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To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.

Having three bracts.

Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.

Tridactyl.

The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. Arbuthnot.

Inactive; listless. [R.] While other animals unactive range. Milton.

Inactivity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.

Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.

A subordinate actor.

A subordinate party or faction.

Not exact; inexact.

Impracticable; not feasible.

Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

The manufacture of glass and glassware.

A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility.