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four-horned; spines spreading. The immersed leaves are 
multifid and capillary, like those of myriophyllum: the float¬ 
ing leaves are rhomb-shaped, with bladdery petioles. The 
four leaves of the calyx surround the germ, two at the sides, 
and two at the angles of it, whence the horns of the fruit.— 
Native of Europe and Asia. 
2. Trapa bicornis, or two-horned water caltrops.—Nuts 
two-horned. The nut of this is woody-coriaceous, black- 
brown, inversely pyramidal.—Native of China. The Chi¬ 
nese cultivate the plant in their most barren marshes for the 
food of the inhabitants. 
To TRAPA'N, v. a. [tpeppan, Saxon. Dr. Johnson 
notices this word as trepan; but the more proper way of 
writing it seems to be trapan, as distinguishing it from the 
verb trepan of a very different meaning. Todd.'] To lay 
a trap for; to ensnare. 
Forthwith alights the innocent trap aim'd; 
One leads his horse, the other takes his hand. Cotton. 
TRAPA'N, s. A cheat; a stratagem; a snare.—Nothing 
but gins, and snares, and trapans for souls. South. 
TRAPANI, the ancient Drepanum, a considerable town 
in the west of Sicily, in the Val di Mazzara, situated on a 
tongue of land, projecting into the sea, and forming a large 
and commodious harbour. This place is of importance, both 
as a naval, military, and commercial position. Its population 
is about 20,000. It is in general better built than most 
towns of the island. Trapani is a fortified place ; and some 
additions were made to its works during the occupancy of 
Sicily by the British troops. In the neighbourhood are the 
remains of a temple of Venus ; 24 miles north of Mazzara, 
and 40 west of Palermo. Lat. 38. 5. N. long. 12. 30. E. 
TRAPANI, Cape, a promontory on the north coast of the 
island of Candia, called by the ancients Promontorium 
Drepanum ; 14 miles west of Retimo. 
TRAPA'NNER, s. A deceiver.—The insinuations of 
that old pander and trapanner of souls. South. 
TRAPANO, a small town of Greece, on the west coast of 
the Morea. 
TRAPDO'OR, s. A door opening and shutting unex¬ 
pectedly.—The arteries which carry from the heart to the 
several parts have valves which open outward like trapdoors, 
and give the blood a free passage; and the veins, which 
bring it back to the heart, have valves and trapdoors which 
open inwards, so as to give way unto the blood to run into 
the heart. Pay. 
To TRAPE, v. a. [Commonly written to traipse: pro¬ 
bably of the same original with drab.] To run idly and 
siuttishly about. It is used only of women. 
TRAPES, s. An idle slatternly woman. 
He found the sullen trapes 
Possest with th’ devil, worms, and claps. Hudibras. 
TRAPE'ZIUM, s. \roa.zre§iov, Gr.; trapese, French.] 
A quadrilateral figure, whose four sides are not equal, and 
none of ils sides parallel.—Two of the lateral trapesia are as 
broad. Woodward. 
TRAPEZO'ID, s. [r pcerreiov and Gr.; trapesoide, 
Fr.] An irregular figure, whose four sides are not parallel. 
—Some have used trapezium for a square, and trapezoid 
for a figure approaching a square. 
TRAPPE, a post township of the United States, in Talbot 
county, Maryland; 6 miles east-south-east of Oxford. 
TRAPPE, Monks of La, monks of the Cistercian order, 
belonging to an abbey beautifully situated on a large valley 
in the province of Le Perche, on the confines of Normandy, 
in France. The abbey was founded in 1140, by Rotrou, 
Count of Perche, and dedicated under the name of the 
Blessed Virgin, in 1214, by Robert, Archbishop of Rouen. 
The abbey was subjected to a very rigorous discipline by the 
Abbe d’Rance, in 1664. 
TRA'PPINGS, s. [This word Minsheu derives from drop, 
French, cloth.] Ornaments appendant to the saddle. 
Caparisons and steeds, 
Bases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knights 
At joust and tournament. Milton. 
T R A 
Ornaments; dress; embellishments; external, superficial, 
and trifling decoration. 
These indeed seem. 
But I have that within which passeth shew; 
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shakspeare . 
TRAPRENE LAW, a small conical hill of Scotland, in 
East Lothian, in the parish of Prestonkirk; about 1| mile 
north-west from the village of Whittingham. 
TRA'PSTICK, s. A stick with which boys drive a 
wooden ball.—A foolish swoop between a couple of thick 
bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calfs. 
Spectator. 
TRAQUAIR, a parish of Scotland, in the county of Pee¬ 
bles, lying on the south bank of the Tweed, and watered by 
the river Quair. It is nine miles long, and from four to five 
in breadth, containing 17,290 acres, of which about 4000 
are arable. Population 621. 
TRASARTS, called by Golberry Trarshazians, a 
powerful tribe of Moors, who roam over the territory situated 
to the north of the Senegal. They are in possession of an 
extensive forest of white gum. 
TRASH, s. \tros, Icelandic; drusen, German.] Any 
thing worthless; dross; dregs. 
Who steals my purse, steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; 
’Twas mine, ’tis his; and ha* been slave to thousands. 
But he that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. Shakspeare. 
A worthless person. 
I suspect this trash 
To be a party in this injury. Shakspeare, 
Matter improper for food, frequently eaten by girls in the 
green sickness.—O that instead of trash thou’dst taken steel. 
Garth. —Among hunters, a piece of leather, a couple, or any 
other weight fastened round the neck of a dog, when his speed 
is superior to the rest of the pack.—See the third sense of To 
Trash ; and notes onShakspeare’s Tempest.—Johnson be¬ 
lieved that the original signification of trash, was the loppings 
of trees, from the verb.—Huts of trees and trash. Carleton « 
To TRASH, v. a. To lop; to crop. Warburton. —To 
crush; to humble; to clog; to encumber; to impede the 
progress of. 
Being once perfected how to grant suits. 
How to deny them ; whom to advance, and whom 
To trash for over-topping. Shakspeare . 
To TRASH, v. n. To follow, with bustle, as if beating 
down every thing in the way; to trample.—A guarded lackey 
to run before it, and py’d liveries to come trashing after it. 
The Puritan. 
TRA'SIIY, adj. Worthless; vile; useless.—A judicious 
reader will discover in his closet that trashy stuff, whose glit¬ 
tering deceived him in the action. Dryden. 
TRAU, a small town of Austrian Dalmatia, with a small 
harbour on the coast of the Adriatic. It stands on an islet, 
having on the one side the mainland, on the other the island 
of Bua ; 14 miles west-by-north of Spalatro. 
TRAVAGLIATO, a small inland town of Austrian Italy, 
in the Milanese.' Population 2000 ; 4 miles west of Brescia. 
To TRA'VAIL, ». n. [ travail/er, Fr.] To labour ; to 
toil.—Obey our will, which travails in thy good. Shak¬ 
speare. —To be in labour; to suffer the pains of childbirth. 
-r-I travail not, nor bring forth children. Isaiah. 
To TRA'VAIL, v. a. [travagliare, Ital.] To harrass; to tire. 
A gleam of light turn’d thitherward in haste 
His travell'd steps. Milton. 
TRA'VAIL, s. Labour; toil; fatigue.—As every thing 
of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker. —Labour in 
childbirth.—To procure easy travails of women, the inten¬ 
tion is to bring down the child, but not too fast. Bacon. 
TRAVALLA, a small sea-port town of Celebes, on the 
west coast, situated on a small creek at the head of a little 
inlet or bay. It contains only about 200 inhabitants; 3 
miles south of Dungally. Lat. 1. 10. S. 
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