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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Trāit, n. p. 1401A stroke; a touch. By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. Broome. 2. A distinguishing or marked feature or peculiarity; as, a trait of character. ☞—…Traiteur, n. p. 1401The keeper of an eating-house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. Simmonds.Trāi'tor, n. p. 1401One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or who…Trāi'tor, v. t. p. 1401To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] Drummond. But time, it traitors me. Lithgow.Trāi'tor, a. p. 1401Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Rare.] Pope.Trāi'tor-ess, n. p. 1401A female who betrays.Trāi'tor-ly, a. p. 1401Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.] Shak.Trāi'tor-ōŭs, a. p. 1401Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme or…Trai'tor-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 1401In a traitorous manner; treacherously; perfidiously. They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws. Clarendon.Trāi'tor-oŭs-ness, n. p. 1401The quality of being traitorous or treacherous; treachery.Trāi'tress, n. p. 1401A female traitor; she who betrays her trust; a traitoress. Dryden.Tra-jēct’, v. t. p. 1401To throw or cast through; as, to traject the sun’s light through three or more cross prisms. [Rare.] Newton.Trāj'ect, n. p. 1401A place for passing across; a passage. [Obs.] 2. The curve or course of a heavenly body in its orbit; a trajectory. [Rare.] “The traject of comets.” I. Taylor.Tra-jec'tion, n. p. 1401The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. 2. Transposition. [Rare.] Knatchbull.Tra-jĕct'o-ry, n. p. 1401The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or a stone thrown upward obliquely in the air. Brande.Trā'jet, n. p. 1401Passage over or across. [Obs.] Chaucer.Trā'jet-or, n. p. 1401One who cozens or deceives, as a juggler by the rapidity of the changes he makes; a conjurer; a juggler. [Obs.] “With sleights of a trajetor.” Gower.Trā'jet-ry, n. p. 1401The art or practices of a trajetor; jugglery. [Obs.] Chaucer.Tra-lā'tion, n. p. 1401A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper but more significant sense. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Trā'la-ti'tion, n. p. 1401A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.Trăl'a-tī'tioŭs, a. p. 1401Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.Trăl/a-tī'tiŏus-ly, adv. p. 1401In a tralatitious manner; metaphorically; figuratively; not in a literal sense. Holder.Tra-līn'e-āte, v. t. p. 1401To deviate from any direction. [Obs.] Dryden.Tra-lū'cen-cy, n. p. 1401Translucency; clearness. [Obs.]Tra-lū'çent, a. p. 1401Transparent; clear; translucent. [Obs.] Davies.Trăm, n. p. 1401A coal wagon used in some parts of England, especially at Newcastle. 2. The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey. 3. One of the rails or tracks of a tram-road.Trăm, n. p. 1401A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft or cross threads of the best quality of velvets and silk goods. Simmonds.Trăm'ble, v. t. p. 1401To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.Trăm'mel, n. p. 1401[Fr. tramail, Norm. Fr. tremail, It. tramaglio, L. Lat. tramallum, tramela, tremaculum, a kind of net for taking fish, from Lat. tres, three, and macula, Fr. maille, spot; Ger. trammelnetz. 1. A kind…Trăm'mel, v. t. p. 1401To catch; to intercept. [Rare.] Shak. 2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.Trūm'meled, a. p. 1401(Man.) Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked, by trammels; — said of a horse.Trăm'mel-er, n. p. 1401One who, or that which, trammels or restrains. 2. One who uses a trammel-net. Nares.Trăm'mel-ēts, n. p. 1401A snare. [Obs.]Trăm'ming, n. p. 1401(Silk Manuf.) The act or process of forming trams. See TRAM.Tra-mŏn′tane or Trăm′on-tāne, a. p. 1401Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous. ☞ The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and…Tra-mōn′tāne or Trăm′on-tāne, n. p. 1401One living beyond the mountain; a stranger.Trămp, v. t. p. 1401To tread forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. Simmonds.Trămp, v. i. p. 1401To travel; to wander or stroll.Trămp, n. p. 1401A foot-journey; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. 2. A foot traveler; a tramper. Halliwell. 3. An instrument used or designed for trimming hedges. Simmonds. 4. A plate of iron worn by ditchers, in…Trămp'er, n. p. 1401One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond.Trăm'-plāte, n. p. 1401A flat piece of iron laid down as a rail. Simmonds.Trăm'ple, v. t. p. 1401To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph, or scorn. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6. 2. To tread…Trăm'ple, v. i. p. 14021°. To tread in contempt; — with on or upon. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of the Tongue. 2. To tread with force and rapidity.Trăm'ple, n. p. 1402The act of treading under foot with contempt. [Rare.] Milton.Trăm'pler, n. p. 1402One who tramples; one who treads down.Tram-poōse’, v. i. p. 1402To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Low.] [U. S.] Bartlett.Trăm'-rōad, n. p. 1402A road prepared for easy transit of trains or wagons, by forming the wheel-tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron. ☞ This word is said, by some, to be derived from the…Trăm'-wāy, n. p. 1402A tram-road.Tra-nā'tion, n. p. 1402The act of swimming over. [Obs.]Trănçe, n. p. 1402The act of trancing or journeying over or across a country; a journey; especially, a tedious journey. [Obs.] 2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of…Trănce, v. t. p. 1402To pass over or across. [Rare.] “When thickest dark did trance the sky.” Tennyson. 2. To entrance. [Obs.] Hall.Trānçe, v. i. p. 1402To pass; to travel. [Obs.] Trance the world over, you shall never purse so much gold as when you were in England. Beau. & Fl.Trănced, a. p. 1402Lying in a trance. And there I left him tranced. Shak.Trăn'gram, n. p. 1402An odd thing intricately contrived. [Cant.] [Obs.] Arbuthnot.Trăn'nel, n. p. 1402A treenail. [Obs.] Moxon.Trăn'quil, a. p. 1402Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. “A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow.” De Quincey.Trăn'quil-i-zā'tion or Trăn'quil-li-zā'tion, n. p. 1402The act of tranquilizing, or state of being tranquilized.Trăn'quil-ize or Trăn'quil-lize, v. t. p. 1402To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. “The tranquilizing…Trăn'quil-īz'er or Trăn'quil-līz'er, n. p. 1402One who, or that which, tranquilizes. 2. Specifically, a kind of chair in which a raving maniac may be so fixed as to be motionless. It is used for the production of tranquillity, in a paroxysm of…Trăn'quil-īz'ing-ly or Trăn'quil-līz'ing-ly, adv. p. 1402So as to tranquilize.