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Trolling

TROLLING, participle present tense Rolling; turning; driving about; fishing with a rod and reel.

Trollop

TROL'LOP, noun A stroller; a loiterer; a woman loosely dressed; a slattern.

Trollopee

TROLLOPEE', noun Formerly, a loose dress for females.

Trolmydames

TROL'MYDAMES, noun The game of nine-holes.

Tromp

TROMP, noun [See Trumpet.] A blowing machine formed of a hollow tree, used in furnaces.

Trompil

TROMP'IL, noun An aperture in a tromp.

Tronage

TRON'AGE, noun Formerly, a toll or duty paid for weighing wool.

Tronator

TRONA'TOR, noun An officer in London, whose business was to weigh wool.

Tronco

TRON'CO, noun [Latin truncus.] A term in Italian music, directing a note or sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.

Trone

TRONE, noun A provincial word in some parts of England for a small drain.

Troop

TROOP, noun

1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. Genesis 49:19. 2 Samuel 23:11. Hosea 7.

That which should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

I must not look to have.

2. A body of soldiers. But applied to infantry, it is now used in the plural, troops, and this word signifies soldiers in general, whether more or less numerous, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. We apply the word to a company, a regiment or an army. The captain ordered his troops to halt; the colonel commanded his troops to wheel and take a position on the flank; the general ordered his troops to attack; the troops of France amounted to 400, 000 men.

3. troop in the singular, a small body or company of cavalry, light horse or dragoons, commanded by a captain.

4. A company of stage-players.

TROOP, verb intransitive To collect in numbers.

Armies at the call of trumpet,

TROOP to their standard.

1. To march in a body.

I do not, as an enemy to peace,

TROOP in the throngs of military men.

2. To march in haste or in company.

Trooper

TROOP'ER, noun A private or soldier in a body of cavalry; a horse soldier.

Trooping

TROOP'ING, participle present tense Moving together in a crowd; marching in a body.

Trope

TROPE, noun [Latin tropus; Gr. to turn.] In rhetoric, a word or expression used in a different sense from that which it properly signifies; or a word changed from its original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea, as when we call a stupid fellow an ass, or a shrewd man a fox.

TROPEs are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figure the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.

Trophied

TRO'PHIED, adjective [from trophy.] Adorned with trophies.

--The trophied arches, storied halls invade.

Trophy

TRO'PHY, noun [Latin tropoeum.]

1. Among the ancients, a pile of arms taken from a vanquished enemy, raised on the field of battle by the conquerors; also, the representation of such a pile in marble, on medals and the like; or according to others, trophies were trees planted in conspicuous places of the conquered provinces, and hung with the spoils of the enemy, in memory of the victory. Hence,

2. Any thing taken and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards and the like, taken from an enemy.

Around the posts hung helmets, darts and spears,

And captive chariots, axes, shields and bars,

And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.

3. In architecture, an ornament representing the stem of a tree, charged or encompassed with arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

4. Something that is evidence of victory; memorial of conquest.

Present every hearer to Christ as a trophy of grace.

Trophy-Money

TRO'PHY-MONEY, noun A duty paid in England annually by house-keepers, towards providing harness, drums, colors, etc. for the militia.

Tropic

TROP'IC, noun [Latin tropicus; from Gr. a turning; to turn.]

1. In astronomy, a circle of the sphere drawn through a solstitial point, parallel to the equator; or the line which bounds the sun's declination from the equator, north or south. This declination is twenty-three degrees and a half nearly. There are two tropics; the tropic of Cancer, on the north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn on the south.

2. Tropics, in geography, are two lesser circles of the globe, drawn parallel to the equator through the beginning of Cancer and of Capricorn.

Tropic-Bird

TROP'IC-BIRD, noun An aquatic fowl of the genus Phaeton, with a long slender tail and remarkable powers of flight.

Tropical

TROP'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; as tropical climates; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical winds.

1. Incident to the tropics; as tropical diseases.

2. [from trope.] Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.

The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable, and the thing intended by it.

