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Touch
TOUCH, verb transitive tuch. [Latin tango, originally tago, [our vulgar tag.] preterit tense tetigi, participle passive tactus.]
1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike against.
He touched the hollow of his thigh. . .
Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter. .
2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.
Nothing but body can be touch'd or touch
3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.
The god vindictive doom'd them never more,
Ah men unbless'd! to touch that natal shore.
4. To try, as gold with a stone.
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed--
5. To relate to; to concern.
The quarrel toucheth none but thee alone.
[This sense is now nearly obsolete.]
6. To handle slightly.
7. To meddle with. I have not touched the books.
8. To affect.
What of sweet
Hath touch'd my sense, flat seems to this.
9. To move; to soften; to melt.
The tender sire was touch'd with what he said.
10. To mark or delineate slightly.
The lines, though touch'd but faintly--
11. To infect; as men touched with pestilent diseases. [Little used.]
12. To make an impression on.
Its face must be--so hard that the file will not touch it.
13. To strike, as an instrument of music; to play on.
They touch'd their golden harps.
14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
No decree of mine,
To touch with lightest moment of impulse
His free will.
15. To treat slightly. In his discourse, he barely touched upon the subject deemed the most interesting.
16. To afflict or distress. .
To touch up, to repair; or to improve by slight touches or emendations.
To touch the wind, in seamen's language, is to keep the ship as near the wind as possible.
TOUCH, verb intransitive tuch. To be in contact with; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between. Two spheres touch only at points.
1. To fasten on; to take effect on.
Strong waters will touch upon gold, that will not touch silver.
2. To treat of slightly in discourse.
To touch at, to come or go to, without stay.
The ship touched at Lisbon.
The next day we touched at Sidon. . touch on or upon, to mention slightly.
If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they have immediately quitted it.
1. In the sense of touch at. [Little used.]
TOUCH, noun tuch. Contact; the hitting of two bodies; the junction of two bodies at the surface, so that there is no space between them. The mimosa shrinks at the slightest touch
1. The sense of feeling; one of the five senses. We say, a thing is cold or warm to the touch; silk is soft to the touch
The spider's touch how exquisitely fine!
2. The act of touching. The touch of cold water made him shrink.
3. The state of being touched.
--That never touch was welcome to thy hand
Unless I touch'd.
4. Examination by a stone.
5. Test; that by which any thing is examined.
Equity, the true touch of all laws.
6. Proof; tried qualities.
My friends of noble touch
7. Single act of a pencil on a picture.
Never give the least touch with your pencil, till you have well examined your design.
8. Feature; lineament.
Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
To have the touches dearest priz'd.
9. Act of the hand on a musical instrument.
Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
10. Power of exciting the affections.
Not alone
The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
Do strongly speak t'us.
11. Something of passion of affection.
He both makes intercession to God for sinners, and exercises dominion over all men, with a true, natural and sensible touch of mercy.
12. Particular application of any thing to a person.
Speech of touch towards others should be sparingly used.
13. A stroke; as a touch of raillery; a satiric touch
14. Animadversion; censure; reproof.
I never bore any touch of conscience with greater regret.
15. Exact performance of agreement.
I keep touch with my promise.
16. A small quantity intermixed.
Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
17. A hint; suggestion; slight notice.
A small touch will put him in mind of them.
18. A cant word for a slight essay.
Print my preface in such forms, in the bookseller's phrase, will make a sixpenny touch [Not in use.]
19. In music, the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as a heavy touch or light touch
20. In music, an organ is said to have a good touch or stop, when the keys close well.
21. In ship-building, touch is the broadest part of a plank worked top and butt; or the middle of a plank worked anchor-stock fashion; also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
Touch-Hole
TOUCH-HOLE, noun tuch'-hole. [touch and hole.] The vent of a cannon or other species of fire-arms, by which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge. It is now called the vent.
Touch-Me-Not
TOUCH-ME-NOT, noun A plant of the genus Impatiens, and another of the genus Momordica.
