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TRANSLATE Trans*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] Etym: [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]

1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] Dryden. In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. Evelyn.

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

3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. Heb. xi. 5.

4. (Eccl.)

Defn: To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden.

5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.

6. To change into another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak.

7. (Med.)

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

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

TRANSLATE Trans*late, v. i.

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

TRANSLATION Trans*la"tion, n. Etym: [F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.]

1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

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

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

4. (Rhet.)

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

5. (Metaph.)

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

6. (Kinematics)

Defn: Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; — opposed to rotation.

TRANSLATITIOUS Trans`la*ti"tious, a. Etym: [See Tralatitious.]

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

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

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

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

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

2. (Teleg.)

Defn: A repeating instrument. [Eng.]

TRANSLATORSHIP Trans*lat"or*ship, n.

Defn: The office or dignity of a translator.

TRANSLATORY Trans*lat"o*ry, a.

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

TRANSLATRESS Trans*lat"ress, n.

Defn: A woman who translates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSLUCENT Trans*lu"cent, a. Etym: [L. translucens, -entis, p. pr. of translucere to shine through; trans across, through = lucere to shine. See Lucid.]

1. Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

2. Transparent; clear. [Poetic] "Fountain or fresh current . . . translucent, pure." Milton. Replenished from the cool, translucent springs. Pope.

Syn. — Translucent, Transparent. A thing is translucent when it merely admits the passage of light, without enabling us to distinguish the color and outline of objects through it; it is transparent when we can clearly discern objects placed on the other side of it. Glass, water, etc., are transparent; ground glass is translucent; a translucent style.

TRANSLUCENTLY Trans*lu"cent*ly, adv.

Defn: In a translucent manner.

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

Defn: Translucent. [R.] Bacon.

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

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

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

Defn: Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

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

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

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

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

TRANSMEATION Trans`me*a"tion, n.

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

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

Defn: To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott.

TRANSMIGRANT Trans"mi*grant, a. Etym: [L. transmigrans, p. pr. See Transmigrate.]

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

Defn: One who transmigrates.

TRANSMIGRATE Trans"mi*grate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transmigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmigrating.] Etym: [L. transmigrare, transmigratum; trans across + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]

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

2. To pass from one body or condition into another. Their may transmigrate into each other. Howell.

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

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

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

TRANSMIGRATOR Trans"mi*gra`tor, n.

Defn: One who transmigrates. J. Ellis.

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

Defn: Passing from one body or state to another.

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

Defn: The quality of being transmissible.

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

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

TRANSMISSION Trans*mis"sion, n. Etym: [L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit.]

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

2. (Law)

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

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

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

TRANSMISSIONIST Trans*mis"sion*ist, n.

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

TRANSMISSIVE Trans*mis"sive, a.

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

TRANSMIT Trans*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.] Etym: [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]

1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.

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

TRANSMITTAL Trans*mit"tal, n.

Defn: Transmission. Swift.

TRANSMITTANCE Trans*mit"tance, n.

Defn: Transmission.

TRANSMITTER Trans*mit"ter, n.

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

TRANSMITTIBLE Trans*mit"ti*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: The quality of being transmutable.

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

Defn: Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable. The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another. Arbuthnot. — Trans*mut"a*ble*ness, n. — Trans*mut"a*bly, adv.

TRANSMUTATION Trans`mu*ta"tion, n. Etym: [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See Transmute.]

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

2. (Geom.)

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

3. (Biol.)

Defn: The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism. Bacon. Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.

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

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

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

Defn: To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

TRANSMUTER Trans*mut"er, n.

Defn: One who transmutes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. (Arch.)

Defn: A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; — called also transsummer.

3. (Gun.)

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

4. (Surg.)

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

5. (Railroad)

Defn: One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other. Transom knees (Shipbuilding), knees bolted to the transoms and after timbers. — Transom window. (Arch.) (a) A window divided horizontally by a transom or transoms. (b) A window over a door, with a transom between.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSPARENT Trans*par"ent, a. Etym: [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.]

1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; — opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

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

Syn. — Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid; diaphanous. See Translucent. — Trans*par"ent*ly, adv. — Trans*par"ent*ness, n.

