Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 60
Tragopan (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant ({Ceriornis satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
Tragopan (n.) Brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head.
Tragus (n.) (Anat.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
Tragus (n.) A small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear.
T rail () See under T.
T rail, () A kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the letter T.
Trailed (imp. & p. p.) of Trail.
Trailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trail.
Trail (v. t.) To hunt by the track; to track.
Trail (v. t.) To follow behind.
Trail (v. t.) To pursue. -- Halliwell.
Trail (v. t.) To draw or drag, as along the ground.
And hung his head, and trailed his legs along. -- Dryden.
They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast. -- Milton.
Long behind he trails his pompous robe. -- Pope.
Trail (v. t.) (Mil.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
Trail (v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. -- Longfellow.
Trail (v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon. [Prov. Eng.]
I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance. -- C. Bronte.
Trail (v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
When his brother saw the red blood trail. -- Spenser.
Trail (v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
Trail (n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. -- Cooper.
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! -- Shak.
Trail (n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
When lightning shoots in glittering trails along. -- Rowe.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train. "A radiant trail of hair." -- Pope.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle. [Obs.]
Trail (n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis. [Obs.]
Trail (n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish. -- Baird.
Trail (n.) (Mil.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
Trail (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition. [Prov. Eng.]
Trail boards (Shipbuilding), The carved boards on both sides of the cutwater near the figurehead.
Trail net, A net that is trailed or drawn behind a boat. -- Wright.
Trail (n.) A track or mark left by something that has passed; "there as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek".
Trail (n.) A path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
Trail (n.) Evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail].
Trail (v.) To lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back].
Trail (v.) Go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track].
Trail (v.) Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" [syn: trail, shack].
Trail (v.) Hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground".
Trail (v.) Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: trail, train].
Trail, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 62
Housing Units (2000): 35
Land area (2000): 0.992799 sq. miles (2.571337 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.992799 sq. miles (2.571337 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65344
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.780625 N, 95.695068 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56684
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trail, MN
Trail
Trailer (n.) One who, or that which, trails.
Trailer (n.) A wheeled vehicle without a motor, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle in front of it; specifically:
Trailer (n.) (a) such a vehicle used on street railroads. Called also trail car.
Trailer (n.) (b) the large wheeled wagon or van pulled by a tractor in a tractor-trailer combination.
Trailer (n.) (c) a vehicle equipped as a mobile dwelling unit, pulled by an automobile or other mtor vehicle, and used as a dwelling when parked; -- also called a mobile home.
Trailer (n.) (d) A wheeled motorless open wagon designed to carry a heavy object, such as a boat trailer.
Trailer (n.) (Movies) A short blank segment of movie film attached to the end; -- used for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
Trailer (n.) (Movies) A short film
consisting primarily of one or more short portions of a film, used in
promotions or advertisements shortly before initial release of a film.
Trailer (n.) A part of an object which extends some distance
beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers [2], often with outlets supplying electrical power and water.
Called also trailer camp, trailer court.
Trailer (n.) Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke].
Trailer (n.) An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future [syn: preview, prevue, trailer].
Trailer (n.) A large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor.
Trailer (n.) A wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy [syn: trailer, house trailer].
Trailing () a. & vb. n. from Trail.
Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus.
Trailing spring, A spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. -- Weale.
Trailing wheel, A hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.
Trailing (n.) The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind [syn: trailing, tracking].
Trained (imp. & p. p.) of Train.
Training (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Train.
Train (v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. -- Milton.
Train (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. -- Shak.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. -- Shak.
This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. -- Ford.
Train (v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. -- Milton.
The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. -- Dryden.
Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
Train (v. t.) (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. -- Jeffrey.
Train (v. t.) (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), To point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. -- Totten.
To train, or To train up, To educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. -- Prov. xxii. 6.
The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. -- Tillotson.
Train (v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
Train (v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
Train (n.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." -- Milton.
Train (n.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. -- Halliwell.
With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. -- Spenser.
Train (n.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically :
Train (n.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
Train (n.) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
Train (n.) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." -- Ray.
Train (n.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
The king's daughter with a lovely train. -- Addison.
My train are men of choice and rarest parts. -- Shak.
Train (n.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." -- I. Watts.
The train of ills our love would draw behind it. -- Addison.
Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. -- Milton.
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. -- Locke.
Train (n.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. -- Swift.
Train (n.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Train (n.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
Train (v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad ; -- called also railroad train.
Train (n.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
Train (n.) (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Train (n.) (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.
Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), A set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations.
Train mile (Railroads), A unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run.
Train of artillery, Any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. -- Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.).
Train of mechanism, A series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it.
Train road, A slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining.
Train tackle (Naut.), A tackle for running guns in and out.
Syn: Cars.
Usage: Train, Cars. At one time "train" meaning railroad train was also referred to in the U. S. by the phrase "the cars". In the 1913 dictionary the usage was described thus: "Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars."
Train (n.) Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction" [syn: train, railroad train].
Train (n.) A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" [syn: string, train].
Train (n.) A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: caravan, train, wagon train].
Train (n.) A series of consequences wrought by an event; "it led to a train of disasters".
Train (n.) Piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor; "the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews".
Train (n.) Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train].
Train (v.) Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" [syn: train, develop, prepare, educate].
