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 truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

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.

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.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

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

The office or duty of a trustee.

One who trusts, or credits.

Full of trust; trusting.

In a trusty manner.

The quality or state of being trusty.

Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.

That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.

Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty.

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

To assert as true; to declare.

One who loves the truth.

One who tells the truth.

Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

Truth.

Truthful; likely; probable.

The act of weighing.

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

Refined; select; excellent; choice.

to use (something not previously used) to determine its fitness for a particular purpose; also, to attempt (a deed) to determine if it will accomplish a particular purpose.

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

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

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

a test of the performance capability of a person, to ascertain fitness for a particular task; in sports, a test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A proteolytic 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.

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

Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

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

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.

To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

An appointment; a tryst.

The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.

The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.

The chameck.

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.

The springbok.

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.

Words imitative of the notes of the owl.