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v. i. [ Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet. ] To blow a trumpet. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet. ] 1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [ Obs. ] “To trick or trump mankind.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impose unfairly; to palm off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Authors have been trumped upon us. C. Leslie. [ 1913 Webster ]

To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis. ] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wakeful trump of doom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet. ] 1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put to one's trumps, or
To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worthless or deceptive in character. “A trumpery little ring.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See Trump to trick. ] 1. Deceit; fraud. [ Obs. ] Grenewey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]