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▪ I. trumpet, n.|ˈtrʌmpɪt|
Also 4–6 trompette, -et, trumpette, 5 trompett, troumpette, 6–7 trumpett; Sc. 5 trompat, troumpat(e, trumpate, 5–6 trumpat, 6 -ait.
[a. F. trompette (14th c.), dim. f. trompe, trump n.1]
1. a. A musical wind-instrument (or one of a class of such) of bright, powerful, and penetrating tone, used from ancient times, especially for military or other signals, and in modern times also in the orchestra; it consists of a cylindrical or conical tube, usually of metal (anciently also of horn or wood), straight or curved (or bent upon itself), with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and a flaring bell.
The natural tones of the instrument are the series of harmonics produced by varying force of breath; in modern forms of it additional tones are obtained by means of slides, crooks, valves, or keys.
13..Coer de L. 303 Trumpettes began for to blowe, Knyghtes justed in a rowe. 1390Gower Conf. III. 217 Ech of hem ek a trompette Bar in his other hond. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1021 Thai within..defyit Wallace, And trumpattis blew with mony werlik soun. 1533Gau Richt Vay (S.T.S.) 71 Our lord sal thane command ane archangel to blaw the trumpait of God. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xxxiii. 4 Yff a man now heare the noyse off the trompet & will not be warned. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 213. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 135 In another [mosque] sleeps Sandant-Emyr-amahow..; with many moe, who are like to sleep till the Trumpet raise them. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xli. (1869) II. 506 The general's trumpet gave the signal of departure. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. lxiv. 317 Before the games began, after silence had been bidden by the sound of the trumpet, proclamation was made by a herald. 1889W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 181 The simple or Field Trumpet is merely a tube twice bent on itself, ending in a bell... The modern orchestral or slide Trumpet..is twice turned or curved, thus forming three lengths. Ibid. 182 It [the tempering of the notes] is quite impossible on the Valve Trumpet.
†b. Distinguished from trump, as being smaller.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 5589 And for folkys that lyst daunce Ther wer trumpes and trumpetes. c1440Promp. Parv. 504/1 Trumpet, or a lytylle trumpe, that clepythe to mete, or men togedur, sistrum.
c. feast of trumpets, a Jewish festival observed at the beginning of the month Tisri, blowing of trumpets being a prominent part of the solemnities.
1560Bible (Genev.) Num. xxix. (heading) 1 The feast of trumpets. 1611Ibid., The offering at the feast of Trumpets. 1903W. Bright Age of Fathers II. xxxiii. 192 Chrysostom was..indignant at the numbers that flocked to the festivals of ‘Trumpets’ or ‘Tabernacles’.
2. Something of the nature of or resembling a trumpet.
a. A reed-stop on the organ, of powerful tone resembling that of a trumpet.
1659J. Leak Waterwks. 31 To make Organs, or Trumpets of Organs, to Sound. 1660Specif. Organ in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 591 Great Organ. 10 stops... 10. Trumpet... Eccho Organ. 4 stops... 19. Trumpet. 1688in E. J. Hopkins Organ (1870) 453 Trumpett, of mettle. 1776Hawkins Hist. Mus. IV. i. x. 149 Of the stops of an organ, the most usual are the..Trumpet [etc.]. 1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ x. (1878) 70 Trumpet, Tromba, a striking reed stop of clear, penetrating tone.
b. trumpet marine, marine trumpet [tr. Ital. tromba marina, F. trompette marine], a large obsolete musical instrument of the viol kind, played with a bow, and having a single thick string passing over a bridge fastened at one end only, the other vibrating against the body, and producing a tone like that of a trumpet.
