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an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. Mortimer.

One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.

One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.

Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.

Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.

Truth. [Obs. & R.] Marston.

Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.

Struthious.

A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

Same as Struthiones.

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.

Struthious.

Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.

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

Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth"ful*ness, n.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

ion to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.