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TRACE, n. [L. tractus, tracto. See Track, and the verb Trace.]

1. A mark left by any thing passing; a footstep; a track; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trade of a man or of a deer.

2. Remains; a mark, impression or visible appearance of any thing left when the thing itself no longer exists. We are told that there are no traces of ancient Babylon now to be seen.

The shady empire shall retain no trace

Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.

TRACE, n. Traces, in a harness, are the straps, chains or ropes by which a carriage or sleigh is drawn by horses. [Locally these are called tugs.]

TRACE, v.t. [L. tracto, from traho; Eng. to draw, to drag.]

1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; as, to race a figure with a pencil; to trace the outline of any thing.

2. To follow by some mark that has been left by something which has preceded; to follow by footsteps or tracks.

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.

I feel thy power to trace the ways

Of highest agents.

3. To follow with exactness.

That servile path thou nobly do'st decline,

Of tracing word by word, and line by line.

4. To walk over.

We do trace this alley up and down.
1913 Definition
Trace (trace)
n.(?)
Trace
[F. trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.]
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    Milton.
  3. 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.
  4. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.

    The shady empire shall retain no trace
    Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.
    Pope.

  5. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
  6. The ground plan of a work or works.

    Syn.-Vestige] mark; token. See Vestige.

  7. 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.

    Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. Hawthorne.

  8. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
    Cowper.

    You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet.

    I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways
    Of highest agents.
    Milton.

  9. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

    How all the way the prince on footpace traced. Spenser.

  10. To copy; to imitate.

    That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
    Of tracing word, and line by line.
    Denham.

  11. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

    We do tracethis alley up and down. Shak.

  12. To walk; to go; to travel.
    [Obs.]

    Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser.

  13. 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.

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