trusty 
+ J/ 1 .] I. ft. 1. True; trustworthy; faithful: 
that may be implicitly confided in : applied to 
persons : as, a trusty servant. 
Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 54. 
2. Not liable to fail ; that may be relied upon, 
as in an emergency ; strong ; firm : applied to 
things : as, a trusty sword. 
The neighing steeds are to the chariots tied, 
The trmlij weapon sits on every side. 
Dryden, ^Eneid, vii. 886. 
3f. Trusting; trustful. 
He [who is born under Mercury] wilhe (soe his state there- 
by may mend) 
Apt to deceive even his most trusty friend. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 115. 
4. Involving trust and responsibility. [Bare.] 
It were fit you knew him, lest ... he might at some 
great and trustu business in a main danger fail you. 
Shak., All's Well, iii. 6. 16. 
II. ', pi- trusties (-tiz). A trusty person; 
specifically, a well-behaved and trustworthy 
convict to whom special privileges are granted. 
By far the greater number of criminals confined in the 
jails of the far West are there for a class of offenses pecu- 
liar to the country. They are men dangerous in one di- 
rection, perhaps, but generally not depraved. The trus- 
ties are often domesticated upon ranches near the town, 
and apparently are unwatched, and on the best of terms 
with the ranchman's family. The Century, XXXVII. 448. 
trut, inter/. [ME. trut, also ptrupt, ptrot, < 
OF. trut, an interj. of contempt. Cf. te 4 .] 
An interjection of contempt. Prompt. Parv., 
p. 415. 
truth (troth), . [Also, in a form now differen- 
tiated, troth, q. v.; <ME. truthe, treuthe, trewthe, 
treuwethe, treouthe, treowthe, etc., also trouthe, 
trou-the, < AS. treowthu, tredwth (treowth-, 
treoth-) (= OHG. *triuwida, in comp., = Icel. 
tryggth), truth, faith; with formative -th, < 
treowe, true: see true.] 1. The state or char- 
acter of being true ; trueness. (a) Conformity of 
thought with fact ; conformity of a judgment, statement, 
or belief with the reality; exact correspondence of sub- 
jective and objective relations. 
All admit that by truth is understood a harmony, an 
agreement, a correspondence between our thought and 
that which we think about. This definition we owe to the 
schoolmen. "Veritas intellectus," says Aquinas, "estadse- 
quatio intellectus et rei, secundum quod intellectus dicit 
essequod est, vel non esse quod non est." 
Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xxvii. 
In common life we call truth the agreement between an 
object and our conception of the object We thus pre- 
suppose an object to which our conception must conform. 
In the philosophical sense of the word, on the other hand, 
truth may be described, in a general and one-sided way, 
as the agreement of the subject-matter of thought with it- 
self. Hegel, Logic (tr. by Wallace), p. 43. 
(&) The state of being made true or exact ; exact conform- 
ity to a model, rule, or plan; accuracy of adjustment; 
exact adaptation. 
Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the 
iron-work. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
Most gun-stocks are twisted over that is to say, the 
toe of the butt is more out of truth with the barrels than 
the heel. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 432. 
(c) In the^ne arts, the proper and correct representation 
of any object in nature, or of whatever subject may be 
under treatment; specifically, in arch., avoidance of de- 
ceits in construction or decoration, as of non-concordauce 
of apparent and real structure, or of imitation of stone or 
marble in paint or plaster. 
The agony of the Laocoon, the action of the Discobulus, 
the upspringing of the Mercury, are all apparently real in 
their action by the innate truth of their conformation. 
. . . Truth is therefore the highest quality in Art. 
FairhoU, Diet. Terms of Art. 
In truth and skill of modelling even the sculptures of 
Chartres and St. Denis, which are a century earlier in date, 
surpass those of Wells. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 286. 
(<J) Habitual disposition to speak only what is true ; vera- 
city ; purity from falsehood ; truthfulness ; sincerity ; up- 
rightness ; honesty : as, a man of truth. 
For als longe as zee ben bounden to gedere in places 
that is to seyne, in Love, in Trouthe, and in gode Accord 
no man schalle ben of powere to greve zou. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 229. 
Love is all truth. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 804. 
(e) Disposition to be faithful ; fidelity ; constancy. 
Long since we were resolved of your truth. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 4. 20. 
Now I shall try thy truth. If thou dost love me 
Thou weigh'st not any thing compar'd with me. 
Keau. and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, ii. 1. 
Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth. 
Coleridge, Christabel, ii. 
(/) The state of not being counterfeited or adulterated 
genuineness; purity. 
The truth of thy love to me. 
Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 13. 
4. Ihat which is true, (a) Fact; reality; verity 
as, a lover of truth : often personified. 
