Trappings – Triarian

Trappings

TRAP'PINGS, noun plural [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.

Trappous

TRAP'POUS, adjective [from trap, in geology. It ought to be trappy.]

Pertaining to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities.

TRAP'-STICK, noun A stick with which boys drive a wooden ball; hence, a slender leg.

Trash

TRASH, noun

1. Any waste or worthless matter.

Who steals my money, steals trash

2. Loppings of trees; bruised canes, etc. In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field-trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane-trash; and both are called trash

3. Fruit or other matter improper for food, but eaten by children, etc. It is used particularly of unripe fruits.

4. A worthless person. [Not proper.]

5. A piece of leather or other thing fastened to a dog's neck to retard his speed.

TRASH, verb transitive To lop; to crop.

1. To strip of leaves; as, to trash ratoons.

2. To crush; to humble; as, to trash the Jews.

3. To clog; to encumber; to hinder.

TRASH, verb intransitive To follow with violence and trampling.

Trashy

TRASH'Y, adjective Waste; rejected; worthless; useless.

TRASS, noun Pumiceous conglomerate, a volcanic production; a gray or yellowish porous substance.

Trass

TRASS noun A volcanic earth, resembling puzzolana, used as a cement; or a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. The Dutch tarrass is made of a soft rock stone found near Collen, on the lower part of the Rhine. It is burnt like lime, and reduced to powder in mills. It is of a grayish color.

Traulism

TRAU'LISM, noun A stammering. [Not in use.]

Traumatic

TRAUMAT'IC, adjective [Gr. a wound.]

1. Pertaining to or applied to wounds.

2. Vulnerary; adapted to the cure of wounds.

TRAUMAT'IC, noun A medicine useful in the cure of wounds.

Travail

TRAV'AIL, verb intransitive [Latin trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]

1. To labor with pain; to toil.

2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Genesis 35:16.

TRAV'AIL, verb transitive To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm. [Not in use.]

TRAV'AIL, noun Labor with pain; severe toil.

As every thing of price, so doth this require travail

1. Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail

Travailing

TRAV'AILING, participle present tense Laboring with toil; laboring in childbirth. Isaiah 42:14.

Trave

TRAVE

TRAV'EL, verb intransitive [a different orthography and application of travail.]

1. To walk; to go or march on foot; as, to travel from London to Dover, or from New York to Philadelphia. So we say, a man ordinarily travels three miles an hour. [This is the proper sense of the word, which implies toil.]

2. To journey; to ride to a distant place in the same country; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling to Virginia. A man traveled from London to Edinburgh in five days.

3. To go to a distant country, or to visit foreign states or kingdoms, either by sea or land. It is customary for men of rank and property to travel for improvement. Englishmen travel to France and Italy. Some men travel for pleasure or curiosity; others travel to extend their knowledge of natural history.

4. To pass; to go; to move. News travels with rapidity.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

5. To labor. [See Travail.]

6. To move, walk or pass, as a beast, a horse, ox or camel. A horse travels fifty miles in a day; a camel; twenty.

TRAVEL, verb transitive To pass; to journey over; as, to travel the whole kingdom of England.

I travel this profound.

1. To force to journey.

The corporations--shall not be traveled forth from their franchises. [Not used.]

TRAVEL, noun

1. A passing on foot; a walking.

2. Journey; a passing or riding from place to place.

His travels ended at his country seat.

3. Travel or travels, a journeying to a distant country or countries. The gentle man has just returned from his travels.

4. The distance which a man rides in the performance of his official duties; or the fee paid for passing that distance; as the travel of the sheriff is twenty miles; or that of a representative is seventy miles. His travel is a dollar for every twenty miles.

5. Travels, in the plural, an account of occurrences and observations made during a journey; as a book of travels; the title of a book that relates occurrences in traveling; as travels in Italy.

