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A variety of dolomite.

A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.

Not perfectly transparent.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

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

side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.

Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.

The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

t bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over. [Obs.]

To transfer the patronage of. [Obs.] Warner.

boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.] Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. Ld. Berners.

One who commits a trespass; as: