6 entries under this word
n. [Fr. trompe, Pr. trompa, tromba, Sp. & Pg. trompa, It. tromba, Lat. tuba; O. H. Ger. trumba, trumpa, M. H. Ger. trumbe, Icel. trumba, drum.] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet;—used chiefly in Scripture and poetry. “The wakeful trump of doom.” Milton.
We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
v. i. [O. Fr. tromper, Pr. trompar, It. trombare.] To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] Wycliffe.
n. [O. Fr. triumphe, N. Fr. triomphe, Sp. triunfo, It. trionfo. See TRIUMPH, 5.]
Sense 1. A winning card; one of the suit of cards which takes any of the other suits.
Sense 2. An old game with cards;—called also ruff. It was nearly the same as whist. Decker.
Sense 3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Colloq. and low.]
Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray.
To put to the trumps, or to put on the trumps, to reduce to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion of power.
But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. Milton.
Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. W. Irving.
[imp. & p. p. TRUMPED (trŭmt, 84); p. pr. & vb. n. TRUMPING.] (Card-playing.) To play a trump card when another suit has been led.
To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card.
[Fr. tromper.] 1. To trick or impose on. “To trick or trump mankind.” B. Jonson. 2. To impose unfairly; to obtrude. Authors have been trumped on us. Leslie. To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.