trash

[Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs from a tree, picked up and used for fuel; tra i =a slovenly fellow; tra a to be slovenly; Norw.tros =fallen twigs, half-rotten branches easily broken; Sw.trasa =a rag, a tatter; Sw. dial. trase =a rag; tråds =a heap of sticks, a worthle fellow, old usele bits of fencing.] 1. Loppings of trees, bruised canes, . In the West Indies the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called Field-trash; the bruised and macerated rind of canes is called Cane-trash; and both are Trăp'-pist, s. & a. [Fr. Trap piste (see def. A.).] called Trash. A. As substantive: Church Hist. ( pl .): A branch of the Cistercian order, following the reformed rule of La Trappe, an ancient monastery in the heart of La Perche, not 2. Any waste or worthle matter; good-for nothing stuff; rubbish, refuse, dregs. "Hence all that interferes, and dares to clash With indolence and luxury, is trash ." Cowper: Progre of Error, 428, pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1364.png:[blocks in formation] "[He] had some traunting chapman to his syre, That traufiqued both by water and by fire." Bp. Hall : Satires , iv. 2. trâunt-er, subst . [Eng. traunt ; -er.] One who hawks about wares for sale; a hawker, a peddler. traut-win-ite (au as ow), s. [After J. C. Trautwine; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min.: A microcrystalline mineral, occurring in "Whom t' advance, and whom To trash for overtopping." Shakesp.: Tempest , i. 2. 2. To maltreat, to abuse, to jade; as, to trash a horse. ( Scotch .) *3. To hold back by a leash or halter, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, to restrain, to encumber, to hinder. "Which trashing the wheel of rotation, destroys the life or natural motion of a commonwealth." - Harrington: Pop. Government, ch. xii. *4. To crush or humiliate; to wear out; to beat down. To trash a trail : To conceal the direction of one's flight by walking in water. *B. In trans.: To follow with violence and trampling. "A guarded lacky to run before it, and pied liveries to come trashing after 't." -The Puritan, iv. 1. *trăsh-er-ý, s. [Eng. trash , s.; -ery.] Trash, rubbish. "Who comes in foreign trashery Of tinkling chain and spur." Scott: Bridal of Trier main , II. ii. 28. trăsh'-I-lý, adv. [Eng. trashy ; -ly .] In a trashy manner. trash-i-ne , subst. [Eng. trashy; -ne .] The quality or state of being trashy.