Touch-Needle
TOUCH-NEEDLE, noun tuch'-needle. [touch and needle.] Touch-needles are small bars of gold, silver and copper, each pure and in all proportions, prepared for trying gold and silver by the touchstone, by comparison with the mark they leave upon it.
Touch-Wood
TOUCH-WOOD, noun tuch'-wood. [touch and wood.] Decayed wood, used like a match for taking fire from a spark.
Touchable
TOUCHABLE, adjective tuch'able. That may be touched; tangible.
Touchiness
TOUCHINESS, noun tuch'iness. [from touchy.]
Peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
Touching
TOUCHING, participle present tense tuch'ing. Coming on contact with; hitting; striking; affecting.
1. Concerning; relating to; with respect to.
Now as touching things offered to idols-- .
2. adjective Affecting; moving; pathetic.
TOUCHING, noun tuch'ing. Touch; the sense of feeling.
Touchingly
TOUCHINGLY, adverb tuch'ingly. In a manner to move the passions; feelingly.
Touchstone
TOUCHSTONE, noun tuch'stone. [touch and stone.]
1. A stone by which metals are examined; a black, smooth, glossy stone. The touchstone of the ancients was called lapis Lydius, from Lydia in Asia Minor, where it was found.
2. Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried; as money, the touchstone of common honesty.
Irish touchstone is the basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's causey. This is said also to be an excellent touchstone
Touchy
TOUCHY, adjective tuch'y. [vulgarly techy.] Peevish; irritable; irascible; apt to take fire. [Not elegant.]
Tough
TOUGH, adjective tuf.
1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking. The ligaments of animals and of India rubber are remarkably tough tough timber, like young ash, is the most proper for the shafts and springs of a carriage.
2. Firm; strong; not easily broken; able to endure hardship; as an animal of a tough frame.
3. Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; ropy; as tough phlegm.
4. Stiff; not flexible.
Toughen
TOUGHEN, verb intransitive tuf'n. To grow tough.
TOUGHEN, verb transitive tuf'n. To make tough.
Toughly
TOUGHLY, adverb tuf'ly. In a tough manner.
Toughness
TOUGHNESS, noun tuf'ness. The quality of a substance which renders it in some degree flexible, without brittleness or liability to fracture; flexibility with a firm adhesion of parts; as the toughness of steel.
1. Viscosity; tenacity; clamminess; glutinousness; as the toughness of mucus.
2. Firmness; strength of constitution or texture.
Toupee
TOUPE'E
TOUPET, noun A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Toupet
TOUPET, n. A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Tour
TOUR, noun
1. Literally, a going round; hence, a journey in a circuit; as the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
2. A turn; a revolution; as the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Not now in use.]
3. A turn; as a tour of duty; a military use of the word.
4. A tress or circular border of hair on the head, worn sometimes by both sexes.
5. A tower. [Not in use.]
Tourist
TOURIST, noun One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
Tourmalin
TOURMALIN
TOURN, noun The sheriff's turn or court; also, a spinning wheel. [Not American.]
Tourn
TOURN, n. The sheriff's turn or court; also, a spinning wheel. [Not American.]
Tournament
TOURNAMENT, noun turn'ament. A martial sport or exercise formerly performed by cavaliers to show their address and bravery. These exercises were performed on horseback, and were accompanied with tilting, or attacks with blunted lances and swords.
Tournequet
TOURNEQUET, noun turn'eket. A surgical instrument or bandage which is straitened or relaxed with a screw, and used to check hemorrhages.
Tourney
TOURNEY, noun turn'ey. A tournament, supra.
TOURNEY, verb intransitive turn'ey. To tilt; to perform tournaments.
Touse
TOUSE, verb transitive touz. To pull; to haul; to tear. [Hence Towser.]
As a bear whom angry curs have tous'd.
Tousel
TOUS'EL, verb transitive s as z. The same as touse; to put into disorder; to tumble; to tangle. [Used by the common people of New England.]
