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.

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.

The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.

Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

Permitting the passage of sound.

The quality or state of being transcalent.

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

To climb; to mount.

That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.

A transcendentalist.

The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

One who believes in transcendentalism.

The quality or state of being transcendental.

In a transcendental manner.

In a transcendent manner.

Same as Transcendence.

The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.

To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.

Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.

Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.

To transmigrate.

A transcriber; -- used in contempt.

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.

The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription.

To run or rove to and fro.

A roving hither and thither.

A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.

To change or translate from one dialect into another.

The act of conveying over.

See Trance.

To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.

Transubstantiation.

A transom.

The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

Change of sex.

To change into a woman, as a man.

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

The quality or state of being transferable.

Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

The person to whom a transfer in made.

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.

See Transference.

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Capable of being transferred; transferable.

To transfigure; to transform.

A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.

To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.

Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

A flowing through, across, or beyond.

To bore through; to perforate.

To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.