Tremendous (a.) Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.
Tremolando (a.) Same as Tremando.
Tremolite (n.) A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.
Tremolo (n.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
Tremolo (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.
Tremor (v.) A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
Tremulant (a.) Alt. of Tremulent
Tremulent (a.) Tremulous; trembling; shaking.
Tremulous (a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
Tremulous (a.) Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
Tren (n.) A fish spear.
Trenail (n.) Same as Treenail.
Trenched (imp. & p. p.) of Trench
Trenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trench
Trench (v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
Trench (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
Trench (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.
Trench (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.
Trench (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
Trench (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
Trench (v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
Trenchand (a.) Trenchant.
Trenchant (v. t.) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
Trenchant (v. t.) Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
Trenchantly (adv.) In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
Trencher (v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
Trencher (v. t.) A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
Trencher (v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
Trencher-men (pl. ) of Trencher-man
Trencher-man (n.) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
Trencher-man (n.) A cook.
Trencher-man (n.) A table companion; a trencher mate.
Trenchmore (n.) A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
Trenchmore (v. i.) To dance the trenchmore.
Trench-plow (v. t.) Alt. of Trench-plough
Trench-plough (v. t.) To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
Trended (imp. & p. p.) of Trend
Trending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trend
Trend (v. i.) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.
Trend (n.) Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
Trend (v. t.) To cleanse, as wool.
Trend (n.) Clean wool.
Trender (n.) One whose business is to free wool from its filth.
Trendle (v. i.) A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
Trental (n.) Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trenton period () A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
Trepan (n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Trepanned (imp. & p. p.) of Trepan
Trepanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trepan
Trepan (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
Trepan (n.) A snare; a trapan.
Trepan (n.) a deceiver; a cheat.
Trepan (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
Trepang (n.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
Trepanize (v. t.) To trepan.
Trepanner (n.) One who trepans.
Trepeget (n.) A trebuchet.
Trephine (n.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
Trephined (imp. & p. p.) of Trephine
Trephining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trephine
Trephine (v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Trepid (a.) Trembling; quaking.
Trepidation (n.) An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Trepidation (n.) Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
Trepidation (n.) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Trepidity (n.) Trepidation.
Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.
Tresor (n.) Treasure.
Trespassed (imp. & p. p.) of Trespass
Trespassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trespass
Trespass (v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
Trespass (v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
Trespass (v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
Trespass (v.) Any injury or offence done to another.
Trespass (v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
Trespass (v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
Trespass (v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.
Trespasser (n.) One who commits a trespass
Trespasser (n.) One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights.
Trespasser (n.) A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.
Tress (n.) A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Tress (n.) Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Tressed (a.) Having tresses.
Tressed (a.) Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
Tressel (n.) A trestle.
Tressful (a.) Tressy.
Tressure (n.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
Tressured (a.) Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
Tressy (a.) Abounding in tresses.
Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
Trestle (n.) The frame of a table.
Trestletree (n.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural.
Trestlework (n.) A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.