TRANSPASS Trans*pass", v. t. Etym: [Pref. trans- + pass: cf. LL. transpassare. Cf. Trespass.]

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

TRANSPASS Trans*pass", v. i.

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

TRANSPASSABLE Trans*pass"a*ble, a.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] "The wide, transpicuous air." Milton.

TRANSPIERCE Trans*pierce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transpierced; p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiercing.] Etym: [Pref. trans- + pierce: cf. F. transpercer.]

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

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

Defn: Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.

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

1. (Physiol.)

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

2. (bot.)

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

3. (Physics)

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

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

Defn: Of or relating to transpiration.

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

1. (Physiol.)

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

2. (Bot.)

Defn: To evaporate from living cells.

3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired. The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey.

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

Note: This sense of the word, which is of comparatively recent introduction, is common in the United States, especially in the language of conversation and of newspaper writers, and is used to some extent in England. Its use, however, is censured by critics of both countries.

TRANSPIRE Tran*spire", v. t.

1. (Physiol.)

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

2. (Bot.)

Defn: To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

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

Defn: To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.

TRANSPLANT Trans*plant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transplanting.] Etym: [F. transplanter, L. transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See Plant.]

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

2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. Clarendon.

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

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

2. (Surg.)

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

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

TRANSPLANTER Trans*plant"er, n.

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

TRANSPLENDENCY Tran*splen"den*cy, n.

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

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

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

TRANSPORT Trans*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] Etym: [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

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

3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.

TRANSPORT Trans"port, n. Etym: [F. See Transport, v.]

1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.

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

3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

TRANSPORTABILITY Trans*port`a*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being transportable.

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

1. Capable of being transported.

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

TRANSPORTAL Trans*port"al, n.

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

TRANSPORTANCE Trans*port"ance, n.

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

TRANSPORTANT Trans*port"ant, a.

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

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

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

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

TRANSPORTED Trans*port"ed, a.

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

TRANSPORTER Trans*port"er, n.

Defn: One who transports.

TRANSPORTING Trans*port"ing, a.

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

TRANSPORTINGLY Trans*port"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: So as to transport.

TRANSPORTMENT Trans*port"ment, n.

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

TRANSPOSABLE Trans*pos"a*ble, a.

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

TRANSPOSAL Trans*pos"al, n.

Defn: The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.

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

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

2. To change; to transform; to invert. [R.] Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Shak.

3. (Alg.)

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

4. (Gram.)

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

5. (Mus.)

Defn: To change the key of.

TRANSPOSER Trans*pos"er, n.

Defn: One who transposes.

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

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

Defn: The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation. (b) (Gram.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. (c) (Mus.) A change of a composition into another key.

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

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

TRANSPOSITIVE Trans*pos"i*tive, a.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Foreign. [Obs.] Holinshed.

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

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

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

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

TRANSSHIPMENT Trans*ship"ment, n.

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

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

Defn: See Transom, 2.

TRANSUBSTANTIATE Tran`sub*stan"ti*ate, v. t. Etym: [LL. transubstantiatus, p. p. of transubstantiare to transubstantiate; L. trans across, over + substantia substance. See Substance.]

1. To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

2. (R. C. Theol.)

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

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

1. A change into another substance.

2. (R. C. Theol.)

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

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

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

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

1. The act or process of transuding.

2. (Physics)

Defn: Same as Exosmose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; — often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. — Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.

TRANSVERSE Trans"verse, n.

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.

2. (Geom.)

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

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

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

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

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

TRANSVERSELY Trans*verse"ly, adv.

Defn: In a transverse manner.

TRANSVERSION Trans*ver"sion, n.

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

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

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

TRANSVERTIBLE Trans*vert"i*ble, a.

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

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

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

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

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

TRANTER Trant"er, n.

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

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

Defn: To dress with ornaments; to adorn; — said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

TRAP Trap, n. Etym: [Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe, G. treppe, D. trap; — so called because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps. See Tramp.] (Geol.)

Defn: An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark- colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic- augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock. Trap tufa, Trap tuff, a kind of fragmental rock made up of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.

TRAP Trap, a.

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

TRAP Trap, n. Etym: [OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD.trappe, OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.]

1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap. Chaucer.

