Double Tressure Fleury- 
countcr-fleury. 
-tress 
-tress. A termination of Homo feminine Tiouns. 
See -f'fiK (l!). 
tressed (trout), n. [MK. tnxxni. //-//<.//,- < 
Ov'x.vi + -i-il-.] 1. Having tresses: adorned 
with tresses; bwdred or surrounded l>y tresses. 
"It-' tyme this was hire manero, 
To gon y treated witli hire hrrrs .1. M- 
Ifcroii by hire coler, at hire hak l>yliynde, 
\\lnrli with u threde of gold the wolde bynde. 
Chaucer, Trollun, v. Mil. 
2. Divided into tresses or locks, or consisting 
of them; worn in lonj; tresses. 
"In habit inaad with chastitcc and slmine 
Ye women shul npparnille yow,"quod he, 
"Anil imuht In tri'wil Iirrr iiml nay perree." 
CAoim-r, I'l.'l. tci Wife of llath's Talc, 1. :(44. 
Hi'. ]il"nKil III pnync, hia trmxnl loc'kx ili.lli trarr. 
>/ iiL-r. Shep. Cal., April. 
tressel,". See tnxtii\. 
tressfult (tres'fiil), ii. [< fn.s-.sl + -/M/.] Hav- 
ing an abundance of tresses; having luxuriant 
hair. 
Pharo's falro daughter (wonder of her Time) . . . 
Was queintly dressing of her Tresa-fvl head. 
Sylvester, tr. of l)u Bartas's Weeks, II., The Magnificence. 
tressourt, . [ME., also tresour, < OF. tresaour, 
tri'xxirir, a net or ribbon for the hair, < tresse, 
tress: see tress!.~} 1. A net or ribbon for the 
hair ; a head-dress. 
With a riche gold trrsintr 
Hlr heed was tressed queyntly. 
Rom. of the Rote, L 669. 
2. A tress; in the plural, tresses; hair. 
And bad anon hys turmcntours 
Do hange hur be hur treamtryg. 
MS. Cantab. ft. II. 38, f. 88. (HalKwtU.) 
treasure (tresh'ur), . [< heraldic P. tressure, 
^ f < tresser, weave, plait: 
see tress 1 .'] In tier., a 
modification of the orle, 
generally considered as 
being of half its width, 
and double. According to 
some writers, the tressure Is a 
double orle that is, two nar- 
row bands separated by a space 
about equal to the width of 
each of them, and both toge- 
ther occupying the same space 
as an orle or nearly so. Also 
called tract. 
The Scottish arms are a lion with a border, or trernirt, 
adorned with flower-de-luces. 
T. Wartm, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 269. 
treasured (tresh'urd), a. [< tressure + -et&.~} 
Emblazoned with a tressure, as an escutcheon. 
[The use of the word in the following quotation is erro- 
neous, because the fleurs-de-lis are not treasured, but the 
tressure is flowered with fleurs-de-lis. 
The treasured fleur-de-luce he claims 
To wreathe his shield. Scott, L. of. L. M., Iv. 8.J 
tressy (tres'i), a. [< tress 1 + -y 1 .] Of or per- 
taining to tresses ; also, having the appearance 
of tresses or locks of hair. 
The rock half sheltered from my view 
By pendent boughs of tressy yew. 
Coleridge, l^wti. (Davies.) 
trestH, n. An obsolete form of trust 1 . 
trest- (trest ), M. [Also Sc. traist, trust, also E. 
dial, tress; < ME. trestc, a trestle, < OF. traste = 
Olt. trasto; prob. = Bret, treiist = W. trawst, a 
beam, trestle, < L. transtrum, a beam : see tran- 
som, andcf. trestle!."} 1. Abeam. 2. A tres- 
tle. 3. A strong large stool. [Prov. Eng. or 
Scotch in all uses.] 
trestle 1 (tres'i), M. [Early mod. E. also tressel 
(still sometimes used), trestyjl, tlirestle; also 
dial, trussel; < ME. trestel (pi. trestlis), < OF. 
trestel, later tresteau, F. trfteau = Bret, trens- 
tel = W. trestyl (Celtic from L. ; the W. perhaps 
through E. T) (ML. trcsteUus), < ML. "transttt- 
fiiiii, dim. of L. transtrum, a beam, cross-bar: 
see trest 2 and transom.] 1. A frame, consisting 
of a beam or bar fixed at each end to a pair of 
spreading legs, for use as a support. A single 
trestle is often used by mechanics to rest work against ; 
two or more trestles serve as a support for a board or other 
object laid upon them horizontally for some temporary 
purpose. Early household tables commonly consisted of 
boards laid upon movable trestles, the boartl In this case 
being the table proper ; and trestle, in the singular, is 
sometimes used for the whole support of a table when the 
parts are joined into a iranieworK. 
"The tratte that stands under this Kound Table," she 
said, . . . 
