Webster Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: He allows the soul power to trace images on the brain, and perceive them.īoth feet and face one way are wont to lead. Of tracing word by word, and line by line. That servile path thou nobly dost decline,

To this haste of the mind a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing. They do but trace over the paths beaten by the ancients, or comment, critick, or flourish upon them. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe in profane history and every one of these people have a tale to tell concerning the restauration.

To follow by the footsteps, or remaining marks. Alexander Pope, Odys.Įtymology: tracer, Fr. New to the plough, unpractis’d in the trace. In their loose traces from the field retreat. While lab’ring oxen, spent with toil and heat, In his loose traces from the furrow came. The traces, of the smallest spider’s web. Her waggon spokes made of long spinner’s legs Of war, or blood, but in the Sylvan chace.Īlexander Pope. There are not the least traces of it to be met, the greatest part of the ornaments being taken from Trajan’s arch, and set up to the conqueror. The people of these countries are reported to have lived like the beasts among them, without any traces of orders, laws, or religion. These as a line their long dimension drew, Mark left by any thing passing footsteps. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: trace, Fr. 'Can you decipher this letter?' 'The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs' 'The children traced along the edge of the dark forest' 'The women traced the pasture'Ĭopy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it make a tracing of Make one's course or travel along a path travel or pass over, around, or along 'She traced the circumstances of her birth' 'The hunters traced the deer into the woods' 'the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him' 'we retraced the route we took last summer' 'trace your path' 'draw a line' 'trace the outline of a figure in the sand' Trace, draw, line, describe, delineate verb 'We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba' 'trace the student's progress' 'there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone' 'he detected a ghost of a smile on her face'Ī drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original imageĮither of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletreeĪ visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicleįollow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something

'there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim' 'a tincture of condescension' 'he speaks French with a trace of an accent'Īn indication that something has been present Princeton's WordNet (4.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:

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