2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Rom. xi. 9. God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me! Shak.

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

4. The game of trapball.

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

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

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

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

TRAP Trap, v. t. Etym: [AS. treppan. See Trap a snare.]

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

2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the foe." Dryden.

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

TRAP Trap, v. i.

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

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

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

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

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

TRAPANNER Tra*pan"ner, n.

Defn: One who trapans, or insnares.

TRAPBALL Trap"ball`, n.

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

TRAPDOOR Trap"door`, n.

1. (Arch.)

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

2. (Mining)

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

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

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

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

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

TRAPES Trapes, v. i.

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

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

Defn: Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

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

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

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

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

Defn: Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

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

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

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

TRAPEZOHEDRAL Trap`e*zo*he"dral, a.

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

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

TRAPEZOID Trap"e*zoid, n. Etym: [Gr. trapézoïde. See Trapezium.]

1. (Geom.)

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

2. (Anat.)

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

TRAPEZOID Trap"e*zoid, a.

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

2. (Anat.)

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

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

1. Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Tranpezohedral.

TRAPHOLE Trap"hole, n. (Mil.)

Defn: See Trou-de-loup.

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

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

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

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

2. (Mining)

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

TRAPPINGS Trap"pings, n. pl. Etym: [From Trap to dress with ornaments.]

1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.

2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses. Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRAPPY Trap"py, a. (Min.)

Defn: Same as Trappous.

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

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

TRAP SHOOTING Trap shooting. (Sport)

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

TRAPSTICK Trap"stick`, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRASH Trash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.]

1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards.

2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]

3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

TRASH Trash, v. i.

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

TRASHILY Trash"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a trashy manner.

TRASHINESS Trash"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being trashy.

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

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

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

Defn: A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; — sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.]

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

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

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

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

Defn: A traumatic medicine.

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

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

TRAUNCE Traunce, n. & v.

Defn: See Trance. [Obs.]

TRAUNT Traunt, v. i.

Defn: Same as Trant. [Obs.]

TRAUNTER Traunt"er, n.

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

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

1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.

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

TRAVAIL Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] Etym: [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]

1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.

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

TRAVAIL Trav"ail, v. t

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

TRAVAILOUS Trav"ail*ous, a.

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

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

1. (Arch.)

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

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

TRAVEL Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] Etym: [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]

1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.

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

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

4. To pass; to go; to move. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.

TRAVEL Trav"el, v. t.

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

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

TRAVEL Trav"el, n.

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

2. pl.

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

3. (Mach.)

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

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

TRAVELED Trav"eled, a.

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

TRAVELER Trav"el*er, n. Etym: [Written also traveler.]

1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.

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

3. (Mach.)

Defn: A traveling crane. See under Crane.

4. (Spinning)

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

5. (Naut.)

Defn: An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. — Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.

TRAVEL-TAINTED Trav"el-taint`ed, a.

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

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

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

TRAVERSABLE Trav"ers*a*ble, a.

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

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

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

Defn: Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

TRAVERSE Trav"erse, adv.

Defn: Athwart; across; crosswise.

TRAVERSE Trav"erse, n. Etym: [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.]

1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: — (a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control. (b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont. (c) (Arch.)

Defn: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt. (d) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. (e) (Law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows. (f) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course. (g) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal. (h) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground. (i) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

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

TRAVERSE Trav"erse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed; p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing.] Etym: [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.]

1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. Sir W. Scott.

3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully. My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude. South.

5. (Gun.)

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

6. (Carp.)

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

7. (Law)

Defn: To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it. And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.

TRAVERSE Trav"erse, v. i.

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

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

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

TRAVERSE DRILL Trav"erse drill. (Mach.)

Defn: A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

TRAVERSER Trav"ers*er, n.

1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

2. (Law)

Defn: One who traverses, or denies.

3. (Railroad)

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

TRAVERSING Trav"ers*ing, a.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.

TRAVOIS Tra`vois", n. [Cf. Travail.]

1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments. Julian Ralph.

2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]

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

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

TRAWL Trawl, n.

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

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

TRAWLBOAT Trawl"boat`, n.

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

TRAWLER Trawl"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, trawls.

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

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

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

TRAWLNET Trawl"net`, n.

