Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 64

Transmew (v. t. & i.) To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.

Transmigrant (a.) Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another.

Transmigrant (n.) One who transmigrates.

Transmigrated (imp. & p. p.) of Transmigrate

Transmigrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transmigrate

Transmigrate (v. i.) To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.

Transmigrate (v. i.) To pass from one body or condition into another.

Transmigration (n.) The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

Transmigration (n.) The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

Transmigrator (n.) One who transmigrates.

Transmigratory (a.) Passing from one body or state to another.

Transmissibility (n.) The quality of being transmissible.

Transmissible (a.) Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

Transmission (n.) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

Transmissive (a.) Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another.

Transmitted (imp. & p. p.) of Transmit

Transmitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transmit

Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.

Transmit (v. t.) To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.

Transmittal (n.) Transmission.

Transmittance (n.) Transmission.

Transmitter (n.) One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.

Transmittible (a.) Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.

Transmogrification (n.) The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.

Transmogrify (v. t.) To change into a different shape; to transform.

Transmove (v. t.) To move or change from one state into another; to transform.

Transmutability (n.) The quality of being transmutable.

Transmutable (a.) Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.

Transmutation (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

Transmutation (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square.

Transmutation (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.

Transmutationist (n.) One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.

Transmuted (imp. & p. p.) of Transmute

Transmuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transmute

Transmute (v. t.) To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

Transmuter (n.) One who transmutes.

Transmutual (a.) Reciprocal; commutual.

Transnatation (n.) The act of swimming across, as a river.

Transnature (v. t.) To transfer or transform the nature of.

Transom (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

Transom (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.

Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Transpadane (a.) Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.

Transpalatine (a.) Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

Transpare (v. t. & i.) To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.

Transparence (n.) The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

Transparencies (pl. ) of Transparency

Transparency (n.) The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it.

Transparent (a.) Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.

Transparent (a.) Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.

Transpass (v. t.) To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river.

Transpass (v. i.) To pass by; to pass away.

Transpassable (a.) Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over.

Transpatronize (v. t.) To transfer the patronage of.

Transpeciate (v. t.) To change from one species to another; to transform.

Transpicuous (a.) Transparent; pervious to the sight.

Transpierced (imp. & p. p.) of Transpierce

Transpiercing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transpierce

Transpierce (v. t.) To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

Transpirable (a.) Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.

Transpiration (n.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.

Transpiration (n.) The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.

Transpiration (n.) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

Transpiratory (a.) Of or relating to transpiration.

Transpired (imp. & p. p.) of Transpire

Transpiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transpire

Transpire (v. i.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

Transpire (v. i.) To evaporate from living cells.

Transpire (v. i.) To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired.

Transpire (v. i.) To happen or come to pass; to occur.

Transpire (v. t.) To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

Transpire (v. t.) To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

Transplaced (imp. & p. p.) of Transplace

Transplacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transplace

Transplace (v. t.) To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.

Transplanted (imp. & p. p.) of Transplant

Transplanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transplant

Transplant (v. t.) To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

Transplant (v. t.) To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.

Transplantation (n.) The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.

Transplantation (n.) The removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty.

Transplantation (n.) The removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver.

Transplanter (n.) One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

Transplendency (n.) Quality or state of being transplendent.

Transplendent (a.) Resplendent in the highest degree.

Transported (imp. & p. p.) of Transport

Transporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transport

Transport (v. t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Transport (v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

Transport (v. t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transport (v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

Transport (v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Transport (v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

Transport (v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Transportability (n.) The quality or state of being transportable.

Transportable (a.) Capable of being transported.

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