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distinction from trade. —As be was, for his great wisdom, 
stiied the English Solomon, he followed the example of that 
wise king in nothing more than by advancing the traffic of 
his people. Addison. —Commodities; subject of traffic. 
You’ll see a draggled damsel 
From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear, Gay. 
To TRAFFIC, v. n. \trafiquer, French ; trafficare, 
Italian.] To practise commerce; to merchandize; to ex¬ 
change commodities.—They first plant for corn and cattle, 
and after enlarge themselves for things to traffic withal. 
Bacon. To trade meanly or mercenarily. 
How hast thou dar’d to think so vilely of me. 
That I would condescend to thy mean arts, 
And traffic with thee for a prince’s ruin ? Rowe. 
To TRA'FFIC, v. a. To exchange in traffic.—If in our 
converse we do not interchange sober useful notions, we 
shall at the best but traffic toys and baubles, and most com¬ 
monly infection and poison. Gov. of the Tongue. 
TRA'FFIC ABLE, ad). Marketable.—Money itself—is 
in some cases a trafficab/e commodity. Bp. Hall. 
TRAFFICKER, 5. [ trafqucur , Fr.] Trader; mer¬ 
chant. 
Your Argosies with portly sail, 
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood. 
Do overpeer the petty traffickers 
That curtsy to them. Shakspearc. 
TRAFFORD, Bridge, a township of England, in Che¬ 
shire ; 4j miles north-east-by-east of Chester. 
TRAFFORD, Mickle, a township in the same county; 
3 miles north-east of Chester. 
TRAFFORD, Wimbolds, another township of Eng¬ 
land, in Cheshire; 6 miles north-east-by-north of Chester. 
TRA'GACANTH, s. [tragacantha , Latin.] A gum which 
proceeds from the incision of the root or trunk of a plant so 
called. Trevoux. 
TRAGARTH, a river of Wales, in Brecknockshire, 
which runs into the Melta, above Istradwelthy. 
TRAGEDIAN, s. [ tragoedus , Lat.] A writer of tragedy. 
—Many of the poets themselves had much nobler concep¬ 
tions of the Deity, than to imagine him to have any thing 
corporeal; as in these verses out of the ancient tragedian. 
Stillingfeet. —An actor of tragedy. 
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; 
Speak, and look back, and pry on ev’ry side, 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, 
Intending deep suspicion. Shakspeare. 
TRA'GEDY, s. [trageedia, Lat.] A dramatic represen¬ 
tation of a serious action.—All our tragedies are of kings 
and princes; but you never see a poor man have a part unless 
it be as a chorus, or to fill up the scenes, to dance, or to be 
derided. Bp. Taylor. —Any mournful or dreadful event. 
I shall laugh at this, 
That they, who brought me in my master’s hate, 
I live to look upon their tragedy. Shakspeare 
TRAGEN, a place of Fezzan, in Africa ; 25 miles east of 
Mourzouk. 
TRAGHAN, a town of Fezzan, in Africa, once con¬ 
siderable, but now reduced to 500 or 600 inhabitants. 
TRAGIA [so named by Plunder, in memory of Hiero¬ 
nymus Tragus, whose real name was Jerome Bock, a German 
divine and physician], in Botany, a genus of the class 
monoecia, order triandria, natural order of tricoccie, euphor- 
biae (Juss.) —Generic Character. Male flowers. : —Calyx: pe¬ 
rianth three-parted; segments ovate, acute, flat, spreading. 
Corolla none. Stamina •. filaments three, length of the calyx. 
Anthers roundish. Females on the same plant.—Calyx: 
perianth five or six-parted; leaflets ovate, concave, acute, 
permanent. Corolla none. Pistil: germ roundish, three- 
grooved. Style single, erect, longer than the calyx. Stigma 
trifid, spreading. Pericarp: capsule tricoccous, roundish, 
three-celled, hispid; each cell marked on the outside at the 
base with two dots. Seeds solitary, globular.— Essential 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1627. 
Character. Male.—Calyx three-parted. Corolla none. 
