Vocabulary : Trecentist to Treebeard

Trecentist : A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.
Trecento : The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.
Trechometer : An odometer for vehicles.
Treckschuyt : A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
Treddle : See Treadle. ;; A prostitute; a strumpet. ;; The dung of sheep or hares.

Tredille : A game at cards for three.
Tree : Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. ;; Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. ;; A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. ;; A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. ;; Wood; timber. ;; A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. ;; To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. ;; To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Tree burial : Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.
Tree calf : A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.
Treebeard : A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

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