Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 61

Tramble (v. t.) To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.

Trammel (n.) A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

Trammel (n.) A net for confining a woman's hair.

Trammel (n.) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

Trammel (n.) Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

Trammel (n.) An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.

Trammel (n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.

Trammel (n.) A beam compass. See under Beam.

Trammeled (imp. & p. p.) of Trammel

Trammelled () of Trammel

Trammeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trammel

Trammelling () of Trammel

Trammel (v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch.

Trammel (v. t.) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Trammeled (a.) Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.

Trammeler (n.) One who uses a trammel net.

Trammeler (n.) One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.

Tramming (n.) The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.

Tramontane (a.) Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Tramontane (n.) One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

Tramped (imp. & p. p.) of Tramp

Tramping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tramp

Tramp (v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

Tramp (v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.

Tramp (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

Tramp (v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.

Tramp (n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.

Tramp (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.

Tramp (n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.

Tramp (n.) A tool for trimming hedges.

Tramp (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Tramper (n.) One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.

Trampled (imp. & p. p.) of Trample

Trampling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trample

Trample (v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

Trample (v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

Trample (v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

Trample (v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

Trample (n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

Trampler (n.) One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.

Trampoose (v. i.) To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp.

Tramroad (n.) A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

Tramway (n.) Same as Tramroad.

Tramway (n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

Tranation (n.) The act of swimming over.

Trance (n.) A tedious journey.

Trance (n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

Tranced (imp. & p. p.) of Trance

Trancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trance

Trance (v. t.) To entrance.

Trance (v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.

Trance (v. i.) To pass; to travel.

Tranect (n.) A ferry.

Trangram (n.) Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.

Trannel (n.) A treenail.

Tranquil (a.) Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.

Tranquilization (n.) Alt. of Tranquillization

Tranquillization (n.) The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.

Tranquilized (imp. & p. p.) of Tranquillize

Tranquilliized () of Tranquillize

Tranquilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tranquillize

Tranquillizing () of Tranquillize

Tranquilize (v. t.) Alt. of Tranquillize

Tranquillize (v. t.) To 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.

Tranquilizer (n.) Alt. of Tranquillizer

Tranquillizer (n.) One who, or that which, tranquilizes.

Tranquilizing (a.) Alt. of Tranquillizing

Tranquillizing (a.) Making tranquil; calming.

Tranquillity (n.) The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.

Tranquilly (adv.) In a tranquil manner; calmly.

Tranquilness (n.) Quality or state of being tranquil.

Trans- () A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.

Transacted (imp. & p. p.) of Transact

Transacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transact

Transact (v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

Transact (v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

Transaction (n.) The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

Transaction (n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

Transaction (n.) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

Transactor (n.) One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business.

Transalpine (a.) Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine.

Transalpine (n.) A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

Transanimated (imp. & p. p.) of Transanimate

Transanimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transanimate

Transanimate (v. t.) To animate with a soul conveyed from another body.

Transanimation (n.) The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.

Transatlantic (a.) Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

Transatlantic (a.) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Transaudient (a.) Permitting the passage of sound.

Transcalency (n.) The quality or state of being transcalent.

Transcalent (a.) Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

Transcended (imp. & p. p.) of Transcend

Transcending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transcend

Transcend (v. t.) To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

Transcend (v. t.) To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed.

Transcend (v. t.) To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.

Transcend (v. i.) To climb; to mount.

Transcend (v. i.) To be transcendent; to excel.

Transcendence () Alt. of Transcendency

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