3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of
propagating it. Shak.
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those
times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises.
Dryden.
4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or
conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
Ear trumpet. See under Ear. — Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed
(Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow
stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and
is used for many purposes. — Speaking trumpet, an instrument for
conveying articulate sounds with increased force. — Trumpet animalcule
(Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in
which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. — Trumpet ash (Bot.),
the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] — Trumpet conch (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell,
or triton. - - Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant
(Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers;
— called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. — Trumpet
fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. — Trumpet
flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The
trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with
trumpet-shaped flowers. — Trumpet fly (Zoöl.), a botfly. — Trumpet
honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red
and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; — called also trumpet flower. —
Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia.
— Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. —
Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with
a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones;
— said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the
archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to "its external
resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian
vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." Grove. —
Trumpet shell (Zoöl.), any species of large marine univalve shells
belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. — Trumpet tree.
(Bot.) See Trumpetwood.
Trump"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.]
[Cf. F. trompeter.] To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise
abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could
devise against the Irish.
Bacon.
Trump"et, v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to
utter a trumplike cry.
Trump"et*er (?), n. 1. One who sounds a trumpet.