Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.


word: Tube-shell
definition:
Tube-shell

Tube"-shell`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.


word: Tubfish
definition:
Tubfish

Tub"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Tubicolae
definition:
Tubicolae

Tu*bic"o*lae
(?)
n. pl.
[L.  tubus a tube + colere to inhabit.]
(Zool.)
A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.


word: Tubicorn
definition:
Tubicorn

Tu"bi*corn
(?)
n.
[L. tubus tube + cornu horn: cf. F. tubicorne.]
(Zool.)
Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.


word: Tubinares
definition:
Tubinares

Tu`bi*na"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. tubus tube + nares the nostrils.]
(Zool.)
A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.


word: Tubing
definition:
Tubing

Tub"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of making tubes.

2.
A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.


word: Tubipora
definition:
Tubipora

Tu*bip"o*ra
(?)
n.
[NL., from L. tubus tube + porus passage, pore.]
(Zool.)
A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.


word: Tubiporite
definition:
Tubiporite

Tu"bi*po*rite
(?)
n.
(Paleon.)
Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.


word: Tubivalve
definition:
Tubivalve

Tu"bi*valve
(?)
n.
[See Tube, Valve.]
(Zool.)
A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.


word: Tubman
definition:
Tubman

Tub"man
(?)
n.
pl. Tubmen (_;).
(Eng. Law)
One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer.  Cf. Postman, 2.


word: Tubular
definition:
Tubular

Tu"bu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See Tube.]
Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.

Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea. -- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits. -- Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.


word: Tubularia
definition:
Tubularia

Tu`bu*la"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.


word: Tubularian
definition:
Tubularian

Tu`bu*la"ri*an
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.

&hand_; These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain permanently attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs. See Illust. under Gonosome, and Cymnoblastea.


word: Tubularida
definition:
Tubularida

Tu"bu*lar`i*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.


word: Tubulated
definition:
Tubulated

Tu"bu*la`ted
(?)
a.
Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.

Tubulated bottle or Tubulated retort (Chem.), a bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.


word: Tubulation
definition:
Tubulation

Tu`bu*la"tion
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort.


word: Tubule
definition:
Tubule

Tu"bule
(?)
n.
[F. tubule, or L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, a pipe.]
1.
A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

2.
(Anat.)
A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.


word: Tubulibranchiata
definition:
Tubulibranchiata

Tu`bu*li*bran`chi*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from L. tubulus a little tube + branchia a gill.]
(Zool.)
A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.


word: Tubulicole
definition:
Tubulicole

Tu"bu*li*cole`
(?)
n.
[L. tubulus little tube + colere to inhabit.]
(Zool.)
Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.


word: Tubulidentate
definition:
Tubulidentate

Tu`bu*li*den"tate
(?)
a.
[Tubule + dentate.]
(Zool.)
Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.


word: Tubulipore
definition:
Tubulipore

Tu"bu*li*pore"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles.


word: Tubulous
definition:
Tubulous

Tubulose

{ Tu"bu*lose` (?), Tu"bu*lous (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. tubuleux. See Tubule.]
1.
Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

2.
Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.

Tubulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.


word: Tubulure
definition:
Tubulure

Tu"bu*lure
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. tubulure.]
(Chem.)
A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.


word: Tucan
definition:
Tucan

Tu*can"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The Mexican pocket gopher (Geomys Mexicanus). It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.


word: Tuch
definition:
Tuch

Tuch
(?)
n.
[See Touchstone.]
A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone.
[Obs.]
Sir J. Harrington.


word: Tuck
definition:
Tuck

Tuck
(?)
n.
[F. estoc; cf. It. stocco; both of German origin, and akin to E. stock. See Stock.]
A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
[Obs.]
Shak.

He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
Sir W. Scot.


word: Tuck₃
definition:
Tuck

Tuck
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tucking.]
[OE. tukken, LG. tukken to pull up, tuck up, entice; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to draw with a short and quick motion, and E. tug. See Tug.]
1.
To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.

2.
To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.

3.
To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.

4.
[Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf. F. toquer to touch.  Cf. Tocsin.]
To full, as cloth.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Tuck₅
definition:
Tuck

Tuck
n.
1.
A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.

