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TRENTAL, _s._ A service of thirty ma.s.ses, which were usually celebrated upon as many different days, for the dead.
_Bannatyne P._
Fr. _trentel_, id. from _trente_, thirty.
_To_ TREST, to trust.
V. ~Traist~.
TREST, TRAIST, TRIST, _s._
1. The frame of a table, S. _tress_.
_Pal. Hon._
2. A tripod.
_Douglas._
3. The frames for supporting artillery.
_Acts Ja. V._
Fr. _tresteau_, fulcrum mensae.
TREST, _s._ A beam.
V. ~Trast~.
TRET, _adj._ Long and well proportioned.
_Wallace._
Fr. _traict_, _trait_, drawn out, lengthened.
TRETABYL, _adj._ Tractable, pliable.
_Douglas._
_To_ TRETE, _v. a._ To entreat.
V. ~Treit~.
~Tretie~, _s._ Entreaty.
_Henrysone._
TRETIE, _s._ A treatise.
Fr. _traite_.
_Dunbar._
TREVALLYIE, _s._ A train or retinue, implying the idea of its meanness, Clydes.
C. B. _trafull-iaw_, to bustle extremely.
TREVISS, TREVESSE, TRAVESSE, _s._
1. Any thing laid across by way of bar, S.
2. A counter or desk in a shop, S. B.
L. B. _travacha_, _travayso_, Fr. _travaison_, intertignium.
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_.
