tragIcomIcally

[Eng. tragicomical; -ly.) In a tragicomical manner. "Laws my Pindarick parents matter'd not, So I was tragicomically got." Brampton . *trăg-I-com-i-pas-tor-al, a. [Eng. tragi ( c ), com i (c), and pastoral .] Partaking of the nature of tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. trăg-i-cus, s. [TRAGIC.] Anat.: The Muscle of the Tragus. [TRAGUS, 1.] trăg-öç-er-as, s. [Gr. tragos a goat, and keras =a horn.] Palæont .: A genus of Antelopes, with goat-like horns, from the Upper Miocene of Greece. trăg-o-păn, subst. [Lat., from Gr. tragopan =a Goat-Pan, a fabulous bird, said to inhabit Ethiopia ( Plin. z. 70).] Ornith.: A popular name for any species of *tragetry, *tregetry, *tregettrie, s . [TRAGET.] Ceriornis, a genus of Lophophorine. The head is Trickery, cheating. "I did hem a tragetry; They know not all my tregettrie." Romaunt of the Rose. trăg-I-a, s . [From Tragus, the Latinized name of an old German botanist, Hieronymus Bock. Ger. bock and Gr. tragos , both goat.] Bot .: A genus of Acalyphere. Herbs or undershrubs, often climbing, found in the sub-tropical parts of both hemispheres. Leaves serrate or lobed; male flowers numerous, with a tripartite calyx and three stamens, females with a six-partite calyx and a three-celled, three-seeded ovary. Some species sting almost like nettles. Tragia involucrata , a shrubby twiner, with the flowers in leaf-opposed racemes, T. cannabin a , with hemp-like leaves, and T. mercu rial is , an annual erect plant, named from its resemblance to the Dog's Mercury (q. v.), are Indian species, and, like the T. volubil is of America, are solvent, diaphoretic, and diuretic. The root of T. involucrata is used in India as an alterative in venereal diseases; the fruit, made into a paste, is applied to boils to promote suppuration. trăg-Ic, *trăg-Ick, *trag-ik, a . & s. [French tragique , from Lat. tragic us ; Gr. tragikos goatish, tragic; from tragos =a goat; Sp. & Ital. tragico .] A. As adjective : 1. Pertaining or relating to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy. "There never yet, on tragic stage, Was seen so well a painted rage As Oswald showed. Scott: Rokeby, vi. 9. 2. Characterized by, or accompanied with bloodshed or lo of life; mournful, lamentable, sad, tragical. "Noble, valiant, princes have had a miserable tragik ende."-Joye: Expos. of Daniel, ch. viii. 3. Expre ive of tragedy or the lo of life. *B. As substantive: 1. A writer or composer of a tragedy. 2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. crested, but naked on the cheeks and round the eyes, a horn-like caruncle projecting backward from behind each eye, and a loose, inflatable wattle hanging beneath the bill. The tarsi are spurred in the males. There are five species from the forests of the Him a lay as, from Cashmere to Bhootan and Western China. They are birds of beautiful plumage, somewhat resembling pheasants, but more length. in form and with rounded tails of moderate trăg-o-pō-gòn, subst. [Gr. tragos a goat, and põgōn =a beard. Named from the beautifully bearded fruit.] Bot.: Goat's-beard; a genus of Scorzonerem. Heads solitary, yellow or purple. Involucre single, of eight to ten connected scales; pappus feathery, receptacle naked; fruit, slender, muricate, with a long beak. Known species about twenty, from Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. One, Tragopogon pratensis , the Yellow Goat's-beard, is one or two feet high, the leaves alternate, the sheaths much dilated, the involucre eight-leaved, the flowers yellow, closing before noon, the fruit heads large, the achenes scabrous and scaly, the pappus very feathery, elevated on a long stalk. Found in meadows, pastures, and waste places in the temperate regions of Europe. T. porrifolius , the Purple Goat's-beard, or Salsify, is a denizen, rare and local, and is sometimes cultivated. [SALSIFY.] trăg-ops, s . [Gr. tragos a goat, and ops =the eye.] Zool.: A genus of Whip-snakes (q. v.), with four species, ranging from Bengal to China, the Philippines, Java, and Celebes. Body and tail exceedingly slender, slightly compre ed; head depre ed, very long, with the snout long and pointed. tra-gū-li-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. tragul ( us ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ.] 1. Żool .: Chevrotains; the sole family of the section Tragulina, intermediate in structure between the Cervide and the Suide. Owing to the absence of horns and the prominence of their canine teeth, these animals are often wrongly called Pigmy Musk