truing tool

A device for truing the face of a grindstone, or any other surface for which it may be adapted. trû-ish, a. [Eng. tru(e); -ish.] Somewhat or approximately true. trump (1), v. t. & i. [TRUMP (1), 8. ] A. Trans .: In card-playing, to take with a trump; to play a trump card on in order to win, or in accordance with the rules of the game. "Z has shown weakne in trumps by trumping the spade."- Field , Jan. 2, 1886. B. In trans.: To play a trump card when another suit has been led. trumpet *trump (2), *trompe, *trumpe, v.i. [TRUMP (2), 8.] To play upon a trump or trumpet; to blow or sound a trumpet. "And the firste aungell trumpide [clanxit], and hail was maad."- Wycliffe : Apocalips viii. trump (3), v . t. [Fr. tromper =to deceive; orig., to play on a trump or trumpet, whence the phrase se tromper de quelqu'un to play with any one, to amuse one's self at another's expense; Fr. trompe = a trump (q. v.).] *1. To trick or impose upon; to deceive, to cozen, to cheat. IMG:content-1493.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Things worn out and of no value; usele matter; rubbish. "What a world of fopperies there are, of cro es, of candles, of holy water, and salt, and censings! Away with these trumperies." -Bp. Hall: Sermon at Exeter, August, 1637. B. As adj .: Trifling, worthle , usele ; not worth notice. "Through the gate on to the road, over the trumpery gap staring you full in the face."- Field , Dec. 26, 1885. trăm-pět, s . [Fr. trompette ; dim in. of trompe = a trump; Span. trompeta : Ital. trombetta ; Dut. & Dan.trompet ; Sw.trumpet ; Ger.trompete .] [TRUMP (2), 8.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. 1. *2. A trumpeter. "He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pa ." -Clarendon: Civil War. 3. One who praises or publishes praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. ( Colloq .) "To be the trumpet of his own virtues." Shakesp.: Much Ado , v. 2. 4. An ear-trumpet (q. v.). 5. A speaking-trumpet (q. v.). II. Technically: 1. Music: (1) A metal wind instrument of bright and penetrating tone, formed of a single tube of bra or silver, curved into a convenient shape, with a mouthpiece at one end, the other having a bell. Its part is usually written in the key of c with the treble clef, though by means of crooks or lengthening pieces the sounds produced may be in various keys. Orchestral Trumpet. The trumpet required for a piece is indicated at the commencement, as trumpet in B, C. D flat, E, F, or G. The modern orchestral or slide trumpet consists of a tube 664 inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in diameter. It is twice turned or curved, thus forming three lengths; the first and third lying Valve Trumpet. "Something that seems truish and newish."-Gauden: Tears of the Church , p. 198. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, IMG:content-1494.png:[blocks in formation] (2) A stop of an organ having reed-pipes tuned in unison with the open diapason. The octave-trumpet or clarion stop is an octave higher. 2. Rail .: The flaring mouth of a railway-car draw head which directs the entering coupling-link. 3. Spinning : (1) The funnel which leads a sliver to the cylinders of a drawing-machine, or which collects a number of combined rovings, and leads them to condensing cylinders. (2) A funnel-shaped conductor used in many forms of thread-machines and stop-motions in knit ting, spinning, and doubling machines. Feast trumpets : Jewish Antiquity: A feast on the first day of the seventh month ( Tisri ), which was to be kept as "a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation." No servile work was to be done in it; but an offering of fire was to be presented to Jehovah (Lev. xxiii. 23-25). It preceded by ten days the Great Day of Atonement (27). In Numbers (xxix. 1-6), details are added as to the "offering of fire," which was to include a burnt offering, a meat offering, and a sin offering. The first of Tieri was New Year's Day of the civil year. It is still observed as a Jewish festival.