Lexicon: truly – trying

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truly, adv. [see true, adj.]

In fact; in deed; in reality.

trumpet (-s), n. [Fr.]

trundle, adj. [unknown]

Rolling; moving.

trunk, n. [Fr.]

trust (-s, -ed), v. [ON traust.]

  1. To be confident of something present or future.
  2. To place faith or confidence in; to rely on.
  3. To believe; to credit.
  4. To invest with a charge; to confide or entrust something to the care of; to place or allow (a person or thing) to be in a place or condition, or to do some action, with expectation of safety, or without fear of the consequences.
  5. Personification of trust.
  6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

trusting, adj. [see trust, v.]

Having confidence and faith in someone or something.

trusty, adj. [see trust, v.]

That may be safely trusted or relied upon; that justly deserves confidence; fit to be confided in because of faithfulness or reliability.

truth (-'s), n. [OE tríewþ.] (webplay: God, fidelity, opinion).

  1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.
  2. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness; true religious belief or doctrine; orthodoxy.
  3. True state of facts or things.
  4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth.
  5. The real thing, real fact or principle, as distinguished from an imitation.
  6. Sincerity.
  7. Fidelity; constancy.
  8. Correct opinion.

try (tried, tries, trying), v. [Fr.]

  1. To separate (one thing) from another, to distinguish; to extract to purify, to refine.
  2. To ascertain by search or examination.
  3. To test strength, goodness, value, truth or other quality; to prove.
  4. To test one's ability (for the first time).
  5. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to stretch forward.
  6. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment or test.
  7. To examine judicially by witnesses and principles of law.
  8. To essay; to attempt.
  9. To use as a means.
  10. To strain.

trying, n. [see try, v.]

  1. (Trying ppl. a.) That tries; that tests severly, that is a trial.
  2. Hard to bear or endure; severe; distressing; painful.