Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 69
Tremendous (a.) 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 tremendous mischief was a foot. -- Motley.
Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. -- Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. -- Tre*men"dous*ness, n.
Tremendous (a.) Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology" -- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous, tremendous].
Tremendous (a.) Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous].
Tremendous (a.) Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous].
Tremex (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) 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.
Note: The pigeon tremex ({Tremex columba), a common American species, infests the elm, pear, and other trees.
Tremolando (a.) [It.] (Mus.) Same as Tremando.
Tremolite (n.) (Min.) A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.
Amphibole (n.) (Min.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
Tremolite (n.) A white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos.
Tremolo (n.) (Mus.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
Tremolo (n.) (Mus.) 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.
Tremolo (n.) (Music) A tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones.
Tremolo (n.) Vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one.
Tremor (n.) 震顫；顫抖；震動；微動；戰慄；激動，興奮；震顫聲 A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. -- Harvey. Tremulant
Tremor (n.) An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) [syn: {tremor}, {shudder}].
Tremor (n.) A small earthquake [syn: {tremor}, {earth tremor}, {microseism}].
Tremor (n.) Shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease).
Tremor (v.) Shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking" [syn: {tremor}, {quake}].
Tremolo (n.) (Mus.) (a) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
Tremolo (n.) (Mus.) (b) 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.
Tremulant (a.) Alt. of Tremulent.
Tremulent (a.) Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." -- Carlyle.
Tremulous (a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
Tremulous (a.) Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
The tender, tremulous Christian. -- Dr. H. More. -- Trem"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Trem"u*lous*ness, n.
Tremulous (a.) (Of the voice) Quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice" [syn: quavering, tremulous].
Tren (n.) A fish spear. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Trenail (n.) (Shipbuilding) Same as Treenail.
Treenail (n.) (Shipbuilding) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]
Trenail (n.) A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast [syn: treenail, trenail, trunnel].
Trenched (imp. & p. p.) of Trench.
Trenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trench.
Trench (v. t.) 蠶食，挖，侵犯，挖戰壕於 To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. -- Shak.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. -- Shak.
Trench (v. t.) (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. -- Pope.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields. -- Shak.
Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
Trench (v. i.) 挖戰壕，接近，侵犯 To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature? -- I. Taylor.
Trench (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] -- Bacon.
To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.]
Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. -- Young
Trench (n.) 渠，渠溝，戰壕 A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. -- Mortimer.
Trench (n.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.]
In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she. -- Chaucer.
Trench (n.) (Fort.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
To open the trenches (Mil.), To begin to dig or to form the lines of approach.
Trench cavalier (Fort.), An elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way.
Trench plow, or Trench plough, A kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.
Trench (n.) A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
Trench (n.) A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor [syn: {trench}, {deep}, {oceanic abyss}].
Trench (n.) Any long ditch cut in the ground.
Trench (v.) Impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains" [syn: {impinge}, {encroach}, {entrench}, {trench}].
Trench (v.) Fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp".
Trench (v.) Cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone".
Trench (v.) Set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables".
Trench (v.) Cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" [syn: {trench}, {ditch}].
Trench (v.) Dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench".
Trenchand (a.) Trenchant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Trenchand (a.) Trenchant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Trenchant (a.) （言辭等）銳利的；鋒利的；有力的；中肯的；有效的；清晰的 Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." -- Chaucer.
Trenchant (a.) Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
Trenchant (a.) Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism" [syn: searching, trenchant].
Trenchant (a.) Characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument" [syn: hard-hitting, trenchant].
Trenchant (a.) Clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong" [syn: clear-cut, distinct, trenchant].
Trenchant (a.) Very strong, clear, and effective.
Trenchant (a.) Keen, Sharp.
Trenchant (a.) Vigorously effective and articulate <a trenchant analysis>; also : Caustic <trenchant remarks>.
Trenchant (a.) Sharply perceptive : Penetrating <a trenchant view of current conditions>.
Trenchant (a.) Clear-cut, Distinct <the trenchant divisions between right and wrong -- Edith Wharton>.
Trenchant (a.) (Formal) （批評或意見）尖銳的，尖刻的，犀利的 Severe, expressing strong criticism or forceful opinions.
// His most trenchant criticism is reserved for the party leader, whom he describes as "the most incompetent and ineffectual the party has known".
// Dorothy Parker's writing is characterized by a trenchant wit and sophistication.
Trenchantly (adv.) 銳利地；尖銳地 In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
Trenchantly (adv.) In a vigorous and effective manner; "he defended his client's civil rights trenchantly".
Trencher (n.) [C] （切肉等用的）木板；盛食物的木盤；盤中食物 One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
Trencher (n.) A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
Trencher (n.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers. -- South.
Trencher cap, The cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc.
Trencher fly, A person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] --L'Estrange.
