trumpet (trumpet)

[ Cavalry-trumpet. Orchestral Trumpet. use of crooks. The trumpet is the typical instrument of a very numerous family of instruments, of which the horn, the bugle, the cornet, the trombone, the tuba, the euphonium, and the serpent are prominent members. The name trumpet itself has been applied to a large number of different instruments at different times. In ancient times two varieties were important the one straight (the tuba ), and the other curved (the lituus ), the latter being often made of wood or horn. In the medieval period the evolution of a great number of variants was rapid, with little emphasis on any one distinctively known as the trumpet. In the eighteenth century, and early in the nineteenth, the present orchestral trumpet reached its full development in a twice-doubled tube about five and a half feet trump3 (trump), v. [ trans . long (or with the longest crook eight feet), without keys To put a trump-card upon; take with a trump. When Baynes got an opportunity of speaking unobserved, as he thought, to Madame, you may be sure the guilty wretch asked her how his little Charlotte was. Mrs. Baynes trumped her partner's best heart at that moment, but pretended to observe or overhear nothing. Thackeray , Philip, xxviii. II. in trans . In card - playing , to play a trump card when another suit has been led. trump-card (trump'kärd), п. 1. The turned up card which determines the suit of trumps. -2. One of the suit of cards which outranks the other suits; a trump. He has two large Lochaber trumps , for Lochaber trumps were to the highlands what Cremona violins were to musical Europe. He secures the end of each with his teeth, and, grasping them with his hands so that the tiny instruments are invisible, he applies the little finger of each hand to their vibrating steel tongues. N. Macleod , Life in a Highland Bothy. Great court trump, the burghmote horn, or other horn or trumpet used by a town or corporation. - The tongue of the trump. See tongue . - Trump marinet. Same as trumpet marine, or sea - trumpet. We in to see a French man, one Monsieur Prin, play on the trump marine, which he do beyond belief. Pepys, Diary, III. 288. Its neglect will cause a trumped - up claim to have the appearance of a true one neglected. Edinburgh Rev. , CLXVI. 399.