TA Ta, v. t. (continued 11)

TOXOTES Tox"o*tes, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

TOY Toy, n. Etym: [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. zuic, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v.t.; cf.G. zeugen to beget, MHG.ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]

1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.

2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion. To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser. What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau. &Fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

6. Etym: [Probably the same word.]

Defn: A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; — called also toy mutch. [Scot.] "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid." Sir W. Scott.

TOY Toy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. toyed; p. pr. & vb. n. toying.]

Defn: To dally amorously; to trifle; to play. To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. Shak.

TOY Toy, v. t.

Defn: To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).

TOYEAR To*year, adv. Etym: [To, prep. + year. ]

Defn: This year. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOYER Toy"er, n.

Defn: One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

TOYFUL Toy"ful, a.

Defn: Full of trifling play. [Obs.] Donne.

TOYHOUSE Toy"house`, n.

Defn: A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

TOYINGLY Toy"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a toying manner.

TOYISH Toy"ish, a

1. Sportive; trifling; wanton.

2. Resembling a toy. —Toy"ish*ly, dv.-Toy"ish*ness, n.

TOYMAN Toy"man, n.

Defn: One who deals toys.

TOYSHOP Toy"shop`, n.

Defn: A shop where toys are sold.

TOYSOME Toy"some, a.

Defn: Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

TOZE Toze, v. t.

Defn: To pull violently; to touse. [Obs.]

TOZY To"zy, a. Etym: [See Toze ]

Defn: Soft, like wool that has been teased. — To"zi*ness, n.

TRABEA Tra"be*a, n.; pl. Trabeæ. Etym: [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. — worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Dr. W. Smith.

TRABEATED Tra"be*a`ted, a. (Arch.)

Defn: Furnished with an entablature.

TRABEATION Tra`be*a"tion, n. Etym: [L.trabs, trabis, a beam, a timber.] (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Entablature.

TRABECULA Tra*bec"u*la, n.; pl. Trabeculæ (-le). Etym: [L., a little beam.] (Anat.)

Defn: A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

TRABECULAR Tra*bec"u*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculæ; composed of trabeculæ.

TRABECULATE Tra*bec"u*late, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.

TRABU Tra"bu, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Trubu.

TRACE Trace, n. Etym: [F.trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.]

Defn: One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

TRACE Trace, n. Etym: [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ]

1. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.

2. (Chem.&Min.)

Defn: A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige. The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. Pope.

4. (Descriptive Geom.&Persp.)

Defn: The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

5. (Fort.)

Defn: The ground plan of a work or works. Syn.-Vestige; mark; token. See Vestige.

TRACE Trace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] Etym: [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]

1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. Hawthorne.

2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of. How all the way the prince on footpace traced. Spenser.

4. To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. Denham.

5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. We do tracethis alley up and down. Shak.

TRACE Trace, v. i.

Defn: To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.] Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser.

TRACEABLE Trace"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being traced. — Trace"a*ble*ness, n. — Trace"a/bly, adv.

TRACER Tra"cer, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, traces.

TRACERY Tra"cery, n.; pl. Traceries ( (Arch.)

Defn: Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: — (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window.

Note: Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate of stone. Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the mullions. Window tracery is imitated in many decorative objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or in relief. See also Stump tracery under Stump, and Fan tracery under Fan. (b) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

TRACHEA Tra"che*a, n.; pl. Tracheæ. Etym: [NL.,from L. trachia, Gr. trachei^a (sc. trachée.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

2. (Zoöl.)

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

3. (Bot.)

Defn: One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.

TRACHEAL Tra"che*al, a. Etym: [Cf.F.tracheal.]

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

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

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

TRACHEARY Tra"che*a*ry, a.

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

Defn: One of the Trachearia.

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

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

TRACHEATE Tra"che*ate, a. (Zoöl.)

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

TRACHEATE Tra"che*ate, n. (Zoöl.)

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

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

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

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

Defn: Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

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

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

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

Defn: One of the Trachelipoda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRACHINOID Tra"chi*noid, a. (Zoöl.)

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

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

Defn: Tracheitis.

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

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

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

Defn: Rough-fruited. Gray.

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

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

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

Defn: Rough-seeded. Gray.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRACING Tra"cing, n.

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

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

TRACK Track, n. Etym: [OF.trac track of horses, mules, trace of animals; of Teutonic origin; cf.D.trek a drawing, trekken to draw, travel, march, MHG. trechen, pret. trach. Cf. Trick.]

