trashily 
trashily (trash'i-li), rfr. Iu a trashy manner, 
trashiness (trash'i-nes), w. The state or prop- 
erty of being trashy. 
trashtrie (trash'tri), H. [< trasW + -Me, -try, 
for -n/. Cf . tntsliery."] Trash ; worthless stuff. 
Wi' sauce, ragouts, and sic like trashtrie. 
Burn*, The Twa Dogs. 
trashy (trash'i), it. [< Irasli 1 + -i/l.] Com- 
posed of or resembling trash, rubbish, or dross; 
waste ; worthless ; useless. 
I am now buying books ; not trtuliy books which will 
only bear one reading, but good books for a library. 
JMMWtev, ill Trevelyan, I. 314. 
Traskite (trask'It), . [< Trunk (see def.) + 
-ite^."] An early name of the Seventh-Day Bap- 
tists, from John Trask, one of their leaders in 
England in the seventeenth century. See Bap- 
lixt. 
trass (tras), . [< G. dial, trass = D. tras(tiras, 
tieras) = E. terrace^, q. v.] An earthy or more 
or less compact rock, made up in large part of 
firmly comminuted pumice or other volcanic 
material . It is of a pale-yellow or grayish color, and 
rough to the feel. Trass closely resembles pozzuolana, 
and like that is extensively used for hydraulic cement, espe- 
cially by the Dutch engineers. It is largely quarried for 
that purpose along the Rhine, between Mainz and Cologne. 
Also terras. See tuffs. 
trasset, trasshet, <' Middle English forms of 
traise. 
trast^t. An obsolete form of the past participle 
of trace^. Spenser. 
trast 2 , n. A Scotch form of tresfi. 
trasyt, . A spaniel. 
A Trasy I do keep, whereby I please 
The more my rurall privacie. 
Uerrick, Hesperides, His Orange. 
tratt (trat), n. [ME. tratte, trute. Cf. troft.] 
An old woman ; a witch : a term of contempt. 
Tho tvo trattes that William wold haue traysted [deceived]. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4769. 
Thus said Dido, and the tothir with that 
Hyit on furth with slaw pase lik ane trat. 
Qavin Dour/las, tr. of Virgil, p. 122. 
trattle (trat'l), v. i. ; pret. and pp. trattled, ppr. 
tmttling. [An irreg. var. of tattle, tivattle.~] To 
chatter; gabble. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Htyll she must trattle; that tunge is alwayes sterynge. 
Bp. Bale, Kynge Johan (ed. Collier), p. 73. 
Keep thy clattering toting, 
That tratO.es in thy head. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 4). 
trattoria (trat-to-re'a), 11. [It.] An Italian 
eating-house ; a cook-shop. 
He heard, though he did not prove this by experiment, 
that the master of a certain trattoria had studied the 
dough-nut of New England till he had actually surpassed 
the original in the qualities that have undermined our di- 
gestion as a people. W . D. Hoieells, Indian Summer, p. 117. 
Traube-Hering curves. Variations in the tra- 
cing of arterial pressure, probably due to the 
rhythmical action of the vasomotor center al- 
ternately contracting and dilating the small 
blood-vessels, thus influencing the peripheral 
resistance. 
trauchle, v. t. See tracMe. 
traulismt (tra'lizm), n. [< Gr. rpav^ia^of, a lisp- 
ing, < TpavAi^eiv, lisp, < rpav/.o;, lisping, mispro- 
nouncing.] A stammering. 
As for ae ae ae &c., I know not what other censure to 
pass on them but that they are childish and ridiculous 
traulisms. 
Dalgarno, Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), p. 132. 
traul-nett, n. Another spelling of trawl-net. 
See trawl, 2. 
trauma (tra'ma), n. [NL., < Gr. rpav/m, Ionic 
rpa/ia, wound, < Tp&eiv, pierce.] 1 . An abnormal 
condition of the living body produced by ex- 
ternal violence, as distinguished from that pro- 
duced by poisons, zymotic infection, bad habits, 
and other less evident causes; traumatism; an 
accidental wound, as distinguished from one 
caused by the surgeon's knife in an operation. 
2. External violence producing bodily in- 
jury; the act of wounding, or infliction of a 
wound. 
traumatic (tra-mat'ik), a. and n. [= F. trau- 
matiqite, < Gr. r/jaty/oroajf, < Tpav/ia(T-) t wound 
(see trauma), + -ic.~\ I. a. 1. Of or pertain- 
ing to wounds: as, traumatic inflammation. 2. 
Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary: as, 
traumatic balsam .3. Produced by wounds: as, 
traumatic tetanus. 4. Pertaining to or of the 
nature of trauma or traumatism Traumatic 
fever, pyrexia caused by traumatism, especially where, 
as in simple fractures, it seems to be independent of in- 
fection. 
