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TRAMP, a vagrant, one who " tramps " or walks the roads begging from house to house or ostensibly looking for work, but with no home and habitually sleeping out or moving on from the casual ward of one workhouse to that of another (see VAGRANCY) . The word is ...

TAM, JACOB BEN MElR (1100-1171), a grandson of Rashi (q.v.), was the most famous French glossator (tosafist) on the text of the Talmud. In 1147 he was attacked and injured by a disorderly band who had attached themselves to the Crusaders. He escaped to the nei

... nd several females form a " moose-yard " in the forest, which they keep open by trampling the snow. Although generally timid, the males become very bold during the breeding season, when the females utter a loud call; and at such times they fight both with thei ...

... itherto had formed independent units had been destroyed and Austria and Prussia trampled under foot by Napoleon that a strong national spirit in Germany was evoked. Until the treaty of Tilsit had been signed in 1807 these was no visible growth of a national up ...

... ayers opens the service (baltuta), which is made from a small square called the trampoline, situated at one corner of the battuta but outside the court. The service , must be over the middle line. The ball must then be hit from side to side over the line, the ...

... , to afford an adequate volume of currency and to check the tendency to " breed tramps and millionaires." Among their positive proposals were: the free, and unlimited coinage of silver at the legal ratio of sixteen to one; the expansion of a national currency ...