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bond. An old word in our language; written also truand, 
trewan, and trivant. See Trivant. —“ Truand, he that 
loitereth, wandering abroad, or lurking in corners.” Barret, 
Alv, 1580. “ No better than rogues and trewans, men of 
base qualitie and as low courage.” Sir G. Buck, Hist, of K. 
Rich. III. 1646, p. 57.] An idler; one who wanders idly 
about, neglecting his duty or employment. To play the 
truant is, in schools, to stay from school without leave. 
Though myself have been an idle truant. 
Omitting the sweet benefit of time, 
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection; 
Yet hath Sir Protheus made fair advantage of his days. 
Shakspeare. 
TRUANT, adj. Idle; wandering from business; lazy; 
loitering. 
What keeps you from Wertemberg ? 
—A truant disposition, good my lord. Shakspeare . 
To TRU'ANT, v. n. {truander, Fr. to beg about a coun¬ 
try ; truwanten, old Germ.] To idle at a distance from duty; 
to loiter; to be lazy. 
’Tis double wrong to truant with your bed, 
And let her read it in thy looks at board. Shakspeare. 
TRU'ANTLY, adj. Like a truant.—The spirit of a man 
is truantly and trifling. Bp. Taylor. 
TRU'ANTSHIP, s. [ trualte , old Fr.; from truant ; tru¬ 
and is e in Chaucer is beggary.] Idleness; negligence; neg¬ 
lect of study or business.—The master should not chide with 
him if the child have done his diligence, and used no truant- 
ship. Ascham. 
TRUBIA, a small town in the north of Spain, in the 
Asturias. It stands on a river called also Trubia, and has a 
cantton foundry. 
TRUBS, s. {tuber, Latin.] A sort of herb. Ainsworth. 
TRU'BTAIL, s. {trubbig, Swed. obtuse, and tail. Scre- 
?iius.'] A short squat woman. Ainsworth. 
TRUBTSCHEVSK, a small town in the interior of Eu¬ 
ropean Russia, in the government of Orel, on the Desna, 
with 3000 inhabitants; 92 miles west-south-west of Orel. 
TRUCE, s. {treuga, Germ.; tregua, Span, and Ital. from 
the M. Goth, triggwo, pactum, foedus. Sereniusd] A tem¬ 
porary peace; a cessation of hostilities—Leagues ami truces 
made between superstitious persons, and such as serve God 
aright, Hooker. 
This token serveth for a flag of truce 
Betwixt ourselves, and all our followers. Shakspeare. 
Cessation; intermission; short quiet. 
There he may find 
Truce to his Testless thoughts, and entertain 
The irksome hours. Milton. 
TRU'CHMAN,or Tru'dgeman, s. [T a^yovyevo;, S ouyov- 
p.evos, in the later Greek writers, signifieth an interpreter; de¬ 
rived from thirgem, Hebrew, to interpret, or expound out of 
one language into another; whence thargum, or targum; 
which see. Bedwell, Mohammedis Impost. 1615, p. 105.] 
An interpreter.—The Arabian trudgman, interpreting certain 
Arabic terms used by historians. Bedwell. 
TRUCIDA'TION, s. [from trucido, Lat] The act of 
killing. Cockeram. 
To TRUCK, v. n. {troquer, French ; truccare, Italian; 
trocar, Spanish; deduced by Salmasius from rpayeii', Gr. to 
get money. Our word is old. “ To trukkyn or change.” 
Prompt. Parv.] To traffic by exchange; to give one com¬ 
modity for another.—Despotism itself is obliged to truck and 
huckster. Burke. 
To TRUCK, v. a. To give in exchange; to exchange. 
Go, miser! go ; for lucre sell thy soul, 
Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole; 
That men may say, when thou art dead and gone. 
See, what a vast estate he left his son! Dry den. 
TRUCK, s. Exchange ; traffic by exchange.—Love is 
covetous; 1 must have all of you: heart for heart is an equal 
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truck. Dry den. —[-ryo^o?, Gr.] Wooden wheels for car¬ 
riage of cannon. Ainsworth.-—A kind of carriage, with 
low wheels, for any heavy weights. 
TRU'CKER, s. One who traffics by exchange.—Of all 
the courses which man in such a case can take, this of 
capitulating, and as it were making terms, with the devil, 
is the most senseless and dangerous; no man having ever 
yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for 
souls, by exchanging guilts, or bartering one sin for another. 
South. 
TRU'CKAGE, s. The practice of trafficing by exchange. 
—Without the truckage of perishing coin. Milton. 
To TRU'CKLE, v. n. [Etymology unknown,] To be in 
a state of subjection or inferiority; to yield; to creep. 
His zeal was not to lash our crimes, 
But discontent against the times: 
For had we made him timely offers, 
To raise his post or fill his coffers. 
Perhaps he might have truckled down, 
Like other brethren of his gown. Swift. 
TRU'CKLEBED, or Tru'ndeebed, s. [properly trocle- 
bed ; from trochlea, Latin, of rpo^o?, Gr.] A bed that runs 
on wheels under a higher bed.—There’s his chamber, his 
house, his castle, his standing bed and trucklebed. Shak¬ 
speare. 
TRU'CULENCE, or Tru'culency, s. [ truculentia, 
Lat.] Savageness of manners.—He loves not tyranny:—the 
truculency of the subject, who transacts this, he approves 
not. Waterhouse. —Terribleness of aspect. 
TRU'CULENT, adj. [truculentus, Lat.] Savage; barba¬ 
rous.—A barbarous Scythia, where the savage and truculent 
inhabitants, transfer themselves from place to place in wag¬ 
gons, as they can find pasture, and live upon milk, and flesh 
roasted in the sun at the pomels of their saddles. Bay. — 
Terrible of aspect. 
The trembling boy his brethren’s hands, 
Their truculent aspects, and servile bands. 
Beheld. Sandys. 
Destructive; cruel.—Pestilential seminaries, according 
to their grossness or subtility, cause more or less truculent 
plagues, some of such malignity, that they enecate in two 
hours. Harvey. 
To TRUDGE, v. n. {truggiolare, Ital. It is of the 
same origin as tread. See to Tread.] To travel labori¬ 
ously ; to jog on; to march heavily on. 
No man is secure, but night-walking heralds. 
That trudge between the king and mistress Shore. 
Shakspeare. 
TRUE, adj. [epeopa, epupa, Sax.; trewe. Germ.; from 
the M. Goth, trawan; Icel., trua, confidere, fidere, credere. 
Sereniusl] Not false; not erroneous; agreeing with fact, or 
with the nature of things. 
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born. 
And if the rest be true which I have heard. 
Thou cam’st into the world with thy legs forward. 
Shakspeare. 
Not false; agreeing with our own thoughts; pure from 
the crime of falsehood; veracious.—A true witness deli- 
vereth souls. Prov.- —Genuine ; real; not counterfeit. 
Among unequals what society 
Can sort ? What harmony or true delight ? Milton. 
Faithful; not perfidious; steady.—My revenge is now at 
Milford, would I had wings to follow it! come and be true. 
Shakspeare. — Honest; not fraudulent.—The thieves have 
bound the true man ; now could thou and I rob the thieves 
and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week. 
Shakspeare. —Exact; conformable to a rule.—If all those 
great painters, who have left us such fair platforms, had 
rigorously observed it, they had made things more regu¬ 
larly true, but withal very unpleasing. Dryden. —Right¬ 
ful. 
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