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a. Corruptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG. chrumb, G. krumm, Dan. krum, D. krom, and E. cramp. ] 1. Crooked; bent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Hallivell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter. ] 1. A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a sexually attractive woman. [ British slang ] RHUD [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling ] [ Dim. fr. crump, a. ] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brittle; crisp. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. erumpens, -entis, p. pr. of erumpere. ] (Bot.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle, D. frommelen. ] To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mocker. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Cross-tempered; scornful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. In a surly manner; sullenly. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Grumble, and Grum. ] Surly; dissatisfied; grouty. [ Collog. ] Ferby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. rumpe; akin to D. romp trunk, body, LG. rump, G. rumpf, Dan. rumpe rump, Icel. rumpr, Sw. rumpa rump, tail. ] 1. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rump Parliament, or
The Rump (Eng. Hist.), the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659. [ 1913 Webster ] The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps “fattened in the rump, pampered.” “The rump-fed ronyon.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Rumpling ] [ Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. rümpfen to wrinkle, MHG. rümphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, &unr_; to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. [1913 Webster]

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke. [1913 Webster]

n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a rump. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rumpled. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute. ] A prostitute; a harlot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To debauch. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet. ] To blow a trumpet. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis. ] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wakeful trump of doom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet. ] 1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put to one's trumps, or
To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trumped p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping. ] To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet. ] 1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [ Obs. ] “To trick or trump mankind.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impose unfairly; to palm off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Authors have been trumped upon us. C. Leslie. [ 1913 Webster ]

To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See Trump to trick. ] 1. Deceit; fraud. [ Obs. ] Grenewey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
for state to catch these thieves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worthless or deceptive in character. “A trumpery little ring.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet. ] 1. (Mus.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ear trumpet. See under Ear. --
Sea trumpet (Bot.), 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 (Zool.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. --
Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [ Eng. ] --
Trumpet conch (Zool.), a trumpet shell, or triton. --
Trumpet creeper (Bot.), 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. (Zool.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. --
Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (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 (Zool.), a botfly. --
Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. --
Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. --
Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. --
Trumpet marine (Mus.), 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.” Grove. --
Trumpet shell (Zool.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. --
Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting. ] [ Cf. F. trompeter. ] To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings. [ 1913 Webster ]

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who sounds a trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

These men are good trumpeters. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik. (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon. (c) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Bot.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. (b) The sea trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]