Traitor

tra'ter, n. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who betrays his trust; a betrayer. [OF. traitor, L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to hand over, deliver, betray, fr. tran." (q. v.) and dare, to give: see Tradition.'] —Trai'tore , -tre , n. A woman who betrays.— Trai'torous, -ter-us, a. Guilty of treason; treacherous; penidious; iaithle : consisting in, or partaking of, trea.-ou.— Trai'torously, adv. — Trai'- torous ne , n. — Trea's on, tre'zn, n. The offense of attempting to overthrow or betray the sovereign or the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; the levying of war against, or adhering to or aiding the enemies of, one's country; disloyalty; treachery. [ME. traison, OF. traison, trdir, F. trahir, to betray, L. tradere.] - Trea'- sonable, a. Pert, to, or consisting of, treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt;— treacherous traitorous perfidious insidious. Trea's on able ne , ».— Treasonably, adv. Tr?oect, tra-jekf, v. To throw or cast through. [L. trajicere, -jectum, trans (q. v.) and jacere, to throw.] — Trajec'tion, n. Act of trajecting; a throw in" or casting through or acro ; also, emi ion. Trajecfory, -o-rT, n. The curve which a moving body describes in space. Tram, tram, «. A coal wagon used in some parts of England, esp. at Newcastle one of the rails or tracks of a tram-road; in Eng., a car on a horse railroad. [ProvE., a coal-wagon, Lowl. Scot., the shaft of a cart, beam, bar, OSw., a piece of a tree cut into logs, OHG. tram, dram, OD. drom, a beam, LG. traam, the handles of a wheelbarrow or sledge.] — Tram'-road, -way, n. A road prepared for easy transit of trains or wagons, by forming the wheel tocks of beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron; in Eng., a horse-railroad.