Trammel – Trapezoidal

Trammel

TRAM'MEL, noun

1. A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes.

The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt.

2. A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.

3. An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.

4. Trammels, in mechanics, a joiner's instrument for drawing ovals upon boards. One part consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles; the other is a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves, and also the describing pencil.

TRAM'MEL, verb transitive

1. To catch; to intercept.

2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

Trammeled

TRAM'MELED, participle passive Caught; confined; shackled.

1. In the manege, a horse is said to be trammeled when he has blazes or white marks on the fore and hind foot of one side.

Trammeling

TRAM'MELING, participle present tense Catching; confining; shackling.

Tramontane

TRAMON'TANE, noun One living beyond the mountain; a stranger.

TRAMON'TANE, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and mons, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous. The Italian painters apply this epithet to all such as live north of the Alps, as in Germany and France; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane or ultramontane doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome.

Tramp

TRAMP, verb transitive To tread.

TRAMP, verb intransitive To travel; to wander or stroll.

Tramper

TRAMP'ER, noun A stroller; a vagrant or vagabond.

Trample

TRAM'PLE, verb transitive

1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matthew 7:6.

2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.

3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLE, verb intransitive To tread in contempt.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

1. To tread with force and rapidity.

TRAM'PLE, noun The act of treading under foot with contempt.

Trampled

TRAM'PLED, participle passive Trod on; trodden under foot.

Trampler

TRAM'PLER, noun One that tramples; one that treads down.

Trampling

TRAM'PLING, participle present tense Treading under foot; prostrating by treading; treading with contempt and insult.

Tranation

TRANA'TION, noun [Latin trano.] The act of passing over by swimming. [Not in use.]

Trance

TR'ANCE, noun tr'ans. [Latin transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo.] An ecstasy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions.

My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance

While they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw

heaven opened. Acts 10:10.

Tranced

TR'ANCED, adjective Lying in a trance or ecstasy.

And there I left him tranc'd.

Trangram

TRAN'GRAM, noun An odd thing intricately contrived. [It is said to be a cant word, and is not used.]

Trannel, used by Moxon, is a mistake for tree-nail, pronounced by ship-builders trunnel.

Tranquil

TRAN'QUIL, adjective [Latin tranquillus.] Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated. The atmosphere is tranquil The state is tranquil A tranquil retirement is desirable; but a tranquil mind is essential to happiness.

Tranquilize

TRAN'QUILIZE, verb transitive To quiet; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.

Religion haunts the imagination of the sinner, instead of tranquilizing his heart.

Tranquilized

TRAN'QUILIZED, participle passive Quieted; calmed; composed.

Tranquilizing

TRAN'QUILIZING, participle present tense Quieting; composing.

Tranquillity

TRANQUIL'LITY, noun [Latin tranquillitas.] Quietness; a calm state; freedom from disturbance or agitation. We speak of the tranquillity of public affairs, of the state, of the world, the tranquillity of a retired life, the tranquillity of mind proceeding from conscious rectitude.

Tranquilly

TRAN'QUILLY, adverb Quietly; peacefully.

Tranquilness

TRAN'QUILNESS, noun Quietness; peacefulness.

Transact

TRANSACT', verb transitive [Latin transactus, transigo; trans and ago; to act or drive through.] To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact business in person or by an agent.

Transacted

TRANSACT'ED, participle passive Done; performed; managed.

Transacting

TRANSACT'ING, participle present tense Managing; performing.

Transaction

TRANSAC'TION, noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair.

1. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction

2. In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

Transactor

TRANSACT'OR, noun One who performs or conducts any business.

Transalpine

TRANSAL'PINE, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Alpine, of the Alps.]

Lying or being beyond the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west of the Alps; as transalpine Gaul; opposed to Cisalpine.

Transanimate

TRANSAN'IMATE, verb transitive [trans and animate.] To animate by the conveyance of a soul to another body.

Transanimation

TRANSANIMA'TION, noun [Latin trans and anima.] Conveyance of the soul from one body to another; transmigration. [The latter is the word generally used.]