"Sygrem," he seid, "to yow I will not leyne 
1 shall yow telle the trouth of this mater." 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2284. 
6514 
Deame thee best in euery doute 
Tyl the trouthe be tryed oute. 
Babeei Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 332. 
You peradventure think aptness and ableness all one ; 
whereas the truth is that, had we kept our first ableness, 
grace should not need. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v., App. 1. 
For my mouth shall speak truth. Prov. viii. 7. 
For truth is truth 
To the end of reckoning. Shak., M. f or M., v. 1 . 45. 
Oh, Truth, thou art a mighty conqueress ! 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iv. 3. 
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the 
most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in 
the world. Cudivorth, Morality, IV. v. 3. 
Kant regards it as a duty owed to oneself to speak the 
truth, because " a lie is an abandonment or, as it were, 
annihilation of the dignity of man." 
H. Sidywick, Methods of Ethics, p. 292. 
(b) A verified fact ; a true statement or proposition ; an 
established principle, fixed law, or the like. 
Fundamental truths, . . . like the lights of heaven, are 
not only beautiful and entertaining in themselves, but give 
light and evidence to other things that without them 
could not be seen. 
Locke, Conduct of the Understanding, 43. 
(c) That which is righteous or in accordance with the 
divine standard. 
He that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds 
may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 
John iii. 21. 
3f. Faith pledged ; pledge; troth. See troth. 
I'll give thee the truth of my right hand ; 
The truth of it I'll freely gie. 
Young Beichan and Susie Pye (Child's Ballads, IV. 4). 
Cartesian criterion of truth. See Cartesian. Com- 
plex truth. See complex. Contingent truth, a truth 
which is not absolute, but contingent on something else. 
Criterion of truth. See criterion. Ethical truth. 
See ethical. Fewness and trutht. See fewness. Foi- 
mal, fundamental, gospel truth. See the adjectives. 
God's truth. See God'. Immediate truths. See 
immediate,*. In truth, truly ; infact; also, sincerely. 
Logical, material, objective truth. See the adjectives. 
Of a truth, of truth, in truth ; in reality ; certainly. 
Ffor of trewthe he ys not content with no man that ys 
famyliar with the company that ys at the Rodes, ffor that 
hell broude takys them as hys mortall enimies. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 22. 
Of a truth it is good to be with good people. 
Thackeray, Virginians, xxiii. 
Physical, pure, real, secondary, transcendental, 
etc., truth. See the adjectives. = Syil. See reality!. 
truth (troth), v. t. [< truth, n.'] To affirm or 
declare truthfully. [Rare.] 
The ancients 
Who chatted of the golden age feigned trifles. 
Had they dreamt this, they would have truth'd it heaven. 
Ford, Fancies, ii. 2. 
truthful (troth'ful), a. [< truth + -ful.~\ 1. 
Full of truth ; habitually speaking the truth ; 
veracious. 
The perfectly truthful man cannot entertain the pro- 
posal to say what is false. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 666. 
2. Conformable to truth ; correct; true: as, a 
truthful statement. =Syn. Sincere, honest, candid, 
frank, open, ingenuous, artless, guileless. 
truthfully (troth'fiil-i), adv. In a truthful man- 
ner; with truth. 
truthfulness (troth'ful-nes), n. The character 
of being truthful : as, the truthfulness of a per- 
son or of a statement. 
truthiness (tro'thi-nes), . Truthfulness. 
[Bare.] 
Truthiness is a habit, like every other virtue. There I 
hold by the Peripatetics. Nodes Ambrosianse, Feb., 1832. 
truthless (trSth'les), a. [< truth + -less. Cf. 
trothless.'] 1. Lacking truth ; lacking reality ; 
untrue. 2. Faithless. 
Cast all your eyes 
On this what shall I call her? truthless woman ! 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, v. 1. 
truthlessness (troth'les-nes), n. The charac- 
ter of being truthless. 
truth-lover (troth'luv"er), n. One devoted to 
the truth. 
Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named ; 
Truth-lover was our English Duke. 
Tennyson, Death of Wellington, vii. 
truthnesst (troth'nes), n. Truth. Marston. 
[Bare.] 
truth-plightt (troth'plit), !'. [< ME. truthplyten, 
truplyten; < truth +plightf. Cf. troth-plight.'] To 
pledge one's faith ; betroth ; affiance. Prompt. 
Parv., p. 504. 
truth-teller (troth'tel"er), H. One who tells 
the truth. See the quotation under truth-lover. 
truth-writ (troth'rit), a. Truthfully written. 
George Eliot. [Bare.] 
truthy (tro'thi), a. [< truth + -yi.] Truthful ; 
veracious. [Rare.] 
