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Trappous (?), n. [From a kind of rock.] (Min.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
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Trappures (?), n. pl. [See to dress.] Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Trappy (?), a. (Min.) Same as .
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Traps (?), n. pl. [See , and to dress.] Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]
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Trap shooting. (Sport) Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
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Trapstick (?), n. A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.
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Trash (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tros rubbish, leaves, and twigs picked up for fuel, trassi a slovenly fellow, Sw. trasa a rag, tatter.] 1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
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Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.
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A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor.
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2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
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☞ In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. B. Edwards.
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3. A worthless person. [R.] Shak.
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4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. Markham.
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Coloq. Trash ice , crumbled ice mixed with water.
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Trash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.] 1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards.
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2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]
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3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
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Trash, v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan (1607).
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Trashily (?), adv. In a trashy manner.
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Trashiness, n. The quality or state of being trashy.
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Trashy (?), a. [Compar. Trashier (?); superl. Trashiest.] Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
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Trass (?), n. [D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace. See .] (Geol.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.]
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☞ The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.
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Traulism (?), n. [Gr. � a lisping, fr. � to lisp, to mispronounce.] A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.
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Traumatic (?), a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. �, from �, �, a wound: cf. F. traumatique.] (Med.) (a) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. Coxe. (b) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. Wiseman. (c) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. -- n. A traumatic medicine.
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Traumatism (?), n. (Med.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
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Traunce (?), n. & v. See . [Obs.]
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Traunt (?), v. i. Same as . [Obs.]
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Traunter (?), n. Same as . [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Travail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. ). Cf. .] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.
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2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
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Travail (?), n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. , v. i.] Same as .
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Travail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See , n.] 1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] “Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.” Latimer.
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2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
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Travail, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
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As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.
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Travailous (?), a. Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif. -- Travailously, adv. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Trave (?), n. [Through French, fr. L. trabs, trabis, a beam; cf. OF. tref a beam, also F. travail a frame to confine a horse, OE. trave, trevys, travise, It. travaglio, F. travée the space between two beams.] 1. (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.
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2. A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
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She sprung as a colt doth in the trave. Chaucer.
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Travel (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled (?) or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.] 1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
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2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
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3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
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4. To pass; to go; to move.
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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.
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Travel (?), v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. “I travel this profound.” Milton.
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2. To force to journey. [R.]
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They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.
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Travel, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
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With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak.
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His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.
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2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
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3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
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4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
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Traveled (?), a. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.]
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The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.
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Traveler (?), n. [Written also traveler.] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
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2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
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3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under .
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4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
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5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
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Coloq. Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. -- Coloq. Traveler's tree . (Bot.) See .
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Travel-tainted (?), a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] Shak.
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Travers (?), adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See , a.] Across; athwart. [Obs.]
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The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another. Ld. Berners.
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Traversable (?), a. 1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
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2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.
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Traverse (?), a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See , and cf. .] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton.
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The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward.
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Coloq. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
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Traverse (?), adv. Athwart; across; crosswise.
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Traverse, n. [F. traverse. See , a.] 1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: --
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(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
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(b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
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Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer.
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And the entrance of the king,
The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.
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(c) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt.
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(d) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
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(e) (Law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
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(f) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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(g) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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(h) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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(i) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
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2. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [Obs.]
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Coloq. To work a traverse or Coloq. To solve a traverse (Naut.), to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse. -- Coloq. Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole. -- Coloq. Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. -- Coloq. Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship. -- Coloq. Traverse table . (a) (Naut. & Surv.) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.
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Traverse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Traversing.] [Cf. F. traverser. See , a.] 1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
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The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.
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2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
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I can not but . . . admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. Sir W. Scott.
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3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
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What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.
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4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
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My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South.
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5. (Gun.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
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6. (Carp.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
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7. (Law) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
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And save the expense of long litigious laws,
Where suits are traversed, and so little won
That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden.
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Coloq. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.
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Traverse (?), v. i. 1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
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To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak.
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2. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
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3. To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
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Traverse drill. (Mach.) A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
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Traverser (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
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2. (Law) One who traverses, or denies.
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3. (Railroad) A traverse table. See under , n.
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Traversing, a. Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
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Coloq. Traversing plate (Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Wilhelm. -- Coloq. Traversing platform (Mil.), a platform for traversing guns.
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Travertine (?), n. [F. travertin, It. travertino, tiburtino, L. lapis Tiburtinus, fr. Tibur an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli.] (Min.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.
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Travesty (?), a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See .] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]
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Travesty, n.; pl. Travesties (�). A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
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The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.
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Travesty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Travestied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
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I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.
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Travois (?), n. [Cf. .] 1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments. Julian Ralph.
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2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]
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Trawl (?), v. i. [OF. trauler, troller, F. trôter, to drag about, to stroll about; probably of Teutonic origin. Cf. , v. t.] To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
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Trawl, n. 1. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. [U. S. & Canada]
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2. A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
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Trawlboat (?), n. A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
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Trawler (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, trawls.
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2. A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
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Trawlerman (?), n.; pl. Trawlermen (�). A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish. [Obs.] Cowell.
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Trawlnet (?), n. Same as , n., 2.
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Trawlwarp (?), n. A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.
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Tray (?), v. t. [OF. traïr, F. trahir, L. tradere. See .] To betray; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Tray, n.; pl. Trays (#). [OE. treye, AS. treg. Cf. .] 1. A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
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2. A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
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3. A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
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Trayful (?), n.; pl. Trayfuls (�). As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.
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Trays (?), n. pl. [Obs.] See . Chaucer.
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Tray-trip (?), n. [From a three.] An old game played with dice. [Obs.] Shak.
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Treacher (?), n. [OE. trichour, trichur, OF. tricheor deceiver, traitor, F. tricheur a cheat at play, a trickster. See .] A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.]
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Treacher and coward both. Beau. & Fl.
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Treacherous (?), a. [See .] Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
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Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak.
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The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.
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Syn. -- Faithless; perfidious; traitorous; false; insidious; plotting.
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-- Treacherously, adv. -- Treacherousness, n.
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Treachery (?), n. [OE. trecherïe, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See , .] Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
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