II. n. A medicine useful in the cure of wounds. 
traumatically (tra-mat'i-kal-i). aar. In a trau- 
matic manner. 
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traumaticin (tra-mat'i-siu). ii. [< traumatic + 
-j 2 .] A 10 per-cent. solution of gutta-percha 
in chloroform, employed like collodion to pro- 
mote union of the edges of a wound. 
traumatism (tra'ma-tizm), H. [= F. triii/mn- 
lixme, < Gr. Tpav/ui(r-), wound (see traumatic). 
+ -/*/.] Any morbid condition produced by 
wounds or other external violence; trauma. 
traumatopnoea (tnV'rna-top-ne'a), n. [NL., 
< Gr. Ti>av/ia(T-), a wound, + vvoif/ for -,, 
breath, < nvciv, blow, breathe.] Respiratory 
bubbling of air through a wound in the chest. 
trauncet,"- An obsolete form of trance^, trance 2 . 
trauncht, ' An obsolete form of trench. 
trauntt, trauntert. See trnnt, trainer. 
Trautvetteria (trnt-ve-te'ri-a), . [NL. 
(Fischer and Meyer, 1835), named after E. E. 
Trautretter, professor of botany at Kieff, Rus- 
sia.] A genus of plants, of the order Ranuncn- 
lacese&nd tribe Etmuneulese, distinguished from 
the type, I{anitncitlits. by the absence of petals. 
The only species, T. palmata, the false bugbane, is a per- 
ennial herb, a native of North America and Japan, bear- 
ing a few palmately lobed leaves, and numerous small 
white flowers in a corymbose panicle. Compare bugbane. 
travail 1 (trav'al), w. [An earlier form of (rare?, 
now differentiated in a particular use (def. 2) : 
see travel, it.] If. Labor; toil; travel: same as 
travel, 1. 2. Labor in childbed: parturition. 
[Archaic.] 
In the time of her travail, behold, . . . twins were in 
her womb. Gen. xxxviii. 27. 
After this thy travel sore, 
Sweet rest seize thee evermore. 
Milton, Epitaph on Marchioness of Winchester. 
travail 1 (trav'al), r. i. [As with the noun, an 
earlier form of travel, now differentiated in a 
particular use (def. 2) : see travel, v.~] If. To 
labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1. 2. To 
labor in childbed; suffer the pangs of child- 
birth ; be parturient. [Archaic.] 
No a . that relyques of the stones of the place there our 
Lady was borne is remedy and consolacion to women that 
travayll of childe. Sir K. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 30. 
And when she heard the tidings . . . she bowed herself 
and travailed; for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19. 
Queen Jeanie travel'd six weeks and more, 
Till women and midwives had quite gi'en her o'er. 
Queen Jeanie (Child's Ballads, VIL 75). 
travail 2 (F. pron. tra-vay'), n.\ F. pi. traraux 
(tra-vo'). [< F. trarail, a brake, trave, < ML. 
"trabaculitm (also, after Rom., trabale, traval- 
/), a brake, shackle : see travel, .] A means 
of transportation, commonly used by North 
American Indians and voyageurs of the north 
Travail, as used by the Sioux Indians. 
and northwest, for the conveyance of goods or 
of sick or wounded persons. It consists of a rude 
litter made of two lodge-poles about 16 feet long, having 
one end of each pole attached on each side to a pack-sad- 
dle, the other end trailing on the ground. A kind of sack 
or bag is then made by lashing canvas or lodge skins to 
the cross-bars, for the reception of the goods or the sick 
or wounded person. Also called trauois, travee. 
In a month " Richard 's himself again," ready to fly over 
the grassy sward with his savage master, or to drag the 
trarnux and pack the buxom squaw. 
The Century, XXXVII. 339. 
travailert, " An old spelling of traveler. 
travailoust, See travelous. 
travale (tra-val'), n. In tambourine-playing, an 
effect produced by rubbing the wetted finger 
across the head of the instrument. The double 
travale is simply the same effect made twice as 
rapidly as usual. 
trave (trav), n. [Early mod. E. also treve; < 
ME. trave, < OF. traf, tref, trief, a cross-beam, 
a brake, shackle, = Pr. trim = Sp. trabe, traba 
= Pg. tram, trave = It. trave, < L. traits, trabis, a 
beam. Hence ult. travail*, travel.'} 1. A cross- 
beam; a beam or timber-work crossing a build- 
ing. 
The Ceilings and Traves are, after the Turkish manner, 
richly Painted and Guilded. 
MaundreU, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 125. 
2. A kind of shackle for a horse that is being 
taught to amble or pace. 
She sproong as a colt doth in the truiv. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 96. 
Also travis. 
travet (trav), v. t. [< ME. traven ; < tntve, .] 
To cross ; thwart ; run counter to. 
