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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



127 words match “TRAM”

ATROPINE n.
ble alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.
BUT prep.
less with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.
CAIRD n.
A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]
CANT n.
Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.
CHAW v.
he teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.
CISMONTANE a.
On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
CLAMP n.
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
CLOG v.
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. The commodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. Shak.
COBALT n.
g of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite. -- Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also Rinman's gre…
CONCULCATE v.
To tread or trample under foot. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu -- Con`cul*ca"tion (, n. [Obs.]
COTTREL n.
A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.
COUNTERMURE n.
A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.
CURIALISM n.
The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.
CURIALIST n.
One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.
CURIALISTIC a.
Relating or belonging to the ultramonate party in the Latin Church.
DEBILITATE v.
y intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
DICTUM n.
An arbitrament or award.
DISENGAGEMENT n.
loric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.
DOWNTROD; DOWNTRODDEN a.
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.
ELLIPSOGRAPH n.
An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.
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