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me of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton.

itful fever, he sleeps well. Shak. -- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n. The victorius trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. Macaulay.

rregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus Shak.

A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obs.] Shak.

The trumpet fly. Milton.

A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.

A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. [Obs.] He sups to-night with a harlotry. Shak.

A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag. Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.

A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet- shaped flowers.

A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.

An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13.

A slave dealer; also, a strumpet. [Obs.]

direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.

nigh. "As one near death." Shak. He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear. Dryden.

An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.

ley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.

Something of special or private concern or interest. Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease! Shak .

r departs. -- Post hackney, a hired post horse. Sir H. Wotton. -- Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. -- Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. -- Post hour, hour for posting letters. Dickens. -- Post office. (a) An office unde…