Tow
TOW, verb transitive [Latin duco.] To drag, as a boat or ship, through the water by means of a rope. Towing is performed by another boat or ship, or by men on shore, or by horses. Boats on canals are usually towed by horses.
TOW, noun [Latin stupa.] The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Tow-Line
TOW-LINE, noun [tow and line.] A small hawser, used to tow a ship, etc.
Tow-Rope
TOW-ROPE, noun [tow and rope.] Any rope used in towing ships or boats.
Towage
TOWAGE, noun [from tow, the verb.] The act of towing.
1. The price paid for towing.
Toward
TO'WARD
TO'WARDLINESS, noun [from towardly.] Readiness to do or learn; aptness; docility.
The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy.
Towardly
TO'WARDLY, adjective Ready to do or learn; apt; docile; tractable; compliant with duty.
Towardness
TO'WARDNESS, noun Docility; towardliness.
Towards
TO'WARDS, preposition [Latin versus, verto.]
1. In the direction to.
He set his face toward the wilderness. .
2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect to; regarding.
His eye shall be evil toward his brother. .
Herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men. .
Hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus Christ, and toward all saints. Phile 5.
3. With ideal tendency to.
This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble.
4. Nearly.
I am towards nine years older since I left you.
TO'WARD
TO'WARDS, adverb Near; at hand; in a state of preparation.
TO'WARD, adjective Ready to do or learn; not forward; apt; as a toward youth.
Towel
TOW'EL, noun A cloth used for wiping the hands and for other things.
Tower
TOW'ER, noun [Latin turris.]
1. A building, either round or square, raised to a considerable elevation and consisting of several stories. When towers are erected with other buildings, as they usually are, they rise above the main edifice. They are generally flat on the top, and thus differ from steeples or spires. Before the invention of guns, places were fortified with towers and attacked with movable towers mounted on wheels, which placed the besiegers on a level with the walls.
2. A citadel; a fortress. .
3. A high head dress.
4. High flight; elevation.
Tower bastion, in fortification, a small tower in the form of a bastion, with rooms or cells underneath for men and guns.
Tower of London, a citadel containing an arsenal. It is also a palace where the kings of England have sometimes lodged.
TOW'ER, verb intransitive To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.
Sublime thoughts, which tower above the clouds.
Tower-Mustard
TOW'ER-MUSTARD, noun [tower and mustard.] A plant of the genus Turritis.
Towered
TOW'ERED, adjective Adorned or defended by towers.
Towering
TOW'ERING, participle present tense Rising aloft; mounting high; soaring.
1. adjective Very high; elevated; as a towering highth.
Towery
TOW'ERY, adjective Having towers; adorned or defended by towers; as towery cities.
Towing
TOWING, participle present tense Drawing on water, as a boat.
Towing-Path
TOWING-PATH, noun A path used by men or horses that tow boats.
To wit, to know; namely.
Town
TOWN, noun
1. Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Rahab's house was on the town wall. .
A town that hath gates and bars. .
2. Any collection of houses, larger than a village. In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand.
3. In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
A town in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city.
In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not. But a city is often called a town
4. The inhabitants of a town The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5. In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.
6. In England, the court end of London.
7. The inhabitants of the metropolis.
8. The metropolis. The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country. The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns.
TOWN'-CLERK, noun [town and clerk.] An officer who keeps the records of a town and enters all its official proceedings.
Town-Crier
TOWN-CRI'ER, noun [town and cry.] A public crier; one who makes proclamation.
Town-House
TOWN'-HOUSE, noun [town and house.] The house where the public business of the town is transacted by the inhabitants in legal meeting.
1. A house in town; in opposition to a house in the country.
Townish
TOWN'ISH, adjective Pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
Townless
TOWN'LESS, adjective Having no town.
Township
TOWN'SHIP, noun The district or territory of a town. In New England, the states are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads, providing for the poor, etc.
Townsman
TOWNS'MAN, noun [town and man.] An inhabitant of a place; or one of the same town with another.