2.
A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.

3.
A pull; a lugging.
[Obs.]
See Tug.
Life of A. Wood.

4.
(Naut.)
The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.

5.
Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
[Slang]
T. Hughes.


word: Tuckahoe
definition:
Tuckahoe

Tuck"a*hoe
(?)
n.
[North American Indian, bread.]
(Bot.)
A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf.


word: Tucker
definition:
Tucker

Tuck"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.

2.
A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

3.
[See Tuck, v. t., 4.]
A fuller.
[Prov. Eng.]

4.
[Cf. Tuck, n., 5.]
Daily food; meals; also, food in general.
[Slang or Colloq.]
Tobacco, matches, and tucker, the latter comprising almost anything within the province of food.
C. L. Money.


word: Tucket
definition:
Tucket

Tuck"et
(?)
n.
[It toccata a prelude, fr. toccare to touch. See Toccata, Touch.]
A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.
[Obs.]

Tucket sonance, the sound of the tucket. [Obs.]

Let the trumpets sound
The tucket sonance and the note to mount.
Shak.


word: Tucket₂
definition:
Tucket

Tuck"et
n.
[Cf. It. tocchetto a ragout of fish, meat, fr. tocco a bit, morsel, LL. tucetum, tuccetum, a thick gravy.]
A steak; a collop.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Tuck pointing
definition:
Tuck pointing

Tuck pointing
(Masonry)
The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.


word: Tucum
definition:
Tucum

Tu"cum
(?)
n.
[So called by the Indians of Brazil.]
A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also tecum, and tecum fiber.


word: Tucuma
definition:
Tucuma

Tu*cu"ma
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit.


word: Tudor
definition:
Tudor

Tu"dor
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.

Tudor style (Arch.), the latest development of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.


word: Tuesday
definition:
Tuesday

Tues"day
(tūz"da̝; 48)
n.
[OE. Tewesday, AS. Tiwes dæg the day of Tiw the god of war; akin to OHG. Zio, Icel. T&ymacr_;r, L. Jupiter, Gr. Zey`s;, cf. OHG. Ziostac Tuesday, G. Dienstag, Icel. T&ymacr_;sdagr. √244.  See Deity, Day, and cf. Jovial.]
The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.


word: Tufa
definition:
Tufa

Tu"fa
(?)
[It. fufo soft, sandy stone, L. tofus, tophus.  Cf. Tofus, Toph, and Tophin.]
(Min.)
(a)
A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
(b)
A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.


word: Tufaceous
definition:
Tufaceous

Tu*fa"ceous
(?)
a.
[Cf. It. tufaceo, L. tofaceus, tofacius. See Tufa.]
(Min.)
Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.


word: Tuft
definition:
Tuft

Tuft
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf. G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See Top summit.]
1.
A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

2.
A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.

Under a tuft of shade.
Milton.

Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.
Keble.

3.
A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
[Cant, Eng.]

Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
T. Hughes.


word: Tuft₂
definition:
Tuft

Tuft
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]
1.
To separate into tufts.

2.
To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
Thomson.


word: Tuf-taffeta
definition:
Tuf-taffeta

Tuf-taf"fe*ta
(?)
n.
A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile.
[Written also tuft-taffeta.]


word: Tufted
definition:
Tufted

Tuft"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

2.
Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty.

The tufted crowtoe, and pale jessamine.
Milton.

Tufted trees and springing corn.
Pope.

Tufted duck (Zool.), the ring-necked duck. [Local, U. S.]


word: Tufthunter
definition:
Tufthunter

Tuft"hunt`er
(?)
n.
A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3.
[Cant, Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Tufthunting
definition:
Tufthunting

Tuft"hunt`ing
n.
The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
[Cant, Eng.]


word: Tufty
definition:
Tufty

Tuft"y
(?)
a.
1.
Abounding with tufts.

Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell.
Drayton.

