TRACE, noun [Latin tractus, tracto. See Track, and the verb trace ]

1. A mark left by any thing passing; a footstep; a track; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trade of a man or of a deer.

2. Remains; a mark, impression or visible appearance of any thing left when the thing itself no longer exists. We are told that there are no traces of ancient Babylon now to be seen.

The shady empire shall retain no trace

Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.

TRACE, noun Traces, in a harness, are the straps, chains or ropes by which a carriage or sleigh is drawn by horses. [Locally these are called tugs.]

TRACE, verb transitive [Latin tracto, from traho; Eng. to draw, to drag.]

1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; as, to race a figure with a pencil; to trace the outline of any thing.

2. To follow by some mark that has been left by something which has preceded; to follow by footsteps or tracks.

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.

I feel thy power to trace the ways

Of highest agents.

3. To follow with exactness.

That servile path thou nobly do'st decline,

Of tracing word by word, and line by line.

4. To walk over.

We do trace this alley up and down.

TRA'CEABLE, adjective That may be traced.

TRA'CED, participle passive Marked out; delineated; followed.

TRA'CER, noun One that traces or follows by marks.

TRA'CERY, noun Ornamental stone work.

TRA'CHEA, noun [Low Latin from Gr. rough.] In anatomy, the windpipe.

TRA'CHEAL, adjective Pertaining to the trachea or windpipe; as the tracheal artery.

TRA'CHEOCELE, noun [trachea and a tumor.] An enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele or goiter.

TRACHEOT'OMY, noun [trachea and to cut.] In surgery, the operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

TRA'CHYTE, noun [Gr.rough.] A species of volcanic rock, composed of crystals of glassy feldspar, sometimes with crystals of hornblend, mica, iron pyrite, etc.

TRACHYT'IC, adjective Pertaining to trachyte, or consisting of it.

TRA'CING, participle present tense [from trace.] Marking out; drawing in lines; following by marks or footsteps.

Tracing lines, in a ship, are lines passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist a thing higher.

TRA'CING, noun Course; regular track or path.

TRACK, noun

1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh.

2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast. Savages are said to be wonderfully sagacious in finding the tracks of men in the forest.

3. A road; a beaten path.

Behold Torquatus the same track pursue.

4. Course; way; as the track of a comet.

TRACK, verb transitive To follow when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps, or marks of the feet; as, to track a deer in the snow.

1. To tow; to draw a boat on the water in a canal.

TRACK'ED, participle passive Followed by the footsteps.

TRACK'ING, participle present tense Following by the impression of the feet; drawing a boat; towing.

TRACK'LESS, adjective Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as a trackless desert.

TRACK'-ROAD, noun [track and road.] A towing-path.

TRACK'-SCOUT, noun A boat or vessel employed on the canals in Holland, usually drawn by a horse.

TRACT, noun [Latin tractus; traho.]

1. Something drawn out or extended.

2. A region, or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent. We may apply tract to the sandy and barren desert of Syria and Arabia, or to the narrow vales of Italy and Sardinia. We say, a rich tract of land in Connecticut or Ohio, a stony tract or a mountainous tract We apply tract to a single farm, or to a township or state.

3. A treatise; a written discourse or dissertation of indefinite length, but generally not of great extent.

4. In hunting, the trace or footing of a wild beast.

5. Treatment; exposition. [Not in use.]

6. Track. [Not in use.]

7. Continuity or extension of any thing; as a tract of speech. [Not much used.]

8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extend; as a long tract of time.

TRACT, verb transitive To trace out; to draw out. [Not in use.]

TRACTABIL'ITY, noun [from tractable.] The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

TRACT'ABLE, adjective [Latin tractabilis, from tracto, to handle or lead.]

1. That may be easily led, taught or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner.

2. Palpable; such as may be handled; as tractable measures.

TRACT'ABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being tractable or manageable; docility; as the tractableness of children.

TRACT'ABLY, adverb In a tractable manner; with ready compliance.

TRACT'ATE, noun [Latin tractatus.] A treatise; a tract. [Not now in use.]

TRACTA'TION, noun [Latin tractatio.] Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.

TRACTA'TRIX, noun In geometry, a curve line.

TRACT'ILE, adjective [Latin tractus.] Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.

Bodies are tractile or intractile.

TRACTIL'ITY, noun The quality of being tractile; ductility.

TRAC'TION, noun [Latin tractus, traho.] The act of drawing, or state of being drawn; as the traction of a muscle.

1. Attraction; a drawing towards.

TRACT'OR, noun That which draws, or is used for drawing.

TRADE, noun [Latin tracto, to handle, use, treat.]

1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money. It is however chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. trade is either foreign, or domestic or inland. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic or home trade is the exchange or buying and selling of goods within a country. trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels.

The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water.

2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Thus we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter or mason. But we never say, the trade of a farmer or of a lawyer or physician.

3. Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade

Hunting their sport, and plund'ring was their trade

4. Instruments of any occupation.

The shepherd bears

His house and household goods, his trade of war.

5. Employment not manual; habitual exercise.

6. Custom; habit; standing practice.

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade

7. Men engaged in the same occupation. Thus booksellers speak of the customs of the trade

TRADE, verb intransitive To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.

1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, man treats with another for his farm, but cannot trade with him. A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.

2. To act merely for money.

How did you dare

To trade and traffic with Macbeth?

3. To have a trade wind.

They on the trading flood ply tow'rd the pole. [Unusual.]

TRADE, verb transitive To sell or exchange in commerce.

They traded the persons of men. Ezekiel 27:12.

[This, I apprehend, must be a mistake; at least it is not to be vindicated as a legitimate use of the verb.]

TRA'DED, adjective Versed; practiced. [Not in use.]

TRA'DEFUL, adjective Commercial; busy in traffic.

TRA'DER, noun One engaged in trade or commerce; a dealer in buying and selling or barter; as a trader to the East Indies; a trader to Canada; a country trader

TRA'DESFOLK, noun People employed in trade. [Not in use.]

TRA'DESMAN, noun [trade and man.] A shopkeeper. A merchant is called a trader, but not a tradesman

[In America, a shopkeeper is usually called a retailer.]

TRA'DING, participle present tense Trafficking; exchanging commodities by barter, or buying and selling them.

1. adjective Carrying on commerce; as a trading company.

TRA'DING, noun The act or business of carrying on commerce.

TRADI'TION, noun [Latin traditio, from trado, to deliver.]

1. Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.

A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition

2. The delivery of opinions, doctrines, practices, rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.

3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.

Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thessalonians 2:15.

Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? Matthew 15:2.

TRADI'TIONAL

TRADI'TIONALLY, adverb By transmission from father to son, or from age to age; as an opinion or doctrine traditionally derived from the apostles, is of no authority.

TRADI'TIONARY, noun Among the Jews, one who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them. The word is used in opposition to Cairite, one who denies the authority of traditions.

TRADI'TIONALLY, adv. By transmission from father to son, or from age to age; as an opinion or doctrine traditionally derived from the apostles, is of no authority.

TRADI'TIONARY, adjective Delivered orally from father to son; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as traditional opinions; traditional evidence; the traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivaled in the regions of absurdity.

2. Observant of tradition. [Not used.]

TRADI'TIONER

TRADI'TIONIST, noun One who adheres to tradition.

TRADI'TIONIST, n. One who adheres to tradition.

TRAD'ITIVE, adjective [Latin trado.] Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age to age, by oral communication.

Suppose we on things traditive divide.

TRAD'ITOR, noun [Latin] A deliverer; a name of infamy given to christians who delivered the Scriptures or the goods of the church to their persecutors, to save their lives.

TRADU'CE, verb transitive [Latin traduco; trans, over, and duco, to lead.]

1. To represent as blamable; to condemn.

The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church.

2. To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent.

As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing.

He had the baseness to traduce me in libel.

3. To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another.

From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]

TRADU'CED, participle passive Misrepresented; calumniated.

TRADU'CEMENT, noun Misrepresentation; ill founded censure; defamation; calumny. [Little used.]

TRADU'CENT, adjective Slandering; slanderous.

TRADU'CER, noun One that traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.

TRADU'CIBLE, adjective That may be orally derived or propagated. [Little used.]

TRADU'CING, participle present tense Slandering; defaming; calumniating.

TRADU'CINGLY, adverb Slanderously; by way of defamation.

TRADUC'TION, noun [Latin traductio.] Derivation from one of the same kind; propagation.

If by traduction came thy mind,

Our wonder is the less to find

A soul so charming from a stock so good.

1. Tradition; transmission from one to another; as traditional communication and traduction of truth. [Little used.]

2. Conveyance; transportation; act of transferring; as the traduction of animals from Europe to America by shipping.

3. Transition.

TRADUC'TIVE, adjective Derivable; that may be deduced.

TRAF'FICK, noun [Latin trans.]

1. Trade; commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling. This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of retailing may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.

My father,

A merchant of great traffick through the world.

2. Commodities for market.

TRAF'FICK, verb intransitive

1. To trade; to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to barter; to buy and sell wares; to carry on commerce. The English and Americans traffick with all the world. Genesis 42:34.

2. To trade meanly or mercenarily.

TRAF'FICK, verb transitive To exchange in traffick

TRAF'FICKABLE, adjective Marketable. [Not in use.]

TRAF'FICKER, noun One who caries on commerce; a trader; a merchant. Isaiah 8:1.

TRAF'FICKING, participle present tense Trading; bartering; buying and selling goods, wares and commodities.

TRAG'ACANTH, noun [Latin tragacanthum; Gr. a goat, and thorn.]

1. Goat's thorn; a plant of the genus Astragalus, of several species, growing in Syria, Candia, etc. almost all of which were included by Linne in the tragacanthas, and all of which produce the gum tragacanth

2. A gum obtained from the goat's thorn. It comes in small contorted pieces resembling worms. It is of different colors; that which is white, clear, smooth and vermicular, is the best. It is somewhat soft to the touch, but only imperfectly soluble. It is softening, and used in coughs and catarrhs.

TRAGE'DIAN, noun [Latin tragoedus. See Tragedy.] A writer of tragedy.

1. More generally, an actor of tragedy.

TRAG'EDY, noun [Gr. said to be composed of a goat, and a song, because originally it consisted in a hymn sung in honor of Bacchus by a chorus of music, with dances and the sacrifice of a goat.]

1. A dramatic poem representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, and generally having a fatal issue. Aeschylus is called the father of tragedy

All our tragedies are of kings and princes.

2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more particularly by unauthorized violence.

TRAGIC

TRAG'ICAL, adjective [Latin tragicus.]

1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation.

2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks.

3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

I now must change those notes to tragic

TRAG'ICAL, a. [L. tragicus.]

TRAG'ICALLY, adverb In a tragical manner; with fatal issue; mournfully; sorrowfully. The play ends tragically

TRAG'ICALNESS, noun Fatality; mournfulness; sadness.

We moralize the fable in the tragicalness of the event.

TRAIL, verb transitive [Latin traho.]

1. To hunt by the track. [See the Norman, supra.]

2. To draw along the ground. trail your pikes.

And hung his head, and trail'd his legs along.

They shall not trail me through the streets

Like a wild beast.

That long behind he trails his pompous robe.

3. To lower; as, to trail arms.

4. In America, to tread down gras by walking through; to lay flat; as, to trail grass.

TRAIL, verb intransitive To be drawn out in length.

When his brother saw the red blood trail

TRAIL, noun Track followed by the hunter; scent left on the ground by the animal pursued.

How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.

1. Any thing drawn to length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.

When lightning shoots in glitt'ring trails along.

2. Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train.

And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.

3. The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep.

boards, in ship-building, a term for the craved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure.

TRAILED, participle passive Hunted by the tracks; laid flat; drawn along on the ground; brought to a lower position; as trailed arms.

TRA'ILING, participle present tense Hunting by the track; drawing on the ground; trading down; laying flat; bringing to a lower position; drawing out in length.

Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing

hair did hide.

TRAIN, verb transitive [Latin traho, to draw?]

1. To draw along.

In hollow cube he train'd

His devilish enginery.

2. Top draw; to entice; to allure.

If but twelve French

Were there in arms, they would be as a call

To train ten thousand English to their side.

3. To draw by artifice or stratagem.

O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.

4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise.

We did train him on.

5. To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. Genesis 14:14.

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train

6. To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen.

7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees.

8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head.

To train or train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is

old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6.

The first christians were, by great hardships, trained

up for glory.

TRAIN, noun Artifice; stratagem of enticement.

Now to my charms,

And to my wily trains.

1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, etc.; as the train of a gown or robe.

2. The tail of a fowl.

The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies,

like the rudder of a ship.

3. A retinue; a number of followers or attendants.

My train are men of choice and rarest parts.

The king; s daughter with a lovely train

4. A series; a consecution or succession of connected things.

Rivers now stream and draw their humid train

Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.

--The train of ills our love would draw behind it.

5. Process; regular method; course. Things are now in a train for settlement.

If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature.

6. A company in order; a procession.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.

7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time.

8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution.

TRAIN of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.

TRA'INABLE, adjective That may be trained. [Little used.]

TRA'INED, participle passive Drawn; allured; educated; formed by instruction.

TRA'INING, participle present tense Drawing; alluring; educating; teaching and forming by practice.

TRA'INING, noun The act or process of drawing or educating; education. In gardening, the operation or art of forming young trees to a wall or espalier, or of causing them to grow in a shape suitable for that end.

TRA'INY, adjective Belonging to train-oil. [Not in use.]

TRAIPSE, verb intransitive To walk sluttishly or carelessly. [A low word.]

TRAIT, noun [Latin tractus. See Tract and Treat.]

1. A stroke; a touch.

By this single trait Homer makes an essential

difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.

2. A line; a feature; as a trait of character.

TRA'ITOR, noun [Latin traditor; trado, to deliver.]

1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or who surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; or one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. [See Treason.]

2. One who betrays his trust.

TRA'ITORLY, adjective Treacherous. [Not in use.]

TRA'ITOROUS, adjective Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.

1. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.