Tropical writing or hieroglyphic, is such as represents a thing by qualities which resemble it.

Tropically

TROP'ICALLY, adverb In a tropical or figurative manner.

Tropist

TRO'PIST, noun [from trope.] One who explains the Scriptures by tropes and figures of speech; one who deals in tropes.

Tropological

TROPOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Tropology.] Varied by tropes; changed from the original import of the words.

Tropology

TROPOL'OGY, noun [Gr. trope, and discourse.] A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or change from the original import of the word.

Trossers

TROSS'ERS, noun Trowsers. [Not used.] [See Trowsers.]

Trot

TROT, verb intransitive

1. To move faster than in walking, as a horse or other quadruped, by lifting one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time.

2. To walk or move fast; or to run.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.

TROT, noun The pace of a horse or other quadruped, when he lifts one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time. This pace is the same as that of a walk, but more rapid. The trot is often a jolting hard motion, but in some horses, it is as easy as the amble or pace, and has a more stately appearance.

1. An old woman; in contempt.

Troth

TROTH, noun

1. Belief; faith; fidelity; as, to plight one's troth

2. Truth; verity; veracity; as in troth; by my troth

Trothless

TROTH'LESS, adjective Faithless; treacherous.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, verb transitive To betroth or affiance.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, adjective Betrothed; espoused; affianced.

TROTH'-PLIGHT, noun The act of betrothing or plighting faith.

Trotter

TROT'TER, noun A beast that trots, or that usually trots.

1. A sheep's foot.

Trotting

TROT'TING, participle present tense Moving with a trot; walking fast, or running.

Trouble

TROUBLE, verb transitive trub'l. [Latin turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn. The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in Latin turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind. Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.

1. To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.

God looking forth will trouble all his host.

An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John 5:4.

2. To disturb; to perplex.

Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.

3. To afflict; to grieve; to distress.

Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved. Psalms 13:4.

4. To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.

Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things. Luke 10:41.

5. To tease; to vex; to molest.

The boy so troubles me,

'Tis past enduring.

6. To give occasion for labor to. I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. I will not trouble myself in this affair.

7. To sue for a debt. He wishes not to trouble his debtors.

TROUBLE, noun trub'l. Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.

1. Affliction; calamity.

He shall deliver thee in six troubles. Job 5:6.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Psalms 25:17.

2. Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance.

Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.

3. Uneasiness; vexation.

4. That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.

Trouble-State

TROUBLE-STATE, noun A disturber of the community. [Not used.]

Troubled

TROUBLED, participle passive trub'ld. Disturbed; agitated; afflicted; annoyed; molested.

Troubler

TROUBLER, noun trub'ler. One who disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as a troubler of the peace.

The rich troublers of the world's repose.

Troublesome

TROUBLESOME, adjective trub'lsome. Giving trouble or disturbance; molesting; annoying; vexatious. In warm climates, insects are very troublesome

1. Burdensome; tiresome; wearisome.

My mother will never be troublesome to me.

2. Giving inconvenience to. I wish not to be troublesome as a guest.

3. Teasing; importunate; as a troublesome applicant.

Troublesomely

TROUBLESOMELY, adverb trub'lsomely. In a manner or degree to give trouble; vexatiously.

Troublesomeness

TROUBLESOMENESS, noun trub'lsomeness.

1. Vexatiousness; the quality of giving trouble or of molesting.

2. Unseasonable intrusion; importunity.

Troubling

TROUBLING, participle present tense trub'ling. Disturbing; agitating; molesting; annoying; afflicting.

TROUBLING, noun trub'ling. The act of disturbing or putting in commotion. John 5:4.

1. The act of afflicting.

Troublous

TROUBLOUS, adjective trub'lus. Agitated; tumultuous; full of commotion.

A tall ship toss'd in troublous seas.

1. Full of trouble or disorder; tumultuous; full of affliction.

The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Daniel 9:25.

Trough

TROUGH, noun trauf.

