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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.

Trangram

Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.

Tranquil

Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.

Tranquillity

The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.

Tranquillize Tranquilize

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.

Transact

To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

Transaction

The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

Transactor

One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business.

Transalpine

A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

Transanimate

To animate with a soul conveyed from another body.

Transcalent

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

Transcendent

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

Transcendentalism

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

Transcension

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

Transcolate

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

Transcolation

Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.

Transcontinental

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

Transcribe

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

Transcriber

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

Transcript

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

Transcription

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

Transcriptive

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

Transcursion

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

Transdialect

To change or translate from one dialect into another.

Transept

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.

Transfer

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

Transferable

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

Transference

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

Transferography

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

Transfiguratien

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

Transfigure

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

Transfix

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

Transfixion

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

Transfluent

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

Transflux

A flowing through, across, or beyond.

Transform

To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.

Transformation

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

Transformer

One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

Transformism

The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

Transfund

To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse.

Transfuse

To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

Transfusible

Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

Transfusion

The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

Transfusive

Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.

Transgression

The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.

Transgressive

Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -

Transgressor

One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

Transhumanize

To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity.

Transient

That which remains but for a brief time.

Transire

A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

Transistor

a component used in electronic devices consisting of three regions of at least two types of a semiconducting material, such as doped silicon, connected to each other and to three electrodes in a conducting path so as to modify the current or voltage in an electronic circuit.

Transit

To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Transition

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

Transitional

Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.

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