trunk (trungk)

[ Lowe on the truncke as wounde him in the rynde, A lite humoure whenne oute of it is ronne, With chaved cley the wounde aye in to bynde. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 212. 2. In arch., the shaft of a column; the part between the base and the capital. The term is sometimes used to signify the die or body of a pedestal. See cut under column. - 3. The main part or stem of a branching organ or system of, organs, considered apart from its ramifications: as, the trunk of an artery, a vein, or a nerve; the trunk of a zoöphyte or coral. Also truncus. -4. The human body or that of an animal without the head and limbs, and, in animals, the tail, or considered apart from these; in literary use the boden entomology the trunk is the body exs the head, was used by the older entomologists in describing those insects which have the thorax closely united to the abdomen, as the beetles and gra hoppers. The trunk was said to be distinct when it was separated from the head. Some entomologists, following Fabric i us, restrict trunk to the thorax (in which sense also truncus). To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. 133. What new friend have I found, that dares deliver This loaden trunk from his afflictions? Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. 3. Now his troops Covered that earth they had fought on with their trunks . B. Jonson, Cat i line, v. 6. I'll hazard My head, I'll work the sensele trunk t' appear To him as it had got a second being. Mas singer , Duke of Milan, v. 2. 5. A receptacle with stiff sides and a hinged cover or upper part, used especially for carrying clothes, toilet articles, etc., for a journey. To lie like pawns locked up in chests and trunks. Shak ., K. John, v. 2. 141. Then for to show I make nae lie, Look ye my trunk , and ye will see. Lord Dingwall (Child's Ballads, I. 292). John soon after arrives with her trunks , and is installed in her school. W. M. Baker , New Timothy, p. 219. 6. In fishing, an iron hoop with a bag, used to catch crustaceans. E. H. Knight.-7. A tube of various kinds and uses. (at) A speaking-tube. This fellow waits on him now in tennis court socks, or slippers soled with wool: and they talk each to other in a trunk . B. Jonson, Epicæne, i. 1. Are there no trunks to convey secret voices? Shirley, Traitor, iii. 1. (bt) A telescope. Oh, by a trunk ! I know it, a thing no bigger than a flute-case: a neighbor of mine, a spectacle-maker, has drawn the moon through it at the bore of a whistle, and made it as great as a drum-head twenty times, and brought it within the length of this room to me, I know not how often. B. Jonson, World in the Moon. (ct) A pea or bean-shooter; a long tube through which peas, pellets, etc., were driven by the force of the breath. While he shot sugar-plums at them out of a trunk which they were to take up. Howell, Letters, I. iii. 37. In a shooting trunk , the longer it is, to a certain limit, the swifter and more forcibly the air drives the pellet. Ray . (d) A boxed pa age for air to or from a blast-apparatus or blowing-engine; an air-shaft. (e) A boxed pa age up or down which grain or flour is conveyed in an elevator or mill. (f) A box-tube used to send attle or rubbish out of a mine, or to convey coal to a wagon or heap, broken quartz from a mill to the stamps, etc. (g) A long, narrow trough which was formerly used in Cornwall in dre ing copper and tin-slimes. (h) A wooden box or pipe of square section in which air is conveyed in a mine. [Bristol, Eng., coal-field.] (1) A kibble. [Yorkshire, Eng.] 8. A trough to convey water from a race to a water-wheel, etc.; a flume; a penstock.-9. In trunk-engines, a section of pipe attached to a piston and moving longitudinally with it, its diameter being sufficient to allow one end of the connecting-rod to be attached to the crank and the other end directly to the piston, thus dispensing with an intermediate rod: used in marine engines for driving propellers, also in some stationary steam-engines, and extensively in caloric engines.-10. A proboscis; a long snout; especially, the proboscis of the elephant; le frequently, the proboscis of other animals, as butterflies, flies, mosquitos and other gnats, and certain mollusks and worms. See the applications of proboscis.-11. pl. Trunk-hose. He look'd, in his old velvet trunks And his slic'd Spanish jerkin, like Don John. trunk-light (trungk'lit), n. A skylight placed over a trunk, or boxed shaft. trunk-line (trungk'lin), n. The main line, as of a railway or canal, from which branch-lines diverge. trunkmailt (trungk'māl), n. Same as trunk , 5. Sometimes trunk male. Scott , Monastery, xv. trunk-nail (trungk'nāl), n. A nail with a large, ornamental, convex head, used for trunks and for cheap coffins. trunk-road (trungk'rōd), п. A highway; a main road. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary fibers of fur from the picker to the cone. H. Knight.-13. pl . Same as troll- madam or pigeonholes. Cotgrave , 1611. trunk (trungk), v. t . [ trunken , tronquer Sp. Pg. troncar , truncar =It. tron- care, truncare, L. truncare , lop, maim, muti- late, truncus , lopped, maimed: see trunk , and cf. truncate.] 