| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| trabeae | plural | of Trabea |
| tracing | present participle & vb. noun | of Trace, The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted., A regular path or track; a course. |
| trachea | noun | The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung., One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids., One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts. |
| tracked | imp. & past participle | of Track |
| tracker | noun | One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game., In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. |
| tractor | noun | That which draws, or is used for drawing., Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism. |
| trading | present participle & vb. noun | of Trade, Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company., Frequented by traders., Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician. |
| traduce | verb t. | To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one’s descendants., To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works., To increase or distribute by propagation., To draw away; to seduce., To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of., To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame. |
| traduct | verb t. | To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer., That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. |
| traffic | verb i. | To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade., To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain., To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration., Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade., Commodities of the market., The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. |
| tragedy | noun | A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life., A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. |
| trailed | imp. & past participle | of Trail |
| trailer | noun | One who, or that which, trails., A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. |
| trained | imp. & past participle | of Train |
| trainel | noun | A dragnet. |
| trainer | noun | One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength., A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. |
| traipse | verb i. | To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. |
| traitor | noun | One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason., Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer., Traitorous., To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. |
| traject | verb t. | To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun’s light through three or more cross prisms., A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry., The act of trajecting; trajection., A trajectory. |
| tramble | verb t. | To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. |
| trammel | noun | A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey., A net for confining a woman’s hair., A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble., Fig.: Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle., An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire., 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., A beam compass. See under Beam., To entangle, as in a net; to catch., To confine; to hamper; to shackle. |
| tramped | imp. & past participle | of Tramp |
| tramper | noun | One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. |
| trample | verb t. | To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers., Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult., To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp., To tread in contempt; — with on or upon., The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. |
| tramway | noun | Same as Tramroad., 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. |
| tranced | imp. & past participle | of Trance |
| tranect | noun | A ferry. |
| trannel | noun | A treenail. |
| transit | noun | The act of passing; passage through or over., The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country., A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit., The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope., The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun’s disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary., An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; — called also transit compass, and surveyor’s transit., To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body). |
| transom | noun | 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., One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; — called also transsummer., The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages., The vane of a cross-staff., One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other. |
| tranter | noun | One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. |
| trapped | imp. & past participle | of Trap |
| trapeze | noun | A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1., A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts. |
| trapper | noun | One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs., A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. |
| trashed | imp. & past participle | of Trash |
| traunce | noun & verb | See Trance. |
| travail | noun | Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion., Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail., To labor with pain; to toil., To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor., To harass; to tire. |
| travers | adjective | Across; athwart. |
| trawler | noun | One who, or that which, trawls., A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it. |
| trayful | noun | As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. |