TREMBLEMENT
TREM'BLEMENT, noun In French music, a trill or shake.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TREMBLER
TREM'BLER, n One that trembles.
TREMBLING
TREM'BLING, participle present tense Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering.
TREMBLING-POPLAR
TREM'BLING-POPLAR, noun The aspen tree, so called.
TREMBLINGLY
TREM'BLINGLY, adverb So as to shake; with shivering or quaking.Tremblingly she stood.
TREMENDOUS
TREMEN'DOUS, adjective [Latin tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.]1. Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful. Hence,2. Violent; such as may astonish by its force an...
TREMENDOUSLY
TREMEN'DOUSLY, adverb In a manner to terrify or astonish; with great violence.
TREMENDOUSNESS
TREMEN'DOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being tremendous, terrible or violent.
TREMOLITE
TREM'OLITE, noun A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. It is classed by Hauy with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole gramma...
TREMOR
TRE'MOR, noun [Latin from tremo.] An involuntary trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm or old.He fell...
TREMULOUS
TREM'ULOUS, adjective [Latin tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.]1. Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling christian.2. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a trem...
TREMULOUSLY
TREM'ULOUSLY, adverb With quivering or trepidation.
TREMULOUSNESS
TREM'ULOUSNESS, noun The state of trembling or quivering; as the tremulousness of an aspen leaf.
TREN
TREN, noun A fish spear.
TRENCH
TRENCH, verb transitive1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word....
TRENCHANT
TRENCH'ANT, adjective Cutting; sharp. [Little used.]
TRENCHED
TRENCH'ED, participle passive Cut into long hollows or ditches; furrowed deep.
TRENCHER
TRENCH'ER, noun A wooden plate. Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution.1. The table.2. Food; pleasures of the table.It would be no ordi...
TRENCHER-FLY
TRENCH'ER-FLY, noun [trencher and fly.] One that haunts the tables of others; a parasite.
TRENCHER-FRIEND
TRENCH'ER-FRIEND, noun [trencher and friend.] One who frequents the tables of others; a spunger.
TRENCHER-MAN
TRENCH'ER-MAN, noun [trencher and man.]1. A feeder; a great eater.2. A cook.
TRENCHER-MATE
TRENCH'ER-MATE, noun [trencher and mate.] A table companion; a parasite.
TRENCHING
TRENCH'ING, participle present tense Cutting into trenches; digging; ditching.TRENCH'-PLOW, noun [trench and plow.] A kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that ...
TREND
TREND, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to trundle, or to run.]To run; to stretch; to tend; to have a particular direction; as, the shore of the sea trends to the...
TRENDER
TREND'ER, noun One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Local.]
TRENDING
TREND'ING, participle present tense Running; tending.1. Cleaning wool. [Local.]TREND'ING, noun The operation of freeing wool from filth of various kinds.
TRENDLE
TREN'DLE, noun Any thing round used in turning or rolling; a little wheel.