trace 
The Monster, swifte as word that from her went, 
Went forth in haste, and did her footing trace. 
Spenser, Y. (J., III. vii. 23. 
6. To follow the course of by observation of 
the remains or vestiges ; ascertain the position, 
course, contour, etc., of by noting and follow- 
ing the traces that exist. 
You may trace oat the Aqueduct all along by the re- 
maining fragments of it. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 52. 
On the seventeenth we took another view of the vale of 
Jehosaphat. And on the twentieth traced the old walls 
to the north, and reviewed the places that way. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 19. 
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5f. Train; procession. 
After hem comen of women swich a traas 
That, sin that God Adam had mad of erthe, 
The thridde part of mankynd or the ferthe, 
Ne wende I nat by possibilitee, 
Had ever in this wyde worlde ybe. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 285. 
6f. A step or series of steps; a measure in 
dancing. 
To his lady he come ful curteisly 
whanne he thoght tyme to dance with hir a trace. 
Political Poeme, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 58. 
7. In fort., the ground-plan of a work. 8. In 
geom., the intersection of a plane with one of 
trachea 
Pliny, the onely man among the Latines who is a dili- 
gent and curious tracer of the prints of Nature's foot- 
steps. Hakemll, Apology, III. i. 5. 
(a) A small slender steel instrument, having a handle in 
the middle and its ends pointed more or less, and one of 
them usually also curved and edged, used in dissection as 
a compromise between scalpel and probe for tracing out 
the course of nerves, vessels, etc. It is usually held like 
a pen, and may be pushed into or drawn through tissue, 
as desired. Also called seeker, (b) One whose duty it is 
to trace or search out missing articles, as railway-cars, 
milk-cans, or letters. 
Nearly all the great roads employ a corps of what are 
known as " lost car searchers " or tracers. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIX. 217. 
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The sepu chres of Borne have as yet been far too care- th pl ' anes of protection 9 The record made (c) An ilK ' uirv 8ent ollt from a P 8t -fHce, express-office, 
sslv examined to enable us to trace all the steos bv yioutro ui pi ujcv, nyji. a. S.S.K inuoiu maut railwav.atntimi nr,,ti,,.,-,thii si i,r,>ont ..ft.,,.,.-,.,,. 
lessly examined to enable us to trace all the steps by 
which the transformation took place. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 345. 
7. To observe traces or vestiges of; discover 
visible evidences or proofs of. 
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. 
T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth, iii. 
by a self-registering instrument __ Foliar trace, 
in vegetable anat., a fascicle of flbrovascular bundles, aris- 
ing in the flbrovascular system of a stem, and sooner or 
later passing out into a leaf. Primitive trace, In em- 
bryol., same as primitive groove (which see, under primi- 
tive). = Syu. 1, 3, and 4. Trace, Vestige. Trace is much 
broader than vestige. A vestige is something of the nature 
In his frank eyes she did not fail to trace 
A trouble like unto a growing hate, 
That, yet unknown to him, her love did wait. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 106. 
, , 
railway-station, or other establishment after some missing 
letter, package, car, etc. (d) One who copies or makes 
tracings of drawings, etc. (e) An instrument, like a stylus, 
for tracing drawings, etc., on superimposed paper. (/) A 
simple kind of pantograph, (g) A form of outline- or copy- 
ing-machine. It consists essentially of a long bar bal- 
anced by means of a universal joint near one end. The 
longer arm is directed toward the drawing, design, or 
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of signs or remains, very small in amount, showing that a other work to be copied on a reduced scale, and the 
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erationa. 
thing has been in a certain place : as, not a vestige of the 
banquet remained. Trace may have this sense of a last 
faint mark or sign of previous existence or action ; or it 
may stand for a very small amount of any sort : as, a trace 
of earthy matter in water; or it may stand for the sign, 
clue, or track by which pursuit may be made : as, to get 
upon the trace of game or of a fugitive, 
up his descent on both^des for^everal ge^- trace 2 (tras), n. [Early mod. E. trays; < ME. 
8. To follow step by step : as, to trace the de- 
velopment of a plot: often with up, back, out. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 132. 
shorter arm carries a pencil. On moving the point of the 
long arm over the work, the pencil on the short arm re- 
produces a reduced copy of the work on paper held before 
it. By reversing the relative positions of the pointer and 
pencil, an enlarged copy may be made. Also called tra- 
cing-machine. (h) A tool, sometimes a small smooth-edged 
wheel set in a handle, by means of which a continuous 
line is impressed, as in ornamental metal-work. 
trayce, trayse, prop, "trays, < OF. trays, trais, traceried (tra'ser-id), a. [< tracery + 
*^%&^^$^&'S<KZ traces of a carriage, F.^'/, pi. of ^<^ C/ ; Ornamented with tracery of any kind. Quar- 
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, 
find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. 
