English Dictionary: troth | by the DICT Development Group |
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Tardy \Tar"dy\, a. [Compar. {Tardier}; superl. {Tardiest}.] [F. tardif, fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.] 1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. --Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. --Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. --Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. --Waller. 3. Unwary; unready. [Obs.] --Hudibras. 4. Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] --Collier. Syn: Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See {Slow}. | |
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Tardy \Tar"dy\, v. t. To make tardy. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Tare \Tare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Taring}.] To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods). | |
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Tared \Tared\, a. (Chem.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates. | |
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Tarot \Tar"ot\, n. [F.; cf. It. tarocco.] A game of cards; -- called also {taroc}. --Hoyle. | |
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d8Haphtarah \[d8]Haph*ta"rah\, n.; pl. {-taroth}. [Heb. hapht[be]r[be]h, prop., valedictory, fr. p[be]tar to depart.] One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15. | |
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Tar \Tar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tarred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tarring}.] To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. {To tar and feather a person}. See under {Feather}, v. t. | |
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Taring \Tar"ing\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The common tern; -- called also {tarret}, and {tarrock}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Tarry \Tar"ry\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tarried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tarrying}.] [OE. tarien to irritate (see {Tarre}); but with a change of sense probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay, OF. targier, fr. (assumed) LL. tardicare, fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry, fr. tardus slow. Cf. {Tardy}.] 1. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. --Ex. xxiv. 14. 2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. Come down unto me, tarry not. --Gen. xic. 9. One tarried here, there hurried one. --Emerson. 3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. --Gen. xix. 2. Syn: To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter. | |
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Tart \Tart\, n. [OE. tarte, F. tarte; perhaps originally the same word as tourte, LL. torta, fr. L. tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist, bend, wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf. {Torture}, n.] A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. | |
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Tart \Tart\, a. [AS. teart. [fb]63. Cf. {Tear}, v. t.] 1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple. 2. Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. Why art thou tart, my brother? --Bunyan. | |
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Tarweed \Tar"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of {Grindelia}, {Hemizonia}, and {Madia}. | |
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Taurid \Tau"rid\, n. [Taurus + 1st -id.] (Astron.) Any of a group of meteors appearing November 20-23; -- so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus. | |
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Teredo \Te*re"do\, n.; pl. E. {Teredos}, L. {Teredines}. [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. [?], L. terere to rub.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also {shipworm}. See {Shipworm}. See Illust. in App. | |
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Teret \Ter"et\, a. Round; terete. [Obs.] --Fotherby. | |
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Terete \Te*rete"\, a. [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off, fr. terere to rub.] Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants. | |
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Terreity \Ter*re"i*ty\, n. Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Terret \Ter"ret\, n. One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass. | |
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Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. --Spenser. {On}, [or] {Upon}, {the road}, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; on the way. My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. --Cowper. {Road agent}, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. --The century. {Road book}, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances. {Road metal}, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads. {Road roller}, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. -- often driven by steam. {Road runner} (Zo[94]l.), the chaparral cock. {Road steamer}, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads. {To go on the road}, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.] {To take the road}, to begin or engage in traveling. {To take to the road}, to engage in robbery upon the highways. Syn: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See {Way}. | |
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Word \Word\, n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. or[edh], Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. wa[a3]rd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. {Verb}.] 1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. [bd]A glutton of words.[b8] --Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. --Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. --Locke. 2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. 3. pl. Talk; discourse; speech; language. Why should calamity be full of words? --Shak. Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. --Dryden. 4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular. I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. --Shak. 5. Signal; order; command; direction. Give the word through. --Shak. 6. Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. --Shak. I know you brave, and take you at your word. --Dryden. I desire not the reader should take my word. --Dryden. 7. pl. Verbal contention; dispute. Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me. --Shak. 8. A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. --Gal. v. 14. She said; but at the happy word [bd]he lives,[b8] My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound. --Tennyson. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. --Dickens. {By word of mouth}, orally; by actual speaking. --Boyle. {Compound word}. See under {Compound}, a. {Good word}, commendation; favorable account. [bd]And gave the harmless fellow a good word.