1. A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.

2. A tray. [This is the same word dialectically altered.]

3. A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.

4. The channel that conveys water, as in mills.

The trough of the sea, the hollow between waves.

Troul

TROUL, for troll. [See Troll.]

Trounce

TROUNCE, verb transitive trouns. To punish, or to beat severely. [A low word.]

Trouse

TROUSE, noun trooz. [See Trowsers.] A kind of trowsers worn by children.

Trout

TROUT, noun [Latin trutta.] A river fish of the genus Salmo, variegated with spots, and esteemed as most delicate food.

Trout-Colored

TROUT'-COLORED, adjective White with spots of black, bay or sorrel; as a trout-colored horse.

TROUT'-FISHING, noun The fishing for trouts.

TROUT'-STREAM, noun A stream in which trout bread.

Trover

TRO'VER, noun trover is properly the finding of any thing. Hence,

1. In law, the gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

2. An action which a man has against another who has found or obtained possession of any of his goods, and who refuses to deliver them on demand. This is called an action of trover and conversion. In this case, the trover or finding is an immaterial fact, but the plaintiff must prove his own property, and the possession and conversion of the goods by the defendant.

Trow

TROW, verb intransitive To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

TROW, is used in the imperative, as a word of inquiry. What means the fool, trow?

Trowel

TROW'EL, noun [Latin trulla.]

1. A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

2. A gardener's tool, somewhat like a trowel made of iron and scooped; used in taking up plants and for other purposes.

Trowsers

TROWS'ERS, noun plural s as z. A loose garment worn by males, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering the lower limbs.

Troy

TROY

TROY-WEIGHT, noun The weight by which gold and silver, jewels, etc. are weighed. In this weight, 20 grains = a scruple, 3 scruples = a dram, 8 drams = an ounce, and 12 ounces = one pound.

Troy-Weight

TROY-WEIGHT, n. The weight by which gold and silver, jewels, &c. are weighed. In this weight, 20 grains = a scruple, 3 scruples = a dram, 8 drams = an ounce, and 12 ounces = one pound.

Truant

TRU'ANT, adjective Idle; wandering from business; loitering; as a truant boy.

While truant Jove, in infant price,

Play'd barefoot on Olympus'side.

TRU'ANT, noun An idler; an idle boy.

TRU'ANT. verb intransitive To idle away time; to loiter or be absent from employment.

Truantly

TRU'ANTLY, adverb Like a truant; an idleness.

Truantship

TRU'ANTSHIP, noun Idleness; neglect of employment.

Trubs

TRUBS, noun An herb.

Trubtail

TRUB'TAIL, noun A short squat woman.

Truce

TRUCE, noun

1. In war, a suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders; a temporary cessation of hostilities, either for negotiation or other purpose.

2. Intermission of action, pain or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.

There he may find

TRUCE to his restless thoughts.

Truce-Breaker

TRU'CE-BREAKER, noun [truce and breaker.] One who violates a truce, covenant or engagement. 2 Timothy 3:1.

Truchman

TRUCH'MAN, noun An interpreter. [See Dragoman.]

Trucidation

TRUCIDA'TION, noun [Latin trucido, to kill.] The act of killing.

Truck

TRUCK, verb intransitive [Latin trochus, a round thing; Eng. truck ] To exchange commodities; to barter. Our traders truck with the Indians, giving them whiskey and trinkets for skins. [Truck is now vulgar.]

TRUCK, verb transitive To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. [Vulgar.]

TRUCK, noun Permutation; exchange of commodities; barter.

1. A small wooden wheel not bound with iron; a cylinder.

2. A small wheel; hence trucks, a low carriage for carrying goods, stone, etc. Indeed this kind of carriage is often called a truck in the singular.

Truckage

TRUCK'AGE, noun The practice of bartering goods.

Trucker

TRUCK'ER, noun One who traffics by exchange of goods.

Trucking

TRUCK'ING, participle present tense Exchanging goods; bartering.

Truckle

TRUCK'LE, noun A small wheel or caster.

