AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
true: 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.-right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.-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.-actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true christian.-in accordance with truth; truly.
true-blue: 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.-a person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
true-born: of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born englishman.
true-bred: of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.-being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman.
true-hearted: of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.
truelove: one really beloved.-a plant. see paris.-an unexplained word occurring in chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
trueness: the quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.
truffle: 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: provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.
trug: a trough, or tray.-a hod for mortar.-an old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.-a concubine; a harlot.
truism: an undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
trull: a drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.-a girl; a wench; a lass.
truly: in a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.-exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.-sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.-conformably to law; legally; legitimately.-in fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.
trump: a wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in scripture and poetry.-to blow a trumpet.-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.-an old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.-a good fellow; an excellent person.-to play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.-to play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.-to trick, or impose on; to deceive.-to impose unfairly; to palm off.
trumpery: deceit; fraud.-something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.-worthless or deceptive in character.
trumpet: 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.-a trumpeter.-one who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.-a funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.-to publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.-to sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
trumpet-shaped: tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
trumpeter: one who sounds a trumpet.-one who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.-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.-a variety of the domestic pigeon.-an american swan (olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.-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.
trumpetweed: an herbaceous composite plant (eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.-the sea trumpet.
trumpetwood: 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.
truncate: to cut off; to lop; to maim.-appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
truncated: of truncate-cut off; cut short; maimed.-replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.-lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
truncation: the act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.-the state of being truncated.-the replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.
truncheon: a short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.-a baton, or military staff of command.-a stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.-to beat with a truncheon.
trundle: a round body; a little wheel.-a lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.-a motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.-a lantern wheel. see under lantern.-one of the bars of a lantern wheel.-to roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.-to cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.-to go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.-to roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
trundle-bed: a low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels.
trundlehead: one of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.-the drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
trundletail: a round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.
trunk: the stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.-the body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.-the main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.-that part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.-that segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.-the proboscis of an elephant.-the proboscis of an insect.-a long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.-a box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.-a flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.-a large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.-a long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.-to lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.-to extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. see trunk, n., 9.
trunkfish: any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus ostracion, or the family ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
trunnion: a cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. see illust. of cannon.-a gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. it is usually tubular, to convey steam.
trunnioned: provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
truss: a bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.-a padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.-a bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.-a tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.-the rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.-an assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.-to bind or pack close; to make into a truss.-to take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.-to strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.-to skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.-to execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
trussing: of truss-the timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.-the art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.-the act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
trust: assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.-credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.-assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.-that which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.-the condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.-that upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.-an estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.-an organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.-held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.-to place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.-to give credence to; to believe; to credit.-to hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.-to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.-to commit, as to one's care; to intrust.-to give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.-to risk; to venture confidently.-to have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.-to be confident, as of something future; to hope.-to sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
trustee: a person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.-to commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.-to attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
truster: one who trusts, or credits.-one who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee.
trustful: full of trust; trusting.-worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.
trusting: of trust-having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.
trusty: admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.-hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.-involving trust; as, a trusty business.
truth: the quality or being true; as: -- (a) conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.-conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.-fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.-the practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.-that which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.-a true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.-righteousness; true religion.-to assert as true; to declare.
truthless: devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.
truttaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.
try: to divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.-to purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.-to prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.-to subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.-to experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.-to strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.-to examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.-to settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.-to experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.-to essay; to attempt; to endeavor.-to exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.-to do; to fare; as, how do you try!-a screen, or sieve, for grain.-act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.-refined; select; excellent; choice.
try-square: an instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.
trygon: any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to trygon and allied genera.
trying: of try-adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.
trypsin: a proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
trypsinogen: the antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
tryptic: relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
tryptone: the peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.
trysail: a fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. called also spencer.
tryst: trust.-an appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.-to trust.-to agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.-to mutually agree to meet at a certain place.
tschego: a west african anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. it is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.
tsetse: a venomous two-winged african fly (glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. it renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.
tub: an open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.-the amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.-any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.-a sweating in a tub; a tub fast.-a small cask; as, a tub of gin.-a box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.-to plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.-to make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
tuba: an ancient trumpet.-a sax-tuba. see sax-tuba.
tubal: of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
tubbing: of tub-the forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.-a lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.
tubby: resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
tube: a hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.-a telescope.-a vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.-the narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.-a priming tube, or friction primer. see under priming, and friction.-a small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.-a more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. see illust. of tubeworm.-one of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.-to furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
tube-nosed: having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.-belonging to the tubinares.
tube-shell: any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
tuber: a fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. see illust. of tuberous.-a genus of fungi. see truffle.-a tuberosity; a tubercle.
tubercle: a small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.-a small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. this is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. it is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.
tubercled: having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.
tubercular: having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.-like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.-characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
tuberculin: a fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
tuberculosis: a constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.
tuberose: a plant (polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. it is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.-tuberous.
tuberosity: the state of being tuberous.-an obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
tuberous: covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.-consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.
tubeworm: any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the tubicolae.
tubfish: the sapphirine gurnard (trigla hirundo). see illust. under gurnard.
tubicolae: a division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. the head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. called also sedentaria, and capitibranchiata. see serpula, and sabella.
tubicorn: any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
tubinares: a tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
tubing: of tube-the act of making tubes.-a series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
tubipora: a genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. these corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. they are natives of the tropical parts of the indian and pacific oceans.
tubiporite: any fossil coral of the genus syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
tubman: one of the two most experienced barristers in the court of exchequer.  cf. postman, 2.
tubular: having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
tubularia: a genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. the gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
tubularian: any hydroid belonging to the suborder tubularida.-of or pertaining to the tubularians.
tubularida: an extensive division of hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also athecata, gymnoblastea, and tubulariae.
tubulated: made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.
tubulation: the act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort.
tubule: a small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.-a minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
tubulibranchiata: a group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. vermetus is an example.
tubulidentate: having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.