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rsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.

Any one of several species of pigeons more or less resembling the true turtledoves, as the American mourning dove (see under Dove), and the Australian turtledove (Stictopelia cuneata).

Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.

differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is…

A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera.

Believing the thing alleged no to be true; disbelieving; especially, believing that Bible is not a divine revelation, or that Christ was not a divine or a supernatural person. "Unbelieving Jews." Acts xiv. 2. -- Un`be*liev"ing*ly, adv. -- -- Un`be*liev"ing*ness, n.

Not deniable; incapable of denial; palpably true; indisputable; obvious; as, undeniable evidence.

Indivisible. [Obs.] True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.

r weight. Pope. His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Tennyson.

Unsteady; fickle. [Obs.] O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue. Chaucer.

Something not true; a false statement. [Recent & R.] A. Trollope.

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer.

A tea urn. See under Tea. Urn mosses (Bot.), the order of true mosses; -- so called because the capsules of many kinds are urn- shaped.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

quadratures. -- Variation of the needle (Geog. & Naut.), the angle included between the true and magnetic meridians of a place; the deviation of the direction of a magnetic needle from the true north and south line; -- called also declination of the needle.

Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.

Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. { 1. Dicotyledons (called also Exogens). -- Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed cont…

association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course. He can open a vein of true and noble thinking. Swift.

To utter; to report; to publish. [Obs.] By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies. Milton. Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations. Barrow.

To prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate. This is verified by a number of examples. Bacon. So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify. The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign. Milton.