TRUCK'LE, verb intransitive [dim. of truck.] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. Small states must truckle to large ones.

Religion itself is forced to truckle with worldly policy.

Truckle-Bed

TRUCK'LE-BED, noun [truckle and bed.] A bed that runs on wheels and may be pushed under another; a trundle-bed.

Truckling

TRUCK'LING, participle present tense Yielding obsequiously to the will of another.

Truculence

TRU'CULENCE, noun [Latin truculentia, from trux, fierce, savage.]

1. Savageness of manners; ferociousness.

2. Terribleness of countenance.

Truculent

TRU'CULENT, adjective Fierce; savage; barbarous; as the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.

1. Of a ferocious aspect.

2. Cruel; destructive; as a truculent plague.

Trudge

TRUDGE, verb intransitive To travel on foot. The father rode; the son trudged on behind.

1. To travel or march with labor.

--And trudg'd to Rome upon my naked feet.

True

TRUE, adjective

1. Conformable to fact; being in accordance with the actual state of things; as a true relation or narration; a true history. A declaration is true when it states the facts. In this sense, true is opposed to false.

2. Genuine; pure; real; not counterfeit, adulterated or false; as true balsam; the true bark; true love of country; a true christian.

--The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:9.

3. Faithful; steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince or to the state; loyal; not false, fickle or perfidious; as a true friend; a true lover; a man true to his king, true to his country, true to his word; a husband true to his wife; a wife true to her husband; a servant true to his master; an officer true to his charge.

4. Free from falsehood; as a true witness.

5. Honest; not fraudulent; as good men and true

If king Edward be as true and just--

6. Exact; right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; as a true copy; a true likeness of the original.

7. Straight; right; as a true line; the true course of a ship.

8. Not false or pretended; real; as, Christ was the true Messiah.

9. Rightful; as, George IV is the true king of England.

Trueborn

TRUEBORN, adjective [true and born.] Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as a true born Englishman.

Truebred

TRUEBRED, adjective [true and bred.] Of a genuine or right breed; as a truebred beast.

1. Being of genuine breeding or education; as a truebred gentleman.

Truehearted

TRUEHE'ARTED, adjective [true and heart.] Being of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as a truehearted friend.

Trueheartedness

TRUEHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Fidelity; loyalty; sincerity.

Truelove

TRUELOVE, noun [true and love.] One really beloved.

1. A plant, the herb Paris.

Truelove-Knot

TRUELOVE-KNOT, noun A knot composed of lines united with many involutions; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagements.

Trueness

TRUENESS, noun Faithfulness; sincerity.

1. Reality; genuineness.

2. Exactness; as the trueness of a line.

Truepenny

TRUEPENNY, noun [true and penny.] A familiar phrase for an honest fellow.

Truffle

TRUF'FLE, noun A subterraneous vegetable production, or a kind of mushroom, of a fleshy fungous structure and roundish figure; an esculent substance, much esteemed. It is of the genus Tuber.

Truffle-Worm

TRUF'FLE-WORM, noun A worm found in truffles, the larva of a fly.

Trug

TRUG, noun A hod. This is our trough and tray; the original pronunciation being retained in some parts of England. The word was also used formerly for a measure of wheat, as much, I suppose as was carried in a trough; three trugs making two bushels.

Truism

TRU'ISM, noun [from true.] An undoubted or self-evident truth.

Trifling truisms clothed in great swelling words of vanity--

Trull

TRULL, noun A low vagrant strumpet.

Trullization

TRULLIZA'TION, noun [Latin trullisso.] The laying of strata of plaster with a trowel.

Truly

TRU'LY, adverb [from true.] In fact; in deed; in reality.

1. According to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to see things truly; the facts are truly represented.

2. Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover. The citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.

3. Exactly; justly; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

Trump

TRUMP, noun

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 15:52. 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

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, verb intransitive 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, verb intransitive To blow a trumpet.

Trumpery

TRUMP'ERY, noun Falsehood; empty talk.

1. Useless matter; things worn out and cast side.

[This is the sense of the word in New England.]