6. Labor; toil; labor in childbirth. [See Travail.]

Travel

TRAV'EL, v.i. [a different orthography and application of travail.] 1. To walk; to go or march on foot; as, to travel from London to Dover, or from New York to Philadelphia. So we say, a man ordinarily travels three miles an hour. [This is the proper sense of the word, which implies toil.]2. To journey; to ride to a distant place in the same country; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling to Virginia. A man traveled from London to Edinburgh in five days.3. To go to a distant country, or to visit foreign states or kingdoms, either by sea or land. It is customary for men of rank and property to travel for improvement. Englishmen travel to France and Italy. Some men travel for pleasure or curiosity; others travel to extend their knowledge of natural history.4. To pass; to go; to move. News travels with rapidity. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.5. To labor. [See Travail.]6. To move, walk or pass, as a beast, a horse, ox or camel. A horse travels fifty miles in a day; a camel; twenty.

Travel-Tainted

TRAV'EL-TAINTED, adjective [travel and tainted.] Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Not in use.]

Traveled

TRAV'ELED, participle passive Gained or made by travel; as traveled observations.

1. adjective Having made journeys.

Traveler

TRAV'ELER, noun

1. One who travels in any way. Job:31.

2. One who visits foreign countries.

3. In ships, an iron thimble or thimbles with a rope spliced round them, forming a kind of tail or a species of grommet.

Traveling

TRAV'ELING, participle present tense

1. Walking; going; making a journey. Matthew 25:1.

2. adjective Incurred by travel; as traveling expenses.

3. Paid for travel; as traveling fees.

Travers

TRAV'ERS, adverb Across; athwart. [Not used.]

Traversable

TRAV'ERSABLE, adjective [See Traverse, in law.] That may be traversed or denied; as a traversable allegation.

Traverse

TRAV'ERSE, adverb Athwart; crosswise.

The ridges of the field lay traverse

TRAV'ERSE, preposition [supra.] Through crosswise.

He traverse

The whole battalion views their order due. [Little used.]

TRAV'ERSE, adjective [Latin versus; transversus.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches.

Oak--may be trusted in traverse work for summers.

TRAV'ERSE, noun [supra.] Any thing laid or built across.

There is a traverse placed in the loft where she sitteth.

1. Something that thwarts, crosses or obstructs; a cross accident. He is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not in his power.

2. In fortification, a trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also, a wall raised across a work.

3. In navigation, traverse-sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns, to one longer course.

4. In law, a denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any state of the pleadings. When the traverse or denial comes from the defendant, the issue is tendered in this manner, 'and of this he puts himself on the country.' When the traverse lies on the plaintiff, he prays 'this may be inquired of by the country.'

The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.

5. A turning; a trick.

TRAV'ERSE, verb transitive To cross; to lay in a cross direction.

The parts should be often traversed or crossed by the flowing of the folds.

1. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart; to obstruct.

Frog thought to traverse this new project.

2. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.

What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought.

3. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles and properties of this detestable vice, ingratitude.

4. To turn and point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

5. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

6. In law pleadings, to deny what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. So to traverse an indictment or an office, is to deny it.

To traverse a yard, in sailing, is to brace it aft.

TRAV'ERSE, verb intransitive In fencing, to use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction.

To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--

1. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel. The needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.

2. In the manege, to cut the tread crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

Traverse-Board

TRAV'ERSE-BOARD, noun [traverse and board.] In a ship, a small board to be hung in the steerage, and bored full of holes upon lines, showing the points of compass upon it. By moving a peg on this, the steersman keeps an account of the number of glasses a ship is steered on any point.

Traverse-Table

TRAV'ERSE-TABLE, noun [traverse and table.] In navigation, a table of difference of latitude and departure.

Traversing

TRAV'ERSING, participle present tense Crossing; passing over; thwarting; turning; denying.

Travestied

TRAV'ESTIED, participle passive Disguised by dress; turned into ridicule.

Travestin

TRAV'ESTIN, noun A kind of white spongy stone found in Italy.

Travesty

TRAV'ESTY, adjective [infra.] Having an unusual dress; disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous. It is applied to a book or composition translated in a manner to make it burlesque.

