Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
treaty |
noun |
The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation., An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance., A proposal tending to an agreement., A treatise; a tract. |
treble |
adjective |
Threefold; triple., Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound., Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice., Trebly; triply., The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano., To make thrice as much; to make threefold., To utter in a treble key; to whine., To become threefold. |
trebly |
adverb |
In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. |
trefle |
noun |
A species of time; — so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil., Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing. |
treget |
noun |
Guile; trickery. |
tremex |
noun |
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. |
tremor |
verb |
A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. |
trench |
verb t. |
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like., To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench., To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it., 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., To encroach; to intrench., To have direction; to aim or tend., A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land., An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like., 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. |
trepan |
noun |
A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine., A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts., 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., A snare; a trapan., a deceiver; a cheat., To insnare; to trap; to trapan. |
trepid |
adjective |
Trembling; quaking. |
tresor |
noun |
Treasure. |
tressy |
adjective |
Abounding in tresses. |
tretis |
noun |
Alt. of Tretys, Alt. of Tretys |
tretys |
noun |
A treatise; also, a treaty., Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. |
trevat |
noun |
A weaver’s cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet. |
trevet |
noun |
A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet. |
trewth |
noun |
Truth. |