1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel. The bright track of his fiery car. Shak.

2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint. Far from track of men. Milton.

3. (Zoöl.)

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

4. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden.

5. Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect.

7. (Raolroad)

Defn: The permanent way; the rails.

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

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

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

Defn: To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses. Macaulay.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

TRACKAGE Track"age, n.

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

TRACKER Track"er, n.

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

2. (Mus.)

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

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

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

TRACKLESS Track"less, a.

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

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

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

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

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

TRACK-ROAD Track"-road`, n.

Defn: A towing path.

TRACKSCOUT Track"scout, n.

Defn: See Trackschuyt.

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

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

TRACKWAY Track"way`, n.

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

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

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

TRACT Tract, n. Etym: [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due to confusion with track. See Trace,v., and cf. Tratt.]

1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell." Milton.

2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrowtract of earth. Addison.

3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.] The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. Bacon.

4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] Dryden.

5. Track; trace. [Obs.] Efface all tract of its traduction. Sir T. Browne. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. Shak.

6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] Shak.

7. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. [Obs.] Older.

8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time." Milton.

9. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter;-so called because sung tractim,or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.

Syn. — Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.

TRACT Tract, v. t.

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

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

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

TRACTABLE Tract"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See Treat, v. t.]

1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak.

2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. —Tract"a*ble*ness, n. — Tract"a/bly, adv.

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

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

TRACTARIAN Trac*ta"ri*an, a.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRACTILITY Trac*til"i*ty, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRACTIONAL Trac"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of or relating to traction.

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

TRACTITE Tract"ite, n.

Defn: A Tractarian.

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

Defn: Treating of; handling. [R.]

TRACTIVE Tract"ive, a.

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

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

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

2. pl. (Med.)

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

TRACTORATION Trac`to*ra"tion, n.

Defn: See Perkinism.

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

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

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

Defn: A tractrix.

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

Defn: A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; — so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

TRAD Trad, obs.

Defn: imp. of Tread. Chaucer.

TRADE Trade, n. Etym: [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See Tread, n. & v.]

1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. Shak.

3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us Shak.

4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water.

5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. Shak.

6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. Dryden.

7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

8. pl.

Defn: The trade winds.

9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.]

Syn. — Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board. — Trade dollar. See under Dollar. — Trade price, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. Trade sale, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers. — Trade wind, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; — so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade.

Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather.

TRADE Trade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n. Trading.]

1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. Arbuthnot.

2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; — usually followed by with. How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth Shak.

TRADE Trade, v. t.

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

TRADE Trade, obs.

Defn: imp. of Tread.

TRADED Trad"ed, a.

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

TRADEFUL Trade"ful, a.

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

TRADELESS Trade"less, a.

Defn: Having no trade or traffic. Young.

TRADE-MARK Trade"-mark`, n.

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

TRADE NAME Trade name.

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

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

TRADER Trad"er, n.

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

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

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

Defn: A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

TRADESFOLK Trades"folk`, n.

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

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

1. One who trades; a shopkeeper.

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

TRADESPEOPLE Trades"peo`ple, n.

Defn: People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRADING Trad"ing, a.

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

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

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

TRADITION Tra*di"tion, n. Etym: [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.]

1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.

2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

3. Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed. Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.

4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. Mark vii. 13.

(b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15. Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; — so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.

TRADITION Tra*di"tion, v. t.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: In a traditional manner.

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

Defn: By tradition.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: One who adheres to tradition.

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

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

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

Defn: A deliverer; — a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

TRADUCE Tra*duce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traduced; p. pr. & vb. n. Traducing.] Etym: [L. traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere. See Duke.]

1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.

2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.

3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.] From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. Sir M. Hale.

4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.

5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.

6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.

Syn. — To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.

TRADUCEMENT Tra*duce"ment, n.

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

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

Defn: Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

TRADUCER Tra*du"cer, n.

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

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

TRADUCIAN Tra*du"cian, n.

Defn: A believer in traducianism.

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

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

TRADUCIBLE Tra*du"ci*ble, a.

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

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

TRADUCINGLY Tra*du"cing*ly, adv.

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

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

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

TRADUCT Tra*duct", n.

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

TRADUCTION Tra*duc"tion, n. Etym: [L. traductio a transferring: cf. F. traduction translation. See Traduce.]

1. Transmission from one to another. [Obs.] Traditional communication and traduction of truths. Sir M. Hale.

2. Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]

3. Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.] If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. Dryden.

4. The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.

5. Transition. [Obs.] Bacon.

6. (Logic)

Defn: A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. Jevons.