Trencher friend, One who frequents the tables of others; a sponger.
Trencher mate, A table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. -- Hooker.
Trencher (n.) A Someone who digs trenches.
Trencher (n.) A wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved
Trencher-men (n. pl. ) of Trencher-man.
Trencher-man (n.) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
Trencher-man (n.) A cook.
Trencher-man (n.) A table companion; a trencher mate.
Trenchmore (n.) A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
Trenchmore (v. i.) To dance the trenchmore.
Trench-plow (v. t.) Alt. of Trench-plough.
Trench-plough (v. t.) To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
Trend (v. t.) To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Trend (n.) Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Trended (imp. & p. p.) of Trend.
Trending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trend.
Trend (v. i.) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend. [R.]
Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. -- W. Browne.
Trend (n.) Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a.) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (b.) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. -- Shak.
Fault (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. -- Shak.
Fault (n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Fault (n.) (Geol. & Mining) (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Fault (n.) (Geol. & Mining) (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. -- Raymond.
Fault (n.) (Hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. -- Shak.
Fault (n.) (Tennis) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Fault (n.) (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with
another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
Fault (n.) (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.
Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the
Fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a
Vertical fault; When its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a
Normal fault, or gravity fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a
Reverse fault (or Reversed fault), Thrust fault, or Overthrust fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a
Horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the
Displacement; The vertical displacement is the
Throw; The horizontal displacement is the
Heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the
Trend Of the fault. A fault is a
Strike fault When its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a
Dip fault When its trend is at right angles to the strike; an
Oblique fault When its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called
Cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called
Step faults And sometimes
Distributive faults.
At fault, Unable to find the scent and continue chase; hence, in trouble or embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thrown off the track.
To find fault, To find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. "Matter to find fault at." -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Syn: -- Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness; blunder; failing; vice.
Usage: Fault, Failing, Defect, Foible. A fault is positive, something morally wrong; a failing is negative, some weakness or falling short in a man's character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also negative, and as applied to character is the absence of anything which is necessary to its completeness or perfection; a foible is a less important weakness, which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or explained away into mere defects, and the defects or foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. "I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless." -- Fox. "Presumption and self-applause are the foibles of mankind." -- Waterland.
Trend (n.) A general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market" [syn: tendency, trend].
Trend (n.) General line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: course, trend].
Trend (n.) A general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: drift, trend, movement].
Trend (n.) The popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" [syn: vogue, trend, style].
Trend (v.) Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut].
Trender (n.) One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]
Trendle (v. i.) A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
Trental (n.) (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." -- Spenser.
Trental (n.) Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trental (n.) A drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication; believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and feet [syn: pentoxifylline, Trental].
Trenton period, () (Geol.) A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
Trepan (n.) (Surg.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
Trepan (n.) (Mining) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Trepanned (imp. & p. p.) of Trepan.
Trepanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trepan.
Trepan (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
Trepan (n.) A snare; a trapan.
Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. -- South.
Trepan (n.) A deceiver; a cheat.
He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. -- Macaulay.
Trepan (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. -- De Quincey.
Trepan (n.) A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull [syn: trepan, trephine].
Trepan (n.) A drill for cutting circular holes around a center.
Trepan (v.) Cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery.
Compare: Holothurian
Holothurian (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea.
Note: Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and b[^e]che de m[`e]r. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.
Trepang (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]
Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially Holothuria edulis. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup.
Trepang (n.) Of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese [syn: trepang, Holothuria edulis].
Trepanize (v. t.) To trepan. [Obs.] "By trepanizing the skull." -- Jer. Taylor.
Trepanner (n.) One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." -- Gauden.
Trepeget (n.) (Mil.) A trebuchet. [Obs.]
Trephine (n.) (Surg.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
Trephined (imp. & p. p.) of Trephine.
Trephining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trephine.
Trephine (v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Trephine (n.) A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull [syn: trepan, trephine].
Trephine (v.) Operate on with a trephine.
Trepid (a.) 驚恐的；悸懼的；不安的 Trembling; quaking. -- Thackeray.
Trepid (a.) Timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" [syn: fearful, timorous, trepid].
Trepid (a.) Timorous; fearful.
// After dark, the less trepid among us would venture as far as the front porch of the empty house, where the smallest creak would send us screaming.
Trepidation (n.) An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Trepidation (n.) Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
Trepidation (n.) (Anc. Astron.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Syn: Tremor; agitation; disturbance; fear.
Trepidation (n.) A feeling of alarm or dread.
Trepidity (n.) Trepidation. [R.]
Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.]
Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), A writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. -- Mozley & W.
Tresor (n.) Treasure. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trespassed (imp. & p. p.) of Trespass.
Trespassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trespass.
Trespass (v. i.) 擅自進入；【律】侵入；侵害，侵犯；侵佔 [（+on/ upon）]；打擾；妨礙 [（+on/ upon）] To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.]
Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. -- Ld. Berners.
Trespass (v. i.) (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
Trespass (v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. -- 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.
Trespass (n.) 擅自進入 [C] [U]；【律】非法侵入；侵害行為；侵害訴訟 [C] [U]；打擾，妨礙 [C] [U] Any injury or offence done to another.
I you forgive all wholly this trespass. -- Chaucer.
If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. -- Matt. vi. 15.
Trespass (n.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
The fatal trespass done by Eve. -- Milton.
You . . . who were dead in trespasses and sins. -- Eph. if. 1.
Trespass (n.) (Law) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
Trespass (n.) (Law) An action for injuries accompanied with force.
Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), An offering in expiation of a trespass.
Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.
Syn: Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.
Trespass (n.) A wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages.
Trespass (n.) Entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation].
Trespass (v.) Enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!" [syn: trespass, intrude].
Trespass (v.) Make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy" [syn: trespass, take advantage].
Trespass (v.) Break the law.
Trespass (v.) Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn: sin, transgress, trespass].
Trespass (v.) Pass beyond (limits or boundaries) [syn: transgress, trespass, overstep].
Trespass torts. An unlawful act committed with violence, ti et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another. Every felony includes a trespass, in common parlance, such acts are not in general considered as trespasses, yet they subject the offender to an action of trespass after his conviction or acquittal. See civil remedy.
Trespass torts. There is another kind of trespass, which is committed without force, and is known by the name of trespass on the case. This is not generally known by the name of trespass. See Case.
Trespass torts. The following rules characterize the injuries which are denominated trespasses, namely: 1. To determine whether an injury is a trespass, due regard must be had to the nature of the right affected. A wrong with force can only be offered to the absolute rights of personal liberty and security, and to those of property corporeal; those of health, reputation and in property incorporeal, together with the relative rights of persons, are, strictly speaking, incapable of being injured with violence, because the subject-matter to which they relate, exists in either case only in idea, and is not to be seen or handled. An exception to this rule, however, often obtains in the very instance of injuries to the relative rights of persons; and wrongs offered to these last are frequently denominated trespasses, that is, injuries with force.
Trespass torts. Those wrongs alone are characterized as trespasses the immediate consequences of which are injurious to the plaintiff; if the damage sustained is a remote consequence of the act, the injury falls under the denomination of trespass on the case.
Trespass torts. No act is injurious but that which is unlawful; and therefore, where the force applied to the plaintiff's property or person is the act of the law itself, it constitutes no cause of complaint. Hamm. N. P. 34; 2 Phil. Ev. 131; Bac. Abr. h.t.; 15 East R. 614; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. As to what will justify a trespass, see Battery.
Trespass, remedies. The name of an action, instituted for the recovery of damages, for a wrong committed against the plaintiff, with immediate force; as an assault and battery against the person; an unlawful entry into his, land, and an unlawful injury with direct force to his personal property. It does not lie for a mere non-feasance, nor when the matter affected was not tangible.
Trespass, remedies. The subject will be considered with regard, 1. To the injuries for which trespass may be sustained. 2. The declaration. 3. The plea. 4. The judgment.
Trespass, remedies. This part of the subject will be considered with reference to injuries, 1. The person. 2. To personal property. 3. To real property. 4. When trespass can or cannot be justified by legal proceedings.
Trespass, remedies. Trespass is the proper remedy for an assault and battery, wounding, imprisonment, and the like, and it also lies for an injury to the relative rights when occasioned by force; as, for beating, wounding, and imprisoning a wife or servant, by which the plaintiff has sustained a loss. 9 Co. 113; 10 Co. 130. Vide Parties to actions; Per guod, and 1 Chit. Pr. 37.
Trespass, remedies. The action of trespass is the proper remedy for injuries to personal property, which may be committed by the several acts of unlawfully striking, chasing, if alive, and carrying away to the damage of the plaintiff, a personal chattel, 1 Saund. 84, n. 2, 3; F. N. B. 86; Bro. Trespass, pl. 407; Toll. Executors, 112; Cro. Jac. 362, of which another is the owner and in possession; but a naked possession or right to immediate possession, is a sufficient title to support this action. 1 T. R. 480; and gee 8. John. R. 432; 7 John. R. 535; 11 John. R. 377; Cro. Jac. 46; 1 Chit. Pl. 165.
