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- English Word Truss Definition To bind or pack close; to make into a truss.
- English Word Truss Definition To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- English Word Truss Definition To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- English Word Truss Definition To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.
- English Word Truss Definition To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up.
- English Word Trussed Definition of Truss
- English Word Trussing Definition of Truss
- English Word Trussing Definition The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
- English Word Trussing Definition 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.
- English Word Trussing Definition The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
- English Word Trust Definition Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
- English Word Trust Definition Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
- English Word Trust Definition Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
- English Word Trust Definition That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
- English Word Trust Definition The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- English Word Trust Definition That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- English Word Trust Definition An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
- English Word Trust Definition An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
- English Word Trust Definition Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
- English Word Trust Definition To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.