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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trumpet \trump"et\, 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.
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the trumpet's loud clangor
excites us to arms. --dryden.
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2. mil. a trumpeter. --clarendon.
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3. one who praises, or propagates praise, or is the
instrument of propagating it. --shak.
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that great politician was pleased to have the
greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet
of his praises. --dryden.
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4. mach a funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide
or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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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.
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see also:
trump ear trumpet ear sea trumpet ecklonia buccinalis speaking trumpet
trumpet animalcule stentor trumpet ash trumpet conch trumpet creeper
tecoma radicans trumpet flower trumpet ash trumpet fish trumpet flower
trumpet fly trumpet honeysuckle lonicera sempervirens trumpet leaf sarracenia
trumpet major trumpet marine trumpet shell triton trumpet tree
trumpetwood
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bellows fish \bel"lows fish`\ zool.
a european fish centriscus scolopax, distinguished by a
long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called
also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
1913 webster
see also:
centriscus scolopax trumpet fish snipe fish
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