1. A selectman; an officer of the town in New England, who assists in managing the affairs of the town. [See Selectmen.]
TOWN'-TALK, noun [town and talk.] The common talk of a place, or the subject of common conversation.
Towser
TOWS'ER, noun [from touse.] The name of a dog.
Toxical
TOX'ICAL, adjective [Latin toxicum.] Poisonous. [Little used.]
Toxicology
TOXICOL'OGY, noun [Gr. poison, and discourse.] A discourse on poisons; or the doctrine of poisons.
Toy
TOY, noun
1. A plaything for children; a bauble.
2. A trifle; a thing for amusement, but of no real value.
3. An article of trade of little value.
They exchange gold and pearl for toys.
4. Matter of no importance.
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
5. Folly; trifling practice; silly opinion.
6. Amorous dalliance; play; sport.
7. An old story; a silly tale.
8. Slight representation; as the toy of novelty.
9. Wild fancy; odd conceit.
TOY, verb intransitive To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
TOY, verb transitive To treat foolishly. [Not used.]
Toyer
TOY'ER, noun One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks.
Toyful
TOY'FUL, adjective Full of trifling play.
Toying
TOY'ING, participle present tense Dallying; trifling.
Toyish
TOY'ISH, adjective Trifling; wanton.
Toyishness
TOY'ISHNESS, noun Disposition to dalliance or trifling.
Toyman
TOY'MAN, noun [toy and man.] One that deals in toys.
Toyshop
TOY'SHOP, noun [toy and shop.] A shop where toys are sold.
Toze
TOZE, verb transitive To pull by violence. [See Touse.]
Trace
TRACE, noun [Latin tractus, tracto. See Track, and the verb trace ]
1. A mark left by any thing passing; a footstep; a track; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trade of a man or of a deer.
2. Remains; a mark, impression or visible appearance of any thing left when the thing itself no longer exists. We are told that there are no traces of ancient Babylon now to be seen.
The shady empire shall retain no trace
Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.
TRACE, noun Traces, in a harness, are the straps, chains or ropes by which a carriage or sleigh is drawn by horses. [Locally these are called tugs.]
TRACE, verb transitive [Latin tracto, from traho; Eng. to draw, to drag.]
1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; as, to race a figure with a pencil; to trace the outline of any thing.
2. To follow by some mark that has been left by something which has preceded; to follow by footsteps or tracks.
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
I feel thy power to trace the ways
Of highest agents.
3. To follow with exactness.
That servile path thou nobly do'st decline,
Of tracing word by word, and line by line.
4. To walk over.
We do trace this alley up and down.
Traceable
TRA'CEABLE, adjective That may be traced.
Traced
TRA'CED, participle passive Marked out; delineated; followed.
Tracer
TRA'CER, noun One that traces or follows by marks.
Tracery
TRA'CERY, noun Ornamental stone work.
Trachea
TRA'CHEA, noun [Low Latin from Gr. rough.] In anatomy, the windpipe.
Tracheal
TRA'CHEAL, adjective Pertaining to the trachea or windpipe; as the tracheal artery.
Tracheocele
TRA'CHEOCELE, noun [trachea and a tumor.] An enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele or goiter.
Tracheotomy
TRACHEOT'OMY, noun [trachea and to cut.] In surgery, the operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Trachyte
TRA'CHYTE, noun [Gr.rough.] A species of volcanic rock, composed of crystals of glassy feldspar, sometimes with crystals of hornblend, mica, iron pyrite, etc.
Trachytic
TRACHYT'IC, adjective Pertaining to trachyte, or consisting of it.
Tracing
TRA'CING, participle present tense [from trace.] Marking out; drawing in lines; following by marks or footsteps.
Tracing lines, in a ship, are lines passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist a thing higher.
TRA'CING, noun Course; regular track or path.
Track
TRACK, noun
1. A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh.
2. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast. Savages are said to be wonderfully sagacious in finding the tracks of men in the forest.