1675Lond. Gaz. No. 961/4 A Rare Concert of four Trumpets Marine, never heard of before in England. 1748tr. Molière's Le Bourg. Gent. ii. i, The Trumpet-Marine is an Instrument that pleases me, and is very harmonious. 1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. App. 78 In Europe, in the last century, the only remnant of the most ancient monochord was the tromba-marina (trumpet-marine).
c. A conical tube with a wide mouth, used for increasing the force and carrying power of the voice: = speaking-trumpet.
d. A similar apparatus for conveying sound to the ear of a partially deaf person: = ear-trumpet, hearing-trumpet.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), A Speaking Trumpet, a Trumpet about Eight Foot, and sometimes Six Foot long, streight and very wide at the end... It carries the Voice so as to be distinctly heard above a Mile. 1774Goldsm. Retal. 146 When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. 1849Cupples Green Hand xiv, ‘Stand by to let go the larboard anchor!’ I sang out through the trumpet. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 46 So deaf that a trumpet was constantly at her ear.
e. = horn n. 15 a. Now Hist.
1899Strand Mag. Dec. (Advt.), p. xxxv/1 The Gramophone. Berliner's Patent... Length of Trumpet 16 inches. 1904Science Siftings 26 Mar. 353/1 These are again transferred into sound..and transmitted to the audience through a huge trumpet. 1922S. A. Maycock Handbk. Gramophone iii. 18 The hornless models certainly look neater than the instruments which are fitted with trumpets. 1947F. W. Gaisberg Music on Record vi. 81 For the first time they heard sibilants emerge from the trumpet, loud and hissing!
3. fig. A means or agent (real or imaginary) which proclaims, celebrates, or gives warning of something. to blow one's own trumpet, to sound one's own praises, boast, brag.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 35 Whan it was knowe..And be the trumpet of fame aboute blowe. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 346 Venerable Chaucer, principall poet but peir, Hevinlie trumpat, horleige and reguleir. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 264 The decree of Wormes was the trompet of this warre. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 59, I will..sound the trumpet of mine owne merites. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 68 Why..was this Nation chos'n..that out of her..should be..sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reformation to all Europ? 1783Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes to R.A.'s vi, Sound their own praise from their own penny trumpet. 1803–6Wordsw. Ode Intim. Immort. 25 The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep. 1854Mayne Reid Young Voyageurs v. 71 They may live to ‘blow their own trumpet’ a long while yet. 1887W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore i. 12 You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 22 It was with a great flourish of newspaper trumpets that I started off. 1952A. Buckeridge Jennings & Darbishire ii. 27, I vote we're not allowed to vote for ourselves because my father says it's swanking to blow your own trumpet. 1983P. Roberts Tender Prey xiv. 165, I was not averse to blowing my own trumpet. Modesty is a fool's game.
4. a. transf. One who blows or plays on a trumpet; a trumpeter.
1390–1Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 114 Dati a le Trumpet de dono domini ibidem, xxiiij s. viij d. a1450Le Morte Arth. 2723 The trompettis vppon the wallis went. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 225 b, The Duke of Brunswicke sendeth a trompet to Duke Moris, and desyreth a communication. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 106 Our guard of horse left vs, and their trumpet asked of euery man a gift in curtesie. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 233 The Judges..set out..for their respective Districts, attended with a Macer of Court and two Trumpets. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. i. ii. (1864) I. 178 Nevers sent a trumpet, after the battle, to the Duke of Savoy, for the purpose of negotiating concerning the prisoners.
b. fig. = trumpeter 2. Cf. 3 above.
1549Chaloner Erasm. Praise Folly A ij, What..maie be..better fittyng, than dame Foly to praise hir selfe, and be hir owne trumpet? 1577F. de L'isle's Leg. G viij, Munkes and such other trumpets of sedition. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 27 So hence: be thou the trumpet of our wrath. 1709Steele Tatler No. 52 ⁋4 He must in some Measure be the Trumpet of his Fame.
5. A sound like that of a trumpet; the loud cry of certain animals, esp. the elephant; the shrill hum of the gnat or mosquito.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 86/2 He [the elephant] charged with a terrific trumpet. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 195 The shrill scream of the heron, and the rough trumpet of the pelican. 1896J. H. Skrine in Speaker 25 July 98/2 The steed..neighed his trumpet. 1911Blackw. Mag. Nov. 707/1 Suddenly there comes the well-known trumpet of the crane.
