Tragedious Tra·ge"di·ous adjective Like tragedy; tragical. [ Obsolete] " Tragedious history." Fabyan.

Tragedy Trag"e·dy noun ; plural Tragedies . [ Middle English tragedie , Old French tragedie , French tragédie , Latin tragoedia , Greek ..., from ... a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; ... a goat (perhaps akin to ... to gnaw, nibble, eat, and English trout ) + ... to sing; from the oldest tragedies being exhibited when a goat was sacrificed, or because a goat was the prize, or because the actors were clothed in goatskins. See Ode .]

1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

Tragedy is to say a certain storie,
As olde bookes maken us memorie,
Of him that stood in great prosperitee
And is yfallen out of high degree
Into misery and endeth wretchedly.

Chaucer.

All our tragedies are of kings and princes.

Jer. Taylor.

tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest.

Coleridge.

2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

Tragi-comedy Trag`i-com"e·dy noun [ Confer French tragicomédie , Latin tragicocomoedia . See Tragic , and Comedy .] A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.

The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure."

Macaulay.

Tragi-comi-pastoral Trag`i-com`i-pas"tor·al adjective Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [ R.] Gay.

Tragi-comic, Tragi-comical Trag`i-com"ic, Trag`i-com"ic·al adjective [ Confer French tragi-comique .] Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`- com"ic*al*ly , adverb

Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy.

Sir W. Scott.

Tragic Trag"ic noun 1. A writer of tragedy. [ Obsolete]

2. A tragedy; a tragic drama. [ Obsolete]

Tragic, Tragical Trag"ic, Trag"ic·al adjective [ Latin tragicus , Greek ...: confer French tragique .] 1. Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

2. Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

3. Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

Why look you still so stern and tragical ?

Shak.

-- Trag"ic*al*ly , adverb -- Trag"ic*al*ness , noun

Tragopan Trag"o·pan noun [ New Latin , from Latin tragopan a fabulous Ethiopian bird, Greek ....] (Zoology) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis . They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant ( C. satyra ), of India is one of the best-known species.

Tragus Tra"gus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a part of the inner ear.] (Anat.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear .

Trail Trail transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Trailed ; present participle & verbal noun Trailing .] [ Middle English trailen , Old French trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also, to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, French trailler to trail a fishing line; probably from a derivative of Latin trahere to draw; confer Latin traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small sledge, Spanish trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the ground, Dutch treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope for drawing a boat. See Trace , transitive verb ]

1. To hunt by the track; to track. Halliwell.

2. To draw or drag, as along the ground.

And hung his head, and trailed his legs along.

Dryden.

They shall not trail me through their streets
Like a wild beast.

Milton.

Long behind he trails his pompous robe.

Pope.

3. (Mil.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.

5. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon. [ Prov. Eng.]

I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.

C. Bronte.

Trail Trail intransitive verb 1. To be drawn out in length; to follow after.

When his brother saw the red blood trail .

Spenser.

2. To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.

Trail Trail noun 1. A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail .

They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail .

Cooper.

How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!

Shak.

2. A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.

3. Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.

When lightning shoots in glittering trails along.

Rowe.

4. Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train. "A radiant trail of hair." Pope.

5. Anything drawn along, as a vehicle. [ Obsolete]

6. A frame for trailing plants; a trellis. [ Obsolete]

7. The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.

The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish.

Baird.

8. (Mil.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage , under Gun .

9. The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition. [ Prov. Eng.]

Trail boards (Shipbuilding) , the carved boards on both sides of the cutwater near the figurehead. -- Trail net , a net that is trailed or drawn behind a boat. Wright.

Trail rope Trail rope (Aëronautics) Same as Guide rope , above.

Trailer Trail"er noun One who, or that which, trails.

Trailer Trail"er noun A car coupled to, and drawn by, a motor car in front of it; -- used esp. of such cars on street railroads. Called also trail car .

Trailing Trail"ing adjective & verbal noun from Trail .

Trailing arbutus . (Botany) See under Arbutus . -- Trailing spring , a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing wheel , a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.

Trailing edge Trail"ing edge (Aëronautics) A following edge. See Advancing edge , above.

Train Train transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Trained ; present participle & verbal noun Training .] [ Old French trahiner , traïner ,F. traîner , Late Latin trahinare , trainare , from Latin trahere to draw. See Trail .]

1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.

In hollow cube
Training his devilish enginery.

Milton.

2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [ Obsolete]

If but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side.

Shak.

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.

Shak.

This feast, I'll gage my life,
Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.

Ford.

3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.

Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation.

Milton.

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train .

Dryden.

4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.

He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.

Jeffrey.

6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.

To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.) , to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. -- To train , or To train up , to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Prov. xxii. 6.

The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory.

Tillotson.

Train Train intransitive verb 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.

2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.

Train Train noun [ French train , Old French traïn , trahin ; confer (for some of the senses) French traine . See Train , v. ] 1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [ Obsolete] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains ." Milton.

2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell.

With cunning trains him to entrap un wares.

Spenser.

3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : --

(a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.

(b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.

(c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.

4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.

The king's daughter with a lovely train .

Addison.

My train are men of choice and rarest parts.

Shak.

5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." I. Watts.

The train of ills our love would draw behind it.

Addison.

Rivers now
Stream and perpetual draw their humid train .

Milton.

Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.

Locke.

6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.

If things were once in this train , . . . our duty would take root in our nature.

Swift.

7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.

8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.

9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.

10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, a 12- inch train .

Roll train , or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill) , a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. -- Train mile (Railroads) , a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run . -- Train of artillery , any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). -- Train of mechanism , a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. -- Train road , a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. -- Train tackle (Nautical) , a tackle for running guns in and out.

Syn. -- Cars. -- Train , Cars . Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train . In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train ; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars . The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars .

Train Train noun 1. A heavy long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

2. (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.

Train dispatcher Train dispatcher An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.

Train oil Train" oil` (oil`). [ Dutch or LG. traan train oil, blubber (cf. Dan. & Swedish tran , German thran ) + English oil .] Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.

Trainable Train"a·ble adjective Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

Trainband Train"band` noun ; plural Trainbands A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. [ Eng.]

He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure.

Macaulay.

A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town.

Cowper.

Trainbearer Train"bear`er noun One who holds up a train, as of a robe.

Trainel Train"el noun [ Old French ] A dragnet. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Trainer Train"er noun 1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.

2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [ U. S.] Bartlett.

Training Train"ing noun The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.

Fan training (Hort.) , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training (Hort.) , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. -- Training college . See Normal school , under Normal , adjective -- Training day , a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [ U. S.] -- Training ship , a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

Syn. -- See Education .

Trainy Train"y adjective Belonging to train oil. [ Obsolete] Gay.

Traipse Traipse intransitive verb [ Confer German trapsen , trappsen , trappen , to tread noisily, to walk stamping. See Trample , Trape .] To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [ Colloq.] Pope.

Trais, Trays Trais, Trays noun plural Traces. [ Obsolete]

Four white bulls in the trays .

Chaucer.

Trait Trait noun [ French, from Latin tractus , from trahere to draw. See Trace , v. , and confer Tract a region, Trace a strap, Tret .]

1. A stroke; a touch.

By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.

Broome.

2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

» Formerly pronounced trā , as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England.

Traiteur Trai`teur" noun [ French] The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. Simmonds.

Traitor Trai"tor noun [ Middle English traitour , Old French traïtor , traïteur , French treître , Latin traditor , from tradere , traditum , to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date time, and confer Betray , Tradition , Traditor , Treason .] 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason .

O passing traitor , perjured and unjust!

Shak.

2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This false traitor death." Chaucer.

Traitor Trai"tor adjective Traitorous. [ R.] Spenser. Pope.

Traitor Trai"tor transitive verb To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [ Obsolete] " But time, it traitors me." Lithgow.

Traitoress Trai"tor·ess noun A traitress. [ Obsolete] Rom. of R.

Traitorly Trai"tor·ly adjective Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [ Obsolete] " Traitorly rascals." Shak.

Traitorous Trai"tor·ous adjective [ Confer French traîtreux .] 1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak.

2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.

-- Trai"tor*ous*ly , adverb -- Trai"tor*ous*ness , noun

Traitory Trai"tor·y noun Treachery. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Traitress Trai"tress noun [ French traîtresse .] A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.

Traject Tra·ject" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Trajected ; present participle & verbal noun Trajecting .] [ Latin trajectus , past participle of trajicere to throw across; trans across + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [ R.] Sir I. Newton.

Traject Traj"ect noun [ Latin trajectus , from trajicere : confer French trajet , Old French traject . See Traject , transitive verb ] 1. A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.

2. The act of trajecting; trajection.

3. A trajectory. [ R.] I. Taylor.

Trajection Tra·jec"tion noun [ Latin trajectio a crossing over, transposition.] 1. The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.

2. Transposition. [ R.] Knatchbull.

Trajectory Tra·ject"o·ry noun ; plural Trajectories . [ Confer French trajectoire .] The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

Trajet, Trajetour Tra"jet, Tra"jet·our Tra"jet*ry noun See Treget , Tregetour , and Tregetry . [ Obsolete]

Tralation Tra·la"tion noun [ Latin tralatio , translatio .See Translation .] The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Tralatition Tral`a·ti"tion noun [ See Tralatitious .] A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

Tralatitious Tral`a·ti"tious adjective [ Latin tralatitius , translatitius , tralaticius , translaticius . See Tralation .] 1. Passed along; handed down; transmitted.

Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor.

W. Withington.

2. Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.

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