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ascribed that rapid improvement which has raised the town, 
though of no very remote antiquity, to the rank of the metro¬ 
polis of Cornwall. Its central situation with respect to the 
commerce and chief productions of the county, its advanc¬ 
ing prosperity, the regularity and handsome appearance of 
its buildings, and the similarity of its local regulations to those 
of our principal cities, justly entitling it to this appellation. 
The town is situated in the three parishes of St. Mary, St. 
Clement, and Kenwyn, the former occupying its central parts, 
and portions of the two latter its eastern and western sides. 
On the great road to Falmouth, on a gentle ascent, an elegant 
new street, called Lemon-street, has been formed. It is spa¬ 
cious and commodious, and the houses are built on a regular 
plan, and faced with granite. The town now consists of 
about 12 streets, through the principal of which run the roads 
to St. Austel on the east, to Falmouth on the south, to Red¬ 
ruth on the west, and to Bodmin on the north. 
It appears to have been incorporated between the years 
1130 and 1140, by Richard de Lucy, a person of great note 
in the reigns of Stephen and Henry II., and supposed to 
have been an earl of the county. Besides the charter, he 
allowed it the highest privilege of a burgh, exemption from 
toll. Since that time its charter of incorporation has been 
frequently renewed. The last, which is now in force, was 
granted to the borough in the 31st of Elizabeth. By this 
the government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aider- 
men, and 20 capital burgesses. Truro returns two members 
to parliament. This privilege was conferred in the 23d of Ed¬ 
ward I., and the right of election vested in the corporation. 
Truro contains 400 houses, and 2482 inhabitants. Market 
on Wednesday and Saturday; the last a very large one, with 
four annual fairs; 11 miles north of Falmouth, and 257 west- 
by-south of London. Lat. 50. 1G. N. long 5. 2. W. 
TRURO, a town of Nova Scotia, in Halifax county, at the 
head of the basin of Minas; 3 miles south of Onslow, and 
40 north-by-west of Halifax. 
TRURO, a post township of the United States, in Barn¬ 
stable county, Massachusetts. Population 1209 ; 40 miles 
north-east of Barnstable, and 107 south-east of Boston. Lat. 
42. N. long. 70.8. W. 
TRURO, a township of the United States, in Franklin 
county, Ohio. 
TRUSHAM, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 2| 
miles north-north-west of Chudleigh. 
TRU'SION, s. [trudo , Lat.] The act of thrusting or 
pushing.-—By attraction we do not understand drawing, 
pumping, sucking, which is really pulsion and trusion. 
Bentley. 
TRUSLEY, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; 7 miles 
west of Derby. 
TRUSS, s. [trousse, Fr.] A bandage by which ruptures 
are restrained from lapsing.—A hernia would succeed, and 
the patient be put to the trouble of wearing a truss. Wise¬ 
man. —Bundle; any thing thrust close together. 
All as a poor pedler he did wend. 
Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. 
As belles and babies, and glasses in his packe. Spenser, 
Trouse; breeches. Obsolete. 
To TRUSS, v. a. \trousser, Fr.] To pack up close to¬ 
gether.—You might have trussed him and all his apparel 
into an eel-skin. 
TRUSS. See Surgery. 
TRUST, s. [traust, Runick.] Confidence; reliance on 
another.—What a fool is honesty ! and trust, his sworn bro¬ 
ther, a very simple gentlemau. Shakspeare .—Charge re¬ 
ceived in confidence. 
In my wretched case ’twill be more just 
Not to have promis’d, than deceive your trust. Drydcn. 
Confident opinion of any event. 
His trust was the Eternal to be deemed 
Equal in strength. Milton. 
Credit given without examination.-—Most take things upon 
trust, and misemploy their assent by lazily enslaving their 
Locke .—Credit on promise 
Ralegh, 
Milton. 
minds to the dictates of others, 
of payment. 
Ev’n such is time, who takes on trust 
Our youth, our joys, our all we have. 
And pays us but with age and dust. 
Something committed to one’s faith. 
Thou the sooner 
Temptation found’st, or over potent charms. 
To violate the sacred trust of silence 
Deposited within thee. 
Deposit; something committed to charge, of which an 
account must be given.—Although the advantages one man 
possesseth more than another, may be called his property with 
respect to other men, yet with respect to God they are only a 
trust.. Swift. —Confidence in supposed honesty.—Behold 
I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; wherefore 
do not entreat her evil. Tob. —State of him to whom some¬ 
thing is entrusted.—I serve him truly, that will put me in 
trust. Shakspeare. —Being transplanted out of his cold 
barren diocese he was left in that great trust with the king. 
Clarendon. 
To TRUST, v. a. To place confidence in; to confide in. 
I’d be tom in pieces ere I’d trust a woman 
With wind. R. Johnson. 
To believe; to credit.—Give me your hand: trust me 
you look well. Shakspeare. —To admit in confidence to 
the power over any thing.—When you lie down, with a 
short prayer commit yourself into the hands of your faithful 
Creator; arid when you have done, trust him with yourself 
as you must do when you are dying. Bp. Taylor. _To 
commit with confidence. 
Give me good fame, ye pow’rs,and make me just. 
This much the rogue to public ears will trust: 
In private then :—When wilt thou, mighty Jove, 
My wealthy uncle from this world remove ? Dryden. 
To venture confidently.—Fool’d by thee to trust thee 
from my .side. Milton.—To sell upon credit. 
To TRUST, v. n. To be confident of something future. 
From this grave, this dust. 
My God shall raise me up I trust. Ralegh. 
To have confidence ; to rely ; to depend without doubt. 
Sin never shall hurt them more who rightly trust 
In this his satisfaction. Milton. 
To be credulous; to be won to confidence. 
Well you may fear too far 
-Safer than trust too far. Shakspeare. 
To expect. 
TRUSTE'E, s. One entrusted with any thing.—Having 
made choice of such a confessor that you may trust your 
soul with, sincerely open your heart to him, and look upon 
him only as he is a trustee from God, commissioned by him 
as his ministerial deputy, to hear, judge, and absolve you. 
Bp. Taylor —One to whom something is committed for the 
use and behoof of another.—You are not the trustees of the 
public liberty: and if you have not right to petition in a 
crowd much less to intermeddle in the management of affairs. 
Dryden. 
TRU'STER, s. One who trusts. 
Nor shall you do mine ear that violence, 
To make it truster of your own report 
Against yourself. Shakspeare. 
TRUSTHORPE, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire ; 
7 7 miles north-east-by-east of Althorp. 
TRU'STILY, adv. Honestly; faithfully; with fidelity. 
TRU'STINESS, s. Honesty; fidelity ; faithfulness._if 
the good qualities which lie dispersed among other creatures, 
innocence in a sheep, trustiness in a dog, are singly so com¬ 
mendable, how excellent is the mind, which ennobles them 
into virtues. Grew. 
TRU'STLESS, adj. Unfaithful; unconStant; not to be 
trusted. A word elegant but Out of use, Dr. Johnson says, 
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