Trace

·vt The ground plan of a work or works.

II. Trace ·vt Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

III. Trace ·vt To Copy; to Imitate.

IV. Trace ·vt To walk over; to pass through; to Traverse.

V. Trace ·vt The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

VI. Trace ·vi To Walk; to Go; to Travel.

VII. Trace ·vt A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

VIII. Trace ·vt To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.

IX. Trace ·noun One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

X. Trace ·vt A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.

XI. Trace ·vt A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;

— hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

XII. Trace ·vt To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.

XIII. Trace ·add. ·noun A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, ·esp. from one plane to another; specif., such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.