This trnytoure trattes vs alway. York Plays, p. 381. 
travel 
travee (tra-ve'), Same as trarttift. 
travel (trav'el), H. [Formerly also travail (still 
retained archaically in one sense); < ME. travel, 
travail, trarai/l, trareile, trareyle, < OF. travail. 
F. travail, labor, toil, work, trouble, a brake, 
shackle, = Pr. trabalh, treballi, trebail = Sp. 
trabfijo = Pg. traballin = It. travaglio (trabajo), 
an obstacle, impediment, Olt. travaijlio, pen for 
cattle, ox-stall, < ML. "irtirantlintt, "trabacii- 
litm (also, after Rom., trabale, traralltim), a 
brake, shackle, impediment, < *tranare,*trabaif 
(> Pr. travar = F. en-trater), impede, hinder, 
shackle, fetter, < L. trabs, a beam : see trace. 
Cf. embarrass, as connected with bar 1 .'] It. 
Labor; toil; effort. 
Ine huet [what] traitail he heth yleued, hou he heth his 
time uorlore [wasted]. 
AyenbiteoSImvyt(E. E. T. S.), p. 130. 
He was wery for traveile of yevinge of strokes and re- 
ceivinge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 629. 
Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love 
danger better than travail. 
Bacon, True Greatness of Kingdoms (ed. 1887). 
I am grieved for you 
That any chance of mine should thus defeat 
Your (I must needs say) most deserving travail*. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, v. 1. 
Who having never before eyed me, but only heard the 
common report of my virtue, learning, and travel. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
2. The act of traveling or journeying; particu- 
larly, a journeying to distant countries : as, he 
is much improved by travel; he started on his 
travels. 
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in 
the elder, a part of experience. Bacon, Travel (ed. 1887). 
T cannot rest from travel ; I will drink 
Life to the lees. Tennyson, Ulysses. 
When travel has become a memory, all the richness of it 
rises to the surface like cream. 
C. W. Stoddard, Mashallah, p. 204. 
3. pi. An account of occurrences and observa- 
tions made during a journey; a book that re- 
lates one's experiences in traveling : as, travels 
in Italy: formerly in the singular. 
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt., 
which treateth of the way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles 
of Inde. MandevUle, Travels, Title. 
Histories . . . engage the soul by a variety of sensible 
occurrences; . . . voyages and travels, and accounts of 
strange countries, . . . will assist in this work [of fixing 
the attention]. Walts, Improvement of Mind, i. 15. 
4. Progress; going; movement. 
Thus thou mayest, in two or three hours' travel over a 
few leaves, see and know that which cost him that writ it 
years, and travel over sea and land, before he knew it. 
W. Wood, quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., I. 172. 
The more the variety of characters is multiplied, the 
more travel of the compositor's hand over the cases is ne- 
cessary for picking them up, and by so much is the speed 
of his work retarded. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 701. 
5. In mecli., the length of stroke of any mov- 
ing part: as, the travel of the bed of a planer; 
the travel of a pendulum. Also called excursion. 
The travel of each valve is 5J in. , and can be varied by 
means of slotted levers on the reversing shaft. 
The Engineer, LXV. 388. 
The great fault of this gun [a central-flre hammerless 
gun] is the difficulty in manipulating it, on account of 
the enormous travel required by the lever. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 326. 
6. The passage or concourse of travelers; per- 
sons traveling: as, the travel was very heavy on 
outgoing trains and boats. [Colloq.] 7t. La- 
bor in childbirth. See travail 1 , 2. [Archaic.] 
= Syn. 2. Voyage, Tour, etc. See journey. 
travel (trav'el), v. ; pret. and pp. traveled, trav- 
elled, ppr. traveling, travelling. [Formerly also 
travail (still retained archaically in one sense); 
< ME. travelen, travaillen, travayllen, Iravet/len, 
< OF. travailler, F. travailler = Pr. trebalhar, 
trebailhar = Sp. trabajar, trabalhar = Pg. tra- 
balltar = It. travagliare, labor, toil, etc. ; from 
the noun.] I. intrant. It. To labor; toil. 
According as it was committed unto us, we have dili- 
gently travailed in this present visitation of the univer- 
sity. 
Quoted in J. Bradford's Works(Parker Soc., 1853), II. 369. 
If we labour to maintain truth and reason, let not any 
think that we travel about a matter not needful. Hooker. 
2. To pass or make a journey from place to 
place, whether on foot, on horseback, or in any 
conveyance, as a carriage or a ship; go to or 
visit distant or foreign places; journey: as, to 
travel for health or for pleasure. 
For the Marchauntes come not thidre so comounly for 
to bye Marchandises as the! don in the Loud of the gret 
Chane; for it is to fer to travaytte to. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 270. 
A wench 
That travel* with her buttermilk to market 
Between two dorsers. 
Shirley ami Chapman, The Ball, iv. 