TRADUCTIVE Tra*duc"tive, a.

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

TRAFFIC Traf"fic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking.] Etym: [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp. traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. übermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. Vicar).]

1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

TRAFFIC Traf"fic, v. t.

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

TRAFFIC Traf"fic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp. tráfico, tráfago, Pg. tráfego, LL. traficum, trafica. See Traffic, v.]

1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. A merchant of great traffic through the world. Shak. The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. Macaulay.

Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.

2. Commodities of the market. [R.] You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. Gay.

3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. — Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.

TRAFFICABLE Traf"fic*a*ble, a.

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

TRAFFICKER Traf"fick*er, n.

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

TRAFFICLESS Traf"fic*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of traffic, or trade.

TRAFFIC MILE Traf"fic mile. (Railroad Accounting)

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. An actor or player in tragedy. Shak.

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

Defn: A woman who plays in tragedy.

TRAGEDIOUS Tra*ge"di*ous, a.

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

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

1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. Jer. Taylor. tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. Coleridge.

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

TRAGIC; TRAGICAL Trag"ic, Trag"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. tragicus, Gr.tragique.]

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

2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. Why look you still so stern and tragical Shak. — Trag"ic*al*ly, adv. — Trag"ic*al*ness, n.

TRAGIC Trag"ic, n.

1. A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]

2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]

TRAGI-COMEDY Trag`i-com"e*dy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tragicomédie, L. tragicocomoedia. See Tragic, and Comedy.]

Defn: A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy. The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure." Macaulay.

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

Defn: Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. — Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

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

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

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

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

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

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

T RAIL T" rail`.

Defn: See under T.

TRAIL Trail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trailing.] Etym: [OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also, to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, F. trailler to trail a fishing line; probably from a derivative of L. trahere to draw; cf. L. traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small sledge, Sp. trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the ground, D. treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope for drawing a boat. See Trace, v. t.]

1. To hunt by the track; to track. Halliwell.

2. To draw or drag, as along the ground. And hung his head, and trailed his legs along. Dryden. They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast. Milton. Long behind he trails his pompous robe. Pope.

3. (Mil.)

Defn: To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.

5. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon. [Prov. Eng.] I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance. C. Bronte.

TRAIL Trail, v. i.

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

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

TRAIL Trail, n.

1. A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

2. A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.

3. Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. When lightning shoots in glittering trails along. Rowe.

4. Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train. "A radiant trail of hair." Pope.

5. Anything drawn along, as a vehicle. [Obs.]

6. A frame for trailing plants; a trellis. [Obs.]

7. The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; — applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep. The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish. Baird.

8. (Mil.)

Defn: That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.

9. The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition. [Prov. Eng.] Trail boards (Shipbuilding), the carved boards on both sides of the cutwater near the figurehead. — Trail net, a net that is trailed or drawn behind a boat. Wright.

TRAILER Trail"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, trails.

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

TRAILING Trail"ing,

Defn: a. & vb. n. from Trail. Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus. — Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. — Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.

TRAILING EDGE Trail"ing edge. (Aëronautics)

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

TRAIL ROPE Trail rope. (Aëronautics)

Defn: Same as Guide rope, above.

TRAIN Train, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] Etym: [OF. trahiner, traïner,F. traîner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.]

1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.

2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. Shak. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford.

3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.

4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

5. (Hort.)

Defn: To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey.

6. (Mining)

Defn: To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. — To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.

TRAIN Train, v. i.

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

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

TRAIN Train, n. Etym: [F. train, OF. traïn, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. traine. See Train, v.]

1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.

2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. Spenser.

3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : — (a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. (b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. (c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.

4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. The king's daughter with a lovely train. Addison. My train are men of choice and rarest parts. Shak.

5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." I. Watts. The train of ills our love would draw behind it. Addison. Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. Milton. Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. Locke.

6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. Swift.

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

8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.

9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.

10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

11. (Rolling Mill)

Defn: A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. — Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; — called also mile run. — Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). — Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. — Train road, a slight railway for small cars, — used for construction, or in mining. — Train tackle (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out.

Syn. — Cars. — Train, Cars. Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars.

TRAINABLE Train"a*ble, a.

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

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

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

TRAINBEARER Train"bear`er, n.

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

TRAIN DISPATCHER Train dispatcher.

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

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

Defn: A dragnet. [Obs.] Holland.

TRAINER Train"er, n.

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

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

TRAINING Train"ing, n.