3. A road; a beaten path.
Behold Torquatus the same track pursue.
4. Course; way; as the track of a comet.
TRACK, verb transitive To follow when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps, or marks of the feet; as, to track a deer in the snow.
1. To tow; to draw a boat on the water in a canal.
Tracked
TRACK'ED, participle passive Followed by the footsteps.
Tracking
TRACK'ING, participle present tense Following by the impression of the feet; drawing a boat; towing.
Trackless
TRACK'LESS, adjective Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as a trackless desert.
TRACK'-ROAD, noun [track and road.] A towing-path.
TRACK'-SCOUT, noun A boat or vessel employed on the canals in Holland, usually drawn by a horse.
Tract
TRACT, noun [Latin tractus; traho.]
1. Something drawn out or extended.
2. A region, or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent. We may apply tract to the sandy and barren desert of Syria and Arabia, or to the narrow vales of Italy and Sardinia. We say, a rich tract of land in Connecticut or Ohio, a stony tract or a mountainous tract We apply tract to a single farm, or to a township or state.
3. A treatise; a written discourse or dissertation of indefinite length, but generally not of great extent.
4. In hunting, the trace or footing of a wild beast.
5. Treatment; exposition. [Not in use.]
6. Track. [Not in use.]
7. Continuity or extension of any thing; as a tract of speech. [Not much used.]
8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extend; as a long tract of time.
TRACT, verb transitive To trace out; to draw out. [Not in use.]
Tractability
TRACTABIL'ITY, noun [from tractable.] The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
Tractable
TRACT'ABLE, adjective [Latin tractabilis, from tracto, to handle or lead.]
1. That may be easily led, taught or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner.
2. Palpable; such as may be handled; as tractable measures.
Tractableness
TRACT'ABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being tractable or manageable; docility; as the tractableness of children.
Tractably
TRACT'ABLY, adverb In a tractable manner; with ready compliance.
Tractate
TRACT'ATE, noun [Latin tractatus.] A treatise; a tract. [Not now in use.]
Tractation
TRACTA'TION, noun [Latin tractatio.] Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.
Tractatrix
TRACTA'TRIX, noun In geometry, a curve line.
Tractile
TRACT'ILE, adjective [Latin tractus.] Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
Bodies are tractile or intractile.
Tractility
TRACTIL'ITY, noun The quality of being tractile; ductility.
Traction
TRAC'TION, noun [Latin tractus, traho.] The act of drawing, or state of being drawn; as the traction of a muscle.
1. Attraction; a drawing towards.
Tractor
TRACT'OR, noun That which draws, or is used for drawing.
Trade
TRADE, noun [Latin tracto, to handle, use, treat.]
1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money. It is however chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. trade is either foreign, or domestic or inland. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic or home trade is the exchange or buying and selling of goods within a country. trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels.
The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water.
2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Thus we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter or mason. But we never say, the trade of a farmer or of a lawyer or physician.
3. Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade
Hunting their sport, and plund'ring was their trade
4. Instruments of any occupation.
The shepherd bears
His house and household goods, his trade of war.
5. Employment not manual; habitual exercise.
6. Custom; habit; standing practice.
Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade
7. Men engaged in the same occupation. Thus booksellers speak of the customs of the trade
TRADE, verb intransitive To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.
1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, man treats with another for his farm, but cannot trade with him. A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.
2. To act merely for money.
How did you dare
To trade and traffic with Macbeth?
3. To have a trade wind.
They on the trading flood ply tow'rd the pole. [Unusual.]
TRADE, verb transitive To sell or exchange in commerce.
They traded the persons of men. .
[This, I apprehend, must be a mistake; at least it is not to be vindicated as a legitimate use of the verb.]
Trade-Wind
TRA'DE-WIND, noun [trade and wind. A wind that favors trade. A trade wind is a wind that blows constantly in the same direction, or a wind that blows for a number of months in one direction, and then changing, blows as long in the opposite direction. These winds in the East Indies are called monsoons, which are periodical. On the Atlantic, within the tropics, the trade winds blow constantly from the eastward to the westward.
