Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 81
Truncated (a.) Cut off; cut short; maimed.
Truncated (a.) (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.
Truncated (a.) (Zool.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
Truncated cone or Truncated pyramid (Geom.), A cone or pyramid whose vertex is cut off by a plane, the plane being usually parallel to the base.
Truncated (a.) Cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated, shortened, truncated].
Truncated (a.) Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate, truncated].
Truncation (n.) The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.
Truncation (n.) The state of being truncated.
Truncation (n.) (Min.) The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.
Truncation (n.) The property of being truncated or short [syn: shortness, truncation].
Truncation (n.) The replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces).
Truncation (n.) The act of cutting short; "it is an obvious truncation of the verse"; "they were sentenced to a truncation of their limbs."
Trunch (n.) A stake; a small post. [Obs.]
Truncheon (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon. -- Shak.
Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
With his truncheon he so rudely struck. -- Spenser.
Truncheon (n.) A baton, or military staff of command.
The marshal's truncheon nor the judges robe. -- Shak.
Truncheon (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. -- Gardner.
Truncheon (n.) A short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club].
Truncheoned (a.) Having a truncheon.
Truncheoneer (n.) A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]
Truncus (n.) [L.] (Zool.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.
Trundle (n.) A round body; a little wheel.
Trundle (n.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
Trundle (n.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
Trundle (n.) (Mach.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
Trundle (n.) (Mach.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
Trundled (imp. & p. p.) of Trundle.
Trundling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trundle.
Trundle (v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
Trundle (v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. -- R. A. Proctor.
Trundle (v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
Trundle (v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
Trundle (n.) A low bed to be slid under a higher bed [syn: trundle bed, trundle, truckle bed, truckle].
Trundle (n.) Small wheel or roller.
Trundle (v.) Move heavily; "the streetcar trundled down the avenue."
Trundle-bed (n.) 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.
Trundlehead (n.) One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.
Trundlehead (n.) The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
Trundletail (n.) A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.
Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach. -- Milton.
Trunk (n.) The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
Trunk (n.) (Arch.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Trunk (n.) (Zool.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
Trunk (n.) (Zool.) The proboscis of an elephant.
Trunk (n.) (Zool.) The proboscis of an insect.
Trunk (n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p?as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk. -- Howell.
Trunk (n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
Locked up in chests and trunks. -- Shak.
Trunk (n.) (Mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Trunk (n.) (Steam Engine) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
Trunk engine, A marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10.
Trunk hose, Large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees.
Trunk line, The main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance.
Trunk turtle (Zool.), The leatherback.
Trunk (v. t.) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] "Out of the trunked stock." -- Spenser.
Trunk (v. t.) (Mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9. -- Weale.
Trunk (n.) The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber [syn: trunk, tree trunk, bole].
Trunk (n.) Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage.
Trunk (n.) The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body].
Trunk (n.) Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools; "he put his golf bag in the trunk" [syn: luggage compartment, automobile trunk, trunk].
Trunk (n.) A long flexible snout as of an elephant [syn: proboscis, trunk].
Trunkback (n.) (Zool.) The leatherback.
Trunked (a.) Having (such) a trunk.
Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. -- Howell.
Trunkfish (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Compare: Cowfish
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) The grampus.
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) A California dolphin ({Tursiops Gillii).
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) (c) A marine plectognath fish ({Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
Trunkfish (n.) Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates [syn: boxfish, trunkfish].
Trunkfuls (n. pl. ) of Trunkful.
Trunkful (n.) As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
Trunkwork (n.) Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem. [Obs.]
Compare: 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.]
Trunnel (n.) A trundle. [R.]
Trunnel (n.) (Shipbuilding) See Treenail.
Trunnel (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].
Trunnion (n.) (Gun.) 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.
Trunnion (n.) (Steam Engine) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.
Trunnion plate (Gun.), A plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion.
Trunnion ring (Gun.), A ring on a cannon next before the trunnions. [R.]
Trunnioned (a.) Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
Trusion (n.) The act of pushing or thrusting. [R.] -- Bentley.
Truss (n.) A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. -- Fabyan.
Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. -- Spenser.
