Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 82

Trustily (adv.) In a trusty manner.

Trustiness (n.) The quality or state of being trusty.

Trusting (a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.

Trustless (a.) That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.

Trustworthy (a.) Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty.

Trusty (superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

Trusty (superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.

Trusty (superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.

Truths (pl. ) of Truth

Truth (n.) The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Truth (n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

Truth (n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

Truth (n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

Truth (n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

Truth (n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

Truth (n.) Righteousness; true religion.

Truth (v. t.) To assert as true; to declare.

Truthful (a.) Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

Truthless (a.) Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

Truth-lover (n.) One who loves the truth.

Truthness (n.) Truth.

Truth-teller (n.) One who tells the truth.

Truthy (a.) Truthful; likely; probable.

Trutination (n.) The act of weighing.

Truttaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.

tried (imp. & p. p.) of Try

Trying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Try

Try (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.

Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.

Try (v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.

Try (v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.

Try (v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.

Try (v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.

Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.

Try (v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.

Try (v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.

Try (v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

Try (v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.

Try (v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try!

Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain.

Try (n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

Try (v. t.) Refined; select; excellent; choice.

Trygon (n.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

Trying (a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

Trypsin (n.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

Trypsinogen (n.) The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.

Tryptic (a.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

Tryptone (n.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

Try-square (n.) An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

Tryst (n.) Trust.

Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.

Tryst (n.) To trust.

Tryst (n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.

Tryst (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

Tryster (n.) One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

Trysting (n.) An appointment; a tryst.

Tsar (n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.

Tsarina (n.) Alt. of Tsaritsa

Tsaritsa (n.) The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.

Tschakmeck (n.) The chameck.

Tschego (n.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

Tsebe (n.) The springbok.

Tsetse (n.) A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.

T square () See under T.

Tuatera (n.) See Hatteria.

Tub (n.) An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

Tub (n.) The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

Tub (n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.

Tub (n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

Tub (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

Tubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Tub

Tubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub

Tub (v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

Tub (i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

Tuba (n.) An ancient trumpet.

Tuba (n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.

Tubal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

Tubbing (n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

Tube (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

Tube (n.) A telescope.

Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

Tube (n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

Tube (n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

Tubed (imp. & p. p.) of Tube

Tubing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tube

Tube (v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Tubeform (a.) In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

Tube-nosed (a.) Belonging to the Tubinares.

Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.

Tuber (n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

Tuber (n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.

Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

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