Trapeze (n.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.
Trapeze (n.) A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.
Trapeziform (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.
Trapeziums (pl. ) of Trapezium
Trapezia (pl. ) of Trapezium
Trapezium (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
Trapezium (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
Trapezium (n.) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Trapezohedral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.
Trapezohedron (n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.
Trapezohedron (n.) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.
Trapezoid (n.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
Trapezoid (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.
Trapezoid (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
Trapezoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.
Trapezoidal (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.
Trapezoidal (a.) Trapezohedral.
Traphole (n.) See Trou-de-loup.
Trappean (a.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
Trapper (n.) One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Trappings (n. pl.) That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Trappings (n. pl.) Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.
Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
Trappous (n.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
Trappures (n. pl.) Trappings for a horse.
Trappy (a.) Same as Trappous.
Traps (n. pl.) Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Trapstick (n.) A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.
Trash (n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Trash (n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
Trash (n.) A worthless person.
Trash (n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
Trashed (imp. & p. p.) of Trash
Trashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trash
Trash (v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
Trash (v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
Trash (v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
Trash (v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.
Trashily (adv.) In a trashy manner.
Trashiness (n.) The quality or state of being trashy.
Trashy (superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.
Traulism (n.) A stammering or stuttering.
Traumatic (a.) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.
Traumatic (a.) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
Traumatic (a.) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus.
Traumatic (n.) A traumatic medicine.
Traumatism (n.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
Traunce (n. & v.) See Trance.
Traunt (v. i.) Same as Trant.
Traunter (n.) Same as Tranter.
Travail (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
Travail (n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Travailed (imp. & p. p.) of Travail
Travailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Travail
Travail (n.) To labor with pain; to toil.
Travail (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Travail (v. t.) To harass; to tire.
Travailous (a.) Causing travail; laborious.
Trave (n.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.
Trave (n.) A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
Traveled (imp. & p. p.) of Travel
Travelled () of Travel
Traveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Travel
Travelling () of Travel
Travel (v. i.) To labor; to travail.
Travel (v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
Travel (v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
Travel (v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.
Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
Travel (v. t.) To force to journey.
Travel (n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
Travel (n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
Travel (n.) Labor; parturition; travail.
Traveled (a.) Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced.
Traveler (n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.
Traveler (n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
Traveler (n.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
Traveler (n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
Traveler (n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
Travel-tainted (a.) Harassed; fatigued with travel.
Travers (a.) Across; athwart.
Traversable (a.) Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
Traversable (a.) Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment.
Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
Traverse (a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
Traverse (a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
Traverse (a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
Traverse (a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Traverse (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
Traversed (imp. & p. p.) of Traverse