translocation (translokashon)

[ zati on. The translocation of the souls of beasts into such matter as is most fitting for them. Dr. H. More , Immortal. of Soul, iii. 13. translucet (trans-lūs'), v . t. [ translucere , shine acro or through: see translucent .] To shine through. Let Joy trans luce thy Beauties' blandishment. Davies, Holy Roode, p. 26. ( Davies .) A noble author would not be pursued too close by a translucence (trans-lū'sens), n. [ (b) A cobbler of a low cla , who manufactures boots and shoes from the material of old ones, selling them at a low price to second-hand dealers. [Slang.] The cobbler is affronted if you don't call him Mr. Trans Tom Brown , Works, III. 73. (Davies.) lat or . (c) pl . Second-hand boots mended and sold at a low price. [Slang.] A costermonger... will part with everything rather than his boots, and to wear a pair of second-hand ones, or translators (as they are called), is felt as a bitter degrada Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 51. tion by them all. other. IMG:content-0743.png:[blocks in formation] The spheres That spight thy crystalline translucencie. Davies, Witte's Pilgrimage, sig. C iv. b. ( Latham .) translucent (trans-lu's ent), a . [ translu- cen(t-)s, ppr. of translucere , shine acro or through, trans , over, + lucere , shine: see lu- cent. Cf. tralucent.] 1. Transmitting rays of light, without being transparent, as alabaster. The subtle e ence acted on him like a charmed draught, and caused the opaque substance of his animal being to grow transparent, or at least translucent ; so that a spir- itual gleam was transmitted through it with a clearer lus- tre than hitherto. 2. Transparent; clear. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii. IMG:content-0744.png:[blocks in formation] translucently (trans-lu's ent-li), adv . In a translucent manner. Drayton , Edward IV. to Mistre Shore, Annotation 3. translucid (trans-lū'sid), a. [= F. translucide = Sp. traslucido = Pg. translucido = It. trans- lucido , traslucido , translucid us , traslucidus , shining through, translucere , shine through: see translucent . Cf. lucid.] Translucent. Flowers whose purple and translucid bowls Stand ever mantling with aërial dew. Shelley , Pro me the us Unbound, iii. 3. translunar (trans-lü'när), a . [L. trans , acro , + luna , moon:: see lunar .] Being beyond the moon: opposed to sublunary. Drayton , To Henry Reynolds. translunary (trans'lū-nā-ri), a . Same as trans IMG:content-0745.png:[blocks in formation] Winchell, World-Life, p. 355.