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Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.

One who sounds a trumpet.

A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.

A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.

The sea trumpet.

ropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. Chapman.

To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,

Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.

An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.

An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

The American black-tailed godwit.

See under Zygosphene.

church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

omatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.