TRAV'ESTY, noun A parody; a burlesque translation of a work. travesty may be intended to ridicule absurdity, or to convert a grave performance into a humorous one.

TRAV'ESTY, verb transitive To translate into such language as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

G. Battista Lalli travestied Virgil, or turned him into Italian burlesque verse.

Travis

TRAV'IS, noun

1. A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes. This is not used for horses in America, but a similar frame is used for confining oxen for shoeing.

2. Beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.

Tray

TRAY, noun [Latin trua.] A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a piece of timber and made hollow, used for making bread in, chopping meat and other domestic purposes.

Tray-Trip

TRA'Y-TRIP, noun A kind of play.

Tre

SALTPE'TER, 'TRE, noun [salt and Gr. stone.] A neutral salt formed by the nitric acid in combination with potash, and hence denominated nitrate of potash. It is found native in the East Indies, in Spain, in Naples and other places. It is also found on walls sheltered from rain, and it is extracted by lixiviation from the earths under cellars, stables and barns, etc.

Treacher

TRE'ACHER

TREACHEROUS, adjective trech'erous. [See Treachery.] Violating allegiance of faith pledged; faithless; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust. A man may be treacherous to his country, or treacherous to his friend, by violating his engagements or his faith pledged.

Treacherous

TREACHEROUS, a. trech'erous. [See Treachery.] Violating allegiance of faith pledged; faithless; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust. A man may be treacherous to his country, or treacherous to his friend, by violating his engagements or his faith pledged.

Treacherously

TREACHEROUSLY, adverb trech'erously. By violating allegiance or faith pledged; by betraying a trust; faithlessly; perfidiously; as, to surrender a fort to an enemy treacherously; to disclose a secret treacherously

You treacherously practic'd to undo me.

Treacherousness

TREACHEROUSNESS, noun trech'erousness. Breach of allegiance or of faith; faithlessness; perfidiousness.

Treachery

TREACHERY, noun trech'ery. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery This is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery This is perfidy.

Treachetour

TRE'ACHETOUR

TRE'ACHOUR , noun A traitor.

Treachour

TRE'ACHOUR , n. A traitor.

Treacle

TRE'ACLE, noun [Latin theriaca; Gr. a wild beast.]

1. The spume of sugar in sugar refineries. treacle is obtained in refining sugar; molasses is the drainings of crude sugar. treacle however is often used for molasses.

2. A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, etc.

3. A medicinal compound of various ingredients. [See Theriaca.]

Treacle-Mustard

TRE'ACLE-MUSTARD, noun A plant of the genus Thlaspi, whose seeds are used in the theriaca; Mithridate mustard.

Treacle-Water

TRE'ACLE-WATER, noun A compound cordial, distilled with a spiritous menstruum from any cordial and sudorific drugs and herbs, with a mixture of Venice treacle.

Tread

TREAD, verb intransitive tred. preterit tense trod; participle passive trod, troden. [Latin trudo.]

1. To set the foot.

Where'er you tread the blushing flow'rs shall rise.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

2. To walk or go.

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours. Deuteronomy 11:24.

3. To walk with form or state.

Ye that stately tread or lowly creep.

4. To copulate, as fowls.

To tread or tread on, to trample; to set the foot on in contempt.

Thou shalt tread upon their high places. Det.33.

TREAD, verb transitive tred. To step or walk on.

Forbid to tread the promis'd land he saw.

1. To press under the feet.

2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.

3. To walk in a formal or stately manner.

He thought she trod the ground with greater grace.

4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Psalms 44:5.

5. To compress, as a fowl.

To tread the state, to act as a stage-player; to perform a part in a drama.

To tread or tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.

They tread their wine presses and suffer thirst. Job 24:11.

TREAD, noun tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread

1. Way; track; path. [Little used.]

2. Compression of the male fowl.

3. Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread

Treader

TREADER, noun tred'er. One who treads. Isaiah 16:10.