TRA'ITOROUSLY, adverb In violation of allegiance and trust; treacherously; perfidiously.

They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws.

TRA'ITOROUSNESS, noun Treachery; the quality of being treasonable.

TRA'ITRESS, noun A female who betrays her country or her trust.

TRAJECT', verb transitive [Latin trajectus, trajicio; trans and jacio, to throw.]

To throw or cast through; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.

TRAJ'ECT, noun A ferry; a passage, or place for passing water with boats.

TRAJECT'ING, participle present tense Casting through.

TRAJEC'TION, noun The act of casting or darting through.

1. Transportation.

2. Emission.

TRAJECT'ORY, noun The orbit of a comet; the path described by a comet in its motion, which Dr. Halley supposes to be elliptical.

TRALA'TION, noun [from Latin translatio.] A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper, but more significant sense.

TRALATI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin translatus, transfero.]

Metaphorical; not literal.

TRALATI'TIOUSLY, adverb Metaphorically; not in a literal sense.

TRALIN'EATE, verb transitive [Latin trans and linea, line.] To deviate from any direction. [Not in use.]

TRALU'CENT, adjective [Latin tralucens; trans and luceo.] Transparent; clear.

TRAM'MEL, noun

1. A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes.

The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt.

2. A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.

3. An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.

4. Trammels, in mechanics, a joiner's instrument for drawing ovals upon boards. One part consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles; the other is a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves, and also the describing pencil.

TRAM'MEL, verb transitive

1. To catch; to intercept.

2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

TRAM'MELED, participle passive Caught; confined; shackled.

1. In the manege, a horse is said to be trammeled when he has blazes or white marks on the fore and hind foot of one side.

TRAM'MELING, participle present tense Catching; confining; shackling.

TRAMON'TANE, noun One living beyond the mountain; a stranger.

TRAMON'TANE, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and mons, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous. The Italian painters apply this epithet to all such as live north of the Alps, as in Germany and France; 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.

TRAMP, verb transitive To tread.

TRAMP, verb intransitive To travel; to wander or stroll.

TRAMP'ER, noun A stroller; a vagrant or vagabond.

TRAM'PLE, verb transitive

1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matthew 7:6.

2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.

3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLE, verb intransitive To tread in contempt.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

1. To tread with force and rapidity.

TRAM'PLE, noun The act of treading under foot with contempt.

TRAM'PLED, participle passive Trod on; trodden under foot.

TRAM'PLER, noun One that tramples; one that treads down.

TRAM'PLING, participle present tense Treading under foot; prostrating by treading; treading with contempt and insult.

TRANA'TION, noun [Latin trano.] The act of passing over by swimming. [Not in use.]

TR'ANCE, noun tr'ans. [Latin transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo.] An ecstasy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions.

My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance

While they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw

heaven opened. Acts 10:10.

TR'ANCED, adjective Lying in a trance or ecstasy.

And there I left him tranc'd.

TRAN'GRAM, noun An odd thing intricately contrived. [It is said to be a cant word, and is not used.]

Trannel, used by Moxon, is a mistake for tree-nail, pronounced by ship-builders trunnel.

TRAN'QUIL, adjective [Latin tranquillus.] Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated. The atmosphere is tranquil The state is tranquil A tranquil retirement is desirable; but a tranquil mind is essential to happiness.

TRAN'QUILIZE, verb transitive To quiet; 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.

Religion haunts the imagination of the sinner, instead of tranquilizing his heart.

TRAN'QUILIZED, participle passive Quieted; calmed; composed.

TRAN'QUILIZING, participle present tense Quieting; composing.

TRANQUIL'LITY, noun [Latin tranquillitas.] Quietness; a calm state; freedom from disturbance or agitation. We speak of the tranquillity of public affairs, of the state, of the world, the tranquillity of a retired life, the tranquillity of mind proceeding from conscious rectitude.

TRAN'QUILLY, adverb Quietly; peacefully.

TRAN'QUILNESS, noun Quietness; peacefulness.

TRANSACT', verb transitive [Latin transactus, transigo; trans and ago; to act or drive through.] To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact business in person or by an agent.

TRANSACT'ED, participle passive Done; performed; managed.

TRANSACT'ING, participle present tense Managing; performing.

TRANSAC'TION, noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair.

1. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction

2. In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

TRANSACT'OR, noun One who performs or conducts any business.

TRANSAL'PINE, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Alpine, of the Alps.]

Lying or being beyond the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west of the Alps; as transalpine Gaul; opposed to Cisalpine.

TRANSAN'IMATE, verb transitive [trans and animate.] To animate by the conveyance of a soul to another body.

TRANSANIMA'TION, noun [Latin trans and anima.] Conveyance of the soul from one body to another; transmigration. [The latter is the word generally used.]

TRANSATLAN'TIC, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Atlantic.] Lying or being beyond the Atlantic. 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. We apply it chiefly to something in Europe.

TRANSCEND', verb transitive [Latin transcendo; trans and scando, to climb.]

1. To rise above; to surmount; as lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

2. To pass over; to go beyond.

It is dangerous opinion to such hopes as shall transcend

their limits.

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

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

TRANSCEND', verb intransitive To climb. [Not in use.]

TRANSCEND'ED, participle passive Overpassed; surpassed; exceeded.

TRANSCEND'ENCE

TRANSCEND'ENCY, noun Superior excellence; supereminence.

1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

TRANSCEND'ENCY, n. Superior excellence; supereminence.

TRANSCEND'ENT, adjective [Latin transcendens.] Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

Cloth'd with transcendent brightness.

TRANSCENDENT'AL, adjective Supereminent; surpassing others; as transcendental being or qualities.

Transcendental quantities, among geometricians, are indeterminate ones, or such as cannot be expressed or fixed to any constant equation.

Transcendental curve, is such as cannot be defined by any algebraic equation, or of which, when it is expressed by an equation, one of the terms is a variable quantity.

TRANSCEND'ENTLY, adverb Very excellently; supereminently; by way of eminence.

The law of christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth.

TRANS'COLATE, verb transitive [Latin trans and colo, to strain.]

To strain; to cause to pass through a sieve or colander.

TRANSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.] To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

TRANSCRI'BED, participle passive Copied.

TRANSCRI'BER, noun A copier; one who writes from a copy.

TRANSCRI'BING, participle present tense Writing from a copy; writing copy.

TRAN'SCRIPT, noun [Latin transcriptum.] A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original.

The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript not an original.

1. A copy of any kind.

The Roman learning was a transcript of the Grecian.

TRANSCRIP'TION, noun The act of copying. Corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

TRANSCRIPT'IVELY, adverb In manner of a copy.

TRANSCUR', verb intransitive [Latin transcurro; trans and curro, to run.]run or rove to and fro. [Little used.]

TRANSCUR'SION, noun [supra.] A rambling or ramble; a passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation; as the transcursion of a comet.

I am to make often transcursions into the neighboring

forests as I pass along.

[Note: Excursion has in a great measure superseded this word.]

TRANSDUC'TION, noun [Latin trans and duco.] The act of conveying over.

TRANSE, noun Ecstasy. [See Trance.]

TRANSELEMENTA'TION, noun [trans and element.] The change of the elements of one body into those of another, as of the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation.

TRAN'SEPT, noun [Latin trans and septum.] In ancient churches, the aisle extending across the nave and main aisles.

TRANSFER', verb transitive [Latin transfero; trans and fero, to carry.]

1. To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another. The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany. We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany. Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.

2. To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give. The title to land is transferred by deed. The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement. Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.

TRANS'FER, noun The removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

1. The conveyance of right, title or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, either by sale, by gift or otherwise.

TRANSFER'ABLE, adjective That may be transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

1. 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. The stocks of the public and of companies are transferable

TRANSFER'RED, participle passive Conveyed from one to another.

TRANSFERREE', noun The person to whom a transfer is made.

TRANSFER'RER, noun One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

TRANSFER'RING, participle present tense Removing from one place or person to another; conveying to another, as a right.

TRANSFIGURA'TION, noun

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

See Matthew 17:1.

2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

TRANSFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin trans and figura.] To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.

--And was transfigured before them. Matthew 17:2.

TRANSFIG'URED, participle passive Changed in form.

TRANSFIG'URING, participle present tense Transforming; changing the external form.

TRANSFIX', verb transitive [Latin transfixus, transfigo; trans and figo.]

To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; as, to transfix one with a dart or spear.

TRANSFIX'ED, participle passive Pierced through.

TRANSFIX'ING, participle present tense Piercing through with a pointed weapon.

TRANSFORM', verb transitive [Latin trans and forma.]

1. To change the form of; to change the shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as a caterpillar transformed into a butterfly.

2. To change one substance into another; to transmute. The alchimists sought to transform lead into gold.

3. In theology, to change the natural disposition and temper of man from a state of enmity to God and his law, into the image of God, or into a disposition and temper conformed to the will of God.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2.

4. To change the elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.

5. Among the mystics, to change the contemplative soul into a divine substance, by which it is lost or swallowed up in the divine nature.

6. In algebra, to change an equation into another of a different form, but of equal value.

TRANSFORM', verb intransitive To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.

His hair transforms to down.

TRANSFORMA'TION, noun The act or operation of changing the form or external appearance.

1. Metamorphosis; change of form in insects; as from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

2. Transmutation; the change of one metal into another, as of copper or tin into gold.

3. The change of the soul into a divine substance, as among the mystics.

4. Transubstantiation.

5. In theology, a change of heart in man, by which his disposition and temper are conformed to the divine image; a change from enmity to holiness and love.

6. In algebra, the change of an equation into one of a different form, but of equal value.

TRANSFORM'ED, participle passive Changed in form or external appearance; metamorphosed; transmuted; renewed.

TRANSFORM'ING, participle present tense Changing the form or external appearance; metamorphosing; transmuting; renewing.

1. adjective Effecting or able to effect a change of form or state; as the transforming power of true religion.

TRANSFREIGHT, verb intransitive transfra'te. To pass over the sea. [Not in use.]

TRANSFRETA'TION, noun [Latin trans and fretum, a strait.]

The passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Little used.]

TRANSFUSE, verb transitive transfu'ze. [Latin transfusus, transfundo; trans and fundo.]

1. To pour, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

2. To transfer, as blood, from one animal to another.

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

TRANSFU'SED, participle passive Poured form one vessel into another.

TRANSFU'SIBLE, adjective That may be transfused, etc.

TRANSFU'SING, participle present tense Pouring out of one vessel into another; transferring.

TRANSFUSION, noun transfu'zhon. The act of pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. In chimistry and pharmacy, transfusions of liquors are frequent.

1. The act or operation of transferring the blood of one animal into the vascular system of another by means of a tube.

TRANSGRESS', verb transitive [Latin transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.]

1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.

2. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To transgress a divine law, is sin. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.

TRANSGRESS', verb intransitive To offend by violating a law; to sin.

Chron 2.

TRANSGRESS'ED, participle passive Overpassed; violated.

TRANSGRESS'ING, participle present tense Passing beyond; surpassing; violating; sinning.

TRANSGRES'SION, noun The act of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command.

He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. Ezra 10:6.

Forgive thy people all their transgressions. 1 Kings 8:50.

1. Fault; offense; crime.

TRANSGRES'SIONAL, adjective That violates a law or rule of duty.

TRANSGRESS'IVE, adjective Faulty; culpable; apt to transgress.

TRANSGRESS'OR, noun 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. Proverbs 13:15.

TRANSHA'PE, verb transitive [trans and shape.] To transform. [Not in use.]

TRANSHIP', verb transitive [trans and ship.] To convey from one ship to another; a commercial word.

TRANSHIP'MENT, noun The act of transferring, as goods, from one ship to another.

TRANSHIP'PED, participle passive Carried from one ship to another.

TRANSHIP'PING, participle present tense Carrying from one ship to another.

TRANSIENT, adjective tran'shent. [Latin transiens, transeo; trans and eo.]

1. Passing; not stationary; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable. How transient are the pleasures of this life!

--Measur'd this transient world.

2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; as a transient view of a landscape.

TRANSIENT person, a person that is passing or traveling through a place; one without a settled habitation.

TRAN'SIENTLY, adverb [supra.] In passage; for a short time; not with continuance.

I touch here but transiently--on some few of those many rules of imitating nature, which Aristotle drew from Homer.

TRAN'SIENTNESS, noun [supra.] Shortness of continuance; speedy passage.

TRANSIL'IENCE

TRANSIL'IENCY, noun [Latin transiliens, transilio; trans and salio.]

A leap from thing to thing. [Not much used.]

TRANSIL'IENCY, n. [L. transiliens, transilio; trans and salio.]

A leap from thing to thing. [Not much used.]

TRANS'IT, noun [Latin transitus, from transeo.]

1. A passing; a passing over or through; conveyance; as the transit of goods through a country.

2. In astronomy, the passing of one heavenly body over the disk of another and larger. I witnessed the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 3, 1769. When a smaller body passes behind a larger, it is said to suffer an occultation.

3. The passage of one heavenly body over the meridian of another.

TRANS'IT, verb transitive To pass over the disk of a heavenly body.

TRANSI'TION, noun transizh'on. [Latin transitio.] Passage from one place or state to another; change; as the transition of the weather form hot to cold. Sudden transitions are sometimes attended with evil effects.

The spots are of the same color throughout, there being an immediate transition from white to black.

1. In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another. This should be done by means of some connection in the parts of the discourse, so as to appear natural and easy.

He with transition sweet new speech resumes.

2. In music, a change of key from major to minor, or the contrary; or in short, a change from any one genus or key to another; also, the softening of a disjunct interval by the introduction of intermediate sounds.

Transition rocks, in geology, rocks supposed to have been formed when the world was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state. These rocks contain few organic remains, and when they occur with others, lie immediately over those which contain none, and which are considered as primitive.

TRANS'ITIVE, adjective Having the power of passing.

1. In grammar, a transitive verb is one which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does, to the object on which it is done. Thus, 'Cicero wrote letters to Atticus.' In this sentence, the act of writing, performed by Cicero, the agent, terminates on letters, the object. All verbs not passive, may be arranged in two classes, transitive and intransitive. In English, this division is correct and complete.