6. Something shaped like a trumpet.
* natural. a. = trumpet-shell (see 7); also called sea-trumpet (1).
1668Charleton Onomast 180 Bucciuum..the Trumpet. 1713Petiver Aquat. Anim. Amboinæ Tab. vii, Buccinum Amboin. rarum, nubulis castaneis: Nobis, Brown Amboina Trumpet. 1895Edin. Rev. Oct. 355 Cuttles and squids..crown-melons and fighting trumpets.
b. Applied to a plant having trumpet-shaped flowers; in quot. 1705 app. = trumpet-daffodil (see 7). Also pl. a name for a species of pitcher-plant, Sarracenia flava (cf. trumpet-leaf in 7). Also gen. a trumpet-shaped blossom or part of a blossom (as the tubular corona of a daffodil).
1705tr. Cowley's Plants Wks. 1711 III. 344 Then a gay Flow'r for Shape the Trumpet nam'd. 1883I. Banks Forbidden to Marry v, The white and rosy trumpets of the bindweed. 1884Miller Plant-n., Trumpets, Sarracenia flava. 1904Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 8/5 The White Queen [narcissus], a novelty with white perianth and trumpet of pale chrome.
** artificial. c. A funnel-shaped conductor in a spinning-machine, etc.; also called trumpet-mouth (see 7). d. The flaring mouth of an automatic coupling on a railway car. e. (See quot. 18772.)
1877Knight Dict. Mech., Trumpet... 4. (Spinning.) a. The funnel which leads a sliver to the cylinders of a drawing-machine, or which collects a number of combined rovings, and leads them to condensing cylinders. b. A funnel-shaped conductor used in many forms of thread-machines [etc.]... 5. (Railway.) The flaring mouth of a railway-car draw-head which directs the entering coupling-link. 1877G. F. Maclear St. Mark xii. (1879) 139 This treasury, according to the Rabbis, consisted of thirteen brazen chests, called ‘trumpets’, because the mouths..were wide at the top and narrow below.
f. Metallurgy. A vertical tube with a bell mouth and a refractory lining, through which metal is poured into runners in uphill casting.
1923Harbord & Hall Metallurgy of Steel (ed. 7) I. i. 37 At one time it was generally considered that sounder ingots could be obtained by bottom casting, but opinions are now much divided as with bottom pouring there is..some danger of the refractory lining of the trumpet..being carried into the steel. 1929W. Lister Pract. Steelmaking xxxviii. 370 In this trumpet no wet clay or ramming is used and no weights or clamps are required. 1973Times 12 Feb. (Anchor Project Suppl.) p. ii/6 Mould preparation will be done in a separate bay which is well designed for mould cooling and equipped for..preparation of trumpets and runners for up-run teeming.
7. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attrib., as trumpet-blare, trumpet-blast, trumpet-bray, trumpet-clang, trumpet-clangor, trumpet-flourish, trumpet music, trumpet-note, trumpet-peal, trumpet signal, trumpet-sound, trumpet stop (= sense 2 a), trumpet tone, trumpet-voice, trumpet-word.
