trumps

n. [ OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute. ] A prostitute; a harlot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To debauch. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trumped p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping. ] To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet. ] 1. (Mus.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ear trumpet. See under Ear. --
Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. --
Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. --
Trumpet animalcule (Zool.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. --
Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [ Eng. ] --
Trumpet conch (Zool.), a trumpet shell, or triton. --
Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. --
Trumpet fish. (Zool.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. --
Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. --
Trumpet fly (Zool.), a botfly. --
Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. --
Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. --
Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. --
Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to “its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape.” Grove. --
Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. --
Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood. [ 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 ]

n. 1. One who sounds a trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

These men are good trumpeters. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia 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. (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon. (c) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Bot.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. (b) The sea trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus). [ 1913 Webster ]