Definition of trump

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Trump (n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff..

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Euchre :: Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower..
Mangonist :: Mangonist (n.) A slave dealer; also, a strumpet..
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led..
Venturer :: Venturer (n.) A strumpet; a prostitute.
Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Heart :: Heart (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps..
Sennet :: Sennet (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump..
Trumpet :: Trumpet (v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings..
Sonifer :: Sonifer (n.) A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf..
Jew''s-harp :: "Jew's-harp (n.) An instrument of music, which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump..
Trumpetweed :: Trumpetweed (n.) The sea trumpet.
Punkling :: Punkling (n.) A young strumpet.
Harridan :: Harridan (n.) A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Tom :: Tom (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.
Auricle :: Auricle (n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Triton :: Triton (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell..
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A trumpeter.
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