Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRANS-MIS'SIVE, a.

Transmitted; derived from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light / Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.

TRANS-MIT', v.t. [L. transmitto; trans and mitto, to send.]

1. To send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or country to another. Light is transmitted from the sun to the earth; sound is transmitted by means of vibrations of the air. Our civil and religious privileges have been transmitted to us from our ancestors; and it is our duty to transmit them to our children.
2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit electricity.

TRANS-MIT'TAL, n.

Transmission. Swift.

TRANS-MIT'TED, pp.

Sent from one person or place to another; caused or suffered to pass through.

TRANS-MIT'TER, n.

One who transmits.

TRANS-MIT'TI-BLE, a.

That may be transmitted.

TRANS-MIT'TING, ppr.

Sending from one person or place to another; suffering to pass through.

TRANS-MU-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Transmute.]

Susceptibility of change into another nature or substance.

TRANS-MU'TA-BLE, a. [from transmute.]

Capable of being changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature. The fluids and solids of an animal body are transmutable into one another. Arbuthnot.

TRANS-MU-TA-BLY, adv.

With capacity of being changed into another substance or nature.

TRANS-MU-TA'TION, n. [L. transmutatio.]

1. The change of any thing into another substance, or into something of a different nature. For a long time, the transmutation of base metals into gold was deemed practicable, but nature proved refractory, and the alchimists were frustrated.
2. In chimistry, the transmutation of one substance into another is very easy and common, as of water into gas or vapor, and of gases into water.
3. In geometry, the change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form; as of a triangle into a square. Cyc.
4. The change of colors, as in the case of a decoction of the nephritic wood. Cyc.
5. In the vegetable economy, the change of a plant into another form; as of wheat into chess, according to the popular opinion. [See Chess.]

TRANS-MU-TA'TION-IST, n.

One who believes in the transmutation of metals. Lyell.

TRANS-MUTE, v.t. [L. transmuto; trans and muto, to change.]

To change from one nature or substance into another. Water may be transmuted into ice, and ice into water; the juices of plants are transmuted into solid substances; but human skill has not been able to transmute lead or copper into gold. A holy conscience sublimates every thing; it transmutes the common affairs of life into acts of solemn worship to God. J. M. Mason. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends, transmute us into idols. Buckminster.

TRANS-MUT-ED, pp.

Changed into another substance or nature.

TRANS-MUT-ER, n.

One that transmutes.

TRANS-MUT-ING, ppr.

Changing or transforming into another nature or substance.

TRAN'SOM, n. [L. transenna, from trans, over, across.]

1. A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form. Mar. Dict.
2. In architecture, the piece that is framed across a double light window; or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff. Cyc. Johnson.

TRANS'PA-DANE, a. [L. trans and Padus, the river Po.]

Being beyond the river Po. Stephens.

TRANS-PAR-EN-CY, n. [See Transparent.]

That state or property of a body by which it suffers rays of light to pass through it, so that objects can be distinctly seen through it; diaphaneity. This is a property of glass, water and air, which when clear, admit the free passage of light. Transparency is opposed to opakeness.

TRANS-PAR-ENT, a. [Fr. id.; L. trans and pareo, to appear.]

1. 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 opake.
2. Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent vail. Dryden.

TRANS-PAR-ENT-LY, adv.

Clearly; so as to be seen through.

TRANS-PAR-ENT-NESS, n.

The quality of being transparent; transparency.

TRANS-PASS, v.i.

To pass by or away. [Not in use.] Daniel.

TRANS-PASS, v.t. [trans and pass.]

To pass over. [Not in use.] Gregory.

TRANS-PIC'U-OUS, a. [L. trans and specio, to see.]

Transparent; pervious to the sight. The wide transpicuous air. Milton.