Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 68

Treasury (n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.

Treasury (n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."

Treasury (n.) A treasure.

Treated (imp. & p. p.) of Treat

Treating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Treat

Treat (v. t.) To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

Treat (v. t.) To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.

Treat (v. t.) To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company.

Treat (v. t.) To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for.

Treat (v. t.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

Treat (v. t.) To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid.

Treat (v. t.) To entreat; to beseech.

Treat (v. i.) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties.

Treat (v. i.) To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France.

Treat (v. i.) To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or drink, as a compliment.

Treat (n.) A parley; a conference.

Treat (n.) An entertainment given as an expression of regard.

Treat (n.) That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.

Treatable (a.) Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent.

Treatably (adv.) In a treatable manner.

Treater (n.) One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

Treatise (n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.

Treatise (n.) Story; discourse.

Treatiser (n.) One who writes a treatise.

Treatment (n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

Treatment (n.) Entertainment; treat.

Treature (n.) Treatment.

Treaties (pl. ) of Treaty

Treaty (n.) The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.

Treaty (n.) An agreement so made; specifically, 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; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.

Treaty (n.) A proposal tending to an agreement.

Treaty (n.) A treatise; a tract.

Treble (a.) Threefold; triple.

Treble (a.) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.

Treble (a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.

Treble (adv.) Trebly; triply.

Treble (n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

Trebled (imp. & p. p.) of Treble

Trebling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Treble

Treble (v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.

Treble (v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

Treble (v. i.) To become threefold.

Trebleness (n.) The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.

Treblet (n.) Same as Triblet.

Trebly (adv.) In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.

Trebuchet (n.) Alt. of Trebucket

Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.

Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force.

Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.

Trechometer (n.) An odometer for vehicles.

Treckschuyt (n.) A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

Treddle (n.) See Treadle.

Treddle (n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

Treddle (n.) The dung of sheep or hares.

Tredille (n.) A game at cards for three.

Tree (n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Tree (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

Tree (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

Tree (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Tree (n.) Wood; timber.

Tree (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

Treed (imp. & p. p.) of Tree

Treeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tree

Tree (v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

Tree (v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Treebeard (n.) A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

Treefuls (pl. ) of Treeful

Treeful (n.) The quantity or number which fills a tree.

Treeless (a.) Destitute of trees.

Treen (a.) Made of wood; wooden.

Treen (a.) Relating to, or drawn from, trees.

Treen () pl. of Tree.

Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

Trefle (n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

Trefle (a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

Trefoil (n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

Trefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

Trefoiled (a.) Same as Trefle.

Treget (n.) Guile; trickery.

Tregetour (n.) A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.

Tregetry (n.) Trickery; also, a trick.

Trehala (n.) An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

Trehalose (n.) Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

Treillage (n.) Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.

Trellis (n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

Trellised (a.) Having a trellis or trellises.

Tremando (a.) Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

Trematode (n.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.

Trematodea (n. pl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.

Trematoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.

Trembled (imp. & p. p.) of Tremble

Trembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tremble

Tremble (v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

Tremble (v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.

Tremble (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

Tremble (n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.

Trembler (n.) One who trembles.

Trembling (a.) Shaking; tottering; quivering.

Tremella (n.) A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

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