Emerson, Success. 
a cord, chain, orTstrap by which a carriage is terly Rev., CXLV. 427. 
drawn: see trait. The word is thus ult. pi. of tracery (tra'ser-i), n, 
[< trace' 1 + -cry.] 1. In 
9. To make one's way through or along ; trav- trait; cf . truce, also orig. pi. ; and for the form, arch., permanent openwork built in a window, 
cf. also dice."] One of the two straps, ropes, or or an opening of similar character, in the form 
chains by which a carriage, wagon, or other ve- of mulhons, which are usually so treated as to 
hide is drawn by a harnessed horse or other be ornamental, and, 
erse; thread; perambulate. 
To trace the brakes and bushes all about, 
The stag, the fox, or badger to betray. 
J. Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 164). 
We do trace this alley up and down. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 1. 16. 
Trauersing and tracing the seas, by reason of sundry 
and manifolde contrary windes, vntill the 14 day of July. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 235. 
II. intrans. I. To move; go; march; make 
one's way ; travel. 
Our present worldes lyves space 
Nis but a maner deth, what weye we trace. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 54. 
Not wont on foot with heavy armes to trace. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. iii. 29. 
draft-animal. See cut under harness. 
Than thinketh he, "Thogh I praunce al byforn, 
First in the trayse, ful fat and newe shorne, 
Yet am I but an hors, and horses law 
I mote endure, and with my feeres drawe." 
Chaucer, Troilus, 1. 222. 
Twelve young mules, 
New to the plough, unpractised in the trace. 
Pope, Odyssey. 
In the traces, of persons, in harness ; at regular and 
steady employment, especially such as one has become 
well versed in. Ladles' traces, a form (probably a pref- 
erable one) of lady's-tresses.'Io kick over the traces 
See kick. 
He would now be up every morning by break of day, trace 2 (tras), i). t. ; pret. and pp. traced, ppr 
fOUaUt and walkinir to and frn in t.hp vallpv i*.nM*\n r/ ^.^9 ~, n m~ T,I*~T -j. / ii- . 
tracing and walking to and fro in the valley. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
2f. To step ; pace ; dance. 
For Coridon could daunce, and trimly trace. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. ix. 42. trapfiS (trasl v 
tracei (tras) - "- ls)> *' 
especially in medi- 
eval architecture, 
form in the head of 
the window arches 
and foliated curves, 
and later flowing 
lines, intersecting 
and enriched in va- 
rious ways. The ori- 
gin of tracery is due to 
the increase in the size 
of windows, which about 
the middle of the twelfth 
_ , ff -- century became too large 
tracing. [< trace%, n.~\ To hitch up ; put in the to b ! ^azed safely with- 
r- , j- nll t itlvfMAn Viv IM,..IM- nf 
traces. 
My fur ahin' [off wheel-horse] 's a wordy [worthy] beast 
As e'er in tug or tow was trac'd. Burns, The Inventory. 
,..,,,. x ,, -, ,. Naut.. a form of trice*. 
race 1 (tras),M. [< ME. trace, traas, < OF. trace, traceability (tra-sa-bil'i-ti), n. [< traceable + 
t . trace = Pr. trassa, tras = Sp. traza = Pg. -ity (see %).] " The" state of being trace- 
- = It. traccia, an outline, track, trace ; from able ; traceableness. 
the verb.] 1. The track left by a person or an traceable (tra'sa-bl), a, [< trace* + -able.'] Ca- that *he tracery forms 
animal walking or running over the ground or pable of being traced """ " 
other surface, as snow or the like ; footprints ; 
the track, trail, or rut left by something which 
is drawn along, as a cart; the marks which _,.., ,,. 
indicate the course pursued by any moving roads, successively arise. 
thing. 
These as a line their long dimension drew, 
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. 
A boundless continent, having no outline traceable by 
man. De Quincey, Herodotus. 
Scarcely traceable tracts, paths, rude roads, finished 
e. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 270. 
out division by means of 
supports or mullions. At 
first the simple supports 
needed were provided, 
but the new feature be- 
gan almost at once to be 
treated as an omament, 
and was developed as 
such with the style, so 
forms 
one of the surest crite- 
rions for determining the 
age and the place in art 
of a medieval building. 
