Trammeled
Tram″meled (?), a.(Man.) Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; — said of a horse. [Written also trammelled.]
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Trammeler
Tram″mel‐er (?), n. [Written also trammeller.]1. One who uses a trammel net. Nares.2. One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.
Tramming
Tram″ming (?), n.(Silk Manuf.) The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.
Tramontana
‖Tra′mon‐ta″na (?), n. [It. See Tramontane.] (Meteor.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
Tramontane
Tra‐mon″tane (?), a. [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the othe...
Tramontane (2)
Tra‐mon″tane, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
Tramp
Tramp (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tramped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tramping.] [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. ana...
Tramp (2)
Tramp, v. i. To travel; to wander; to stroll.
Tramp (3)
Tramp, n. 1. A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. Blackie.2. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabon...
Tramper
Tramp″er (?), n. One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.
Trample
Tram″ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Trampled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Trampling (?).] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.] 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prost...
Trample (2)
Tram″ple, v. i. 1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.2. To tread in contempt; — with on or upon.Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of Tongue.
Trample (3)
Tram″ple, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton.The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.
Trampler
Tram″pler (?), n. One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.
Trampoose
Tram‐poose″ (?), v. i. [See Tramp, Trample, and Traipse.] To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. Bartlett.
Tramrail
Tram″rail′ (?), n.(Mach.) An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.
Tramroad
Tram″road′ (?), n. [Tram a coal wagon + road.] A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plat...
Tramway
Tram″way′ (?), n. 1. Same as Tramroad.2. A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
Tramway (2)
Tram″way′, n. A street railway or interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for tr...
Tranation
Tra‐na″tion (?), n. [L. tranare, transnare, to swim over; trans across, over + nare to swim.] The act of swimming over. Bailey.
Trance
Trance (?), n. [F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass...
Trance (2)
Trance, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tranced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Trancing (?).] 1. To entrance.And three I left him tranced. Shak.2. To pass over or across; to traverse.Trance the world o...
Trance (3)
Trance (?), v. i. To pass; to travel.
Trancscendent
Tranc‐scend″ent, n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
Trancscendental
Tranc′scen‐den″tal (?), a. [Cf. F. transcendantal, G. transcendental.] 1. Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.2. (Philos.) In the Kantian syst...
Tranect
Tran″ect (?), n. [Cf. Traject.] A ferry. Shak.
Trangram
Tran″gram (?), n. [OE. trangrain a strange thing, trangame a toy. See Tangram.] Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. Arbuthnot.