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- English Word Trump Definition An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
- English Word Trump Definition A good fellow; an excellent person.
- English Word Trump Definition To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
- English Word Trump Definition To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
- English Word Trump Definition To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
- English Word Trump Definition To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- English Word Trumped Definition of Trump
- English Word Trumpery Definition Deceit; fraud.
- English Word Trumpery Definition Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
- English Word Trumpery Definition Worthless or deceptive in character.
- English Word Trumpet Definition 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.
- English Word Trumpet Definition A trumpeter.
- English Word Trumpet Definition One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- English Word Trumpet Definition A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- English Word Trumpet Definition To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
- English Word Trumpet Definition To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
- English Word Trumpet-shaped Definition Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
- English Word Trumpet-tongued Definition Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
- English Word Trumpeted Definition of Trumpet
- English Word Trumpeter Definition One who sounds a trumpet.