"It is worth thy Konnd Table, thon worthy kins." 
Ballad o/ Kin; Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 2S-2Y 
He looks in that deep ruff like a head in a platter, 
Served in by a short cloak upon two tresttrs. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, IT. 1. 
2. Same &a puncheon!. 3. In Acr., a low stool 
or bench used as a bearing: usually represent- 
ed with three legs. 4. In >'iril miiin., a fraine- 
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work for supporting string-pieces, us of a rail- 
way. a bridge, orother elevated slructiire, I-OIM- 
posed o! uprights with diagonal braeet. and 
either with or without hori/.ontal tiinoers be- 
low the stringers. 5. /)/. The shores or props 
of a ship under i-onstnn-tion. 
Then they launched her from the trrtteli, 
In the ship-yard by the sea. 
I.' 'ii iMtmr, Wayside Inn, Musician's Tale, xlll. 
6. Same as trrxtlrlrei: 7. In luilliir-iiiinnif., 
the sloping plank on which skins are laid while 
being curried. 
A high trtiml Is frequently used, across which the lea- 
her is thrown, after undergoing any of the pro 
while the currier subjects other pieces to the same 
, 
ther is thrown, after undergoing any of the processes 
while the currier subjects other pieces to the same opera- 
tion. r... in, i . in M 
tri- 
divisions: as, Lyipowita anil Arthrnpomnln (Owen, tbr 
nMr-t :tri'l tin plrt' nit'lt' trrill- 
l'l< uri'iniiria and Apiiyia Inarticulate *nA Articv. 
Intn . t,i--iilr- tiir ;it, .\ r 
tretenterate nre-ten'te-rat j, n. and . ( < NI,. 
ii,t< l ,lirnt<i,>\.\.] I. 'ii. llavingtheeharaeter 
of or pertaining tot he 'in ii nli ni/n not rlisten- 
terate. as a brai-hiopnd ; anit'croii-. 
II. n. A liraehiopod of this order. 
tretis't, '/. [ M I-:., also /;,/,/*, i>-> it ; /.- . < < >K. in - 
iix, triii LI, ti-intii, well-made, neat, long and 
slender, < triiitn; handle, manage, treat: see 
tnnl. | Well-proportioned. 
Hire nose tretyt ; hlr eyen grcye u glaa. 
Chaucer, (Jen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 152. 
trestle'-'t, . An obsolete form of tlin-xlmlil. 
florto. 
trestle-board (trcs'1-bord), M. A movable ta- 
ble-top for use in connection with trestles, mak- 
ing a large table when required. 
trestle-bridge (tres'1-brij), n. A bridge in which 
the bed is supported upon framed sections or 
trestles. See trestleicork. 
trestle-tablet (tres'l-ta'bl), n. A movable 
table made of boards laid on trestles, as distin- 
guished from the dormant table which super- 
seded it. 
trestletree (tres'1-tre), n. \aut., one of two 
strong bars of timber fixed horizontally fore- 
and-aft, on the opposite sides of the lower 
masthead, to support the frame of the top and 
the topmast, ana on the topmast-head in the 
same way to support the crosstrees and the 
topgallantmast. See cut under bibb. 
trestlework (tres'1-werk), n. A series of tres- 
tles and connected framing, supports, etc. , form- 
ing a viaduct, as for a railway. Trestlework may 
be of either wood or Iron. It 1s much used In rallroad- 
Trestlework. 
I. Trestle used in construction of bridge at Poughkeepsie. New York. 
2. Section of iron trestle at Kiiuua viaduct, Pennsylvania. 
construction for viaducts and In the construction of 
bridges, and is often employed in hydraulic engineering 
for supporting trunks or sluices for conducting water 
across gulches, etc. The term was originally, and is now 
more specifically, applied to wooden trestles, which it 
generally denotes when used without qualification. 
trestling (tres'ling), H. [< trestle + -mi/ 1 .] A 
structure of trestles; trestlework. .\rtp York 
Semi-ireckly Tribune, May 20, 1887. 
tresunt, M. An obsolete form of treason. 
tret (tret), H. [Early mod. E. treat (in a num- 
ber of old arithmetics), trelc; < OF. trete (Norm. 
trett), F. trait = Pr. trait, trag, trah, draft, allow- 
ance for transportation, = It. tratto, allowance 
for transportation, = Olt. tratta, leave to trans- 
port merchandise, It. draft, bill: see tract!, 
trait.] In com., an allowance formerly made 
to purchasers of certain kinds of goods on ac- 
count of their being obliged to transport their 
purchases. It consisted of an addition of 4 pounds to 
every 100 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare 
is deducted. It is now so entirely discontinued by mer- 
chants that it is in many modern books confounded with 
a rebate or deduction from the price. 
tretablet, tretablyt. Old spellings of treat. 
nlilr, treatably. 
tretet. An old form of treat, treaty, tret. 