Trumpet

TRUMP'ET, noun

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, verb transitive 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.

Trumpet-Fish

TRUMP'ET-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Centriscus, (C. scolopax; ) called also the bellows fish.

Trumpet-Flower

TRUMP'ET-FLOWER, noun A flower of the genus Bignonia, and another of the genus Lonicera.

TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE, noun A plant of the genus Lonicera.

Trumpet-Shell

TRUMP'ET-SHELL, noun The name of a genus of univalvular shells, of the form of a trumpet, (Buccinum, Linne.)

Trumpet-Tongued

TRUMP'ET-TONGUED, adjective Having a tongue vociferous as a trumpet.

Trumpeted

TRUMP'ETED, participle passive Sounded abroad; proclaimed.

Trumpeter

TRUMP'ETER, noun One who sounds a trumpet.

1. One who proclaims, publishes or denounces.

These men are good trumpeters.

2. A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet.

Trumpeting

TRUMP'ETING, participle present tense Blowing the trumpet; proclaiming.

Trumplike

TRUMP'LIKE, adjective Resembling a trumpet.

Truncate

TRUNC'ATE, verb transitive [Latin trunco, to cut off.] To cut off; to lop; to maim.

TRUNC'ATE, adjective In botany, appearing as if cut off at the tip; ending in a transverse line; as a truncate leaf.

Truncated

TRUNC'ATED, participle passive Cut off; cut short; maimed. A truncated cone is one whose vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to its base.

1. Appearing as if cut off; plane; having no edge; as a mineral substance.

Truncating

TRUNC'ATING, participle present tense Cutting off.

Truncation

TRUNCA'TION, noun The act of lopping or cutting off.

Truncheon

TRUN'CHEON, noun [Latin truncus.] A short staff; a club; a cudgel; a battoon; used by kings and great officers as a mark of command.

The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe.

TRUN'CHEON, verb transitive To beat with a truncheon; to cudgel.

Truncheoneer

TRUNCHEONEE'R, noun A person armed with a truncheon.

Trundle

TRUN'DLE, verb intransitive

1. To roll, as on little wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

2. To roll; as a bowl.

TRUN'DLE, verb transitive To roll, as a thing on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun-carriage.

TRUN'DLE, noun A round body; a little wheel, or a kind or low cart with small wooden wheels.

Trundle-Bed

TRUN'DLE-BED, noun A bed that is moved on trundles or little wheels; called also truckle-bed.

Trundle-Tail

TRUN'DLE-TAIL, noun A round tail; a dog so called from his tail.

Trunk

TRUNK, noun [Latin truncus, from trunco, to cut off.

1. The stem or body of a tree, severed form its roots. This is the proper sense of the word. But surprising as it may seem, it is used most improperly to signify the stem of a standing tree or vegetable, in general.

2. The body of an animal without the limbs.

3. The main body of any thing; as the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

4. The snout or proboscis of an elephant; the limb or instrument with which he feeds himself.

5. A slender, oblong, hollow body, joined to the fore part of the head of many insects by means of which they suck the blood of animals or the juices of vegetables.

6. In architecture, the fust or shaft of a column.

7. A long tube through which pellets of clay are blown.

8. A box or chest covered with skin.

Fire-trunks, in fire ships, wooden funnels fixed under the shrouds to convey or lead the flames to the masts and rigging.

TRUNK, verb transitive To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. [Not in use.]

Trunked

TRUNK'ED, participle passive Cut off; curtailed.

1. Having a trunk.

TRUNK'-HOSE, noun [trunk and hose.] Large breeches formerly worn.

Trunnion

TRUN'NION, noun The trunnions of a piece of ordnance, are two knobs which project from the opposite sides of a piece, whether gun, mortar or howitzer, and serve to support it on the cheeks of the carriage.

Trunnion-Plate

TRUN'NION-PLATE, noun The trunnion plates are two plates in traveling carriages, mortars and howitzers, which cover the upper parts of the side-pieces, and go under the trunnions.

