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Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson.

voked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.

em victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. [Obs.] "It's a man untruth." Sir W. Scott.

To affirm; to support or defend by argument. It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it. South.

weight or importance; to make no difference. -- To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. -- To make of. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. "Makes she no more of me…

Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Shak.

One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr. Chaucer. To be a martyr, signifies only to witness the truth of Christ; but the witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with persecution, that martyrdom n…

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).

ak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Bacon. I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. Shak.

An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism. 'T is their maxim, Love is love's reward. Dryden.

g soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

A very great number; an indefinitely large number. Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.

A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.

A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.

exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain. The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. Shak. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we to do. Heb. iv. 13.

rved him from the hour of my nativity. Shak. Thou hast left ... the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

Conformed to truth or reality; as: