Scent left by a track; track followed by the hunter; an Indian footpath.--Worcester.
It was the policy of the President of Texas to open a direct road to Santa Fé by a route much nearer than the great Missouri trail.--Kendall's Santa Fé Expedition, Vol. I. p. 14.
It is suggested that the respective locations for the Indians might be made, apart from the great Northern and Southern trails, thoroughfares of migration, and the settlements limited within certain prescribed boundaries, where the government might protect them from the encroachments of white men.--Report of the Philadelphia Committee at a meeting in behalf of the Indians, March 31, 1848.
TO TRAIL
'Not worth shucks to trail,' is a Southern phrase, meaning that anything is of little value, not fit to draw home shucks; and probably equivalent to the classical expression, 'not fit to carry guts to a bear.'
They have three or four hounds, and one great big yellow one, what wasn't worth shucks to trail.--Maj. Jones's Courtship.