By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the
Iliad and Odyssey.
Broome.
2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of
character.
Formerly pronounced tr, as in French, and still so pronounced to some
extent in England.
||Trai`teur" (?), n. [F.] The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant;
||a restaurateur. Simmonds.
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Trai"tor (?), n. [OE. traitour, OF. traïtor, traïteur, F. treître, L.
traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender
treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date
time, and cf. Betray,Tradition, Traditor, Treason.] 1. One who violates
his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who,
in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any
fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body
of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes
arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in
conquering his country. See Treason.
O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!
Shak.
2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. "This
false traitor death." Chaucer.
Trai"tor, a. Traitorous. [R.] Spenser. Pope.
Trai"tor, v. t. To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
[Obs.] " But time, it traitors me." Lithgow.
Trai"tor*ess (?), n. A traitress. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Trai"tor*ly (?), a. Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. [Obs.]
"Traitorly rascals." Shak.
Trai"tor*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. traîtreux.] 1. Guilty of treason;
treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or
subject. Shak.
2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of
allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.
— Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. — Trai"tor*ous*ness, n.
Trai"tor*y (?), n. Treachery. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Trai"tress (?), n. [F. traîtresse.] A woman who betrays her country or
any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.
Tra*ject" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trajected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trajecting.] [L. trajectus, p. p. of trajicere to throw across; trans
across + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] To throw or cast
through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three
or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.
Traj"ect (?), n. [L. trajectus, fr. trajicere: cf. F. trajet, OF.
traject. See Traject, v. t.] 1. A place for passing across; a passage;
a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.