Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAIT-OR-OUS, a.

1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.
2. 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.

TRAIT-OR-OUS-NESS, n.

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.

1. The act of casting or darting through. Boyle.
2. Transportation.
3. 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.]

1. A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes. The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt. Carew.
2. A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.
3. An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.
4. 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.]

1. To catch; to intercept. Shak.
2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

TRAM'MEL-ED, pp.

1. Caught; confined; shackled.
2. 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.

1. To tread in contempt. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of the Tongue.
2. To tread with force and rapidity. Dryden.