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for a short time. [R.] I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts. Addison.

A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.

continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

A towing path.

a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.

agi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] " But time, it traitors me." Lithgow.

A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

r tend. [R.] Bacon. To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. Young.

acter. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

un just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay.

pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon.

y and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South.

the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.