Transatlantic

TRANSATLAN'TIC, adjective [Latin trans, beyond, and Atlantic.] Lying or being beyond the Atlantic. When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa. We apply it chiefly to something in Europe.

Transcend

TRANSCEND', verb transitive [Latin transcendo; trans and scando, to climb.]

1. To rise above; to surmount; as lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

2. To pass over; to go beyond.

It is dangerous opinion to such hopes as shall transcend

their limits.

3. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.

How much her worth transcended all her kind.

TRANSCEND', verb intransitive To climb. [Not in use.]

Transcended

TRANSCEND'ED, participle passive Overpassed; surpassed; exceeded.

Transcendence

TRANSCEND'ENCE

TRANSCEND'ENCY, noun Superior excellence; supereminence.

1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

Transcendency

TRANSCEND'ENCY, n. Superior excellence; supereminence. 1. Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

Transcendent

TRANSCEND'ENT, adjective [Latin transcendens.] Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor.

Cloth'd with transcendent brightness.

Transcendental

TRANSCENDENT'AL, adjective Supereminent; surpassing others; as transcendental being or qualities.

Transcendental quantities, among geometricians, are indeterminate ones, or such as cannot be expressed or fixed to any constant equation.

Transcendental curve, is such as cannot be defined by any algebraic equation, or of which, when it is expressed by an equation, one of the terms is a variable quantity.

Transcendently

TRANSCEND'ENTLY, adverb Very excellently; supereminently; by way of eminence.

The law of christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth.

Transcolate

TRANS'COLATE, verb transitive [Latin trans and colo, to strain.]

To strain; to cause to pass through a sieve or colander.

Transcribe

TRANSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.] To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Transcribed

TRANSCRI'BED, participle passive Copied.

Transcriber

TRANSCRI'BER, noun A copier; one who writes from a copy.

Transcribing

TRANSCRI'BING, participle present tense Writing from a copy; writing copy.

Transcript

TRAN'SCRIPT, noun [Latin transcriptum.] A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original.

The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript not an original.

1. A copy of any kind.

The Roman learning was a transcript of the Grecian.

Transcription

TRANSCRIP'TION, noun The act of copying. Corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

Transcriptively

TRANSCRIPT'IVELY, adverb In manner of a copy.

Transcur

TRANSCUR', verb intransitive [Latin transcurro; trans and curro, to run.]run or rove to and fro. [Little used.]

Transcursion

TRANSCUR'SION, noun [supra.] A rambling or ramble; a passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation; as the transcursion of a comet.

I am to make often transcursions into the neighboring

forests as I pass along.

[Note: Excursion has in a great measure superseded this word.]

Transduction

TRANSDUC'TION, noun [Latin trans and duco.] The act of conveying over.

Transe

TRANSE, noun Ecstasy. [See Trance.]

Transelementation

TRANSELEMENTA'TION, noun [trans and element.] The change of the elements of one body into those of another, as of the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation.

Transept

TRAN'SEPT, noun [Latin trans and septum.] In ancient churches, the aisle extending across the nave and main aisles.

Transfer

TRANSFER', verb transitive [Latin transfero; trans and fero, to carry.]

1. To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another. The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany. We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany. Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.

2. To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give. The title to land is transferred by deed. The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement. Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.

TRANS'FER, noun The removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

1. The conveyance of right, title or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, either by sale, by gift or otherwise.

Transferable

TRANSFER'ABLE, adjective That may be transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

1. Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing. The stocks of the public and of companies are transferable

Transferred

TRANSFER'RED, participle passive Conveyed from one to another.

Transferree

TRANSFERREE', noun The person to whom a transfer is made.

Transferrer

TRANSFER'RER, noun One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Transferring

TRANSFER'RING, participle present tense Removing from one place or person to another; conveying to another, as a right.

Transfiguration

TRANSFIGURA'TION, noun

1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

See Matthew 17:1.

2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

Transfigure

TRANSFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin trans and figura.] To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.

--And was transfigured before them. Matthew 17:2.

Transfigured

TRANSFIG'URED, participle passive Changed in form.

Transfiguring

TRANSFIG'URING, participle present tense Transforming; changing the external form.

Transfix

TRANSFIX', verb transitive [Latin transfixus, transfigo; trans and figo.]

To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; as, to transfix one with a dart or spear.

Transfixed

TRANSFIX'ED, participle passive Pierced through.

Transfixing

TRANSFIX'ING, participle present tense Piercing through with a pointed weapon.

Transform

TRANSFORM', verb transitive [Latin trans and forma.]

1. To change the form of; to change the shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as a caterpillar transformed into a butterfly.

2. To change one substance into another; to transmute. The alchimists sought to transform lead into gold.

3. In theology, to change the natural disposition and temper of man from a state of enmity to God and his law, into the image of God, or into a disposition and temper conformed to the will of God.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2.

4. To change the elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.

5. Among the mystics, to change the contemplative soul into a divine substance, by which it is lost or swallowed up in the divine nature.

6. In algebra, to change an equation into another of a different form, but of equal value.

TRANSFORM', verb intransitive To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.

His hair transforms to down.

Transformation

TRANSFORMA'TION, noun The act or operation of changing the form or external appearance.

1. Metamorphosis; change of form in insects; as from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

2. Transmutation; the change of one metal into another, as of copper or tin into gold.

3. The change of the soul into a divine substance, as among the mystics.

4. Transubstantiation.

5. In theology, a change of heart in man, by which his disposition and temper are conformed to the divine image; a change from enmity to holiness and love.

6. In algebra, the change of an equation into one of a different form, but of equal value.

Transformed

TRANSFORM'ED, participle passive Changed in form or external appearance; metamorphosed; transmuted; renewed.

Transforming

TRANSFORM'ING, participle present tense Changing the form or external appearance; metamorphosing; transmuting; renewing.

1. adjective Effecting or able to effect a change of form or state; as the transforming power of true religion.

Transfreight

TRANSFREIGHT, verb intransitive transfra'te. To pass over the sea. [Not in use.]

Transfretation

TRANSFRETA'TION, noun [Latin trans and fretum, a strait.]

The passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Little used.]

Transfuse

TRANSFUSE, verb transitive transfu'ze. [Latin transfusus, transfundo; trans and fundo.]

1. To pour, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

2. To transfer, as blood, from one animal to another.

3. To cause to pass from one to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism from one to another; to transfuse a love of letters.

Transfused

TRANSFU'SED, participle passive Poured form one vessel into another.

Transfusible

TRANSFU'SIBLE, adjective That may be transfused, etc.

Transfusing

TRANSFU'SING, participle present tense Pouring out of one vessel into another; transferring.

Transfusion

TRANSFUSION, noun transfu'zhon. The act of pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. In chimistry and pharmacy, transfusions of liquors are frequent.

1. The act or operation of transferring the blood of one animal into the vascular system of another by means of a tube.

Transgress

TRANSGRESS', verb transitive [Latin transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.]

1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.

2. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To transgress a divine law, is sin. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.

TRANSGRESS', verb intransitive To offend by violating a law; to sin.

Chron 2.

Transgressed

TRANSGRESS'ED, participle passive Overpassed; violated.

Transgressing

TRANSGRESS'ING, participle present tense Passing beyond; surpassing; violating; sinning.

Transgression

TRANSGRES'SION, noun The act of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command.

He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. Ezra 10:6.

Forgive thy people all their transgressions. 1 Kings 8:50.

1. Fault; offense; crime.

Transgressional

TRANSGRES'SIONAL, adjective That violates a law or rule of duty.

Transgressive

TRANSGRESS'IVE, adjective Faulty; culpable; apt to transgress.

Transgressor

TRANSGRESS'OR, noun One who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

The way of transgressors is hard. Proverbs 13:15.

Transhape

TRANSHA'PE, verb transitive [trans and shape.] To transform. [Not in use.]

