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rees and shrubs, of which the olive is the type. It includes also the ash, the lilac, the true jasmine, and fringe tree.

One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.

A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.

Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation. "Lancelot and I are out." Shak. Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest…

omething else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. "The logical outcome." H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

To date later than the true or proper period. Milton.

To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak.

Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrost…

direction with, something else. The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Sir T. Browne.

late with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.

each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. Ascham.

In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. Sir T. Browne.

Partial; favoring one party. I will be true judge, and not party. Chaucer. Charter party. See under Charter.

g value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. Atterbury.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.