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In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.

conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper.

Strangely. [Obs.] Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. Shak.

Substantially expressed. Milton. The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. She sprung as a colt doth in the trave. Chaucer.

In accordance with truth; truly. Shak.

igation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust. Shak. Reward them well, if they observe their trust. Denham.

epends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. Coleridge.

Quality or state unruly.

Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer.

(Math.), the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem. Davies & Peck. (Math. Dict.)

Verily; truly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. [Obs. or Archaic] "Ywis," quod he, "it is full dear, I say." Chaucer. She answered me, "I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." Ascham. A right good knight, and true of word ywis. Spenser.