Tranship

TRANSHIP', verb transitive [trans and ship.] To convey from one ship to another; a commercial word.

Transhipment

TRANSHIP'MENT, noun The act of transferring, as goods, from one ship to another.

Transhipped

TRANSHIP'PED, participle passive Carried from one ship to another.

Transhipping

TRANSHIP'PING, participle present tense Carrying from one ship to another.

Transient

TRANSIENT, adjective tran'shent. [Latin transiens, transeo; trans and eo.]

1. Passing; not stationary; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable. How transient are the pleasures of this life!

--Measur'd this transient world.

2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; as a transient view of a landscape.

TRANSIENT person, a person that is passing or traveling through a place; one without a settled habitation.

Transiently

TRAN'SIENTLY, adverb [supra.] In passage; for a short time; not with continuance.

I touch here but transiently--on some few of those many rules of imitating nature, which Aristotle drew from Homer.

Transientness

TRAN'SIENTNESS, noun [supra.] Shortness of continuance; speedy passage.

Transilience

TRANSIL'IENCE

TRANSIL'IENCY, noun [Latin transiliens, transilio; trans and salio.]

A leap from thing to thing. [Not much used.]

Transiliency

TRANSIL'IENCY, n. [L. transiliens, transilio; trans and salio.]

A leap from thing to thing. [Not much used.]

Transit

TRANS'IT, noun [Latin transitus, from transeo.]

1. A passing; a passing over or through; conveyance; as the transit of goods through a country.

2. In astronomy, the passing of one heavenly body over the disk of another and larger. I witnessed the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 3, 1769. When a smaller body passes behind a larger, it is said to suffer an occultation.

3. The passage of one heavenly body over the meridian of another.

TRANS'IT, verb transitive To pass over the disk of a heavenly body.

Transit-Duty

TRANS'IT-DUTY, noun A duty paid on goods that pass through a country.

Transition

TRANSI'TION, noun transizh'on. [Latin transitio.] Passage from one place or state to another; change; as the transition of the weather form hot to cold. Sudden transitions are sometimes attended with evil effects.

The spots are of the same color throughout, there being an immediate transition from white to black.

1. In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another. This should be done by means of some connection in the parts of the discourse, so as to appear natural and easy.

He with transition sweet new speech resumes.

2. In music, a change of key from major to minor, or the contrary; or in short, a change from any one genus or key to another; also, the softening of a disjunct interval by the introduction of intermediate sounds.

Transition rocks, in geology, rocks supposed to have been formed when the world was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state. These rocks contain few organic remains, and when they occur with others, lie immediately over those which contain none, and which are considered as primitive.

Transitive

TRANS'ITIVE, adjective Having the power of passing.

1. In grammar, a transitive verb is one which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does, to the object on which it is done. Thus, 'Cicero wrote letters to Atticus.' In this sentence, the act of writing, performed by Cicero, the agent, terminates on letters, the object. All verbs not passive, may be arranged in two classes, transitive and intransitive. In English, this division is correct and complete.

Transitorily

TRANS'ITORILY, adverb [See Transitory.] With short continuance.

Transitoriness

TRANS'ITORINESS, noun A passing with short continuance; speedy departure or evanescence. Who is not convinced of the transitoriness of all sublunary happiness?

Transitory

TRANS'ITORY, adjective [Latin transitorius.] Passing without continuance; continuing a short time; fleeting; speedily vanishing.

O Lord, comfort and succor all them who, in this

transitory life, are in trouble.

1. In law, a transitory action, is one which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, detinue, slander and the like. It is opposed to local.

Translatable

TRANSLA'TABLE, adjective [from translate.] Capable of being translated or rendered into another language.

Translate

TRANSLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin translatus, from transfero; trans, over, and fero, to bear.]

1. To bear, carry or remove from one place to another. It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another.

The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused.

2. To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death.

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see

death. Hebrews 11:15.

3. To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Samuel 3:10.

4. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

5. To change.

Happy is your grace,

That can translate the stubbornness of fortune

Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

6. To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia.

7. To explain.

Translated

TRANSLA'TED, participle passive Conveyed from one place to another; removed to heaven without dying; rendered into another language.