TRANS'ITORILY, adverb [See Transitory.] With short continuance.

TRANS'ITORINESS, noun A passing with short continuance; speedy departure or evanescence. Who is not convinced of the transitoriness of all sublunary happiness?

TRANS'ITORY, adjective [Latin transitorius.] Passing without continuance; continuing a short time; fleeting; speedily vanishing.

O Lord, comfort and succor all them who, in this

transitory life, are in trouble.

1. In law, a transitory action, is one which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, detinue, slander and the like. It is opposed to local.

TRANSLA'TABLE, adjective [from translate.] Capable of being translated or rendered into another language.

TRANSLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin translatus, from transfero; trans, over, and fero, to bear.]

1. To bear, carry or remove from one place to another. It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another.

The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused.

2. To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death.

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see

death. Hebrews 11:15.

3. To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Samuel 3:10.

4. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

5. To change.

Happy is your grace,

That can translate the stubbornness of fortune

Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

6. To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia.

7. To explain.

TRANSLA'TED, participle passive Conveyed from one place to another; removed to heaven without dying; rendered into another language.

TRANSLA'TING, participle present tense Conveying or removing from one place to another; conveying to heaven without dying; interpreting in another language.

TRANSLA'TION, noun [Latin translatio.]

1. The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.

2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another.

3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.

4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer.

5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.

TRANSLA'TIVE, adjective Taken from others.

TRANSLA'TOR, noun One who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

TRANS'LATORY, adjective Transferring; serving to translate.

TRANSLA'TRESS, noun A female translator.

TRANSLOCA'TION, noun [Latin trans and locatio, loco.] Removal of things reciprocally to each others' places; or rather substitution of one thing for another.

There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge.

TRANSLU'CENCY, noun [Latin translucens; trans, through, and luceo, to shine.]

1. The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable.

2. Transparency.

TRANSLU'CENT, adjective In mineralogy, transmitting rays of light, but not so as to render objects distinctly visible.

1. Transparent; clear.

Replenish'd from the cool translucent springs.

TRANSLU'CID, adjective [Latin translucidus, supra.]

Transparent; clear. [See Translucent.]

TRANSMARINE, adjective [Latin transmarinus; trans and marinus; mare, sea.]

Lying or being beyond the sea.

TRANSMEW', verb transitive [Latin transmuto.] To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Not in use.]

TRANS'MIGRANT, adjective [See Transmigrate.] Migrating; passing into another country or state for residence, or into another form or body.

TRANS'MIGRANT, noun One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement.

1. One who passes into another state or body.

TRANS'MIGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin transmigro; trans and migro, to migrate.]

1. To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families.

2. To pass from one body into another.

Their souls may transmigrate into each other.

TRANS'MIGRATING, participle present tense Passing from one country, state or body into another.

TRANSMIGRA'TION, noun The passing of men from one country to another for the purpose of residence, particularly of a whole people.

1. The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another.

2. The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.

TRANS'MIGRATOR, noun One who transmigrates.

TRANSMI'GRATORY, adjective Passing from one place, body or state to another.

TRANSMISSIBIL'ITY, noun [from transmissible.] The quality of being transmissible.

TRANSMIS'SIBLE, adjective [See Transmit.]

1. That may be transmitted or passed from one to another.

2. That may be transmitted through a transparent body.

TRANSMIS'SION, noun [Latin transmissio.]

1. The act of sending from one place or person to another; as the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights, titles or privileges from father to son, and from one generation to another.

2. The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass.

TRANSMIS'SIVE, adjective Transmitted; derived from one to another.

Itself a sun, it with transmissive light

Enlivens worlds denied to human sight.

TRANSMIT', verb transitive [Latin transmitto; trans and mitto, to send.]

1. To send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or country to another. Light is transmitted from the sun to the earth; sound is transmitted by means of vibrations of the air. Our civil and religious privileges have been transmitted to us from our ancestors; and it is our duty to transmit them to our children.

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

TRANSMIT'TAL, noun Transmission.

TRANSMIT'TED, participle passive Sent from one person or place to another; caused or suffered to pass through.

TRANSMIT'TER, noun One who transmits.

TRANSMIT'TIBLE, adjective That may be transmitted.

TRANSMIT'TING, participle present tense Sending from one person or place to another; suffering to pass through.

TRANSMUTABIL'ITY, noun [See Transmute.] Susceptibility of change into another nature or substance.

TRANSMU'TABLE, adjective [from transmute.] Capable of being changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature.

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

TRANSMU'TABLY, adverb With capacity of being changed into another substance or nature.

TRANSMUTA'TION, noun [Latin transmutatio.]

1. The change of any thing into another substance, or into something of a different nature. For a long time, the transmutation of base metals into gold was deemed practicable, but nature proved refractory, and the alchimists were frustrated.

2. In chimistry, the transmutation of one substance into another is very easy and common, as of water into gas or vapor, and of gases into water.

3. In geometry, 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.

4. The change of colors, as in the case of a decoction of the nephritic wood.

5. In the vegetable economy, the change of a plant into another form; as of wheat into chess, according to the popular opinion. [See Chess.]

TRANSMU'TE, verb transitive [Latin transmuto; trans and muto, to change.]

To change from one nature or substance into another. Water may be transmuted into ice, and ice into water; the juices of plants are transmuted into solid substances; but human skill has not been able to transmute lead or copper into gold.

A holy conscience sublimates every thing; it transmutes the common affairs of life into acts of solemn worship to God.

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

TRANSMU'TED, participle passive Changed into another substance or nature.

TRANSMU'TER, noun One that transmutes.

TRANSMU'TING, participle present tense Changing or transforming into another nature or substance.

TRAN'SOM, noun [Latin transenna, from trans, over, across.]

1. A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form.

2. In architecture, the piece that is framed across a double light window; or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff.

TRANS'PADANE, adjective [Latin trans and Padus, the river Po.]

Being beyond the river Po.

TRANSPA'RENCY, noun [See Transparent.] That state or property of a body by which it suffers rays of light to pass through it, so that objects can be distinctly seen through it; diaphaneity. This is a property of glass, water and air, which when clear, admit the free passage of light. transparency is opposed to opakeness.

TRANSPA'RENT, adjective [Latin trans and pareo, to 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 opake.

2. Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail.

TRANSPA'RENTLY, adverb Clearly; so as to be seen through.

TRANSPA'RENTNESS, noun The quality of being transparent; transparency.

TRANSP'ASS, verb transitive [trans and pass.] To pass over. [Not in use.]

TRANSP'ASS, verb intransitive To pass by or away. [Not in use.]

TRANSPIC'UOUS, adjective [Latin trans and specio, to see.] Transparent; pervious to the sight.

The wide transpicuous air.

TRANSPIERCE, verb transitive transpers'. To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

His forceful spear the sides transpierc'd.

TRANSPIERCED, participle passive transpers'ed. Pierced through; penetrated.

TRANSPIERCING, participle present tense transpers'ing. Penetrating; passing through.

TRANSPI'RABLE, adjective Capable of being emitted through pores.

TRANSPIRA'TION, noun The act or process of passing off through the pores of the skin; cutaneous exhalation; as the transpiration of obstructed fluids.

TRANSPI'RE, verb transitive [Latin transpiro; trans and spiro.] To emit through the pores of the skin; to send off in vapor.

TRANSPI'RE, verb intransitive To be emitted through the pores of the skin; to exhale; to pass off in insensible perspiration; as, fluids transpire from the human body.

1. To escape from secrecy; to become public. The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired.

2. To happen or come to pass.

TRANSPI'RING, participle present tense Exhaling; passing off in insensible perspiration; becoming public.

TRANSPLA'CE, verb transitive [trans and place.] To remove; to put in a new place.

It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican to a more eminent place. [Little used.]

TRANSPLANT', verb transitive [Latin planto.]

1. To remove and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

2. To remove and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Salmaneser transplanted the Cuthites to Samaria.

3. To remove.

TRANSPLANTA'TION, noun The act of transplanting; the removal of a plant or of a settled inhabitant to a different place for growth or residence.

1. Removal; conveyance form one to another. Formerly men believed in the transplantation of diseases.

TRANSPLANT'ED, participle passive Removed and planted or settled in another place.

TRANSPLANT'ER, noun One who transplants.

1. A machine for transplanting trees.

TRANSPLANT'ING, participle present tense Removing and planting or settling in another place.

TRANSPLEND'ENCY, noun [Latin trans and splendens. See Splendor.]

Supereminent splendor.

TRANSPLEND'ENT, adjective Resplendent in the highest degree.

TRANSPLEND'ENTLY, adverb With eminent splendor.

TRANSPORT, verb transitive [Latin transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]

1. To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.

2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes, which often amounts to banishment.

3. To hurry or carry away by violence of passion.

They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion.

4. To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy.

5. To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors.

TRANS'PORT, noun Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

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

1. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.

2. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.

3. A convict transported or sentenced to exile.

TRANSPORTABLE, adjective That may be transported.

TRANSPORTANCE, noun Conveyance. [Not in use.]

TRANSPORTA'TION, noun The act of carrying or conveying from one place to another, either on beasts or in vehicles, by land or water, or in air. Goods in Asia are transported on camels; in Europe and America, either on beasts or on carriages or sleds. But transportation by water is the great means of commercial intercourse.

1. Banishment for felony.

2. Transmission; conveyance.

3. Transport; ecstasy. [Little used.]

4. Removal from one country to another; as the transportation of plants.

TRANSPORTED, participle passive Carried; conveyed; removed; ravished with delight.

TRANSPORTEDLY, adverb In a state of rapture.

TRANSPORTEDNESS, noun A state of rapture.

TRANSPORTER, noun One who transports or removes.

TRANSPORTING, participle present tense Conveying or carrying from one place to another; removing; banishing for a crime.

1. adjective Ravishing with delight; bearing away the soul in pleasure; extatic; as transporting joy.

TRANSPORTMENT, noun Transportation. [Little used.]

TRANSPOSAL, noun transpo'zal. [from transpose.] The act of changing the places of things, and putting each in the place which was before occupied by the other.

TRANSPOSE, verb transitive transpo'ze.

1. To change the place or order of things by putting each in the place of the other; as, to transpose letters, words or propositions.

2. To put out of place.

3. In algebra, to bring any term of an equation over to the other side. Thus if a+b=c, and we make a=c-b, then b is said to be transposed.

4. In grammar, to change the natural order of words.

5. In music, to change the key.

TRANSPO'SED, participle passive Being changed in place and one put in the place of the other.

TRANSPO'SING, participle present tense Changing the place of things and putting each in the place of the other.

1. Bringing any term of an equation over to the other side.

2. Changing the natural order of words.

TRANSPOSI'TION, noun [Latin transpositio.]

1. A changing of the places of things and putting each in the place before occupied by the other; as the transposition of words in a sentence.

2. The state of being reciprocally changed in place.

3. In algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation to the other side.

4. In grammar, a change of the natural order of words in a sentence. The Latin and Greek languages admit transposition without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.

5. In music, a change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key.

TRANSPOSI'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to transposition.

TRANSPOS'ITIVE, adjective Made by transposing; consisting in transposition.

TRANSUBSTAN'TIATE, verb transitive To change to another substance; as, to transubstantiate the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ, according to the popish doctrine.

TRANSUBSTANTIA'TION, noun Change of substance. In the Romish theology, the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ.

TRANSUBSTAN'TIATOR, noun One who maintains the popish doctrine of transubstantiation.

TRANSUDA'TION, noun [from transude.] The act or process of passing off through the pores of a substance; as sweat or other fluid.

TRANSU'DATORY, adjective Passing by transudation.

TRANSU'DE, verb intransitive [Latin trans and sudo, to sweat.] To pass through the pores or interstices of texture, as perspirable matter or other fluid; as, liquor may transude through leather, or through wood.

TRANSU'DING, participle present tense Passing through the pores of a substance, as sweat or other fluid.

TRANSU'ME, verb transitive [Latin transumo; trans and sumo, to take.]

To take from one to another. [Little used.]

TRANSUMPT', noun A copy or exemplification of a record. [Not in use.]

TRANSUMP'TION, noun The act of taking from one place to another. [Little used.]

TRANSVEC'TION, noun [Latin transvectio.] The act of conveying or carrying over.

TRANSVERS'AL, adjective [Latin trans and versus.] Running or lying across; as a transversal line.

TRANSVERS'ALLY, adverb In a direction crosswise.

TRANSVERSE, adjective transvers'. [Latin transversus; trans and versus, verto.]

1. Lying or being across or in a cross direction; as a transverse diameter of axis. transverse lines are the diagonals of a square or parallelogram. Lines which intersect perpendiculars, are also called transverse

2. In botany, a transverse partition, in a pericarp, is at right angles with the valves, as in a silique.

TR'ANSVERSE, noun The longer axis of an ellipse.

TRANSVERSE, verb transitive transvers'. To overturn. [Little used.]

TRANSVERSELY, adverb transvers'ly. In a cross direction; as, to cut a thing transversely

At Stonehenge, the stones lie transversely upon each other.

TRAN'TERS, noun plural Men who carry fish from the sea coast to sell in the inland countries. [Not American.]

TRAP, noun

1. An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap

2. An engine for catching men. [Not used in the U. States.]

3. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap Romans 11:9.

4. A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.

TRAP, noun In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs. Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt. It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species; and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite.

TRAP, verb transitive To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.

1. To ensnare; to take by stratagem.

I trapp'd the foe.

2. To adorn; to dress with ornaments. [See Trappings.] [the verb is little used.]

TRAP, verb intransitive To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.

TRAPAN', verb transitive To ensnare; to catch by stratagem.

TRAPAN', noun A snare; a stratagem.

TRAPAN'NER, noun One who ensnares.

TRAPAN'NING, participle present tense Ensnaring.

TRAP'-DOOR, noun [trap and door.] A door in a floor, which shuts close like a valve.

TRAPE, verb intransitive To traipse; to walk carelessly and sluttishly. [Not much used.]

