Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Travail

Trav″ail (?; 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 ...

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Travail (2)

Trav″ail, 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, agit...

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Travail (3)

Trav″ail, v. t. To harass; to tire.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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Travail (4)

‖Tra′vail″ (?), n. [Cf. F. travail, a frame for confining a horse, or OF. travail beam, and E. trave, n. Cf. Travail, v. i.] Same as Travois.

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Travailous

Trav″ail‐ous (?), a. Causing travail; laborious. Wyclif. — Trav″ail‐ous‐ly, adv.Wyclif.

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Trave

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. travé...

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Travel

Trav″el (?), 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. ...

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Travel (2)

Trav″el (?), v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. “I travel this profound.” Milton.2. To force to journey.They shall not be traveled forth of thei...

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Travel (3)

Trav″el, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak.His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.2. pl...

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Travel-tainted

Trav″el–taint′ed (?), a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.

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Traveled

Trav″eled (?), a. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.]The traveled thane, Athenian Ab...

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Traveler

Trav″el‐er (?), n. [Written also traveler.] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, ma...

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Travers

Trav″ers (?), adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, à travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse, a.] Across; athwart.The earl... caused... high trees...

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Traversable

Trav″ers‐a‐ble (?), a. 1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.2. Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable pres...

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Traverse

Trav″erse (?), a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers.] Lying across; being in a direction across somet...

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Traverse (2)

Trav″erse (?), adv. Athwart; across; crosswise.

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Traverse (3)

Trav″erse, n. [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.] 1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: —(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he ...

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Traverse (4)

Trav″erse, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Traversed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Traversing.] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.] 1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.The parts should be often ...

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Traverse (5)

Trav″erse (?), v. i. 1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak.2. To turn, a...

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Traverse drill

Trav″erse 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 c...

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Traverser

Trav″ers‐er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.2. (Law) One who traverses, or denies.3. (Railroad) A traverse table. Se...

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Traversing

Trav″ers‐ing, a. Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.Traversing plate(Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at t...

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Travertine

Trav″er‐tine (?), n. [F. travertin, It. travertino, tiburtino, L. lapis Tiburtinus, fr. Tibur an ancient town of Latium, now Tivoli.] (Min.) A white concretionary form of calciu...

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Travesty

Trav″es‐ty (?), a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.] Disguised by dress...

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Travesty (2)

Trav″es‐ty, n.; pl.Travesties (�). A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.

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Travesty (3)

Trav″es‐ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Travestied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.I see poor Lucan travesti...

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Travois

‖Tra′vois″ (?), n. [Cf. Travail.] 1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for...