Treading

TREADING, participle present tense tred'ing. Stepping; pressing with the foot; walking on.

Treadle

TREADLE

TREAGUE, noun treeg. A truce.

Treague

TREAGUE, n. treeg. A truce.

Treason

TREASON, noun tree'zn. [Latin traho. See Draw and Drag.]

TREASON is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Its signification is different in different countries. In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. In monarchies, the killing of the king, or an attempt to take his life, is treason In England, to imagine or compass the death of the king, or of the prince, or of the queen consort, or of the heir apparent of the crown, is high treason; as are many other offenses created by statute.

In the United States, treason is confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

TREASON in Great Britain, is of two kinds, high treason and petit treason High treason is a crime that immediately affects the king or state; such as the offenses just enumerated. Petit treason involves a breach of fidelity, but affects individuals. Thus for a wife to kill her husband, a servant his master or lord, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary, is petit treason But in the United States this crime is unknown; the killing in the latter cases being murder only.

Treasonable

TREASONABLE, adjective tree'znable. Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.

Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices.

Treasonous

TREASONOUS, for treasonable, is not in use.

Treasure

TREASURE, noun trezh'ur. [Latin thesaurus.]

1. Wealth accumulated; particularly, a stock or store of money in reserve. Henry VII. was frugal and penurious, and collected a great treasure of gold and silver.

2. A great quantity of any thing collected for future use.

We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jeremiah 41:8.

3. Something very much valued. Psalms 135:4.

Ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me. Exodus 19:5.

4. Great abundance.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:3.

TREASURE, verb transitive trezh'ur. To hoard; to collect and reposit, either money or other things, for future use; to lay up; as, to treasure gold and silver; usually with up. Sinners are said to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath. Romans 2:1.

Treasure-City

TREASURE-CITY, noun trezh'ur-city. A city for stores and magazines. Exodus 1:1.

Treasure-House

TREASURE-HOUSE, noun trezh'ur-house. A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

Treasure-Trove

TREASURE-TROVE, noun trezh'ur-trove. Any money, bullion and the like, found in the earth, the owner of which is not known.

Treasured

TREASURED, participle passive trezh'ured. Hoarded; laid up for future use.

Treasurer

TREASURER, noun trezh'urer. One who has the care of a treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders drawn by the proper authority. Incorporated companies and private societies have also their treasurers.

In England, the lord high treasurer is the principal officer of the crown, under whose charge is all the national revenue.

The treasurer of the household, in the absence of the lord-steward, has power with the controller and other officers of the Green-cloth, and the steward of the Marshalsea, to hear and determine treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the king's palace. There is also the treasurer of the navy, and the treasurers of the county.

Treasurership

TREASURERSHIP, noun trezh'ureship. The office of treasurer.

Treasuress

TREASURESS, noun trezh'uress. A female who has charge of a treasure.

Treasury

TREASURY, noun trezh'ury. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government.

1. A building appropriated for keeping public money. John 8:20.

2. The officer or officers of the treasury department.

3. A repository of abundance. Psalms 135:1.

Treat

TREAT, verb transitive [Latin tracto.]

1. To handle; to manage; to use. Subjects are usually faithful or treacherous, according as they are well or ill treated. To treat prisoners ill, is the characteristic of barbarians. Let the wife of your bosom be kindly treated.

2. To handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.

3. To entertain without expense to the guest.

4. To negotiate; to settle; as, to treat a peace. [Not in use.]

5. To manage in the application of remedies; as, to treat a disease or a patient.

TREAT, verb intransitive To discourse; to handle in writing or speaking; to make discussion. Cicero treats of the nature of the gods; he treats of old age and of duties.

1. To come to terms of accommodation.

Inform us, will the emp'ror treat?

2. To make gratuitous entertainment. It is sometimes the custom of military officers to treat when first elected.

To treat with, to negotiate; to make and receive proposals for adjusting differences. Envoys were appointed to treat with France, but without success.

