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father's grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

ound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.

bal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship. [R.] The tribual lispings of the Ephraimites. Fuller.

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings. They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon.

One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. Bacon.

To cut off; to lop; to maim.

Cut off; cut short; maimed.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] "Out of the trunked stock." Spenser.

to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions. Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried. Shak.

Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the. "We . . . claim the honors of the turf." Cowper.

; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain. Ulterior object or aim, an object or aim beyond that which is avowed.

e, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism.

Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden. Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone. Gay.

Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.

ionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is gone some…

The act of unifying, or the state of being unified. Unification with God was the final aim of the Neoplatonicians. Fleming.

quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. [Obs.] Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.

Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.

f a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. South.

The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.