英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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True-blue
(a.)
Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; -- a term derived
from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its
unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.
True-blue
(n.)
A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
True-born
(a.)
Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title;
as, a true-born Englishman.
True-bred
(a.)
Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.
True-bred
(a.)
Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred
gentleman.
True-hearted
(a.)
Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless
or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.
True-penny
(n.)
An honest fellow.
Truelove
(n.)
One really beloved.
Truelove
(n.)
A plant. See Paris.
Truelove
(n.)
An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning,
perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
Trueness
(n.)
The quality of being true; reality; genuineness;
faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.
Truffle
(n.)
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi,
usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum)
and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of
food.
Truffled
(a.)
Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles;
as, a truffled turkey.
Trug
(n.)
A trough, or tray.
Trug
(n.)
A hod for mortar.
Trug
(n.)
An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Trug
(n.)
A concubine; a harlot.
Trugging-house
(n.)
A brothel.
Truism
(n.)
An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is
pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed
to falsism.
Truismatic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.