Tragopan (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
Tragus (n.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
T rail () See under T.
Trailed (imp. & p. p.) of Trail
Trailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trail
Trail (v. t.) To hunt by the track; to track.
Trail (v. t.) To draw or drag, as along the ground.
Trail (v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
Trail (v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
Trail (v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
Trail (v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
Trail (v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
Trail (n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
Trail (n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
Trail (n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
Trail (n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
Trail (n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
Trail (n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
Trail (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Trailer (n.) One who, or that which, trails.
Trailer (n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
Trailing () a. & vb. n. from Trail.
Trained (imp. & p. p.) of Train
Training (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Train
Train (v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
Train (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
Train (v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
Train (v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
Train (v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
Train (v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
Train (v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
Train (v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
Train (v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
Train (v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
Train (v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
Train (v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
Train (v.) The tail of a bird.
Train (v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
Train (v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
Train (v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Train (v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
Train (v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
Train (v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
Train (v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Trainable (a.) Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
Trainbands (pl. ) of Trainband
Trainband (n.) A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.
Trainbearer (n.) One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
Trainel (n.) A dragnet.
Trainer (n.) One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.
Trainer (n.) A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline.
Training (n.) The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Train oil () Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
Trainy (a.) Belonging to train oil.
Traipse (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
Trais (n. pl.) Alt. of Trays
Trays (n. pl.) Traces.
Trait (v.) A stroke; a touch.
Trait (v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Traiteur (n.) The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
Traitor (n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
Traitor (n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
Traitor (a.) Traitorous.
Traitor (v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Traitoress (n.) A traitress.
Traitorly (a.) Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
Traitorous (a.) Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.
Traitorous (a.) Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.
Traitory (n.) Treachery.
Traitress (n.) A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
Trajected (imp. & p. p.) of Traject
Trajecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Traject
Traject (v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.
Traject (v. t.) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
Traject (v. t.) The act of trajecting; trajection.
Traject (v. t.) A trajectory.
Trajection (n.) The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission.
Trajection (n.) Transposition.
Trajectories (pl. ) of Trajectory
Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.
Trajet (n.) Alt. of Trajetry
Trajetour (n.) Alt. of Trajetry
Trajetry (n.) See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry.
Tralation (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
Tralatition (n.) A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
Tralatitious (a.) Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
Tralatitious (a.) Metaphorical; figurative; not literal.
Tralatitiously (adv.) In a tralatitious manner; metephorically.
Tralineate (v. i.) To deviate; to stray; to wander.
Tralucency (n.) Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem.
Tralucent (a.) Translucent.
Tram (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
Tram (n.) The shaft of a cart.
Tram (n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
Tram (n.) A car on a horse railroad.
Tram (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.