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shall rise. Pope.—To trample; to set the feet in scorn or 
malice. 
Thou 
Must, as a foreign recreant, be led 
With manacles along our street, or else 
Triumphantly tread on thy country s ruin, 
And bear the palm. 
To walk with form or state. 
When he walks, he moves like an engine, 
And the ground shrinks before his treading. 
To copulate as birds. 
They bill, they tread, Alcyone compressed. 
Seven days sits brooding on her floating nest. 
To TREAD, v. a. To walk on; to feel under the foot. 
Would I had never trod this English earth. 
Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it! Shakspeare. 
To press under the foot.— Tread the snuff out on the floor 
to prevent stinking. Swift. —To beat; to track. 
Full of briars is this working world. 
— They are but burs : if we walk not in the trodden paths, 
our very petticoats will catch them. Shakspearc. 
To walk on in a formal or stately manner.—Methought 
she trod the ground with greater grace. Dry den. —To crush 
under foot; to trample in contempt or hatred.—Through 
thy name will we tread them under that rise against us. 
Psal. —To put in action by the feet.—They tread their 
wine-presses andrsuffer thirst. Job. —To love as the male 
bird the female.—He feather’d her and trod her. Dry den. 
TREAD, s. Footing; step with the foot. 
The quaint mazes in the wanton green. 
For want of tread, are undistinguishable. Shakspeare. 
Way; track; path. 
Cromwell is the king’s secretary; further 
Stands in the gap and tread for more preferment. 
Shakspeare. 
The cock’s part in the egg. 
TREADER, s. He who treads.—The treaders shall 
tread out no wine in their presses. Isa. 
TREADHAVEN, or Thirdhaven, a river of the United 
Slates, in Maryland, which passes by Easton, flows south¬ 
west, and runs into the Choptank, east of Benom’s point. 
TREADLE, s. A part of an engine on which the feet 
act to put it in motion.—The farther the fore-end of the 
treadle reaches out beyond the fore-side of the lathe, the 
greater will the sweep of the fore-end of the treadle be, and 
consequently the more revolutions are made at one tread. 
Moron. —The sperm of the cock.—At each end of the egg 
is a treadle, formerly thought to be the cock’s sperm. Der- 
ham. 
TREADMILL, s. An instrument of prison discipline 
of recent invention. It is composed of a large revolving cy¬ 
linder, having ledges or steps fixed round its circumference; 
the prisoners walk up these ledges, and their weight revolves 
the cylinder. It is an excellent exercise, highly conducive 
to health, and a great improvement on .our old system of 
beating hemp. It is to be regretted, however, that it is not 
applied to some use, nothing being easier. 
TREAGUE, s. [ treuga , Germ.; triggwo, Goth.] A 
truce. Obsolete. 
Which to confirme, and fast to bind their league, 
After their weary sweat and bloody toile, 
She them besought, during their quiet treague 
Into her lodging to repaire a while. 
To rest themselves, and grace to reconcile. Spenser. 
TREALES, a township of Engird, in Lancashire; ]a 
mile north-east of Kirkham. Population 671. 
TREASON, s. [trahison, Fr.] An offence committed 
against the dignity and majesty of the commonwealth: it is 
divided into high treason and petit treason. High treason 
is an offence against the security of the commonwealth, or 
of the king’s majesty, whether by imagination, word, or 
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deed; as to compass or imagine treason, or the death of the 
prince, or the queen consort, or his son and heir-apparent; 
or to deflower the king’s wife, or his eldest daughter unmar¬ 
ried, or his eldest son’s wife; or levy war against the king 
in his realm, or to adhere to his enemies by aiding them ; or 
to counterfeit the king’s great seal, privy seal, or money; or 
knowingly to bring false money into this realm counter¬ 
feited like the money of England, and to utter the same; or 
to kill the king’s chancellor, treasurer, justice of the one 
bench, or of the other; justices in eyre, justices of assize, 
justices of oyer and terminer, when in their place and doing 
their duty; or forging the king’s seal manual, or privy 
signet; or diminishing or impairing the current money : 
and, in such treason, a man forfeits his lands and goods to 
the king: and it is called treason paramount. Petit treason 
is when a servant kills his master, a wife her husband, a 
secular or religious man his prelate: this treason gives for¬ 
feiture to every lord within his own fee: both treasons are 
capital. Co-wel. —He made the overture of thy treasons to 
us. Shakspeare. 
TREASONABLE, or Treasonous, adj. Having the 
nature or guilt of treason. Treasonous is out of use. 
Him by proofs as clear as founts in July 
I know to be corrupt and treasonous. Shakspeare. 
Most men’s heads had been intoxicated with imaginations 
of plots, and treasonable practices. Clarendon. 
TREASONABLENESS, s. State or quality of being 
treasonable. Ash. 
TREASONABLY, adv. In a treasonable manner; with 
a treasonable view. 
TREASURE, s. [tresor , French; thesaurus, Latin.] 
Wealth hoarded; riches accumulated.—He used his laws as 
well for collecting of treasure, as for correcting of manners. 
Bacon. 
To TREASURE, v. a. To hoard; to deposit; to lay 
up. 
No, my remembrance treasures honest thoughts. 
And holds not things like thee; I scorn thy friendship. 
Rowe. 
TREASURER, s. [tresorier, French.] One who ha3 
care of money ; one who has charge of treasure. 
This is my treasurer, let him speak 
That I have reserved nothing. Shakspeare. 
TREASURERSHIP, s. Office or dignity of treasurer.— 
He preferred a base fellow, who was a suitor for the treasurer- 
ship, before the most worthy. Hake-will. 
TREASUREHOUSE, s. Place where hoarded riches 
are kept.-—Let there be any grief or disease incident to the 
soul of men, for which there is not in this treasurehouse 
a present comfortable remedy to be found. Hooker. 
TREASURESS, s. She who has charge of treasure.— 
Do they not call the virgin Marie the queen of heaven, the 
gate of Paradise, the treasuress of grace ? Dering. 
TREASURY, s. [tresorerie, French.] A place in which 
riches are accumulated. 
And yet I know not how conceit may rob 
The treasury of life, when life itself 
Yields to the theft. Shakspeare. 
It is used by Shakspeare for treasure. 
Thy sumptuous buildings 
Have cost a mass of public treasury. Shakspeare. 
TREASURY ISLANDS, a small group, of very unequal 
size, forming part of Solomon’s islands. They are low, 
covered with trees of agreeable appearance. That on the 
north is the lowest; its middle lies in lat. 7. 23. 30. S. 
and long. 155. 29. 30. E. They are five or six, or perhaps 
more, in number, and at a distance appear as only one. 
The group occupies a circuit of about ten leagues. 
To TREAT, v. a. [trailer, French; tracto, Lat.] To 
negotiate; to settle. 
To treat the peace, a hundred senators 
Shall be commissioned. Dryden. 
[tracto, 
Shakspeare. 
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