A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.

An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

To treat foolishly.

This year.

One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

Full of trifling play.

A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

In a toying manner.

Sportive; trifling; wanton.

One who deals in toys.

A shop where toys are sold.

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.

To pull violently; to touse.

Soft, like wool that has been teased.

A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.

Furnished with an entablature.

Same as Entablature.

A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.

Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.

Same as Trubu.

To walk; to go; to travel.

Capable of being traced.

One who, or that which, traces.

Ornamental work with rambled lines. The decorative head of a Gothic window.

Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.

Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae. One of the Trachearia.

An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae.

Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.

A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

One of the Trachelipoda.

An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.

Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertaining to the Trachelipoda.

Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.

The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae.

One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.

Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.

Goiter. A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea.

A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. See Weever.

Tracheitis.

a contagious granular conjunctivitis caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. It is a chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva

Rough-fruited.

A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.

Rough-seeded.

An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.

Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.

The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

A towing path.

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place.

Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.

One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.

One who has charge of the track; -- called also roadmaster.

See Trackschuyt.

A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.

Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.

The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.

Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.

The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the /Tracts for the Times./

A treatise; a tract; an essay.

Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.

One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian.

The quality of being tractile; ductility.

The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

Of or relating to traction.

A Tractarian.

Treating of; handling.

Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

That which draws, or is used for drawing.

An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor.

a combination of a tractor{4} hooked up to a trailer, forming a common type of truck{7} used for carrying freight on highways.

See Perkinism.

A tractrix.

A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

imp. of Tread.

imp. of Tread.

an item of property, such as an automobile, that is given in part payment for a new one.

A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

the exchange of one thing (object, right, opportunity) for another of approximately equal value, so as to seal a bargain, or effect a compromise.

A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

Professional; practiced.

Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial.

Having no trade or traffic.

One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

People employed in trade; tradesmen.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

In a traditional manner.

By tradition.

One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them.

One who adheres to tradition.

Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional.

A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.

To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.

Slanderous.

One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.

A believer in traducianism.

The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.