trumpet

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.

1. Music 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.

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.— John Dryden

2. Military A trumpeter. Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon

3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. William Shakespeare

That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times... to be the trumpet of his praises.— John Dryden

4. Machinery A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Ear trumpet. See under Ear. — Sea trumpet Botany, 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 Zoology, any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. — Trumpet ash Botany, the trumpet creeper. British — Trumpet conch Zoology, a trumpet shell, or triton. — Trumpet creeper Botany, 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. Zoology (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. — Trumpet flower. Botany (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 Zoology, a botfly. — Trumpet honeysuckle Botany, a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; — called also trumpet flower. — Trumpet leaf Botany, a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. — Trumpet major Military, the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. — Trumpet marine Music, 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.” Sir George Grove — Trumpet shell Zoology, any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. — Trumpet tree. Botany See Trumpetwood.

Origin: Cf. F. trompeter.

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

A news reader for Microsoft Windows, using the WinSock library. There is also an MS-DOS version. Trumpet is shareware from Australia.

(ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet).

(ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/stacks/trumpwsk/).

news:alt.winsock.trumpet. [Author?]

(1995-01-12)