Translating

TRANSLA'TING, participle present tense Conveying or removing from one place to another; conveying to heaven without dying; interpreting in another language.

Translation

TRANSLA'TION, noun [Latin translatio.]

1. The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.

2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another.

3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.

4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer.

5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures.

Translative

TRANSLA'TIVE, adjective Taken from others.

Translator

TRANSLA'TOR, noun One who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

Translatory

TRANS'LATORY, adjective Transferring; serving to translate.

Translatress

TRANSLA'TRESS, noun A female translator.

Translocation

TRANSLOCA'TION, noun [Latin trans and locatio, loco.] Removal of things reciprocally to each others' places; or rather substitution of one thing for another.

There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge.

Translucency

TRANSLU'CENCY, noun [Latin translucens; trans, through, and luceo, to shine.]

1. The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable.

2. Transparency.

Translucent

TRANSLU'CENT, adjective In mineralogy, transmitting rays of light, but not so as to render objects distinctly visible.

1. Transparent; clear.

Replenish'd from the cool translucent springs.

Translucid

TRANSLU'CID, adjective [Latin translucidus, supra.]

Transparent; clear. [See Translucent.]

Transmarine

TRANSMARINE, adjective [Latin transmarinus; trans and marinus; mare, sea.]

Lying or being beyond the sea.

Transmew

TRANSMEW', verb transitive [Latin transmuto.] To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Not in use.]

Transmigrant

TRANS'MIGRANT, adjective [See Transmigrate.] Migrating; passing into another country or state for residence, or into another form or body.

TRANS'MIGRANT, noun One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement.

1. One who passes into another state or body.

Transmigrate

TRANS'MIGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin transmigro; trans and migro, to migrate.]

1. To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families.

2. To pass from one body into another.

Their souls may transmigrate into each other.

Transmigrating

TRANS'MIGRATING, participle present tense Passing from one country, state or body into another.

Transmigration

TRANSMIGRA'TION, noun The passing of men from one country to another for the purpose of residence, particularly of a whole people.

1. The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another.

2. The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.

Transmigrator

TRANS'MIGRATOR, noun One who transmigrates.

Transmigratory

TRANSMI'GRATORY, adjective Passing from one place, body or state to another.

Transmissibility

TRANSMISSIBIL'ITY, noun [from transmissible.] The quality of being transmissible.

Transmissible

TRANSMIS'SIBLE, adjective [See Transmit.]

1. That may be transmitted or passed from one to another.

2. That may be transmitted through a transparent body.

Transmission

TRANSMIS'SION, noun [Latin transmissio.]

1. The act of sending from one place or person to another; as the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights, titles or privileges from father to son, and from one generation to another.

2. The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass.

Transmissive

TRANSMIS'SIVE, adjective Transmitted; derived from one to another.

Itself a sun, it with transmissive light

Enlivens worlds denied to human sight.

Transmit

TRANSMIT', verb transitive [Latin transmitto; trans and mitto, to send.]

1. To send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or country to another. Light is transmitted from the sun to the earth; sound is transmitted by means of vibrations of the air. Our civil and religious privileges have been transmitted to us from our ancestors; and it is our duty to transmit them to our children.

2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit electricity.

Transmittal

TRANSMIT'TAL, noun Transmission.

Transmitted

TRANSMIT'TED, participle passive Sent from one person or place to another; caused or suffered to pass through.

Transmitter

TRANSMIT'TER, noun One who transmits.

Transmittible

TRANSMIT'TIBLE, adjective That may be transmitted.

Transmitting

TRANSMIT'TING, participle present tense Sending from one person or place to another; suffering to pass through.

Transmutability

TRANSMUTABIL'ITY, noun [See Transmute.] Susceptibility of change into another nature or substance.

Transmutable

TRANSMU'TABLE, adjective [from transmute.] Capable of being changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature.

The fluids and solids of an animal body are transmutable into one another.

