Index of English words, starting with "tr"

(1) - Trumpery (a.) Worthless or deceptive in character.
(2) - Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
(3) - Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.

(1) - Trumpet (v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
(2) - Trumpet (v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
(3) - Trumpet (n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
(4) - Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
(5) - Trumpet (n.) A trumpeter.
(6) - Trumpet (n.) 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.

(1) - Trumpeter (n.) 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.
(2) - Trumpeter (n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
(3) - Trumpeter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(4) - Trumpeter (n.) 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.
(5) - Trumpeter (n.) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
(6) - Trumpeter (n.) One who sounds a trumpet.