Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAN-SUMPT', n.

A copy or exemplification of a record. [Not in use.] Herbert.

TRAN-SUMP'TION, n.

The act of taking from one place to another. [Little used.] South.

TRAN-SUMP'TIVE, a.

Taking from one to another.

TRANS-VEC'TION, n. [L. transvectio.]

The act of conveying or carrying over.

TRANS-VERS'AL, a. [Fr., from L. trans and versus.]

Running or lying across; as, a transversal line. Hale.

TRANS-VERS'AL-LY, adv.

In a direction crosswise. Wilkins.

TRANS-VERSE, a. [transvers'; L. transversus; trans and versus, verto.]

1. Lying or being across or in a cross direction; as, a transverse diameter or axis. Transverse lines are the diagonals of a square or parallelogram. Lines which intersect perpendiculars, are also called transverse.
2. In botany, a transverse partition, in a pericarp, is at right angles with the valves, as in a silique. Martyn.

TRANS-VERSE', n.

The longer axis of an ellipse.

TRANS-VERSE', v.t. [transvers'.]

To overturn. [Little used.]

TRANS-VERS'ED, pp.

Overturned.

TRANS-VERSE-LY, adv. [transvers'ly.]

In a cross direction; as, to cut a thing transversely. At Stonehenge, the stones lie transversely upon each other. Stillingfleet.

TRANS-VERS'ING, ppr.

Overturning.

TRAN'TERS, n. [plur.]

Men who carry fish from the sea coast to sell in the inland countries. [Not American.] Bailey.

TRAP, n.¹ [Sax. trapp, trepp; Fr. trape; It. trapola; Sp. trampa.]

1. An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as, a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap.
2. An engine for catching men. [Not used in the United States.]
3. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares. Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Rom. xi.
4. A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.

TRAP, n.² [Sw. trappa, Dan. trappe, a stair or stairs.]

In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs. Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt. It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species; and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone, porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite. Cleaveland.

TRAP, v.i.

To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.

TRAP, v.t.

1. To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.
2. To insnare; to take by stratagem. I trapp'd the foe. Dryden.
3. To adorn; to dress with ornaments. [See Trappings.] [The verb is little used.] Spenser.

TRA-PAN', n.

A snare; a stratagem.

TRA-PAN', v.t. [Sax. treppan; from trap.]

To insnare; to catch by stratagem. South.

TRA-PAN'NER, n.

One who insnares.

TRA-PAN'NING, ppr.

Insnaring.

TRAP'-DOOR, n. [trap and door.]

A door in a floor, which shuts close like a valve. Ray.

TRAPE, v.i.

To traipse; to walk carelessly and sluttishly. [Not much used.]

TRAP'E-AN, a.

Pertaining to trap, the mineral.

TRAPES, n.

A slattern; an idle sluttish woman.