Transmutably

TRANSMU'TABLY, adverb With capacity of being changed into another substance or nature.

Transmutation

TRANSMUTA'TION, noun [Latin transmutatio.]

1. The change of any thing into another substance, or into something of a different nature. For a long time, the transmutation of base metals into gold was deemed practicable, but nature proved refractory, and the alchimists were frustrated.

2. In chimistry, the transmutation of one substance into another is very easy and common, as of water into gas or vapor, and of gases into water.

3. In geometry, the change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form; as of a triangle into a square.

4. The change of colors, as in the case of a decoction of the nephritic wood.

5. In the vegetable economy, the change of a plant into another form; as of wheat into chess, according to the popular opinion. [See Chess.]

Transmute

TRANSMU'TE, verb transitive [Latin transmuto; trans and muto, to change.]

To change from one nature or substance into another. Water may be transmuted into ice, and ice into water; the juices of plants are transmuted into solid substances; but human skill has not been able to transmute lead or copper into gold.

A holy conscience sublimates every thing; it transmutes the common affairs of life into acts of solemn worship to God.

The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends, transmute us into idols.

Transmuted

TRANSMU'TED, participle passive Changed into another substance or nature.

Transmuter

TRANSMU'TER, noun One that transmutes.

Transmuting

TRANSMU'TING, participle present tense Changing or transforming into another nature or substance.

Transom

TRAN'SOM, noun [Latin transenna, from trans, over, across.]

1. A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form.

2. In architecture, the piece that is framed across a double light window; or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff.

Transpadane

TRANS'PADANE, adjective [Latin trans and Padus, the river Po.]

Being beyond the river Po.

Transparency

TRANSPA'RENCY, noun [See Transparent.] That state or property of a body by which it suffers rays of light to pass through it, so that objects can be distinctly seen through it; diaphaneity. This is a property of glass, water and air, which when clear, admit the free passage of light. transparency is opposed to opakeness.

Transparent

TRANSPA'RENT, adjective [Latin trans and pareo, to appear.]

1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as transparent glass; a transparent diamond; opposed to opake.

2. Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail.

Transparently

TRANSPA'RENTLY, adverb Clearly; so as to be seen through.

Transparentness

TRANSPA'RENTNESS, noun The quality of being transparent; transparency.

Transpass

TRANSP'ASS, verb transitive [trans and pass.] To pass over. [Not in use.]

TRANSP'ASS, verb intransitive To pass by or away. [Not in use.]

Transpicuous

TRANSPIC'UOUS, adjective [Latin trans and specio, to see.] Transparent; pervious to the sight.

The wide transpicuous air.

Transpierce

TRANSPIERCE, verb transitive transpers'. To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

His forceful spear the sides transpierc'd.

Transpierced

TRANSPIERCED, participle passive transpers'ed. Pierced through; penetrated.

Transpiercing

TRANSPIERCING, participle present tense transpers'ing. Penetrating; passing through.

Transpirable

TRANSPI'RABLE, adjective Capable of being emitted through pores.

Transpiration

TRANSPIRA'TION, noun The act or process of passing off through the pores of the skin; cutaneous exhalation; as the transpiration of obstructed fluids.

Transpire

TRANSPI'RE, verb transitive [Latin transpiro; trans and spiro.] To emit through the pores of the skin; to send off in vapor.

TRANSPI'RE, verb intransitive To be emitted through the pores of the skin; to exhale; to pass off in insensible perspiration; as, fluids transpire from the human body.

1. To escape from secrecy; to become public. The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired.

2. To happen or come to pass.

Transpiring

TRANSPI'RING, participle present tense Exhaling; passing off in insensible perspiration; becoming public.

Transplace

TRANSPLA'CE, verb transitive [trans and place.] To remove; to put in a new place.

It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican to a more eminent place. [Little used.]

Transplant

TRANSPLANT', verb transitive [Latin planto.]

1. To remove and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

2. To remove and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Salmaneser transplanted the Cuthites to Samaria.

3. To remove.

Transplantation

TRANSPLANTA'TION, noun The act of transplanting; the removal of a plant or of a settled inhabitant to a different place for growth or residence.

