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What's the business? 
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley 
The sleepers of the house. Shakspeare. 
In military style, a trumpeter.—He wisely desired, that a 
trumpet might be first sent for a pass. Clarendon .—One 
who celebrates; one who praises.—The great politician was 
pleased to have the greatest wit of those times in his interests, 
to be the trumpet of his praises. Dryden. 
To TRU'MPET, v. a. [trompetter , Fr.] To publish by 
sound of trumpet s to proclaim. 
That I did love the Moor to live with him, 
My downright violence to form my fortunes 
May trumpet to the world, Shakspeare. 
TRU'MPETER, s. One who sounds a trumpet. 
Trumpeters, 
With brazen din blast you the city’s ear. 
Make mingle with our rattling tambourines. Shakspeare. 
One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.—Where 
there is an opinion to be created of virtue or greatness, these 
men are good trumpeters. Bacon.—[$colopex.~\ A fish. 
Ainsworth. 
TRU'MPET-FLOWER, s. [ bignonia .] A tubulous 
flower. Miller. 
TRU'MPET-TONGUED, adj. Having a tongue vocifer¬ 
ous as a trumpet 
T^his Duncan’s virtues 
Will plead, like angels, trumpet-ton^u'd against 
The deep damnation of his taking oft. Shakspeare. 
TRUMPINGTON, a parish of England, in Cambridge¬ 
shire ; 2 miles south of Cambridge. Here are still the ruins 
of the mill celebrated by Chaucer in the Miller’s Tale. Po¬ 
pulation 508. 
TRU'MPLIKE, adj. Resembling a trumpet. 
A breast of brasse, a voyce 
Infract and trumplike. Chapman • 
TRUN, a small town in the north of France, department 
of the Orne. Population 1500. It stands on the Dive; 6 
miles north of Argentan. 
To TRU'NCATE, v. a. [trunco, Lat.] To maim; to lop; 
to cut short. Truncated is an heraldic word applied to 
trees.—These feathers are neither gradually lessened towards 
their extremities, nor rounded; which are the usual termina¬ 
tions of the feathers in most birds; but they appear as if cut 
off tranversely towards their ends with scissars. This is a 
mode of termination, which, in the language of natural his¬ 
tory, is called truncated . Dr. Shaw. 
TRUNCATION, s. The act of lopping or maiming.— 
Decreeing judgment of death or truncation of members. 
Prt/nne. 
TRUNCH, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3 miles 
north-by-east of North Walsham. Population 363. 
TRUNCHEON, s. [tron^on, Fr.] A short staff j a club; 
a cudgel. 
Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser; 
Thy hand is but a finger to my fist; 
Thy leg is a stick compared with this truncheon. 
Shakspeare 
A staff of command. 
The hand of Mars 
Beckon’d with fiery truncheon may retire. Shakspeare. 
■ No ceremony that to great ones ’longs, 
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace, 
As mercy does. Shakspeare. 
To TRUNCHEON, v. a. To beat with a truncheon.— 
Captain, thou abominable cheater! If captains were of my 
mind, they would truncheon you out of taking their names 
upon you before you earn’d them. Shakspeare. 
TRUNCHEONE'ER, s. One armed with a truncheon. 
—I mist the meteor once, and hit that woman, who cried out, 
chibs! when I might see from far some forty trunchconeers 
draw to her succour. Shakspeare. 
TRUNDITCH, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 
8 miles from Derby. 
To TRUNDLE, v. n. [ trondeler, Picard French; 
tpenbl, Saxon, a bowl.] To roll; to bowl along.—In the 
four first it is heaved up by several spondees intermixed with 
proper breathing places, and at last trundles down in a con¬ 
tinued line of dactyls. Addison. 
To TRUNDLE, v. a. To bowl; to roll. 
Like to the golden tripod it did pass. 
From this to this, till’t came to whose it was; 
Caesar to Gallus trundled it, and he 
To Maro. Lovelace. 
TRUNDLE, s. [tpenbl, Saxon ; and trendyl , old Engl, 
trochlea, Prompt. Parv. afterwards trindel, or trindle .] Any 
round rolling thing.—Whether they have not removed—all 
images, candlesticks, trindels or rolles of wax. Abp. 
Cranmer. 
TRU'NDLEBED. See Trucklebed. 
TRUNDLE-TAIL, s. Round-tail; a kind of dog. 
Avaunt you curs; 
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym. 
Or bobtail tike, or trundle-tail. Shakspeare. 
TRUNK, s. [ truncus, Lat.; tronc, Fr.] The body of a 
tree. 
He was 
The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk, 
And suckt my verdure out on’t. Shakspeare. 
The body without the limbs of an animal. 
Thou bring’st me happiness and peace, son John; 
But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown 
From this bare, wither’d trunk. Shakspeare. 
The main body of any thing.—The large trunks of the 
veins discharge the refluent blood into the next adjacent trun/c, 
and so on to the heart. Ray. — [tronc, French.] A chest 
for clothes; sometimes a small chest commonly lined with 
paper.—Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but 
he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places. 
Shakspeare. —The proboscis of an elephant, or other animal. 
Leviathan that at his gills 
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. Milton. 
A long tube through which pellets of clay are blown.— 
In rolls of parchment trunks, the mouth being laid to the 
one end and the ear to the other, the sound is heard much 
farther than in the open air. Bacon. 
To TRUNK, v. a. [trunco, L at] To truncate; to maim • 
to lop. Obsolete. ' 
Large streams of blood out of the trunked stock 
Forth gush’d, like water streams from riven rock. Spenser. 
TRUNKED, adj. Having a trunk.—She is thick set with 
strong and well trunked trees. Howell. 
TRUNK-HOSE, s. Large breeches formerly worn. 
The short trunk-hose shall show thy foot and knee 
Licentious, and to common eye-sight free; 
And with a bolder stride, and looser air. 
Mingled with men, a man thou must appear. Prior. 
TRUNNIONS, f. [trognons, Fr.] The knobs or bunch- 
togs of a gun, that bear it on the cheeks of a carriage 
Bailey, ° 
TRUNS, a petty town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons • 
6 miles west of Ilantz. ’ 
TRURO, a market town and borough of England, in the 
county of Cornwall. It is situated in a deep dell, at the con- 
fhaence of the two small rivers Kenwyn and St. Allen, which 
direct their streams on each side of the town, and at the bot¬ 
tom unite with a branch of Falmouth harbour, commonly 
called Truro creek or river. At every spring tide the waters 
are swelled into a fine lake, two miles in length, and of suffi¬ 
cient depth to be navigable for vessels of upwards of 200 tons 
burden. And to this advantageous situation is chiefly to be 
ascribed 
