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A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourl…

owed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.]

To pass; to travel. [Obs.]

tory of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey.

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]

for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler. Locked up in chests and trunks. Shak.

h they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel. Shak.

The navel; the center. [Obs.] "The umbilic of the world." Sir T. Herbert.

Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.

A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.

bdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and…

der; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle. Tennyson. Pray you, undo this button. Shak. She took the spindle, and undoing the thread gradually, measured it. Sir W. Scott.

Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.

To undo or unravel what is knitted together. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow. Shak.

Not used to travel; as, colts that are unwayed. [Obs.] Suckling.