Defn: Same as Trawl, n., 2.

TRAWLWARP Trawl"warp`, n.

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

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

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

TRAY Tray, n.; pl. Trays. Etym: [OE. treye, AS. treg. Cf. Trough.]

1. A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

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

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

TRAYFUL Tray"ful, n.; pl. Trayfuls (.

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

TRAYS Trays, n. pl. [Obs.]

Defn: See Trais. Chaucer.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

Syn. — Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious; plotting. — Treach"er*ous*ly, adv. — Treach"er*ous*ness, n.

TREACHERY Treach"er*y, n. Etym: [OE. trecherïe, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See Trickery, Trick.]

Defn: Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Be ware, ye lords, of their treachery. Chaucer. In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption. Macaulay.

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

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

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

1. (Old Med.)

Defn: A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1. We kill the viper, and make treacle of him. Jer. Taylor.

2. A sovereign remedy; a cure. [Obs.] Christ which is to every harm treacle. Chaucer .

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

Note: In the United States molasses is the common name; in England, treacle.

4. A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like. Treacle mustard (Bot.), a name given to several species of the cruciferous genus Erysimum, especially the E. cheiranthoides, which was formerly used as an ingredient in Venice treacle, or theriac. — Treacle water, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.

TREACLY Trea"cly, a.

Defn: Like, or composed of, treacle.

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

1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. Chaucer.

2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. — To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. Shak.

TREAD Tread, v. t.

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

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

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

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

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

TREAD Tread, n.

1. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. Tennyson.

2. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.

3. Way; track; path. [R.] Shak.

4. The act of copulation in birds.

5. (Arch.)

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

6. (Fort.)

Defn: The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

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

8. (Biol.)

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

9. (Far.)

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

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

Defn: See Tread, n., 5.

TREADER Tread"er, n.

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

TREADFOWL Tread"fowl`, n.

Defn: A cock. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TREADLE Trea"dle, n. Etym: [OE. tredyl a step, AS. tredel. See Tread.]

1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

2. (Biol.)

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

TREADMILL Tread"mill`, n.

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

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

Defn: Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

TREADWHEEL Tread"wheel`, n.

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

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

Defn: A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.

TREASON Trea"son, n. Etym: [OE. tresun, treisun, traisoun, OF. traïson, F. trahison, L. traditio a giving up, a delivering up, fr. tradere to give up, betray. See Traitor, and cf. Tradition.]

1. The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery. The treason of the murthering in the bed. Chaucer.

Note: In monarchies, the killing of the sovereign, or an attempt to take his life, is treason. In England, to imagine or compass the death of the king, or of the queen consort, or of the heir apparent to the crown, is high treason, as are many other offenses created by statute. In the United States, treason is confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or to an adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

2. Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy. If he be false, she shall his treason see. Chaucer. Petit treason. See under Petit.

TREASONABLE Trea"son*a*ble, a.

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

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

TREASONOUS Trea"son*ous, a.

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

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

1. Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.

2. A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8.

3. That which is very much valued. Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me. Ex. xix. 5. From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure. Milton. Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines. Ex. i. 11.

TREASURE Treas"ure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treasured; p. pr. & vb. n. Treasuring.]

Defn: To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

TREASURE-HOUSE Treas"ure-house`, n.

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

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

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

TREASURERSHIP Treas"ur*er*ship, n.

Defn: The office of treasurer.

TREASURESS Treas"ur*ess, n.

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

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

Defn: Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.

TREASURY Treas"ur*y, n.; pl. Treasuries. Etym: [OE. tresorie, F. trésorerie.]

1. A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

2. That department of a government which has charge of the finances.

3. A repository of abundance; a storehouse.

4. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."

5. A treasure. [Obs.] Marston. Board of treasury, the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues. [Eng.] Brande & C. — Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; — so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown. [Eng.] — Treasury lord. See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer. [Eng.] — Treasury note (U. S. Finance), a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.

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

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

TREAT Treat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treated; p. pr. & vb. n. Treating.] Etym: [OE. treten, OF. traitier, F. traiter, from L. tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. intens. from trahere, tractum, to draw. See Trace, v. t., and cf. Entreat, Retreat, Trait.]

1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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

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

4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. [Obs.] To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned. Dryden.

5. (Med.)

Defn: To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

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

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

TREAT Treat, v. i.

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

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

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

TREAT Treat, n.

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

2. An entertainment given as an expression of regard.

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

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

Defn: Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.

TREATABLY Treat"a*bly, adv.

Defn: In a treatable manner. [Obs.]

TREATER Treat"er, n.

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

TREATISE Trea"tise, n. Etym: [OE. tretis, OF. treitis, traitis, well made. See Treat.]

1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay.

Note: A treatise implies more form and method than an essay, but may fall short of the fullness and completeness of a systematic exposition.

2. Story; discourse. [R.] Shak.

TREATISER Trea"tis*er, n.

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

TREATMENT Treat"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]

1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.

TREATURE Trea"ture, n.

Defn: Treatment. [Obs.] Fabyan.

TREATY Trea"ty, n.; pl. Treaties. Etym: [OE. tretee, F. traité, LL. tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. See Treat, and cf. Tractate.]

1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade. Spenser.

2. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.

3. A proposal tending to an agreement. [Obs.] Shak.

4. A treatise; a tract. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TREBLE Tre"ble, a. Etym: [OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple.]

1. Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

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

TREBLE Tre"ble, adv.

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

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

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

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

TREBLE Tre"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trebled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trebling.]

1. To make thrice as much; to make threefold. "Love trebled life." Tennyson.

2. To utter in a treble key; to whine. [Obs.] He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply. Chapman.

TREBLE Tre"ble, v. i.

Defn: To become threefold. Swift.

TREBLENESS Tre"ble*ness, n.

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

TREBLET Treb"let, n.

Defn: Same as Triblet.

TREBLY Tre"bly, adv.

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

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

1. A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

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

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

TRECENTIST Tre*cen"tist, n.

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

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

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

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

Defn: An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

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

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

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

1. See Treadle.

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

3. pl.

Defn: The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.

TREDILLE Tre*dille", n.

Defn: A game at cards for three.

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

1. (Bot.)

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

Note: The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc.

2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; — used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Acts x. 39.

5. Wood; timber. [Obs.] Chaucer. In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth. Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20).

6. (Chem.)

Defn: A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. Tree bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. [Local, U.S.] — Tree beetle (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. — Tree bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to Arma, Pentatoma, Rhaphigaster, and allied genera. — Tree cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure (Paradoxurus musang). — Tree clover (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot (Melilotus alba). See Melilot. — Tree crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. See under Purse. — Tree creeper (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3. — Tree cricket (Zoöl.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket (Ecanthus nivoeus) which is noted for its loud stridulation; — called also white cricket. — Tree crow (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to Crypsirhina and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. — Tree dove (Zoöl.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to Macropygia and allied genera. They have long and broad tails, are chiefly arboreal in their habits, and feed mainly on fruit. — Tree duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species of ducks belonging to Dendrocygna and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. — Tree fern (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. — Tree fish (Zoöl.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serriceps). — Tree frog. (Zoöl.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidæ. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under Flying) is an example. — Tree goose (Zoöl.), the bernicle goose. — Tree hopper (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. — Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] — Tree kangaroo. (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo. — Tree lark (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] — Tree lizard (Zoöl.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons. — Tree lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Tree crab, above. — Tree louse (Zoöl.), any aphid; a plant louse. — Tree moss. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. — Tree mouse (Zoöl.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinæ. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. — Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. — Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. — Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree (Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. — Tree of life (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vitæ. — Tree onion (Bot.), a species of garlic (Allium proliferum) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. — Tree oyster (Zoöl.), a small American oyster (Ostrea folium) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; — called also raccoon oyster. — Tree pie (Zoöl.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus Dendrocitta. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. — Tree pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to Megaloprepia, Carpophaga, and allied genera. — Tree pipit. (Zoöl.) See under Pipit. — Tree porcupine (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera Chætomys and Sphingurus. They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species (S. villosus) is called also couiy; another (S. prehensilis) is called also coendou. — Tree rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera Capromys and Plagiodon. They are allied to the porcupines. — Tree serpent (Zoöl.), a tree snake. — Tree shrike (Zoöl.), a bush shrike. — Tree snake (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of snakes of the genus Dendrophis. They live chiefly among the branches of trees, and are not venomous. — Tree sorrel (Bot.), a kind of sorrel (Rumex Lunaria) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Teneriffe. — Tree sparrow (Zoöl.) any one of several species of small arboreal sparrows, especially the American tree sparrow (Spizella monticola), and the common European species (Passer montanus). — Tree swallow (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus Hylochelidon which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also martin in Australia. — Tree swift (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. — Tree tiger (Zoöl.), a leopard. — Tree toad (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to Hyla and allied genera of the family Hylidæ. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species (Hyla arborea) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States (H. versicolor) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also tree frog. See also Piping frog, under Piping, and Cricket frog, under Cricket. — Tree warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of arboreal warblers belonging to Phylloscopus and allied genera. — Tree wool (Bot.), a fine fiber obtained from the leaves of pine trees.

