Truck (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
Truck (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
Truckage (n.) The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.
Truckage (n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
Trucker (n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.
Trucking (n.) The business of conveying goods on trucks.
Truckle (n.) A small wheel or caster.
Truckle (v. i.) To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
Truckled (imp. & p. p.) of Truckle
Truckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truckle
Truckle (v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
Truckle-bed (n.) A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.
Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Truckmen (pl. ) of Truckman
Truckman (n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
Truckman (n.) One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
Truculence (n.) Alt. of Truculency
Truculency (n.) The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
Truculent (a.) Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Truculent (a.) Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
Truculently (adv.) In a truculent manner.
Trudged (imp. & p. p.) of Trudge
Trudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trudge
Trudge (v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
Trudgeman (n.) A truchman.
True (n.) Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
True (n.) Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
True (n.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
True (adv.) In accordance with truth; truly.
True-blue (a.) Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; -- a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.
True-blue (n.) A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
True-born (a.) Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.
True-bred (a.) Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.
True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman.
True-hearted (a.) Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.
Truelove (n.) One really beloved.
Truelove (n.) A plant. See Paris.
Truelove (n.) An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
Trueness (n.) The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.
True-penny (n.) An honest fellow.
Truffle (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Truffled (a.) Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.
Trug (n.) A trough, or tray.
Trug (n.) A hod for mortar.
Trug (n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Trug (n.) A concubine; a harlot.
Trugging-house (n.) A brothel.
Truism (n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Truismatic (a.) Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.
Trull (n.) A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
Trull (n.) A girl; a wench; a lass.
Trullization (n.) The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
Truly (adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
Truly (adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
Truly (adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
Truly (adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.
Trump (n.) A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
Trump (v. i.) To blow a trumpet.
Trump (n.) A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.
Trump (n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
Trump (n.) A good fellow; an excellent person.
Trumped (imp. & p. p.) of Trump
Trumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trump
Trump (v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Trump (v. t.) To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
Trump (v. t.) To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
Trump (v. t.) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.
Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
Trumpery (a.) Worthless or deceptive in character.
Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
Trumpet (n.) A trumpeter.
Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
Trumpet (n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
Trumpeted (imp. & p. p.) of Trumpet
Trumpeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trumpet
Trumpet (v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
Trumpet (v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
Trumpeter (n.) One who sounds a trumpet.
Trumpeter (n.) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
Trumpeter (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
Trumpeter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Trumpeter (n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
Trumpeter (n.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
Trumpets (n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
Trumpet-shaped (a.) Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
Trumpet-tongued (a.) Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
Trumpetweed (n.) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
Trumpetweed (n.) The sea trumpet.
Trumpetwood (n.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
Trumpie (n.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
Trumplike (a.) Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice.
Truncal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.
Truncated (imp. & p. p.) of Truncate
Truncating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truncate
Truncate (v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Truncate (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.