An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor.
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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.
Capable of being derived or propagated.
In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.
That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.
Transmission from one to another.
Capable of being deduced; derivable.
Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable.
One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
Destitute of traffic, or trade.
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.
A woman who plays in tragedy.
Like tragedy; tragical.
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.
Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.
Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.
A writer of tragedy.
Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
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.
The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
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.
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.
a. vb. n. from Trail.
That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.
One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
A dragnet.
One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Belonging to train oil.
To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
A traitress.
Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.
Treachery.
A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission.
The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.
See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry.
The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
In a tralatitious manner; metephorically.
To deviate; to stray; to wander.
Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem.
Translucent.
To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway; to travel by tramway.
The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.
To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
To entangle, as in a net; to catch.
Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.
One who uses a trammel net.
The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.
A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.
To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp.
An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.
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.
Same as Tramroad.
The act of swimming over.
To pass; to travel.
A ferry.
Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.
A treenail.
Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.
The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.
The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.
To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.
One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
Making tranquil; calming.
In a tranquil manner; calmly.
Quality or state of being tranquil.
To conduct matters; to manage affairs.
The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business.
A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.
To animate with a soul conveyed from another body.
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