The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
--Dryden.
2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon.
3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the
instrument of propagating it. --Shak.
That great politician was pleased to have the
greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet
of his praises. --Dryden.
4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide
or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. (Zo["o]l.)
(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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), any species of large marine
univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See
{Triton}, 2.
{Trumpet tree}. (Bot.) See {Trumpetwood}.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the
reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
--Bacon.