Trumpet

n. [Fr. trompette; Sp. trompeta, It. trombetta, Ger. trompete, D. & Dan. trompet, Sw. trumpet. See TRUMP.] 1. A wind instrument of music, often used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. It consists of a long metallic tube, with a bell-shaped opening at one end for the emission of sound. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. [Obs.] He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass. Clarendon. 3. One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times in his interest, and to be the trumpet of his praise. Dryden. Ear-trumpet, an instrument, usually trumpet-shaped, used as an aid to hearing, by partially deaf persons. — Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. Trumpet marine (Mus.), an instrument formerly used, having one thick string, which was sounded with a bow and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic sounds; — so called because its tones resembled those of the trumpet. Moore.

[imp. & p. p. TRUMPETED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRUMPETING.] [Fr. trompeter.] To publish by sound of trumpet; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon.

To sound loudly like a trumpet, or with a tone like that of a trumpet.