trapezoidal (trapezoidal)

[ The form of each vaulting compartment of an apsidal aisle is, of cour course, trapezoidal . C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 100. 2. In crystal., having the surface composed of twenty-four trapeziums, all equal and similar. -Trapezoidal wall. See wall1. trapezoides, trapezoideum (trap-ē-zoi dēz, -de-um), n. [NL.: see trapezoid.] In an at., same as trapezoid. trapezoid i form (trap-ē-zoi'di-fôrm), a. [NL. trapezoides, trapezoid, + L. form a, form.] In entom., noting an extended body, as a joint of Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; And in the same are many trap - fals pight, Through which the rider downe doth fall through over- sight. trap-fisher (trap'fisher), п. One who fishes with a trap or trap-net. trap-hole (trap'hol), n. 1. A hole closed by a trap-door.-2. Milit . See trous - de - loup . trap-hook (trap'huk), n. Bre mistaken, friend, in calling met hunter difference whs ther a man gets his peltry by the rifle or by the trap," said the ill-looking companion of the emigrant. J. F. Cooper , The Prairie, ii. 2. A trap-fisher. [Rhode Island.] -3. In min- ing , a boy or girl in a coal-mine who opens the air-doors of the galleries for the pa age of the coal-wagons.-4. A horse for use in a trap. [Colloq.] trapper2+ (trap'er), n. [ trapper , trappar , trappour , trappure , trappeure , trap- patura , trappings, housing, trappare , cover with trappings: see trap , v.] The housing and defensive armor of a horse, especially of a horse caparisoned for a just or tournament: generally in the plural. Compare bard2 . The sheeldes brighte, testers and trap pures . Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1641. cro is and rosys. Sundrie kindes of precious stones, and perles wherewith ye trappers , barbes, and other furnitures of his horse are couered. R. Eden , tr. of Sebastian Munster (First Books [on America, ed. Arber, p. 15). trappine (trap'i-nes), n. The property, state, or condition of being trappy; treacherousne . [Colloq.] O. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 217. [Verbal n. of trap4 , trapping2 (trap'ing), n. v . ] The housing or harne of a horse, when somewhat ornamental in character; hence, ex- ternal ornamentation, as of dre : generally in the plural. We may be said to want the gilt and trappings , The dre of honour. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1. Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride. =Syn. Accoutrements, equipments, paraphernalia, gear, decorations, frippery. A metal or other appurtenance or mount- N.S., IX. 345. [Rare.] ing for horse-trappings. L. Jewitt , in Art Jour., trappings, n. pl. See trapping . Trappist (trap'ist), n. and a. [ Trap piste , so called from the abbey of La Trappe in France: see def.] I. n. 1. A member of a monastic body, a branch of the Cistercian order. It is named from the village of Soligny-la-Trappe, in the department of Orne, France, where the abbey of La Trappe was founded in 1140 by Rotrou, Count of Perche. The abbey soon fell into decay, and was governed for many years by titular or commendatory abbots. De Rancé (1626-1700), who had been commendatory abbot of La Trappe from his boyhood, became its actual abbot in 1664, and thoroughly reformed and reorganized the order. The rules of the order are noted for their extreme austerity, and inculcate extended fasts, severe manual labor, almost perpetual silence, ab- stinence from flesh, fish, etc., and rigorous asceticism in general. The order was repre ed in France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. There are branch monasteries in France, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, etc., and two in the United States (Abbey of Gethsemane, Ken- 2. [l. c.] In ornith ., a South American puff-bird or fi irostral barbet of the genus Monasa (or Monacha ). Also called nun- bird . Both are Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 150). book-names, given from the somber plumage, which also suggested Monasa. See cut under nun- bird . II. a . Of or pertaining to the Trappists. Trappistine (trap'is-tin), n. [F. Trappistine , a nun of the order of La Trappe; as Trappist + -ine2.] 