TREAT, noun An entertainment given; as a parting treat

1. Something given for entertainment; as a rich treat

2. Emphatically, a rich entertainment.

Treatable

TRE'ATABLE, adjective Moderate; not violent.

The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. [Not in use.]

Treatably

TRE'ATABLY, adverb Moderately. [Not in use.]

Treated

TRE'ATED, participle passive Handled; managed; used; discoursed on; entertained.

Treater

TRE'ATER, noun One that treats; one that handles or discourses on; one that entertains.

Treating

TRE'ATING, participle present tense Handling; managing; using; discoursing on; entertaining.

Treatise

TRE'ATISE, noun [Latin tractatus.] A tract; a written composition on a particular subject, in which the principles of it are discussed or explained. A treatise is of an indefinite length; but it implies more form and method than an essay, and less fullness or copiousness than a system.

Treatiser

TRE'ATISER, noun One who writes a treatise. [Not used.]

Treatment

TRE'ATMENT, noun Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.

1. Usage; manner of using; good of bad behavior towards.

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

2. Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as the treatment of a disease.

3. Manner of applying remedies to; as the treatment of a patient.

Treaty

TRE'ATY, noun Negotiation; act of treating for the adjustment of differences, or for forming an agreement; as, a treaty is on the carpet.

He cast by treaty and by trains

Her to persuade.

1. An agreement, league or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns or the supreme power of each state. Treaties are of various kinds, as treaties for regulating commercial intercourse, treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, treaties for hiring troops, treaties of peace, etc.

2. Intreaty. [Not in use.]

Treaty-Making

TRE'ATY-MAKING, adjective The treaty-making power is lodged in the executive government. In monarchies, it is vested in the king or emperor; in the United States of America, it is vested in the president, by and with the consent of the senate.

Treble

TREBLE, adjective trib'l. [Latin triplex, triplus; tres, three, and plexus, fold. This should be written trible.]

1. Threefold; triple; as a lofty tower with treble walls.

2. In music, acute; sharp; as a treble sound.

3. That plays the highest part or most acute sounds; that plays the treble; as a treble violin.

TREBLE, noun trib'l. In music, the part of a symphony whose sounds are highest or most acute. This is divided into first or highest treble and second or base treble

TREBLE, verb transitive trib'l. [Latin triplico.] To make thrice as much; to make threefold. Compound interest soon trebles a debt.

TREBLE, verb intransitive trib'l. To become threefold. A debt at compound interest soon trebles in amount.

Trebleness

TREBLENESS, noun trib'lness. The state of being treble; as the trebleness of tones.

Trebly

TREBLY, adverb trib'ly. In a threefold number or quantity; as a good deed trebly recompensed.

Treddle

TRED'DLE, noun The part of a loom or other machine which is moved by the tread or foot.

1. The albuminous cords which unite the yolk of the egg to the white.

Tree

TREE, noun

1. The general name of the largest of the vegetable kind, consisting of a firm woody stem springing from woody roots, and spreading above into branches which terminate in leaves. A tree differs from a shrub principally in size, many species of trees growing to the highth of fifty or sixty feet, and some species to seventy or eighty, and a few, particularly the pine, to a much greater highth.

TREEs are of various kinds; as nuciferous, or nut-bearing trees; bacciferous, or berry-bearing; coniferous, or cone-bearing, etc. Some are forest-trees, and useful for timber or fuel; others are fruit trees, and cultivated in gardens and orchards; others are used chiefly for shade and ornament.

2. Something resembling a tree consisting of a stem or stalk and branches; as a genealogical tree

3. In ship-building, pieces of timber are called chess-trees, cross-trees, roof-trees, tressel-trees, etc.

4. In Scripture, a cross.

--Jesus, whom they slew and hanged on a tree Acts 10:39.

5. Wood.

TREE'-FROG, noun [tree and frog.] A species of frog, the Rana arborea, found on trees and shrubs; called by the older writers, Ranunculus viridis.

Tree-Germander

TREE-GERMANDER, noun A plant of the genus Teucrium.