[b8] --Pope. {In a word}, briefly; to sum up. {In word}, in declaration; in profession. [bd]Let us not love in word, . . . but in deed and in truth.[b8] --1 John iii. 8. {Nuns of the Word Incarnate} (R. C. Ch.), an order of nuns founded in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The order, which also exists in the United States, was instituted for the purpose of doing honor to the [bd]Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God.[b8] {The word}, or {The Word}. (Theol.) (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures, as a revelation of God. [bd]Bold to speak the word without fear.[b8] --Phil. i. 14. (b) The second person in the Trinity before his manifestation in time by the incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. --John i. 1. {To eat one's words}, to retract what has been said. {To have the words for}, to speak for; to act as spokesman. [Obs.] [bd]Our host hadde the wordes for us all.[b8] --Chaucer. {Word blindness} (Physiol.), inability to understand printed or written words or symbols, although the person affected may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. --Landois & Stirling. {Word deafness} (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf. {Word dumbness} (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired. {Word for word}, in the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word. {Word painting}, the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. {Word picture}, an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. {Word square}, a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results. Note: H E A R T E M B E R A B U S E R E S I N T R E N T (A word square) Syn: See {Term}. | |
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Word \Word\, n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. or[edh], Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. wa[a3]rd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. {Verb}.] 1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. [bd]A glutton of words.[b8] --Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. --Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. --Locke. 2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. 3. pl. Talk; discourse; speech; language. Why should calamity be full of words? --Shak. Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. --Dryden. 4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular. I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. --Shak. 5. Signal; order; command; direction. Give the word through. --Shak. 6. Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. --Shak. I know you brave, and take you at your word. --Dryden. I desire not the reader should take my word. --Dryden. 7. pl. Verbal contention; dispute. Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me. --Shak. 8. A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. --Gal. v. 14. She said; but at the happy word [bd]he lives,[b8] My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound. --Tennyson. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. --Dickens. {By word of mouth}, orally; by actual speaking. --Boyle. {Compound word}. See under {Compound}, a. {Good word}, commendation; favorable account. [bd]And gave the harmless fellow a good word.[b8] --Pope. {In a word}, briefly; to sum up. {In word}, in declaration; in profession. [bd]Let us not love in word, . . . but in deed and in truth.[b8] --1 John iii. 8. {Nuns of the Word Incarnate} (R. C. Ch.), an order of nuns founded in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The order, which also exists in the United States, was instituted for the purpose of doing honor to the [bd]Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God.[b8] {The word}, or {The Word}. (Theol.) (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures, as a revelation of God. [bd]Bold to speak the word without fear.[b8] --Phil. i. 14. (b) The second person in the Trinity before his manifestation in time by the incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. --John i. 1. {To eat one's words}, to retract what has been said. {To have the words for}, to speak for; to act as spokesman. [Obs.] [bd]Our host hadde the wordes for us all.[b8] --Chaucer. {Word blindness} (Physiol.), inability to understand printed or written words or symbols, although the person affected may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. --Landois & Stirling. {Word deafness} (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf. {Word dumbness} (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired. {Word for word}, in the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word. {Word painting}, the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. {Word picture}, an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. {Word square}, a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results. Note: H E A R T E M B E R A B U S E R E S I N T R E N T (A word square) Syn: See {Term}. | |
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Thereat \There*at"\, adv. 1. At that place; there. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. --Matt. vii. 13. 2. At that occurrence or event; on that account. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat. --Hooker. | |
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Thereout \There*out"\, adv. 1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. --Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Thereto \There*to"\, adv. 1. To that or this. --Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. [Obs.] --Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. --Chaucer. | |
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Therewith \There*with"\, adv. 1. With that or this. [bd]I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.[b8] --Phil. iv. 11. 2. In addition; besides; moreover. To speak of strength and therewith hardiness. --Chaucer. 3. At the same time; forthwith. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Theroid \The"roid\, a. [Gr. qh`r, qhro`s, wild beast + -oid.] (Med.) Resembling a beast in nature or habit; marked by animal characteristics; as, theroid idiocy. | |
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Third \Third\ (th[etil]rd), a. [OE. thirde, AS. [thorn]ridda, fr. [thorn]r[c6], [thorn]re[a2], three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. [thorn]ri[edh]i, Goth. [thorn]ridja, L. tertius, Gr. tri`tos, Skr. t[rsdot]t[c6]ya. See {Three}, and cf. {Riding} a jurisdiction, {Tierce}.] 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. [bd]The third night.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. {Third estate}. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers [82]tat. See {Tiers [82]tat}. {Third order} (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See {Tertiary}, n., 1. {Third person} (Gram.), the person spoken of. See {Person}, n., 7. {Third sound}. (Mus.) See {Third}, n., 3. | |
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Third \Third\, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time. 3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant. 4. pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. {Major third} (Mus.), an interval of two tones. {Minor third} (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half. | |
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Thirty \Thir"ty\, a. [OE. thritty, AS. [ed]r[c6]tig, [ed]rittig; akin to D. dertig, G. dreissig, Icel. [ed]rj[be]t[c6]u, [ed]rj[be]tigi, [ed]rir teger, Goth. [ed]reis tigjus, i.e., three tens. See {Three}, and Ten, and cf. {Thirteen}.] Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days. | |
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Thirty \Thir"ty\, n.; pl. {Thirties}. 1. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects. 2. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX. | |
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Thorite \Tho"rite\, n. [So called by Berzelius from the Scandinavian god Thor. See {Thor}.] (Min.) A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium. | |
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Thread \Thread\ (thr[ecr]d), n. [OE. threed, [thorn]red, AS. [thorn]r[aemac]d; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG. dr[be]t, Icel. [thorn]r[be][edh]r a thread, Sw. tr[86]d, Dan. traad, and AS. [thorn]r[be]wan to twist. See {Throw}, and cf. {Third}.] 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted. 2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver. 3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See {Screw}, n., 1. 4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. --Bp. Burnet. 5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.] A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. --B. Jonson. {Air thread}, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer. {Thread and thrum}, the good and bad together. [Obs.] --Shak. {Thread cell} (Zo[94]l.), a lasso cell. See under {Lasso}. {Thread herring} (Zo[94]l.), the gizzard shad. See under {Gizzard}. {Thread lace}, lace made of linen thread. {Thread needle}, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also {thread the needle}. | |
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Thread \Thread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Threaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Threading}.] 1. To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle. 2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. --Mitford. They would not thread the gates. --Shak. 3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut. | |
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Thready \Thread"y\, a. 1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread. | |
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Threat \Threat\ (thr[ecr]t), n. [AS. [thorn]re[a0]t, akin to [be][thorn]re[a2]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. [thorn]rj[d3]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth. us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. {Abstruse}, {Intrude}, {Obstrude}, {Protrude}.] The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak. | |
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Threat \Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS. [thorn]re[a0]tian. See {Threat}, n.] To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden. | |
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Thretty \Thret"ty\, a. Thirty. [Obs. or Scot.] --Burns. | |
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Thrid \Thrid\, a. Third. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Thrid \Thrid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thridded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thridding}.] [A variant of thread.] 1. To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. --Pope. And now he thrids the bramble bush. --J. R. Drake. I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes. --Tennyson. 2. To make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood. | |
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Thrid \Thrid\, n. Thread; continuous line. [Archaic] I resume the thrid of my discourse. --Dryden. | |
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Throat \Throat\ (thr[omac]t), n. [OE. throte, AS. [thorn]rote, [thorn]rotu; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. & D. stort. Cf. {Throttle}.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column. (b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. I can vent clamor from my throat. --Shak. 2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase. 3. (Arch.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. --Gwilt. 4. (Naut.) (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (c) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. --Totten. 5. (Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee. 6. (Bot.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. {Throat brails} (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. {Throat halyards} (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. {Throat pipe} (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. {To give one the lie in his throat}, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. {To lie in one's throat}, to lie flatly or abominably. | |
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Throat \Throat\, v. t. 1. To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] --Chapman. 2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Throaty \Throat"y\, a. Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. [bd]Hard, throaty words.[b8] --Howell. | |
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Thruout \Thru*out"\ Throughout. [Ref. spelling.] | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, adv. [See {Thwart}, a.] Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, prep. Across; athwart. --Spenser. {Thwart ships}. See {Athwart ships}, under {Athwart}. | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, n. (Naut.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat. | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thwarting}.] 1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. --Milton. 2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. --South. | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, a. [OE. [thorn]wart, [thorn]wert, a. and adv., Icel. [thorn]vert, neut. of [thorn]verr athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. [thorn]weorh perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tv[84]r cross, unfriendly, Goth. [thorn]wa[a1]rhs angry. Cf. {Queer}.] 1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. --Milton. 2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Thwart \Thwart\, v. i. 1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.] 2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.] Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles. --Locke. | |
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Thyrohyoid \Thy`ro*hy"oid\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch. | |