Trunnion-Ring

TRUN'NION-RING, noun A ring on a cannon next before the trunnions.

Trusion

TRU'SION, noun tru'zhon. [Latin trudo.] The act of pushing or thrusting.

Truss

TRUSS, noun

1. In a general sense, a bundle; as a truss of hay or straw. A truss of hay in England is half a hundred. A truss of straw is of different weights in different places.

2. In surgery, a bandage or apparatus used in cases of ruptures, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

3. Among botanists, a truss or bunch is a tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk or stem of certain plants.

4. In navigation, a machine to pull a lower yard close to its mast and retain it firmly in that position.

5. [See Trous.]

TRUSS, verb transitive To bind or pack close.

1. To skewer; to make fast.

To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.

Trussed

TRUSS'ED, participle passive Packed or bound closely.

Trussing

TRUSS'ING, participle present tense Packing or binding closely.

Trust

TRUST, noun

1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.

He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Proverbs 29:25.

2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psalms 71:1.

3. Charge received in confidence.

Reward them well, if they observe their trust

4. That which is committed to one's care. Never violate a sacred trust

5. Confident opinion of any event.

His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd

Equal in strength.

6. Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust

7. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust

8. Something committed to a person's care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Every man's talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable.

9. Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty.

10. State of him to whom something is entrusted.

I serve him truly, that will put me in trust

11. Care; management. 1 Timothy 6:17.

12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another.

TRUST, verb transitive To place confidence in; to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us.

He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived.

1. To believe; to credit.

TRUST me, you look well.

2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.

3. To venture confidently.

Fool'd by thee, to trust thee from my side.

4. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions.

It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust

TRUST, verb intransitive To be confident of something present or future.

I trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 1:12.

We trust we have a good conscience. Hebrews 13:18.

1. To be credulous; to be won to confidence.

Well, you may fear too far--

Safer than trust too far.

To trust in, to confide in; to place confidence in; to rely on; a use frequent in the Scriptures.

TRUST in the Lord, and do good. Psalms 37:3.

They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Isaiah 42:17.

To trust to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.

The men of Israel--trusted to the liars in wait. Judges 20:36.

Trusted

TRUST'ED, participle passive Confided in; relied on; depended on; applied to persons.

1. Sold on credit; as goods or property.

2. Delivered in confidence to the care of another; as letters or goods trusted to a carrier or bailee.

Trustee

TRUSTEE', adjective A person to whom any thing or business is committed, in confidence that he will discharge his duty. The trustee of an estate is one to whom it is devised or granted in trust, or for the use of another.

1. A person to whom is confided the management of an institution; as the trustees of a college or of an academy.

Truster

TRUST'ER, noun One who trusts or gives credit.

Trustily

TRUST'ILY, adverb [from trusty.] Faithfully; honestly; with fidelity.

Trustiness

TRUST'INESS, noun [from trusty.] That quality of a person by which he deserves the confidence of others; fidelity; faithfulness; honesty; as the trustiness of a servant.

Trusting

TRUST'ING, participle present tense Confiding in; giving credit; relying on.

Trustingly

TRUST'INGLY, adverb With trust or implicit confidence.

Trustless

TRUST'LESS, adjective Not worthy of trust; unfaithful.

Trusty

TRUST'Y, adjective That may be safely trusted; that justly deserves confidence; fit to be confided in; as a trusty servant.

1. That will not fail; strong; firm; as a trusty sword.

Truth

TRUTH, noun

1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.

My mouth shall speak truth Proverbs 8:7.

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth John 17:17.

2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth

3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth

Shall truth fail to keep her word?

4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth

5. Correct opinion.

6. Fidelity; constancy.

The thoughts of past pleasure and truth

7. Honesty; virtue.

It must appear

That malice bears down truth

8. Exactness; conformity to rule.

Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work. [Not in use.]

9. Real fact of just principle; real state of things. There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted.

10. Sincerity.

God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth John 4:23.

11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Psalms 71:22.

Or his revealed will.

