transpicuous (transpikuus)

[= It. traspi cuo, L. as if * transpicuus, IMG:content-0755.jpg:[blocks in formation] transpierce (trans-pērs'), v. t.; pret. and pp. transpierced, ppr. transpiercing. [ He saw him wounded and trans - pierced with steele. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 225. They... were often transpierced , horse and rider, by the Moorish darts, impeding the progre of their comrades by their dying struggles. Irving , Granada, p. 91. trans pin a lis (tran-spi-nā'lis), n.; pl. transpi nales (-lēz). [NL., trans , acro , + spina , spine: see spinal is .] A muscle of the sp spine which lies between succe ive transverse proce es of the vertebræ; an inter transverse muscle.