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Thyroid \Thy"roid\, a. [Gr. [?] shield-shaped; [?] a large, oblong shield (from [?] a door) + [?] form: cf. F. thyro[8b]de, thyr[82]o[8b]de.] 1. Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal. {Thyroid cartilage}. See under {Larynx}. {Thyroid body}, [or] {Thyroid gland} (Anat.), a glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown function, in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. | |
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Tiaraed \Ti*a"raed\, a. Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara. | |
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Tie-rod \Tie"-rod\, n. A rod used as a tie. See {Tie}. | |
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Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. | |
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Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry.] To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires. | |
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Tired \Tired\, a. Weary; fatigued; exhausted. | |
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Tirrit \Tir"rit\, n. A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror. | |
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Tirwit \Tir"wit\, n. [Cf. {Pewit}.] (Zo[94]l.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. {Wore}; p. p. {Worn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wearing}. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being {Weared}.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. [?], Skr. vas. Cf. {Vest}.] 1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross s[?][?] wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. 2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. [bd]He wears the rose of youth upon him.[b8] --Shak. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. 3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. 4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. {To wear away}, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. {To wear off}, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. {To wear on [or] upon}, to wear. [Obs.] [bd][I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.][b8] --Chaucer. {To wear out}. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. [bd]To wear out miserable days.[b8] --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. [bd][He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High.[b8] --Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. {To wear the breeches}. See under {Breeches}. [Colloq.] | |
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Weary \Wea"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wearied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wearying}.] 1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. --Shak. 2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak. 3. To harass by anything irksome. I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton. {To weary out}, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue. Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See {Jade}. | |
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Toret \Tor"et\, n. [Probably dim. fr. tore, torus.] A Turret. [Obs.] | |
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Toret \Tor"et\, n. A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Torah \[d8]To"rah\, d8Tora \[d8]To"ra\, n.; pl. {Toroth}. [Heb. t[d3]r[be]h.] (Jewish Lit.) (a) A law; a precept. A considerable body of priestly Toroth. --S. R. Driver. (b) Divine instruction; revelation. Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets. --T. K. Cheyne. (c) The Pentateuch or [bd]Law of Moses.[b8] The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, [bd]Law,[b8] or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the [bd]Writings,[b8] generally termed Hagiographa. --C. H. H. Wright. | |
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Torrid \Tor"rid\, a. [L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See {Thirst}.] 1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. [bd]Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil.[b8] --Milton. 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. [bd]Torrid heat.[b8] --Milton. {Torrid zone} (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great. | |
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Tort \Tort\, a. Stretched tight; taut. [R.] Yet holds he them with tortestrein. --Emerson. | |
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Tort \Tort\, n. [F., from LL. tortum, fr. L. tortus twisted, crooked, p. p. of torqure to twist, bend. See {Torture}.] 1. Mischief; injury; calamity. [Obs.] That had them long opprest with tort. --Spenser. 2. (Law) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury. {[d8]Executor de son tort}. See under {Executor}. {Tort feasor} (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser. --Wharton. | |
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Torta \Tor"ta\, n. [Cf. Sp. torta a cake.] (Metal.) a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process. | |
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Torteau \Tor"teau\, n.; pl. {Torteaus}. [Of. torteau, tortel, from L. tortus twisted. See {Tort}.] (Her.) A roundel of a red color. | |
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Tour \Tour\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Touring}.] To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. --T. Hughes. | |
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Toward \To"ward\, Towards \To"wards\, prep.[AS. [?] impending, imminent, future, toward, [?] towards. See {To}, and -{ward}, {wards}.] 1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. --Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards[b6] the pebbled shore. --Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. --Deut. xxviii. 54. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. --Acts xxiv. 16. 3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. --Clarendom. 4. Near; about; approaching to. I am toward nine years older since I left you. --Swift. | |
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Toward \To"ward\, Towards \To"wards\ adv. Near; at hand; in state of preparation. Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ? --Shak. We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. --Shak. | |
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Toward \To"ward\, a. [AS. [?]. See {Toward}, prep.] 1. Approaching; coming near. [bd]His toward peril.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. --Shak. | |
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Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {towered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {towering}.] To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. --Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. --Shak. | |