TRAPES, noun A slattern; an idle sluttish woman.

TRAPE'ZIAN, adjective [See Trapezium.] In crystallography, having the lateral planes composed of trapeziums situated in two ranges, between two bases.

TRAPE'ZIFORM, adjective Having the form of a trapezium.

TRAPEZIHE'DRON, noun [Latin trapezium and Gr. side.]

A solid bounded by twenty four equal and similar trapeziums.

TRAPE'ZIUM, noun plural trapezia or trapeziums. [Latin from Gr. a little table.]

1. In geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines, none of them parallel.

2. In anatomy, a bone of the carpus.

TRAPEZOID', noun [Latin trapezium.] An irregular solid figure having four sides, no two of which are parallel to each other; also, a plane four sided figure having two of the opposite sides parallel to each other.

TRAPEZOID'AL, adjective Having the form of a trapezoid.

1. Having the surface composed of twenty four trapeziums, all equal and similar.

TRAP'PINGS, noun plural [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.

TRAP'POUS, adjective [from trap, in geology. It ought to be trappy.]

Pertaining to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities.

TRAP'-STICK, noun A stick with which boys drive a wooden ball; hence, a slender leg.

TRASH, noun

1. Any waste or worthless matter.

Who steals my money, steals trash

2. Loppings of trees; bruised canes, etc. 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

3. Fruit or other matter improper for food, but eaten by children, etc. It is used particularly of unripe fruits.

4. A worthless person. [Not proper.]

5. A piece of leather or other thing fastened to a dog's neck to retard his speed.

TRASH, verb transitive To lop; to crop.

1. To strip of leaves; as, to trash ratoons.

2. To crush; to humble; as, to trash the Jews.

3. To clog; to encumber; to hinder.

TRASH, verb intransitive To follow with violence and trampling.

TRASH'Y, adjective Waste; rejected; worthless; useless.

TRASS, noun Pumiceous conglomerate, a volcanic production; a gray or yellowish porous substance.

TRASS noun A volcanic earth, resembling puzzolana, used as a cement; or a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. The Dutch tarrass is made of a soft rock stone found near Collen, on the lower part of the Rhine. It is burnt like lime, and reduced to powder in mills. It is of a grayish color.

TRAU'LISM, noun A stammering. [Not in use.]

TRAUMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. a wound.]

1. Pertaining to or applied to wounds.

2. Vulnerary; adapted to the cure of wounds.

TRAUMAT'IC, noun A medicine useful in the cure of wounds.

TRAV'AIL, verb intransitive [Latin trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]

1. To labor with pain; to toil.

2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Genesis 35:16.

TRAV'AIL, verb transitive To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm. [Not in use.]

TRAV'AIL, noun Labor with pain; severe toil.

As every thing of price, so doth this require travail

1. Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail

TRAV'AILING, participle present tense Laboring with toil; laboring in childbirth. Isaiah 42:14.

TRAVE

TRAV'EL, verb intransitive [a different orthography and application of travail.]

1. To walk; to go or march on foot; as, to travel from London to Dover, or from New York to Philadelphia. So we say, a man ordinarily travels three miles an hour. [This is the proper sense of the word, which implies toil.]

2. To journey; to ride to a distant place in the same country; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling to Virginia. A man traveled from London to Edinburgh in five days.

3. To go to a distant country, or to visit foreign states or kingdoms, either by sea or land. It is customary for men of rank and property to travel for improvement. Englishmen travel to France and Italy. Some men travel for pleasure or curiosity; others travel to extend their knowledge of natural history.

4. To pass; to go; to move. News travels with rapidity.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

5. To labor. [See Travail.]

6. To move, walk or pass, as a beast, a horse, ox or camel. A horse travels fifty miles in a day; a camel; twenty.

TRAVEL, verb transitive To pass; to journey over; as, to travel the whole kingdom of England.

I travel this profound.

1. To force to journey.

The corporations--shall not be traveled forth from their franchises. [Not used.]

TRAVEL, noun

1. A passing on foot; a walking.

2. Journey; a passing or riding from place to place.

His travels ended at his country seat.

3. Travel or travels, a journeying to a distant country or countries. The gentle man has just returned from his travels.

4. The distance which a man rides in the performance of his official duties; or the fee paid for passing that distance; as the travel of the sheriff is twenty miles; or that of a representative is seventy miles. His travel is a dollar for every twenty miles.

5. Travels, in the plural, an account of occurrences and observations made during a journey; as a book of travels; the title of a book that relates occurrences in traveling; as travels in Italy.

6. Labor; toil; labor in childbirth. [See Travail.]

TRAV'EL, v.i. [a different orthography and application of travail.]

TRAV'ELED, participle passive Gained or made by travel; as traveled observations.

1. adjective Having made journeys.

TRAV'ELER, noun

1. One who travels in any way. Job:31.

2. One who visits foreign countries.

3. In ships, an iron thimble or thimbles with a rope spliced round them, forming a kind of tail or a species of grommet.

TRAV'ELING, participle present tense

1. Walking; going; making a journey. Matthew 25:1.

2. adjective Incurred by travel; as traveling expenses.

3. Paid for travel; as traveling fees.

TRAV'ERS, adverb Across; athwart. [Not used.]

TRAV'ERSABLE, adjective [See Traverse, in law.] That may be traversed or denied; as a traversable allegation.

TRAV'ERSE, adverb Athwart; crosswise.

The ridges of the field lay traverse

TRAV'ERSE, preposition [supra.] Through crosswise.

He traverse

The whole battalion views their order due. [Little used.]

TRAV'ERSE, adjective [Latin versus; transversus.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches.

Oak--may be trusted in traverse work for summers.

TRAV'ERSE, noun [supra.] Any thing laid or built across.

There is a traverse placed in the loft where she sitteth.

1. Something that thwarts, crosses or obstructs; a cross accident. He is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not in his power.

2. In fortification, a trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also, a wall raised across a work.

3. In navigation, traverse-sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns, to one longer course.

4. In law, a denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any state of the pleadings. When the traverse or denial comes from the defendant, the issue is tendered in this manner, 'and of this he puts himself on the country.' When the traverse lies on the plaintiff, he prays 'this may be inquired of by the country.'

The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.

5. A turning; a trick.

TRAV'ERSE, verb transitive To cross; to lay in a cross direction.

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

1. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart; to obstruct.

Frog thought to traverse this new project.

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

What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought.

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

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

4. To turn and point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

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

6. In law pleadings, to deny 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. So to traverse an indictment or an office, is to deny it.

To traverse a yard, in sailing, is to brace it aft.

TRAV'ERSE, verb intransitive In fencing, to use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction.

To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--

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

2. In the manege, to cut the tread crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

TRAV'ERSING, participle present tense Crossing; passing over; thwarting; turning; denying.

TRAV'ESTIED, participle passive Disguised by dress; turned into ridicule.

TRAV'ESTIN, noun A kind of white spongy stone found in Italy.

TRAV'ESTY, adjective [infra.] Having an unusual dress; disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous. It is applied to a book or composition translated in a manner to make it burlesque.

TRAV'ESTY, noun A parody; a burlesque translation of a work. travesty may be intended to ridicule absurdity, or to convert a grave performance into a humorous one.

TRAV'ESTY, verb transitive To translate into such language as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

G. Battista Lalli travestied Virgil, or turned him into Italian burlesque verse.

TRAV'IS, noun

1. A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes. This is not used for horses in America, but a similar frame is used for confining oxen for shoeing.

2. Beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.

TRAY, noun [Latin trua.] A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a piece of timber and made hollow, used for making bread in, chopping meat and other domestic purposes.

SALTPE'TER, 'TRE, noun [salt and Gr. stone.] A neutral salt formed by the nitric acid in combination with potash, and hence denominated nitrate of potash. It is found native in the East Indies, in Spain, in Naples and other places. It is also found on walls sheltered from rain, and it is extracted by lixiviation from the earths under cellars, stables and barns, etc.

TRE'ACHER

TREACHEROUS, adjective trech'erous. [See Treachery.] Violating allegiance of faith pledged; faithless; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust. A man may be treacherous to his country, or treacherous to his friend, by violating his engagements or his faith pledged.

TREACHEROUS, a. trech'erous. [See Treachery.] Violating allegiance of faith pledged; faithless; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust. A man may be treacherous to his country, or treacherous to his friend, by violating his engagements or his faith pledged.

TREACHEROUSLY, adverb trech'erously. By violating allegiance or faith pledged; by betraying a trust; faithlessly; perfidiously; as, to surrender a fort to an enemy treacherously; to disclose a secret treacherously

You treacherously practic'd to undo me.

TREACHEROUSNESS, noun trech'erousness. Breach of allegiance or of faith; faithlessness; perfidiousness.

TREACHERY, noun trech'ery. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery This is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery This is perfidy.

TRE'ACHETOUR

TRE'ACHOUR , noun A traitor.

TRE'ACHOUR , n. A traitor.

TRE'ACLE, noun [Latin theriaca; Gr. a wild beast.]

1. The spume of sugar in sugar refineries. treacle is obtained in refining sugar; molasses is the drainings of crude sugar. treacle however is often used for molasses.

2. A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, etc.

3. A medicinal compound of various ingredients. [See Theriaca.]

TREAD, verb intransitive tred. preterit tense trod; participle passive trod, troden. [Latin trudo.]

1. To set the foot.

Where'er you tread the blushing flow'rs shall rise.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

2. To walk or go.

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours. Deuteronomy 11:24.

3. To walk with form or state.

Ye that stately tread or lowly creep.

4. To copulate, as fowls.

To tread or tread on, to trample; to set the foot on in contempt.

Thou shalt tread upon their high places. Det.33.

TREAD, verb transitive tred. To step or walk on.

Forbid to tread the promis'd land he saw.

1. To press under the feet.

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 walk in a formal or stately manner.

He thought she trod the ground with greater grace.

4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Psalms 44:5.

5. To compress, as a fowl.

To tread the state, to act as a stage-player; to perform a part in a drama.

To tread or tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.

They tread their wine presses and suffer thirst. Job 24:11.

TREAD, noun tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread

1. Way; track; path. [Little used.]

2. Compression of the male fowl.

3. Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread

TREADER, noun tred'er. One who treads. Isaiah 16:10.

TREADING, participle present tense tred'ing. Stepping; pressing with the foot; walking on.

TREADLE

TREAGUE, noun treeg. A truce.

TREAGUE, n. treeg. A truce.

TREASON, noun tree'zn. [Latin traho. See Draw and Drag.]

TREASON is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Its signification is different in different countries. In general, it is 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. In monarchies, the killing of the king, or an attempt to take his life, is treason In England, to imagine or compass the death of the king, or of the prince, or of the queen consort, or of the heir apparent of 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 in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

TREASON in Great Britain, is of two kinds, high treason and petit treason High treason is a crime that immediately affects the king or state; such as the offenses just enumerated. Petit treason involves a breach of fidelity, but affects individuals. Thus for a wife to kill her husband, a servant his master or lord, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary, is petit treason But in the United States this crime is unknown; the killing in the latter cases being murder only.

TREASONABLE, adjective tree'znable. 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.

TREASONOUS, for treasonable, is not in use.

TREASURE, noun trezh'ur. [Latin thesaurus.]

1. Wealth accumulated; particularly, a stock or store of money in reserve. Henry VII. was frugal and penurious, and collected a great treasure of gold and silver.

2. A great quantity of any thing collected for future use.

We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jeremiah 41:8.

3. Something very much valued. Psalms 135:4.

Ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me. Exodus 19:5.

4. Great abundance.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:3.

TREASURE, verb transitive trezh'ur. To hoard; to collect and reposit, either money or other things, for future use; to lay up; as, to treasure gold and silver; usually with up. Sinners are said to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath. Romans 2:1.

TREASURED, participle passive trezh'ured. Hoarded; laid up for future use.

TREASURER, noun trezh'urer. One who has the care of a 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 drawn by the proper authority. Incorporated companies and private societies have also their treasurers.

In England, the lord high treasurer is the principal officer of the crown, under whose charge is all the national revenue.

The treasurer of the household, in the absence of the lord-steward, has power with the controller and other officers of the Green-cloth, and the steward of the Marshalsea, to hear and determine treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the king's palace. There is also the treasurer of the navy, and the treasurers of the county.

TREASURERSHIP, noun trezh'ureship. The office of treasurer.

TREASURESS, noun trezh'uress. A female who has charge of a treasure.

TREASURY, noun trezh'ury. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government.

1. A building appropriated for keeping public money. John 8:20.

2. The officer or officers of the treasury department.

3. A repository of abundance. Psalms 135:1.

TREAT, verb transitive [Latin tracto.]

1. To handle; to manage; to use. Subjects are usually faithful or treacherous, according as they are well or ill treated. To treat prisoners ill, is the characteristic of barbarians. Let the wife of your bosom be kindly treated.

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

3. To entertain without expense to the guest.

4. To negotiate; to settle; as, to treat a peace. [Not in use.]

5. To manage in the application of remedies; as, to treat a disease or a patient.

TREAT, verb intransitive To discourse; to handle in writing or speaking; to make discussion. Cicero treats of the nature of the gods; he treats of old age and of duties.

1. To come to terms of accommodation.

Inform us, will the emp'ror treat?

2. To make gratuitous entertainment. It is sometimes the custom of military officers to treat when first elected.

To treat with, to negotiate; to make and receive proposals for adjusting differences. Envoys were appointed to treat with France, but without success.

TREAT, noun An entertainment given; as a parting treat

1. Something given for entertainment; as a rich treat

2. Emphatically, a rich entertainment.

TRE'ATABLE, adjective Moderate; not violent.

The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. [Not in use.]

TRE'ATABLY, adverb Moderately. [Not in use.]

TRE'ATED, participle passive Handled; managed; used; discoursed on; entertained.

TRE'ATER, noun One that treats; one that handles or discourses on; one that entertains.

TRE'ATING, participle present tense Handling; managing; using; discoursing on; entertaining.

