Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRA-PE'ZI-AN, a. [See Trapezium.]

In crystalography, having the lateral planes composed of trapeziums situated in two ranges, between two bases.

TRA-PE'ZI-FORM, a.

Having the form of a trapezium.

TRA-PE-ZI-HE'DRON, n. [Gr. τραπεζιον and εδρα, side.]

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums. Cleaveland.

TRA-PE'ZI-UM, n. [plur. Trapezia or Trapeziums. L., from Gr. τραπεζιον, little table.]

1. In geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines, none of them parallel. Cyc.
2. In anatomy, a bone of the carpus.

TRAP-E-ZOID', n. [Gr. τραπεζιον, and ειδος.]

An irregular solid figure having four sides, no two of which are parallel to each other; also, a plane four-sided figure having two of the opposite sides parallel to each other. Cyc. Olmsted.

TRAP-E-ZOID'AL, a.

1. Having the form of a trapezoid.
2. Having the surface composed of twenty-four trapeziums, all equal and similar. Cleaveland.

TRAP'PED, pp.

Caught in a trap; insnared.

TRAP'PER, n. [from Trap.]

One who sets traps to catch beavers and other wild animals, usually for furs. Irving.

TRAP'PING, ppr.

Setting traps for wild animals; used also as a noun.

TRAP'PINGS, n. [plur. from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture. Caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton.
2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations. These but the trappings and the snits of woe. Shak. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. Affectation is part of the trappings of folly. Rambler.

TRAP'PIST, n.

One of a religious order founded in 1140 in the valley of La Trappe, and still existing in Normandy.

TRAP'POUS, a. [from trap, in geology. It ought to be trappy.]

Pertaining to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities. Kirwan.

TRAP'-STICK, n.

A stick with which boys drive a wooden ball; hence, a slender leg. Addison.

TRAP'-TUFF, n.

Masses of basalt, amygdaloid, hornblend, sandstones, &c., cemented. Ure.

TRASH, n. [In G. drüse is a gland; drusen, dregs. In Sw. trasa is a rag. The word may be allied to thrash.]

1. Any waste or worthless matter. Who steals my purse, steals trash. Shak.
2. Loppings of trees; bruised canes, &c. In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field-trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane-trash; and both are called trash. Edwards, W. Indies.
3. Fruit or other matter improper for food, but eaten by children, &c. It is used particularly of unripe fruits.
4. A worthless person. [Not proper.] Shak.
5. A piece of leather or other thing fastened to a dog's neck to retard his speed.

TRASH, v.i.

To follow with violence and trampling. Todd.

TRASH, v.t.

1. To lop; to crop. Warburton.
2. To strip of leaves; as, to trash ratoons. Edwards, W. Indies,
3. To crush; to humble; as, to trash the Jews. Hammond.
4. To clog; to encumber; to hinder. Shak.

TRASH'ED, pp.

Lopped; stripped of leaves.

TRASH'Y, a.

Waste; rejected; worthless; useless. Dryden.

TRASS, n.

Pumiceous conglomerate, a volcanic production; a gray or yellowish porous substance.

TRAU'LISM, n.

A stammering. [Not in use.]

TRAU-MAT'IC, a. [Gr. τραυμα, a wound.]

1. Pertaining to or applied to wounds. Coxe.
2. Vulnerary; adapted to the cure of wounds. Wiseman.

TRAU-MAT'IC, n.

A medicine useful in the cure of wounds.

TRAV'AIL, n.

1. Labor with pain; severe toil. As every thing of price, so doth this require travail. [Obs.] Hooker.
2. Parturition; as, a severe travail; an easy travail.

TRAV'AIL, v.i. [Fr. travailler; W. travaelu, to toil; a compound of W. tra, that is, tras, L. trans, over, beyond, and mael, work, Eng. moil; It. travagliare; Sp. trabajar.]

1. To labor with pain; to toil.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in parturition. Gen. xxxv.