Search the Dictionary

e musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

A trumpet. [Obs.]

lopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

ewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.

To confound by a loud blast or din. Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.

Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. Milton.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

ok with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

hest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game. -- Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. -- Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchr…

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. "Call of the trumpet." Shak. I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. Milton.

e may The sacred ceremonies there partake. Spenser. [The heralds] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council. Milton.

A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. Prescott.