b. Objective, as trumpet-blowing adj. and n.; instrumental, as trumpet-hung adj. (cf. 6 b); parasynthetic and similative, as trumpet-flowered, trumpet-loud, trumpet-toned, trumpet-twisted, trumpet-voiced adjs.; also trumpet-like adj.c. Special Combs.: trumpet animalcule, an infusorian of the genus Stentor or family Stentoridæ, so called from its shape; trumpet-ash = trumpet-creeper (Cent. Dict. 1891); trumpet-banner, a small banner attached to a trumpet, formerly used by heralds; trumpet-bird = trumpeter 5 b; trumpet-call, a call or summons sounded on a trumpet; also fig.; trumpet-cheek, a cheek inflated or distended as in blowing a trumpet; trumpet-conch = trumpet-shell (Cent. Dict. 1891); trumpet creeper, a climbing shrub of the genus Tecoma (N.O. Bignoniaceæ), esp. the common trumpet-flower, T. radicans (formerly Bignonia radicans), of the Southern U.S., with scarlet trumpet-shaped flowers; trumpet daffodil, a variety of daffodil with conspicuous ‘trumpet’ or tubular corona (cf. 6 b); trumpet-fish, name for various fishes with long tubular snout, esp. the bellows-fish or sea-snipe (Centriscus scolopax) and the tobacco-pipe fish (Fistularia); trumpet-flower, name for various plants with large or showy trumpet-shaped flowers, esp. of the genera Tecoma (see trumpet-creeper above) and Bignonia, also species of Catalpa, Brunfelsia, Datura, Solandra, etc.; trumpet-fly (see quot.); trumpet-gall, a small trumpet-shaped gall found on grape-vines in U.S. (Cent. Dict.); trumpet-gourd, a trumpet-shaped variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris); trumpet-grass = trumpet-weed; trumpet-guide = sense 6 c (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); trumpet honeysuckle (see honeysuckle 2); trumpet hypha (pl. hyphæ) Bot. (see quot.); trumpet-jasmine = trumpet-creeper (Cent. Dict.); trumpet-keck (see keck n.); trumpet lamp, ‘miner's term for a Mueseler or Belgian safety-lamp’ (Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining 1883); trumpet-leaf, name for species of pitcher-plant (Sarracenia) with leaves resembling trumpets rather than pitchers; trumpet-lily, the white arum-lily (see arum b); also some species of Lilium; trumpet-lug Archæol., a type of tubular handle with expanded ends, found on British neolithic pottery; trumpet-major, the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment; trumpet medium, a spiritualistic medium in whose seances a trumpet megaphone is used; trumpet milkweed = trumpet-weed (c); trumpet-mouth, the ‘mouth’ or expanded end of a trumpet, or something resembling this (in quot. 1835 = sense 6 c); trumpet-mouthed a., (a) = trumpet-tongued, -voiced; (b) having a wide opening like the mouth of a trumpet; trumpet narcissus (cf. trumpet daffodil above); trumpet pattern, in medieval art: a shape resembling that of a horn; trumpet-pipe, (a) name for a particular pattern of musket; (b) a pipe of the trumpet-stop on an organ; trumpet reed, a West Indian species of reed, Arundo occidentalis; trumpet seance, a spiritualistic seance in which a trumpet megaphone is used; trumpet-seaweed = trumpet-weed (a); trumpet-shaped a., of the shape of a trumpet; in Nat. Hist. tubular with one end dilated; trumpet-shell, a shell of the genus Triton or family Tritonidæ (see Triton 2 a), or any other shell which can be blown like a trumpet; trumpet-snail = ram's horn 6; trumpet spiral (see quot. 1959); cf. trumpet pattern above; trumpet style Jazz, a style of piano-playing imitative of a trumpet; trumpet-tongued |-tʌŋd| a., ‘having a tongue vociferous as a trumpet’ (J.), loud-voiced; so trumpet-tongue v., trans. to proclaim loudly; trumpet-tree, a West Indian and South American tree (Cecropia peltata, N.O. Artocarpaceæ), with hollow stem and branches which are used for wind-instruments; trumpet-vine = trumpet-creeper; trumpet-weed, (a) a large S. African seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis = sea-trumpet 3; (b) a N. American species of hemp-agrimony, Eupatorium purpureum, with hollow stems which children blow through like trumpets; (c) a N. American species of lettuce, Lactuca canadensis; trumpet-wood = trumpet-tree.
1891Cent. Dict., *Trumpet-animalcule. 1895L. Wright Pop. Handbk. Microscope viii. 154 The largest animals of this type are the Stentors or Trumpet-Animalcules.
1503Acc. Gt. Wardrobe in Calr. Doc. rel. Scotl. IV. 441 Item, vij *trumpetbaners pro v trumpetters et ij shakbotters. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 161 The..French king, for want of a Hereald..was constrained to subbornate a vadelict, or common seruing man, with a trumpet banner..in steede of a better cote-armour of Fraunce.
