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TRESHAM, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 3 
miles south-east-by-east of Wotton-under-Edge. 
TRESKELLY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of St. 
Germans, Cornwall. 
TRESKOWITZ, or Treskotowice, a petty town of 
the Austrian states, in Moravia; 20 miles south of Brunn. 
Population 900. 
TRESMERE, a parish of England, in Cornwall; 6 miles 
vvest-by-north of Launceston. 
To TRE'SPASS, v. n. [trespasser, Fr.] To transgress; 
to offend.—They not only contradict the general design and 
particular expresses of the gospel, but trespass against all 
logic. Norris. —To enter unlawfully on another's ground. 
Their morals and economy. 
Most perfectly they made agree: 
Each virtue kept its proper bound, 
Nor trespass'd on the other’s ground. Prior. 
TRE'SPASS, s. [trespas, Fr.] Transgression; offence. 
Your purpos’d low correction 
Is such, as basest, and the meanest wretches. 
For pilferings, and most common trespass. 
Are punish’d with. Shakspeare. 
Unlawful entrance on another’s ground. 
TRESPASSER, s. An offender; a transgressor.—The 
court had power to correct the trespasser with stripes. 
Addison. —One who enters unlawfully on another’s ground. 
—If I come upon another’s ground without his licence, or 
the licence of the law, I am a trespasser, for which the 
owner may have an action of trespass against me. Walton. 
TRESPASSES, Baye de, a bay of the Atlantic, on the 
coast of France, in the province of Brittany. Lat. 48. 3. N. 
long. 4. 37. W. 
TRESS, s. \tresse, Fr., a twist; treccia, Ital.] A lock; 
a curl of hair; a gathering of hair. Dr. Johnson gives 
tresses only, observing that it is without a singular; but it 
is not so. 
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! 
Comets, importing change of times and states. 
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky. Shakspeare. 
TRE'SSED, adj. Knotted; curled; having the hair in a 
tress; having tresses.—He, plung’d in pain, his tressed locks 
doth tear. Spenser. 
TRE'SSEL. See Trestle. 
TRESSON, a small town in the north-west of France, 
department of the Sarthe, on the small river Etangsort; 17 
miles south-east of Le Mans. Population 1200. 
TRE'SSURE, s. In heraldry, a kind of border.—The 
arms are a lion with a border, or tressure, adorned with 
flower-de-luces. Wart on. 
TRE'STLE, s. [tresteau, Fr. In some parts of the north 
called trest; in other parts of England, tresse/.] The 
frame of a table; a movable form by which any thing is 
supported ; a three-legged stool.—This is not for an unbut¬ 
toned fellow to discuss in the garret at his trestle. Milton. 
TRESWELL, or Truswf.ll, a parish of England, in 
Nottinghamshire; 5 miles east-by-south of East Retford. 
TRET, s. [Probably from tritus, Lat.] An allowance 
made by merchants to retailers, which is four pounds in 
every hundred weight, and four pounds for waste or refuse 
of a commodity. Bailey. 
TRE'THINGS, s. [ trethingi, low Latin, from trethu, 
Welsh, to taxi] Taxes; imposts. 
TRETS, a small town in the south-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Mouths of the Rhone, with 2900 inhabitants; 
20 miles north-east of Marseilles. 
. TRETTO, a village of Austrian Italy, in the territory of Ve¬ 
nice, situated on a hill, with considerable iron and silvermines. 
TRETYRE, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 6 
miles west of Ross. 
TREVALGA, a parish of England, in Cornwall; 1J 
mile north-east-by-east of Bossiney. 
TREVANNION, Cape, the north-west extremity of the 
island of Trevannion. Lat. 10. 39. S. long. 164.52. E. 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1628. 
TREVANNION’S ISLAND, a small triangularly shaped 
island in the South Pacific ocean, one of the group called 
Qeeen Charlotte’s islands. It is said to be very populous. 
Lat. 10. 43. S. long. 163. 43. E. 
TREUCHTL1NGEN, a petty town of Germany, in Ba¬ 
varia, on the Altmuhl; 14 miles west-north-west of Eichstadt. 
Population 800. 
TREUEN, a small town of Saxony; 4 miles west-north¬ 
west of Auerbach, and 66 west-south-west of Dresden. 
Population 1500. 
TREVENNEN’S ISLAND, the southernmost of the 
Marquesas, in the South Pacific ocean. Near the south¬ 
eastern point of the coast is a rock resembling a church with 
a spire. Several small bays are formed in the southern side, 
the best of which is terminated by the south-western point 
of the island. It was named Friendly Bay, from the con¬ 
duct of the inhabitants, of whom more than a hundred 
peaceably surrounded the ship with their canoes, and bar¬ 
tered fruits for beads and other trifles. Lat. 9. 14. S. long. 
220. 21. E. 
TREVES, a district or government of the Prussian states, 
comprising the south-west part of the province of the Lower 
Rhine. It consists of part of the old electorate of Treves, 
and a small portion of the duchy of Luxemburg, along with 
some other petty districts in the county of Sponheim, the 
principality of Saarbruck, and the bishopric of Metz. The 
area of the whole is 2480 square miles; the population 
290,000. It is divided into the eleven circles of—Daun, 
Pruym, Bittburg, Wittlich, Berncastel, Town of Treves, 
Country of Treves, Saarburgh, Merzig, Saarbruck, Ottweiler. 
This country, situated at a considerable distance from the 
Rhine, is watered by the Moselle, which, though not in the 
last part of its course, is here a considerable river. 
TREVES, or Triers, the most ancient, and one of the 
most celebrated cities in Germany, the capital formerly of 
an electorate and archbishopric, now of a Prussian govern¬ 
ment in the province of the Lower Rhine. There is here, 
under the direction of a society, a good collection of an¬ 
tiques and natural curiosities; 22 miles east-north-east of 
Luxemberg, and 70 west-by-south of Mentz. Lat. 49. 46. 
N. long. 6 . 38. E. 
TREVES, a small town in the west of France, department 
of the Maine and Loire, situated on the Loire; about 9 
miles north-west of Saumur. 
TRE'VET, s. [tplepce, Sax.; trepied, Fr.] Any thing 
that stands on three legs: as, a stool. 
TREVETHIN, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire 
63 miles west-north-west of Usk. Population 2423. 
TREVI, a small town in the central part of Italy, in the 
States of the Church, situated on a mountain in the delega¬ 
tion of Spoleto. 
TREVICO, a small inland town of Italy, in the central 
part of the kingdom of Naples, in the Principato Ultra, with 
2500 inhabitants. 
TREVIERES, a small town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of Calvados, with 1000 inhabitants. This is a pas¬ 
turage district, and exports large quantities of excellent but¬ 
ter ; 9 miles west of Bayeux, and 26 north-west of Caen. 
TREVISANI (Francesco), a native of Trevigi, was initi¬ 
ated in the art of paintingby Zanchi at Venice, where, in con¬ 
tradistinction of Angiolo, bis relative, he was called Roman. 
At Rome he formed himself on the best styles of the day, but 
an unbounded talent for mimicking every manner, from Cor¬ 
reggio to Cignani, never suffered him to persist long in the 
imitation of one model. Rome is gorged with his pictures: 
they often possess elegance of choice, a finished pencil, and 
a general strength of tone. His St. Joseph, in the church of 
the Collegio Romano, is a distinguished performance. He 
died in 1746, aged 90. Fuseli's Pilkington. 
TREVISANI (Angiolo), was born and resided at Venice. 
His inventive power is proved at the Carita and other 
churches of that capital, but his real merit lay in portraits. 
By persevering in that study, he acquired a style not sub¬ 
lime indeed, but natural, select, and adapted to the times. 
The diligence and dexterity of his tool greatly assisted him 
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