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They seize the sceptre; 
Then lose it to a stranger, that the true 
Anointed King Messiah might be bom 
Barr’d of his right. Milton. 
TRU'EBORN, adj. Having a right by birth to any title. 
Where’er I wander, boast of this I can. 
Though banish'd, yet a truebom Englishman. Shakspeare. 
TRU'EBRED, adj. Of a right breed.—Two of them I' 
know to be as truebred cowards as ever turned back. 
Shakspeare. 
TRUEHE'ARTED, adj. Honest; faithful.—I have known 
no honester or truerhearted man: fare thee well. Shak¬ 
speare. 
TRU'ELOVE, s. An herb.—One-berrie, or herbe true- 
love, at the very top whereof cometh forth four leaves, 
directly set one against another, in manner of a Burgunnion 
cross, or a true love knot; for which cause among the an¬ 
cients it hath been called herbe truelove. Gerarde.—A 
sweetheart. 
Should my truelove less than woman be, 
She were scarce any thing. Donne. 
TRU'ELOVEKNOT, or Tru'eloversknot, s. Lines 
drawn through each other with many involutions, considered 
as the emblem of interwoven affection. 
I’ll carve your name on barks of trees 
With truelovcknots, and flourishes. 
That shall infuse eternal spring. Hudibras. 
TRITENESS, s. Sincerity; faithfulness.—The even car¬ 
riage between two factions proceedeth not always of modera¬ 
tion, but of a trueness to a man’s self, with end to make use 
of both. Bacon. 
TRU'EPENNY, s. A familiar phrase for an honest fellow. 
Say’st thou so ? art thou there, truepenny ? 
Come on. Shakspeare. 
TRU'FFLE, s. [ trufle, truffle, French.] A subterraneous 
mushroom.-—In Italy, the usual method for the finding of 
truffles, or subterraneous mushrooms, called by the Italians 
tartufali, and in Latin tubera terra, is by tying a cord to 
the hind leg of a pig, and driving him, observing where he 
begins to root. Ray. 
TRUG, s. A hod for mortar. 
TRUIM, a small river of Scotland, in Inverness-shire, 
which falls into the Spey, near the church of Laggan. 
TRU'ISM, s. A self-evident and undeniable truth.— 
Truism occurs in Swift’s Remarks on the Rights of the 
Christian Church, and in Bishop Berkeley’s Alciphron. 
Pegge. 
TRULL, s. [Dr. Johnson cites the Ital. trulla, after Lye, 
who assigns to it the meaning of “ mulier sordida.” But as 
our word at first had what Dr. Johnson calls a neutral sense, 
viz., that of girl or wench, it probably may be descended 
from the Teut. drollen, gesticulari, facetum et lsetum se ex- 
bibere.] A girl; a lass; a wench. Obsolete. 
Among the rest of all the route 
A passing proper lasse, 
A white-hair’d trull of twenty years. 
Or neere about there was •. 
In stature passing all the rest, 
A gallant girl for hewe; 
To be compar’d with townish nymphs. 
So fair she was to viewe. Turberville. 
A low whore; a vagrant strumpet.—I’m sure, I scar’d the 
dauphin and his trull. Shakspeare. 
TRULL, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 2 miles 
south-south-west of Taunton. Population 499. 
TRULLO, Cape, the north-west point of the island of 
Myconi, in the Grecian archipelago. Lat. 37. 28. N. long. 
25. 19. E. 
TRUMBULL, a county of the United States, in the state 
of Ohio. It is watered by branches of the Big Beaver, run- 
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ning into the Ohio, and Grand river of the Lake. Popula¬ 
tion 8671. Warren is the chief town. 
TRUMBULL, a post township of the United States, in 
Fairfield county, Connecticut; 6 miles north-west of Strat¬ 
ford. Population 1241. 
TRUMIAN, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic, district of Tanjore. '• Lat. 10. 11. N. long. 
78. 47. E. 6 
TRU’LY, adv. According to truth; not falsely; faith¬ 
fully ; honestly.—They thought they might do it, not only 
willingly, because they loved him; and truly, because such 
indeed was the mind of the people; but safely, because she 
who ruled the king was agreed thereto. Sidney.— Really; 
without fallacy.—Wisdom alone is truly fair. Milton. — 
Exactly; justly.—Right reason is nothing else but the mind 
of man judging of things truly, and as they are in them¬ 
selves. South. —Indeed : a slight affirmation, almost exple¬ 
tive.—I have not undertaken it out of any wanton pleasure 
in mine own pen ; nor truly without often pondering with 
myself beforehand what censures I might incur. Wotton. 
TRUMP, s. [ trompe , Dutch, and old Fr.; tromba, Ital. 
Serenius considers the word as formed from the sound.] 
A trumpet; an instrument of warlike music. 
I heard 
The neighing coursers and the soldiers cry, 
And sounding trumps that seem’d to tear the sky. Dryden. 
[Corrupted from triumph: Latimer, in a Christmas ser¬ 
mon, exhibited a game at cards, and made the ace of hearts 
triumph. Fox. —The Swedish trump/is also the winning 
card.] A winning card; a card that has particular privi¬ 
leges in a game. 
Now her heart with pleasure jumps, 
She scarce remembers what is trumps. Swift. 
An old game at cards. * 
What, Diccon ? come near, ye be no straunger: 
We be fast set at trump, man, hard by the fire ; 
Thou shall set on the king, if thou come a little nyer. 
Com. of Gamm. 
To put to or upon the Trumps. To put to the last 
expedient.—We are now put upon our last trump; the fox 
is earth’d, but I shall send my two terriers in after him. 
Dryden. 
To TRUMP, v. a. To win with a tramp card; to im¬ 
pose upon. [tromper, French, to cheat.] 
Fortune— 
When she is pleas’d to trick or trutnp mankind. B. Jonson. 
To obtrude; to force; to obtrude fallaciously.—Authors 
have been trumped upon us, interpolated and corrupted. 
Leslie. 
To Trump up. [from tromper, French, to cheat.] To 
devise; to forge.—If this book had been trumped up, 
every one would have said upon its first appearance, we 
never heard of it before. Young. 
To TRUMP, v. n. To blow a trumpet.—And the fifthe 
aungel trumpide. Wicliffc. —To play a trump card; to 
interpose as with a trump card ; to be an impediment.—The 
envy of some powerful corrival trumps in thy way, and holds 
thee off from thine already swallowed honour. Bp. Hall. 
TRU'MPERY, s. [ trompene, French, a cheat.'] Some¬ 
thing fallaciously splendid; something of less value than it 
seems. 
The trumpery in my house bring hither, 
For state to catch these thieves. Shakspeare. 
Falsehood; empty talk.—Breaking into parts the story of 
the creation, and delivering it over in a mystical sense, 
wrapping it up mixed with other their own trumpery, they 
have sought to obscure the truth thereof. Ralegh.-!— Some¬ 
thing of no value; trifles. 
Embrios and idiots, eremits and friars, 
White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. Milton. 
TRU'MPET, s. [trompette, Fr. and Dutch.] An instru¬ 
ment of martial music sounded by the breath. 
What’s 
