truckmaster (truk master)

An officer charged with the supervision of trade with the American Indians. Compare truck - house. IMG:content-0964.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0965.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In biol.: (a) Conforming or conformable to a type, norm, or standard of structure; typical: as, an amœba is a true animal; a canary is a true bird; the lion is a true cat; a frog or toad is not a true reptile. ( b ) Genuine; truebred; not hybrid or mongrel: as, a true merino sheep. Also used adverbially: as, to breed true.-6. Genuine; pure; real; not counterfeit, adulterated, false, or pretended. For vntrue praise neuer giueth any true reputation. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 22. Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit. Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 539. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, And teach that truth is truest poetry. Cowley. IMG:content-0966.png:[blocks in formation] truculently (tröʻkū-lent-li or truk'u-lent-li), adv. In a truculent manner; fiercely; destructively. Trudeau's tern. See tern1. trudgel (truj), v. i.; pret. and pp. trudged, ppr. trudging. [Formerly also tridge; origin obscure. Connection with tread, unle by confusion with drudgel, is impo ible. Skeat suggests as the prob. source Św. dial. trug a = Norw. trug a = Icel. thrūga, snow-shoe.] To make one's way on foot; walk; travel on foot; especially, to travel wearily or laboriously on foot. Thence dyd I trudge hoamward, too learne yf she haplye returned. Stan i hurst, Æneid, ii. Nay, if you fall to fainting, 'Tis time for me to trudge. Fletcher (and Mas singer ?), Lovers' Progre , i. 2. He was a faithful, affectionate, simple soul as ever trudged after the heels of a philosopher. Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 33. trudgel (truj), n. [ trudge1 , v.] A weary or laborious walk or tramp. [Colloq.] We set out for the two miles' trudge to Dought own. Arch. Forbes, in Eng. Illust. Mag., Aug., 1884, p. 698. trudge2+ (truj), n. [Abbr. of trudge man .] An interpreter. One thing said twice (as we say commonly) deserueth a trudge. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 137. trudgemant, n. See truchman . true (trö), a . [Early mod. E. also trew , trewe ; truwe , treue, trewe, tri we, treo we , treówe , try we (also getreówe , getrywe ) = OS. triuwi =OFries. triuwe = D. trouw =MLG. truwe, LG. trou = OHG. * triuwi , MHG. triuwe, G. treu (also OHG. gitriuwi , MHG. getriuwe , G. getreu ) = Icel. tryggr, trür = Sw. trogen = Dan. tro = Goth. triggws, true; from a root (Teut. V tru, Aryan ✓ dru ) seen also in trow1, trust, etc., and in Opru . druwi, druwis, faith, druwit, believe. Hence ult. true, n., truce, truth, troth, etc. Cf. also trowl, trust1, and trig.] 1. Conformable to fact; being in accordance with the actual state of things; not false, fictitious, or erroneous: as, a true story; a true statement. Sum Men seyn that the i ben Sepultures of grete Lordes, that weren somtyme; but that is not trewe. IMG:content-0967.png:[blocks in formation] Cham. Your only road now, sir, is York, York, sir. Green. True , but yet it comes scant of the prophecy: Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, i. 1.] 2. Conformable to reason or to established rules or custom; exact; just; accurate; correct. They were all illiterate men; the ablest of them could not write true English - no, not common words. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 175. Apelles drew A Circle regularly true . IMG:content-0968.png:[blocks in formation] ribs); the true pelvis (that part of the pelvis below the superior strait or iliopectineal line); a true corpus luteum (the complete corpus luteum of pregnancy, as distinguished from the same body unaffected by the result of conception).8. Free from falsehood; habitually speaking the truth; veracious; truthful. Master, we know that thou art true , and teach est the way of God in truth. Mat. xxii. 16. I am too plain and true to be suspected. Fletcher, Val ent in i an, iv. 2. 9. Firm or steady in adhering to promises, to friends, to one's principles, etc.; not fickle, false, or perfidious; faithful; constant; loyal. Ne noon may be trewe to hym-self but he first be trewe to God. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 55. Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle; Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty. There is no such Treasure as a true Friend. Shak ., Pa ionate Pilgrim, 1. 86. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 56. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, Prol. He had seen the path of duty plain before him. Through good and evil he was to be true to Church and king. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 10. Honest. A mercenary Jilt, and true to no Man. For why a trewe man, withouten drede, Hath nat to parten with a theves dede. Chaucer , Good Women, 1. 464. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 724. Rich preys make true men thieves. 11. Sure; unerring; unfailing. At first she appear'd in Rage and Disdain, the truest Sign of a coming Woman; But at last you prevail'd, it seems; did you not? Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iv. 1. Identically true. See identically . Out of true, not exact or true as to relation of lines or adjustment of parts. - To come true. See come. True apogee. See apogee, 1. True as toucht. See touch. True bill, in law, a bill of indictment indorsed by a grand jury, after inves tigation, as containing a well-founded accusation. True course, croup, discount, error, horizon, etc. course1, 5, croup i, etc. - True place of a star or planet, in astron., the place which a star or planet would be seen to occupy if the effects of refraction, parallax, aberration, and equation of light were removed, or the place which it would occupy if viewed from the earth's center, supposing the rays coming from it to move with infinite velocity and not to be subject to refraction. Sometimes only refraction and parallax are supposed removed.True suture, vein, etc. See the nouns. = Syn. 1. Veritable, actual. See reality. -8 and 9. Sincere, honorable. truet (trö), п. [ It. tregua = Sp. tregua = Pg. tregoa = Pr. tregua = OF. trive, trieve, F. tréve, a truce; cf. treague ); from the adj., AS. treówe, etc., true, faithful: see true, a. Hence the plural trues, now truce as a singular.] 1. Truth; fidelity.-2. Agreement; covenant; pledge. He seide that he yede to sec he trewys of the princes and the barouns from the kynge Arthur that the Saisnes myght be driven oute of the londe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 546. Leages and trues made by princes,. to the breache where of none excuse is sufficient. Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, iii. 6. 3. A temporary ce ation of war, according to agreement; respite from war; truce. See truce . In tyme of trewe on haukynge wolde he ryde. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1779. true trumeau Thanne shal Deth withdrawe, and Der the be justice, And Dawe the dyker deye for hunger, But if God of his goodne e graunt vs a trewe. Piers Plowman (B), vi. 332. He [Charles the Simple] therefore sente him [the Bishop of Rouen] an Amba ade to Rollo, to require a true or truse for iii. monthes. Fabyan , Chron. (ed. 1559), I. 227. true (trö), v . t.; pret. and pp. trued , ppr. truing . [ Be also intreated to have a continuall and conscientious care not to impeach the Parliament in the hearts one of another by whispering complaints, easilier told then tryed N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 81. or trued. 2. To make true in position, form, adjustment, or the like; give a right form to; adjust nicely; put a keen, fine, or smooth edge on; make exactly straight, square, plumb, level, or the like: a workmen's term. About six sizes of washed emery progre ively finer are employed for grinding the lenses to the true figure, or, as it is called, trueing the lens. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 162. true-blue (trö'blö'), a. and n. I. a. See true blue, under blue. too. IMG:content-0969.png:[blocks in formation] II. n. A person faithful to the principles or characteristics of a body or cla . Be merry, true - blue , be merry; thou art one of my friends Randolph, Hey for Honesty, ii. 3. "This gentleman"-here Jermyn made a slight backward movement of the head - "is one of ourselves; he is George Eliot , Felix Holt, xvii. a true blue ." Especially - (a) A Scotch Covenanter. (b) A British sailor; a man-of-war's-man. true-born (tröʻbôrn), a. Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title. Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, Though banish'd, yet a trueborn English man. Shak ., Rich. II., i. 3. 309. true-bred (trö'bred), a. 1. Of a genuine or recognized breed: as, a true - bred horse.-2. Of genuine breeding or education: as, a true -bred gentleman.