Defn: The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. — Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. — Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. — Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] — Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

Syn. — See Education.

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

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

TRAINY Train"y, a.

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

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

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

TRAIS; TRAYS Trais, Trays, n. pl.

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

TRAIT Trait, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See Trace, v., and cf. Tract a region, Trace a strap, Tret.]

1. A stroke; a touch. By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. Broome.

2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

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

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

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

TRAITOR Trai"tor, n. Etym: [OE. traitour, OF. traïtor, traïteur, F. treître, L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date time, and cf. Betray,Tradition, Traditor, Treason.]

1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason. O passing traitor, perjured and unjust! Shak.

2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." Chaucer.

TRAITOR Trai"tor, a.

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

TRAITOR Trai"tor, v. t.

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

TRAITORESS Trai"tor*ess, n.

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

TRAITORLY Trai"tor*ly, a.

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

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

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

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

TRAITORY Trai"tor*y, n.

Defn: Treachery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

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

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

Defn: To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.

TRAJECT Traj"ect, n. Etym: [L. trajectus, fr. trajicere: cf. F. trajet, OF. traject. See Traject, v. t.]

1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

2. The act of trajecting; trajection.

3. A trajectory. [R.] I. Taylor.

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

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

2. Transposition. [R.] Knatchbull.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRALATITIOUS Tral`a*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.]

1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.

2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.

TRALATITIOUSLY Tral`a*ti"tious*ly

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

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

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

TRALUCENCY Tra*lu"cen*cy, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. One of the rails of a tramway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRAMMEL Tram"mel, n. Etym: [F. tramail, trémail, a net, LL. tremaculum, tremacle, a kind of net for taking fish; L. tres three + macula a mesh. See Three, and Mail armor.]

1. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. Carew.

2. A net for confining a woman's hair. Spenser.

3. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

4. Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract. Jeffrey.

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

6. (Mech.) (a) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil. (b) A beam compass. See under Beam.

TRAMMEL Tram"mel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trammeled or Trammelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trammeling, or Trammelling.]

1. To entangle, as in a net; to catch. [R.] Shak.

2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

TRAMMELED Tram"meled, a. (Man.)

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

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

1. One who uses a trammel net. Nares.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane.

TRAMONTANE Tra*mon"tane, n.

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

TRAMP Tramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tramped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramping.] Etym: [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v. i., Tread.]

1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.]

3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.] Jamieson.

TRAMP Tramp, v. i.

Defn: To travel; to wander; to stroll.

TRAMP Tramp, n.

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

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

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

4. A tool for trimming hedges.

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

TRAMPER Tramp"er, n.

Defn: One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

TRAMPLE Tram"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling.] Etym: [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.]

1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

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

TRAMPLE Tram"ple, v. i.

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

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

TRAMPLE Tram"ple, n.

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

TRAMPLER Tram"pler, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRAMWAY Tram"way`, n.

1. Same as Tramroad.

2. A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

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

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

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

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

2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy. And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.

3. (Med.)

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

TRANCE Trance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranced; p. pr. & vb. n. Trancing.]

1. To entrance. And three I left him tranced. Shak.

2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic] Trance the world over. Beau. & Fl. When thickest dark did trance the sky. Tennyson.

TRANCE Trance, v. i.

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

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

Defn: A ferry. [Obs.] Shak.

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

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

TRANNEL Tran"nel, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A treenail. [R.] Moxon.

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

Defn: Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.

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

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

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

Defn: To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.

Syn. — To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify.

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

Defn: One who, or that which, tranquilizes.

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

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

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

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

TRANQUILLY Tran"quil*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tranquil manner; calmly.

TRANQUILNESS Tran"quil*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being tranquil.

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

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

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

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

TRANSACT Trans*act", v. i.

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

TRANSACTION Trans*ac"tion, n. Etym: [L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.]

1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

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

3. (Civil Law)

Defn: An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.

Syn. — Proceeding; action; process. — Transaction, Proceeding. A transaction is something already done and completed; a proceeding is either something which is now going on, or, if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress or successive stages.

Note: " We the word proceeding in application to an affray in the street, and the word transaction to some commercial negotiation that has been carried on between certain persons. The proceeding marks the manner of proceeding, as when we speak of the proceedings in a court of law. The transaction marks the business transacted; as, the transactions on the Exchange." Crabb.

TRANSACTOR Trans*act"or, n. Etym: [L.]

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

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

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

TRANSALPINE Trans*al"pine, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

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

2. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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

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

TRANSCALENCY Trans*ca"len*cy, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transcalent.