2.
Growing in tufts or clusters.

Where tufty daisies nod at every gale.
W. Browne.


word: Tug
definition:
Tug

Tug
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tugged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tugging.]
[OE. toggen; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to jerk, draw, Icel. toga to draw, AS. téon, p. p. togen, to draw, G. ziehen, OHG. ziohan, Goth. tiuhan, L. ducere to lead, draw.  Cf. Duke, Team, Tie, v. t., Touch, Tow, v. t., Tuck to press in, Toy a plaything.]
1.
To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.
Roscommon.

2.
To pull; to pluck.
[Obs.]

To ease the pain,
His tugged cars suffered with a strain.
Hudibras.


word: Tug₂
definition:
Tug

Tug
v. i.
1.
To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.

He tugged, he shook, till down they came.
Milton.

2.
To labor; to strive; to struggle.

England now is left
To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
Shak.


word: Tug₃
definition:
Tug

Tug
n.
1.
A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.

At the tug he falls,
Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
Dryden.

2.
A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

3.
(Naut.)
A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.

4.
A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.

5.
(Mining.)
An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.

Tug iron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.


word: Tuille
definition:
Tuille

Tuille
(twĭl)
n.
[Cf. F. tuile a tile.]
In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.


word: Tuition
definition:
Tuition

Tu*i"tion
(?)
n.
[L. tuitio protection, guarding, from tueri, p. p. tuitus, to see, watch, protect: cf. F. tuition.  Cf. Tutor.]
1.
Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

2.
Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

3.
The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction; as, tuition must be paid in full before graduation.


word: Tuko-tuko
definition:
Tuko-tuko

Tu"ko-tu*ko
(?)
n.
[From the native name .]
(Zool.)
A burrowing South American rodent (Ctenomys Braziliensis). It has small eyes and ears and a short tail. It resembles the pocket gopher in size, form, and habits, but is more nearly allied to the porcupines.
[Written also tucu-tuco.]


word: Tula metal
definition:
Tula metal

Tu"la met`al
(?)
An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia.
[Written also toola metal.]


word: Tule
definition:
Tule

Tu"le
(?)
n.
[Mex.]
(Bot.)
A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and Scirpus Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.


word: Tulip
definition:
Tulip

Tu"lip
(tū"lĭp)
n.
[F. tulipe, OF. also tulipan, It. tulipano, tulipa, from Turk. tulbend, dulbend, literally, a turban, Per. dulband; -- so called from the resemblance of the form of this flower to a turban. See Turban.]
(Bot.)
Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa.  Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.

Tulip tree. (a) A large American tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) of the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae) bearing tuliplike flowers. See Liriodendron. (b) A West Indian malvaceous tree (Paritium tiliaceum syn. Hibiscus tiliaceum).


word: Tulip-eared
definition:
Tulip-eared

Tu"lip-eared`
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs.


word: Tulipist
definition:
Tulipist

Tu"lip*ist
n.
A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Tulipomania
definition:
Tulipomania

Tu`lip*o*ma"ni*a
(?)
n.
[Tulip + mania.]
A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

&hand_; In Holland, in the first half of the 17th century, the cultivation of tulips became a mania.  It began about the year 1634, and, like a violent epidemic, seized upon all classes of the community, leading to disasters and misery such as the records of commerce or of bankruptcies can scarcely parallel.  In 1636, tulip marts had been established in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, and various other towns, where tulip bulbs were sold and resold in the same manner as stocks are on the Stock Exchange of London.
Baird.


word: Tulip-shell
definition:
Tulip-shell

Tu"lip-shell`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern United States.  The name is sometimes applied also to other species of Fasciolaria.


word: Tulipwood
definition:
Tulipwood

Tu"lip*wood`
(?)
n.
The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying.

Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (Harpullia pendula). J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).


word: Tull
definition:
Tull

Tull
(?)
v. t.
[OE. tullen. See Tole.]
To allure; to tole.
[Obs.]