Female.—Calyx five-parted. Corolla none. Style trifid. 
Capsule tricoccous, three-celled. Seeds solitary. 
1. Tragia volubilis, or twining tragia.—Leaves cordate- 
ovate, acuminate; stem twining. Stem suffrutescent, loose, 
round, stinging with its bristles; branches filiform, all di¬ 
rected one way, simple.—Native of the East and West 
Indies. 
2. Tragia cordifolia, or heart-leaved tragia.—Leaves cor¬ 
date; stem twining; female bractes five-leaved,pinnatifid. 
Stem shrubby, twining, hispid, as is the whole plant 
3. Tragia involucrata, or involucred tragia.—Leaves 
lanceolate; female bractes five-leaved pinnatafid.—Native of 
the East Indies. 
4. Tragia mercurialis, or ovate-leaved tragia.—Leaves 
ovate.—An American plant. 
5. Tragia urens, or stinging tragia.—Leaves lanceolate, 
obtuse, somewhat toothed. This is an annual plant.—Native 
of Virginia. 
6 . Tragia chamaelea, or lance-leaved tragia.—Leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, obtuse, quite entire.—Native of the East Indies. 
7. Tragia cannabina, or hemp-leaved tragia.—Leaves 
three-parted.—Native of Malabar. 
8 . Tragia corniculata, or horn-fruited tragia.—Leaves 
subcordate-ovate, attenuated, almost quite entire; valves of 
the capsules two-horned.—Found in the island of Trinidad. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants being of no 
great beauty, are seldom preserved, except in the stoves of 
botanic gardens. Sow the seeds on a hot-bed early in the 
spring; when the plants are in a proper state transplant 
each into a separate pot, plunge the pots into a hot-bed of 
tanner’s bark, and treat them in the same manner as other 
tender plants, which require to be kept in the bark stove. 
TRA'GICAL, or Tra'gick, adj. [tragicus, Lat.; tra- 
gifjue, Fr.] Relating to tragedy. 
The root and tragical effect. 
Vouchsafe, O thou the mournfuH’st muse of nine, 
That wont’st the tragic stage for to direct, 
In funeral complaints and wailful tine 
Reveal to me. Spenser. 
Mournful; calamitous; sorrrowful; dreadful. 
A dire induction I am witness to; 
And will to France, hoping the consequence 
Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. Shakspearc. 
TRAGICALLY, adv. In'a tragical manner; in a manner 
befitting tragedy.-—Juvenal’s genius was sharp and eager; and 
as his provocations were great, he has revenged them tragi¬ 
cally. Dry den .—Mournfully; sorrowfully; calamitously. 
—Many complain and cry out very tragically of the 
wretchedness of their hearts. South. 
TRA'GICALNESS, s. Mournfulness; calamitousness.— 
Like bold Phaetons we dsepise all benefits of the Father of 
Light, unless we may guide his chariot; and we moralize the 
fable as well in the tragicalness of the event as in the inso¬ 
lence of the undertaking. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
TRAGICO'MEDY, s. [ tragicomedie , Fr.] A drama 
compounded of merry and serious events. 
On the world’s stage, when our applause grows high, 
For acting here life’s tragi.comedy. 
The lookers on will say we act not well. 
Unless the last the former scenes excel. Denham. 
TRAGICO'MICAL, adj. [fragico?nique, Fr.] Relating 
to tragi-comedy.—The whole art of the tragi-comical farce 
lies in interweaving the several kinds of the drama, so that 
they cannot be distinguished. Gay. —Consisting of a mix¬ 
ture of mirth with sorrow. 
TRAGICO'MICALLY, ado. In a tragicomical manner. 
Laws my Pindaric parents matter’d not, 
So I was tragicomically got. Bramston. 
TRAGONISI, a small uninhabited island of European 
Turkey, in the Grecian archipelago ; 2 miles from Myconi. 
TRAGOPOGON [of Pliny; Tyoiyoitayuv of Dioscorides; 
from roayoq, a goat, and ituyuv, a beard; on account of 
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