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Have wander’d with our travers'd arms, and breath’d 
Our sufferance vainly. Shakspeare. 
To cross by way of opposition ; to thwart with obstacles. 
—John Bull thought himself now of age to look after his 
own affairs; Frog resolved to traverse this new project; and 
to make him uneasy in his own family. Arbuthnot. —To 
oppose; to cross by an objection. A law term . 
You save th’ expence of long litigious laws. 
Where suits are travers'd, and so little won. 
That he who conquers is but last undone. Dri/den. 
To wander over; to cross.—He that shall traverse over 
all this habitable earth, with all those remote corners of it, 
reserved for the discovery of these later ages, may find some 
nations without cities, schools, houses, garments, coin; but 
not without their God. Wilkins. —To survey ; to examine 
thoroughly.—My purpose is to traverse the nature, prin¬ 
ciples, and properties of this detestable vice, ingratitude. 
South. 
To TRA'VERSE, v. n. To use a posture of opposition 
in fencing.—To see thee fight, to see thee traverse, to see 
thee here, to see thee there. Shakspeare. 
TRAVERSE BAY, Grand, a bay on the east-side of 
Lake Michigan. Lat.44. 45. N. long. 85. W. 
TRAVERSE ISLANDS, a chain of islands at the east end 
of Noquet’s Bay, in Lake Michigan. On one of the largest 
is a town of the Ottoway Indians. 
TRAVESIA, a river of Quito, in the province of Moxos, 
which communicates with the Mato, and runs north. 
TRA'VESTED, adj. [travesti, Fr.; travistito, Ital.] 
Dressed in the clothes of another; disguised.—I see poor 
Lucan travested, not apparelled in his Roman toga, but 
under the cruel sheers of an English tailor. Bentley. 
TRA'VESTY, adj. Dressed so as to be made ridiculous; 
burlesqued. 
TRA'VESTY, s. A burlesque performance; a work tra¬ 
vestied.—A work grave, serious, and even respectable for its 
poetry, in the reign of Edward the sixth, at length in a cul¬ 
tivated age has contracted the air of an absolute travestie. 
War ton. 
To TRA'VESTY, v. a. To turn into burlesque and ridi¬ 
cule.—One would imagine, that John Dennis, or some hero 
of the Dunciad, had been here attempting to travesty this 
description of the restoration of Eurydice to life. Dr. 
Warton. 
TRA'ULISM, s. [ traulizo , Lat., from the Gr., to stutter.} 
A stammering repetition of syllables.—As for a ce ce, &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 Tut. 
TRAUMATIC, adj. [rpav/zanKoj, Gr.] Vulnerary; 
useful to wounds.—I deterged and disposed the ulcer to in- 
carn, and to do so I put the patient into a traumatic decoc¬ 
tion. Wiseman. 
TRAUMA'TICS, s. Vulneraries; medicines good to 
heal wounds. Chambers. 
TRAUN, a navigable river of upper Austria, which rises 
in Styria, and after flowing through the lakes of Hallstadt 
and Traun, runs into the Danube. 
TRAVNICK, a town in the north-west of European Tur¬ 
key, in Bosnia, situated at the foot of a chain of mountains, 
between the rivers Bosnia and Verbacz ; 70 miles west-by¬ 
south of Isvornick, and 74 north-by-east of Spalatro. 
TRAUNKIRCHEN, a small town of Upper Austria, on 
the west side of the lake of Traun; 11 miles south-south-east 
of Vocklabruck. 
TRAUNSTEIN, a small town of Bavaria, on the Traun. 
It contains 2500 inhabitants; 48 miles east-by-south of Mu¬ 
nich, and 18 west of Salzburgh. See Reichenhall. 
TRAUNSTEIN, a mountain of Upper Austria, among the 
Noric Alps, on the east side of the lake of Traun, about 
5600 feet in height. 
TRAUNSTEIN, a small town of Lower Austria; 63 
miles west-by-north of Vienna, and 11 south-west of Zwetl. 