1. Removal; conveyance form one to another. Formerly men believed in the transplantation of diseases.

Transplanted

TRANSPLANT'ED, participle passive Removed and planted or settled in another place.

Transplanter

TRANSPLANT'ER, noun One who transplants.

1. A machine for transplanting trees.

Transplanting

TRANSPLANT'ING, participle present tense Removing and planting or settling in another place.

Transplendency

TRANSPLEND'ENCY, noun [Latin trans and splendens. See Splendor.]

Supereminent splendor.

Transplendent

TRANSPLEND'ENT, adjective Resplendent in the highest degree.

Transplendently

TRANSPLEND'ENTLY, adverb With eminent splendor.

Transport

TRANSPORT, verb transitive [Latin transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]

1. To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.

2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes, which often amounts to banishment.

3. To hurry or carry away by violence of passion.

They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion.

4. To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy.

5. To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors.

TRANS'PORT, noun Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.

1. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.

2. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.

3. A convict transported or sentenced to exile.

Transportable

TRANSPORTABLE, adjective That may be transported.

Transportance

TRANSPORTANCE, noun Conveyance. [Not in use.]

Transportation

TRANSPORTA'TION, noun The act of carrying or conveying from one place to another, either on beasts or in vehicles, by land or water, or in air. Goods in Asia are transported on camels; in Europe and America, either on beasts or on carriages or sleds. But transportation by water is the great means of commercial intercourse.

1. Banishment for felony.

2. Transmission; conveyance.

3. Transport; ecstasy. [Little used.]

4. Removal from one country to another; as the transportation of plants.

Transported

TRANSPORTED, participle passive Carried; conveyed; removed; ravished with delight.

Transportedly

TRANSPORTEDLY, adverb In a state of rapture.

Transportedness

TRANSPORTEDNESS, noun A state of rapture.

Transporter

TRANSPORTER, noun One who transports or removes.

Transporting

TRANSPORTING, participle present tense Conveying or carrying from one place to another; removing; banishing for a crime.

1. adjective Ravishing with delight; bearing away the soul in pleasure; extatic; as transporting joy.

Transportment

TRANSPORTMENT, noun Transportation. [Little used.]

Transposal

TRANSPOSAL, noun transpo'zal. [from transpose.] The act of changing the places of things, and putting each in the place which was before occupied by the other.

Transpose

TRANSPOSE, verb transitive transpo'ze.

1. To change the place or order of things by putting each in the place of the other; as, to transpose letters, words or propositions.

2. To put out of place.

3. In algebra, to bring any term of an equation over to the other side. Thus if a+b=c, and we make a=c-b, then b is said to be transposed.

4. In grammar, to change the natural order of words.

5. In music, to change the key.

Transposed

TRANSPO'SED, participle passive Being changed in place and one put in the place of the other.

Transposing

TRANSPO'SING, participle present tense Changing the place of things and putting each in the place of the other.

1. Bringing any term of an equation over to the other side.

2. Changing the natural order of words.

Transposition

TRANSPOSI'TION, noun [Latin transpositio.]

1. A changing of the places of things and putting each in the place before occupied by the other; as the transposition of words in a sentence.

2. The state of being reciprocally changed in place.

3. In algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation to the other side.

4. In grammar, a change of the natural order of words in a sentence. The Latin and Greek languages admit transposition without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.

5. In music, a change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key.

Transpositional

TRANSPOSI'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to transposition.

Transpositive

TRANSPOS'ITIVE, adjective Made by transposing; consisting in transposition.

Transubstantiate

TRANSUBSTAN'TIATE, verb transitive To change to another substance; as, to transubstantiate the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ, according to the popish doctrine.

Transubstantiation

TRANSUBSTANTIA'TION, noun Change of substance. In the Romish theology, the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ.

Transubstantiator

TRANSUBSTAN'TIATOR, noun One who maintains the popish doctrine of transubstantiation.

