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   Trace , n. [F. trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.]
   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.
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   (Mech.) 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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   Trace, n. [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ]
   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.
   
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   (Chem. & Min.) 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.
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   A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
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   The shady empire shall retain no trace
   Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.
   Pope.
   
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   (Descriptive Geom. & Persp.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
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   (Fort.) The ground plan of a work or works.
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   Syn.-Vestige; mark; token. See Vestige.
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   Trace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced ; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from  (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw.  Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]
   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.
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   Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods.
   Hawthorne.
   
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   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.
   
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   You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
   T. Burnet.
   
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   I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways
   Of highest agents.
   Milton.
   
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   Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
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   How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
   Spenser.
   
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   To copy; to imitate.
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   That servile path thou nobly dost decline,
   Of tracing word, and line by line.
   Denham.
   
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   To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
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   We do tracethis alley up and down.
   Shak.
   
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   Trace, v. i. To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.]
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   Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace.
   Spenser.
   
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