Traded
TRA'DED, adjective Versed; practiced. [Not in use.]
Tradeful
TRA'DEFUL, adjective Commercial; busy in traffic.
Trader
TRA'DER, noun One engaged in trade or commerce; a dealer in buying and selling or barter; as a trader to the East Indies; a trader to Canada; a country trader
Tradesfolk
TRA'DESFOLK, noun People employed in trade. [Not in use.]
Tradesman
TRA'DESMAN, noun [trade and man.] A shopkeeper. A merchant is called a trader, but not a tradesman
[In America, a shopkeeper is usually called a retailer.]
Trading
TRA'DING, participle present tense Trafficking; exchanging commodities by barter, or buying and selling them.
1. adjective Carrying on commerce; as a trading company.
TRA'DING, noun The act or business of carrying on commerce.
Tradition
TRADI'TION, noun [Latin traditio, from trado, to deliver.]
1. Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.
A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition
2. The delivery of opinions, doctrines, practices, rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3. That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists. Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word. Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. .
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? .
Traditional
TRADI'TIONAL
TRADI'TIONALLY, adverb By transmission from father to son, or from age to age; as an opinion or doctrine traditionally derived from the apostles, is of no authority.
TRADI'TIONARY, noun Among the Jews, one who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them. The word is used in opposition to Cairite, one who denies the authority of traditions.
Traditionally
TRADI'TIONALLY, adv. By transmission from father to son, or from age to age; as an opinion or doctrine traditionally derived from the apostles, is of no authority.
Traditionary
TRADI'TIONARY, adjective Delivered orally from father to son; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as traditional opinions; traditional evidence; the traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivaled in the regions of absurdity.
2. Observant of tradition. [Not used.]
Traditioner
TRADI'TIONER
TRADI'TIONIST, noun One who adheres to tradition.
Traditionist
TRADI'TIONIST, n. One who adheres to tradition.
Traditive
TRAD'ITIVE, adjective [Latin trado.] Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age to age, by oral communication.
Suppose we on things traditive divide.
Traditor
TRAD'ITOR, noun [Latin] A deliverer; a name of infamy given to christians who delivered the Scriptures or the goods of the church to their persecutors, to save their lives.
Traduce
TRADU'CE, verb transitive [Latin traduco; trans, over, and duco, to lead.]
1. To represent as blamable; to condemn.
The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church.
2. To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent.
As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing.
He had the baseness to traduce me in libel.
3. To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another.
From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]
Traduced
TRADU'CED, participle passive Misrepresented; calumniated.
Traducement
TRADU'CEMENT, noun Misrepresentation; ill founded censure; defamation; calumny. [Little used.]
Traducent
TRADU'CENT, adjective Slandering; slanderous.
Traducer
TRADU'CER, noun One that traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.
Traducible
TRADU'CIBLE, adjective That may be orally derived or propagated. [Little used.]
Traducing
TRADU'CING, participle present tense Slandering; defaming; calumniating.
Traducingly
TRADU'CINGLY, adverb Slanderously; by way of defamation.
Traduction
TRADUC'TION, noun [Latin traductio.] Derivation from one of the same kind; propagation.
If by traduction came thy mind,
Our wonder is the less to find
A soul so charming from a stock so good.
1. Tradition; transmission from one to another; as traditional communication and traduction of truth. [Little used.]
2. Conveyance; transportation; act of transferring; as the traduction of animals from Europe to America by shipping.
3. Transition.
Traductive
TRADUC'TIVE, adjective Derivable; that may be deduced.
Traffick
TRAF'FICK, noun [Latin trans.]
1. Trade; commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling. This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of retailing may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
My father,
A merchant of great traffick through the world.
2. Commodities for market.
TRAF'FICK, verb intransitive
1. To trade; to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to barter; to buy and sell wares; to carry on commerce. The English and Americans traffick with all the world. .
