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Transmogrification

The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.

Transmove

To move or change from one state into another; to transform.

Transmutable

Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.

Transmutation

The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

Transmute

To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

Transom

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

Transpadane

Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.

Transpalatine

Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

Transpare

To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.

Transparence

The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

Transparency

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

Transparent

Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.

Transpeciate

To change from one species to another; to transform.

Transpierce

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

Transpiration

The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.

Transpire

To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

Transplace

To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.

Transplant

To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

Transplantation

The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.

Transplanter

One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

Transport

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

Transportal

Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.

Transportation

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

Transported

Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced.

Transportment

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.

Transposal

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.

Transposition

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

Transpositive

Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

Transprint

To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.

Transprose

To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose.

Transshape

To change into another shape or form; to transform.

Transship

To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.

Transshipment

The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.

Transudatory

Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.

Transude

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

Transumpt

A copy or exemplification of a record; a transcript.

Transvasation

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.

Transversal

A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.

Transverse

To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Transversion

The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Transvert

To cause to turn across; to transverse.

Trant

To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.

Tranter

One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.

Trap

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Trapan

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

Trapball

An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

Trapdoor

A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

Trape

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.

Trapes

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

Trapezate

Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

Trapeze

A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Trapezium

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Trapezohedron

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron. A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.

Trapezoid

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Trappean

Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.

Trapper

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.

Trappings

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.

Trappist

A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Ranc/ in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

Trappous

Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.

Traps

Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.

Trapstick

A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.

Trash

To follow with violence and trampling.

Trashy

Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

Trass

A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Traumatic

Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. A traumatic medicine.

Traumatism

A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.

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