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Trembling; quaking. Thackeray.

Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang] Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign th…

Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring." Thackeray.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

e; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also twidle.] Thackeray.

To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

One who unbosoms, or discloses. [R.] "An unbosomer of secrets." Thackeray.

A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.

To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.

A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.

Not traded in or bartered; hence, not hackneyed; unusual; not common. Shak.

n, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.] They had their ups and downs of fortune. Thackeray.

An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.

siting book, a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept. Thackeray. -- Visiting card. See under Card.

ed in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." Sir W. Scott. "At least I earned my wage." Thackeray. "Pay them a wage in advance." J. Morley. "The wages of virtue." Tennyson. By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry. Drayton. Our praises are our wages…

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

ondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross swore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.