Note: A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs.
Truss (n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] -- Nares.
Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. -- Drayton.
Truss (n.) (Surg.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
Truss (n.) (Bot.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
Truss (n.) (Naut.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
Truss (n.) (Arch. & Engin.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
Truss rod, A rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.
Trussed (imp. & p. p.) of Truss.
Trussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truss.
Truss (v. t.) To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. -- Shak.
It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. -- Chaucer.
Truss (v. t.) To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.]
Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. -- Spenser.
Truss (v. t.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
Truss (v. t.) To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
Truss (v. t.) To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] -- Sir W. Scott.
To truss a person or To truss one's self, To adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." -- J. Webster (1607).
To truss up, To strain; to make close or tight.
Trussed beam, A beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord.
Truss (n.) (Medicine) A bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure.
Truss (n.) A framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure.
Truss (n.) (Architecture) A triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) [syn: corbel, truss].
Truss (v.) Tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it.
Truss (v.) Secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss].
Truss (v.) Support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges."
Trussing (n.) (Arch. & Engin.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. -- Weale.
Trussing (n.) (Arch. & Engin.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.
Trussing (n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.]
Trust (n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing trust in mortal strength!" -- Milton.
Most take things upon trust. -- Locke.
Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
Trust (n.) Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. "Such trust have we through Christ." -- 2 Cor. iii. 4.
His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength. -- Milton.
Trust (n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
Trust (n.) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust. -- Shak.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust. -- Denham.
Trust (n.) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. -- Ps. lxxi. 5
Trust (n.) (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
Trust (n.) An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc.
In a Passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.
Trust (n.) A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.
Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation.
Trust deed (Law), A deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use.
Trust (a.) Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
Trust (n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
Trusted (imp. & p. p.) of Trust.
Trusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trust.
Trust (v. t.) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
I will never trust his word after. -- Shak.
He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. -- Johnson.
Trust (v. t.) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well. -- Shak.
Trust (v. t.) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. -- 2 John 12.
We trustwe have a good conscience. -- Heb. xiii. 18.
Trust (v. t.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. -- Dryden.
Trust (v. t.) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. -- Macaulay.
Trust (v. t.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
Trust (v. t.) To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. -- Milton.
Trust (v. i.) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust. -- Shak.
Trust (v. i.) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid. -- Isa. xii. 2.
Trust (v. i.) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust. -- Johnson.
To trust in, To trust on, To place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. "Trust in the Lord, and do good." -- Ps. xxxvii. 3. "A priest . . . on whom we trust." -- Chaucer.
Her widening streets on new foundations trust. -- Dryden.
To trust to or To trust unto, To depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck.
They trusted unto the liers in wait. -- Judges xx. 36.
Trust (n.) Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary); "he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father."
Trust (n.) Certainty based on past experience; "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun" [syn: reliance, trust].
Trust (n.) The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others; "the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity" [syn: trust, trustingness, trustfulness] [ant: distrust, distrustfulness, mistrust].
Trust (n.) A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel].
Trust (n.) Complete confidence in a person or plan etc; "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust" [syn: faith, trust].
Trust (n.) A trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust" [syn: confidence, trust].
Trust (v.) Have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" [syn: trust, swear, rely, bank] [ant: distrust, mistrust, suspect].
Trust (v.) Allow without fear.
Trust (v.) Be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war" [syn: believe, trust].
Trust (v.) Expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" [syn: hope, trust, desire].
Trust (v.) Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit].
Trust (v.) Extend credit to; "don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore."
Trust, () contracts, devises. An equitable right, title or interest in property, real or personal, distinct from its legal ownership; or it is a personal obligation for paying, delivering or performing anything, where the person trusting has no real. right or security, for by, that act he confides altogether to the faithfulness of those entrusted. This is its most general meaning, and includes deposits, bailments, and the like. In its more technical sense, it may be defined to be an obligation upon a person, arising out of a confidence reposed in him, to apply property faithfully, and according to such confidence. Willis on Trustees, 1; 4 Kent, Com. 295; 2 Fonb. Eq. 1; 1 Saund. Uses and Tr. 6; Coop. Eq. Pl. Introd. 27; 3 Bl. Com. 431.
