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A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

jected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.

focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the oulines may be traced.

A slight remembrance; a trace. We retain a catch of those pretty stories. Glanvill.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Sir J. Herschel.

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

To trace or copy with a cymograph.

generation; deterioration. The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.

smission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. The argument derivab…

To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot.

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

eliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. Dryden.