Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRANS-PIERCE, v.t. [Fr. transpercer.]

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. His forceful spear the sides transpierc'd. Dryden.

TRANS-PIERC-ED, pp.

Pierced through; penetrated.

TRANS-PIERC-ING, ppr.

Penetrating; passing through.

TRANS-PI'RA-BLE, a. [Fr.; from transpire.]

Capable of being emitted through pores.

TRANS-PI-RA'TION, n. [Fr. from transpire.]

The act or process of passing off through the excretories of the skin; cutaneous exhalation; as, the transpiration of obstructed fluids. Sharp.

TRANS-PIRE, v.i.

1. To be emitted through the excretories of the skin; to exhale; to pass off in insensible perspiration; as, fluids transpire from the human body.
2. To escape from secrecy; to become public. The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired.
3. To happen or come to pass.

TRANS-PIRE, v.t. [Fr. transpirer; L. transpiro; trans and spiro.]

To emit through the excretories of the skin; to send off in vapor.

TRANS-PIR-ED, pp.

1. Emitted through the excretories of the skin; exhaled.
2. Escaped from secrecy.

TRANS-PIR-ING, ppr.

Exhaling; passing off in insensible perspiration; becoming public.

TRANS-PLACE, v.t. [trans and place.]

To remove; to put in a new place. It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican to a more eminent place. [Little used.] Wilkins.

TRANS-PLANT', v.t. [Fr. transplanter; trans and plant, L. planto.]

1. To remove and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
2. To remove and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Salmaneser transplanted the Cuthites to Samaria.
3. To remove. Clarendon. Milton.

TRANS-PLANT-A'TION, n.

1. The act of transplanting; the removal of a plant or of a settled inhabitant to a different place for growth or residence.
2. Removal; conveyance from one to another. Formerly men believed in the transplantation of diseases. Baker. Cyc.

TRANS-PLANT'ED, pp.

Removed and planted or settled in another place.

TRANS-PLAN'TER, n.

1. One who transplants.
2. A machine for transplanting trees.

TRANS-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Removing and planting or settling in another place.

TRAN-SPLEND'EN-CY, n. [L. trans and splendens. See Splendor.]

Supereminent splendor. More.

TRAN-SPLEND'ENT, a.

Resplendent in the highest degree.

TRAN-SPLEND'ENT-LY, adv.

With eminent splendor. More.

TRANS'PORT, n.

1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.
2. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.
3. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.
4. A convict transported or sentenced to exile.

TRANS-PORT, v.t. [L. transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]

1. To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.
2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes, which often amounts to banishment.
3. To hurry or carry away by violence of passion. They laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion. Milton.
4. To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy. Milton.
5. To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors. Mar. Dict.

TRANS-PORT-A-BLE, a.

That may be transported. Beddoes.

TRANS-PORT-ANCE, n.

Conveyance. [Not in use.] Shak.

TRANS-PORT-A'TION, n.

1. The act of carrying or conveying from one place to another, either on beasts or in vehicles, by land or water, or in air. Goods in Asia are transported on camels; in Europe and America, either on beasts or on carriages or sleds. But transportation by water is the great means of commercial intercourse.
2. Banishment for felony.
3. Transmission; conveyance. Dryden.
4. Transport; ecstasy. [Little used.] South.
5. Removal from one country to another; as, the transportation of plants.

TRANS-PORT-ED, pp.

Carried; conveyed; removed; ravished with delight.

TRANS-PORT-ED-LY, adv.

In a state of rapture.