Tretenterata (tre-ten-te-ra'tS), w. pi. [NL. 
(King), < Qr. rpyroc, perforated (< rtrpaivctv, 
bore), + fvrepa, entrails.] A prime division 
of brachiopods, contrasted with Clistenierata : 
same as Lmipomata of Owen. Recent authors are 
almost unanimous in dividing the brachiopods Into two 
orden, but have used different names for each of the two 
tretis'-'t, tretyst, . Old spellingn of 
Chilli" :'. 
Tretosterninaeftre t.,-ster.ni'ne). . /./. [NL., 
< Trrtuxti mini + -inn:"} A subfamily of Jhely- 
droid tortoises, ri'iin-w-ntcd by the extinct ge- 
nus Tretosternon, with a plastron of mo>i 
size and an iutergular shield. 
Tretosternon ( t re -t .. -t. r'n.in).//. [NL.(Owen, 
1841), also Ti'ctoftfrnum,<. Gr. rpt/rof, perforated 
(< rtrpaivetv, bore), + aripvov, breast-bone.] 1. 
A genus of fossil chelonians of the Wealden 
and Purbeck beds, referred to the family ' '/- 
lydrida, and typical of the subfamily Tretoster- 
nii'n. 2. [ '. < . I An animal of this genus. 
trevat (trev'at), i. [Origin obscure.] In 
iniirinii. a cutting-instrument for severing the 
pile-threads of velvet. Also Ircrette. 
trevedt, . See trirrt. 
trevet (trev'et), n. See triret. 
trevette (t re- vet'), n. Same as trertit. 
trevis.trevlss \ trev'is), n. [Also trevise, trevesse, 
trarise, traresse, etc.; ult. a reduced form of 
traverse, < OF. trarerg, across (trarergan, a cross- 
beam, etc.; cf. Sp. troves, a flank, al traven, 
across, athwart): see traverse."} 1. A trans- 
verse division, as that which separates stalls: 
a transom; a bar or beam. 
II y oucr thwert the chamber was there drawe 
A Irm&e thin and qnhlte, all of pleaance. 
Jama /. of Scotland, King's Qoalr, III. 9. 
Beyond the trrrw which formed one side of the stall 
stood a cow who turned her head and lowed when Jeanle 
came Into the stable. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xzrL 
2. A stall. 
He lay In the trrmu wi' the mear I mare 1, and wadna 
come ',,(. Dr. John Brown, Rab and his Friends. 
3. A counter or desk in a shop. 
[Scotch in all uses.] 
trewH, n. and n. An old spelling of true. 
trew 2 t, *' ' An obsolete form of trow 1 . 
trew 3 t, n. [ME., < OF. trcii, < L. tributum, trib- 
ute, toll : see tribute."} Tribute. Sir Fervm- 
bras(E. E. T. 8A 1.4393. 
trewaget, . [Early mod. E. trvaae, < ME. 
treicaae, trevage, trutcage, truage, < OF. treuage, 
truage (ML. truagium), tribute, subjection. < 
treii, tribute : see treic 3.] Tribute ; acknowledg- 
ment of subjection. See the quotation under 
repent 1 , v. t., 1. 
Romayns baue hadde trevage at vs, and my parentes 
haue hadde trewage of theym. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.X UL 642. 
trewandt, trewantt, a. Obsolete forms of tru- 
ant. 
trewe 1 1, trewelyt. Old spellings of true, truly. 
trewe 2 t, f. ' An obsolete form of frowl. 
trewest, trewist, " Middle English forms of 
truce. 
trewethet, . A Middle English form of irutli. 
trews (tr8z), M. fil. [< Ir. trius= Gael, triubhan : 
see trousc, trousers."} Trousers; specifically, 
the kind of trousers worn by the men of higher 
rank among the Scottish Highlanders. They 
are made of tartan cloth of the set or pattern 
of the wearer's clan. 
But she wou'd hae the Highlandman, 
That wears the plaid and trev*. 
Line Baillie (Child's Ballads, IV. 282). 
Trnn or drawers, continued to form hose for the lower 
limbs, with shoes or low boots, completed the ordinary 
costume of the [Anglo-Saxon) men. Encyc. Brit.. VI. 465. 
trewsman (troVman), .; pi. trcirftmeii (-men). 
[< tretrs + maw.] A Highlander who wears the 
trews. 
trewtht, ii. A Middle English form of truth. 
trey (tra). n. [< ME. trey, < OF. treis, F. trois, 
three, < L. trts, three: see three."} A card or 
die with three spots. Also tray. 
M-. [= F. tri- = Sp. Pg. It. tri-, < L. tri-, com- 
bining form of tres, neut. tria. = Gr. rpt-, com- 
bining form of Tptlf, nent. rpia, = Skt. tri- = E. 
three: seeMrve.j A prefix of Latin and Greek 
origin, meaning 'three.' 
