tract (trakt)

[ The church clergy at that time are allowed to have written the best collection of tracts against popery. 21. Course or route; track; way. Vnderstandyng, by reason of the sphere, that if I shulde sayle by the way of the northwest wynde I shulde by a shorter tracte coo me to India, I thereuppon caused the kynge to bee aduertised of my diuise. R. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Cabot (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 288). The whole tract of a Comedy shoulde be full of delight, as the Tragedy shoulde be still maintained in a well raised admiration. Sir P. Sidney , Apol. for Poetrie. track-layer (trak'lā"èr), n. A workman occu- pied in the laying of railroad-tracks. laving trackle (trak'les), a . [ track2 + -le .] Un- trodden; without path or track; unmarked by 4t. Attractive influence; attraction; charm. footprints or paths: as, trackle deserts. Where birds with painted oars did ne'er Row through the trackle ocean of the air. Cowley, The Muse. trackle ly (trak'les-li), adv . So as to leave no track. Like wind upon the waters trackle ly . George Eliot. trackle ne (trak'les-nes), n. The state of being without a track or path. trackman (trak'man), n.; pl. trackmen (-men). One employed to look after a railway-track. The trackmen , in their red over stockings, their many colored blouses, and their brilliant toques, look like gnomes. Scribner's Mag . , IV. 646. track master (trak'más tėr), n . A railway official who has charge of a track.