Tran*su"da*to*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by
transudation.
Tran*sude" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transuded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transuding.] [Pref. trans- + L. sudare to sweat: cf. F. transsuder.] To
pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of
textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Tran*sume" (?), v. t. [L. transumere, transsumere, to take from one to
another; trans across + sumere to take.] To change; to convert. [R.]
Crashaw.
Tran*sumpt" (?), n. [L. transumere, transumptum, to take from one to
another, in LL., to transcribe. See Transume.] A copy or
exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.
Tran*sump"tion (?), n. [L. transumptio.] Act of taking from one place
to another. [R.] South.
Tran*sump"tive (?), a. [L. transumptivus.] Taking from one to another;
metaphorical. [R.] "A transumptive kind of speech." Drayton.
Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive.
Lowell.
Trans*va"sate (?), v. t. [See Transvasation.] To pour out of one vessel
into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.
Trans`va*sa"tion (?), n. [Pref. trans- + L. vas, vasis, vessel.] The
act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.]
Holland.
Trans*vec"tion (?), n. [L. transvectio, from transvehere to carry
across; trans across + vehere to carry.] The act of conveying or
carrying over. [R.]
Trans*ver"ber*ate (?), v. t. [L. transverberatus, p. p. of
transverberare to strike or pierce through.] To beat or strike through.
[Obs.]
Trans*ver"sal (?), a. [Cf. F. transversal. See Transverse.] Running or
lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line. — Trans*ver"sal*ly,
adv.
Trans*ver"sal, n. [Cf. F. transversale.] (Geom.) A straight line which
traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line
intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.
Trans*verse" (?), a. [L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn on
direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse. See
Verse, and cf. Traverse.] Lying or being across, or in a crosswise
direction; athwart; — often opposed to longitudinal.
Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which
passes through the foci. — Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as
of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of
mustard.
Trans"verse (?), n. 1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.