Vocabulary : Trunnel to Trusted

Trunnel : A trundle. ;; See Treenail.
Trunnion : A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon. ;; A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.
Trunnioned : Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
Trusion : The act of pushing or thrusting.
Truss : A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. ;; A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. ;; A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. ;; A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants. ;; The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast. ;; An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style. ;; To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. ;; To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly;

Trussed : of Truss
Trussing : of Truss ;; The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. ;; The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss. ;; The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
Trust : An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary. ;; A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreem
Trust company : Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
Trusted : of Trust