tranship (tranship)

t.; pret. and pp. tran shipped, ppr. transhipping. [Also trans - ship; Sunday, August 4th. This day the loading was completed, and all the baggage and presents put on board the large junks, to be transhipped into smaller ones. Lord Macartney, Works, II. 180. The system of pipe transport from the wells to the rail way station, whence they are to be transhipped either to the refinery or the sea-board. Ure, Dict., IV. 568. transhipment (tran-ship'ment), n. [Also trans shipment ; -ment .] The act of transhipping. See tranship . Thus indeed it is with heal you r of the body: it hath no transient force on others, but the strength and heal you r of the minde carries with it a gracious kinde of in Hales , Remains, Sermon on Rom. xiv. 1. Transient in a trice From what was left of faded woman-slough To sheathing splendors and the golden scale Of harne . Tennyson, Prince , v. 2. Pa ing with time; of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; temporary: as, a transient impre ion. How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest, Measured this transient world, the race of time, Till time stand fix'd! Milton, P. L., xii. 554. A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient , not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined. D. Webster, Speech, Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825. 3. Hasty; momentary; pa ing: as, a transient glance of a landscape. He that rides post through a country may, from the tran sient view, tell how in general the parts lie. Locke. as, a transient impre ion; a transient shadow transitory indicates lack of permanence is in the nature of the thing: as, transitory pleasure; this transitory life. Fleet ing is by figure a stronger word than transient, though in the same line of meaning. See list under transitory. II. n. 1. One who or that which is temporary, pa ing, or not permanent. For before it can fix to the observation of any one its object is gone: Whereas, were there any considerable thwart in the motion, it would be a kind of stop or arrest, by the benefit of which the soul might have a glance of the fugitive transient. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, ix. (Encyc. Dict.) Specifically-2. A transient guest. [Colloq.] Many surroundings (to coin a word to describe us summer transients) now flit along these streams. Scribner's Mag., VIII. 496. transiently (tran's hent-li), adv . In a transient manner; in pa ing; for a short time; not with continuance; transitorily. I touch here but transiently on some few of those many rules of imitating nature which Aristotle drew from Homer. Dryden.