With empty hands men may no hawkes tull.
Chaucer.


word: Tulle
definition:
Tulle

Tulle
(?)
n.
[F.; -- so called from the town of Tulle, in France.]
A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.


word: Tullian
definition:
Tullian

Tul"li*an
(?)
a.
[L. Tullianus, from Tullius, the name of a Roman gens.]
Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).


word: Tullibee
definition:
Tullibee

Tul"li*bee
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.


word: Tumble
definition:
Tumble

Tum"ble
(tŭm"b'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Tumbled (tŭm"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumbling (tŭm"blĭng).]
[OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G.  taumeln to reel, to stagger.]
1.
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

2.
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
South.

3.
To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
Rowe.

To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home.  Cf. Wall-sided.


word: Tumble₂
definition:
Tumble

Tum"ble
v. t.
1.
To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

2.
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.


word: Tumble-down
definition:
Tumble-down

Tum"ble-down`
(?)
a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
[Colloq.]


word: Tumbledung
definition:
Tumbledung

Tum"ble*dung`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.


word: Tumbler
definition:
Tumbler

Tum"bler
(?)
n.
1.
One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

2.
A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

3.
(Firearms)
A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for the sear point to enter.

4.
A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.

5.
(Zool.)
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

6.
(Zool.)
A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

7.
A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Tumblerful
definition:
Tumblerful

Tum"bler*ful
(?)
n.
pl. Tumblerfuls (_;).
As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.


word: Tumbleweed
definition:
Tumbleweed

Tum"ble*weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; such as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.


word: Tumbling
definition:
Tumbling

Tum"bling
(?)
a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.

Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4. -- Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.


word: Tumbril
definition:
Tumbril

Tumbrel

{ Tum"brel (?), Tum"bril (?), }
n.
[OF. tomberel, F. tombereau, fr. tomber to fall, to tumble; of Teutonic origin.  Cf. Tumble.]
1.
A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

2.
A rough cart.
Tusser. Tatler.

3.
(Mil.)
A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.

4.
A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
[Eng.]


word: Tumefacient
definition:
Tumefacient

Tu`me*fa"cient
(?)
a.
[L. tumefaciens, -entis, p. pr. of tumefacere to tumefy; tumere to swell + facere to make.]
Producing swelling; tumefying.


word: Tumefaction
definition:
Tumefaction

Tu`me*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. tuméfaction.]
The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.
Arbuthnot.


word: Tumefy
definition:
Tumefy

Tu"me*fy
(tū"me̝*fī)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tumefied (tū"me̝*fīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumefying.]
[F. tuméfier, fr. L. tumere to swell + -ficare (in comp.) to make; cf. L. tumefacere to tumefy. See Tumid, and -fy.]
To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought.
De Quincey.


word: Tumescence
definition:
Tumescence

Tu*mes"cence
(?)
n.
[L. tumescens, -entis, p.pr. of tumescere to swell up, v. incho. fr. tumere to swell.]
The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence; -- applied especially to the state of swelling of the vascular tissue in the male and female sex organs when they have been stimulated to readiness for sexual intercourse.


word: Tumid
definition:
Tumid

Tu"mid
(?)
a.
[L. tumidus, fr.  tumere to swell; cf. Skr. tumra strong, fat.  Cf. Thumb.]
1.
Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

2.
Rising above the level; protuberant.

So high as heaved the tumid hills.
Milton.

3.
Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.


word: Tumor
definition:
Tumor

Tu"mor
(tū"mẽr)
n.
[L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tumeúr. See Tumid.]
1.
(Med.)
A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

2.
Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
[R.]

Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style.
De Quincey.

Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. -- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. -- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized. -- Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.


word: Tumorous
definition:
Tumorous

Tu"mor*ous
(?)
a.
[L. tumorosus inflated.]
1.
Swelling; protuberant.
[R.]
Sir H. Wotton.

2.
Inflated; bombastic.
[R.]
B. Jonson.


word: Tump
definition:
Tump

Tump
(tŭmp)
n.
[W. twmp, twm, a round mass or heap, a hillock.]
A little hillock; a knoll.
Ainsworth.


word: Tump₂
definition:
Tump

Tump
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tumped (tŭmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumping.]
1.
To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.

