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- English Word Trump Definition An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
- English Word Trump Definition A good fellow; an excellent person.
- English Word Trump Definition To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
- English Word Trump Definition To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
- English Word Trump Definition To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
- English Word Trump Definition To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- English Word Trumped Definition of Trump
- English Word Trumpery Definition Deceit; fraud.
- English Word Trumpery Definition Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
- English Word Trumpery Definition Worthless or deceptive in character.
- English Word Trumpet Definition A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
- English Word Trumpet Definition A trumpeter.
- English Word Trumpet Definition One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- English Word Trumpet Definition A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- English Word Trumpet Definition To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
- English Word Trumpet Definition To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
- English Word Trumpet-shaped Definition Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
- English Word Trumpet-tongued Definition Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
- English Word Trumpeted Definition of Trumpet
- English Word Trumpeter Definition One who sounds a trumpet.
- English Word Trumpeter Definition One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
- English Word Trumpeter Definition Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
- English Word Trumpeter Definition A variety of the domestic pigeon.
- English Word Trumpeter Definition An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
- English Word Trumpeter Definition A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
- English Word Trumpeting Definition of Trumpet
- English Word Trumpeting Definition A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
- English Word Trumpets Definition A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
- English Word Trumpetweed Definition An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
- English Word Trumpetweed Definition The sea trumpet.