1896Newton Dict. Birds 992 Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in their Nomenclator..admit 6 species of *Trumpet-birds.
1865Kingsley Herew. xv, The streets..rang with clank, and tramp, and *trumpet-blare.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. ii, As it [the edict] sounds out..accompanied with *trumpet-blast. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 582 Their faith had been as a trumpet-blast through all the Mediterranean coasts.
1856Mem. F. Perthes II. xxiv. 362 The *trumpet-blowing angels. 1859Tennyson Vivien 416 Such a song, such fire for fame, Such trumpet-blowing in it.
1815Scott Waterloo vii, Cannon-roar and *trumpet-bray.
1808― Marm. i. xii, Loudly flourish'd the *trumpet-call. 1909Blackw. Mag. Mar. 402/1 His name was still a trumpet-call.
1693Dryden Juvenal iii. 64 The Minstrels of a Country Show..By *Trumpet-Cheeks and Bloated Faces known.
1808Scott Marm. v. xxv, And voice of Scotland's law was sent In glorious *trumpet clang.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. v. 42 There roar'd the Sea: and *Trumpet Clangour sounds.
1818W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ II. 43 *Trumpet Creeper... Flowers red and orange. 1857A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 34 By these rootlets..the Trumpet Creeper, the Ivy [etc.] fasten themselves firmly to walls. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 220/1 Trumpet creepers, yellow as gold, and starry blue passion flowers.
1895Daily News 25 Apr. 5/2 The great white and yellow *trumpet daffodils.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 137 *Trumpet-fish. 1683–4Robinson in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 479 The Scolopax or Trombetta, call'd by our Seamen the Bellows or Trumpet-Fish. 1871Kingsley At Last vi, The good people of Trinidad believe that the fish which makes this noise is the trumpet-fish, or Fistularia.
1811Scott Don Roderick lvi, Thrills the loud fife, the *trumpet-flourish pours. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 29 Trumpets sounding twice the Trumpet-flourish.
1731Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 175 Bignonia Fraxini foliis, coccineo flore minore. The *Trumpet-Flower. 1812New Bot. Gard. i. 93 The Trumpet Flower, or Scarlet Jasmine. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. ii. 80 The trumpet-flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft.
1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. 353 The *Trumpet-flowered climbers form striking features of American forests.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 31 The blackish Œstrus, with a yellow breast... We call it the grey fly from it's colour, or the *trumpet fly from the noise it makes in the heats of summer.
1879*Trumpet-gall [see nail-gall s.v. nail n. 14 a]. 1908V. L. Kellogg Amer. Insects 470 Trumpet-galls on leaves of California white oak.
1884De Candolle's Orig. Cultiv. Pl. 245 The pilgrim's gourd,..the long-necked gourd, the *trumpet gourd, and the calabash.
1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side ii. 119 Thunberg..calls it [sc. the Sea-trumpet] the *Trumpet-grass.
1731P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Periclymenum, *Trumpet Honeysuckle... We have but one species of this Plant at present,..Virginian Scarlet Honeysuckle. 1753*Trumpet honey-suckle [see honeysuckle 2]. 1882Garden 3 June 383/1 The North American Trumpet Honeysuckle..one seldom sees outside a greenhouse.
1870Mrs. Whitney We Girls xi, Its..splendid vista of *trumpet-hung bignonia vines.
1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, *Trumpet-hyphae, tubes in Laminarieae having swollen portions with transverse septa (F. Oliver).
1861A. Wood Class-Bk. Bot. (ed. 10) 222 S. Gronovii. *Trumpet-leaf..in swampy pine woods. 1884Miller Plant-n., Trumpet-leaf, the genus Sarracenia.
1814Anne Plumptre tr. Langsdorff's Voy. & Trav. II. 104 Anas Glacialis... The harmonious *trumpet-like noise of this bird distinguishes it from every other species of duck. 1825Green Ho. Comp. I. 57 Tube-shaped or long trumpet-like flowers. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. i. 89 The shrill trumpet-like call of the wild swan. 1878F. Ferguson Life Christ 465 The thirteen trumpet-like boxes in which the gifts of the people were received.