Trust, () Trusts were probably derived from the civil law. The fidei commissum, (q.v.) is not dissimilar to a trust.
Trust, () Trusts are either express or implied. 1st. Express trusts are those which are created in express terms in the deed, writing or will. The terms to create an express trust will be sufficient, if it can be fairly collected upon the face of the instrument that a trust was intended. Express trusts are usually found in preliminary sealed agreements, such as marriage articles, or articles for the purchase of land; in formal conveyances, such as marriage settlements, terms for years, mortgages, assignments for the payment of debts, raising portions or other purposes; and in wills and testaments, when the bequests involve fiduciary interests for private benefit or public charity,, they may be created even by parol. 6 Watts & Serg. 97.
Trust, () Implied trusts are those which without being expressed, are deducible from the nature of the transaction, as matters of intent; or which are superinduced upon the transaction by operation of law, as matters of equity, independently of the particular intention of the parties.
Trust, () The most common form of an implied trust is where property or money is delivered by one person to another, to be by the latter delivered to a third person. These implied trusts greatly extend over the business and pursuits of men: a few examples will be given.
Trust, () When land is purchased by one man in the name of another, and the former pays the consideration money, the land will in general be held by the grantee in Trust for the person who so paid the consideration money. Com. Dig. Chancery, 3 W 3; 2 Fonb. Eq. book 2, c. 5, Sec. 1, note a. Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1201.
Trust, () When real property is purchased out of partnership funds, and the title is taken in the name of one of the partners, he will hold it in trust for all the partners. 7 Ves. jr. 453; Montague on Partn. 97, n.; Colly. Partn. 68.
Trust, () When a contract is made for the sale of land, in equity the vendor is immediately deemed a trustee for the vendee of the estate; and the vendee, a trustee for the vendor of the purchase money; and by this means there is an equitable conversion of the property. 1 Fonb. Eq. book 1, ch. 6, Sec. 9, note t; Story, Eq. Jur. SSSS 789, 790, 1212. See Conversion. For the origin of trusts in the civil law, see 5 Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 2, c. 1, n. 18; 1 Brown's Civ. Law, 190. Vide Resulting Trusts. See, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Trust, (n.) In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
Trustee (n.) (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
Trustee process (Law), A process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]
Trustee (v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.
Trustee (v. t.) (Law) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U. S.]
Trustee (n.) A person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee, legal guardian].
Trustee (n.) Members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee].
Trustee, () estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust.
Trustee, () The trust estate is not subject to the specialty or judgment debts of the trustee, to the dower of his wife, or the curtesy of the husband of a female trustee.
Trustee, () With respect to the duties of trustees, it is held, in conformity to the old law of uses, that pernancy of the profits, execution of estates, and defence of the land, are the three great properties of a trust, so that the courts of chancery will compel trustees, 1. To permit the cestui que trust to receive the rents and profits of the land. 2. To execute such conveyances, in accordance with the provisions of the trust, as the cestui que trust shall direct. 3. To defend the title of the land in any court of law or equity. Cruise, Dig. tit. 12, c. 4, s. 4.
Trustee, () It has been judiciously remarked by Mr. Justice Story, 2 Eq. Jur. Sec. 1267, that in a great variety of cases, it is not easy to say what the duty of a trustee is; and that therefore, it often becomes indispensable for him, before he acts, to seek, the aid and direction of a court of equity. Fonb. Eq. book 2, c. 7, Sec. 2, and note c. Vide Vin. Ab. tit. Trusts, O, P, Q, R, S, T; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Trusteeship (n.) The office or duty of a trustee.
Trusteeship (n.) A dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations [syn: trust territory, trusteeship].
Trusteeship (n.) The position of trustee.
Truster (n.) One who trusts, or credits.
Truster (n.) (Scots Law) One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee.
Truster (n.) A supporter who accepts something as true [syn: believer, truster].
Trustful (a.) Full of trust; trusting.
Trustful (a.) Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- Trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Trust"ful*ness, n.
Trustful (a.) Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful].