In a treatable manner.

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

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

One who writes a treatise.

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

Treatment.

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

To become threefold.

The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.

Same as Triblet.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel.

A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

An odometer for vehicles.

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

See Treadle.

A game at cards for three.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

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

The quantity or number which fills a tree.

Destitute of trees.

pl. of Tree.

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

Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; -- opposed to kosher.

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

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.

Same as Tr/fl/.

Guile; trickery.

A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.

Trickery; also, a trick.

An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, Larinus 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.

Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.

The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration.

One that treks.

A field range finger used in the British service.

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

Having a trellis or trellises.

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

One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.

An involuntary shaking or quivering.

One who trembles.

Shaking; tottering; quivering.

A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.

A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

Same as Tremando.

A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect. A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.

A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

Tremulous; trembling; shaking.

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

A fish spear.

Same as Treenail.

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

To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.

In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.

One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

To dance the trenchmore.

Clean wool.

One whose business is to free wool from its filth.

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.

Corrupt form of Treenail.

An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also b/che de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.

To trepan.

One who trepans.

A trebuchet.

To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

Trembling; quaking.

An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.

Trepidation.

The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royal antler.

In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.

A grandfather's grandfather.

Treasure.

Any injury or offence done to another.

One who commits a trespass One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

Having tresses.

A trestle.

Tressy.

A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.

Abounding in tresses.

A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.

One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural.

A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.

Tractable; moderate.

A tax; an impost.

Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty.

A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

True.

Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.

Truth.

Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.

Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.

Quality or state of being triable.

Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.

See Treacle.

Having thirty sides.

A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.

A trigonal trisoctahedron.

The act of trying or testing in any manner.

Three united; state of being three.

A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

An amide containing three amido groups.

An amine containing three amido groups.

Any one of the Triandria.