TREE'-LOUSE, noun [tree and louse.] An insect of the genus Aphis.

Tree-Moss

TREE'-MOSS, noun A species of lichen.

Tree-Nail

TREE'-NAIL, noun [tree and nail; commonly pronounced trunnel.]

A long wooden pin, used in fastening the planks of a ship to the timbers.

Tree-Of-Life

TREE-OF-LIFE, noun An evergreen tree of the genus Thuja.

Treen

TREEN, adjective Wooden; made of wood.

TREEN, noun The old plural of tree.

Trefoil

TRE'FOIL, noun [Latin trifolium; tres, three, and folium, leaf.]

The common name for many plants of the genus Trifolium; also, in agriculture, a name of the medicago tupulina, a plant resembling clover, with yellow flowers, much cultivated for hay and fodder.

Treillage

TREILLAGE, noun trel'lage. In gardening, a sort of rail-work, consisting of light posts and rails for supporting espaliers, and sometimes for wall trees.

Trellis

TREL'LIS, noun In gardening, a structure or frame of cross-barred work, or lattice work, used like the treillage for supporting plants.

Trellised

TREL'LISED, adjective Having a trellis or trellises.

Tremble

TREM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tremo.]

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder.

Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke.

2. To shake; to quiver; to totter.

Sinai's gray top shall tremble

3. To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles.

Tremblement

TREM'BLEMENT, noun In French music, a trill or shake.

Trembler

TREM'BLER, n One that trembles.

Trembling

TREM'BLING, participle present tense Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering.

Trembling-Poplar

TREM'BLING-POPLAR, noun The aspen tree, so called.

Tremblingly

TREM'BLINGLY, adverb So as to shake; with shivering or quaking.

Tremblingly she stood.

Tremendous

TREMEN'DOUS, adjective [Latin tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.]

1. Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful. Hence,

2. Violent; such as may astonish by its force and violence; as a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall; a tremendous noise.

Tremendously

TREMEN'DOUSLY, adverb In a manner to terrify or astonish; with great violence.

Tremendousness

TREMEN'DOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being tremendous, terrible or violent.

Tremolite

TREM'OLITE, noun A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. It is classed by Hauy with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole grammatite. It is of three kinds, asbestos, common, and glassy tremolite; all of a fibrous or radiated structure, and of a pearly color.

Tremolite is a subspecies of straight edged augite.

Tremor

TRE'MOR, noun [Latin from tremo.] An involuntary trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm or old.

He fell into a universal tremor

Tremulous

TREM'ULOUS, adjective [Latin tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.]

1. Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling christian.

2. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

Tremulously

TREM'ULOUSLY, adverb With quivering or trepidation.

Tremulousness

TREM'ULOUSNESS, noun The state of trembling or quivering; as the tremulousness of an aspen leaf.

Tren

TREN, noun A fish spear.

Trench

TRENCH, verb transitive

1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]

2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.]

3. To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing.

4. To cut a long gash. [Not in use.]

TRENCH, verb intransitive To encroach. [See Entrench.]

TRENCH, noun A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land.

1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, etc.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.

Trenchant

TRENCH'ANT, adjective Cutting; sharp. [Little used.]

Trenched

TRENCH'ED, participle passive Cut into long hollows or ditches; furrowed deep.

Trencher

TRENCH'ER, noun A wooden plate. Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution.

1. The table.

2. Food; pleasures of the table.

It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers.

Trencher-Fly

TRENCH'ER-FLY, noun [trencher and fly.] One that haunts the tables of others; a parasite.

Trencher-Friend

TRENCH'ER-FRIEND, noun [trencher and friend.] One who frequents the tables of others; a spunger.

Trencher-Man

TRENCH'ER-MAN, noun [trencher and man.]

1. A feeder; a great eater.

2. A cook.

Trencher-Mate

TRENCH'ER-MATE, noun [trencher and mate.] A table companion; a parasite.