I have walked in thy truth Psalms 26:3.

12. Jesus Christ is called the truth John 14.

13. It is sometimes used by way of concession.

She said, truth Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums-- Matthew 15:27.

That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true.

In truth in reality; in fact.

Of a truth in reality; certainly.

To do truth is to practice what God commands. John 3.

Truthful

TRUTHFUL, adjective Full of truth.

Truthless

TRUTHLESS, adjective Wanting truth; wanting reality.

1. Faithless.

Trutination

TRUTINA'TION, noun [Latin trutina, a balance; trutinor, to weigh.]

The act of weighing. [Not used.]

Truttaceous

TRUTTA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin trutta, trout.] Pertaining to the trout; as fish of the truttaceous genus.

Try

TRY, verb intransitive To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]

TRY, verb transitive To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.

3. To act upon as a test.

The fire sev'n times tried this.

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

5. To essay; to attempt.

Let us try advent'rous work.

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

7. To search carefully into. Psalms 11:4.

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.

To try tallow, etc. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.

Try-Sail

TRY'-SAIL, noun A sail used by a ship in a storm; literally the strain-sail.

Trying

TRY'ING, participle present tense Exerting strength; attempting.

1. Examining by searching or comparison with a test; proving; using; straining, etc.

2. adjective Adapted to try, or put to severe trial.

Tub

TUB, noun

1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading and hoops; used for various domestic purposes, as for washing, for making cheese, etc.

2. A state of salivation; so called because the patient was formerly sweated in a tub [Not in use.]

3. A certain quantity; as a tub of tea, which is 60 pounds; a tub of camphor, from 56 to 80 pounds; a tub of vermilion, from 3 to 4 hundred pounds. [local.]

4. A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather.

TUB, verb transitive To plant or set in a tub

Tub-Fish

TUB'-FISH, noun [tub and fish.] A species of Trigla, sometimes called the flying-fish.

Tubber

TUB'BER, noun In Cornwall, a mining instrument, called in other places a beele. The man who uses this tool is called tubber-man or beel-man.

Tubbing

TUB'BING, participle present tense Setting in a tub.

Tube

TUBE, noun [Latin tubus.] A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes.

1. A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

2. In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle.

3. In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.

TUBE, verb transitive To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Tuber

TU'BER, noun In botany, a knob in roots, solid, with the component particles all similar.

Tubercle

TU'BERCLE, noun [Latin tuberculum, from tuber, a bunch.]

1. A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on animal bodies.

2. A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification.

Tubercular

TUBER'CULAR

TUBER'CULATE, adjective Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

Tuberculate

TUBER'CULATE, a. Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

Tuberculous

TUBER'CULOUS, adjective Full of knobs or pimples.

1. Affected with tubercles.

Tuberose

TU'BEROSE, noun [Latin tuberosa.] A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Polianthus tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth.

Tuberous

TU'BEROUS, adjective [from Latin tuber, a bunch.] Knobbed. In botany, consisting of roundish fleshy bodies, or tubers, connected into a bunch by intervening threads; as the roots of artichokes and potatoes.

Tubipore

TU'BIPORE, noun [tube and pore.] A genus of zoophytes or corals.

Tubiporite

TU'BIPORITE, noun Fossil tubipores.

TUB'-MAN, noun In the exchequer, a barrister so called.

Tubular

TU'BULAR, adjective [from Latin tubus.] Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as a tubular snout; a tubular calyx.

Tubule

TU'BULE, noun [Latin tubulus.] A small pipe or fistular body.

Tubuliform

TU'BULIFORM, adjective Having the form of a tube.

Tubulous

TU'BULOUS, adjective Longitudinally hollow.

1. Containing tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as a tubulous compound flower.

2. In botany, having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as a tubulous floret.

Tuch

TUCH, noun A kind of marble.

Tuck

TUCK, noun

1. A long narrow sword.

2. A kind of net.

3. [from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern.

4. A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]

TUCK, verb transitive [In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, as cloth.]