TREE Tree, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treed; p. pr. & vb. n. Treeing.]

1. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.

2. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

TREEBEARD Tree"beard`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); — so called from its resemblance to hair.

TREE BURIAL Tree burial.

Defn: Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.

TREE CALF Tree calf.

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

TREEFUL Tree"ful, n.; pl. Treefuls (.

Defn: The quantity or number which fills a tree.

TREELESS Tree"less, a

Defn: Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.

TREEN Treen, a. Etym: [AS. treówen.]

1. Made of wood; wooden. [Obs.] " Treen cups." Camden.

2. Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.

TREEN Treen, obs.

Defn: pl. of Tree. " The shady treen." Fairfax.

TREENAIL Tree"nail`, n. Etym: [Tree + nail.] (Shipbuilding)

Defn: A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]

TREF Tref, a. [Yiddish, fr. Heb. terephah an animal torn by wild beasts.]

Defn: Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; — opposed to kosher.

TREFLE Tre"fle, n. Etym: [F. tréfle. See Trefoil.] (Fort.)

Defn: A species of time; — so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

TREFLE Tré`flé", a. Etym: [F. tréflé. See Trefoil.] (Her.)

Defn: Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

TREFOIL Tre"foil, n. Etym: [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; — less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

3. (Her.)

Defn: A charge representing the clover leaf.

TREFOILED Tre"foiled`, a. (Her.)

Defn: Same as Tréflé.

TREGET Treg"et, n. Etym: [See Tregetour.]

Defn: Guile; trickery. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

TREGETOUR Treg"et*our, n. Etym: [OE. tresgeteor. See Trans-, and Jet a shooting forth.]

Defn: A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. Chaucer.

TREGETRY Treg"et*ry, n.

Defn: Trickery; also, a trick. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

TREHALA Tre*ha"la, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

TREHALOSE Tre"ha*lose`, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Mycose; — so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

TREILLAGE Treil"lage, n. Etym: [F. treillage. See Trellis.]

Defn: Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis. Spectator. I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

TREK Trek, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trekked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking.] [Written also treck.] [D. trekken. See Track, n.] [South Africa]

1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen.

2. To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]

One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony. James Bryce.

TREK Trek, n. [Written also treck.] [D. Cf. Track, n.]

Defn: The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration. [Chiefly South Africa]

To the north a trek was projected, and some years later was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the Mashonaland. James Bryce.

Great Trek, the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the South African Republic and Orange Free State.

TREKKER Trek"ker, n. [D.]

Defn: One that treks. [Written also trecker.] [South Africa] James Bryce.

TREKOMETER Trek*om"e*ter, n. [Cf. Trechometer.] (Mil.)

Defn: A field range finger used in the British service.

TRELLIS Trel"lis, n. Etym: [OE. relis, F. treillis, fr. treille vine arbor, fr. L. tricla, triclea, triclia, a bower, arbor, summer house.]

Defn: A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

TRELLISED Trel"lised, a.

Defn: Having a trellis or trellises. Cottages trellised over with exotic plants. Jeffrey.

TREMANDO Tre*man"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Trembling; — used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

TREMATODE Trem"a*tode, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.

TREMATODEA Trem`a*to"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.

TREMATOID Trem"a*toid, a. Etym: [From Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: f or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.

