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m its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach. Milton.

An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.

In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.

A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.

The leatherback.

Having (such) a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.

Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidæ, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem. [Obs.]

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [R.] Ford.

The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

Separated from its trunk or stock. [Obs.]

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C.…

s in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

hich carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.