Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRUTH-FUL-LY, adv.

In a truthful manner.

TRUTH-FUL-NESS, n.

The state of being true, or the truth.

TRUTH-LESS, a.

1. Wanting truth; wanting reality.
2. Faithless. Fuller.

TRUTH-LESS-NESS, n.

The state of being truthless.

TRUTH-SPEAK-ING, a.

Uttering truth.

TRUTH-TEL-LER, n.

One who tells the truth.

TRU-TI-NA'TION, n. [L. trutina, a balance; trutinor, to weigh.]

The act of weighing. [Not used.] Brown.

TRUT-TA'CEOUS, a. [from L. trutta, trout.]

Pertaining to the trout; as, fish of the truttaceous genus. Dict. Nat. Hist.

TRY, v.i. [This word is from the root of Dan. trekker, to draw, or trykker, Sw. trycka, to press, to urge; trachta, to seek or strive to obtain; D. tragten, to endeavor; Dan. tragter, id. The primary sense of all these words is to strain, to use effort, to stretch forward.]

To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]

TRY, v.t.

1. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak.
2. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold. Dryden.
3. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.
4. To act upon as a test. The fire sev'n times tried this. Shak.
5. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as, causes tried in court.
6. To essay; to attempt. Let us try advent'rous work. Milton.
7. To purify; to refine; as, silver seven times tried.
8. To search carefully into. Ps. xi.
9. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.
10. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word. To try on, to put on a garment to see if it fits the person. To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes. To try out, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.

TRY'GON, n. [Gr. τρυγὼν, a sort of fish.]

The name of a genus of fishes, to which the sting-ray belongs.

TRY'ING, ppr.

1. Exerting strength; attempting.
2. Examining by searching or comparison with a test; proving; using; straining, &c.
3. adj. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial.

TRY'-SAIL, n.

A sail used by a ship in a storm; literally the strain-sail.

TUB, n. [D. tobbe; G. zuber; Gaelie, tubag.]

1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading and hoops used for various domestic purposes, as for washing, for making cheese, &c.
2. A state of salivation; so called because the patient was formerly sweated in a tub. [Not in use.] Shak.
3. A certain quantity; as, a tub of tea, which is 60 pounds; a tub of camphor, from 56 to 80 pounds; a tub of vermilion, from 300 to 400 pounds. [Local.] Cyc.
4. A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather.
5. A small cask.

TUB, v.t.

To plant or set in a tub.

TUB'BER, n.

In Cornwall, a mining instrument called in other places a beele. The man who uses this tool is called tubber-man or beel-man. Cyc.

TUB'BING, ppr.

Setting in a tub.

TUB'BY, a. [from tub.]

Wanting elasticity of sound; a term in music. [1841 Addenda usage comment says Miserable.]

TUBE, n. [Fr. tube; L. tubus.]

1. A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes.
2. A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
3. In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed-to the receptacle. Martyn.
4. In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing. Cyc.

TUBE, v.t.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. Journ. of Science

TUB-ED, pp.

Furnished with a tube.

TUBE-FORM, a.

In the form of a tube.

TU'BER, n.

In botany, a knob in roots, solid, with the component parts all similar. Martyn.

TU'BER-CLE, n. [Fr. tubercule, from L. tuberculum, from tuber, a bunch.]

1. A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on anima bodies.
2. A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification. Martyn.

TU-BER'CU-LAR, or TU-BERCU-LOUS, a.

1. Full of knobs or pimples. Fourcroy
2. Affected with tubercles. Journ. of Science.