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Towered \Tow"ered\, a. Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. --Milton. | |
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Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {towered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {towering}.] To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. --Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. --Shak. | |
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Towered \Tow"ered\, a. Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. --Milton. | |
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Trad \Trad\, obs. imp. of {Tread}. --Chaucer. | |
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Trade \Trade\, n. [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See {Tread}, n. & v.] 1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. --Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. --Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. --Shak. 2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] [bd]The right trade of religion.[b8] --Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. --Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. --Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. --Shak. 3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us? --Shak. 4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water. 5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. --Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. --Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. --Shak. 6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. --Dryden. 7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. 8. pl. The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.] Syn: Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. {Board of trade}. See under {Board}. {Trade dollar}. See under {Dollar}. {Trade price}, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. {Trade sale}, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers. {Trade wind}, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade. Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather. | |
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Trade \Trade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Traded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trading}.] 1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. --Arbuthnot. 2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance. 3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with. How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth? --Shak. | |
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Trade \Trade\, v. t. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. They traded the persons of men. --Ezek. xxvii. 13. To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. --Cooper. | |
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Trade \Trade\, obs. imp. of {Tread}. | |
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Trait \Trait\, n. [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See {Trace}, v., and cf. {Tract} a region, {Trace} a strap, {Tret}.] 1. A stroke; a touch. By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. --Broome. 2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character. Note: Formerly pronounced tr[be], as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England. | |
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Tread \Tread\, v. t. 1. To step or walk on. Forbid to tread the promised land he saw. --Prior. Methought she trod the ground with greater grace. --Dryden. 2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path. 3. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. [bd] I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. They have measured many a mile, To tread a measure with you on this grass. --Shak. 4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue. Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. --Ps. xliv. 5. 5. To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird. --Chaucer. {To tread out}, to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. {To tread the stage}, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama. | |
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Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro[?]a, Sw. tr[86]da, tr[84]da, Dan. tr[91]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. [?] a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. {Trade}, {Tramp}, {Trot}.] 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. --Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. --Chaucer. 2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. {To tread on} [or] {upon}. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. [bd]Thou shalt tread upon their high places.[b8] --Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. [bd]Year treads on year.[b8] --Wordsworth. {To tread upon the heels of}, to follow close upon. [bd]Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.[b8] --Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak. | |
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Tread \Tread\, n. 1. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. --Tennyson. 2. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread. 3. Way; track; path. [R.] --Shak. 4. The act of copulation in birds. 5. (Arch.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed. 6. (Fort.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet. 7. (Mach.) (a) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. (b) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear. 8. (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle. 9. (Far.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See {Interfere}, 3. | |
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Treat \Treat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Treated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treating}.] [{OE}. treten, OF. traitier, F. traiter, from L. tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. intens. from trahere, tractum, to draw. See {Trace}, v. t., and cf. {Entreat}, {Retreat}, {Trait}.] 1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. 2. To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely. 3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company. 4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. [Obs.] To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned. --Dryden. 5. (Med.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. --Ure. 7. To entreat; to beseech. [Obs.] --Ld. Berners. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Treat \Treat\, n. 1. A parley; a conference. [Obs.] Bid him battle without further treat. --Spenser. 2. An entertainment given as an expression of regard. 3. That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Treat \Treat\, v. i. 1. To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties. And, shortly of this story for to treat. --Chaucer. Now of love they treat. --Milton. 2. To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France. Inform us, will the emperor treat! --Swift. 