The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.

Belief; faith; fidelity.

Faitless; false; treacherous.

The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.

Having fidelity pledged.

One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

Causing trouble; troublesome.

The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.

Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

Full of trouble; causing trouble.

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

See Troll.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

A company or troop, especially the company of performers in a play or an opera.

Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.

Trousers.

Cloth or material for making trousers.

A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

A case for small implements; as, a surgeon's trousse.

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.

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

The American golden plover.

A little trout; a troutling.

A little trout; a troutlet.

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means. An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.

To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

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

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

See Troll.

Wearing trousers.

Same as Trousers.

Troy weight.

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.

The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.

See Truant.

To idle away; to waste.

Like a truant; in idleness.

The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.

A truffle.

A short, squat woman.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

Without a truce; unforbearing.

An interpreter. See Dragoman.

The act of killing.

Exchange of commodities; barter.

Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

One who trucks; a trafficker.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.

One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.

Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.

In a truculent manner.

To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

A truchman.

In accordance with truth; truly.

A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.

Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.

Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.

Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.

An honest fellow.

One really beloved.

The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (Tuber aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.

A trough, or tray. A hod for mortar. An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.

A brothel.

An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.

Having a delicately crackled surface; -- applied to porcelian, etc.

A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.

The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.

In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.

To trick, or impose on; to deceive.

Worthless or deceptive in character.

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.

One who sounds a trumpet.

A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.

A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.

An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. The sea trumpet.

A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice.

Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

Cut off; cut short; maimed.

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

A stake; a small post.

To beat with a truncheon.

Having a truncheon.

A person armed with a truncheon.

The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.

To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

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.

One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

The leatherback.

Having (such) a trunk.

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.

As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

See Treenail.

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.

Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.

The act of pushing or thrusting.

To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.