They would have a more truthy import than what at 
present they convey. 
W. 0. Paltgrave, Central and Eastern Arabia, I. ix. 
try 
trutinatet (tro'ti-nat), r. t. [< L. trutinatus, pp. 
of trutinare, trutinari, weigh, balance, < tntii- 
na, < G-r. -pmdvn, a balance, a pair of scales.] 
To weigh ; balance. 
Madam, sayes he, be pleas'd to trutinate 
And wisely weigh your servants gracefull voyce. 
Whiting, Albino and Bellama (1(138), p. 10. (Nares.) 
trutinationt (tro-ti-na'shon), 11. [< trutinate + 
-ton.] The act of weighing; examination by 
weighing. 
Men may mistake if they distinguish not the sense of 
levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale or deci- 
sion of trutination. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
truttat (trut'a), H. [ML.: see trout.] Same as 
trout. 
truttaceous (tru-ta'shius), a. [< ML. trutta, a 
trout, + -aceons.] Of or pertaining to the trout; 
resembling a trout: as, a truttaceous fish. 
truwet, . and . A Middle English form of 
true. 
try (tri), v.; pret. and pp. tried, ppr. trying. 
[Early mod. E. also trie, trye ; < ME. trien, tryen, 
trigeti, < OF. trier, pick, choose, separate, cull, 
orig. thresh (grain), = Pr. trim', separate, pick, 
choose, thresh (grain), = It. tritare, thresh, 
grind, bruise, wear, < ML. tritare, rub, thresh, 
freq. of L. terere, pp. tritus, rub, thresh : see 
trite 1 :] I. trans. If. To separate, as what is 
good from what is bad; separate by sifting; 
sift. 
The wylde corne, beinge in shape and greatnesse lyke to 
the good, if they be mengled, with great difficultie wyll be 
tryed out. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 14. 
Hence (a) To select; cull; pick out. 
The kinges sone aswithe let sembul miche puple, 
& triged him to a tidi ost of the tidegist burnes. 
WUKam of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3556. 
(6) To ascertain by sifting or examination. Alisaunder of 
Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 761. 
Master More was once sent in commission into Kent, to 
help to try out, if it might be, what was the cause of Good- 
win Sands. Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
2. To separate (metal) from the ore or dross by 
melting; refine; assay. [Not a technical use.] 
Silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 
Ps. xii. 6. 
The fire seven times tried this ; 
Seven times tried that judgement is 
That did never choose amiss. 
Shak., M. of V., ii. 9. 63. 
3. To separate or reduce by boiling or steam- 
ing; render: generally with out : as, to try out 
lard or blubber. 
Aysell and wyne eke oute of hem men trie. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S. ), p. 53. 
Palm. All my fat Oxen and Sheep are melted to this 
[money], Gentlemen. 
Whead. Their Grease is well try'd, Sir. 
Etherege, Love in a Tub, ii. 3. 
4. To put to the test or proof ; subject to ex- 
perimental treatment, comparison with a stan- 
dard, or the like, in order to determine the truth, 
accuracy, power, strength, speed, fitness, or 
other quality of ; test ; prove : as, to try weights 
and measures ; to try a new invention ; to try 
conclusions ; to try one's patience, or one's luck. 
This word of God trieth all doctrine. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 9. 
It is a true Observation that, among other effects of Af- 
fliction, one is to try a Friend. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 55. 
If God come to trie our constancy, we ought not to 
shrink, or stand the lesse firmly for that 
Milton, Church-Government, i. 7. 
Had we no other way of trying the continuance of God's 
goodness to us but by exercising his patience by our 
greater provocations? Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. i. 
Your Goblin's Skill shall now be try'd. 
Congreve, An Impossible Thing. 
5. To use, apply, or practise tentatively; ex- 
periment with : as, to try a new remedy ; also, 
to experiment upon ; treat tentatively. 
A bulbe of sqylle eke summen wol devyde, 
And ther into this plannte of fig-tree trie, 
And bynde it so therto that it abyde. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 124. 
He [a hare] was ill three days, during which time I nursed 
him, . . . and by ... trying him with a variety of herbs 
restored him to perfect health. 
Cowper, Treatment of Hares. 
If that child were mine, Francis, I should try her with 
a little taraxacum. 
Mrs. Annie Edwardes, Ought we to Visit her? xi. 
The artist sometimes tried an attitude on a grouping, 
and then, dissatisfied with the effect, abandoned it. 
Harrison and Verrall, Ancient Athens, p. cxi. 
6. To endeavor experimentally to find out. 
We are four damsels sent abroad, 
To the east, west, north, and south, 
To try whose fortune is so good 
To find these champions forth. 
Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 412). 
