trapezoidiform 
an antenna, the cross-section of which is every- 
where :i trapiv.oid. 
trapezophoron (trap-e-/.of'n-ron), . [XL., < 
Gr. r/xin-fCa, table, + ft pen- = K. hear 1 .] In the 
(ir. Cli., same as ij,i,nli/t,n (b). 
trapfall (trap'fal), . A trap-door so made- a* 
to give way beneath the fed. ami cause u per- 
son li. fall through. 
For mi :\ Itridirc In- nistnincth I" tight, 
Which is I tut niiiTuw, Imt exceeding lung; 
And in the same an- many trai^nilx piglit, 
Thniugh whirh tin- rider duwne doth fall through over- 
sight fi t if nser, V. <>., V. ii. -,. 
trap-fisher (trap'lish"er), . One who lishcs 
with a trap or trap-not. 
trap-hole (trap'hol), H. 1. A hole closed by a 
trap-door. 2. Milit. See tfim.t-ile-liiu/>. 
trap-hook (trap'lnik), >i. A kind of fish-book 
whidi works with a spring or snap. 
trap-net (trap'm -t i. n. Same as trajii, 3. 
trappean (Irap'e-an), a. [< trail* (trupii) + 
I'-nii.] I'crt aiiiing to or of the nature of trap or 
trap-rock. -Trappean ash, a scoriaceous fragmental 
form of the old lava formerly very commonly designated 
OB trap, and now hy various other mimes. (Hee(rop :t .) The 
trappean ash of the Lake Superior mining region, some- 
what tin|M>rtaiit for the copper which it contains, Is fre- 
quently designated as the auk-bed. 
trapped (trapt), (I. [<trap l + -<</'*.] 1. Fitted 
or provided with a trap or traps. 2. In gent- 
cuttiny, having the trap-cut. 
trapper 1 (trap'er), . [< trap* + -er*.] 1. One 
who makes a business of trapping wild animals, 
usually such as yield fur, as the marten or sa- 
ble, mink, otter, beaver, and muskrat. 
"A hunter, I reckon?" the other continued. . . . "You 
are mistaken, friend, in calling me a hunter; I am nothing 
better than a trapper." "I see hut little difference whe- 
tluT a man gets his peltry by the rifle or hy the trap," said 
the ill-looking companion of the emigrant. 
J. F. Cooper, The Prairie, II. 
2. A trap-fisher. [Rhode Island.] 3. In iniii- 
iiiij, a boy or girl in a coal-mine who opens the 
air-doors of the galleries for the passage of 
the coal-wagons. 4. A horse for use in a trap. 
[Colloq.] 
Sound and shapely half-bred horses, ponies, nags, trap- 
pers, hacks, chargers, harness-horses, and hunters. 
St. J canes' Gazette, Feb. 2, 1887. (Encyc. Diet.) 
trapper'-'t (trap'er), . [< ME. trapper, trappar, 
triii>i>t>iii-. tnii>jiure,< OF. *tr(ippeure,<. ML. trap- 
patura, trappings, housing, < "tranpare, coyer 
with trappings: see trap*, r.] The housing 
and defensive armor of a horse, especially of a 
horse caparisoned for a just or tournament: 
generally in the plural. Compare bard". 
The slice] 
:ldes brighte, testers and trappures. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 
1641. 
Item, j. pece of skarlot for trappan for horsys, with rede 
crossis and rosys. Ponton Letter*, I. 477. 
Sundrie kindes of precious stones, and perles wherewith 
ye trappers, barbes, and other furnitures of his horse are 
couereo. R. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Minister (First Books 
[on America, ed. Arber, p. 16). 
trappiness (trap'i-ues), . The property, state, 
or condition of being trappy; treacnerousness. 
[Colloq.] 
Once over this there were broad pastures and large banks 
and ditches, innocent of trappiness for the most part, be- 
fore the riders. The Field, Dec. 28, 1885. (Kitcyc. Diet.) 
trapping 1 (trap'ing), H. [Verbal u. of tra/ii, 
i'.] l/The art, business, or method of a trap- 
per, in any sense. 
