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An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.] The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.

A traveling crane. See under Crane.

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

The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration. [Chiefly South Africa]

The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.

s of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.

The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc. [R.] R. Park.

Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

The act or practice of traveling. [Obs.] Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. Bacon.

a. & n. from Walk, v. Walking beam. See Beam, 10. -- Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. -- Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. -- Walking fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as O. marulius, become over four feet long…

tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.

-- In the way, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc. -- In the way with, traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of. -- Milky way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1. -- No way, No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary. -- On the way, traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing…

Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man." Judg. xix. 17. Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. -- American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the (Viburnum lantanoides).

A mark to guide in traveling.

Wearied by traveling.

cal strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Shak.

The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.