TRE'ATISE, noun [Latin tractatus.] A tract; a written composition on a particular subject, in which the principles of it are discussed or explained. A treatise is of an indefinite length; but it implies more form and method than an essay, and less fullness or copiousness than a system.

TRE'ATISER, noun One who writes a treatise. [Not used.]

TRE'ATMENT, noun Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.

1. Usage; manner of using; good of bad behavior towards.

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

2. Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as the treatment of a disease.

3. Manner of applying remedies to; as the treatment of a patient.

TRE'ATY, noun Negotiation; act of treating for the adjustment of differences, or for forming an agreement; as, a treaty is on the carpet.

He cast by treaty and by trains

Her to persuade.

1. 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. Treaties are of various kinds, as treaties for regulating commercial intercourse, treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, treaties for hiring troops, treaties of peace, etc.

2. Intreaty. [Not in use.]

TREBLE, adjective trib'l. [Latin triplex, triplus; tres, three, and plexus, fold. This should be written trible.]

1. Threefold; triple; as a lofty tower with treble walls.

2. In music, acute; sharp; as a treble sound.

3. That plays the highest part or most acute sounds; that plays the treble; as a treble violin.

TREBLE, noun trib'l. In music, the part of a symphony whose sounds are highest or most acute. This is divided into first or highest treble and second or base treble

TREBLE, verb transitive trib'l. [Latin triplico.] To make thrice as much; to make threefold. Compound interest soon trebles a debt.

TREBLE, verb intransitive trib'l. To become threefold. A debt at compound interest soon trebles in amount.

TREBLENESS, noun trib'lness. The state of being treble; as the trebleness of tones.

TREBLY, adverb trib'ly. In a threefold number or quantity; as a good deed trebly recompensed.

TRED'DLE, noun The part of a loom or other machine which is moved by the tread or foot.

1. The albuminous cords which unite the yolk of the egg to the white.

TREE, noun

1. The general name of the largest of the vegetable kind, consisting of a firm woody stem springing from woody roots, and spreading above into branches which terminate in leaves. A tree differs from a shrub principally in size, many species of trees growing to the highth of fifty or sixty feet, and some species to seventy or eighty, and a few, particularly the pine, to a much greater highth.

TREEs are of various kinds; as nuciferous, or nut-bearing trees; bacciferous, or berry-bearing; coniferous, or cone-bearing, etc. Some are forest-trees, and useful for timber or fuel; others are fruit trees, and cultivated in gardens and orchards; others are used chiefly for shade and ornament.

2. Something resembling a tree consisting of a stem or stalk and branches; as a genealogical tree

3. In ship-building, pieces of timber are called chess-trees, cross-trees, roof-trees, tressel-trees, etc.

4. In Scripture, a cross.

--Jesus, whom they slew and hanged on a tree Acts 10:39.

5. Wood.

TREE'-FROG, noun [tree and frog.] A species of frog, the Rana arborea, found on trees and shrubs; called by the older writers, Ranunculus viridis.

TREEN, adjective Wooden; made of wood.

TREEN, noun The old plural of tree.

TRE'FOIL, noun [Latin trifolium; tres, three, and folium, leaf.]

The common name for many plants of the genus Trifolium; also, in agriculture, a name of the medicago tupulina, a plant resembling clover, with yellow flowers, much cultivated for hay and fodder.

TREILLAGE, noun trel'lage. In gardening, a sort of rail-work, consisting of light posts and rails for supporting espaliers, and sometimes for wall trees.

TREL'LIS, noun In gardening, a structure or frame of cross-barred work, or lattice work, used like the treillage for supporting plants.

TREL'LISED, adjective Having a trellis or trellises.

TREM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tremo.]

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder.

Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke.

2. To shake; to quiver; to totter.

Sinai's gray top shall tremble

3. To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles.

TREM'BLEMENT, noun In French music, a trill or shake.

TREM'BLER, n One that trembles.

TREM'BLING, participle present tense Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering.

TREM'BLINGLY, adverb So as to shake; with shivering or quaking.

Tremblingly she stood.

TREMEN'DOUS, adjective [Latin tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.]

1. Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful. Hence,

2. Violent; such as may astonish by its force and violence; as a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall; a tremendous noise.

TREMEN'DOUSLY, adverb In a manner to terrify or astonish; with great violence.

TREMEN'DOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being tremendous, terrible or violent.

TREM'OLITE, noun A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. It is classed by Hauy with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole grammatite. It is of three kinds, asbestos, common, and glassy tremolite; all of a fibrous or radiated structure, and of a pearly color.

Tremolite is a subspecies of straight edged augite.

TRE'MOR, noun [Latin from tremo.] An involuntary 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 a universal tremor

TREM'ULOUS, adjective [Latin tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.]

1. Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling christian.

2. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

TREM'ULOUSLY, adverb With quivering or trepidation.

TREM'ULOUSNESS, noun The state of trembling or quivering; as the tremulousness of an aspen leaf.

TREN, noun A fish spear.

TRENCH, verb transitive

1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]

2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.]

3. To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing.

4. To cut a long gash. [Not in use.]

TRENCH, verb intransitive To encroach. [See Entrench.]

TRENCH, noun A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land.

1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, etc.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.

TRENCH'ANT, adjective Cutting; sharp. [Little used.]

TRENCH'ED, participle passive Cut into long hollows or ditches; furrowed deep.

TRENCH'ER, noun A wooden plate. Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution.

1. The table.

2. Food; pleasures of the table.

It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers.

TRENCH'ING, participle present tense Cutting into trenches; digging; ditching.

TRENCH'-PLOW, noun [trench and plow.] A kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

TRENCH'-PLOW, verb transitive [trench and plow.] To plow with deep furrows.

TRENCH'-PLOWING, noun The practice or operation of plowing with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

TREND, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to trundle, or to run.]

To run; to stretch; to tend; to have a particular direction; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

TREND, noun That part of the stock of an anchor from which the size is taken.

TREND, verb transitive In rural economy, to free wool from its filth. [Local.]

TREND'ER, noun One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Local.]

TREND'ING, participle present tense Running; tending.

1. Cleaning wool. [Local.]

TREND'ING, noun The operation of freeing wool from filth of various kinds.

TREN'DLE, noun Any thing round used in turning or rolling; a little wheel.

TREN'TAL

TREN'TALS, noun [Latin triginta.] An office for the dead in the Romish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party's death.

TREN'TALS, n. [L. triginta.] An office for the dead in the Romish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party's death.

TREPAN', noun [Latin tero, terebra, on the root Rp.] In surgery, a circular saw for perforating the skull. It resembles a wimble.

TREPAN', verb transitive To perforate the skull and take out a piece; a surgical operation for relieving the brain from pressure or irritation.

TREPAN, a snare, and trepan to ensnare, are from trap, and written trepan which see.

TREPAN'NED, participle passive Having the skull perforated.

TREPAN'NER, noun One who trepans.

TREPAN'NING, participle present tense Perforating the skull with a trepan.

TREPAN'NING, noun The operation of making an opening in the skull, for relieving the brain from compression or irritation.

TREPH'INE, noun [See Trepan.] An instrument for trepanning, more modern than the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimblet, and a little sharp perforator, called the center-pin.

TREPH'INE, verb transitive To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

TREP'ID, adjective [Latin trepidus.] Trembling; quaking. [Not used.]

TREPIDA'TION, noun [Latin trepidatio, form trepido, to tremble.]

1. An involuntary trembling; a quaking or quivering, particularly from fear or terror; hence, a state of terror. The men were in great trepidation

2. A trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections.

3. In the old astronomy, a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament, to account for the changes and motion of the axis of the world.

4. Hurry; confused haste.

TRES'PASS, verb intransitive [Latin trans, beyond, and passer, to pass.]

1. Literally, to pass beyond; hence primarily, to pass over the boundary line of another's land; to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. A man may trespass by walking over the ground of another, and the law gives a remedy for damages sustained.

2. 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.

If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him-- 1 Kings 8:31. See Luke 17:3. and 4.

3. In a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty.

In the time of his disease did he trespass yet more. 2 Chronicles 28:13.

We have trespassed against our God. Ezra 10:10.

4. To intrude; to go too far; to put to inconvenience by demand or importunity; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

TRES'PASS, noun In law, violation of another's rights, not amounting to treason, felony, or misprision of either. Thus to enter another's close, is a trespass; to attack his person is a trespass When violence accompanies the act, it is called a trespass vi et armis.

1. Any injury or offense done to another.

If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14.

2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. Colossians 2:13.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1.

TRES'PASSER, noun One who commits a trespass; one who enters upon another's land or violates his rights.

1. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

TRES'PASSING, participle present tense Entering another man's inclosure; injuring or annoying another; violating the divine law or moral duty.

TRESS, noun A knot or curl of hair; a ringlet.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare.

TRESS'ED, adjective Having tresses.

1. Curled; formed into ringlets.

TRESS'URE, noun In heraldry, a kind of border.

TRES'TLE, noun tres'l.

1. The frame of a table.

2. A movable form for supporting any thing.

3. In bridges, a frame consisting of two posts with a head or cross beam and braces, on which rest the string-pieces. [This is the use of the word in New England. It is vulgarly pronounced trussel or trussl.]

Trestle-trees, in a ship, are two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the top-mast.

TRET, noun [probably from Latin tritus, tero, to wear.]

In commerce, an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four per cent on the weight of commodities. It is said this allowance is nearly discontinued.

TRETH'INGS, noun Taxes; imposts. [I know not where used. It is unknown, I believe, in the United States.]

TREV'ET, noun [three-feet, tripod.] A stool or other thing that is supported by three legs.

TREY, noun [Latin tres; Eng. three.] A three at cards; a card of three spots.

TRI, a prefix in words of Greek and Latin origin, signifies three.

TRI'ABLE, adjective [from try.] That may be tried; that may be subjected to trial or test.

1. That may undergo a judicial examination; that may properly come under the cognizance of a court. A cause may be triable before one court, which is not triable in another. In England, testamentary causes are triable in the ecclesiastical courts.

TRIACONTAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. thirty, and side.] Having thirty sides. In mineralogy, bounded by thirty rhombs.

TRI'ACONTER, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a vessel of thirty oars.

TRI'AD, noun [Latin trias, from tres, three.] The union of three; three united. In music, the common chord or harmony, consisting of the third, fifth and eighth.

TRI'AL, noun [from try.] Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining its effect, or what can be done. A man tries to lift a stone, and on trial finds he is not able. A team attempts to draw a load, and after unsuccessful trial the attempt is relinquished.

1. Examination by a test; experiment; as in chimistry and metallurgy.

2. Experiment; act of examining by experience. In gardening and agriculture, we learn by trial what land will produce; and often, repeated trials are necessary.

3. Experience; suffering that puts strength, patience of faith to the test; afflictions or temptations that exercise and prove the graces or virtues of men.

Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. Hebrews 11:36.

4. In law, the examination of a cause in controversy between parties, before a proper tribunal. Trials are civil or criminal. trial in civil causes, may be by record or inspection; it may be by witnesses and jury, or by the court. By the laws of England and of the United States, trial by jury, in criminal cases, is held sacred. No criminal can be legally deprived of that privilege.

5. Temptation; test of virtue.

Every station is exposed to some trials.

6. State of being tried.

TRIAL'ITY, noun [form three.] Three united; state of being three. [Little used.]

TRIAN'DER, noun [Gr. three, and a male.] A plant having three stamens.

TRIAN'DRIAN, adjective Having three stamens.

TRI'ANGLE, noun [Latin triangulum; tres, tria, three, and angulus, a corner.] In geometry, a figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. The three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or the number of degrees in a semicircle.

If the three lines or sides of a triangle are all right, it is a plane or rectilinear triangle

If all the three sides are equal, it is an equilateral triangle

If two of the sides only are equal, it is an isosceles or equicrural triangle

If all the three sides are unequal, it is a scalene or scalenous triangle

If one of the angles is a right angle, the triangle is rectangular.

If one of the angles is obtuse, the triangle is called obtusangular or amblygonous.

If all the angles are acute, the triangle is acutangular or oxygonous.

If the three lines of a triangle are all curves, the triangle is said to be curvilinear.

If some of the sides are right and others curve, the triangle is said to be mixtilinear.

If the sides are all arcs of great circles of the sphere, the triangle is said to be spherical.

TRIAN'GLED, adjective Having three angles.

TRIAN'GULAR, adjective Having three angles.

In botany, a triangular stem has three prominent longitudinal angles; a triangular leaf has three prominent angles, without any reference to their measurement or direction.

TRIAN'GULARLY, adverb After the form of a triangle.

TRIA'RIAN, adjective [Latin triarii.] Occupying the third post or place.

TRIBE, noun [Latin tribus.]

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.

2. A division, class or distinct portion of people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated. The city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. Rome was originally divided into three tribes; afterward the people were distributed into thirty tribes, and afterwards into thirty five.

3. A number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common; as a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

Linneus distributed the vegetable kingdom into three tribes, viz. monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations.

By recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a division of animals or vegetables, intermediate between order and genus. Cuvier divides his orders into families, and his families into tribes, including under the latter one or more genera. Leach, in his arrangement of insects, makes his tribes, on the contrary, the primary subdivisions of his orders, and his families subordinate to them, and immediately including the genera.

TRIBEs of plants, in gardening, are such as are related to teach other by some natural affinity or resemblance; as by their duration, the annual, biennial, and perennial tribes; by their roots, as the bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous-rooted tribes; by the loss or retention of their leaves, as the deciduous and ever-green tribes; by their fruits and seeds, as the leguminous, bacciferous, coniferous, nuciferous and pomiferous tribes, etc.

4. A division; a number considered collectively.

5. A nation of savages; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as the tribes of the six nations; the Seneca tribe in America.

6. A number of persons of any character or profession; in contempt; as the scribbling tribe

TRIBE, verb transitive To distribute into tribes or classes. [Not much used.]

TRIB'LET

TRIBOM'ETER, noun [Gr. to rub or wear, and measure.] An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction.

TRIB'OULET, noun A goldsmith's tool for making rings.

TRI'BRACH, noun [Gr. three, and short.] In ancient prosody, a poetic foot of three short syllables, as melius.

TRIBRAC'TEATE, adjective Having three bracts about the flower.

TRIBULA'TION, noun [Latin tribulo, to thrash, to beat.] Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution.

When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, he is offended. Matthew 13:21.

In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16:33.

TRIBU'NAL, noun [Latin tribunal from tribunus, a tribune, who administered justice.]

1. Properly, the seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

2. More generally, a court of justice; as, the house of lords in England is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

3. In France, a gallery or eminence in a church or other place, in which the musical performers are placed for a concert.

TRIB'UNARY, adjective [from tribune.] Pertaining to tribunes.

TRIB'UNE, noun [Latin tribunus, from tribus, tribe.]

1. In ancient Rome, 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. These magistrates were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, each of whom commanded a division or legion. In the year of Rome 731, the senate transferred the authority of the tribunes to Augustus and his successors. There were also other officers called tribunes; as tribunes of the treasury, of the horse, of the making of arms, etc.

2. In France, a pulpit or elevated place in the chamber of deputies, where a speaker stands to address the assembly.

TRIB'UNESHIP, noun The office of a tribune.

TRIBUNI'CIAN

TRIBUNI'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to tribunes; as tribunician power or authority.

1. Suiting a tribune.

TRIBUNI'TIAL, a. Pertaining to tribunes; as tribunician power or authority.

TRIB'UTARY, adjective [from tribute.] Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. The republic of Ragusa is tributary to the grand seignor. Many of the powers of Europe are tributary to the Barbary states.

1. Subject; subordinate.

He, to grace his tributary gods--

2. Paid in tribute.

No flatt'ry tunes these tributary lays.

3. Yielding supplies of any thing. The Ohio has many large tributary streams; and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.

TRIB'UTARY, noun One 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. What a reproach to nations that they should be the tributaries of Algiers!

TRIB'UTE, noun [Latin tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.]

1. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty. The Romans made all their conquered countries pay tribute as do the Turks at this day; and in some countries the tribute is paid in children.

2. A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect.

3. Something given or contributed.

CATADIOPTRIC, TRICAL, adjective Reflecting light.

TRICAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin tres, three, and capsula, a little chest.]

In botany, three-capsuled; having three capsules to each flower.

TRICE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to haul and tie up by means of a small rope or line.

TRICE, noun A very short time; an instant; a moment.

If they get never so great spoil at any time, they waste the same in a trice

A man shall make his fortune in a trice

TRICHOT'OMOUS, adjective [See Trichotomy.] Divided into three parts, or divided by threes; as a trichotomous stem.

TRICHOT'OMY, noun [Gr. three, and to cut or divide.] Division into three parts.

TRICK, noun [Latin tricor, to play tricks, to trifle, to baffle. We see the same root in the Low Latin intrico, to fold, and in intrigue. trick is from drawing, that is, a drawing aside, or a folding, interweaving, implication.]

1. An artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception; a fraudful contrivance for an evil purpose, or an underhand scheme to impose upon the world; a cheat or cheating. We hear of tricks in bargains, and tricks of state.

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

2. A dexterous artifice.

On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate.

3. Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth.

4. The sly artifice or legerdemain of a juggler; as the tricks of a merry Andrew.

5. A collection of cards laid together.

6. An unexpected event.

Some trick not worth an egg. [Unusual.]

7. A particular habit or manner; as, he has a trick of drumming with his fingers, or a trick of frowning. [This word is in common use in America, and by no means vulgar.]

TRICK, verb transitive To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

TRICK, verb transitive To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically.

TRICK her off in air.

It is often followed by up, off, or out.

People are lavish in tricking up their children in fine clothes, yet starve their minds.

TRICK, verb intransitive To live by deception and fraud.

TRICK'ED, participle passive Cheated; deceived; dressed.

TRICK'ER

TRICK'ERY, noun The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem.

TRICK'ERY, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem.

TRICK'ING, participle present tense Deceiving; cheating; defrauding.

1. Dressing; decorating.

TRICK'ING, noun Dress; ornament.

TRICK'ISH, adjective Artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

TRICK'LE, verb intransitive [allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.]

To flow in a small gentle stream; to run down; as, tears trickle down the cheek; water trickles from the eaves.

Fast beside there trickled softly down

A gentle stream.

TRICK'LING, participle present tense Flowing down in a small gentle stream.

TRICK'LING, noun The act of flowing in a small gentle stream.

He wakened by the trickling of his blood.

TRICK'MENT, noun Decoration. [Not used.]

TRICK'STER, noun One who tricks; a deceiver; a cheat.

TRICK'ER, noun A trigger. [See Trigger.]

TRICK'SY, adjective [from trick.] Pretty; brisk. [Not much used.]

TRICK'-TRACK, noun A game at tables.

TRICLIN'IARY, adjective [Latin tricliniaris, from triclinium, a couch to recline on at dinner.] Pertaining to a couch for dining, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.

TRICOC'COUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and coccus, a berry.] A tricoccous or three-grained capsule is one which is swelling out in three protuberances, internally divided into three cells, with one seed in each; as in Euphorbia.

TRICOR'PORAL, adjective [Latin tricorpor; tres and corpus.] Having three bodies.

TRICUS'PIDATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and cuspis, a point.]

In botany, three-pointed; ending in three points; as a tricuspidate stamen.

TRIDAC'TYLOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and a toe.] Having three toes.

TRIDE, adjective Among hunters, short and ready; fleet; as a tride pace.

TRI'DENT, noun [Latin tridens; tres, three, and dens, tooth.]

In mythology, a kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, which the fables of antiquity put into the hands of Neptune, the deity of the ocean.

TRI'DENT

TRIDENT'ATE, adjective [Latin tres and dens, tooth.] Having three teeth.

TRI'DENTED, adjective Having three teeth or prongs.

TRIDIAPA'SON, noun [tri and diapason.] In music, a triple octave or twenty second.

TRI'DING. [See Trithing.]

TRIDODECAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. three, and dodecahedral.]

In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each containing twelve faces.

TRID'UAN, adjective [Latin triduum; tres and dies, day.] Lasting three days, or happening every third day. [Little used.]

TRIEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin triennis, triennium; tres, three, and annus, year.]

1. Continuing three years; as triennial parliaments.

2. Happening every three years; as triennial elections. triennial elections and parliaments were established in England in 1695; but these were discontinued in 1717, and septennial elections and parliaments were adopted, which still continue.

TRIEN'NIALLY, adverb Once in three years.

TRI'ER, noun [from try.] One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines any thing by a test or standard.

1. One who tries judicially; a judge who tries a person or cause; a juryman. [See Trior.]

2. A test; that which tries or approves.

TRI'ERARCH, noun [Gr. a trireme, and a chief.] In ancient Greece, the commander of a trireme; also, a commissioner who was obliged to build ships and furnish them at his own expense.

TRIET, adjective [Latin tritus, from tero, to wear.] Worn out; common; used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; as a trite remark; a trite subject.

TRIETER'ICAL, adjective [Latin trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. year.]

Triennial; kept or occurring once in three years. [Little used.]

TRI'FALLOW, verb transitive [Latin tres, three, and fallow.] To plow land the third time before sowing.

TRIF'ID, adjective [Latin trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.]

In botany, divided into three parts by linear sinuses with strait margins; three-cleft.

TRIFIS'TULARY, adjective [Latin tres and fistula, a pipe.] Having three pipes.

TRI'FLE, noun A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character.

With such poor trifles playing.

Moments make the year, and trifles, life.

Trifles

Are to the jealous confirmations strong.

TRI'FLE, verb intransitive To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity.

They trifle and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.

1. To indulge in light amusements.

To trifle with, to mock; to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness.

To trifle with, to spend in vanity; to waste.

To trifle away, to no good purpose; as, to trifle with time, or to trifle away time; to trifle with advantages.

TRI'FLE, verb transitive To make of no importance. [Not in use.]

TRI'FLER, noun One who trifles or acts with levity.

TRI'FLING, participle present tense Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.

1. adjective Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifling debt; a trifling affair.

TRI'FLING, noun Employment about things of no importance.

TRI'FLINGLY, adverb In a trifling manner; with levity; without seriousness or dignity.

TRI'FLINGNESS, noun Levity of manners; lightness.

1. Smallness of value; emptiness; vanity.

TRIF'LOROUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.] Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as a triflorous peduncle.

TRIFO'LIATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and folium, leaf.] Having three leaves.

TRIFO'LIOLATE, adjective Having three folioles.

TRI'FOLY, noun Sweet trefoil. [See Trefoil.]

TRI'FORM, adjective [Latin triformis; tres and forma.] Having a triple form or shape; as the triform countenance of the moon.

TRIG, verb transitive To fill; to stuff. [Not in use.]

1. To stop; as a wheel.

TRIG, adjective Full; trim; neat. [Not in use.]

TRIG'AMY, noun [Gr. three, and marriage.] State of being married tree times; or the state of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

TRIG'GER, noun

1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

2. The catch of a musket or pistol; the part which being pulled, looses the lock for striking fire.

TRIGIN'TALS, noun [Latin triginta.] Trentals; the number of thirty masses to be said for the dead.

TRIG'LYPH, noun [Gr. three, and sculpture.] An ornament in the frieze of the Doric column, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels, cut to a right angle, called glyphs, and separated by three interstices, called femora.

TRIG'ON, noun [Gr. three, and angle.]

1. A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.

2. A kind of triangular lyre or harp.

TRIG'ONAL

TRIGONOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.

TRIGONOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.

TRIGONOMET'RICALLY, adverb According to the rules or principles of trigonometry.

TRIGONOM'ETRY, noun [Gr. a triangle, and to measure.] The measuring of triangles; the science of determining the sides and angles of triangles, by means of certain parts which are given. When this science is applied to the solution of plane triangles, it is called plane trigonometry; when its application is to spherical triangles, it is called spherical trigonometry

TRIG'ONOUS, adjective Triangular; having three angles or corners.

1. In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles.

TRI'GYN, noun [Gr. three, and a female.] In botany, a plant having three pistils.

TRIGYN'IAN, adjective Having three pistils.

TRIHE'DRAL, adjective [See Trihedron.] Having three equal sides.

TRIHE'DRON, noun [Gr. three, and side.] A figure having three equal sides.

TRIJU'GOUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and jugum, yoke.] In botany, having three pairs. A trijugous leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

TRILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin tres, three, and latus, side.] Having three sides.

TRILIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin tres, three, and litera, letter.] Consisting of three letters; as a triliteral root or word.

TRILIT'ERAL, noun A word consisting of three letters.

TRILL, noun A quaver; a shake of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument. [See Shake.]

TRILL, verb transitive To utter with a quavering or tremulousness of voice; to shake.

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.

TRILL, verb intransitive To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

And now and then an ample tear trill'd down

Her delicate cheek.

1. To shake or quaver; to play in tremulous vibrations of sound.

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.

TRILL'ED, participle passive Shaken; uttered with rapid vibrations.

TRILL'ING, participle present tense Uttering with a quavering or shake.

TRILLION, noun tril'yun. [a word formed arbitrarily of three, or Gr. million.] The product of a million multiplied by a million, and that product multiplied by a million; or the product of the square of a million multiplied by a million. Thus 1, 000, 000 x 1, 000, 000=1, 000, 000, 000, 000, and this product multiplied by a million= 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.

TRILO'BATE, adjective [Latin tres and locus.] Having three lobes.

TRILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin tres and locus, a cell.] In botany, three-celled; having three cells for seeds; as a trilocular capsule.

TRILU'MINAR

TRILU'MINOUS, adjective [Latin tres and lumen, light.] Having three lights.

TRILU'MINOUS, a. [L. tres and lumen, light.] Having three lights.

TRIM, adjective Firm; compact; tight; snug; being in good order. We say of a ship, she is trim or trim-built; every thing about the man is trim We say of a person, he is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; and we say, his dress is trim when it sits closely to his body and appears tight and snug; and of posture we say, a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect. It is particularly applicable to soldiers, and in Saxon, truma is a troop or body of soldiers.

TRIM, verb transitive

1. In a general sense, to make right, that is, to put in due order for any purpose.

The hermit trimm'd his little fire.

2. To dress; to put the body in a proper state.

I was trimm'd in Julia's gown.

3. To decorate; to invest or embellish with extra ornaments; as, to trim a gown with lace.

4. To clip, as the hair of the head; also, to shave; that is, to put in due order.

5. To lop, as superfluous branches; to prune; as, to trim trees.

6. To supply with oil; as, to trim a lamp.

7. To make neat; to adjust.

I found her trimming up the diadem

On her dead mistress--

8. In carpentry, to dress, as timber; to make smooth.

9. To adjust the cargo of a ship, or the weight of persons or goods in a boat, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well. Thus we say, to trim a ship or a boat.

10. To rebuke; to reprove sharply; a popular use of the word.

11. To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.

To trim in, in carpentry, to fit, as a piece of timber into other work.

To trip up, to dress; to put in order.

TRIM, verb intransitive To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

TRIM, noun Dress; gear; ornaments.

1. The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

TRIM of the masts, is 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, is that position and arrangement which is best adapted to impel the ship forward.

TRIM'ETER, noun A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.

TRIM'ETER

TRIMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr. three measures.] Consisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six feet.

TRIM'LY, adverb Nicely; neatly; in good order.

TRIM'MED, participle passive Put in good order; dressed; ornamented; clipped; shaved; balanced; rebuked.

TRIM'MER, noun One that trims; a timeserver.

1. A piece of timber fitted in.

All the joists and the trimmers for the staircase--

TRIM'MING, participle present tense Putting in due order; dressing; decorating; pruning; balancing; fluctuating between parties.

TRIM'MING, noun Ornamental appendages to a garment, as lace, ribbons and the like.

TRIM'NESS, noun Neatness; snugness; the state of being close and in good order.

TRI'NAL, adjective [Latin trinus, three.] Threefold.

TRINE, adjective Threefold; as trine dimension, that is, length, breadth and thickness.

TRINE, noun [supra.] In astrology, the aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, forming the figure of a trigon or triangle.

