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proportion of the air percussed towards the baseness or tre¬ 
bleness of tones, is a great secret in sounds. Bacon. 
TR'EBLY, adv. Thrice told; in threefold number or 
quantity.—The seed being so necessary for the maintenance 
of the several species, it is in some doubly and trebly de¬ 
fended. Ray. 
TREBNITZ, a small town of Prussian Silesia, in the 
principality of Oels, containing 1500 inhabitants; 14 miles 
north of Breslau, and 15 west-north-west of Oels. 
TREBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
5 miles south-by-east of Dunster. 
TREBUCHET, a machine for throwing stones, for which 
purpose a sling was sometimes fixed to it: it acted by means 
of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which 
being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with a great 
velocity. 
TRECASI, a small town of Italy, in the south-east of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the Terra d’Otranto. It has a small 
harbour; and is 4 miles east of Alessano. 
TRECASTLE, a parish of Wales, in Brecknockshire, on 
the road from Brecon to Llandovery; 179 miles from 
London. 
TRECENTO, a small town in the north of Italy, in the 
States of the Church ; 12 miles west-north-west of Ferrara. 
TRECHEDIPNA [? ce%eSei7ry«, Gr., formed of rye^oi, 
I run, and 'bemvov, a supper ], in Antiquity, a kind of livery, 
or distinguishing habits worn by parasites; the wearing of 
■which was a sufficient passport to the tables of their patrons 
whose livery it was. 
TREDINGTON, a parish of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire; 2 miles south-east-by-east of Tewkesbury.—Also, a 
parish in Worcestershire; 2 miles north of Shipton-upon- 
Stour. 
TREDONOCK, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire; 
3 miles from Caerleon. Here is preserved an entire monu¬ 
ment of a Roman soldier of Ihe second legion, which was 
found by the sexton, in digging a grave, about a hundred 
years ago. It is particularly described by Dr. Gibson, in 
bis additions to Camden. 
TREE, s. [triu, M, Goth.; trie, Icelandic; tree, Dan.] 
A large vegetable, rising with one woody stem, to a con¬ 
siderable height.—It is pleasant to look upon a tree in sum¬ 
mer covered with green leaves, decked with blossoms, or 
laden with fruit, and casting a pleasant shade: but to con¬ 
sider how this tree sprang from a little seed, how nature 
Shaped and fed it till it came to this greatness, is a more 
rational pleasure. Burnet. —Wood, simply. See Tref.n.— 
Not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of tree and of 
erthe. Wicliffe. —Any thing branched out. 
Vain are their hopes who fancy to inherit. 
By trees of pedigrees, or fame or merit: 
Though plodding heralds through each branch may trace 
Old captains and dictators of their race. Dry den. 
TREE, Germander, s. A plant. 
TREE OF LIFE, s. [lignum vitae, Lat.] An evergreen: 
the wood is esteemed by turners. Miller. 
TREE, Primrose, s. A plant. 
TREE ISLAND, a rock in the East Indian ocean, in 
Gaspar strait. 
TREE ISLAND, a small island in the Indian sea, near 
the eastern coast of Africa. Lat. 17. 10. N. 
TREEN, old. plur. of tree. 
Well run greenhood, got between 
Under the sand-bag he was seen ; 
Lowting low like a for’ster green, 
He knows his tackle and his trecn. B. Jonson. 
TREEN, adj. [cpeoptn, Sax.] Wooden; made of wood. 
Trcen ware is still a phrase among country people.—Hive it 
a born spoon, and a trcen dish. B. Jonson. 
TREETON, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4 miles south-by-east of Rotherham. 
TREFDRAETH, a parish of Wales, in Anglesey; 8 
miles from Bangor. Population 497. 
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TREFEGLYS, a parish of Wales, in Montgomeryshire; 
7 miles from Newton. Population 1654. 
TREFFILAN, a parish of Wales, in Cardiganshire; 4 
miles from Llansantfraed. 
TREFFURT, a small town of Prussian Saxony, situated 
on a hill near the river Werna; 29 miles south-south-east of 
Gottingen. 
TRE'FOIL, s. [trifolium, Lat.] A plant. Miller .— 
Some sow trefoil or rye-grass with their clover. Mortimer. 
TREFONTI, the name of three small islands belonging 
to Sicily, and situated on the coast of the Val di Mazzara. 
TREFORT, a large village in the east of Fiance, de¬ 
partment of the Ain, situated on a mountain called Rever- 
monf. It contains, with the eleven adjacent hamlets, about 
2300 inhabitants; 11 miles north-east of Bourg. 
TREFRIEU, a parish of Wales, in Carnarvonshire, near 
the river Conway; 2 miles from Llanwr>t. 
TREGANNON, Tregaron, or Cairnestown, a town 
of Wales, in the county of Cardigan, situated on the river 
Berwin, which joins the Tive a little lower down. 
TREGANON, a parish of Wales, in Montgomeryshire; 
8 m.les from Montgomery. Population 658. 
TREGARE, a township of England, in Monmouthshire; 
1| mile north of Ragland. 
TREG AYON, a hamlet of Wales, in Anglesea; 12 miles 
from Bangor. 
TllEGONY, a market town and very decayed borough 
of England, in the county of Cornwall, situated on the 
banks of the river Fal. It consists chiefly of one long 
street. The old town was situated on the low ground, at 
the bottom of the hill on which the present one is built. 
The right of election is vested in the townsmen who are 
housekeepers, and the number of voters may amount to 
about 180. The chief interest in the borough is now pos¬ 
sessed by Lord Darlington, and contains 923 inhabitants. 
Market on Saturday, and five annual fairs; 8 miles south¬ 
east of Truro, and 248 west south-west of London. 
TREGUIER, a town of France, in Brittany, department 
of the Cotes du Nord, situated on a peninsula. It contains 
2100 inhabitants; has a secure harbour, which can admit 
vessels of 200 tons; 11 miles north-east of Lannion, and 50 
north-west of St. Brieux. Lat. 48. 46. 54. N. long. 3. 13 
35. W. 
TREGUNNO, a hamlet of England, in the parish of St. 
Breage, near Helstone. 
TREIGNAC, a small town in the south of France, de¬ 
partment, of the Correze, with 2600 inhabitants; 22 miles 
north of Tulle. 
TREIGNY, a small town in the central part of France, 
department of the Yonne; 9 miles south-east of St. Fargeau. 
Population 1800. 
TRE'lLLAGE, s. [French.] A contexture of pales to 
support espalliers, making a distinct inclosure of any part of 
a garden. Trevoux .—There are as many kinds of gardening- 
as of poetry: makers of flower-gardens are epigrammatists 
and sonneteers; contrivers of bowers, grottoes, treillages, and 
cascades, are romance writers. Spectator. 
TREIS, a small town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, near the confluence of the Moselle and the 
Deim, with 1100 inhabitants; 16 miles south-west of Cob- 
lentz. 
TREISAM, one of the ten circles into which the grand 
duchy of Baden was divided in 1810. It extends along the 
river Treisam, from the Rhine to the circle of the Danube, 
and thus includes the middle part of the Brisgau, and almost 
the whole district of Hochberg. It is populous, and of 
great fertility, containing 126,000 inhabitants. The chief 
town is Frey burg. 
TREISAM, a small river in the west of Germany, in the 
Brisgau, which rises in the Black Forest, and falls into the 
Rhine below Freyburg. 
TREISHNISII, or Treshunish Isles, a cluster of small 
islands of Scotland, in the Hebrides, belonging to Argyllshire, 
lying about four leagues west of the island of Mull/ None 
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