A Concise Dictionary of Middle English eBook

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A Concise Dictionary of Middle English eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 648 pages of information about A Concise Dictionary of Middle English.

Trist, sb. trust, a tryst, meeting-place, B, W, W2, PP, S2; station in hunting, HD; trust, PP.—­Icel. traust.  For E. i* = Icel. au, cp.  ME. mire = Icel. maurr; see SkD (s.v. pismire).

Tristen, v. to trust, S2, C3, W, W2, PP; trysten, S2, PP; truste, S2; trosten, S3, S2, PP; truste, pt. s., S, S2. Der.:  tristyng, a trust, W. See above.

Tristili, adv. confidently, W, W2.

Tristnen, v. to trust, W. Der.:  tristenyng, a trust, W.

Triuials, sb. pl. studies connected with the trivium, the initiatory course taught in the schools, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, S3; trivial, adj., initiatory, ND.—­Schol.  Lat. trivialem.

Troblen, v. to trouble, W; troubild, pp., WA; see Trublen.

Trod, sb. a trodden path, SkD (s.v. trade), HD.  See Treden.

Troden, pp. of Treden.

Trofle, sb. a trifle, S3; see Trufle.

Trompe, sb. a trump, trumpet, C3; trumpe, C.—­AF. trompe.

Trompe, v. to play the trumpet, PP; trumpe, W, Prompt.—­AF. trumper.

Tronchoun, sb. a truncheon, broken piece of a spear-shaft.  C; trunchone, Prompt.—­OF. tronchon, tronASec.on.

Trone, sb. throne, S, PP, S3, C2, C3, W; trones, pl., S; one of the nine orders of angels, WA; tronen, S2.—­OF. trone; Lat. thronum; from Gr. [Greek:  thronos].

Tronen, v. to enthrone, PP.—­OF. troner.

Trost, subj. pr. s. trust, S2; see Tristen.

Trotevale, sb. a trifling thing, HD.

Trouble, adj. troubled, S2, C2.—­AF. truble, pp. of trubler; see Trublen.

Trouthe, sb. truth, S.2, C3; see Trewthe.

Trowabile, adj. credible, H.

Trowen, v. to believe, S, S2, S3, C2, C3, H, PP; tru, S2; trawed, pt. pl., expected, S2.—­Icel. trAa; Swed. tro.  See Trewen.

Trowyng, sb. belief, S2.

Truage, sb. tribute, S2; see Trewage.

Trublen, v. to trouble, W; troblen, W; triblen, H.—­AF. trubler; Late Lat. turbulare.

Trufle, sb. nonsense, absurd tale, trifle, PP, SkD; trofle, S3, SkD; trefele, PP; triful, PP; trifle, PP.—­AF. trufle, trofle, mockery, OF. truffe, a jest, a flout, also a truffle (Cotg.); Lat. tubera, truffles; see SkD (s.v. truffle).  For the intrusive l cf. Triacle.

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