Their may transmigrate into each other.
Howell.
Trans`mi*gra"tion (?), n. [F. transmigration, L. transmigratio.] 1. The
act of passing from one country to another; migration.
2. The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body;
metempsychosis.
Trans"mi*gra`tor (?), n. One who transmigrates. J. Ellis.
Trans*mi"gra*to*ry (?), a. Passing from one body or state to another.
Trans*mis`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. transmissibilité.] The quality of
being transmissible.
Trans*mis"si*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. transmissible.] Capable of being
transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any
body or substance.
Trans*mis"sion (?), n. [L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See
Transmit.] 1. The act of transmitting, or the state of being
transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news,
and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights,
titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to
another.
2. (Law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to
his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or
privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without
enjoying or exercising it.
Trans*mis"sive (?), a. Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed
down, from one to another.
Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to
human sight.
Prior.
Trans*mit" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transmitting.] [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over +
mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.] 1. To cause to pass
over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or
place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit
a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of
exchange, from one country to another.
The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria,
and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears
through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel.
Milton.
The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty
of Castile.
Prescott.
2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals
transmit, or conduct, electricity.
Trans*mit"tal (?), n. Transmission. Swift.
Trans*mit"tance (?), n. Transmission.
Trans*mit"ter (?), n. One who, or that which, transmits; specifically,
that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of
which a message is sent; — opposed to receiver.
Trans*mit"ti*ble (?), a. Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.
Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. The act of transmogrifying, or the
state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.]
Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow,
an attorney's son.
Thackeray.
Trans*mog"ri*fy (?), v. t. [A humorous coinage.] To change into a
different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] Fielding.
Trans*move" (?), v. t. [Pref. trans + move.] To move or change from one
state into another; to transform. [Obs.] Spenser.
Trans*mu`ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. transmutabilité.] The quality of
being transmutable.
Trans*mut"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. transmutable. See Transmute.] Capable
of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into
something of a different form a nature; transformable.
The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into
one another.
Arbuthnot.
— Trans*mut"a*ble*ness, n. — Trans*mut"a*bly, adv.
Trans`mu*ta"tion (?), n. [F. transmutation, L. transmutatio. See
Transmute.] 1. The act of transmuting, or the state of being
transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
2. (Geom.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another
of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle
into a square. [R.]
3. (Biol.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to
take place in any development theory of life; transformism. Bacon.
Transmutation of metals (Alchem.), the conversion of base metals into
gold or silver, a process often attempted by the alchemists. See
Alchemy, and Philosopher's stone, under Philosopher.
Trans`mu*ta"tion*ist, n. One who believes in the transmutation of
metals or of species.
Trans*mute" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transmuting.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to
change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.] To change from one nature,
form, or substance, into another; to transform.
The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us
into idols.
Buckminster.
Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy.
H. Smith.
Trans*mut"er (?), n. One who transmutes.
Trans*mu"tu*al (?; 135), a. [Pref. trans + mutual.] Reciprocal;
commutual. [R.] Coleridge.
Trans`na*ta"tion (?), n. [L. transnatare to swim over; trans across,
over + natare to swim.] The act of swimming across, as a river.
Trans*na"ture (?; 135), v. t. [Pref. trans- + nature.] To transfer or
transform the nature of. [Obs.]
We are transelemented, or transnatured.
Jewel.
Tran"som (?), n. [Probably fr. L. transtrum a crossbeam, transom, from
trans across. Cf. Trestle.] 1. (Arch.) A horizontal crossbar in a
window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom
is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening.
See Illust. of Mullion.
2. (Naut.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted
to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; — called also
transsummer.
3. (Gun.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun
carriages.