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

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

TRANSCEND Tran*scend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcended; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcending.] Etym: [L. transcendere, transcensum; trans beyond, over + scandere to climb. See Scan.]

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

2. To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed. Such popes as shall transcend their limits. Bacon.

8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed. How much her worth transcended all her kind. Dryden.

TRANSCEND Tran*scend", v. i.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. (Kantian Philos.)

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

TRANSCENDENT Tran*scend"ent, n.

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

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

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

2. (Philos.)

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

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

Note: In mathematics, a quantity is said to be transcendental relative to another quantity when it is expressed as a transcendental function of the latter; thus, ax, 102x, log x, sin x, tan x, etc., are transcendental relative to x. Transcendental curve (Math.), a curve in which one ordinate is a transcendental function of the other. — Transcendental equation (Math.), an equation into which a transcendental function of one of the unknown or variable quantities enters. — Transcendental function. (Math.) See under Function.

Syn. — Transcendental, Empirical. These terms, with the corresponding nouns, transcendentalism and empiricism, are of comparatively recent origin. Empirical refers to knowledge which is gained by the experience of actual phenomena, without reference to the principles or laws to which they are to be referred, or by which they are to be explained. Transcendental has reference to those beliefs or principles which are not derived from experience, and yet are absolutely necessary to make experience possible or useful. Such, in the better sense of the term, is the transcendental philosophy, or transcendentalism. Each of these words is also used in a bad sense, empiricism applying to that one-sided view of knowledge which neglects or loses sight of the truths or principles referred to above, and trusts to experience alone; transcendentalism, to the opposite extreme, which, in its deprecation of experience, loses sight of the relations which facts and phenomena sustain to principles, and hence to a kind of philosophy, or a use of language, which is vague, obscure, fantastic, or extravagant.

TRANSCENDENTAL Tran`scen*den"tal, n.

Defn: A transcendentalist. [Obs.]

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

1. (Kantian Philos.)

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

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

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

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

Defn: One who believes in transcendentalism.

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

Defn: The quality or state of being transcendental.

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

Defn: In a transcendental manner.

TRANSCENDENTLY Tran*scend"ent*ly, adv.

Defn: In a transcendent manner.

TRANSCENDENTNESS Tran*scend"ent*ness, n.

Defn: Same as Transcendence.

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

Defn: The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over. [Obs.] Chapman.

TRANSCOLATE Trans"co*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcolating.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. colare, colatum, to filter, to strain.]

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

TRANSCOLATION Trans`co*la"tion, n.

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSCRIBBLER Tran*scrib"bler, n.

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

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

Defn: To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

TRANSCRIBER Tran*scrib"er, n.

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

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

1. That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript. South.

2. A copy of any kind; an imitation. The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian. Glanvill.

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

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

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

2. A copy; a transcript. Walton.

3. (Mus.)

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

TRANSCRIPTIVE Tran*scrip"tive, a.

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

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

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

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

Defn: A roving hither and thither.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSE Transe, n.

Defn: See Trance. [Obs.]

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

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

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

Defn: Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

TRANSENNE Tran"senne, n.

Defn: A transom. [Obs.]

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

Defn: The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

TRANSEXION Tran*sex"ion, n. Etym: [Pref. trans- + L. sexus sex.]

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

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

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

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

1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

3. To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.

Syn. — To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

TRANSFER Trans"fer, n.

1. The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

2. (Law)

Defn: The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise. I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property. Burke.

3. That which is transferred. Specifically: — (a) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. Fairholt. (b) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts. (c) (Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

4. (Med.)

Defn: A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. Bithell. — Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made. — Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions. — Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.

TRANSFERABILITY Trans*fer`a*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transferable.

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

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

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

TRANSFEREE Trans`fer*ee", n.

Defn: The person to whom a transfer in made.

TRANSFERENCE Trans"fer*ence, n.

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

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

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

TRANSFERRENCE Trans*fer"rence, n.

Defn: See Transference.

TRANSFERRER Trans*fer"rer, n.

Defn: One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

TRANSFERRIBLE Trans*fer"ri*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transferred; transferable.

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

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

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

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

2. (Eccl.)

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

TRANSFIGURE Trans*fig"ure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transfigured; p. pr. & vb. n. Transfiguring.] Etym: [F. transfigurer, L. transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure, v. t.]

1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. [Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matt. xvii. 2.

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

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

TRANSFIXION Trans*fix"ion, n.

