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ritten memorials; custom or practice long observed. Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.

lace. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covere…

a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay.

to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. This horse anon began to trip and dance. Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. Dryden.

To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.

Conformably to law; legally; legitimately. His innocent babe [is] truly begotten. Shak.

To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. Milton.

-- To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. -- To turn the die or dice, to change fortune. -- To turn the edge or point of, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. -- To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wi…

winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story Shak.

A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. Cowper.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship. [Obs.] Blount.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner. [Written also tironism.]

onal disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.

Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. [Obs.] And the unacquainted light began to fear. Spenser.

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning.

Not begotten; unborn. [Obs.] "Thou age unbred." Shak.

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.

Not begotten. [Obs. or Poetic] "His loins yet full of ungot princes." Waller.

The state of being the only begotten. [R.] Bp. Pearson.