1. To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything.

2. To inclose by tucking close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed.

3. To full, as cloth. [Local.]

TUCK, verb intransitive To contract; to draw together. [Not in use.]

Tucker

TUCK'ER, noun A small piece of linen for shading the breast of women.

1. A fuller, whence the name. [Local.]

Tucket

TUCK'ET, noun A flourish in music; a voluntary; a prelude.

1. A steak; a collop.

Tucketsonance

TUCK'ETSONANCE, noun The sound of the tucket, an ancient instrument of music.

Tucking

TUCK'ING, participle present tense Pressing under or together; folding.

Tuesday

TUESDAY, noun s as z. The third day of the week.

Tuf

TUF, noun A stone or porous substance formed by depositions from springs or rivulets, containing much earthy matter in solution. Tufa is also formed by the concretion of loose volcanic dust or cinders, cemented by water, or by the consolidation of mud thrown out of volcanoes. The disintegration and subsequent consolidation of basaltic rocks, forms a kind of tufa, called by the German geologists, trap-tuff.

Tuf-Taffeta

TUF-TAF'FETA, noun A villous kind of silk. [Not in use.]

Tufa

TU'FA

TUFA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to tufa; consisting of tufa or resembling it.

Tuffoon

TUFFOON', noun [a corruption of typhon.] A violent tempest or tornado with thunder and lightning, frequent in the Chinese sea and the gulf of Tonquin.

Tuft

TUFT, noun

1. A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird..

2. A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.

3. In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like.

TUFT, verb transitive To separate into tufts.

1. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft

Tufted

TUFT'ED, participle passive or adjective Adorned with a tuft, as the tufted duck; growing in a tuft or clusters, as a tufted grove.

Tufty

TUFT'Y, adjective Abounding with tufts; growing in clusters; bushy.

Tug

TUG, verb transitive [Latin duco. See Tow, to draw.]

1. To pull or draw with great effort; to drag along with continued exertion; to haul along.

There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.

2. To pull; to pluck.

--To ease the pain

His tugg'd ears suffer'd with a strain.

TUG, verb intransitive To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.

1. To labor; to strive; to struggle.

They long wrestled and strenuously tugged for their liberty. [This is not elegant.]

TUG, noun A pull with the utmost effort.

At the tug he falls--

Vast ruins come along--

1. A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things.

2. In some parts of New England, the traces of a harness are called tugs.

Tugger

TUG'GER, noun One who tugs, or pulls with great effort.

Tugging

TUG'GING, participle present tense Pulling or dragging with great exertion; hauling.

Tuggingly

TUG'GINGLY, adverb With laborious pulling.

Tuition

TUI'TION, noun [Latin tuitio, from tueor, to see, behold, protect, etc.; Latin duco, to lead.]

1. Guardianship; superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.

2. More especially, instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning. We place our children under the preceptors of academies for tuition [This is now the common acceptation of the word.]

3. The money paid for instruction. In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year.

Tulip

TULIP, noun [Latin tulipa.] A plant and a flower of the genus Tulipa, of a great variety of colors, and much cultivated for its beauty.

Tulip-Tree

TU'LIP-TREE, noun An American tree bearing flowers resembling the tulip, of the genus Liriodendron. Also, a tree of the genus Magnolia.

Tumble

TUM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tumulus, tumultus, tumeo.]

1. To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

2. To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

3. To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill.

4. To play mountebank tricks.

TUM'BLE, verb transitive To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes. [To tumble over in thought, is not elegant.]

1. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.

To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.

TUM'BLE, noun A fall.

Tumbled

TUM'BLED, participle passive Rolled; disturbed; rumpled; thrown down.

Tumbler

TUM'BLER, noun One who tumbles; one who plays the tricks of a mountebank.

1. A large drinking glass.

2. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight. It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain color, black, blue or white.

3. A sort of dog, so called form his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey.

Tumbling

TUM'BLING, participle present tense Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling.

Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.

Tumbling-Bay

TUM'BLING-BAY, noun In a canal, an overfall or weir.