Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TRAIT-OR-OUS – TRAM'PLE
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TRAIT-OR-OUS, a.
- Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.
- Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.
TRAIT-OR-OUS-LY, adv.
In violation of allegiance an trust; treacherously; perfidiously. They had traitarousty endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws. Clarendon.
Treachery; the quality of being treasonable. Scott.
TRAIT-RESS, n.
A female who betrays her country or her trust. Dryden.
TRAJ'ECT, n.
A ferry; a passage, or place for passing water with boats. Shak.
TRA-JECT', v.t. [L. trajectus, trajicio; trans and jacio, to throw.]
To throw or cast through; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. Newton.
TRA-JECT'ING, ppr.
Casting through.
TRA-JEC'TION, n.
- The act of casting or darting through. Boyle.
- Transportation.
- Emission. Brown
TRA-JECT'O-RY, n.
The orbit of a comet; the path described by a comet in its motion, which Dr. Halley supposes to be elliptical. Cyc.
TRA-LA'TION, n. [from L. translatio.]
A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper, but more significant sense. Bp. Hall.
TRA-LA-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. translatus, transfero.]
Metaphorical; not literal.
TRA-LA-TI'TIOUS-LY, adv.
Metaphorically; not in a literal sense. Holder.
TRA-LIN'E-ATE, v.t. [L. trans and linea, line.]
To deviate from any direction. [Not in use.] Dryden.
TRA-LU'CENT, a. [L. tralucens; trans and luceo.]
Transparent; clear. Davies.
TRAM'MEL, n. [Fr. tramail, a drag-net; tra and mail. In Sp. traba is a fetter, Fr. entraves. This seems to be a different word.]
- A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes. The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt. Carew.
- A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.
- An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.
- Trammels, in mechanics, a joiner's instrument for drawing ovals upon boards. One part consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles; the other is a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves, and also the describing pencil. Cyc.
TRAM'MEL, v.t. [Sp. trabar, to join, to seize, to shackle. Qu.]
- To catch; to intercept. Shak.
- To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
TRAM'MEL-ED, pp.
- Caught; confined; shackled.
- In the manege, a horse is said to be trammeled, when he has blazes or white marks on the fore and hind foot of on side. Cyc.
TRAM'MEL-ING, ppr.
Catching; confining; shackling.
TRA-MON'TANE, a. [Fr. tramontana; tra, L. trans, beyond, and mons, mountain.]
Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous. The Italian painters apply this epithet to all such as live north of the Alps, as in Germany and France; and a north wind is called a ultramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane or ultramontane doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. Cyc.
TRA-MON'TANE, n.
One living beyond the mountain; a stranger.
TRAMP, v.i.
To travel; to wander or stroll.
TRAMP, v.t. [Sw. trampa.]
To tread.
TRAMP'ER, n.
A stroller; a vagrant or vagabond.
TRAM'PLE, n.
The act of treading under foot with contempt. Milton.
TRAM'PLE, v.i.
- To tread in contempt. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of the Tongue.
- To tread with force and rapidity. Dryden.