1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. 397 Richardia africana is the white-spathed ‘*Trumpet-lily’ of our conservatories. 1884Miller Plant-n., Lilium eximium, Transparent Trumpet Lily... [L.] longiflorum, Common Trumpet Lily. Ibid., Richardia (Calla) æthiopica, Lily-of-the-Nile, Trumpet Lily, White Arum-Lily.
1857G. W. Thornbury Songs Cavaliers & Roundh. 56 Blow the organ *trumpet-loud.
[1932S. Piggott in Archaeol. Jrnl. LXXXVIII. 76 The horizontally perforated lug..exhibits a ‘trumpet-ended’ variety at Windmill Hill and Hembury.] 1937― in Antiquity XI. 450 More important was the occurrence of a type of lug or tubular perforated handle with expanded ends, which the writer distinguished as a ‘*trumpet-lug’ in 1932... At Hembury it was present as a recurrent feature. 1972L. Alcock By South Cadbury v. 109 These suspension tubes—trumpet lugs to give them their technical name—are seen again on pottery from sites like Windmill Hill in Wiltshire.
1855Hyde Clarke, *Trumpet-major, head trumpeter. 1902Westm. Gaz. 26 May 8/2 There died at Shrewsbury yesterday Trumpet-Major Thomas Monks, who sounded the ‘Charge’ for the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava.
1912Nash's Mag. July 553/2 Last year the wonderful *trumpet medium, Mrs. Wreidt, spent some time at ‘Julia's Bureau’. 1968B. Steiger Voices from Beyond iii. 58 Trumpet mediums always seem to be popular at Spiritualist camps.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 153 A copper funnel, or *trumpet mouth, for conducting the sliver delivered by the second rollers. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 231/2 The smoke pipe..having a wide, or trumpet mouth. 1899R. Munro Prehist. Scotl. vi. 203 Its present mode of attachment to the trumpet-mouth is evidently modern.
1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. ii. 43 These are facts which speak *trumpet mouthed in favour of this..measure. 1895Daily News 31 May 5/2 What Mr. Burns described as a trumpet-mouthed approach to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxiii[i], What had his memory to do with the degeneracy of the *trumpet music?
1904Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 8/5 Weardale Perfection, an exquisite *trumpet narcissus.
1813Scott Trierm. iii. x, A wild and lonely *trumpet note. 1887J. Hutchison Lect. Philippians i. 7 It is not a trumpet-note of defiance like the Epistle to the Galatians.
1937Burlington Mag. Feb. 99/1 We find that admirable curling *trumpet-patterns..in the brilliant manuscripts of the early Church in Ireland and Northumbria. 1954M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages 232 Trumpet pattern, two whorls..joined across the open side by a curved line. 1965L. N. Valentine Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts 51 ‘French horn’, a trumpet pattern combined with a helix shape.
1804J. Grahame Sabbath, etc. (1808) 56 The battle's *trumpet-peal.
1844Regul. & Ord. Army 99 For long-fore or *trumpet-pipe. 1855E. J. Hopkins Organ xxii. 123 The tubes of the Trumpet-pipes are usually..of tin or metal,..occasionally..of zinc or wood.
1866Treas. Bot. 963 *Trumpet [Reed], Arundo occidentalis.
1912Nash's Mag. July 544/1 The sitting took place at ‘Julia's Bureau’. It was a *Trumpet Séance, and Mrs. Wreidt..was the medium. 1931Daily Express 15 Oct. 7/3, I am aware you are giving trumpet seances. 1968B. Steiger Voices from Beyond iii. 58 At trumpet seances—almost invariably conducted in the dark—the horn rises, ostensibly lifted by spirit hands.
1884Miller Plant-n., Ecklonia buccinalis, Cape *Trumpet-Sea-weed, Horn-plant.