1. A member of an order of nuns, affili- ated with the Trappists, founded in 1827, and 3t. Money. [Cant.] Trin. Look what a wardrobe is here for thee! Cal . Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash . established chiefly in France.-2. [l. c.] A sweet cordial made at a monastery of Trappist monks. Compare Benedictine , 2, chartreuse , 2. trappoid (trap'oid), a. [ trap3 ( trapp ) + -oid.] Resembling trap; having more or le the character of a trappean rock. The workers of past centuries used to crush the ore in saucer-like hollows in the solid, tough, trappoid rock, with rounded granite crushers. Nature, XLI. 140. trappourt, n. See trapper2 . trappous, trappose (trap'us, -ōs), a. [ trap3 ( trapp ) +-ous.] Trappean. Imp . Dict. Trapp's formula. Same as formula of Christ i- son (which see, under formula ). trappuret, n. See trapper2 . trappy (trap'i), a . [ trap1 + -y1.] Of the na- ture of a trap; treacherous. [Colloq.] The fences might have increased in size, however, with out being made trappy . Daily Telegraph , Nov. 13, 1882. ( Encyc . Dict.) trap-rock (trap'rok), n . A rock consisting of trap; trap. Round North Berwick trap - rocks rise in all directions. Harper's Mag ., LXXIX. 790. traps (traps), n. pl. See trap4 , 2. trap-seine (trap'sān), n . A trap-net specially adapted to take fish working down an eddy. [Rhode Island.] trap-stair (trap's tar), n . A narrow staircase, or step-ladder, surmounted by a trap-door. trap-stick (trap's tik), n. 1. A stick used in the game of trap; an object resembling such a stick. The last time he was in the field, a boy of seven years old beat him with a trap -stick. Shirley, The Wedding, iii. 2. These had made a foolish swop between a couple of thick bandy legs and two long trap sticks that had no calves. Add is on , Spectator, No. 560. 2. The cro -bar connecting the body of a cart with the shafts. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] trap-tree (trap'tre), n. The jack-tree: so called because it furnishes a glutinous gum used as bird-lime. In some parts of the East the fiber of the bark is used for fishing-lines, cordage, and nets. And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. Shak ., J. C., iv. 3. 74. 4. A low, worthle person. See white trash. Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash (a courtezan] II. in trans. To tramp and shuffle about. I still trashed and trotted for other men's causes. of fine detrital material designated as trap . See tuff 3 and trap3 . trap-valve (trap'valv), n . Same as clack - valve . E. H. Knight. trap-weir (trap'wer), n . A trap-net. traset, n. A Middle English form of trace1 . trash1 (trash), n. [Prob. a dial. form of * tra (cf. Orkney tru , E. dial. trous ), tra i , a slovenly fellow, tra a , be sloven- ly) = Norw. tros , fallen twigs, broken branches, leaves and twigs used as fuel, Sw. trås , a heap of sticks, old usele bits of fencing, also a worthle fellow ( trasa , dial. trase , a rag, tat- ter); dial. tras , pieces ( slå i tras , equiv. to slå IMG:content-0774.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0775.png:[blocks in formation] Tho tvo trattes that William wold haue traysted [deceived]. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4769. Thus said Dido, and the tothir with that Hyit on furth with slaw pase lik ane trat. Styll she must trattle ; that tunge is alwayes sterynge. Bp . Bale , Kynge Johan (ed. Collier), p. 73. IMG:content-0776.png:[blocks in formation] traumatic in (tra-mat'i-sin), n. [ traumatic + travee (tra-vē'), n. Same as travail2 . -in2.] A 10 per-cent. solution of gutta-perch a travel (trav'el), n. [Formerly also travail (still in chloroform, employed like collodion to pro- mote union of the edges of a wound. traumatism (tra'ma-tizm), n. [= F. trauma- tis me, τραύμα (τ-), wound (see traumatic ), wounds or other external violence; trauma. traumatopnea (tram a-top-ne'ä), n. [NL., τραύμα (τ-), a wound, + πνοιή for πνοή, breath, πνεῖν , blow, breathe.] Respiratory bubbling of air through a wound in the chest. trauncet, n. An obsolete form of trance1, trance2. trauncht, v. An obsolete form of trench . trauntt, trauntert. See trant, tranter. Trautvetteria (trât-ve-tē'ri-ä), n. [NL. (Fischer and Meyer, 1835), named after E. R. Trautvetter , profe or of botany at Kieff, Rus- sia.] A genus of plants, of the order Ranuncu- laceæ and tribe Ranunculeæ , distinguished from ceivinge. the type, Ranunculus , by the absence of petals. The only species, T. palmata , the false bugbane, is a per- ennial herb, a native of North America and Japan, bear- ing a few palmately lobed leaves, and numerous small white flowers in a corymbose panicle. Compare bugbane . travaill (trav'al), n . [An earlier form of travel , now differentiated in a particular use (def. 2): see travel , n .] 