Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TREL'LIS-ED, a.

Having a trellis or trellises. Herbert.

TREM'BLE, v.i. [Fr. trembler; L. tremo; Gr. τρεμω; It. tremare; Sp. tremer.]

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden.
2. To shake; to quiver; to totter. Sinai's gray top shall tremble. Milton.
3. To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say the voice trembles.

TREM'BLE-MENT, n.

In French music, a trill or shake.

TREM'BLER, n.

One that trembles.

TREM'BLING, ppr.

Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering.

TREM'BLING-LY, adv.

So as to shake; with shivering or quaking. Tremblingly she stood. Shak.

TREM'BLING-POP-LAR, n.

The aspen-tree, so called;, Populus tremula.

TRE-MEL'LA, n.

A fungus of a gelatinous consistence; the name of a genus of fungi, found in moist grounds.

TRE-MEN'DOUS, a. [L. tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.]

1. Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful. Hence,
2. Violent; such as may astonish by its force and violence; as, a tremendous wind; tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall; a tremendous noise.

TRE-MEN'DOUS-LY, adv.

In a manner to terrify or astonish; with great violence.

TRE-MEN'DOUS-NESS, n.

The state or quality of being tremendous, terrible or violent.

TREM'O-LITE, n.

A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. It is classed by Haüy, with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole grammatite. It is of three kinds, asbestous, common, and glassy tremolite; all of a fibrous or radiated structure, and of a pearly color. Kirwan. Cyc. Tremolite is a subspecies of straight edged augite. Ure.

TRE'MOR, n. [L. from tremo.]

An involuntary trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm or old. He fell into a universal tremor. Harvey.

TREM'U-LOUS, a. [L. tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.]

Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as, a trembling Christian. Decay of Piety. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of this poplar. Holder. Thomson.

TREM'U-LOUS-LY, adv.

With quivering or trepidation.

TREM'U-LOUS-NESS, n.

The state of trembling or quivering; as, the tremulousness of an aspen leaf.

TREN, n.

A fish spear. Ainsworth.

TRENCH, n.

1. A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
2. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench, as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials. Hence the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, &c. To open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.

TRENCH, v.i.

To encroach. [See Entrench.]

TRENCH, v.t. [Fr. trancher, to cut; It. trincea, a trench; trinciare, to cut; Sp. trincar, trinchear; Arm. troucha; W. tryçu.]

1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]
2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.]
3. To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing.
4. To cut a long gash. [Not in use.] Shak.

TRENCHANT, a. [Fr. tranchant.]

Cutting; sharp. [Little used.] Spenser.

TRENCH'ED, pp.

Cut into long hollows or ditches; furrowed deep.

TRENCH'ER, n. [Fr. tranchoir.]

1. A wooden plate. Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution.
2. The table. Shak.
3. Food; pleasures of the table. It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers. South.

TRENCH'ER-FLY, n. [trencher and fly.]

One that haunts the tables of others; a parasite. L'Estrange.

TRENCH'ER-FRIEND, n. [trencher and friend.]

One who frequents the tables of others; a spunger.