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A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

dge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is sp…

ame of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

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

A trumpet. [Obs.]

The backside; the rump. [Low]

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

what 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.

The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

k 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.