2. To tread in contempt; — with on or upon.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

Gov. of Tongue.

Tram"ple, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced

by trampling. Milton.

The huddling trample of a drove of sheep.

Lowell.

Tram"pler (?), n. One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler

on nature's law. Cowper.

Tram*poose" (?), v. i. [See Tramp, Trample, and Traipse.] To walk with

labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

Tram"road` (?), n. [Tram a coal wagon + road.] A road prepared for easy

transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams

of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

Tram"way` (?), n. 1. Same as Tramroad.

2. 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.

Tra*na"tion (?), n. [L. tranare, transnare, to swim over; trans across,

over + nare to swim.] The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Trance (?), n. [F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr.

transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die,

L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over

+ ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf.

Transit.]

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