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

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

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

2. (Her.)

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSFORM Trans*form", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transforming.] Etym: [L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.]

1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly. Love may transform me to an oyster. Shak.

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

3. To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2.

4. (Math.)

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

TRANSFORM Trans*form", v. i.

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

TRANSFORMABLE Trans*form"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transformed or changed.

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

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

Defn: Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis. (b) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis. (c) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation. (d) (Theol.)

Defn: A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion. (e) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.

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

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

TRANSFORMER Trans*form"er, n.

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

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

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

TRANSFREIGHT Trans*freight", v. i.

Defn: To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [Obs.] Barrow.

TRANSFUSE Trans*fuse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transfused; p. pr. & vb. n. Transfusing.] Etym: [L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser. See Transfund.]

1. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

2 2 (Med.)

Defn: To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another.

3. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters. Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused. Milton.

TRANSFUSIBLE Trans*fu"si*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

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

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

2. (Med.)

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

TRANSFUSIVE Trans*fu"sive, a.

Defn: Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.

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

1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.] Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden.

2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton.

3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.] Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you Beau. & Fl.

TRANSGRESS Trans*gress", v. i.

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

TRANSGRESSION Trans*gres"sion, n. Etym: [L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. transgression. See Grade.]

Defn: The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin. Forgive thy people . . . all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee. I Kings viii. 50. What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression, death denounced that day Milton. The transgression is in the stealer. Shak.

Syn. — Fault; offense; crime; infringement; misdemeanor; misdeed; affront; sin.

TRANSGRESSIONAL Trans*gres"sion*al, a.

Defn: Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.

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

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

TRANSGRESSIVELY Trans*gress"ive*ly, adv.

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

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

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

TRANSHAPE Tran*shape", v. t.

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

TRANSHIP Tran*ship", v. t.

Defn: Same as Transship.

TRANSHIPMENT Tran*ship"ment, n.

Defn: Same as Transshipment.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: The quality of being transient; transientness.

TRANSIENT Tran"sient, a. Etym: [L. transiens, -entis, p. pr. of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]

1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world." Milton.

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

3. Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U.S.]

Syn. — Transient, Transitory, Fleeting. Transient represents a thing as brief at the best; transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away. Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are transitory; its hours are fleeting. What is loose love A transient gust. Pope If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day. Donne. O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes. Milton. — Tran"sient*ly, adv. — Tran"sient*ness, n.

TRANSIENT Tran"sient, n.

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSISTHMIAN Trans*isth"mi*an, a.

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

TRANSIT Trans"it, n. Etym: [L. transitus, from transire to go over: cf. F. transit. See Transient.]

1. The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke.

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

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

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

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

Note: The surveyor's transit differs from the theodolite in having the horizontal axis attached directly to the telescope which is not mounted in Y's and can be turned completely over about the axis. Lower transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is below the polar axis. — Surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit circle (Astron.), a transit instrument with a graduated circle attached, used for observing the time of transit and the declination at one observation. See Circle, n., 3. — Transit compass. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit duty, a duty paid on goods that pass through a country. — Transit instrument. (Astron.) (a) A telescope mounted at right angles to a horizontal axis, on which it revolves with its line of collimation in the plane of the meridian, — used in connection with a clock for observing the time of transit of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place. (b) (Surv.) A surveyor's transit. See Transit, 5, above. — Transit trade (Com.), the business conected with the passage of goods through a country to their destination. — Upper transit (Astron.), the passage of a heavenly body across that part of the meridian which is above the polar axis.

TRANSIT Trans"it, v. t. (Astron.)

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

TRANSITION Tran*si"tion, n. Etym: [L. transitio: cf. F. transition. See Transient.]

1. Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

2. (Mus.)

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

3. (Rhet.)

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

4. (Biol.)

Defn: Change from one form to another.

Note: This word is sometimes pronounced tran*sish"un; but according to Walker, Smart, and most other authorities, the customary and preferable pronunciation is tran*sizh"un, although this latter mode violates analogy. Other authorities say tran*zish"un. Transition rocks (Geol.), a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.

TRANSITIONAL Tran*si"tion*al, a.

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

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

Defn: Transitional.

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

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

TRANSITIVE Tran"si*tive, a. Etym: [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]

1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] Bacon.

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

3. (Gram.)

Defn: Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. — Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. — Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

TRANSITORILY Tran"si*to*ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.

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

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

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

Defn: Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; — opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Syn. — transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.

TRANSLATABLE Trans*lat"a*ble, a.

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