tragule (tragul)

[ swine, sometimes miscalled musk - deer, and con Ab Py founded with the true musk-deer (of the genus Moschus), in consequence of their small size and the similar development of the canine teeth; the chevrotains. The placenta is diffuse, not cotyledonary; Rt Rn the stomach has but Spl characters. 6420 and the kanchil, or pygmy chevrotain, T. pyg mæus. The latter is very small, and is renowned for its Pygmy Chevrotain ( Tragulus pygmæus ), male. cunning in the Asiatic isles as the fox is with us, being said to feign death when snared, and then to leap up and run off when disentangled from the snare. particular use, tragus (tragus), n.; pl. tragi (-ji). [NL., jection opposite is the antitragus. See second IMG:content-0705.jpg:[blocks in formation] An old form of treatise . A booke, conteinyng a traictise of justice. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 248. ( Davies .) traiet, v. An old spelling of tray2 . traik (trāk), v. i. [Origin obscure; cf. track1 , etc.; cf. also Sw. tråka , tug, trudge.] 1. Tο wander idly from place to place.-2. To wan- der so as to lose one's self or itself: chiefly applied to the young of poultry. Jamie son.- 3. To be in a declining state of health; become very ill; give out. [Scotch in all uses.] But for the kindne and helpfulne shown me on all hands I must have traiked. Carlyle , in Froude (First Forty Years, xl., note 2). To traik after, to follow in a lounging or dangling way; dangle after. Coming traiking after them for their destruction. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxiv.