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TRUMP'ET, n.

1. A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises. It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships. There is a speaking trumpet, and a hearing trumpet. They both consist of long tubular bodies, nearly in the form of a parabolic conoid, with wide mouths.

The trumpet's loud clangor

Excites us to arms.

2. In the military style, a trumpeter.

He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass.

3. One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it. A great politician was pleased to be the trumpet of his praises.

TRUMP'ET, To publish by sound of trumpet also, to proclaim as, to trumpet good tidings.

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

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Entry for 'Trumpet'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​t/trumpet.html.
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