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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Trans-pôrt'a-bil'i-ty, n.p. 1406The state or quality of being transportable; the capacity of being transported.
  2. Trans-pôrt'a-ble, a.p. 1406Capable of being transported.
  3. Trans-pōrt'ance, n.p. 1406Conveyance. [Obs.] Shak.
  4. Trans-pōrt'ant, a.p. 1406Transporting; ravishing. [Obs.] More.
  5. Trāns'por-tā'tion, n.p. 1406The act of transporting, carrying, or conveying from one place to another; removal; conveyance. “To provide a vessel for their transportation.” Wotton. 2. The state of being transported. 3.…
  6. Trans-pôrt'ed-ly, adv.p. 1406In a transported manner; as if transported.
  7. Trans-pōrt'ed-ness, n.p. 1406The condition of being transported. Bp. Hall.
  8. Trans-pōrt'er, n.p. 1406One who transports or removes.
  9. Trans-pōrt'ing, p. a.p. 1406Carrying away with vehement emotion; passionate; ecstatic; as, transporting joy.
  10. Trans-pōrt'ing-ly, adv.p. 1406In a transporting manner.
  11. Trans-pōrt'ment, n.p. 1406Transportation. [R.] Hall.
  12. Trāns'port-shĭp or Trāns'port-vĕs'sel, n.p. 1406A ship or vessel used for transportation, especially for carrying soldiers, convicts, and the like, and warlike supplies or stores; a transport.
  13. Trans-pōs'al, n.p. 1406The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
  14. Trans-pōse', v. t.p. 1406To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions. 2. To put out of place. [Rare.] Shak. 3. (Alg.) To bring, as any term of an…
  15. Trāns-po-sĭ'tion, n.p. 1406The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; especially, (a.) (Alg.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation. (b.)…
  16. Trāns'po-şi'tion-al, a.p. 1406Of, pertaining to, or involving, transposition.
  17. Trans-pōs'i-tive, a.p. 1406Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; capable of being transposed.
  18. Trans-pri'nt', v. t.p. 1406To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place. [Rare.] Coleridge.
  19. Trans-prōse', v. t.p. 1406To change from prose into verse; to make metrical; to versify. [Obs. and rare.] Marvel. Dryden.
  20. Trans-rē'gion-ate, a.p. 1406Of, or belonging to, a region beyond another, especially beyond the sea. [Obs. and rare.]
  21. Trans-shāpe', v. t.p. 1406To change into another shape or form. [Written also transhape.]
  22. Trans-ship', v. t.p. 1406To transfer from one ship or other conveyance to another. [Written also trans-ship.]
  23. Trans-ship'ment, n.p. 1406The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or other conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]
  24. Trans-sŭm'mer, n.p. 1406See TRANSOM.
  25. Trān'sub-stăn’ti-āte, v. t.p. 1406To change to another substance. [Rare.] 2. (Rom. Cath. Theol.) To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.
  26. Trăn'sub-stăn/ti-ā'tion, n.p. 1406A change into another substance. 2. (Rom. Cath. Theol.) The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the eucharist is converted into the body and blood of Christ.
  27. Trānsuḥ-stān'ti-ā-tor, n.p. 1406One who maintains the Roman Catholic doctrine of transsubstantiation.
  28. Trān'su-dā'tion, n.p. 1406The act or process of transuding;— (Chem.) the same as EXOSMOSE, q. v.
  29. Tran-sū'da-to-ry, a.p. 1406Passing by transudation.
  30. Tran-sūde', v. i.p. 1406To pass through the pores or interstices of texture, as perspirable matter or other fluid; as, liquor may transude through leather or through wood.
  31. Tran-sūme', v. t.p. 1406To take from one to another. [Rare.]
  32. Tran-sūmpt', n.p. 1406A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Herbert. 2. The same as TRANSOM, q. v.
  33. Tran-sūmp'tion, n.p. 1406The act of taking from one place to another. [Rare.] South.
  34. Tran-sūmpt'ive, a.p. 1406Taking from one to another. [Rare.]
  35. Trans-vā'sāte, v. t.p. 1406To pour or transfer, as a fluid, from one vessel to another; to transfuse. [Obs. and rare.]
  36. Trāns-va-sā'tion, n.p. 1406The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs. and rare.] Holland.
  37. Trans-vĕc'tion, n.p. 1406The act of conveying or carrying over.
  38. Trans-vĕr'ber-āte, v. t.p. 1406To beat or strike through. [Obs.]
  39. Trans-vēr'sal, a.p. 1406Running or lying across; as, a transversal line.
  40. Trans-vĕr'sal, n.p. 1406(Geom.) A straight or curved line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle.
  41. Trans-vēr'sal-ly, adv.p. 1406In a transversal direction; crosswise. Wilkins.
  42. Trans-vērse', a.p. 1406Lying or being across, or in a cross-wise direction. Transverse axis of an ellipse or hyperbola (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. — Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a…
  43. Trāns'verse, n.p. 1406(Geom.) The longer axis of an ellipse.
  44. Trans-vērse', v. t.p. 1406To overturn. [Rare.] Leslie.
  45. Trans-vērse'ly, adv.p. 1406In a transverse manner; as, to cut a thing transversely. At Stonehenge the stones lie transversely upon each other. Stillingsfleet.
  46. Trans-vĕrt’, v. t.p. 1406To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  47. Trans-vĕrt'i-ble, a.p. 1406Capable of being transverted. [Rare.] Browne.
  48. Trans'vo-lā'tion, n.p. 1406The act of flying beyond or across. Jesus had some extraordinary transvolations and acts of emigration beyond the lines of his even and ordinary conversation. Bp. Taylor.
  49. Trānt, v. i.p. 1406To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle. [Obs.] Hall.
  50. Trānt'er, n.p. 1406One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  51. Trāp, n.p. 1406An engine or contrivance that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as, a trap for foxes. 2. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.…
  52. Trāp, a.p. 1406Of, or pertaining to, trap-rock; as, a trap dike.
  53. Trāp, n.p. 1406(Min.) A heavy, igneous rock, of a greenish-black or grayish color, consisting of an intimate mixture of feldspar and hornblende or pyroxene. When consisting of hornblende and albitic feldspar, it is…
  54. Trāp, v. t.p. 1406To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver. 2. To insnare; to take by stratagem. “I trapped the foe.” Dryden. 3. [See ATTRAP.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn. [Rare.] “To deck his hearse, and…
  55. Trāp, v. i.p. 1406To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.
  56. Tra-pān', v. t.p. 1406To insnare; to catch by stratagem. “Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia.” Anson.
  57. Tra-păn', n.p. 1406A snare; a stratagem.
  58. Tra-păn'ner, n.p. 1406One who trapans or insnares.
  59. Trăp'-ball, n.p. 1406A game played with a trap, a ball, and a bat. See TRAP, 3. Halliwell.
  60. Trăp'-dōor, n.p. 1406A door, as in a floor or roof, which shuts close, like a valve. Ray. Trap-door spider (Zoöl.), a spider of the genus Cteniza;—so called from its forming a habitation in the ground, consisting of a…