Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRUNC'AL, a.

Pertaining to the trunk or body.

TRUNC'ATE, a.

In botany, appearing as if cut off at the tip; ending in a transverse line; as, a truncate leaf. Martyn.

TRUNC'ATE, v.t. [L. trunco, to cut off; W. tryçu, Arm. troucha; coinciding with Fr. trancher.]

To cut off; to lop; to maim.

TRUNC'A-TED, pp.

1. Cut off; cut short; maimed. A truncated cone is one whose vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to its base.
2. Appearing as if cut off; plane; having no edge; as a mineral substance. Phillips.

TRUNC'A-TING, ppr.

Cutting off.

TRUNC-A'TION, n.

1. The act of lopping or cutting off.
2. A state of being truncated.

TRUN'CHEON, n. [Fr. tronçon, from tronc, trunk, L. truncus.]

A short staff; a club; a cudgel; a batoon; used by kings and great officers as a mark of command. The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe. Shak.

TRUN'CHEON, v.t.

To beat with a truncheon; to cudgel. Shak.

TRUNCH-EON-EER, n.

A person armed with a truncheon.

TRUN'DLE, n.

A round body; a little wheel, or a kind of low cart with small wooden wheels.

TRUN'DLE, v.i. [Sax. trændle; trendle, any round body; Dan. and Sw. trind, round; W. trôn, a circle, a round, a throne; trôni, to rim; from the root of rundle, round.]

1. To roll, as on little wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
2. To roll; as a bowl.

TRUN'DLE, v.t.

To roll, as a thing on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun-carriage.

TRUN'DLE-BED, n.

A bed that is moved on trundles or little wheels; called also truckle-bed.

TRUN'DLED, pp.

Rolled.

TRUN'DLE-HEAD, n.

The wheel that turns a mill-stone

TRUN'DLE-TAIL, n.

A round tail; a dog so called from his tail. Shak.

TRUN'DLING, ppr.

Rolling, as a thing on little wheels.

TRUNK, n. [Fr. tronc; It. troncone; Sp. tronco; L. truncus, from trunco, to cut off. The primitive Celtic word of this family is in Fr. trancher, It. trinciare, Sp. trincar, trinchar. The n is not radical, for in Arm. the word is troucha, W. tryçu.]

1. The stem or body of a tree, severed from its roots. This is the proper sense of the word. But surprising as it may seem, It is used most improperly to signify the stem of a standing tree or vegetable, in general. Milton. Dryden.
2. The body of an animal without the limbs. Shak.
3. The main body of any thing; as, the trunk of a vein of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
4. The snout or proboscis of an elephant; the limb or instrument with which he feeds himself.
5. A slender, oblong, hollow body, joined to the fore part of the head of many insects, by means of which they suck the blood of animals or the juices of vegetables.
6. In architecture, the fust or shaft of a column.
7. A long tube through which pellets of clay are blown. Ray.
8. A box or chest covered with skin.
9. A water-course made of planks, and generally to conduct the water from the race to the water wheel. Fire-trunks, in fire ships, wooden funnels fixed under the shrouds to convey or lead the flames to the masts and rigging.

TRUNK, v.t.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. [Not in use.] Spenser.

TRUNK'ED, pp.

1. Cut off; curtailed. [Obs.]
2. adj. Having a trunk. Howell.

TRUNK'HOSE, n. [trunk and hose.]

Large breeches formerly worn. Prior.

TRUN'NION, n. [Fr. trognon.]

The trunnions of a piece of ordnance, are two knobs which project from the opposite sides of a piece, whether gun, mortar or howitzer, and serve to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. Mar. Dict.

TRUN'NION-PLATE, n.

The trunnion-plates are two plates in traveling carriages, mortars and howitzers, which cover the upper parts of the side-pieces, and go under the trunnions. Cyc.

TRUN'NION-RING, n.

A ring on a cannon next before the trunnions.

TRU'SION, n. [tru'zhon; L. trudo.]

The act of pushing or thrusting. Bentley.