Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: trait – trans
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trait (-s), n. [Fr. trait, draught, stroke, touch, line.]
- Ability; capacity.
- Quality; characteristic; attribute.
- Heredity; right of birth.
- Good quality; desirable characteristic.
traitor, n. [OFr traitre, traitor, betrayer.] (webplay: country).
Disloyal one; betrayer of trust; violator of allegiance; [fig.] pest; menace; gadfly; stinger.
tramp, n. [ME trampe-n.]
Vagrant; wanderer; homeless person.
tramp, v. [see tramp, n.]
Wander; travel; stroll.
trampled, verbal adj. [ME.]
Down-trodden; crushed under the foot of others; [fig] oppressed; persecuted (see Matthew 7:6).
trance, n. [Fr. trance, passage from life to death.]
- Ecstasy; vision.
- Unconsciousness; forgetting; transcendence; oblivion to reality.
tranquil, adj. [L. tranquillus, quiet.] (webplay: conscious, mind).
Peaceful; calm; undisturbed; not agitated.
tranquility, n. [Fr. tranquillité.]
Quietness; calmness; freedom from agitation.
tranquilly (tranquiller), adv. [see tranquil, adj.]
Calmly; peacefully.
trans, n. [L. trans, on the further side of, beyond.]
Transition.