4. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
Markham.
Trash ice, crumbled ice mixed with water.
Trash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trashing.] 1.
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to
trash the rattoons of sugar cane. B. Edwards.
2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate,
or crush. [Obs.]
3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence,
to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.]
Beau. & Fl.
Trash, v. i. To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan
(1607).
Trash"i*ly (?), adv. In a trashy manner.
Trash"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being trashy.
Trash"y (?), a. [Compar. Trashier (?); superl. Trashiest.] Like trash;
containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a
trashy novel.
Trass (?), n. [D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace.
See Terrace.] (Geol.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of
decomposed trachytic cinders; — sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a
coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line
cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras,
tarrace, terras.]
The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock
found on the lower Rhine.
Trau"lism (?), n. [Gr. &?; a lisping, fr. &?; to lisp, to
mispronounce.] A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.
Trau*mat"ic (?), a. [L. traumaticus, Gr. &?;, from &?;, &?;, a wound:
cf. F. traumatique.] (Med.) (a) Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to
wounds. Coxe. (b) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. Wiseman.
(c) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. — n. A traumatic
medicine.
Trau"ma*tism (?), n. (Med.) A wound or injury directly produced by
causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or
injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.