2.
To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
[Local, U. S.]
Bartlett.


word: Tumpline
definition:
Tumpline

Tump"line`
(?)
n.
A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
[Local, U. S.]
Bartlett.


word: Tum-tum
definition:
Tum-tum

Tum"-tum`
(?)
n.
A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.


word: Tumular
definition:
Tumular

Tu"mu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. tumulus a mound: cf. F. tumulaire. See Tumulus.]
Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.
Pinkerton.


word: Tumulate
definition:
Tumulate

Tu"mu*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. tumulatus, p. p. of tumulare to tumulate. See Tumulus.]
To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury.
[Obs.]


word: Tumulous
definition:
Tumulous

Tu"mu*lous
(?)
a.
[L. tumulosus, fr.  tumulus a mound.]
Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Tumult
definition:
Tumult

Tu"mult
(?)
n.
[L. tumultus; probably akin to Skr. tumula noise, noisy, and perhaps to L. tumere to swell, E. tumid: cf. F. tumulte.]
1.
The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.

What meaneth the noise of this tumult ?
1 Sam. iv. 14.

Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
Pope.

2.
Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
Addison.

3.
Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.


word: Tumult₂
definition:
Tumult

Tu"mult
(?)
v. i.
To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
[Obs.]

Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt.
Milton.


word: Tumulter
definition:
Tumulter

Tu"mult*er
(?)
n.
A maker of tumults.
[Obs.]

He severely punished the tumulters.
Milton.


word: Tumultuarily
definition:
Tumultuarily

Tu*mul"tu*a*ri*ly
(t&uuptack_;*mŭl"t&uuptack_;*a̝*rĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
In a tumultuary manner.


word: Tumultuary
definition:
Tumultuary

Tu*mul"tu*a*ry
(t&uuptack_;*mŭl"t&uuptack_;*a̝*r&ybreve_;; 135)
a.
[L. tumultuarius:  cf. F. tumultuaire.]
1.
Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
tumultuary
Eikon Basilike.

A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry.
Macaulay.

Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish.
De Quincey.

2.
Restless; agitated; unquiet.

Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state.
Atterbury.


word: Tumultuate
definition:
Tumultuate

Tu*mul"tu*ate
(t&uuptack_;*mŭl"t&uuptack_;*āt)
v. i.
[L. tumultuatus, p. p. of tumultuari to make a tumult.]
To make a tumult.
[Obs.]
tumultuate
South.


word: Tumultuation
definition:
Tumultuation

Tu*mul`tu*a"tion
(t&uuptack_;*mŭl`t&uuptack_;*ā"shŭn)
n.
[L. tumultuatio.]
Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.
[Obs.]
Boyle.


word: Tumultuous
definition:
Tumultuous

Tu*mul"tu*ous
(t&uuptack_;*mŭl"t&uuptack_;*ŭs)
a.
[L. tumultuosus: cf. F.  tumultueux.]
1.
Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.

The flight became wild and tumultuous.
Macaulay.

2.
Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

3.
Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.

His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth
Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast.
Milton.

4.
Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.


word: Tumulus
definition:
Tumulus

Tu"mu*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Tumuli (#).
[L., a mound, a sepulchral mound, probably from tumere to swell.  Cf. Tumid.]
An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.


word: Tun
definition:
Tun

Tun
(tŭn)
n.
[AS. tunne. See Ton a weight.]
1.
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

2.
(Brewing)
A fermenting vat.

3.
A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons.  In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

4.
(Com.)
A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
[R.]

5.
An indefinite large quantity.
Shak.

A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.
Dryden.

6.
A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
Dryden.

7.
(Zool.)
Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.


word: Tun₂
definition:
Tun

Tun
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tunned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tunning.]
To put into tuns, or casks.
Boyle.


word: Tuna₂
definition:
Tuna

Tu"na
n.
[Cf. Tunny.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the mackerel family Scombridae, especially the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus or Albacora thynnus), called also the common tunny or great tunny, a native of the Mediterranean Sea and of temperate parts of the Atlantic Ocean.  It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is caught commercially in large quantity for use as food; -- also called, especially in Britain, tunny.  It is also one of the favorite fishes used by the Japanese in preparing sushi.  On the American coast, especially in New England, it is sometimes called the horse mackerel.  Another well-known species is the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) of warm seas. the See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albacore (Thunnus alalunga) (see Albacore), are related species of smaller size.

