[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.
      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
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 

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