Webster's Dictionary 1913

4051

Traitoress

Trai″tor‐ess (?), n. A traitress. Rom. of R.

4052

Traitorly

Trai″tor‐ly (?), a. Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. “Traitorly rascals.” Shak.

4053

Traitorous

Trai″tor‐ous (?), a. [Cf. F. traîtreux.] 1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak.2. Consisting in treason; partaking ...

4054

Traitory

Trai″tor‐y (?), n. Treachery. Chaucer.

4055

Traitress

Trai″tress (?), n. [F. traîtresse.] A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.

4056

Traject

Tra‐ject″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Trajected; p. pr. & vb. n.Trajecting.] [L. trajectus, p. p. of trajicere to throw across; trans across + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting fo...

4057

Traject (2)

Traj″ect (?), n. [L. trajectus, fr. trajicere: cf. F. trajet, OF. traject. See Traject, v. t.] 1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. Cotgrave.2. The act of trajecti...

4058

Trajection

Tra‐jec″tion (?), n. [L. trajectio a crossing over, transposition.] 1. The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.2. Transposition. Kn...

4059

Trajectory

Tra‐ject″o‐ry (?), n.; pl.Trajectories (#). [Cf. F. trajectoire.] The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely ...

4060

Trajet

{ Tra″jet (?), Tra″jet‐our (?), Tra″jet‐ry (?) }, n. See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry.

4061

Tralation

Tra‐la″tion (?), n. [L. tralatio, translatio.See Translation.] The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. Bp. Hall.

4062

Tralatition

Tral′a‐ti″tion (?), n. [See Tralatitious.] A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

4063

Tralatitious

Tral′a‐ti″tious (?), a. [L. tralatitius, translatitius, tralaticius, translaticius. See Tralation.] 1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted.Among biblical critics a tralatitio...

4064

Tralatitiously

Tral′a‐ti″tious‐ly, adv. In a tralatitious manner; metephorically. Holder.

4065

Tralineate

Tra‐lin″e‐ate (?), v. i. [L. trans across + linea a line: cf. It tralineare, tralignare.] To deviate; to stray; to wander. Dryden.

4066

Tralucency

Tra‐lu″cen‐cy (?), n. Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem. Sir T. Browne.

4067

Tralucent

Tra‐lu″cent (?), a. [L. tralucens, translucens, p. pr. See Translucent.] Translucent.The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.

4068

Tram

Tram (?), n. [Prov. E. tram a coal wagon, the shaft of a cart or carriage, a beam or bar; probably of Scand, origin; cf. OSw. tråm, trum, a beam, OD. drom, Prov. & OHG. tram.] 1...

4069

Tram (2)

Tram, n. [Sp. trama weft, or F. trame.] A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velv...

4070

Tram (3)

Tram (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Trammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tramming.] To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.

4071

Tram (4)

Tram, v. i. To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.

4072

Tram (5)

Tram, n.(Mech.) Same as Trammel, n., 6.

4073

Trama

‖Tra″ma (?), n.(Bot.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.

4074

Tramble

Tram″ble (?), v. t.(Mining) To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

4075

Trammel

Tram″mel (?), n. [F. tramail, trémail, a net, LL. tremaculum, tremacle, a kind of net for taking fish; L. tres three + macula a mesh. See Three, and Mail armor.] 1. A kind of ne...

4076

Trammel (2)

Tram″mel (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Trammeled (?) or Trammelled; p. pr. & vb. n.Trammeling, or Trammelling.] 1. To entangle, as in a net; to catch. Shak.2. To confine; to hamper; t...

4077

Trammel wheel

Tram″mel wheel′. (Mach.) A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft n...