Transudation

TRANSUDA'TION, noun [from transude.] The act or process of passing off through the pores of a substance; as sweat or other fluid.

Transudatory

TRANSU'DATORY, adjective Passing by transudation.

Transude

TRANSU'DE, verb intransitive [Latin trans and sudo, to sweat.] To pass through the pores or interstices of texture, as perspirable matter or other fluid; as, liquor may transude through leather, or through wood.

Transuding

TRANSU'DING, participle present tense Passing through the pores of a substance, as sweat or other fluid.

Transume

TRANSU'ME, verb transitive [Latin transumo; trans and sumo, to take.]

To take from one to another. [Little used.]

Transumpt

TRANSUMPT', noun A copy or exemplification of a record. [Not in use.]

Transumption

TRANSUMP'TION, noun The act of taking from one place to another. [Little used.]

Transvection

TRANSVEC'TION, noun [Latin transvectio.] The act of conveying or carrying over.

Transversal

TRANSVERS'AL, adjective [Latin trans and versus.] Running or lying across; as a transversal line.

Transversally

TRANSVERS'ALLY, adverb In a direction crosswise.

Transverse

TRANSVERSE, adjective transvers'. [Latin transversus; trans and versus, verto.]

1. Lying or being across or in a cross direction; as a transverse diameter of axis. transverse lines are the diagonals of a square or parallelogram. Lines which intersect perpendiculars, are also called transverse

2. In botany, a transverse partition, in a pericarp, is at right angles with the valves, as in a silique.

TR'ANSVERSE, noun The longer axis of an ellipse.

TRANSVERSE, verb transitive transvers'. To overturn. [Little used.]

Transversely

TRANSVERSELY, adverb transvers'ly. In a cross direction; as, to cut a thing transversely

At Stonehenge, the stones lie transversely upon each other.

Tranters

TRAN'TERS, noun plural Men who carry fish from the sea coast to sell in the inland countries. [Not American.]

Trap

TRAP, noun

1. An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap

2. An engine for catching men. [Not used in the U. States.]

3. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap Romans 11:9.

4. A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.

TRAP, noun In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs. Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt. It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species; and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite.

TRAP, verb transitive To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.

1. To ensnare; to take by stratagem.

I trapp'd the foe.

2. To adorn; to dress with ornaments. [See Trappings.] [the verb is little used.]

TRAP, verb intransitive To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.

Trap-Tuff

TRAP'-TUFF, noun Masses of basalt, amygdaloid, hornblend, sandstones, etc., cemented.

Trapan

TRAPAN', verb transitive To ensnare; to catch by stratagem.

TRAPAN', noun A snare; a stratagem.

Trapanner

TRAPAN'NER, noun One who ensnares.

Trapanning

TRAPAN'NING, participle present tense Ensnaring.

TRAP'-DOOR, noun [trap and door.] A door in a floor, which shuts close like a valve.

Trape

TRAPE, verb intransitive To traipse; to walk carelessly and sluttishly. [Not much used.]

Trapes

TRAPES, noun A slattern; an idle sluttish woman.

Trapezian

TRAPE'ZIAN, adjective [See Trapezium.] In crystallography, having the lateral planes composed of trapeziums situated in two ranges, between two bases.

Trapeziform

TRAPE'ZIFORM, adjective Having the form of a trapezium.

Trapezihedron

TRAPEZIHE'DRON, noun [Latin trapezium and Gr. side.]

A solid bounded by twenty four equal and similar trapeziums.

Trapezium

TRAPE'ZIUM, noun plural trapezia or trapeziums. [Latin from Gr. a little table.]

1. In geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines, none of them parallel.

2. In anatomy, a bone of the carpus.

Trapezoid

TRAPEZOID', noun [Latin trapezium.] An irregular solid figure having four sides, no two of which are parallel to each other; also, a plane four sided figure having two of the opposite sides parallel to each other.

Trapezoidal

TRAPEZOID'AL, adjective Having the form of a trapezoid.

1. Having the surface composed of twenty four trapeziums, all equal and similar.