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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.

Trave

A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

Travel

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

Traveled

Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced.

Traveler

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

Traversable

Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.

Traverse

To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

Traverser

One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

Traversing

Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.

Travertine

A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

Travesty

To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

Travois

A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

Trawl

A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.

Trawlboat

A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.

Trawler

One who, or that which, trawls.

Trawlerman

A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.

Trawlwarp

A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.

Tray

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

Trayful

As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

Treacherous

Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.

Treachery

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Treacle

A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

Treacly

Like, or composed of, treacle.

Tread

A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.

Treadle

The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

Treadmill

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.

Treadwheel

A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.

Treason

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

Treasonable

Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.

Treasure

To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

Treasure-house

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

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