tress1 (tres)

[ Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tre e Bihinde hir bak, a yerde long, I ge e. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 191. Behind her Neck her comely Tre es ty'd. Prior, Cloe Hunting. =Syn. 2 and 3. Trespa upon, Encroach upon, Intrench upon, Trench upon, Infringe upon, Intrude upon, Trans- gre . Trespa upon , though figurative, expre es generally the idea common to these words, that of unauthorized, im- proper, or undesirable coming upon ground not one's own. The order is e entially that of strength, and there is a cor- responding increase in the presumption that the offense is committed knowingly. To trespa upon another's rights is literally to step or pa acro the line of demarcation between his rights and ours. To encroach upon anything is to creep upon it to some extent, and often implies moving by stealth or by imperceptible degrees and occupying or keeping what one thus takes: the ocean may thus be said to encroach upon the land by wearing it away. To intrench upon , or latterly more often trench upon , is to cut into as a trench is lengthened or widened; it does not especially tre 2t, n. An obsolete form of trace . suggest, as does encroach upon , either slowne or stealth. tre 3, n . A dialectal variant of trest2 . Nazarite tre es. See Nazarite . - To braid St. Cathe- rine's tre es. See braid1 . tre 1 (tres), v . t . [ tre en , tre er = Pr. tre ar = Sp. trenzar = Pg. tran- çar = It. trecciare , plait in tre es; from the noun.] To furnish with or form into tre es: chiefly in the past participle used adjectively. A brow of pearl Tre ed with redolent ebony, In many a dark delicious curl. IMG:content-0832.jpg:[blocks in formation] -tre -tre . A termination of some feminine nouns. See -e (2).