1. To lop off; curtail; truncate. Englebourne was situated on no trunk road . You might haue tru 'd him and all his Apparell into an T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, II. xxiii. Eele-skinne. Shak., 2 Hen. IV. (folio 1623), iii. 2. 350. which a part, usually that covering the upper arm, is puffed or made very full and stiff: so called from analogy with trunk -hose. Tai . [Reads.] "With a trunk sleeve :" Gru. I confe two sleeves. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. 142. trunk-stay (trungk'stā), n . A trunk brace. trunk-turtle (trungk'ter"tl), n. 1. A species of tortoise, Testudo arcuata .-2. The leather- back, Dermochelys (or Sphargis ) coriaceus . See cut under leatherback . Work involv- trunk-workt (trungk'werk), n . ing concealment or secrecy, as by means of a This has been some stair-work, some trunk - work , some behind-door work. Shak ., W. T., iii. 3. 75. or leatherback. See cut under leatherback . trunk-bearer (trungkʼbar"ėr), n. Any probos- cidiferous gastropod. P. P. Carpenter . trunk-brace (trungk'brās), n . One of the straps or tapes which support the lid of a trunk when trunnel2 (trun'el), n. A variant of treenail . raised, and prevent it from falling backward. trunk-breeches (trungk'brich"ez), n . pl . Same as trunk -hose. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 321. trunk-cabin (trungk'kab in), n. Naut ., a cabin partly below and partly above the spar- deck. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 165. Enter Allwit in one of Sir Walter's suits, and Davy tru - ing him. Middle ton , Chaste Maid, ii. 3. 4. To seize and hold firmly; seize and carry trunnellt, n. An obsolete variant of trundle. trunnion (trun'yon), n. [OF. trognon , tronoff: said especially of birds of prey. IMG:content-0989.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. In her.: (a) Having a trunk: used only when the trunk is of a different tincture from the rest of the bearing: as, a tree vert trunked azure. (b) Couped of all its branches and roots-that is, having them cut short so as to show only stumps. (c) Same as caboshed . - 3. Truncated; beheaded. The truncked beast fast bleeding did him fowly dight. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 4. trunk-engine (trungk'en"jin), n . See engine . trunk-fish (trungk'fish), n. Any ostraciont. trunkful (trungk'ful), n. [ trunk + -ful .] As covered the limbs; hence, a garment covering the person from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, and shaped like a bag through which the legs are thrust, the whole being usu- ally made wide and full. The short Trunk - Hose shall show thy Foot and Knee Licentious, and to common Eye-sight free. Prior, Henry and Emma. gnon, the trunk or stump of a tree, F. trognon , a stump, stalk, core, tronc , tron , a stock, trunk: see trunk , and cf. truncheon. The F. word for 'trunnion' is tour ill on .] 1. One of the cylin- drical projections on the sides of a cannon, cast or forged in one piece with the cannon itself, which support it on its carriage. In the United States artillery service the diameter of the trunnion in smooth-bore guns has generally been equal to the diame- ter of the bore. See cut under howitzer . 2. In steam-engines, a hollow gudgeon on each side of an oscillating cylinder, which the cylinder, and through which steam is re- ceived and exhausted. trunnioned (trun'yond), a. [ trunnion-lathe (trun'yon-lāh), n. A lathe especially designed for forming the trunnions of ordnance or of oscillating cylinders. E. H. Knight. trunnion-plate (trun'yon-plat), n. 1. A raised rim forming a shoulder around the trunnion on the side of the gun.-2. A plate of iron cover- ing the top of a wooden gun-carriage on each side, and carried down into the rece for the trunnion so as to take the weight of the gun, and prevent it from crushing the wood. See trunnion-ring (trun'yon-ring), n . In old-fash- ioned cannon, a ring cast solid with the piece and near the trunnions, usually between them and the muzzle. See cut under cannon. trunnion-sight (trun'yon-sit), n. A front sight placed on the rimbase of a cannon. A lug is usually left on the curved surface to form a base for the sight. trunnion-valve (trun'yon-valv), n. A valve attached to or included in the trunnions of an oscillating-cylinder steam-engine so as to be reciprocated by the motions of the cylinder. Trupialis (trö-pi-ā'lis), n . [NL. (Bonaparte, 1850, after Merrem, 1826), troupiale : see troopial.] A genus of Neo tropical Icteridæ , of the subfamily Sturnellinæ , and very near Stur- nella itself, as T. militar is . These birds closely re- semble the common field-larks or meadow-starlings of the United States, but have a bricky-red color on the parts which are yellow in the latter. The name was originally an exact synonym of Agelæus ; in its present sense it is synonymous with Leistes . trusht, v. An obsolete form of tru . trusion (trö'zhon), n. [As if trusio (n-), trudere , pp. trusus , push: see threat . Cf. intru- sion.] The act of pushing or thrusting. [Now rare.] Engines and machines work by trusion or pulsion. Cudworth , Intellectual System, v. § 5. By attraction we do not here understand what is im- properly, though vulgarly, called so in the operations of drawing, sucking, pumping, ., which is really pulsion and trusion . Bentley, Boyle Lectures, Sermon vii. tro en, tru er , tro er , trou er , torser , F. trou er = Pr. tro ar = Sp. troxar , pack, bind, The Jury such, the Judge unjust: Sentence was said I should be tru t. I have been provost-marshal twenty years, And have tru 'd up a you sand of these rascals. 