TRINE, verb transitive To put in the aspect of a trine

TRINERV'ATE, adjective [Latin tres and nervus.] In botany, having three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting behind or beyond the base.

TRI'NERVE

TRI'NERVED, adjective In botany, a trinerved or three-nerved leaf, has three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf.

TRI'NERVED, a. In botany, a trinerved or three-nerved leaf, has three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf.

TRIN'GLE, noun In architecture, a little square member or ornament, as a listel, reglet, platband and the like, but particularly a little member fixed exactly over every triglyph.

TRINITA'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to the Trinity, or to the doctrine of the Trinity.

TRINITA'RIAN, noun One who believes the doctrine of the Trinity.

1. One of an order of religious, who made it their business to redeem christians from infidels.

TRIN'ITY, noun [Latin trinitas; tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.]

In theology, the union of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

In my whole essay, there is not any thing like an objection against the trinity

TRINK'ET, noun

1. A small ornament, as a jewel, a ring and the like.

2. A thing of little value; tackle; tools.

TRINO'MIAL, adjective [Latin tres and nomen.] In mathematics, a trinomial root, is a root consisting of three parts, connected by the signs + or -. Thus x+y+z, or a+b-c.

TRINO'MIAL, noun A root of three terms or parts.

TRI'O, noun A concert of three parts; three united.

TRIOB'OLAR, adjective [Latin triobolaris; tres and obolus.] Of the value of three oboli; mean; worthless. [Not used.]

TRIOCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [tri and octahedral.] In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing eight faces.

TRIOC'TILE, noun [Latin tres, three, and octo, eight.] In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are three octants or eight parts of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.

TRI'OR

TRI'ER, noun [from try.] In law, a person appointed by the court to examine whether a challenge to a panel of jurors, or to any juror, is just. The triors are two indifferent persons.

TRIP, verb transitive

1. To supplant; to cause to fall by striking the feet suddenly from under the person; usually followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling; to trip up the heels.

2. To supplant; to overthrow by depriving of support.

3. To catch; to detect.

4. To loose an anchor from the bottom by its cable or buoy-rope.

TRIP, verb intransitive To stumble; to strike the foot against something, so as to lose the step and come near to fall; or to stumble and fall.

1. To err; to fail; to mistake; to be deficient.

Virgil pretends sometimes to trip

TRIP, verb intransitive

1. To run or step lightly; to walk with a light step.

She bounded by and tripp'd so light.

They had not time to take a steady sight.

Thus from the lion trips the trembling doe.

2. To take a voyage or journey.

TRIP, noun A stroke or catch by which a wrestler supplants his antagonist.

And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

1. A stumble by the loss of foot-hold, or a striking of the foot against an object.

2. A failure; a mistake.

Each seeming trip and each digressive start.

3. A journey; or a voyage.

I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.

4. In navigation, a single board in plying to windward.

5. Among farmers, a small flock of sheep, or a small stock of them. [Local.]

TRIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin tripartitus; tres, three, and partitus, divided; partior.]

1. Divided into three parts. In botany, a tripartite leaf is one which is divided into three parts down to the base, but not wholly separate.

2. Having three corresponding parts or copies; as indentures tripartite

TRIPARTI'TION, noun A division by three, or the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

TRIPE, noun

1. Properly, the entrails; but in common usage, the large stomach of ruminating animals, prepared for food.

2. In ludicrous language, the belly.

TRIP'EDAL, adjective [Latin tres and pes.] Having three feet.

TRIPEN'NATE

TRIPER'SONAL, adjective [Latin tres and persona.] Consisting of three persons.

TRIPER'SONAL, a. [L. tres and persona.] Consisting of three persons.

TRIPERSONAL'ITY, noun The state of existing in three persons in one Godhead.

TRIPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-petaled; having three petals or flower leaves.

TRI'PHANE, noun A mineral, spodumene.

TRIPH'THONG, noun [Gr. three, and sound.] A coalition of three vowels in one compound sound, or in one syllable, as in adieu, eye.

TRIPHTHON'GAL, adjective Pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of a triphthong.

TRIPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-leaved; having three leaves.

TRIPIN'NATE, adjective [Latin tres and penna or pinna.] In botany, a tripinnate leaf is a species of superdecompound leaf, when a petiole has bipinnate leaves ranged on each side of it, as in common fern.

TRIP'LE, adjective [Latin triplex, triplus; tres and plico, to fold.]

1. Threefold; consisting of three united; as a triple knot; a triple tie.

By thy triple shape as thou are seen--

2. Treble; three times repeated. [See Treble.]

Triple time, in music, is that in which each bar is divided into three measures or equal parts, as three minims, three crotchets, three quavers, etc.

TRIP'LE, verb transitive To treble; to make threefold or thrice as much or as many. [Usually written treble.]

TRIP'LET, noun [from triple.] Three of a kind, or three united.

1. In poetry, three verses rhyming together.

2. In music, three notes sung or played in the time of two.

TRIP'LICATE, adjective [Latin triplicatus, triplico; tres and plico, to fold.] Made thrice as much; threefold.

Triplicate ratio, is the ratio which cubes bear to each other.

TRIPLICA'TION, noun The act of trebling or making threefold, or adding three together.

1. In the civil law, the same as sur-rejoinder in common law.

TRIPLIC'ITY, noun [Latin triplex.] Trebleness; the state of being threefold.

TRI'POD, noun [Latin tripus, tripodis; Gr. three, and foot.]

A bench, stool or seat supported by three legs, on which the priest and sibyls in ancient times were placed to render oracles.

TRIP'OLI, noun In mineralogy, a mineral originally brought from tripoli used in polishing stones and metals. It has a dull argillaceous appearance, but is not compact. It has a fine hard grain, but does not soften by water, or mix with it. It is principally composed of silex.

TRIP'OLINE, adjective Pertaining to tripoli.

TRI'POS, noun A tripod, which see.

TRIP'PED, participle passive [from trip.] Supplanted.

TRIP'PER, noun One who trips or supplants; one that walks nimbly.

TRIP'PING, participle present tense Supplanting; stumbling; falling; stepping nimbly.

1. adjective Quick; nimble.

TRIP'PING, noun The act of tripping

1. A light dance.

2. The loosing of an anchor from the ground by its cable or buoy-rope.

TRIP'PINGLY, adverb Nimbly; with a light nimble quick step; with agility.

Sing and dance it trippingly

Speak the speech trippingly on the tongue.

TRIP'TOTE, noun [Gr. three, and case.] In grammar, a name having three cases only.

TRIPU'DIARY, adjective [Latin tripudium.] Pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing.

TRIPUDIA'TION, noun [Latin tripudio, to dance.] Act of dancing.

TRIPYR'AMID, noun [Latin tres and pyramis.] In mineralogy, a genus of spars, the body of which is composed of single pyramids, each of three sides, affixed by their base to some solid body.

TRIQUE'TROUS, adjective [Latin triquetrus, from triquetra, a triangle.]

Three-sided; having three plane sides.

TRIRA'DIATED, adjective [Latin tres and radius.] Having three rays.

TRI'REME, noun [Latin triremis; tres and remus.] A galley or vessel with three benches or ranks of oars on a side.

TRIRHOMBOID'AL, adjective [tri and rhomboidal.] Having the form of three rhombs.

TRISACRAMENTA'RIAN, noun [Latin tres, three, and sacrament.]

One of a religious sect who admit of three sacraments and no more.

TRISAG'ION, noun [Gr. three, and holy.] A hymn in which the word holy is repeated three times.

TRISECT', verb transitive [Latin tres, three, and seco, to cut.] To cut or divide into three equal parts.

TRISECT'ED, participle passive Divided into three equal parts.

TRISECT'ING, participle present tense Dividing into three equal parts.

TRISEC'TION, noun [Latin tres and sectio, a cutting.] The division of a thing into three parts; particularly in geometry, the division of an angle into three equal parts.

TRISEP'ALOUS, adjective In botany, having three sepals to a calyx.

TRIS'PAST

TRISPAS'TON, noun [Gr. to draw.] In mechanics, a machine with three pulleys for raising great weights.

TRISPAS'TON, n. [Gr. to draw.] In mechanics, a machine with three pulleys for raising great weights.

TRISPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. three, and seed.] Three-seeded; containing three seeds; as a trispermous capsule.

TRIST

TRIST'FUL, adjective [Latin tristis, sad.] Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Not used.]

TRISULC', noun [Latin trisulcus.] Something having three points. [Not in use.]

TRISYLLAB'IC

TRISYLLAB'ICAL, adjective [from trisyllable.] Pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as a trisyllabic word or root.

TRISYLLAB'ICAL, a. [from trisyllable.] Pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as a trisyllabic word or root.

TRISYL'LABLE, noun [Latin tres, three, and syllaba, syllable.] A word consisting of three syllables.

TRI'TELY, adverb In a common manner.

TRI'TENESS, noun Commonness; staleness; a state of being worn out; as the triteness of an observation or a subject.

TRITERN'ATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and ternate.] Having three biternate leaves, or the divisions of a triple petiole subdivided into threes; a species of superdecompound leaf.

TRITHE'ISM, noun The opinion or doctrine that there are three Gods in the Godhead.

TRITHE'IST, noun One who believes that there are three distinct Gods in the Godhead, that is, three distinct substances, essences of hypostases.

TRITHEIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to tritheism.

TRITHE'ITE, noun A tritheist.

TRI'THING, noun [from three.] One of the divisions of the county of York in England, which is divided into three parts. It is now called Riding.

TRIT'ICAL, adjective [from trite.] Trite; common. [Not in use.]

TRIT'ICALNESS, noun Triteness. [Not used.]

TRI'TON, noun In mythology, a fabled sea demi-god, supposed to be the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as half man and half fish.

1. A genus of the molluscal order of worms.

2. A bird of the West Indies, famous for its notes.

TRI'TONE, noun [Latin tres and tonus.] In music, a false concord, consisting of three tones, two major and one minor tone, or of two tones and two semitones; a dissonant interval.

TRITOX'YD, noun [Gr. third, and oxyd.] In chimistry, a substance oxydized in the third degree.

TRIT'URABLE, adjective [See Triturate.] Capable of being reduced to a fine powder by pounding, rubbing or grinding.

TRIT'URATE, verb transitive [Latin trituro, from tritus, tero, to wear.] To rub or grind to a very fine powder, and properly to a finer powder than that made by pulverization.

TRIT'URATED, participle passive Reduced to a very fine powder.

TRIT'URATING, participle present tense Grinding or reducing to a very fine powder.

TRITURA'TION, noun The act of reducing to a fine powder by grinding.

TRI'TURE, noun A rubbing or grinding. [Not used.]

TRITU'RIUM, noun A vessel for separating liquors of different densities.

TRI'UMPH, noun [Latin triumphus.]

1. Among the ancient Romans, a pompous ceremony performed in honor of a victorious general, who was allowed to enter the city crowned, originally with laurel, but in later times with gold, bearing a truncheon in one hand and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a chariot drawn by two white horses, and followed by the kings, princes and generals whom he had vanquished, loaded with chains and insulted by mimics and buffoons. The triumph was of two kinds, the greater and the less. The lesser triumph was granted for a victory over enemies of less considerable power, and was called an ovation.

2. State of being victorious.

Hercules from Spain

Arriv'd in triumph from Geryon slain.

3. Victory; conquest.

The vain coquets the trifling triumphs boast.

4. Joy or exultation for success.

Great triumph and rejoicing was in heav'n.

5. A card that takes all others; now written trump, which see.

TRI'UMPH, verb intransitive To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory.

How long shall the wicked triumph? Psalms 94:3.

1. To obtain victory.

There fix thy faith, and triumph o'er the world.

Attir'd with stars, we shall forever sit

Triumphing over death.

2. In insult upon an advantage gained.

Let not my enemies triumph over me. Psalms 25:2.

Sorrow on all the pack of you

That triumph thus upon my misery.

3. To be prosperous; to flourish.

Where commerce triumph'd on the favoring gales.

triumph over, to succeed in overcoming; to surmount; as, to triumph over all obstacles.

TRIUMPH'AL, adjective [Latin triumphalis.] Pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; as a triumphal crown or car; a triumphal arch.

TRIUMPH'AL, noun A token of victory.

TRIUMPH'ANT, adjective [Latin triumphans.] Celebrating victory; as a triumphant chariot.

1. Rejoicing as for victory.

Successful beyond hope to lead you forth

Triumphant out of this infernal pit.

2. Victorious; graced with conquest.

So shall it be in the church triumphant

Athena, war's triumphant maid--

3. Celebrating victory; expressing joy for success; as a triumphant song.

TRIUMPH'ANTLY, adverb In a triumphant manner; with the joy and exultation that proceeds from victory or success.

Through armed ranks triumphantly she drives.

1. Victoriously; with success.

Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin.

2. With insolent exultation.

TRI'UMPHER, noun One who triumphs or rejoices for victory; one who vanquishes.

1. One who was honored with a triumph in Rome.

TRI'UMPHING, participle present tense Celebrating victory with pomp; vanquishing; rejoicing for victory; insulting on an advantage.

TRI'UMVIR, noun [Latin tres, three, and vir, man.] One of three men united in office. The triumvirs, Latin triumviri, of Rome, were three men who jointly obtained the sovereign power in Rome. The first of these were Caesar, Crassus and Pompey.

TRIUM'VIRATE, adjective A coalition of three men; particularly, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.

1. Government by three men in coalition.

TRI'UNE, adjective [Latin tres and unus.] Three in one; an epithet applied to God, to express the unity of the Godhead in a trinity of persons.

TRIU'NITY, noun Trinity. [Not used.]

TRIVALV'ULAR, adjective Three-valved; having three valves.

TRIV'ANT, noun A truant.

TRIVERB'IAL, adjective [Latin triverbium.] triverbial days, in the Roman calendar, were juridical or court days, days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes; called also dies fasti. There were only twenty eight in the year.

TRIV'ET, noun A three legged stool. [See Trevet.]

TRIV'IAL, adjective [Latin trivialis; probably from Gr.; Latin tero, trivi, to wear, or from trivium, a highway.]

