Trace

trās, n. a mark left: footprint: a small quantity: ( fort. ) the ground-plan of a work.— v.t. to follow by tracks or footsteps, to discover the tracks of, to follow step by step, to traverse: to follow with exactne : to sketch: to cover with traced lines or tracery.— v.i. to move, travel: to dance.— adj. Trace′able , that may be traced.— n. Trace′ablene .— adv. Trace′ably .— ns. Trā′cer ; Trā′cery , ornamentation traced in flowing outline: the beautiful forms in stone with which the arches of Gothic windows are filled for the support of the gla . [Fr.,—L. tructus , pa.p. of trahĕre , to draw.]