3. To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or drink, as a compliment. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Treaty \Trea"ty\, n.; pl. {Treaties}. [OE. tretee, F. trait[82], LL. tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. See {Treat}, and cf. {Tractate}.] 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. [bd]By sly and wise treaty.[b8] --Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade. --Spenser. 2. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance. 3. A proposal tending to an agreement. [Obs.] --Shak. 4. A treatise; a tract. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Tree \Tree\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Treed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treeing}.] 1. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. --J. Burroughs. 2. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See {Tree}, n., 3. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tret \Tret\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Tread}, for treadeth. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tret \Tret\, n. [F. traite a drawing, trading, journey, tax on wares in transit, anything diminishing the value of coins, fr. OF. traire to draw, L. trahere. See {Trait}.] (Com.) 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. --M'Culloch. | |
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Trewth \Trewth\, n. Truth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Triad \Tri"ad\, n. [L. trias, -adis, Gr. [?], [?], fr.[?], [?], three: cf. F. triade. See {Three}, and cf. {Trias}, {Trio}.] 1. A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities. 2. (Mus.) (a) A chord of three notes. (b) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave. 3. (Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three. {Triads of the Welsh bards}, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. {Hindu triad}. See {Trimurti}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tride \Tride\, a. [Cf. F. tride lively, quick.] Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. --Bailey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tried \Tried\, imp. & p. p. of {Try.} Also adj. Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Try \Try\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trying}.] [OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum, to rub, bruise, grind, thresh. See {Trite}.] 1. To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot. 2. To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. --Shak. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. --Ps. xii. 6. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. --Ps. lxvi. 10. 3. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions. Let the end try the man. --Shak. 4. To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to. Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tried \Tried\, imp. & p. p. of {Try.} Also adj. Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Try \Try\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trying}.] [OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum, to rub, bruise, grind, thresh. See {Trite}.] 1. To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot. 2. To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. --Shak. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. --Ps. xii. 6. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. --Ps. lxvi. 10. 3. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions. Let the end try the man. --Shak. 4. To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to. Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trite \Trite\, a. [L. tritus, p. p. of terere to rub, to wear out; probably akin to E. throw. See {Throw}, and cf. {Contrite}, {Detriment}, {Tribulation}, {Try}.] Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- {Trite"ly}, adv. -- {Trite"ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Troad \Troad\, n. See {Trode}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trode \Trode\, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See {Tread}.] Tread; footing. [Written also {troad}.][Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Troad \Troad\, n. See {Trode}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trode \Trode\, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See {Tread}.] Tread; footing. [Written also {troad}.][Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Troat \Troat\, v. i. [Either onomatopoetic, or akin to throat.] To cry, as a buck in rutting time. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Troat \Troat\, n. The cry of a buck in rutting time. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trod \Trod\, imp. & p. p. of {Tread}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro[?]a, Sw. tr[86]da, tr[84]da, Dan. tr[91]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. [?] a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. {Trade}, {Tramp}, {Trot}.] 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. --Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. --Chaucer. 2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. {To tread on} [or] {upon}. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. [bd]Thou shalt tread upon their high places.[b8] --Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. [bd]Year treads on year.[b8] --Wordsworth. {To tread upon the heels of}, to follow close upon. [bd]Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.[b8] --Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trode \Trode\, archaic imp. of {Tread}. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trode \Trode\, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See {Tread}.] Tread; footing. [Written also {troad}.][Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Horse \Horse\, n. (Student Slang) (a) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; -- called also {trot}, {pony}, {Dobbin}. (b) Horseplay; tomfoolery. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, n. [F. See {Trot}, v. i.] 1. 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. [bd]The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot.[b8] --Stillman (The Horse in Motion). 2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. 3. One who trots; a child; a woman. An old trot with ne'er a tooth. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trotting}.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott[?]n to tread. See {Tread}.] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See {Trot}, n. 2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry. He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. --Franklin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. {To trot out}, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Horse \Horse\, n. (Student Slang) (a) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; -- called also {trot}, {pony}, {Dobbin}. (b) Horseplay; tomfoolery. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, n. [F. See {Trot}, v. i.] 1. 