| truss |
noun |
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. |
| trust |
noun |
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. |