His hair transforms to down.
Addison.
Trans*form"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being transformed or changed.
Trans`for*ma"tion (?), n. [L. transformatio: cf. transformation.] The
act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form
or condition. Specifically: —
(a) (Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its general
character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the
embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect
(metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of
a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
(b) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in
assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
(c) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into
another; transmutation.
(d) (Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like;
conversion.
(e) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another
form without altering the value.
Trans*form"a*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. transformatif.] Having power, or a
tendency, to transform.
Trans*form"er (?), n. One who, or that which, transforms. Specif.
(Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current
another current of different voltage.
Trans*form"ism (?), n. [F. transformisme.] (Biol.) The hypothesis, or
doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of
some other previously existing forms of living matter; — opposed to
abiogenesis. Huxley.
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Trans*freight" (?), v. i. To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
Trans`fre*ta"tion (?), n. [L. transfretatio. See Transfrete.] The act
of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.
Trans*frete" (?), v. i. [L. transfretare; trans across, over + fretum a
strait: cf. OF. transfreter.] To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
[Written also transfreight.] [Obs.] E. Hall.
{ Trans"fuge (?), Trans*fu"gi*tive (?), } n. [L. transfuga; trans
across, over + fugere to flee.] One who flees from one side to another;
hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. [R.]
Trans*fund" (?), v. t. [L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere
to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse.] To pour from
one vessel into another; to transfuse. [Obs.] Barrow.
Trans*fuse" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transfused (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Transfusing.] [L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser.
See Transfund.] 1. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another;
to transfer by pouring.
2. (Med.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man
or animal to those of another.
3. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or
imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to
transfuse a love of letters.
Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused.
Milton.
Trans*fu"si*ble (?), a. Capable of being transfused; transferable by
transfusion.
Trans*fu"sion (?), n. [L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion.] 1. The act
of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
Howell.
2. (Med.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or
animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of
any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from
which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the
peritoneal transfusion of milk.
Trans*fu"sive (?), a. Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.
Trans*gress" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transgressed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.] 1. To pass
over or beyond; to surpass. [R.]
Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.
Dryden.
2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the &?;imit of duty; to
break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the
sole command.
Milton.