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To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

A female satrap.

Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

he luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Being between petioles. Cf. Intrapetiolar.

A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.

The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.

A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.

n; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.