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Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.

Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.

Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.

Subterranean.

Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.

Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.

To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Terrestrial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To thrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To burst or break in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.

The frame of a table. Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. -- Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.

One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten.

A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent.

To support as a crest; to bear. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.

Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast Tennyson.