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily.
TRAF'FICK, verb transitive To exchange in traffick
Traffickable
TRAF'FICKABLE, adjective Marketable. [Not in use.]
Trafficker
TRAF'FICKER, noun One who caries on commerce; a trader; a merchant. .
Trafficking
TRAF'FICKING, participle present tense Trading; bartering; buying and selling goods, wares and commodities.
Tragacanth
TRAG'ACANTH, noun [Latin tragacanthum; Gr. a goat, and thorn.]
1. Goat's thorn; a plant of the genus Astragalus, of several species, growing in Syria, Candia, etc. almost all of which were included by Linne in the tragacanthas, and all of which produce the gum tragacanth
2. A gum obtained from the goat's thorn. It comes in small contorted pieces resembling worms. It is of different colors; that which is white, clear, smooth and vermicular, is the best. It is somewhat soft to the touch, but only imperfectly soluble. It is softening, and used in coughs and catarrhs.
Tragedian
TRAGE'DIAN, noun [Latin tragoedus. See Tragedy.] A writer of tragedy.
1. More generally, an actor of tragedy.
Tragedy
TRAG'EDY, noun [Gr. said to be composed of a goat, and a song, because originally it consisted in a hymn sung in honor of Bacchus by a chorus of music, with dances and the sacrifice of a goat.]
1. A dramatic poem representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, and generally having a fatal issue. Aeschylus is called the father of tragedy
All our tragedies are of kings and princes.
2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more particularly by unauthorized violence.
Tragi-Comedy
TRAGI-COM'EDY, noun A kind of dramatic piece representing some action passed among eminent persons, the event of which is not unhappy, in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a species of composition not now used, or held in little estimation.
Tragi-Comic
TRAGI-COM'IC
TRAGI-COM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of a mixture of grave and comic scenes.
Tragi-Comical
TRAGI-COM'ICAL, a. Pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of a mixture of grave and comic scenes.
Tragi-Comically
TRAGI-COM'ICALLY, adverb In a tragicomical manner.
Tragic
TRAGIC
TRAG'ICAL, adjective [Latin tragicus.]
1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation.
2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks.
3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
I now must change those notes to tragic
Tragical
TRAG'ICAL, a. [L. tragicus.] 1. Pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as a tragic poem; tragic play or representation.2. Fatal to life; mournful; sorrowful; calamitous; as the tragic scenes of Hayti the tragic horrors of Scio and Missilonghi; the tragical fate of the Greeks.3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow. I now must change those notes to tragic.
Tragically
TRAG'ICALLY, adverb In a tragical manner; with fatal issue; mournfully; sorrowfully. The play ends tragically
Tragicalness
TRAG'ICALNESS, noun Fatality; mournfulness; sadness.
We moralize the fable in the tragicalness of the event.
Trail
TRAIL, verb transitive [Latin traho.]
1. To hunt by the track. [See the Norman, supra.]
2. To draw along the ground. trail your pikes.
And hung his head, and trail'd his legs along.
They shall not trail me through the streets
Like a wild beast.
That long behind he trails his pompous robe.
3. To lower; as, to trail arms.
4. In America, to tread down gras by walking through; to lay flat; as, to trail grass.
TRAIL, verb intransitive To be drawn out in length.
When his brother saw the red blood trail
TRAIL, noun Track followed by the hunter; scent left on the ground by the animal pursued.
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
1. Any thing drawn to length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
When lightning shoots in glitt'ring trails along.
2. Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
3. The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep.
boards, in ship-building, a term for the craved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure.
Trailed
TRAILED, participle passive Hunted by the tracks; laid flat; drawn along on the ground; brought to a lower position; as trailed arms.
Trailing
TRA'ILING, participle present tense Hunting by the track; drawing on the ground; trading down; laying flat; bringing to a lower position; drawing out in length.
Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing
hair did hide.
Train
TRAIN, verb transitive [Latin traho, to draw?]
