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Trackwalker

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

Trackway

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.

Tract

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

Tractability

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

Tractable

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

Tractarian

Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.

Tractarianism

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

Tractation

Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.

Tractator

One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian.

Tractility

The quality of being tractile; ductility.

Traction

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

Tractive

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

Tractor

That which draws, or is used for drawing.

Tractor airplane

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

Tractor-trailer

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

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.

trade-in

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

Trade-mark

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.

Trade-off Tradeoff

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

Traded

Professional; practiced.

Tradeful

Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial.

Trader

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.

Trading

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

Tradition

To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Traditional

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.

Traditionalism

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.

Traditionalist

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

Traditionary

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

Traditive

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

Traditor

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.

Traduce

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

Traducement

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

Traducer

One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.

Traducianism

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

Traducingly

In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

Traduct

That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.

Traffic

Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

Trafficable

Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable.

Trafficker

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Tragacanth

A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

Tragi-comedy

A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.

Tragi-comi-pastoral

Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.

Tragical Tragic

Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

Tragopan

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 (Ceriornis satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.

Tragus

The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.

Trail

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.

Trailer

a wheeled vehicle without a motor, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle in front of it; such a vehicle used on street railroads. Called also trail car. the large wheeled wagon or van pulled by a tractor in a tractor-trailer combination. a vehicle equipped as a mobile dwelling unit, pulled by an automobile or other mtor vehicle, and used as a dwelling when parked; -- also called a mobile home. A wheeled motorless open wagon designed to carry a heavy object, such as a boat trailer.

Train

That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.

Trainable

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.

Trainband

A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.

Trainer

One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.

Training

The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.

Traipse

To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.

Traiteur

The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.

Traitor

To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

Traitorly

Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.

Traitorous

Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.

Traitress

A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.

Traject

A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.

Trajection

The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission.

Trajectory

The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

Tralation

The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.

Tralatition

A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

Tralucency

Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem.

Tram

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

Trama

The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.

Tramble

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.

Trammel

To entangle, as in a net; to catch.

Trammeled

Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.

Tramming

The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.

Tramontana

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

Tramontane

One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

Tramp

A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.

Tramper

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.

Trample

The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

Trampler

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.

Trampoose

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp.

Tramrail

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

Tramroad

A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

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