Train (v.) Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid" [syn: train, prepare].
Train (v.) Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition].
Train (v.) Educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior" [syn: prepare, groom, train].
Train (v.) Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise].
Train (v.) Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: aim, take, train, take aim, direct].
Train (v.) Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew" [syn: coach, train].
Train (v.) Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition; "She is training for the Olympics".
Train (v.) Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it; "train the vine".
Train (v.) Travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" [syn: train, rail].
Train (v.) Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: trail, train].
Trainable (a.) Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. -- Richardson.
Trainbands (n. pl. ) of Trainband.
Trainband (n.) A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. [Eng.]
He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. -- Macaulay.
A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. -- Cowper.
Trainband (n.) A company of militia in England or America from the 16th century to the 18th century.
Trainbearer (n.) One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
Trainbearer (n.) One who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion.
Trainel (n.) [OF.] A dragnet. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Trainer (n.) One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.
Trainer (n.) A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Trainer (n.) One who trains other persons or animals.
Trainer (n.) Simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane [syn: flight simulator, trainer].
Trainer, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1901
Housing Units (2000): 797
Land area (2000): 1.055329 sq. miles (2.733289 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.281134 sq. miles (0.728133 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.336463 sq. miles (3.461422 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77288
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.828612 N, 75.403599 W
ZIP
Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trainer, PA
Trainer
Training (n.) The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Fan training (Hort.), The operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan.
Horizontal training (Hort.), The operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction.
Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a.
Training day, A day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.]
Training ship, A vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.
Syn: See Education.
Training (n.) Activity leading to skilled behavior [syn: training, preparation, grooming].
Training (n.) The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding].
Train oil () Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
Train oil (n.) A white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant [syn: whale oil, train oil].
Trainy (a.) Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] -- Gay.
Traipse (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] -- Pope. Trais
Traipse (v.) Walk or tramp about [syn: traipse, shlep].
Trais (n. pl.) Alt. of Trays.
Trays (n. pl.) Traces. [Obs.]
Four white bulls in the trays. -- Chaucer.
Trait (v.) A stroke; a touch.
By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. -- Broome.
Trait (v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Note: Formerly pronounced tr[=a], as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England.
Trait (n.) A distinguishing feature of your personal nature.
Traiteur (n.) [F.] The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. -- Simmonds.
Traitor (n.) 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.
O passing traitor, perjured and unjust! -- Shak.
Traitor (n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." -- Chaucer.
Traitor (a.) Traitorous. [R.] -- Spenser. Pope.
Traitor (v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] " But time, it traitors me." -- Lithgow.
Traitor (n.) Someone who betrays his country by committing treason [syn: traitor, treasonist].
Traitor (n.) A person who says one thing and does another [syn: double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor].
Traitor, () crimes. One guilty of treason.
Traitor, () The punishment of a traitor is death.
Traitoress (n.) A traitress. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
Traitorly (a.) Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.] "Traitorly rascals." -- Shak.
Traitorous (a.) 叛逆的；背信棄義的；口蜜腹劍的 Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. -- Shak.
Traitorous (a.) Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- {Trai"tor*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Trai"tor*ous*ness}, n.
Traitorous (a.) Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: {faithless}, {traitorous}, {unfaithful}, {treasonable}, {treasonous}].
Traitorously (adv.) 叛逆地；不忠地 In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" [syn: {faithlessly}, {traitorously}, {treacherously}, {treasonably}, {false}].
Traitory (n.) Treachery. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Traitress (n.) A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. -- Dryden.
Traitress (n.) Female traitor.
Trajected (imp. & p. p.) of Traject.
Trajecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Traject.
Traject (v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] -- Sir I. Newton.
Traject (n.) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Traject (n.) The act of trajecting; trajection.
Traject (n.) A trajectory. [R.] -- I. Taylor.
Trajection (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. -- Boyle.
Trajection (n.) Transposition. [R.] -- Knatchbull.
Trajectories (n. pl. ) of Trajectory.
Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air. Trajetour Trajet
Trajectory (n.) The path followed by an object moving through space [syn: trajectory, flight].
Trajet (n.) Alt. of Trajetry.
Trajetour (n.) Alt. of Trajetry.
Trajetry (n.) See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]
Tralation (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Tralatition (n.) A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
Tralatitious (a.) Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. -- W. Withington.
Tralatitious (a.) Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. -- Stackhouse.
Tralatitious (a.) Having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor" [syn: handed-down, tralatitious].
Tralatitiously (adv.) In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. -- Holder.
Tralineate (v. i.) To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Tralucency (n.) Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Tralucent (a.) Translucent. [Obs.]
The air's tralucent gallery. -- Sir. J. Davies.
Tram (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
Tram (n.) The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] -- De Quincey.
Tram (n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
Tram (n.) A car on a horse railroad. [Eng.]
Tram car, A car made to run on a tramway, especially a street railway car.
Tram plate, A flat piece of iron laid down as a rail.
Tram pot (Milling), The step and support for the lower end of the spindle of a millstone.
Tram (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
Tram (n.) (Mech.) Same as Trammel, n., 6.
Tram (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Trammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramming.] To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.
Tram (v. i.) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.
Tram (n.) A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway].
Tram (n.) A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar, tram].
Tram (n.) A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car].
Tram (v.) Travel by tram.