trugging

[TRUG.] (See compound.) 4206 trû-ism, s. [Eng. tru(e); -ism.) An undoubted or self-evident truth. "It has become almost a truism , and needs scarcely to be stated, certainly not to be proved."-Rhys Davids: Hibbert Lectures (1881), p. 3. *tru-Is-mat-Ic, a. [Eng. truism; -atic.] Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms. *trŭll, *trul, s. [Ger. trolle , trulle a trull. The original sense was a merry or droll companion; O. Dut. drol=a jester; Dan. trold ; Sw. & Icel. troll =a merry elf.] [DROLL.] 1. A la , a girl, a wench. 2. A low strumpet; a drab, a trollop. "To make the world distinguish Julia's son, From the vile offspring of a trull, who sits By the town wall." Stepney: Juvenal , viii. trull, v. t. [A contract. of trundle.] To trundle, to roll. (Prov.)