英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Trepan
(n.)
A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Trepan
(v. t. & i.)
To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to
remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure
or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
Trepan
(n.)
A snare; a trapan.
Trepan
(n.)
a deceiver; a cheat.
Trepan
(v. t.)
To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
Trepang
(n.)
Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of
which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also
beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
Trepanize
(v. t.)
To trepan.
Trepanned
(imp. & p. p.)
of Trepan
Trepanner
(n.)
One who trepans.
Trepanning
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Trepan
Trepeget
(n.)
A trebuchet.
Trephine
(n.)
An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the
trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of
a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
Trephine
(v. t.)
To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Trephined
(imp. & p. p.)
of Trephine
Trephining
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Trephine
Trepid
(a.)
Trembling; quaking.
Trepidation
(n.)
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of
paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Trepidation
(n.)
Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion;
fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
Trepidation
(n.)
A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic
system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain
small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Trepidity
(n.)
Trepidation.