1767Ellis in Phil. Trans. LVII. 420 The figure of one of the *trumpet-shaped suckers highly magnified. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 446 Perennial boggy plants, with pitcher or trumpet-shaped leaves. 1887Rider Haggard Jess i, Long trumpet-shaped flowers.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Trumpet-Shell, Buccinum. 1890H. Drummond in Life xv. (1899) 386 The great trumpet-shell, now rare [in Tongoa, New Hebrides].
1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 98 *Trumpet signals are better fitted for transmitting orders to a great distance, than verbal messages through a speaking-trumpet.
1901E. Step Shell Life 320 The Ram's Horn or *Trumpet-snail, so frequently introduced in fresh-water aquaria. 1965tr. H. Janus' Young Specialist looks at Land & Freshwater Molluscs iv. 70 Family Planorbidae (Ram's-horn or Trumpet Snails).
1718Rowe tr. Lucan 224 At once the warriors shouts and *Trumpet-sounds surprise. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxi, Summoned together, by war-cry and trumpet-sound, to assist in repelling a desperate sally.
1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. i. 9 Certain Celtic motives such as the *trumpet-spiral. 1959E. A. Fisher Anglo-Saxon Archit. & Sculpt. 73 Both single and double spirals were common in Celto-British art... Sometimes the connecting C-line would be double and wider apart in the middle resembling two trumpets joined at their wide ends—hence the term trumpet spiral.
1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 64 Instead of using either the *Trumpet stop or the full organ, he will modulate on..the more delicate and softer series of Pipes. 1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ x. (1878) 71 Trompette Harmonique, a Trumpet stop..made to overblow, by a strong and copious wind; they sound the octave, or the super octave above the usual note.
1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 320 Hines's *trumpet style..was based on Louis Armstrong's trumpet phrasing. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene vii. 130 Players attempted the feat of adapting the piano to the vocalising style of the other instruments (the so-called ‘trumpet style’). 1977New Yorker 6 June 120/1 The so-called trumpet style of jazz piano playing, which Earl Hines originated in the late twenties, consists of hornlike single-note melodic lines in the right hand and on-and-off-the-beat chords, single notes, and countermelodic lines in the left hand.
1841T. H. White Fragm. Italy & Rhineland 9 Well may they dread to waken its [the Bible's] *trumpet tones!
1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. i. 25 Those *trumpet-toned proclamations which..electrified Europe.
1880Burton Reign Q. Anne I. i. 27 Friends can confide their thoughts..to each other without their being *trumpet-tongued by..unscrupulous parasites.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 19 His Vertues Will pleade like Angels, *Trumpet-tongu'd against The deepe damnation of his taking off. 1775J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 52 It will plead..with more irresistible persuasion than angels trumpet-tongued. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 453 That Day of the Lord..shall, trumpet-tongued, proclaim the holiness and justice of Almighty God.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 111 The *Trumpet-Tree... The trunk and branches are hollow,..stopped from space to space with membranous septæ... The smaller branches..serve for wind instruments. 1871Kingsley At Last v, A tall stick, thirty feet high, with a flat top of gigantic curly horse-chestnut leaves, which is a Trumpet-tree.
1895W. B. Yeats Poems 12 Many a *trumpet-twisted shell.
1717Petiveriana iii. 255 Scarlet *Trumpet-Vine. Makes a fine Arbour.
1883Peterson Ladies' Nat. Mag. June 460/2 The great porch in front..[was] destitute of railing or ornament, but the creeping trumpet vine. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Gardening Guide) 14/2 Trumpet vine is another woody vine that bears striking flowers.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xcviii, Yet Freedom! yet..Thy *trumpet-voice, though..dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind.
1902Athenæum 4 Jan. 6/2 Howel Harris, the *trumpet-voiced revivalist.
1830Huntingdon (Pa.) Courier 15 Sept. 4/5 American Remedies Wanted..Gravel Wort or *Trumpet Weed. 1856Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 186 Eupatorium purpureum (..Trumpet-Weed). 1866Treas. Bot. 1179 Trumpet-weed, the name of a seaweed, Ecklonia buccinalis,..very common..at the Cape of Good Hope... The stem of this seaweed, says Dr. Harvey, which is hollow in the upper portion, is when dried..used..as a siphon, and by the native herdsmen is formed into a trumpet for collecting the cattle in the evening... The name is also applied in America to Eupatorium purpureum. 1888Eggleston Graysons xx, Shaded by the broad-leaved horse and trumpet weeds in the fence⁓row.
1836Loudon Encycl. Plants 826 Cecropia. From κεκραγω, to cry out, a sort of translation of the English word *trumpet-wood. This tree has the trunk and branches hollow everywhere... The leaves are large, peltate.
1827G. Darley Sylvia 117 The wild reed breathes no *trumpet-word.
Hence ˈtrumpetless a., without a trumpet, without trumpeting; ˈtrumpetry, trumpets collectively; trumpeting; ˈtrumpety a. (colloq.), having the tone or style of a trumpet, blaring.
a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 321 It was impossible the Beast to rein, While *trumpetless the Pagans did remain.
1860Thackeray Round. Papers v, Cornhill..has witnessed every ninth of November..a prodigious annual pageant, chariot, progress, and flourish of *trumpetry. 1884Sat. Rev. 14 June 778/1 The blare of modern trumpetry.
1822Examiner 810/2 The music..was altogether too clanging and *trumpetty—the word is a good word. 1896Pall Mall G. 8 Jan. 1/3 A good stirring military song with an inspiriting trumpety air.
▪ II. ˈtrumpet, v.
[f. trumpet n.; cf. F. trompeter (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. intr. To blow or sound a trumpet.
1530Palsgr. 763/1, I trompet, I blowe or sownde in a trumpet, je sonne vne trompette. 1535Coverdale 2 Chron. v. 13 As yf one dyd trompet and synge. 1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal iv. i. (Arb.) 91 It [the Play] shall Drum, Trumpet, Shout and Battel, I gad, with any the most war⁓like Tragœdy we have. 1862Dickens Somebody's Luggage ii, Practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled. 1913Sir H. Johnston Pioneers Australia iv. 135 The seamen..trumpeted back..in reply.
b. To emit a sound like that of a trumpet; used esp. in reference to the cry of an elephant when enraged or excited; also, to the musical piping of a mosquito or gnat when about to bite.
1828Capt. Mundy Pen & Pencil Sk. (1832) I. ii. 112 My elephant suddenly raised his trunk and trumpeted several times. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 258 He..drives off the alarmed animal trumpeting shrilly with rage and pain. 1872Darwin Emotions vi. 168 The keeper ordered the old and the young elephant to trumpet. 1900Pilot 22 Sept. 357/2 Anopheles, a mosquito that does not trumpet.
2. trans.
a. To sound on a trumpet; to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.
1729Young Merchant ii. ix, She trumpets shrill her dread command. 1854Poultry Chron. II. 84 An old..black cock, who could never utter the least sound without trumpeting a prolonged finale. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 355 He seems to have trumpeted the order. 1886F. Harrison Choice Bks. ii. 29 A passage of Homer, rolling along in the hexameter or trumpeted out by Pope.
b. fig. To announce or publish as by sound of trumpet; to proclaim, celebrate, or extol loudly; to noise abroad. Also with forth.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 251 That I loue the Moore,..My..storme of Fortunes, May trumpet to the world. 1608― Per. i. i. 145 He must not liue to trumpet foorth my infamie. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. i. (1852) 14 Commenius, the fame of whose worth hath been trumpetted as far as more than three languages could carry it. 1756H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 23 Feb., They trumpeted the story all over the town. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. ix, This I state not to trumpet my own praises. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iii. iii. 148 Atheism may trumpet forth her astounding discovery.
c. To summon or denounce formally (cf. F. trompeter, and horn v. 5), or to drive away, by sound of trumpet.
1680Sir R. Southwell in Cal. Ormonde MSS. IV. 579 The Duchess of Soissons is trumpetted, which is the manner of citation used in like cases... And if she appear not at the third trumpetting, her crimes and sentences will be pronounced. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 52 They drummed and trumpeted the wretches out of their Hall. |