Trappitty has been there so long carried on that inheri- 
tance may have come into play. 
Dartmn, Descent of Man, I. 48. 
2. Iniirainaye: (a) The process of furnishing 
with a trap or traps. 
Fever could be traced to the neglect of the most obvious 
precautions in the trapping and ventilation of drains. 
Lancet, 1889, I. 44. 
(b) Same as trap 1 , 4; also, traps collectively. 
The defects in drainage arrangements, such as want of 
proper trappings, . . . were very numerous. 
Lancet, 1890, II. 1125. 
3. The cutting of a brilliant in the form known 
as trai>-lirilliinit. See brilliant. 
The trap cut, or trapping as it is called by lapidaries, 
consists of parallel planes nearly rectangular, arranged 
around the contour of the stone. 
O. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 217. 
trapping- (trap'ing), u. [Verbal n. of trap*, 
r.] The housing or harness of a horse, when 
somewhat ornamental in character; hence, e\ 
ternal ornamentation, as of dress: generally in 
the plural. 
We may be said to want the gilt and trapping, 
The dress of honour. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1. 
Good clothes are the embroidered trapping* of pride. 
DeUcer, Hull's Hornbook, p. 85. 
6443 
Caparisons and steeds, 
llucs and tinsel trapping!. Hilton, P. I.., I*. 36. 
= 8yn. Accoutrements, equipments, paraphernalia, gtftr, 
dtT'.nitioii*, n ii'iM-ry. 
trapping-attachment (trap'ing-^-tach'mjnt), 
n. A metal nr oilier appurtenance or mount- 
ing for horse-trappings. I.. .Inrilt, in Art Jour., 
N. S.. IX. I!!.-). I Hare.] 
trappings, . /''. See /,-< w >/i,,/. 
Trappist (trap'ist), ii. and a. [< F. Trappiste, 
so called from the abbey of ifl '/'/ "//< in France: 
s. . ilef.] I. H. 1. A member of a monastic body, 
a branch of the Cistercian order. It is named from 
the village of 8ollgny-la- Trappe, in the department of 
Orne, France, where the abbey of La Trappe was founded 
In 1140 by Kotrou, Count of Perche. The abbey soon fell 
into decay, and WHS governed for many years by titular or 
commendatory abbots. De Ranee (1626-1700X who had 
been commendatory ahhot of La Trappe from his boyhood, 
became Its actual abbot In 1U4J4, and thoroughly reformed 
and reorganized the order. The rules of tbe order are 
noted for their extreme austerity, and inculcate extended 
fasts, severe manual lal>or, almost perpetual silence, ab- 
stinence from flesh, fish, etc., and rigorous asceticism In 
general. The order was repressed in France during the 
Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. There are branch 
monasteries in France, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, etc., 
anil two In the United States (Abbey of Uethsemane, Ken- 
tucky, and Melleray, low*). 
2. [/. <:} In nrnitli., a South American puff-bird 
or fissirostral barbet of the genus Monasa (or 
Monacha). Also called nun-bird. Both are 
book-names, given from the somber plumage, 
which also suggested Momma. See cut under 
iniii-liinl. 
II. n. Of or pertaining to the Trappists. 
Trappistine (trap'is-tin). . [< F. Trappistine, 
a nun of the orderof La Trappe ; as Trappist + 
-je 2 .] 1. A member of an order of nuns, affili- 
ated with the Trappists, founded in 1827, and 
established chiefly in France. 2. [/. e.] A 
sweet cordial made at a monastery of Trappist 
monks. Compare Benedictine, 2, chartreuse, 2. 
trappoid (trap'oid), n. [< trap3 (trapp) + 
-iiiil.] Resembling trap ; having more or less 
the character of a trappean rock. 
