Trump
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; - used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
(2): ( v. i.) To blow a trumpet.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; - called also ruff.
(5): ( v. t.) To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
(6): ( n.) A good fellow; an excellent person.
(7): ( v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
(8): ( v. t.) To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
(9): ( v. t.) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
King James Dictionary [2]
Trump n.
1. A trumpet a wind instrument of music a poetical word used for trumpet. It is seldom used in prose, in common discourse but is used in Scripture, where it seems peculiarly appropriate to the grandeur of the subject.
At the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised. 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Thessalonians 4 .
2. contracted from triumph. A winning card one of the suit of cards which takes any of the other suits. 3. An old game with cares.
To put to the trumps,
To put on the trumps, to reduce to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion of power.
TRUMP, To take with a trump card.
1. To obtrude also, to deceive. Not in use.
To trump up, to devise to seek and collect from every quarter.
TRUMP, To blow a trumpet.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( Σάλπιγξ , 1 Corinthians 15:22; 1 Thessalonians 4:16). (See Trumpet).
