TREASURY
TREASURY, noun trezh'ury. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TREAT
TREAT, verb transitive [Latin tracto.]1. To handle; to manage; to use. Subjects are usually faithful or treacherous, according as they are well or ill treated. To treat prisoner...
TREATABLE
TRE'ATABLE, adjective Moderate; not violent.The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. [Not in use.]
TREATABLY
TRE'ATABLY, adverb Moderately. [Not in use.]
TREATED
TRE'ATED, participle passive Handled; managed; used; discoursed on; entertained.
TREATER
TRE'ATER, noun One that treats; one that handles or discourses on; one that entertains.
TREATING
TRE'ATING, participle present tense Handling; managing; using; discoursing on; entertaining.
TREATISE
TRE'ATISE, noun [Latin tractatus.] A tract; a written composition on a particular subject, in which the principles of it are discussed or explained. A treatise is of an indefini...
TREATISER
TRE'ATISER, noun One who writes a treatise. [Not used.]
TREATMENT
TRE'ATMENT, noun Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.1. Usage; manner of...
TREATY
TRE'ATY, noun Negotiation; act of treating for the adjustment of differences, or for forming an agreement; as, a treaty is on the carpet.He cast by treaty and by trainsHer to pe...
TREATY-MAKING
TRE'ATY-MAKING, adjective The treaty-making power is lodged in the executive government. In monarchies, it is vested in the king or emperor; in the United States of America, it ...
TREBLE
TREBLE, adjective trib'l. [Latin triplex, triplus; tres, three, and plexus, fold. This should be written trible.]1. Threefold; triple; as a lofty tower with treble walls.2. In m...
TREBLENESS
TREBLENESS, noun trib'lness. The state of being treble; as the trebleness of tones.
TREBLY
TREBLY, adverb trib'ly. In a threefold number or quantity; as a good deed trebly recompensed.
TREDDLE
TRED'DLE, noun The part of a loom or other machine which is moved by the tread or foot.1. The albuminous cords which unite the yolk of the egg to the white.
TREE
TREE, noun1. The general name of the largest of the vegetable kind, consisting of a firm woody stem springing from woody roots, and spreading above into branches which terminate...
TREE-GERMANDER
TREE-GERMANDER, noun A plant of the genus Teucrium.TREE'-LOUSE, noun [tree and louse.] An insect of the genus Aphis.
TREE-MOSS
TREE'-MOSS, noun A species of lichen.
TREE-NAIL
TREE'-NAIL, noun [tree and nail; commonly pronounced trunnel.]A long wooden pin, used in fastening the planks of a ship to the timbers.
TREE-OF-LIFE
TREE-OF-LIFE, noun An evergreen tree of the genus Thuja.
TREEN
TREEN, adjective Wooden; made of wood.TREEN, noun The old plural of tree.
TREFOIL
TRE'FOIL, noun [Latin trifolium; tres, three, and folium, leaf.]The common name for many plants of the genus Trifolium; also, in agriculture, a name of the medicago tupulina, a ...
TREILLAGE
TREILLAGE, noun trel'lage. In gardening, a sort of rail-work, consisting of light posts and rails for supporting espaliers, and sometimes for wall trees.
TRELLIS
TREL'LIS, noun In gardening, a structure or frame of cross-barred work, or lattice work, used like the treillage for supporting plants.
TRELLISED
TREL'LISED, adjective Having a trellis or trellises.
TREMBLE
TREM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tremo.]1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder.Frighted Turnus trembled as he sp...