The workers of past centuries used to crush the ore In 
saucer-like hollows in the solid, tough, trappoid rock, with 
rounded granite crushers. Nature, XLI. 140. 
trappourt, . See trapper*. 
trappous. trappose (trap'us, -ds), a. [< rr/i 
(trniip) + -MX.J Trappean. Imp. Diet. 
Trapp's formula. Same as formula of Christi- 
son (which see, under formula). 
trappuret, See trapjter^. 
trappy (trap'i), a. [< trap 1 + -yl.] Of the na- 
ture of a trap; treacherous. [Colloq.] 
The fences might have Increased in size, however, with- 
out being made trappy. 
Daily Telegraph, Nov. 13, 1882. (Bncye. Diet.) 
trap-rock (trap'rok), . A rock consisting of 
trap; trap. 
Round North Berwick trap-root* rise In all directions. 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 790. 
traps (traps), . pi. See trap*, 2. 
trap-seine (trap'san), n. A trap-net specially 
adapted to take fish working down an eddy. 
[Rhode Island.] 
trap-stair (trap'star), w. A narrow staircase, 
or step-ladder, surmounted by a trap-door, 
trap-stick (trap'stik ), w. 1. A stick used in the 
game of trap; an object resembling such a 
stick. 
The last time he was in the field, a boy of seven yean 
old beat him with a trap-stick. 
Shirley, The Wedding, 111. >. 
These had made a foolish swop between a couple of 
thick bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calves. 
Additon, Spectator, No. MO. 
2. The cross-bar connecting the body of a cart 
with the shafts. Salliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
trap-tree (trap'tre), n. The jack-tree : so called 
because it furnishes a glutinous gum used as 
bird-lime. In some parts of the East the fiber 
of the bark is used for fishing-lines, cordage, 
and nets. 
trap-tuff (trap'tuf ), . In aeol., a tuff composed 
of fine detrital material designated as trap. See 
titff'3 and trnjft. 
trap-valve (trap'valv), w. Same as clack-valve. 
K. H. Knight. 
trap-weir (trap'wer), . A trap-net. 
traset, A Middle English form of trace*. 
trash' (trash), n. [Prob. a dial, form of "trass 
(cf. Orkney truss, E. dial, trous), < Icel. tnm 
(cf. trassi, a slovenly fellow, trassa, be sloveu- 
ly) = Norw. tros, fallen twigs, broken branches, 
leaves and twigs used as fuel, = Sw. tras, a 
heap of sticks, old useless bits of fencing, also 
a worthless fellow (/rasa, dial, trase, a rag, tat- 
ter); dial. ';.. pieces (sld i Iras, equiv. to sla 
trash-ice 
//.<-. break to ptoOM); connected fljy the 
change of initial /./-to /;-. seen also in led. truni 
= S\v. tfiiuii = Dan. II-IIIK-. its compared with 
K. civi/K'l; with Sw. l.m.m = Dan. l:rniu; break. 
: .!! n-iixli 1 , i-i'ii'-i : {. SH. l;ri>s.*u, liruise. 
crush, craxh. '/';</>// ll.u* nn-ans -lirokei 
of wood,' etc. The form* and senses are more 
or less confused.) 1. Something broken. 
snapped, or lopped off: broken or torn bit 
twigs, splinters, nigs, and the like. Compare 
i ni'i -tfiirth and /r<;>A-n- . 
How will he glue WIHK) to the hosplull, that warmes 
lilms, He by the Inuk of strawe? 
Gturara, Utter, (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. K6. 
Faggots to be every stick of three feet In length ; . . . 
this to prevent the abuse ... of filling the middle put 
and ends with trath and short sticks. Krrliiu, H> 1 va. III. 4. 
About 10 r. M the Immediate danger was past; and, es- 
pying a lead to the northeast, wo got under weigh, and 
pushed over In spite of the drifting troth [broken Ice). 
Kane, Sec. Orlnn. Exp., I. S7. 
He keep on totln' off troth en pllln' up bran. 
J. C. Oarru, Uncle Remus, xvl. 
2. Hence, waste; refuse; rubbish; dross; that 
which is worthless or useless. 