Trespass, remedies. Trespass is the proper remedy for the several acts of breaking through an enclosure, and coming into contact with any corporeal hereditament, of which another is the owner and in possession, and by which a damage has ensued. There is an ideal fence, reaching in extent upwards, a superficie terrae usque ad caelum, which encircles every man's possessions, when he is owner of the surface, and downwards as far as his property descends; the entry, therefore, is breaking through this enclosure, and this generally constitutes, by itself, a right of action. The plaintiff must be the owner, and in possession. 5 East, R. 485; 9 John. R. 61; 12 John. R. 183; 11 John. R. 385; Id. 140; 3 Hill, R. 26. There must have been some injury, however, to entitle the plaintiff to recover, for a man in a balloon may legally be said to break the close of the plaintiff, when passing over it, as he is wafted by the wind, yet as the owner's possession is not by that act incommoded, trespass could not probably be maintained; yet, if any part of the machinery were to fall upon the land, the aeronaut could not justify an entry into it to remove it, which proves that the act is not justifiable. 19 John. 381 But the slightest injury, as treading down the grass, is sufficient. Vide 1 Chit. Pl. 173; 2 John, R. 357: 9 John. R. 113, 377; 2 Mass. R. 127; 4 Mass. R. 266; 4 John. R. 150.
Trespass, remedies. It is a general rule that when the defendant has acted under regular process of a court of competent jurisdiction, or of a single magistrate having jurisdiction of the subject-matter, it is a sufficient justification to him; but when the court has no jurisdiction and the process is wholly void, the defendant cannot justify under it.
Trespass, remedies. But there are some cases, where an officer will not be justified by the warrant or authority of a court, having jurisdiction. These exceptions are generally founded on some matter of public policy or convenience; for example, when a warrant was issued against a mail carrier, though the officer was justified in serving the warrant, he was liable to an indictment for detaining such mail carrier under the warrant, for by thus detaining him, he was guilty of "willfully obstructing or retarding the passage of the mail, or of the driver or carrier," contrary to the provisions of the act of congress of 1825, ch. 275, s. 9. 8 Law Rep. 77. See Ambassador; Justification.
Trespass, remedies. The declaration should contain a concise statement of the injury complained of, whether to the person, personal or real property, and it must allege that the injury was committed vi et armis and contra pacem; in which particulars it differs from a declaration in case. See Case, remedies.
Trespass, remedies. The general issue is not guilty. But as but few matters can be given in evidence under this plea, it is proper to plead special matters of defence.
Trespass, remedies. The judgment is generally for the damages assessed by the jury, and for costs. When the judgment is for the defendant, it is that be recover his costs. Vide Irregularity; Regular and Irregular process. Vide, generally, Bro. Ab. h.t.; Nelson's Ab. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; the various American and English Digests, h.t.; 2 Phil. Ev. 131; Ham. N. P. 33 to 265; Chit. Pr. Index, h.t.; Rose. Civ. Ev. h.t.; Stark. Ev. h.t.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Trespasser (n.) One who commits a trespass; as:
Trespasser (n.) (Law) One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights.
Trespasser (n.) A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.
Trespasser (n.) Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission [syn: intruder, interloper, trespasser].
Trespasser, () One who commits a trespass.
Trespasser, () A man is a trespasser by his own direct action he acts without any excuse; or he may be a trespasser in the execution of a legal process in an illegal manner; 1 Chit. Pl. 183: 2 John. Cas. 27; or when the court has no jurisdiction over the subject-matter when the court has jurisdiction but the proceeding is defective and void; when the process has been misapplied, as, when the defendant has taken A's goods on an execution against B; when the process has been abused 1 Chit. Pl. 183-187 in all these cases a man is a trespasser ab initio. And a person capable of giving his assent may become a trespasser, by an act subsequent to the tort. If, for example, a an take possession of land for the use of another, the latter may afterwards recognize and adopt the act; by so doing, he places himself in the situation of one who had previously commanded it, and consequently is himself a trespasser, if the other had no right to enter, nor he to command the entry. 4 Inst. 317; Ham. N. P. 215. Vide 1 Rawle's R. 121.
Tress (n.) A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. -- Chaucer.
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. -- Pope.
Tress (n.) Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers. -- Keats.
Tress (n.) A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair [syn: braid, plait, tress, twist].
Tressed (a.) Having tresses.
Tressed (a.) Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. -- Spenser. Drayton.
Tressel (n.) A trestle.
Trestle (n.) [Written also tressel.] 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.
Trestle (n.) The frame of a table.
Trestle board, A board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.
Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Trestle bridge (n.) A bridge supported by trestlework.
Trestle (n.) A supporting tower used to support a bridge.
Trestle (n.) Sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop.
Tressful (a.) Tressy. [R.] -- Sylvester.
Tressure (n.) (Her.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
Tressured (a.) (Her.) Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tressy (a.) Abounding in tresses. -- J. Baillie.
Trestle (n.) 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.
Trestle (n.) The frame of a table.
Trestle board, A board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles.
Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.
Trestle (n.) A supporting tower used to support a bridge.
Trestle (n.) Sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop.
Trestletree (n.) (Naut.) 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. -- Totten.
Trestlework (n.) A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
Trestlework (n.) A supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g.