TRAUNVIERTEL, (i. e. Quarter of the Traun,) a dis- 
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trict of Upper Austria, lying along the river Traun, from the 
Danube to the borders of Styria. It has a territorial extent 
of 1955 square miles, with 170,000 inhabitants. 
TRAVO, a small town of Italy, in the duchy of Parma, 
district of Piacenza, on the river Trebia. 
TRAUTENAU, a small town of Bohemia; 22 miles north 
of Konigingratz, and 72 east-north-east of Prague. Popula¬ 
tion 2100. 
TRAUTMANNSDORF, a lordship of Lower Austria, 
from which a family of princes and counts, well known in 
Germany, take their title. 
TRAWDEN FOREST, a township of England, in Lan¬ 
cashire; 2 miles south-east of Colne. Population 1941. 
TRAWSFYNND, a parish of Wales, in Merionethshire, 
between Llanelletyd and Maentwrog; 223 miles from Lon¬ 
don. Population 1481. 
TRAY, s. \traeg, Su. Goth.; trua , Lat. Serenius.} A 
shallow wooden vessel. 
No more her care shall fill the hollow tray. 
To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay. 
TRA'YTRIP, s. A play, I know not of what kind. Dr. 
Johnson. — Some game at tables or d raughts. Tyrwhitt. — 
From trey , or trea, three. Written also trea-trip. —I shall 
play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy bond slave. 
Shakspeare. 
TRAZ OZ MONTES, a large province occupying the 
north-east of Portugal, and extending in a form nearly square, 
having to the south the course of the Douro, to the north the 
Spanish province of Galicia. Its territorial extent is about 
5500 square miles, equal to four of our average counties: 
its population, much more thinly spread, hardly exceeds 
350,000. 
TREA'CHER, Trea'chetour, or Trea'chour, s. 
[tricheur , Fr.] A traitor; one who betrays; one who vio¬ 
lates his faith or allegiance. Not in use. 
Good Claudius with him battle fought. 
In which the king was by a treachetour 
Disguised slain. Spenser, 
Where may that trcachour then be found, 
Or by what means may I his footing tract > Spenser. 
Play not two parts, 
Treacher and coward both. Beaum. and FI. 
TRE'ACHEROUS, adj. Faithless; perfidious; guilty of 
deserting or betraying. 
Desire in rapture gaz’d awhile. 
And saw the treacherous goddess smile. Swift. 
TREACHEROUS BAY,- a dangerous bay, as its name 
imports, in the Eastern seas, in Gaspar’s strait. 
TRE'ACHEROUSLY, adv. Faithlessly; perfidiously ; by 
treason; by dishonest stratagem. 
Thou hast slain 
The flower of Europe for his chivalry. 
And treacherously hast thou vanquish’d him. Shakspeare. 
TRE'ACHEROUSNESS, s. The quality of being treach¬ 
erous ; perfidiousness. 
TRE'ACHERY, s. [tricherie, Fr., from triegen, Germ., 
to deceive, to betray. See Trick ] Perfidy; breach of 
faith.—And Joram said to Ahaziah, there is treachery, O 
Ahaziah. 2 Kings. 
TRE'ACLE, s. [triacle, Fr.; triackle, Dutch; theriaca, 
Lat.; triacle, old Engl.] A medicine made up of many 
ingredients.—The physician that has observed the medicinal 
virtues of treacle, without knowing the nature of each of the 
sixty odd ingredients, may cure many patients with it. Boyle. 
—Melasses; the spume of sugar.—Any sovereign remedy 
was at this time [in the 13th century] called treacle. Venice 
treacle is still in some repute. The sirop of the sugar-bakers, 
now called treacle, cannot have been known so early. Ellis. 
To TREAD, v. n. pret. trod, trode ; part. pass, trod¬ 
den. [trudan, Gothic; tpae&an, Saxon; treden, Dutch.] 
To set the foot.—Where’er you tread the blushing flowers 
shall 