Counters, braslettes, and garlande* of glass and counter- 
fecte stoones, . . . with suche other hwAf, which seemed 
vnto them precious marchaundles. 
I'rter Martyr (tr. In Kden's First Books on America, 
(ed. Arber, p. 160). 
Trim. Look what a wardrobe Is here for thee! 
Cnl. Let it alone, thou fool ; it Is Imt trath. 
Shot., Tempest, Iv. 1. 223. 
He who can accept of Legends for good story may quick- 
ly swell a volume with Inul,. Milton, Hist. Eng., III. 
The sort o' trath a feller gits to eat doos beat all nater. 
Laieell, Blglow Papers, 1st ser, II. 
3t. Money. [Cant.] 
Therefore must I bid him prouide truth, for my maister 
is no friend without mony. Greene, James IV., iil. 1. 
I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trnxti 
By any Indirection. >/,<., J. C., Iv. 3. 74. 
4. A low, worthless person. See ir/ite fros/i. 
Clentlemen all, I do suspect this truth (a courtezan) 
To be a party In this Injury. .SAa*., Othello, v. 1. 85. 
Cane trash. See eane-traih. Poppy trash, coarsely 
powdered leaves, stalks, etc., of the poppy-plant, In which 
halls of opium are rolled and packet! for transportation. 
White trash, poor white trash, the poor and low white 
population of the Southern states. [Southern V. s.] 
Tain't no use, honey ; you don't 'pear to take no int'res' 
in yer own kith and kin, no more dan or'nary "///' tm*h. 
The Atlantic, XVIIL W. 
trash 1 (trash), v. t. [Cf. frroftl, .] To free 
from superfluous twigs or branches; lop; crop: 
as, to trash trees. 
trash 2 (trash), r. [A dial. var. of thrash, thresh ; 
in part perhaps also a var. of crash 1 (cf. trash 1 
as ult. related to crash 1 ).'] I. trans. To wear 
out; beat down; crush; harass; maltreat; jade. 
Being naturally of a spare and thin !>ody, and thus rest- 
lessly tranhintf It out with reading, writing, preaching, 
and travelling, he hastened his death. 
Life a} Bp. Jneell (1686). 
H. intruns. To tramp and shuffle about. 
I still trashed and trotted for other men's causes. 
MuldUtim, Trick to Catch the Old One, L 4. 
trash 3 (trash), . [Perhaps ult. a var. of trace 2 
(ME. trais, trays, etc.).] 1. A clog; anything 
fastened to a dog or other animal to keep it 
from ranging widely, straying, leaping fences, 
or the like. 
Your huntstnans lodging, wherfn hee shall also keep his 
cooplcs, Hams, collars, trashes, boxes. 
Markham, Countrey Contentment (1615), i. 1. 
Hence 2. A clog or encumbrance, in a meta- 
phorical sense. 
trash 3 (trash), r. t. [< trash*, H.] To hold back 
by a leash, halter, or leaded collar, as a dog 
in pursuing game; hence, to retard ; clog; en- 
cumber; hinder. 
Without the most furious baste on the part of the Kal- 
mucks, there was not a chance for them, burdened and 
trashed as they were, to anticipate so agile and light cav- 
alry as the Cossacks in seizing thin important pass. 
De Quincey, Flight of a Tartar Tribe. 
To trash a trail, to destroy the scent by taking to water : 
a stratagem practised both by game and by man when 
pursued. | \\eatern I . s. ] 
trashery (trash'er-i), H. [< trash 1 *- -er</.] 
Trash ; rubbish ; odds and ends. 
Wli.i comes In foreign tratkery . 
Of tinkling chain and spur. 
Scott, Bridal of Triemiain, ii. 
trash-house (trash/hous), M. A building on a 
sugar estate win-re the cane-stalks from which 
the juice has been expressed are stored for fuel. 
>Y////m//f/.v. 
trash-ice (trash'is). H. Broken ice mixed with 
water. Kane. 
