traquet, n.m., trap (for fetid animals); (orni.) stone chatter; mill-clapper. Donner dans le —; to be entrapped.
traqueur, n.m., (hunt.) beater up.
trass, n.m., (min.) trass.
traumaticine, n.f., (med.) pigment (of gutta-percha).
traumatique, adj., traumatic.
*travail, n.m., (travaux), labor, work, toil; piece of work; employment; study; travail. pl., works; workmanship. Vivre de son —; to live by one’s labor. À force de —; by dint of labor. Se mettre au —; to set to work. — d’enfant; child-birth, labor, travail. Travaux forcés; penal servitude. Cabinet de —; study.
*travail, n.m., (travails) trave, brake (for the shoeing of refractory horses); reports (of Ministers to the Head of the State, of heads of departments to Ministers).
travaillé, -e, part. adj., worked, wrought, labored; elaborate, (fig.) laboring (under), a prey (to). — à jour; open-worked.
*travailler, v.n., to labor, to work; (of wine) to ferment; to study; to make it one’s study; to endeavor; to digest with difficulty; (of a ship) to be strained; (of wood) to warp; (of a wall) to chink. — à l’aiguille; to do needlework. — à la terre; to till the ground.
*travailler, v.a., to work, to work at, to labor; to do with care; to fashion; to work up; to cultivate, to improve (ground); to exercise, to overwork (a horse); to torment. Un cheval trop travaillé; a horse overworked. — les esprits; to rouse, to excite, the minds (of the populace). — son style; to overdo, to elaborate one’s style.