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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ dreadful; horrible
TRE'MOUR, _s._ the state of trembling or quivering
TRE'MULOUS, _a._ trembling; fearful; quivering
TREPIDA'TION, _s._ fear; terror; hurry; confused haste; terrified flight
TRI'ANGLE, _s._ a figure of three angles
TRIBU'NAL, _s._ the seat of a judge; a court of justice
TRI'BUTE, _s._ payment in acknowledgment; subjection
TRI'PLE, _a._ threefold; treble
TRI'UMPH, _s._ victory; conquest
TRIU'MPHANT, _a._ victorious; celebrating a victory
TRO'PHY, _s._ something shown or treasured up in proof of victory
TRO'UBLE, _v.n._ disturb; afflict; tease; disorder
TRU'NCATE, _v.a._ maim; cut short
TRU'NNIONS, _s._ the knobs or bunchings of a gun, that bear it on the
checks of a carriage
TUBE, _s._ a pipe; a long hollow body
TU'BULAR, _a._ resembling a pipe or trunk
TUMU'LTUOUS, _a._ uproarious; noisy
TU'NIC, _s._ part of the Roman dress, natural covering; tunicle
TU'NNEL, _s._ funnel; shaft of a chimney; passage underground
TU'RBAN, _s._ the covering worn by the Turks on their heads
TU'RPITUDE, _s._ shamefulness; baseness
TY'RANNY, _s._ severity; rigour
TY'RANT, _s._ an absolute monarch governing imperiously; a cruel and
severe master; an oppressor

U'LTIMATE, _a.


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