1. Trifling; of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; as a trivial subject; a trivial affair.

2. Worthless; vulgar.

Trivial name, in natural history, the common name for the species, which added to the generic name forms the complete denomination of the species; the specific name. Thus in Lathyrus aphaca, Lathyrus is the generic name, and aphaca the trivial or specific name, and the two combined form the complete denomination of the species. Linne at first applied the term specific name to the essential character of the species, now called the specific definition or difference; but it is now applied solely to the trivial name.

TRIVIAL'ITY, noun Trivialness. [Not much used.]

TRIV'IALLY, adverb Commonly; vulgarly.

1. Lightly; inconsiderably; in a trifling degree.

TRIV'IALNESS, noun Commonness.

1. Lightness; unimportance.

TROAT, verb intransitive To cry, as a buck in rutting time.

TROAT, noun The cry of a buck in rutting time.

TRO'CAR, noun A surgical instrument for tapping dropsical persons and the like.

TROCHA'IC

TROCHA'ICAL, adjective [See Trochee.] In poetry, consisting of trochees; as trochaic measure or verse.

TROCHAN'TER, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, the trochanters are two processes of the thigh bone, called major and minor, the major on the outside, and the minor on the inside.

TRO'CHE, noun [Gr. a wheel.] A form of medicine in a cake or tablet, or a stiff paste cut into proper portions and dried. It is made by mixing the medicine with sugar and the mucilage of gum tragacanth, intended to be gradually dissolved in the mouth and slowly swallowed, as a demulcent to sheath the epiglottis, and as a remedy for the bronchocele.

TRO'CHEE, noun [Latin trochoeus.] In verse, a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.

TRO'CHIL, noun [Latin trochilus; Gr. to run.]

1. An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile's mouth.

2. A name given to the golden crowned wren.

3. In zoology, the humming bird or honeysucker, a kind of beautiful little birds, natives of America.

4. In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.

TROCHIL'IC, adjective Having power to draw out or turn round.

TROCHIL'ICS, noun [Latin trochilus.] The science of rotary motion.

TRO'CHILUS

TRO'CHINGS, noun The small branches on the top of a deer's head.

TRO'CHISCH, noun [Gr.] A kind of tablet or lozenge.

TRO'CHITE, noun [Latin trochus; Gr. to run.]

1. In natural history, a kind of figured fossil stone, resembling parts of plants, called St. Cuthbert's beads. These stones are usually of a brownish color; they break like spar, and are easily dissolved in vinegar. Their figure is generally cylindrical, sometimes a little tapering. Two, three or more of these joined, constitute an entrochus.

2. Fossil remains of the shells called trochus.

TROCH'LEA, noun [Latin a pulley, from Gr. to run.] A pulley-like cartilage, through which the tendon of the trochleary muscle passes.

TROCH'LEARY, adjective [from Latin trochlea.] Pertaining to the trochlea; as the trochleary muscle, the superior oblique muscle of the eye; the trochleary nerve, the pathetic nerve, which goes to that muscle.

TRO'CHOID, noun [Latin trochus, to run.] In geometry, a curve generated by the motion of a wheel; the cycloid.

TROD, preterit tense of tread.

TROD

TRODDEN, participle passive of tread.

Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles. Luke 21:24.

TRODE, old preterit tense of tread.

TRODE, noun Tread; footing.

TROG'LODYTE, noun [Gr. a cavern, and to enter.] The Troglodytes were a people of Ethiopia, represented by the ancients as living in caves, about whom we have many fables.

TROLL, verb transitive To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.

They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.

TROLL about the bridal bow.

TROLL, verb intransitive To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.

1. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.

TROLLED, participle passive Rolled; turned about.

TROLLING, participle present tense Rolling; turning; driving about; fishing with a rod and reel.

TROL'LOP, noun A stroller; a loiterer; a woman loosely dressed; a slattern.

TROLLOPEE', noun Formerly, a loose dress for females.

TROL'MYDAMES, noun The game of nine-holes.

TROMP, noun [See Trumpet.] A blowing machine formed of a hollow tree, used in furnaces.

TROMP'IL, noun An aperture in a tromp.

TRON'AGE, noun Formerly, a toll or duty paid for weighing wool.

TRONA'TOR, noun An officer in London, whose business was to weigh wool.

TRON'CO, noun [Latin truncus.] A term in Italian music, directing a note or sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.

TRONE, noun A provincial word in some parts of England for a small drain.

TROOP, noun

1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. Genesis 49:19. 2 Samuel 23:11. Hosea 7.

That which should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

I must not look to have.

2. A body of soldiers. But applied to infantry, it is now used in the plural, troops, and this word signifies soldiers in general, whether more or less numerous, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. We apply the word to a company, a regiment or an army. The captain ordered his troops to halt; the colonel commanded his troops to wheel and take a position on the flank; the general ordered his troops to attack; the troops of France amounted to 400, 000 men.

3. troop in the singular, a small body or company of cavalry, light horse or dragoons, commanded by a captain.

4. A company of stage-players.

TROOP, verb intransitive To collect in numbers.

Armies at the call of trumpet,

TROOP to their standard.

1. To march in a body.

I do not, as an enemy to peace,

TROOP in the throngs of military men.

2. To march in haste or in company.

TROOP'ER, noun A private or soldier in a body of cavalry; a horse soldier.

TROOP'ING, participle present tense Moving together in a crowd; marching in a body.

TROPE, noun [Latin tropus; Gr. to turn.] In rhetoric, a word or expression used in a different sense from that which it properly signifies; or a word changed from its original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea, as when we call a stupid fellow an ass, or a shrewd man a fox.

TROPEs are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figure 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.

TRO'PHIED, adjective [from trophy.] Adorned with trophies.

--The trophied arches, storied halls invade.

TRO'PHY, noun [Latin tropoeum.]

1. Among the ancients, a pile of arms taken from a vanquished enemy, raised on the field of battle by the conquerors; also, the representation of such a pile in marble, on medals and the like; or according to others, trophies were trees planted in conspicuous places of the conquered provinces, and hung with the spoils of the enemy, in memory of the victory. Hence,

2. Any thing taken and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards and the like, taken from an enemy.

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.

3. In architecture, an ornament representing the stem of a tree, charged or encompassed with arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

4. Something that is evidence of victory; memorial of conquest.

Present every hearer to Christ as a trophy of grace.

TROP'IC, noun [Latin tropicus; from Gr. a turning; to turn.]

1. In astronomy, a circle of the sphere drawn through a solstitial point, parallel to the equator; or the line which bounds the sun's declination from the equator, north or south. This declination is twenty-three degrees and a half nearly. There are two tropics; the tropic of Cancer, on the north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn on the south.

2. Tropics, in geography, are two lesser circles of the globe, drawn parallel to the equator through the beginning of Cancer and of Capricorn.

TROP'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; as tropical climates; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical winds.

1. Incident to the tropics; as tropical diseases.

2. [from trope.] Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.

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.

Tropical writing or hieroglyphic, is such as represents a thing by qualities which resemble it.

TROP'ICALLY, adverb In a tropical or figurative manner.

TRO'PIST, noun [from trope.] One who explains the Scriptures by tropes and figures of speech; one who deals in tropes.

TROPOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Tropology.] Varied by tropes; changed from the original import of the words.

TROPOL'OGY, noun [Gr. trope, and discourse.] A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or change from the original import of the word.

TROSS'ERS, noun Trowsers. [Not used.] [See Trowsers.]

TROT, verb intransitive

1. To move faster than in walking, as a horse or other quadruped, by lifting one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time.

2. To walk or move fast; or to run.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.

TROT, noun The pace of a horse or other quadruped, when he lifts one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time. This pace is the same as that of a walk, but more rapid. The trot is often a jolting hard motion, but in some horses, it is as easy as the amble or pace, and has a more stately appearance.

1. An old woman; in contempt.

TROTH, noun

1. Belief; faith; fidelity; as, to plight one's troth

2. Truth; verity; veracity; as in troth; by my troth

TROTH'LESS, adjective Faithless; treacherous.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, verb transitive To betroth or affiance.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, adjective Betrothed; espoused; affianced.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, noun The act of betrothing or plighting faith.

TROT'TER, noun A beast that trots, or that usually trots.

1. A sheep's foot.

TROT'TING, participle present tense Moving with a trot; walking fast, or running.

TROUBLE, verb transitive trub'l. [Latin turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn. The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in Latin turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind. Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.

1. To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.

God looking forth will trouble all his host.

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John 5:4.

2. To disturb; to perplex.

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.

3. To afflict; to grieve; to distress.

Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved. Psalms 13:4.

4. To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.

Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things. Luke 10:41.

5. To tease; to vex; to molest.

The boy so troubles me,

'Tis past enduring.

6. To give occasion for labor to. I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. I will not trouble myself in this affair.

7. To sue for a debt. He wishes not to trouble his debtors.

TROUBLE, noun trub'l. Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.

1. Affliction; calamity.

He shall deliver thee in six troubles. Job 5:6.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Psalms 25:17.

2. Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance.

Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.

3. Uneasiness; vexation.

4. That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.

TROUBLED, participle passive trub'ld. Disturbed; agitated; afflicted; annoyed; molested.

TROUBLER, noun trub'ler. One who disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as a troubler of the peace.

The rich troublers of the world's repose.

TROUBLESOME, adjective trub'lsome. Giving trouble or disturbance; molesting; annoying; vexatious. In warm climates, insects are very troublesome

1. Burdensome; tiresome; wearisome.

My mother will never be troublesome to me.

2. Giving inconvenience to. I wish not to be troublesome as a guest.

3. Teasing; importunate; as a troublesome applicant.

TROUBLESOMELY, adverb trub'lsomely. In a manner or degree to give trouble; vexatiously.

TROUBLESOMENESS, noun trub'lsomeness.

1. Vexatiousness; the quality of giving trouble or of molesting.

2. Unseasonable intrusion; importunity.

TROUBLING, participle present tense trub'ling. Disturbing; agitating; molesting; annoying; afflicting.

TROUBLING, noun trub'ling. The act of disturbing or putting in commotion. John 5:4.

1. The act of afflicting.

TROUBLOUS, adjective trub'lus. Agitated; tumultuous; full of commotion.

A tall ship toss'd in troublous seas.

1. Full of trouble or disorder; tumultuous; full of affliction.

The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Daniel 9:25.

TROUGH, noun trauf.

1. A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.

2. A tray. [This is the same word dialectically altered.]

3. A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.

4. The channel that conveys water, as in mills.

The trough of the sea, the hollow between waves.

TROUL, for troll. [See Troll.]

TROUNCE, verb transitive trouns. To punish, or to beat severely. [A low word.]

TROUSE, noun trooz. [See Trowsers.] A kind of trowsers worn by children.

TROUT, noun [Latin trutta.] A river fish of the genus Salmo, variegated with spots, and esteemed as most delicate food.

TRO'VER, noun trover is properly the finding of any thing. Hence,

1. In law, the gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

2. An action which a man has against another who has found or obtained possession of any of his goods, and who refuses to deliver them on demand. This is called an action of trover and conversion. In this case, the trover or finding is an immaterial fact, but the plaintiff must prove his own property, and the possession and conversion of the goods by the defendant.

TROW, verb intransitive To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

TROW, is used in the imperative, as a word of inquiry. What means the fool, trow?

TROW'EL, noun [Latin trulla.]

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 trowel made of iron and scooped; used in taking up plants and for other purposes.

TROWS'ERS, noun plural s as z. A loose garment worn by males, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering the lower limbs.

TROY

TROY-WEIGHT, noun The weight by which gold and silver, jewels, etc. are weighed. In this weight, 20 grains = a scruple, 3 scruples = a dram, 8 drams = an ounce, and 12 ounces = one pound.

TRU'ANT, adjective Idle; wandering from business; loitering; as a truant boy.

While truant Jove, in infant price,

Play'd barefoot on Olympus'side.

TRU'ANT, noun An idler; an idle boy.

TRU'ANT. verb intransitive To idle away time; to loiter or be absent from employment.

TRU'ANTLY, adverb Like a truant; an idleness.

TRU'ANTSHIP, noun Idleness; neglect of employment.

TRUBS, noun An herb.

TRUB'TAIL, noun A short squat woman.

TRUCE, noun

1. In war, a suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders; a temporary cessation of hostilities, either for negotiation or other purpose.

2. Intermission of action, pain or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.

There he may find

TRUCE to his restless thoughts.

TRUCH'MAN, noun An interpreter. [See Dragoman.]

TRUCIDA'TION, noun [Latin trucido, to kill.] The act of killing.

TRUCK, verb intransitive [Latin trochus, a round thing; Eng. truck ] To exchange commodities; to barter. Our traders truck with the Indians, giving them whiskey and trinkets for skins. [Truck is now vulgar.]

TRUCK, verb transitive To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. [Vulgar.]

TRUCK, noun Permutation; exchange of commodities; barter.

1. A small wooden wheel not bound with iron; a cylinder.

2. A small wheel; hence trucks, a low carriage for carrying goods, stone, etc. Indeed this kind of carriage is often called a truck in the singular.

TRUCK'AGE, noun The practice of bartering goods.

TRUCK'ER, noun One who traffics by exchange of goods.

TRUCK'ING, participle present tense Exchanging goods; bartering.

TRUCK'LE, noun A small wheel or caster.

TRUCK'LE, verb intransitive [dim. of truck.] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. Small states must truckle to large ones.

Religion itself is forced to truckle with worldly policy.

TRUCK'LING, participle present tense Yielding obsequiously to the will of another.

TRU'CULENCE, noun [Latin truculentia, from trux, fierce, savage.]

1. Savageness of manners; ferociousness.

2. Terribleness of countenance.

TRU'CULENT, adjective Fierce; savage; barbarous; as the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.

1. Of a ferocious aspect.

2. Cruel; destructive; as a truculent plague.

TRUDGE, verb intransitive To travel on foot. The father rode; the son trudged on behind.

1. To travel or march with labor.

--And trudg'd to Rome upon my naked feet.

TRUEBORN, adjective [true and born.] Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as a true born Englishman.