TRUCULENT
TRU'CULENT, adjective Fierce; savage; barbarous; as the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.1. Of a ferocious aspect.2. Cruel; destructive; as a truculent plague.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TRUDGE
TRUDGE, verb intransitive To travel on foot. The father rode; the son trudged on behind.1. To travel or march with labor.--And trudg'd to Rome upon my naked feet.
TRUE
TRUE, adjective1. Conformable to fact; being in accordance with the actual state of things; as a true relation or narration; a true history. A declaration is true when it states...
TRUEBORN
TRUEBORN, adjective [true and born.] Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as a true born Englishman.
TRUEBRED
TRUEBRED, adjective [true and bred.] Of a genuine or right breed; as a truebred beast.1. Being of genuine breeding or education; as a truebred gentleman.
TRUEHEARTED
TRUEHE'ARTED, adjective [true and heart.] Being of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as a truehearted friend.
TRUEHEARTEDNESS
TRUEHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Fidelity; loyalty; sincerity.
TRUELOVE
TRUELOVE, noun [true and love.] One really beloved.1. A plant, the herb Paris.
TRUELOVE-KNOT
TRUELOVE-KNOT, noun A knot composed of lines united with many involutions; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagements.
TRUENESS
TRUENESS, noun Faithfulness; sincerity.1. Reality; genuineness.2. Exactness; as the trueness of a line.
TRUEPENNY
TRUEPENNY, noun [true and penny.] A familiar phrase for an honest fellow.
TRUFFLE
TRUF'FLE, noun A subterraneous vegetable production, or a kind of mushroom, of a fleshy fungous structure and roundish figure; an esculent substance, much esteemed. It is of the...
TRUFFLE-WORM
TRUF'FLE-WORM, noun A worm found in truffles, the larva of a fly.
TRUG
TRUG, noun A hod. This is our trough and tray; the original pronunciation being retained in some parts of England. The word was also used formerly for a measure of wheat, as muc...
TRUISM
TRU'ISM, noun [from true.] An undoubted or self-evident truth.Trifling truisms clothed in great swelling words of vanity--
TRULL
TRULL, noun A low vagrant strumpet.
TRULLIZATION
TRULLIZA'TION, noun [Latin trullisso.] The laying of strata of plaster with a trowel.
TRULY
TRU'LY, adverb [from true.] In fact; in deed; in reality.1. According to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to see things truly; the facts are truly represented.2. Sincerely; ho...
TRUMP
TRUMP, noun1. A trumpet; a wind instrument of music; a poetical word used for trumpet. It is seldom used in prose, in common discourse; but is used in Scripture, where it seems ...
TRUMPERY
TRUMP'ERY, noun Falsehood; empty talk.1. Useless matter; things worn out and cast side.[This is the sense of the word in New England.]
TRUMPET
TRUMP'ET, noun1. A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises. It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships. There is a speaking trumpet and a...
TRUMPET-FISH
TRUMP'ET-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Centriscus, (C. scolopax;) called also the bellows fish.
TRUMPET-FLOWER
TRUMP'ET-FLOWER, noun A flower of the genus Bignonia, and another of the genus Lonicera.TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE, noun A plant of the genus Lonicera.
TRUMPET-SHELL
TRUMP'ET-SHELL, noun The name of a genus of univalvular shells, of the form of a trumpet, (Buccinum, Linne.)
TRUMPET-TONGUED
TRUMP'ET-TONGUED, adjective Having a tongue vociferous as a trumpet.
TRUMPETED
TRUMP'ETED, participle passive Sounded abroad; proclaimed.
TRUMPETER
TRUMP'ETER, noun One who sounds a trumpet.1. One who proclaims, publishes or denounces.These men are good trumpeters.2. A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of...