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n. Relatives; kindred; kin; kinfolk; persons of the same family or closely related families. [ 1913 Webster ]

They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. Luke ii. 44. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A transformer connected in parallel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Any of several transformers (there must be at least two) for changing phase. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To transform anew or back. -- Re`trans*for*ma"tion n. [1913 Webster]

{ } [ After N. Tesla, American electrician. ] (Elec.) A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Telepathy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. trans- + L. femina woman. ] To change into a woman, as a man. [ Obs. & R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transferred p. pr. & vb. n. Transferring. ] [ L. transferre; trans across, over + ferre to bear: cf. F. transférer. See Bear to carry. ] 1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is transferred. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) (Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. [ 1913 Webster ]

Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. Bithell. --
Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made. --
Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions. --
Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being transferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. transférable. ] 1. Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The person to whom a transfer in made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Transfer + -graphy. ] The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Transference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a transfer or conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being transferred; transferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To transfigure; to transform. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transfiguratio: cf. transfiguration. ] 1. A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfigured p. pr. & vb. n. Transfiguring. ] [ F. transfigurer, L. transfigurare, transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See Figure, v. t. ] 1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Jesus ] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matt. xvii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfixed p. pr. & vb. n. Transfixing. ] [ L. transfixus, p. p. of transfigure to transfix; trans across, through + figere to fix, fasten. See Fix. ] To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. trans- + fluent. ] 1. Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. trans- + flux. ] A flowing through, across, or beyond. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. transforatus, p. p. of transforare to pierce through; trans through + forare to bore. ] To bore through; to perforate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His hair transforms to down. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transformed p. pr. & vb. n. Transforming. ] [ L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t. ] 1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love may transform me to an oyster. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being transformed or changed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transformatio: cf. transformation. ] The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) (Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

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(b) (Physiol.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) (Alchemy) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) (Theol.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) (Math.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. transformatif. ] Having power, or a tendency, to transform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (1990's) a toy consisting of a figure or representation of an object, constructed of interlocking parts in such a way that a series of turning or twisting motions of the parts can transform the object from one type of object to a different type of object, such as from an animal to an automobile. [ PJC ]

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Multiple transformer. (Elec.) (a) A transformer connected in multiple or in parallel with the primary circuit. (b) A transformer with more than one primary or more than one secondary coil. --
Parallel transformer (Elec.), a transformer connected in parallel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. transformisme. ] (Biol.) The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. i. To transfrete. [ Obs. ] Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transfretatio. See Transfrete. ] The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. transfretare; trans across, over + fretum a strait: cf. OF. transfreter. ] To pass over a strait or narrow sea. [ Written also transfreight. ] [ Obs. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. transfuga; trans across, over + fugere to flee. ] One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse. ] To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transfused p. pr. & vb. n. Transfusing. ] [ L. transfusus, p. p. of transfundere: cf. F. transfuser. See Transfund. ] 1. To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into thee such virtue and grace
Immense I have transfused. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transfusio: cf. F. transfusion. ] 1. The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse. [ 1913 Webster ]