14. Labor; toil; travel: same as travel , 1.-2. Labor in childbed; parturition. [Archaic.] In the time of her travail , behold,... twins were in her womb. Gen. xxxviii. 27. After this thy travel sore, Sweet rest seize thee evermore. Milton , Epitaph on Marchione of Winchester. travaill (trav'al), v . i . [As with the noun, an earlier form of travel , now differentiated in a particular use (def. 2): see travel, v.] 1. To labor; toil; travel: same as travel , 1.-2. Το labor in childbed; suffer the pangs of child- birth; be parturient. (Archaic.] Noa, that relyques of the stones of the place there our Lady was borne is remedy and consol a cion to women that trauayll of childe. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 30. And when she heard the tidings she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19. Queen Jeanie travel'd six weeks and more, of transportation, commonly used by North American Indians and voyageurs of the north and northwest, for the conveyance of goods or of sick or wounded persons. It consists of a rude litter made of two lodge-poles about 16 feet long, having one end of each pole attached on each side to a pack-sad- or bag is then made by lashing canvas or lodge-skins to the cro -bars, for the reception of the goods or the sick or wounded person. Also called travois , travee. In a month "Richard 's himself again," ready to fly over the gra y sward with his savage master, or to drag the travaux and pack the buxom squaw. travailert, n. An old spelling of traveler . travail oust, a. See travel ous . travale (tra-val'), n. In tambourine - playing , an acro the head of the instrument. The double travale is simply the same effect made twice as rapidly as usual. Ine huet [what] travail he heth yleued, hou he heth his time uorlore [wasted]. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 130. He was wery for traveile of yevinge of strokes and re- Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 629. Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail . Bacon, True Greatne of Kingdoms (ed. 1887). That any chance of mine should thus defeat Your (I must needs say) most deserving travails. B. Jonson, Volpone, v. 1. Who having never before eyed me, but only heard the common report of my virtue, learning, and travel . B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 2. The act of traveling or journeying; particu- larly, a journeying to distant countries: as, he is much improved by travel ; he started on his travels. Travel , in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. Bacon, Travel (ed. 1887). I cannot rest from travel ; I will drink Life to the lees. Tennyson, Uly es. When travel has become a memory, all the richne of it rises to the surface like cream. C. W. Stoddard , Mashallah, p. 204. 3. pl. An account of occurrences and observa- tions made during a journey; a book that re- lates one's experiences in traveling: as, travels in Italy: formerly in the singular. W. Wood , quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., I. 172. The more the variety of characters is multiplied, the more travel of the compositor's hand over the cases is ne- ce ary for picking them up, and by so much is the speed of his work retarded. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 701. 5. In mech ., the length of stroke of any mov- ing part: as, the travel of the bed of a planer; the travel of a pendulum. Also called excursion . The travel of each valve is 51 in., and can be varied by means of slotted levers on the reversing shaft. The Engineer, LXV. 388. The great fault of this gun [a central-fire hammerle gun] is the difficulty in manipulating it, on account of. the enormous travel required by the lever. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 325. trauma (tra'mä), n. [NL., τραῦμα , Ionic τρώμα , wound, τρώειν , pierce.] 1. An abnormal ternal violence, as distinguished from that pro- duced by poisons, zymotic infection, bad habits, and other le evident causes; traumatism; an accidental wound, as distinguished from one caused by the surgeon's knife in an operation. -2. External violence producing bodily in- jury; the act of wounding, or infliction of a wound. traumatic (tra-mat'ik), a . and n. [F. trau- matique , τραυματικός , τραύμα (τ-), wound (see trauma ), + -ic.] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining. ing to wounds: as, traumatic inflammation.-2. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary: as, trave (trav), n. [Early mod. E. also treve ; trave , traf , tref , trief , a cro -beam, a brake, shackle, = Pr. trau = Sp. trabe , traba = Pg . trava , trave = It. trave , trabs , trabis , a beam. Hence ult. travail , travel .] 1. A cro - beam; a beam or timber-work cro ing a build- The Ceilings and Traves are, after the Turkish manner, richly Painted and Guilded. IMG:content-0777.png:[blocks in formation] Quoted in J. Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 369. If we labour to maintain truth and reason, let not any think that we travel about a matter not needful. Hooker . 2. To pa or make a journey from place to place, whether on foot, on horseback, or in any conveyance, as a carriage or a ship; go to or visit distant or foreign places; journey: as, to For the Marchauntes come not thidre so comounly for to bye Marchandises as the i don in the Lond of the gret Chane; for it is to fer to travaylle to. Mandeville , Travels, p. 270. A wench That travels with her buttermilk to market Between two dorsers. Shirley and Chapman , The Ball, iv. travel How difficult it was to travel where no license made it safe, where no preparations in roads, inns, carriages, made it convenient. De Quincey, Style, ii. 3. Specifically, to make a journey or go about from place to place for the purpose of taking orders for goods, collecting accounts, etc., for a commercial house. Brown Brothers, of Snow Hill, were substantial people, and Mr. Snengkeld travelled in strict accordance with the good old rules of trade. Trollope, Orley Farm, ix. 4. In mech., to traverse; move over a fixed distance, as a movable part of a machine. See travel, n., 5.-5. To proceed or advance in any way; pa from one point to another; move; wander: as, his eye traveled over the landscape; also, to move at a specified gait, pace, or rate: as, that horse travels wide. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 326. News travelled with increase from mouth to mouth. Pope, Temple of Fame, 1. 474. The home manufacture of gas... is a part of the inventor's scheme which does not entirely depend for succe upon the power of gas to travel. Ure , Dict., II. 538. 6. To walk. [Colloq.] -7. To move onward in feeding; browse from one point to another: said of deer, etc. If the deer is travelling , as it is called, one has to walk much faster, and scan the ground as best he can. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 88. To sue, labor, and travel. See suel. - To travel bodkin. See bodkin1. To travel dak. See dak. - To travel out of the record, to stray from the point, or from the prescribed or authorized line of discu ion. I have travelled out of the record, sir, I am aware, in putting the point to you. Dickens, Little Dorrit, ii. 28. Traveling-apron oven. See oven . II. trans. 11. To hara ; trouble; plague; torment. IMG:content-0778.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To journey through; pa over; make the tour of: as, to travel the whole kingdom of England. These, and a you sand more such sleights, have hy pocrisie learned by trauailing strange countries. Nashe, Pierce Penile e, p. 68. He had subsequently travelled New England and the Middle States, as a pedler, in the employment of a Connecticut manufactory of cologne-water and other e ences. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xii. 3. To cause or force to journey, or move from place to place. They [the corporations] shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises. Spenser, State of Ireland. Their horses are but smal, but very swift & hard; they Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 479. trauell them vnshod both winter and Sommer. Landholders, most of whom are owners of sheep which have to be travelled twice a year. W. Shepherd, Prairie Experiences, p. 152. traveled, travelled (trav'eld), p . a. [Pp. of travel, v.] 1. Hara ed; tormented; fretted. It is here to be understoode, euerie yoke naturally to bee heauie, sharpe, harde, and painefull: and the beast that draweth same goeth bound trauelled. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 47. 2. Worked over; turned up with the spade; tilled. "It's travelled earth, that," said Edie; "it howks sae eithly. I ken it weel, for ance I wrought a simmer wi auld Will Winnett, the bedral, and howkit mair graves than ane in my day." Scott , Antiquary, xxiii. 3. Having made journeys; having gone, or having been carried, to distant points or countries: as, traveled Madeira is highly prized. From Latian syrens, French Circæan feasts, Return well travell'd , and transform'd to beasts. Pope , Imit. of Horace, I. vi. 123. One whose Arab face was tanned By tropic sun and boreal frost, So travelled there was scarce a land Or people left him to exhaust. Whittier , Tent on the Beach. 4. Having gained knowledge or experience by labor or travel; hence, experienced; knowing. I am not much travelled in the history of modern times. Fielding . ( Imp . Dict .) A man of fashion, too, he made his tour, Learn'd vive la bagatelle, et vive l'amour; So travell'd monkeys their grimace improve. Burns, A Sketch. traveler, traveller (trav'el-ér), n. eller (trav'el-ér), n. [ 6445 It is therefore no smal benefite that suche per sones dooe to a common weale, which are willingly trauailers in this kinde of writing. Udall, Pref. to K. Edw. VI. 2. One who or that which travels in any way; one who makes a journey, or who is on his way from place to place; a wayfarer; one who or that which gets over the ground: as, his horse is a good traveler. O traveller , stay thy weary feet, Drink of fountain pure and sweet. Long fellow, Inscription on Drinking Fountain at Shank. [lin, Isle of Wight. IMG:content-0779.png:[blocks in formation] 4. A person who travels for a mercantile firm to solicit orders for goods, collect accounts, and the like. Also called commercial traveler, and formerly rider. John Kenneby had at last got into the house of Hubbles and Grease, and had risen to be their book keep He had once been tried by them as a traveller , but in er. that line he had failed. Trollope, Orley Farm, xxiv. 5. Same as swagman, 2. [Australia.]-6. That which travels or traverses. Specifically-( a ) Naut.: (1) An iron ring or thimble fitted to traverse freely on a rope, spar, or metal rod, and used for various purposes on shipboard. (2) A rod fastened to the deck on which a thimble carrying the sheet of a fore-and-aft sail may slide from side to side of the ve el, or a rod or rope up and down a mast along which a yard may slide. (b) A crab on a long beam moving on wheels on an elevated track in a stone-yard, workshop, etc. It is often used with a differential pulley for raising and moving heavy weights, and is a device of the nature of the traveling crane. See third cut under pulley. (c) In ring - spinning, a small metal ring or loop used to guide the yarn in wind. ing it upon the spindle. (d) The at., moving mechanism above the stage for carrying fairies and apparitions.Commercial traveler. See def. 4.-Ring-and-traveler spinner. Same as ring -frame. To tip the traveler, to humbug: in allusion to travelers' tales or yarns. [Slang.] "I'd rather see you dead than brought to such a dilemma." "Mayhap thou wouldst," answered the uncle; "for then, my lad, there would be some picking; aha! dost thou tip me the traveller , my boy?" Smollett , Sir L. Greaves, vi. ( Davies .) Traveler's hut, the quarters provided on every Australian station for persons traveling on the road who are not of a cla to be asked to the squatter's house, such as stockmen and swagmen. [Australia.)