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  • English Word Tragedy Definition A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
  • English Word Tragi-comedy Definition A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
  • English Word Tragi-comi-pastoral Definition Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.
  • English Word Tragi-comic Definition Alt. of Tragi-comical
  • English Word Tragi-comical Definition Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.
  • English Word Tragic Definition Alt. of Tragical
  • English Word Tragic Definition A writer of tragedy.
  • English Word Tragic Definition A tragedy; a tragic drama.
  • English Word Tragical Definition Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
  • English Word Tragical Definition Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
  • English Word Tragical Definition Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
  • English Word Tragopan Definition Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
  • English Word Tragus Definition The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
  • English Word Trail Definition To hunt by the track; to track.
  • English Word Trail Definition To draw or drag, as along the ground.
  • English Word Trail Definition To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
  • English Word Trail Definition To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
  • English Word Trail Definition To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
  • English Word Trail Definition To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
  • English Word Trail Definition To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
  • English Word Trail Definition A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
  • English Word Trail Definition A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
  • English Word Trail Definition Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
  • English Word Trail Definition Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
  • English Word Trail Definition Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
  • English Word Trail Definition A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
  • English Word Trail Definition The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
  • English Word Trail Definition That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
  • English Word Trail Definition The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
  • English Word Trailed Definition of Trail