Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 81

Truncated (a.) Cut off; cut short; maimed.

Truncated (a.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

Truncated (a.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.

Truncation (n.) The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

Truncation (n.) The state of being truncated.

Truncation (n.) The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

Trunch (n.) A stake; a small post.

Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.

Truncheon (n.) A baton, or military staff of command.

Truncheon (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.

Truncheon (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.

Truncheoned (a.) Having a truncheon.

Truncheoneer (n.) A person armed with a truncheon.

Truncus (n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.

Trundle (v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.

Trundle (v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.

Trundle (v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

Trundle (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

Trundle (v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.

Trundled (imp. & p. p.) of Trundle

Trundling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trundle

Trundle (v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

Trundle (v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.

Trundle (v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

Trundle (v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.

Trundle-bed (n.) A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels.

Trundlehead (n.) One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

Trundlehead (n.) The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.

Trundletail (n.) A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.

Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

Trunk (n.) The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

Trunk (n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Trunk (n.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.

Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an insect.

Trunk (n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

Trunk (n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

Trunk (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Trunk (n.) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

Trunk (v. t.) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

Trunk (v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.

Trunkback (n.) The leatherback.

Trunked (a.) Having (such) a trunk.

Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

Trunkfuls (pl. ) of Trunkful

Trunkful (n.) As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

Trunkwork (n.) Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

Trunnel (n.) A trundle.

Trunnel (n.) See Treenail.

Trunnion (n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

Trunnion (n.) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.

Trunnioned (a.) Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.

Trusion (n.) The act of pushing or thrusting.

Truss (n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

Truss (n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.

Truss (n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

Truss (n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

Truss (n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.

Truss (n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.

Trussed (imp. & p. p.) of Truss

Trussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truss

Truss (n.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.

Truss (n.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.

Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

Truss (n.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

Truss (n.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.

Trussing (n.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.

Trussing (n.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.

Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.

Trust (n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.

Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

Trust (n.) Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.

Trust (n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.

Trust (n.) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

Trust (n.) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.

Trust (n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.

Trust (a.) Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.

Trusted (imp. & p. p.) of Trust

Trusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trust

Trust (n.) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.

Trust (n.) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

Trust (n.) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.

Trust (n.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

Trust (n.) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.

Trust (n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

Trust (n.) To risk; to venture confidently.

Trust (v. i.) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

Trust (v. i.) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

Trust (v. i.) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Trustee (n.) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

Trustee (v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

Trustee (v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

Trusteeship (n.) The office or duty of a trustee.

Truster (n.) One who trusts, or credits.

Truster (n.) One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee.

Trustful (a.) Full of trust; trusting.

Trustful (a.) Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.

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