7. In building , to furnish with a tru ; suspend or support by a tru .-8t. To drive off; rout. The Brehaignons went out thaim faste tru ing , Wheroff Brehaigne was astoned sore, And diffendyd thaim febly euermore. He has nouzwher wel-come for his mony tales, Bote ouur-al i-hunted and hote [ordered] to tru e. Piers Plowman (A), ii. 194. tru (trus), n. [ tro e , G. tro , trou e = Pr. tro a = Sp. troja = Pg. trouxa , a bundle, pack; from the verb.] 1. A bundle; pack. Undir his hede no pilowe was, But in the stede a tru e of gras. IMG:content-0990.png:[graphic][merged small] He took his tru and came away with them in the boat. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 376. Specifically-2. A bundle of hay or straw. (a) A quantity of hay tied together, and having a definite weight, usually stated at 50 pounds, but, according to a statute of George III., 56 pounds of old hay or 60 pounds of new. Statutes of George II. legalized local tru es of 36 pounds in London and 7 pounds in Bristol. (b) A bunch of straw tied together, and generally stated at 36 pounds, which is, however, merely the London tru of hay. (c) A quantity of hay cut by a special knife out of the ma of a haystack, approximately cubical in form. 3. In hort ., a compact terminal flower-cluster of any kind, as an umbel, corymb, or spike.- 4. In surg ., an appliance consisting of a belt or an elastic steel spring encircling the body, to which is attached a pad, used in cases of rup- ture to hinder the descent of the parts, or to prevent an increase in size of an irreducible hernia.-5. A garment worn in the sixteenth century and previously: probably so called from being laced closely to the person. Thus put he on his arming tru , fair shoes upon his feet, About him a mandilion. Chapman , Iliad, x. 119. tru babies and apes coates, others straight tru es and diuells breeches, some gally gascoynes, or a shipmans hose. Nashe, Pierce Penile e, p. 20. Gasp . Canst be close? Gorg. As.. a pair of tru es to an Irish man's buttocks. Shirley, Love Tricks, i. 1. 7. In building, a stiff frame; a combination of timbers, of iron parts, or of timbers and ironwork, so arranged as to constitute an unyielding frame. The simplest example of a tru is the prin, main couple roof cuts under roof1 and queen - post ), in which the tie-beam is suspended in the middle by the king-post to the apex of the angle formed by the meeting of the rafters. The feet of the rafters being tied together by the beam, and being thus incapable of yielding in the direction of their length, their apex becomes a fixed point, to which the beam is tru ed or tied up to prevent its sagging, and to prevent the rafters from sagging struts are inserted. There are other forms of tru suited to different purposes, but the conditions are the same in all namely, the establishing of fixed points to which the tiebeam is tru ed. Two points of attachment are sometimes substituted for the single one, and two suspending posts are required; these are called queen - posts, and the tru is called a queen -post tru . The principle of the tru is of very wide application in bridge building. Tru es of var i8. In arch., a large corbel or modillion supporting a mural monument or any object projecting from the face of a wall. See cro et, 1 (a), with cut.-9. In ship - building, a short piece of carved work fitted under the taffrail: chiefly used in small ships.-10. A heavy iron fitting by which the lower yards of ve els are secured to the lower mast and on which they swing. Formerly yards were kept in place by tru es of rope which pa ed round the yard and mast and were kept taut by tru tackles which were hooked to the tru -pendants.Howe tru , a beam-tru having its oblique members in compre ion and with vertical tie-rods. The counter forms are used iron-construction. IMG:content-0991.png:[blocks in formation] braces pa between the main obliques. - Linville tru , a beam-tru of which the web-members are composed of vertical posts and diagonal rods or bars extending from the head of one post to the foot of the second post beyond. - McCallum inflexible arch-tru , a beam-tru with an arched upper chord, and inclined struts extending from it to the abutment end of the lower chord. It has posts and diagonals, the distance between the former diminishing from the middle toward the ends. See fifth cut under bridge1.-Mocmain tru . See mocmain. - Pratt tru , a beam-tru having vertical posts and inclined tension-members. See fig. a, above. - Rider tru . See rider. Tru -arch bridge. See tru ed -arch bridge, under bridgel. tru (trus), a. [ The tiger-cat is about the bigne of a bull-dog, with short legs, and a tru body, shaped much like a mastiff. Dampier , Voyages, an. 1676.