TREMBLE Trem"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trembling.] Etym: [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling, tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. trimti. Cf. Tremulous, Tremor.]

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; — said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden.

2. To totter; to shake; — said of a thing. The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. Milton.

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

TREMBLE Trem"ble, n.

Defn: An involuntary shaking or quivering. I am all of a tremble when I think of it. W. Black.

TREMBLER Trem"bler, n.

Defn: One who trembles.

TREMBLING Trem"bling, a.

Defn: Shaking; tottering; quivering. — Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

TREMELLA Tre*mel"la, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tremere, to tremble: cf. It. tremella, F. tremelle.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

TREMENDOUS Tre*men"dous, a. Etym: [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]

Defn: Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley.

Syn. — Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. — Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. — Tre*men"dous*ness, n.

TREMEX Tre"mex, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

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

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

Defn: An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

TREMOLANDO Tre*mo*lan"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Same as Tremando.

TREMOLITE Trem"o*lite, n. Etym: [From Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered.] (Min.)

Defn: A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

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

TREMOR Tre"mor, n. Etym: [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.]

Defn: A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey.

TREMULANT; TREMULENT Trem"u*lant, Trem"u*lent, a.

Defn: Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.

TREMULOUS Trem"u*lous, a. Etym: [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]

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

2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. The tender, tremulous Christian. Dr. H. More. — Trem"u*lous*ly, adv. — Trem"u*lous*ness, n.

TREN Tren, n. Etym: [See Treen wooden.]

Defn: A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

TRENAIL Tre"nail`, n. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: Same as Treenail.

TRENCH Trench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.] Etym: [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]

1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

2. (Fort.)

Defn: To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

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

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

TRENCH Trench, v. i.

1. To encroach; to intrench. Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature I. Taylor.

2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] Bacon. To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. Young.

TRENCH Trench, n. Etym: [OE. trenche, F. tranchée. See Trench, v. t.]

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

2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.] In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she. Chaucer.

3. (Fort.)

Defn: An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way. — Trench plow, or Trench plough, a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

TRENCHAND Trench"and, a.

Defn: Trenchant. [Obs.] Spenser.

TRENCHANT Trench"ant, a. Etym: [OF. trenchant, F. tranchant, p. pr. See Trench, v. t.]

1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer.

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

TRENCHANTLY Trench"ant*ly, adv.

Defn: In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.

TRENCHER Trench"er, n. Etym: [OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See Trench, v. t.]

1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

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

3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers. South. Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. — Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L'Estrange. — Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. — Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.

TRENCHER-MAN Trench"er-man, n.; pl. Trencher-men (.

1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak.

2. A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.

3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.

TRENCHMORE Trench"more, n.

Defn: A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

TRENCHMORE Trench"more, v. i.

Defn: To dance the trenchmore. [Obs.] Marston.

TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH Trench"-plow", Trench"-plough` v. t.

Defn: To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

TREND Trend, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n. Trending.] Etym: [OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.]

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

TREND Trend, v. t.

Defn: To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W. Browne.

TREND Trend, n.

Defn: Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

TREND Trend, v. t. Etym: [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.]

Defn: To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]

TREND Trend, n.

Defn: Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]

TRENDER Trend"er, n.

Defn: One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

TRENDLE Tren"dle, n. Etym: [AS. trendel, tryndel, circle, ring. See Trend, v. i., and cf. Trundle.]

Defn: A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

TRENNEL Tren"nel, n.

Defn: Corrupt form of Treenail.

TRENTAL Tren"tal, n. Etym: [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.]

1. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.

TRENTE ET QUARANTE Trente" et` qua`rante". [F., lit., thirty and forty.]

Defn: Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

TRENTON PERIOD Tren"ton pe"ri*od. (Geol.)

Defn: A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; — so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

TREPAN Tre*pan", n. Etym: [F. trépan (cf. Sp. trépano, It. trepano, trapano), LL. trepanum, fr. Gr. Trephine.]

1. (Surg.)

Defn: A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

2. (Mining)

Defn: A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

TREPAN Tre*pan", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Trepanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Trepanning.] Etym: [Cf. F. trépaner. See Trepan a saw.] (Surg.)

Defn: To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.

TREPAN Tre*pan", n. Etym: [See Trapan.]