1. To draw along.
In hollow cube he train'd
His devilish enginery.
2. Top draw; to entice; to allure.
If but twelve French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side.
3. To draw by artifice or stratagem.
O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise.
We did train him on.
5. To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. .
The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train
6. To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen.
7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees.
8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head.
To train or train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is
old he will not depart from it. .
The first christians were, by great hardships, trained
up for glory.
TRAIN, noun Artifice; stratagem of enticement.
Now to my charms,
And to my wily trains.
1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, etc.; as the train of a gown or robe.
2. The tail of a fowl.
The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies,
like the rudder of a ship.
3. A retinue; a number of followers or attendants.
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
The king; s daughter with a lovely train
4. A series; a consecution or succession of connected things.
Rivers now stream and draw their humid train
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.
--The train of ills our love would draw behind it.
5. Process; regular method; course. Things are now in a train for settlement.
If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature.
6. A company in order; a procession.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.
7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time.
8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution.
TRAIN of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.
Train-Band
TRA'IN-BAND, noun [train and band.] A band or company of militia. Train-bands, in the plural, militia; so called because trained to military exercises.
Train-Bearer
TRA'IN-BEARER, noun [train and bearer.] One who holds up a train.
Train-Oil
TRA'IN-OIL, noun [train and oil.] The oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales by boiling.
Train-Road
TRA'IN-ROAD, noun [train and road.] In mines, a slight rail-way for small wagons.
Trainable
TRA'INABLE, adjective That may be trained. [Little used.]
Trained
TRA'INED, participle passive Drawn; allured; educated; formed by instruction.
Training
TRA'INING, participle present tense Drawing; alluring; educating; teaching and forming by practice.
TRA'INING, noun The act or process of drawing or educating; education. In gardening, the operation or art of forming young trees to a wall or espalier, or of causing them to grow in a shape suitable for that end.
Trainy
TRA'INY, adjective Belonging to train-oil. [Not in use.]
Traipse
TRAIPSE, verb intransitive To walk sluttishly or carelessly. [A low word.]
Trait
TRAIT, noun [Latin tractus. See Tract and Treat.]
1. A stroke; a touch.
By this single trait Homer makes an essential
difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.
2. A line; a feature; as a trait of character.
Traitor
TRA'ITOR, noun [Latin traditor; trado, to deliver.]
1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or who surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; or one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. [See Treason.]
2. One who betrays his trust.
Traitorly
TRA'ITORLY, adjective Treacherous. [Not in use.]
Traitorous
TRA'ITOROUS, adjective Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.
1. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.
Traitorously
TRA'ITOROUSLY, adverb In violation of allegiance and trust; treacherously; perfidiously.
They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws.
Traitorousness
TRA'ITOROUSNESS, noun Treachery; the quality of being treasonable.
Traitress
TRA'ITRESS, noun A female who betrays her country or her trust.
Traject
TRAJECT', verb transitive [Latin trajectus, trajicio; trans and jacio, to throw.]
To throw or cast through; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.
TRAJ'ECT, noun A ferry; a passage, or place for passing water with boats.
Trajecting
TRAJECT'ING, participle present tense Casting through.
Trajection
TRAJEC'TION, noun The act of casting or darting through.
1. Transportation.
2. Emission.
Trajectory
TRAJECT'ORY, noun The orbit of a comet; the path described by a comet in its motion, which Dr. Halley supposes to be elliptical.
Tralation
TRALA'TION, noun [from Latin translatio.] A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper, but more significant sense.
Tralatitious
TRALATI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin translatus, transfero.]
Metaphorical; not literal.
Tralatitiously
TRALATI'TIOUSLY, adverb Metaphorically; not in a literal sense.
Tralineate
TRALIN'EATE, verb transitive [Latin trans and linea, line.] To deviate from any direction. [Not in use.]
Tralucent
TRALU'CENT, adjective [Latin tralucens; trans and luceo.] Transparent; clear.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.