transpiry (transpiri)

Cf. expiry.] The act or proce of transpiring; transpiration. [Rare.] On this belief in the Constancy of Nature are based transpontine transplant ação; as transplant + -ation.] 1. The act of transplanting a living plant or shifting it to new soil. A then i ans... pretending that.. our own religion is only a cutting or slip from theirs, much withered and dwarfed by transplantation . Landor, Imag. Conv., Alcibiades and Xenophon. 2. The removal of an inhabitant or the inhabitants of one place or region to a different one for residence; also, the persons so removed. Most of kingdoms have thoroughly felt the calamities of forcible transplantations, being either overwhelmed by new colonies that fell upon them, or driven, as one wave is driven by another, to seek new seats, having lost their Raleigh. own. For of the ancient Persians there are few, these being the poster i tie of those which have beene here seated by the transplantations of Tamer lane and Ismael. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 385. 3. In surg., the removal of living ti ue from one part of the body to another, or from one individual to another, to supply a part that has been lost or to le en a deformity, as in the Tali a cot i an operation.-4. A pretended method of curing any disease by making it pa from the sick person to another person, or even to an animal or a vegetable. A cure by transplantation , performed on the son of one that was wont to make chymical ve els for me. Boyle , Works, II. 167. transplanter (trans-plan'tér), n. [ transplant + -er1.] 1. One who transplants.-2. In gar dening , a hand-tool for lifting and transplanting small plants with a ball of earth about the roots. It con IMG:content-0756.jpg:[graphic] sists e entially of two pointed trowels with long handles, hinged together like sci ors. 3. A machine for moving trees. A usual all our arrangements from day to day, which are subject form consists of to the transpiry of facts unknown or unforeseen at the time when these arrangements were made. A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, Int., p. 3. trans place (trans-plās'), v. t.; pret. and pp. trans placed, ppr. trans placing . [ placer ; as trans- + place .] 1. To remove; put in a new place. .. [Rare.] It [an obelisk] was trans placed from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins , Arch i me des, x. 2. To cause to exchange places. [Rare.] Trans place not their proprieties, and confound not their distinctions. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 31. transplant (trans-plant'), v. t. [ plaunten , transplanter = Pr. = trans plantar plantar = It. traspiantare, Sp. trasplantar ar = Pg. trans Every foile is Maade tender twyes if it be transplaunted. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 51. Methods of transplanting trees, To look as if they grew there. Tennyson, Amphion. 2. In general, to remove from one place to another; especially, to remove and establish for residence in another place. These cautions are to be observed:... That if any trans plant themselves into plantations abroad who are known schismatics, outlaws, or criminal persons, that they be sent for back upon the first notice; such persons are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. Bacon, Advice to Villiers, vii. That we may enjoy our consciences in point of God's worship: the main end of transplanting ourselves into these remote corners of the earth. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, App., p. 418. He prospered at the rate of his own wishes, being trans planted out of his cold barren diocese of St. David's into a warmer climate. Clarendon . 3. In surg., to transfer from one part of the body or from one person to another. See trans plantation, 3. transplantable (trans-plan′ta-bl), a. [ A transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., iii. high-framed truck fitted with gearing for hoisting up the tree between the wheels from a hole previously dug around the roots, and lowering it again into a new hole. Also called tree-remover. E. H. Knight.