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Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]

Trickery; also, a trick. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A treatise in this science. Analytical trigonometry, that branch of trigonometry which treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions. -- Plane trigonometry, and Spherical trigonometry, those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangle…

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

A subordinate or inferior ministry. Jer. Taylor.

Want of pleasantry. [R.]

In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]

A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.

The rabble; the crowd; the mob. Shall they hoist me up, And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome. Shak.

re held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary. He said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. 2 Kings x. 22.

A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.

A place where wine is sold. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.

brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery. Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile. Keble.

ne bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

otion to a cause. Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

The worship of animals.