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Trajanus

Roman emperor; born in

Transvaal War

a war between the (then) South African Republic_and Great Britain in 1880-1881 . The Boer victory at Majuba Hill, Feb. 27, 1881, was soon followed by peace. duchy and crown-land of the Austro-

Trask

KATE NICHOLS (Katrina Trask), an American author, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. She has written a great number of short stories for the general magazines, besides which she has written "Sonnets and Lyrics" (1894-1903); "Lessons in Love" (1900); "Not Bound," (1903); "Night and Morning" (1906); and "Without the Walls" (1919).

Traun

LAKE OF, a small but beautiful lake in Upper Austria, near the town of Gmunden. The river Traun passes through the lake and enters the Danube.

Trautwinite

a microcrystalline mineral, occurring in crystals, the system of which has not yet been determined; hardness, 1-2; color, green; luster, dull; streak, light-gray. Analysis yielded:

Silica, 21.78; sesquioxide of chromium, 38.39; sesquioxide of iron, 13.29; alumina, 0.81; lime, 18.58; magnesia, 7.88; loss on ignition, on, 0.11 100.84. Occurs on chromite in Monterey co., Cal.

Treble

in music, of or pertaining to the highest vocal or instrumental part, sung by boys, or played by violins, oboes, clarinets, or other instruments of acute tone.

Treille

in heraldry, a lattice; it differs from fretty in that the pieces do not interlace under and over, but cross athwart each other, and are nailed at the joint. Called also trellis.

Tremolite

a mineral, a variety of and magnesium, is white or colorless, and usually occurs in long, tals. usually occurs in long, prismatic crysgenus of Octopus, with three species,

Tremoctopus

in zoölogy, a subin zoölogy, a subfrom the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Some or all of the arms are webbed aquiferous pores on the back of the head. half-way up, and there are two large

Tremont

the early name by which the three hills on which the city is built.

It has also been Trimountain. It has also been called Trimount, or

Trench

RICHARD CHENEVIX, Ireland, Sept. 9, 1807; was graduated at an English clergyman; born in Dublin, Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829. He entered the Church, and became curate 1833-1835), incumbent at Curdridge (1835-1840 ), curate to Archdeacon Wilberforce at deacon Wilberforce at Alverstoke (1840- Cyc. Vol. IX TREWIA

Trenchard

STEPHEN DECA-