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Chapter L: B. travacha, travayso, Fr. travaison, intertignium

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3. Hangings, a curtain.

_King's Quair._

_To_ TREW, _v. a._ To trust.

V. ~Trow~.

TREW, _s._ Often in pl. _trewis_, a truce.

O. Fr. _treu_, also _treves_, id.

_Barbour._

~Trewyd~, _part. pa._ Protected by a truce.

_Wyntown._

TREWS, _s. pl._ Trouse, trousers, S.

Ir. _trius_, Gael. _triubhas_, Fr. _trousse_.

TREWAGE, _s._ Tribute.

_Wallace._

O. Fr. _truage_, _treuage_, toll, custom.

TREWANE, _adj._ _Auld trewane_, anciently credited.

V. ~Tronie~.

_Knox._

Su. G. _troen_, fidus.

TREWBUT, _s._ Tribute.

_Wallace._

TRY, _s._ Means of finding any thing that has been lost, S. B.

* TRIAL, _s._ Proof, S.

_Spalding._

TRIAPONE, _s._

_Burel._

TRIG, _adj._ Neat, trim, S.

_Macneill._

_To_ TRIGLE, TRIGIL, _v. n._ To trickle.

Isl. _tregill_, alveolus.

_Douglas._

* _To_ TRIM, _v. a._ To drub, to beat soundly, S.

TRIMMIE, _s._ A disrespectful term applied to a female, S. B.

TRYNE, _s._ Art, stratagem.

_Godly Sangs._

Fr. _traine_, id.

TRYNE, _s._ Train, retinue.

_Burel._

Teut. _treyn_, comitatus.

TRINES, _s. pl._ Drinking matches.

_Polwart._

TRINKETING, _s._ Clandestine correspondence with an opposite party.

_Baillie._

O. Fr. _trigaut_, one who uses shifts and tricks.

_To_ TRINKLE, TRYNKLE, _v. n._ To trickle, S.

_Douglas._

_To_ TRINKLE, _v. n._ To tingle, to thrill.

_Baillie._

_To_ TRINSCH, _v. a._

1. To cut, to hack.

Fr. _trench-er_, id.

_Douglas._

2. To cut off, to kill.

_Douglas._

_To_ TRINTLE, TRINLE, _v. a._ to trundle or roll, S.

Fr. _trondel-er_, id.; A. S. _trendel_, globus.

TRIP, _s._ A flock, a considerable number.

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