truelove (troʻluv)

and a. [ "Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?" "I dined wi' my true - love."" Lord Randal (Child's Ballads, II. 249). 2. A plant of Europe and temperate Asia, Paris quadrifolia: so named because its four leaves are set together in the form of a heraldic truelove knot. Also herb - truelove. See herb - paris and Paris.-31. A condiment for sweetening the breath. Under his tonge a trewe - love he beer, For therby wende he to ben gracious. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 506. 4t. An ornament, probably shaped like a truelove knot. Fairholt. My lady gan me sodenly beholde, And with a trewe - love , plited many-folde, She smote me thrugh the harte as blive. Court of Love, 1. 1440. IMG:content-0970.png:[blocks in formation] true; truth; faithfulne ; sincerity; reality; trugmant, n. Same as truchman. genuinene ; exactne ; accuracy. Clariz iherde thes ille reuthe Of trewne e and of trew the. Say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny ? Shak ., Hamlet, i. 5. 150. Go, go thy ways, old True - penny ! thou hast but one fault: Thou art even too valiant. Fletcher , Loyal Subject, i. 3. truer (trö'er), n. A truing-tool. true-stitch (tröʻstich), n. Through-stitch: ap- plied to embroidery exactly alike on both sides of the foundation. Sister, i' faith, you take too much tobacco; It makes you black within, as you are without. What, true - stitch , sister! both your sides alike! Be of a slighter work; for, of my word, You shall be sold as dear, or rather dearer. hazard. [Scotch.] Be sure to truff his pocket-book.