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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.

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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.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.

y, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-à-piston. (c) A certain organ stop or register.

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.

hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricu…

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.