tractableness (traktablnes)

bility. It will be objected, that whatsoever I fancy of the tract here are many who will never table ne of children,. apply themselves to their books. Locke , Education, § 86. tractably (trak'ta-bli), adv. In a tractable manner; with compliance or docility. Tractarian (trak-ta'ri-an), a. and n. [ II. n. One of the promoters or adherents of Tractarian ism. His religious opinions,. said the clergyman, were those of a sound Churchman; by which he meant, I rather suspect, that he was a pretty smart tractarian. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, xlviii. IMG:content-0691.jpg:[blocks in formation] of the ve el, as by the duct us Botalli on the wall of the aorta. traction-engine (trak's hon-en"jin), n. Amova- ble steam-engine used for dragging heavy loads tractator (trak-tā'tor), n. [L. tractator, a handler, a treater, tract are , handle, treat: see tract2, treat.] A writer of tracts; specifi- cally [ cap .], one of the writers of the "Tracts for the Times"; a Tractarian. [Rare.] Talking of the Tractators - so you still like their tone! And so do I. Kingsley, Life, I. 58. tractatrix (trak-tā'triks), n. [Fem. of tract a- tor.] In geom ., same as tractrix. IMG:content-0692.png:[subsumed][ocr errors][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors][merged small] a , driving-wheels with V-shaped projections on their rims to pre- vent slip; 6 , gear-wheel keyed to the shaft of the driving-wheels, and receiving motion through intermediate gearing from the engine ci mounted upon the top of the boiler d . This driving-gear may be made to reverse its motion by a link-motion controlled by the lever e. The steam-dome and smoke-stack are shown at and g . When it is desired to use the steam-power for driving other machinery, the trac- tion-wheels may be run out of gear, and the power taken off by a belt from the fly-wheel h . The engineer stands on a step j, and through a hand-wheel keyed to the shaft & steers the machine when it is moved from place to place, the steering-mechanism consisting of the worm- gearing m which turns the winding-shaft 2, and the chain n linked to the opposite ends of the axle of the wheels 1, this axle being swiveled to a bracket on the under side of the boiler. The turning of the shaft lengthens the chain-connection on one side while shortening it on the other, thus turning the axle of the wheels on its center, after the manner in which the front wheels of vehicles are turned in changing their direction. on common roads, as distinguished from loco- motive engine , used on a railway. traction-gearing (trak's hon-gering), n. A mechanical arrangement for utilizing the force of friction or adhesion by causing it to turn a wheel and its shaft. traction-wheel (trak's hon-hwel), n. A wheel which draws or impels a vehicle, as the driving- wheel of a locomotive. Power is applied to the wheel, and its frictional adhesion to the surface on which it bears is the direct agent of progre ion. E. H. Knight . Tractite (trak'tīt), n. [ trahere , pp. tractus , draw (see tract2 ), + -itious .) Treating; handling. [Rare.] Imp . Dict. tractive (traktiv), a . [F. tract if , tus , pp. of trahere, draw: see tract1 .] Trac- tional; drawing; needed or used in drawing. In any plexus of forces whatever, the resultant of all the tractive forces involved will be the line of greatest trac- tion. J. Fiske , Cosmic Philos., I. 293. tract let (trakt'let), n. [ tract3 + -let .] A small tract. tradt. A Middle English preterit of tread . tradel (trād), n . and a. [A later form, due part- ly to a ociation with the related noun tread and the orig. verb tread , of early mod. E. trode , trod, trod , footstep, track, trod , footstep, tredan (pret. træd , pp. treden ), step, tread: see tread , v ., and cf. tread , n ., trod , trode . The appar. irregularity of the form (the reg. form is trode or trod , as still in dial. use) and the deflection of sense (from the obs. senses 'track, path,' etc., to the present usual senses, 'busine , commerce, exchange') have obscured the etymology, suggesting an origin from or a confusion with F. traite , trade, Sp. trato , treatment, intercourse, communication, traffic, trade, etc.: see trait , tract2 .] I. n. 1t. A foot- step; track; trace; trail. Streight gan he him revyle, and bitter rate, As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. IMG:content-0693.png:[graphic] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pa e through Priam's house. Surrey, Æneid, ii. 587. By reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion J. Udall , On Luke xix. You were advised that his forward spirit Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 174. 