Macaulay.
{ Trag`i-com"ic (?), Trag`i-com"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. tragi-comique.]
Of or pertaining to tragi-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.
Trag`i-com`i-pas"tor*al (?), a. Partaking of the nature of, or
combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [R.] Gay.
Trag"o*pan (?), n. [NL., fr. L. tragopan a fabulous Ethiopian bird, Gr.
&?;.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the
genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints,
the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and
the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The
crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of
the best-known species.
||Tra"gus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a part of the inner ear.] (Anat.)
||The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See
||Illust. under Ear.
||
T" rail` (?). See under T.
Trail (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trailing.]
[OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold
scent, also, to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, F. trailler to
trail a fishing line; probably from a derivative of L. trahere to draw;
cf. L. traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small
sledge, Sp. trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the ground, D.
treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope for drawing a boat.
See Trace, v. t.]