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[TRAVEL, v.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. Labor, toil, travail. "The saints ye kneel to, hear, and ease your travels." Beaum. & Flet.: The Pilgrim, i. *2. Parturition; the pains of childbirth. "A woman that will sing a catch in her travel ." Beaum, & Flet.: Knight of Burning Pestle , ii. 3. The act of traveling or journeying; a journeying to distant or foreign places. "Travel in the younger sort is a part of education." Bacon: E ays; Of Travel. 4. ( Pl .): An account of occurrences and observations made during a journey; a book descriptive of places seen and observations made while traveling. II. Technically : 1. Steam: The distance which the slide-valve travels in one direction for each stroke of the piston. 2. The length of stroke of any object. Also known as the excursion. *travel-soiled, adj . Having the clothes, ., soiled with traveling. "All dripping from the recent flood, Panting and travel - soiled he stood." Scott Lady of the Lake, iii. 21. travel-stained, a . Travel-soiled (q. v.). "Their travel - stained garments are all laid down." Mary Leslie: Gathering Home. *travel-tainted, a. Fatigued with traveling. "I have foundered nine score and odd posts, and here travel- tainted as I am, have, in my pure and immaculate valor, taken Sir John Coleville."- Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II ., iv. 8. trăv-eled, trăv'-elled, pa. par. & a. [TRAVEL, v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Having made journeys or travels; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling. "A well travelled knight and well known." -Berners: Froi art; Cronycle, vol. ii., ch. clxviii. *2. Carried to distant parts. "Our travell'd banners fanning southern climes." Young: On Public Affairs . 3. Experienced, knowing. trăv-el-er, trăv-el-ler, *trav-ail-ler, *traveil-er, s . [Fr. travailleur .] [TRAVEL, v.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who travels; one who makes journeys or who is on his way from place to place; a wayfarer. "This was a common opinion among the Gentiles, that the gods sometimes a umed human shape, and conversed upon earth with strangers and travellers."-Bentley: Ser mons. 2. A bona-fide traveler. [BONA-FIDE.] 3. One who visits foreign countries; one who explores places or regions more or le unknown. 4. One who travels from place to place soliciting orders for a mercantile house; a commercial traveler. II. Technically : Traveler. traveler's tree (2) C. viorna , a North American species, climbing, with pinnately-compound leaves and a large, solitary, campanulate, nodding flower of purple or violet color. It was introduced into Europe as a garden plant in 1730. traveler's tree, s. Botany: Urania speciosa , called also Ravenala madagascar i ens is , the Ravenala of Madagascar, in the forests of which it grows. It is a kind of plantain. The large, fan-shaped leaves are hollowed out at their point of insertion into a spacious cavity, in which water is caught and retained, so as to be available to quench the thirst of the pa ing traveler, whence the English name. A dye is made from the capsules, and an e ential oil is expre ed from the aril of the seed. trăv-el-Ing, trăv'-el-ling, pr. par., a. & subst. [TRAVEL, v. ] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Pertaining to or used in travel; as, a traveling suit, a traveling bag, or the like. 2. Incurred in travel; as, traveling expenses. C. As subst.: The act of one who travels or journeys; travel. "Travelling is a very proper part of the education of our youth."-Chesterfield: Common Sense, No. 93.