2.
The bonito, 2.

3.
the meat of the tuna, used as food; -- also called tuna fish.


word: Tunable
definition:
Tunable

Tun"a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.
Tun"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tun"a*bly, adv.

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.
Milton.


word: Tun-bellied
definition:
Tun-bellied

Tun"-bel`lied
(?)
a.
Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.


word: Tundra
definition:
Tundra

Tun"dra
(tōn"drȧ)
n.
[Russ.]
One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres; the term is most commony associated with the arctic plains of Siberia.  The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.


word: Tune
definition:
Tune

Tune
(tūn)
n.
[A variant of tone.]
1.
A sound; a note; a tone.
tune
Shak.

2.
(Mus.)
(a)
A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
(b)
The state of giving the proper sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Shak.

3.
Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [his task].
Locke.


word: Tune₂
definition:
Tune

Tune
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Tuned (tūnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Tuning.]
1.
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
Tune
Dryden.

2.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
Milton.

3.
To sing with melody or harmony.

Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Milton.

4.
To put into a proper state or disposition.
Shak.


word: Tune₃
definition:
Tune

Tune
(tūn)
v. i.
1.
To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

Whilst tuning to the water's fall,
The small birds sang to her.
Drayton.

2.
To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
[R.]


word: Tuneful
definition:
Tuneful

Tune"ful
(-f&usdot_;l)
a.
Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.
Tuneful
Milton.
Tune"ful*ly, adv. -- Tune"ful*ness, n.


word: Tuneless
definition:
Tuneless

Tune"less
(tūn"lĕs)
a.
1.
Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.
tuneless
Cowley.

How often have I led thy sportive choir,
With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire!
Goldsmith.

2.
Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.

3.
Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.
[R.]


word: Tuner
definition:
Tuner

Tun"er
(tūn"ẽr)
n.
One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.


word: Tungstate
definition:
Tungstate

Tung"state
(tŭng"sta̝t)
n.
[Cf. F. tungstate.]
(Chem.)
A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.


word: Tungsten
definition:
Tungsten

Tung"sten
(tŭng"stĕn)
n.
[Sw. tungsten (cf. Dan. tungsteen, G. tungstein); tung heavy (akin to Dan. tung, Icel. þungr) + sten stone. See Stone.]
1.
(Chem.)
A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.

2.
(Min.)
Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.
[Obs.]

Tungsten ocher, or Tungstic ocher (Min.), tungstite.


word: Tungstenic
definition:
Tungstenic

Tung*sten"ic
(tŭng*stĕn"ĭk)
a.
Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores.
[R.]


word: Tungsten lamp
definition:
Tungsten lamp

Tung"sten lamp
An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten, and contained in a glass bulb which is evacuated or has an inert gas, to avoid oxidation of the tungsten; a common form of light bulb. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power, depending on the total wattage and the design of the bulb.  By mid-20th century tungsten lamps became the most common type of incandescent (as contrasted with fluorescent) lamp; thus the phrase incandescent lamp or incandescent light typically refers to a tungsten lamp.


word: Tungsten steel
definition:
Tungsten steel

Tungsten steel
(Metal.)
A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat.  Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent.  It often contains manganese.


word: Tungstic
definition:
Tungstic

Tung"stic
(tŭng"stĭk)
a.
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.

Tungstic acid, an acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.


word: Tungstite
definition:
Tungstite

Tung"stite
(tŭng"stīt)
n.
(Min.)
The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.


word: Tunguses
definition:
Tunguses

Tun*gus"es
(?)
n. pl.
(Ethnol.)
A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amur valley. They resemble the Mongols.
[Written also Tungooses.]


word: Tunic
definition:
Tunic

Tu"nic
(tū"nĭk)
n.
[L. tunica: cf. F. tunique.]

1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes.  It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

2.
Any similar garment worn by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.

3.
(R. C. Ch.)
Same as Tunicle.

4.
(Anat.)
A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

5.
(Bot.)
A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.

6.
(Zool.)
See Mantle, n., 3 (a).


