truncal

[Lat. truncus =the trunk; English adj. suff. -al.] Pertaining to the trunk or body. trun-cär-I-a, s. [Mod. Lat., from Lat. truncus =maimed.] Zool. & Palæont.: A genus of Buccinidae, with five species, from sub-tropical seas. Erected for species of Buccinum with a truncated columella. Fo il in the Eocene. trun-cāte, v. t. [TRUNCATE, a.] To shorten by cutting abruptly; to lop; to cut short. trun-cāte, adj . [Latin truncatus , pa. par. of trunco =to cut off, to reduce to a trunk; truncus =a trunk, a stock.] [TRUNK.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Cut short; truncated. 2. Bot .: Terminating very abruptly, as if a piece had been cut off, as the leaf of the Tulip-tree (q. v.). trun-cat-ěd, pa . par . & a. [TRUNCATE, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : I. Ord. Language : Cut off short or abruptly. "Those who wear any thing on their heads, resembled, in this respect, our friends at Nootka; having high truncated conic caps, made of straw, and sometimes of wood, resembling a seal's head well painted."Cook: Third Voyage , bk. iv., ch. v. II. Technically : Truncated Leaf of Tulip-tree. 1. Min . ( of a crystal): Having a plane surface where a solid angle might theoretically have been expected. But the term truncated suggests an erroneous idea; the solid angle has not been cut off; it never existed. 2. Zool .: The same as DECOLLATED (q. v.). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; culum shelly, with erect radiating lamelle; aper Hospital.) ture of shell ovate; last whorl separate, peristome continuous, expanded. Widely distributed on shores and seaweed between tide-marks, and can survive many weeks out of water. They walk like the Geometric caterpillars, by contracting the space between their lip and foot. They are found semi-fo il, along with human skeletons, in the modern limestone of Guadaloupe. ( Woodward .) trun-ca-tion, subst . [Fr. tronc at i on , from Lat. truncationem , acc us. of truncatio , from truncatus , pa. par. of trunco =to truncate (q. v.).] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of truncating, or of cutting short; the act of cutting off. "Decreeing judgment of death or truncation of members."-Prynne: Huntley's Breviate , p. 48. Truncation of a volcanic cone : [CONE, 8. II. 4.] trun-cā-ti-pěn-næ, s. pl . [Latin truncatus = cut short, and pl. of penna =a feather, pl. a wing.] Entom.: A subdivision of the family Car abide, comprehending those which have the wing cases truncated at their apex. It includes many subfamilies, one of the most notable being the Brach i nine. [ARTILLERY-BEETLE.] trunch, s. [O. Fr. tronc he, from tronc =a trunk (q. v.).] A stake or small post. trun-che on, *tron-chi on, *tron-chon, *tronchoun, *trun-chi on, s . [O. Fr. trons on, tronchon =a truncheon, or little trunk; Fr. tronçon , dim. from tronc =a trunk, stock, or stem.] [TRUNK.] *1. A trunk of a tree. "And the bow is grewen out of stock is or tronchons , and the tronchons or schaftis grewen out of the roote."Pecock, in Water land: Works , x. 246. *2. The shaft of a broken spear. "And the spere brake, and the tronc hi on stacke styll in the squires necke, who was with that stroke wounded to dethe." Berners: Froi art: Cronycie, vol. i., ch. ccclxxiv. *3. A shaft of a spear; a pole. "A fancied mo -trooper, the boy The truncheon of a spear bestrode." Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, i. 19. 4. A short staff; a club, a cudgel. "Thy hand is but a finger to my fist, Thy leg a stick, compared with this truncheon." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II ., iv. 10. 5. A baton or staff of authority. "Attendant on a king-at-arms, Whose hand the armorial truncheon held, That feudal strife had often quelled." Scott: Marmion, iv. 6. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia trundle