Trenching

TRENCH'ING, participle present tense Cutting into trenches; digging; ditching.

TRENCH'-PLOW, noun [trench and plow.] A kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

TRENCH'-PLOW, verb transitive [trench and plow.] To plow with deep furrows.

TRENCH'-PLOWING, noun The practice or operation of plowing with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Trend

TREND, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to trundle, or to run.]

To run; to stretch; to tend; to have a particular direction; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

TREND, noun That part of the stock of an anchor from which the size is taken.

TREND, verb transitive In rural economy, to free wool from its filth. [Local.]

Trender

TREND'ER, noun One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Local.]

Trending

TREND'ING, participle present tense Running; tending.

1. Cleaning wool. [Local.]

TREND'ING, noun The operation of freeing wool from filth of various kinds.

Trendle

TREN'DLE, noun Any thing round used in turning or rolling; a little wheel.

Trental

TREN'TAL

TREN'TALS, noun [Latin triginta.] An office for the dead in the Romish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party's death.

Trentals

TREN'TALS, n. [L. triginta.] An office for the dead in the Romish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party's death.

Trepan

TREPAN', noun [Latin tero, terebra, on the root Rp.] In surgery, a circular saw for perforating the skull. It resembles a wimble.

TREPAN', verb transitive To perforate the skull and take out a piece; a surgical operation for relieving the brain from pressure or irritation.

TREPAN, a snare, and trepan to ensnare, are from trap, and written trepan which see.

Trepanned

TREPAN'NED, participle passive Having the skull perforated.

Trepanner

TREPAN'NER, noun One who trepans.

Trepanning

TREPAN'NING, participle present tense Perforating the skull with a trepan.

TREPAN'NING, noun The operation of making an opening in the skull, for relieving the brain from compression or irritation.

Trephine

TREPH'INE, noun [See Trepan.] An instrument for trepanning, more modern than the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimblet, and a little sharp perforator, called the center-pin.

TREPH'INE, verb transitive To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

Trepid

TREP'ID, adjective [Latin trepidus.] Trembling; quaking. [Not used.]

Trepidation

TREPIDA'TION, noun [Latin trepidatio, form trepido, to tremble.]

1. An involuntary trembling; a quaking or quivering, particularly from fear or terror; hence, a state of terror. The men were in great trepidation

2. A trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections.

3. In the old astronomy, a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament, to account for the changes and motion of the axis of the world.

4. Hurry; confused haste.

Trespass

TRES'PASS, verb intransitive [Latin trans, beyond, and passer, to pass.]

1. Literally, to pass beyond; hence primarily, to pass over the boundary line of another's land; to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. A man may trespass by walking over the ground of another, and the law gives a remedy for damages sustained.

2. To commit any offense or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude to the injury of another.

If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him-- 1 Kings 8:31. See Luke 17:3. and 4.

3. In a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty.

In the time of his disease did he trespass yet more. 2 Chronicles 28:13.

We have trespassed against our God. Ezra 10:10.

4. To intrude; to go too far; to put to inconvenience by demand or importunity; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

TRES'PASS, noun In law, violation of another's rights, not amounting to treason, felony, or misprision of either. Thus to enter another's close, is a trespass; to attack his person is a trespass When violence accompanies the act, it is called a trespass vi et armis.

1. Any injury or offense done to another.

If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14.

2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. Colossians 2:13.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1.

Trespasser

TRES'PASSER, noun One who commits a trespass; one who enters upon another's land or violates his rights.

1. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

Trespassing

TRES'PASSING, participle present tense Entering another man's inclosure; injuring or annoying another; violating the divine law or moral duty.

Tress

TRESS, noun A knot or curl of hair; a ringlet.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare.

Tressed

TRESS'ED, adjective Having tresses.

1. Curled; formed into ringlets.

Tressure

TRESS'URE, noun In heraldry, a kind of border.

Trestle

TRES'TLE, noun tres'l.

