| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| trabea | noun | A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. — worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. |
| traced | imp. & past participle | of Trace |
| tracer | noun | One who, or that which, traces. |
| traded | imp. & past participle | of Trade, Professional; practiced. |
| trader | noun | One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader., A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade. |
| tragic | adjective | Alt. of Tragical, A writer of tragedy., A tragedy; a tragic drama. |
| tragus | noun | The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear. |
| trainy | adjective | Belonging to train oil. |
| trajet | noun | Alt. of Trajetry |
| trance | noun | A tedious journey., 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., 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., To entrance., To pass over or across; to traverse., To pass; to travel. |
| 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. | |
| transe | noun | See Trance. |
| trapan | noun | A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan., To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan. |
| trapes | noun | A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman., To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. |
| trappy | adjective | Same as Trappous. |
| trashy | superl. | Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel. |
| traunt | verb i. | Same as Trant. |
| travel | verb i. | To labor; to travail., To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets., 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., To pass; to go; to move., To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent., To force to journey., The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey., 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., The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve., Labor; parturition; travail. |
| treaty | noun | The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation., An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance., A proposal tending to an agreement., A treatise; a tract. |
| treble | adjective | Threefold; triple., Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound., Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice., Trebly; triply., The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano., To make thrice as much; to make threefold., To utter in a treble key; to whine., To become threefold. |
| trebly | adverb | In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. |
| trefle | noun | A species of time; — so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil., Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing. |
| treget | noun | Guile; trickery. |
| tremex | noun | A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail. |
| tremor | verb | A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. |
| trench | verb t. | To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like., To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench., To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it., To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops., To encroach; to intrench., To have direction; to aim or tend., A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land., An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like., An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. |
| trepan | noun | A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine., A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts., To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan., A snare; a trapan., a deceiver; a cheat., To insnare; to trap; to trapan. |
| trepid | adjective | Trembling; quaking. |
| tresor | noun | Treasure. |
| tressy | adjective | Abounding in tresses. |
| tretis | noun | Alt. of Tretys, Alt. of Tretys |
| tretys | noun | A treatise; also, a treaty., Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. |
| trevat | noun | A weaver’s cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet. |
| trevet | noun | A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet. |
| trewth | noun | Truth. |
| tribal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. |
| tricae | plural | of Trica |
| tricky | adjective | Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish. |
| tricot | noun | A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work. |
| triens | noun | A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2. |
| trifid | adjective | Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft. |
| trifle | noun | A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair., A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it., To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements., To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle., To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. |
| trigon | noun | A figure having three angles; a triangle., A division consisting of three signs., Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other., A kind of triangular lyre or harp., A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle. |
| trigyn | noun | Any one of the Trigynia. |
| trillo | noun | A trill or shake. See Trill. |
| trimly | adverb | In a trim manner; nicely. |
| trinal | adjective | Threefold. |
| tringa | noun | A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper. |
| triole | noun | Same as Triplet. |
| tripel | noun | Same as Tripoli. |
| triple | adjective | Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie., Three times repeated; treble. See Treble., One of three; third., To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee. |
| triply | adverb | In a triple manner. |
| tripod | noun | Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet., A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. |
| tripos | noun | A tripod., A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. |
| triste | imp. | of Trist, A cattle fair. |
| tristy | adjective | See Trist, a. |
| triton | noun | A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell., Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet., Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander. |
| trityl | noun | Propyl. |
| triune | adjective | Being three in one; — an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead. |
| trivet | noun | A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod., A weaver’s knife. See Trevat. |
| trocar | noun | A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. |
| troche | noun | A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form. |
| trochi | plural | of Trochus |
| trogon | noun | Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. |
| trogue | noun | A wooden trough, forming a drain. |
| troili | plural | of Troilus |
| trojan | adjective | Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants., A native or inhabitant of Troy. |
| trolly | noun | A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like., A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal., A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes., A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. |
| trompe | noun | A trumpet; a trump. |
| trones | noun | A steelyard., A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. |
| trophi | noun pl. | The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages. |
| trophy | noun | A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people., The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive., Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc., Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace. |
| tropic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water., One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23ยก 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic., One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names., The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side., Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical. |
| trough | noun | A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel., Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc. |
| troupe | noun | A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera. |
| trouse | noun | Trousers. |
| trover | noun | The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means., An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion. |
| trowel | noun | A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them., A gardener’s tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc., A tool used for smoothing a mold. |
| truage | noun | A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax., A tax or impost; tribute. |
| truand | noun & adjective | See Truant. |
| truant | noun | One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk., Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy., To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant., To idle away; to waste. |
| trudge | verb i. | To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily. |
| truism | noun | An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; — opposed to falsism. |
| trunch | noun | A stake; a small post. |
| trusty | superl. | Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable., Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm., Involving trust; as, a trusty business. |
| truths | plural | of Truth |
| truthy | adjective | Truthful; likely; probable. |
| trying | present participle & vb. noun | of Try, Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position. |
| trygon | noun | Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera. |