3t. The bearing part of the felly of a wheel; the tread of a wheel. ing the same to use prayer morning and evening, make beysaunce to the magistrates. Huggard, Displaying of the Protestants, p. 85. ( Davies , [under beysaunce .) tractor (trak'tor), n . [ tractor , tra- here , pp. tractus , draw, drag: see tract1 .] That which draws or is used for drawing; specifi- cally, in the plural, metallic tractors. See the 6. Busine pursued; occupation. What varied wonders tempt us as they pa ! The cowpox, tractors , galvanism, and gas. Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Metallic tractors, a pair of small pointed bars, one of bra and the other of steel, which, by being drawn over diseased parts of the body, were supposed to give relief through the agency of electricity or magnetism. They were devised by Dr. Perkins, and were much in vogue about the beginning of the nineteenth century, but have long been disused. Also called Perkins's tractors. for the cure of diseases. See tractor . Homœopathy has not died out so rapidly as Tractor a- 0. W. Holmes, Med. E ays, Pref. traction (trak's hon), n. [= F. traction = Sp. traccion = Pg. tracção = It. trazione , trahere , pp. tractus , draw, drag: see tract i .] 1. The act of draw- [NL. * tractor i us , trahere , pp. tractus , draw: ing, or the state of being drawn; specifically, in physiol., contraction, as of a muscle. - 2. by Christian Huygens (1629-95), the property of which is that the dis- tances along the different tangents from the points of contact to the in- tersections of a certain line are all equal. It is the evolute of the catenary. The definition above given is that now usu- al, and implies four branches, as shown in the figure. But the original definition is that it is the locus of the center of gyration of a rod of which the end is drawn along a straight line, without any effect of momen- tum. So defined, the curve is confined to one side of the asymptote, and so it is usually drawn. Also tractatrix. Compare cut under syn tractrix. tractus (trak'tus), n.; pl. tractus. [NL., tractus , a tract: see tract2 , tract3 .] 1. Same as tract1 , 7.-2. Same as tract3 , 2. - Tractus in- termediolateralis, the lateral cornu of the spinal cord The Spaniards dwell with their families, and exercise divers manuary trades . Coryat, Crudities, I. 122. Thy trade to me tell, and where thou dost dwell. Robin Hood and the Butcher (Child's Ballads, V. 33). Begging is a trade unknown in this empire. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, i. 6. 7. Specifically, the craft or busine which a person has learned and which he carries on as a means of livelihood or for profit; occира- tion; particularly, mechanical or mercantile employment; a handicraft, as distinguished IMG:content-0694.png:[blocks in formation] They traded the persons of men. Ezek. xxvii. 13. Ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to " trade " rifles and watches. J. F. Cooper , Oak Openings, ii. 41. To educate; bring up; train: with up . A Wild Rogue is he that is born a Rogue; he is more than the other, as beastly begotten in barn or bushes, and from his infancy traded up in treachery. 10. A purchase or sale; a bargain; specifically, subtle and more given by nature to all kind of knavery in U. S. politics, a deal. But it is not every man's talent to force a trade ; for a customer may choose whether he will buy or not. Dryden, Duche of York's Paper Defended. Give us something like the Australian system of voting, so that the resulting legislature will represent the state's busine interests, and not a series of deals, dickers, trades, and bargains. The Century , XXXVII. 633. 11t. The implements, collectively, of any occupation. The shepherd... with him all his patrimony bears, His house and household gods, his trade of war. Dryden , tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iii. 535. 12. Stuff: often used contemptuously in the sense of 'rubbish.' [Prov. Eng. and New Eng.] Ale, sir, and aqua vitæ, and such low-bred trade , is all I Kingsley, Westward Ho! xiv. draw now-a-days. Harman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 38. Euerie one of these colleges haue in like maner their profe ors or readers of the toongs and seuerall sciences, as they call them, which dailie trade up the youth there abiding priuatlie in their halles. Harrison, Descrip. of Eng., ii. 3 (Holinshed's Chron., I.). trade2 (trad), n. [Abbr. of trade - wind.] A trade-wind: used commonly in the plural. tradest. An obsolete preterit of tread. tradedt (trā'ded), a. [ Eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment. Shak ., T. and C., ii. 2. 64. Nay, you are better traded with these things than I, and therefore I'll subscribe to your judgment. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1.