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. [bd]The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot.[b8] --Stillman (The Horse in Motion). 2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. 3. One who trots; a child; a woman. An old trot with ne'er a tooth. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trotting}.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott[?]n to tread. See {Tread}.] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See {Trot}, n. 2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry. He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. --Franklin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trot \Trot\, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. {To trot out}, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Troth \Troth\, n. [A variant of truth. See {Truth}.] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity. Bid her alight And hertroth plight. --Shak. 2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. --Shak. In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. --Addison. 3. Betrothal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trout \Trout\ (trout), n. [AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trw`kths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw`gein to gnaw.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to {Salmo}, {Salvelinus}, and allied genera of the family {Salmonid[91]}. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Truth \Truth\, n.; pl. {Truths}. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. tre[a2]w[?]. See {True}; cf. {Troth}, {Betroth}.] 1. The quality or being true; as: (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. (b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. --Mortimer. (c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. --Coleridge. (d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. --Shak. 2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. --Zech. viii. 16. I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak. The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. --Coleridge. 3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2 Cor. vii. 14. 4. Righteousness; true religion. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. --John xvii. 17. {In truth}, in reality; in fact. {Of a truth}, in reality; certainly. {To do truth}, to practice what God commands. He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii. 21. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Truth \Truth\, v. t. To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. --Ford. | |
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Truthy \Truth"y\, a. Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] [bd]A more truthy import.[b8] --W. G. Palgrave. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tryout \Try"out\, n. (Sports) A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Turatt \Tu"ratt\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The hare kangaroo. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Turret \Tur"ret\, n. [OE. touret, OF. tourette, dim. of tour a tower, L. turris. See {Tower}.] 1. (Arch.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure. 2. (Anc. Mil.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries. 3. (Mil.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land. 4. (Railroads) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation. {Turret clock}, a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church. {Turret head} (Mach.), a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe. {Turret lathe}, a turning lathe having a turret head. {Turret ship}, an ironclad war vessel, with low sides, on which heavy guns are mounted within one or more iron turrets, which may be rotated, so that the guns may be made to bear in any required direction. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Terre Haute, IN (city, FIPS 75428) Location: 39.47040 N, 87.38352 W Population (1990): 57483 (24077 housing units) Area: 71.6 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47802, 47803, 47804, 47807 | |
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Theriot, LA Zip code(s): 70397 | |
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Trade, TN Zip code(s): 37691 | |
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Treadway, TN Zip code(s): 37883 | |
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Trout, LA Zip code(s): 71371 Trout, WV Zip code(s): 24991 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
thread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic. To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to be confused with the techspeak sense of `thread', e.g. a lightweight process. Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says: "That which connects the successive points in anything, esp. a narrative, train of thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas continuing throughout the whole course of anything;" Citations are given going back to 1642! | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
trit /trit/ n. [by analogy with `bit'] One base-3 digit; the amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes (see also {bit}). Trits arise, for example, in the context of a {flag} that should actually be able to assume _three_ values -- such as yes, no, or unknown. Trits are sometimes jokingly called `3-state bits'. A trit may be semi-seriously referred to as `a bit and a half', although it is linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 bits (that is, log2(3) bits). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
T1 rate {T1} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
thread 1. See {multithreading}. 2. See {threaded code}. 3. {topic thread}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TREET E.C. Haines, 1964. An experimental variant of LISP1.5, implemented on the STRETCH computer. Basic structure was a trinary tree. ["The TREET {Time-Sharing} System", H.A. Bayard et al, Proc 2nd Symp Symb and Alg Manip, ACM (Mar 1971)]. [Sammet 1969, pp.457-461]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
trit amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes. Trits arise, for example, in the context of a {flag} that should actually be able to assume *three* values - such as yes, no, or unknown. Trits are sometimes jokingly called "3-state bits". A trit may be semi-seriously referred to as "a bit and a half", although it is linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 bits (that is, log2(3) bits). [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-11) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Truth Used in various senses in Scripture. In Prov. 12:17, 19, it denotes that which is opposed to falsehood. In Isa. 59:14, 15, Jer. 7:28, it means fidelity or truthfulness. The doctrine of Christ is called "the truth of the gospel" (Gal. 2:5), "the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7; 4:4). Our Lord says of himself, "I am the way, and the truth" (John 14:6). |