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Trumpet
TRUMP'ET, n.
1. A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises. It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships. There is a speaking trumpet, and a hearing trumpet. They both consist of long tubular bodies, nearly in the form of a parabolic conoid, with wide mouths.
The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms.
2. In the military style, a trumpeter.
He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass.
3. One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it. A great politician was pleased to be the trumpet of his praises.
TRUMP'ET, v.t. To publish by sound of trumpet; also, to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
trumpet appears in definitions for these words:
Acoustic Bandrol Bawl Bellows-fish Blow Catalpa Chamade Clang Clarion Cornet Fanfare Festival Fine Grayfly Hand Horn Jubilee Levet Long Matin Monochord Parley Point Raucity Sackbut Send Seven Shout Shrill Sordet Sordine Sound Sourdet Speak Speaking-trumpet Stickler Sullen Summon Symphony Triton Tromp Troop Trump Trumpet Trumpet-shell Trumpet-tongued Trumpeter Trumpeting Trumplike Voice Whelk Whiffler
Acoustic Bandrol Bawl Bellows-fish Blow Catalpa Chamade Clang Clarion Cornet Fanfare Festival Fine Grayfly Hand Horn Jubilee Levet Long Matin Monochord Parley Point Raucity Sackbut Send Seven Shout Shrill Sordet Sordine Sound Sourdet Speak Speaking-trumpet Stickler Sullen Summon Symphony Triton Tromp Troop Trump Trumpet Trumpet-shell Trumpet-tongued Trumpeter Trumpeting Trumplike Voice Whelk Whiffler
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