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To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.

ollow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses. Macaulay.

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourl…

To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.

A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.

The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

Footpath; pavement; sidewalk. Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.

The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] Johnson.

To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.

Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants. Ther…

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Having long and slender trailing stems.

tion; a coil. So glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.

d; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys.

wigs or osiers, or wickerwork. Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously. Spenser.