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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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Trāunt’er, n. p. 1407The same as TRANTER, q. v.Trāv'ail, v. i. p. 1407To labor with pain; to toil. “Slothful persons who will not travail for their livings.” Latimer. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in parturition.Träv'ail, v. t. p. 1407To 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.Träv'ail, n. p. 1407Labor with pain; severe toil. As every thing of price, so doth this require travail. Hooker. 2. Parturition; as, a severe travail; an easy travail.Trăv'ail-oūs, a. p. 1407Causing or involving travail; laborious and painful. [Obs.] Wycliffe.Trăv'ail-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 1407In a travailous manner; laboriously and painfully. [Obs.] Wycliffe.Trāve, n. p. 1407A beam; a lay of joists; a traverse. Wood. 2. A wooden frame to confine a horse or ox while the smith is setting his shoes.Trā'vĕl, v. i. p. 1407To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city or through the streets. 2. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for…Trăv'el, v. t. p. 1407To journey over; to pass; as, to travel the whole kingdom of England. “I travel this profound.” Milton. 2. To force to journey. [Rare.] There are other privileges granted unto most of the…Trăv'el, n. p. 1407The 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.) An account, by one who travels…Trăv'eled, p. a. p. 1407Gained or made by travel; as, traveled observations. 2. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing. “The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen.” Byron.Trăv'el-er, n. p. 1407One who travels in any way. 2. Specifically, a commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, and the like. Simmonds. 3. (Naut.) An iron ring made…Traveler's-joy p. 1407the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. London.Trăv'el-tāint'ed, a. p. 1407Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.Trā'vers, adv. p. 1407Across; athwart. [Obs.] Shak.Trā'vers-a-ble, a. p. 1407Capable of being traversed or denied; as, a traversable allegation.Trā'verse, adv. p. 1407Athwart; crosswise. The ridges of the field lay traverse. Hayward. ☞ This word is never used as a preposition, although given as such in many dictionaries. The error, which has been followed by many…Trăv'erse, a. p. 1407Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . may be trusted in traverse work. Wotton.Trā'verse, n. p. 1407Any thing that traverses or crosses; especially, (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky…Trăv'erse, v. t. p. 1407To 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; to obstruct. I can not but…Träv'erse, v. i. p. 1407To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. “To see thee fight, to see thee traverse.” Shak. 2. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a…Trā'verse-bōard, n. p. 1407(Naut.) A small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes bored as there are half hours in a watch, and used for recording the…Trā'verse-drill, n. p. 1407(Mach.) A machine-tool for feeding a drill into the work. [Local U. S.] 2. A cotter-drill. [Eng.]Trăv'ers-er, n. p. 1407One who, or that which, traverses or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like. 2. (Law.) One who traverses or denies. 3. (Railways.) A traverse-table.Trāv/erse-sāil'ing, n. p. 1407(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.Träv'erse-tā'ble, n. p. 1407(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…Trā'vers-ing-plāte, n. p. 1407(Mil.) One of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun-carriage, where the lever or handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Stocqueler.Trāv'ers-ing-plāt'form, n. p. 1408(Mil.) A platform upon which guns may be traversed. Stocqueler.Trāv'er-tine, n. p. 1408(Min.) A white concretionary limestone, usually hard and semi-crystalline, deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Lyell.Trāv'es-ty, a. p. 1408Having an unusual dress; disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous. Warton.Trāv'es-ty, n. p. 1408A burlesque translation or imitation of a work; a parody. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.Trāv'es-ty, v. t. p. 1408To translate or parody so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.Trāwl, n. p. 1408A trawl-net. C. Kingsley. 2. A long line, sometimes extending a mile or more, having short lines with baited hooks attached to it, used for catching certain fish, as cod, mackerel, and the like.Trāwl, v. i. p. 1408To take fish with a trawl.Trāwl'-bōat, n. p. 1408A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawl-nets.Trāwl'er, n. p. 1408One who, or that which, trawls. 2. A fishing vessel which trails or drags a net behind it. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.Trawl'er-man, n. p. 1408A fisherman who uses unlawful arts and engines to destroy fish. Cowell. Craig.Trāwl'-nĕt, n. p. 1408A kind of drag-net for catching fish that live near the bottom of the water.Trāwl'-warp, n. p. 1408A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawl-net.Trāy, n. p. 1408A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a piece of timber and made hollow for various domestic uses, as for making bread in, chopping meat, and the like. 2. A flat, broad vessel on…Trāy, v. t. p. 1408To betray; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.Trāy'ful, n. p. 1408As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.Trāy'-trĭp, n. p. 1408An old game played with dice, and probably on the same kind of tables that the backgammon is. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Trēach'er, n. p. 1408A traitor. [Obs.] Spenser.Trĕach'er-ōus, a. p. 1408Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; faithless; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust. Syn.—Faithless; perfidious…Trĕach'er-ōus-ly, adv. p. 1408In a treacherous manner; faithlessly; perfidiously. You treacherously practiced to undo me. Otway.Trĕach'er-ōūs-ness, n. p. 1408The quality or state of being treacherous; breach of allegiance or of faith; faithlessness; perfidiousness.Trēach'er-y, n. p. 1408Violation of allegiance, or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct. In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption. Macaulay.Trēach'e-toûr or Trēach'oûr, n. p. 1408A traitor. [Obs.]Trēa'cle, n. p. 1408A medicinal compound of various ingredients, formerly used as a preventive of, or cure for, the effects of poison or the bites of venomous animals; a theriac. See THERIAC. We kill the viper, and make…Treacle mustard or Treacle water p. 1408a cruciferous plant of several species of the genus Erysimum, found in Europe and North America;—so called because one species (E. cheiranthoides) was formerly used as an ingredient in Venice…Trēa'cly, a. p. 1408Like, or composed of, treacle.Tréad, v. i. p. 1408To set the foot. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope. 2. To walk or go. “Ye that stately tread, or lowly creep.” Milton. 3. To…Trēad, v. t. p. 1408To step or walk on. “Forbid to tread the promised land he saw.” Prior. He thought she trod the ground with greater grace. Dryden. 2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land…Tread, n. p. 1408A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as, a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her. Tennyson. 2.…Trĕad'er, n. p. 1408One who treads.Tread'le, n. p. 1408The part of a loom, or other machine, which is moved by the foot. 2. The albuminous cords which unite the yolk of the egg to the white; — so called because formerly supposed to be the sperm of the…Tread'-mill, n. p. 1408A mill worked by persons treading on steps upon the periphery of a wide horizontal wheel. It is used chiefly as a means of prison discipline.Trēad'-wheel, n. p. 1408An horizontal wheel furnished on its exterior surface with foot-boards on which persons may tread, and so cause the wheel to revolve.Trēague, n. p. 1408A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.