Pure, delicate, and sim- 
ple in outline until to- 
ward the close of the thirteenth century, tracery becomes 
less graceful and more elaborate in the fourteenth, and 
Tracery : type of complete devel- 
opment, at the close of the J3th cen- 
tury. Window-headof the Church of 
St, Urbain, Troves, France. 
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traceableness (tra sa-bl-nes), n. The state of in the fifteenth flames out into the tongues and waves and 
being traceable ; traceability. Imp. Diet. 
spirals of the Flamboyant in France, and in England take 
Milton, P. L.,vii. 481. traceablv (tra'sa-bli) adv In a trappable man on the formal and mechanical repetitions of the Perpen- 
to feel some uneasiness ner so as to be trao'fid A, f Krf Ivm" d , icula , r 8tyle ' With the ""issance its forms are sirn- 
i De traced. Ancye. lint., XV111. nlifled to plain curves and rectangles. The most admira- 
768. " 
Hans Van Ripper now began to reel some uneasiness 
about the fate of poor Ichabod and his saddle. An in- 
quiry was set on foot, and after diligent investigation they . 
came upon his traces. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 452. trace : buckle (tras'buk"!), 
2t. Hence, a track or path ; a way. 
As traytoures on-trewe the sail teche them a trace. - , - ,", - 
York Plays, p. 125. trace-Chain (tras'chan), n. 
Let reason thee rule, and not will thee leade harness-trace. 
To folowe thy fansie, A wronge trace to treade. 
A long heavy 
buckle by which a harness-trace is attached to 
a tug. _ E. H. Knight. See cut under harness. 
A chain used as a 
, . 
Babeea Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 346. 
Alexis, let us rest here, if the place 
Be private, and out of the common trace 
Of every shepherd. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iii. i. 
that has passed ovtrTaway 
trace-fastener (tras'fas // ner), n. A hook or 
catch to attach the hind end of a trace to a 
swingletree. E. H. Knight. 
ble medieval tracery is the French ; the Italians excelled 
in pierced tracery or plate-tracery. The subdivisions of 
groined vaults, or any ornamental designs of the same na- 
ture for doors, paneling, ceilings, etc., are often termed 
tracery. See also cuts under lancet-window, geometric, 
decorated, plate-tracery, rose-ivindow, flamboyant, perpen- 
dicular, mullion, fan-tracery, and foliation. 
2. In decorative art, scrollwork or foliated orna- 
ment having no strong resemblance to nature : 
a term used loosely, and applied to work of 
trace-hook (tras'hiik), n. A hook on the end man y materials. 3. In lace-making, a pattern 
of a swingletree for engaging a harness-trace. or . adde . d decoration, in general produced by 
trae .- n <>rse (tras'hors), n. 
raised ridges or bars: it is peculiar to pillow- 
One of the two lace or bobbin-lace. 4. Any sculpture or or- 
^f^^'y,^i^ S. horses where *" - < *^ SlnS 1 ^: 
See sculpture. 4 Bar-tracery, tracery formed of com- 
paratively slender and long bars of stone, as distinguished 
from pierced tracery (see platt-tracery), and from tracery 
entirely built up of courses of small blocks. 
occurred or existed; a vestige. 
The shady empire shall retain no trace 
Of war or blood but in the sylvan chase. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 371. 
Such dreams of baseless good 
traceless (tras'les), a. [< trace* + -tess.'] That 
may not be traced ; showing no mark or trace. 
On traieless copper sees imperial heads. 
Wolcot (Peter Pindar^ Subjects for Painters, 
is-li), adv. Without leaving 
There is a fine one [wheel window], of bar tracery, in 
' nd ila dda'. a trace. C. H. Moore, v-umn; Aivmuxaure, p. iou. 
SomeyoirtMurmemoryleaveTits'hldcle^frace trace-loop (tras'l6p),n. A square loop of metal trachea 1 (tra-ke'a, commonly tra'ke-a), .; pi. 
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4. A small 
tion: as, tetradymit 
usually contains traces of selenium. 
At one time our thoughts are distorted by the passion 
running through them ; and at another time it is difficult 
to detect in them a trace of liking or disliking. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 434. 
They termed the two next the pole yoke-steeds, and with ref . to the rings of gristle ; fern, of Tpa^vc, 
-, 
those on the right and left outside trace-mates [in ancient 
L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 208. 
tracer (tra'ser), n. [< trace* + -erl. 
or that which traces, in any sense. 
rough, rugged, harsh.] ~1. la.' anat. and'^od'/.: 
(a) The principal air-passage of the body; the 
One who windpipe, beginning at the larynx and ending 
at the bronchial tubes. It is a musculomembranous 