1. The frame of a table.

2. A movable form for supporting any thing.

3. In bridges, a frame consisting of two posts with a head or cross beam and braces, on which rest the string-pieces. [This is the use of the word in New England. It is vulgarly pronounced trussel or trussl.]

Trestle-trees, in a ship, are two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the top-mast.

Tret

TRET, noun [probably from Latin tritus, tero, to wear.]

In commerce, an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four per cent on the weight of commodities. It is said this allowance is nearly discontinued.

Trethings

TRETH'INGS, noun Taxes; imposts. [I know not where used. It is unknown, I believe, in the United States.]

Trevet

TREV'ET, noun [three-feet, tripod.] A stool or other thing that is supported by three legs.

Trey

TREY, noun [Latin tres; Eng. three.] A three at cards; a card of three spots.

Tri

TRI, a prefix in words of Greek and Latin origin, signifies three.

Triable

TRI'ABLE, adjective [from try.] That may be tried; that may be subjected to trial or test.

1. That may undergo a judicial examination; that may properly come under the cognizance of a court. A cause may be triable before one court, which is not triable in another. In England, testamentary causes are triable in the ecclesiastical courts.

Triacontahedral

TRIACONTAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. thirty, and side.] Having thirty sides. In mineralogy, bounded by thirty rhombs.

Triaconter

TRI'ACONTER, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a vessel of thirty oars.

Triad

TRI'AD, noun [Latin trias, from tres, three.] The union of three; three united. In music, the common chord or harmony, consisting of the third, fifth and eighth.

Trial

TRI'AL, noun [from try.] Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining its effect, or what can be done. A man tries to lift a stone, and on trial finds he is not able. A team attempts to draw a load, and after unsuccessful trial the attempt is relinquished.

1. Examination by a test; experiment; as in chimistry and metallurgy.

2. Experiment; act of examining by experience. In gardening and agriculture, we learn by trial what land will produce; and often, repeated trials are necessary.

3. Experience; suffering that puts strength, patience of faith to the test; afflictions or temptations that exercise and prove the graces or virtues of men.

Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. Hebrews 11:36.

4. In law, the examination of a cause in controversy between parties, before a proper tribunal. Trials are civil or criminal. trial in civil causes, may be by record or inspection; it may be by witnesses and jury, or by the court. By the laws of England and of the United States, trial by jury, in criminal cases, is held sacred. No criminal can be legally deprived of that privilege.

5. Temptation; test of virtue.

Every station is exposed to some trials.

6. State of being tried.

Triality

TRIAL'ITY, noun [form three.] Three united; state of being three. [Little used.]

Triander

TRIAN'DER, noun [Gr. three, and a male.] A plant having three stamens.

Triandrian

TRIAN'DRIAN, adjective Having three stamens.

Triangle

TRI'ANGLE, noun [Latin triangulum; tres, tria, three, and angulus, a corner.] In geometry, a figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. The three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or the number of degrees in a semicircle.

If the three lines or sides of a triangle are all right, it is a plane or rectilinear triangle

If all the three sides are equal, it is an equilateral triangle

If two of the sides only are equal, it is an isosceles or equicrural triangle

If all the three sides are unequal, it is a scalene or scalenous triangle

If one of the angles is a right angle, the triangle is rectangular.

If one of the angles is obtuse, the triangle is called obtusangular or amblygonous.

If all the angles are acute, the triangle is acutangular or oxygonous.

If the three lines of a triangle are all curves, the triangle is said to be curvilinear.

If some of the sides are right and others curve, the triangle is said to be mixtilinear.

If the sides are all arcs of great circles of the sphere, the triangle is said to be spherical.

Triangled

TRIAN'GLED, adjective Having three angles.

Triangular

TRIAN'GULAR, adjective Having three angles.

In botany, a triangular stem has three prominent longitudinal angles; a triangular leaf has three prominent angles, without any reference to their measurement or direction.

Triangularly

TRIAN'GULARLY, adverb After the form of a triangle.

Triarian

TRIA'RIAN, adjective [Latin triarii.] Occupying the third post or place.