From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, n. [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr.
L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make
a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf.
Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet,
Trunk a proboscis.]
A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet;
-- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
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We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump. --1 Cor. xv.
51, 52.
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The wakeful trump of doom. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trumping.]
To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, v. t.
To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she
trumped the first trick.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a
trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]
1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] "To trick or
trump mankind." --B. Jonson.
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2. To impose unfairly; to palm off.
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Authors have been trumped upon us. --C. Leslie.
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To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to
fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.]
To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See
Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet.]
1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually
determined by chance for each deal) any card of which
takes any card of the other suits.
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2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --
called also ruff. --Decker.
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3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]
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Alfred is a trump, I think you say. --Thackeray.
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To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to
force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
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But when kings come so low as to fawn upon
philosophy, which before they neither valued nor
understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are
then put to their last trump. --Milton.
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Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate
them. --W. Irving.
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