Definitions – T

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TARRY


TAR’RYverb intransitive [Latin taurus, a bull.]

1. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.

Tarry all night and wash your feet. Genesis 19:2.

2. To stay behind. Exodus 12:39.

3. To stay in expectation; to wait.

Tarry ye here for us, till we come again to you. Exodus 24:14.

4. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer.

Come down to me, tarry not. Genesis 45:9.

5. To remain; to stay.

He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. Psalms 101:7.

TAR’RYverb transitive To wait for.

I cannot tarry dinner. [Not in use.]

T’ARRYadjective [from tar.] Consisting of tar, or like tar.

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Transfiguration


TRANSFIGURA’TIONnoun

1. A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.

See Matthew 17:1.

2. A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.


Travail


TRAV’AILverb intransitive [Latin trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]

1. To labor with pain; to toil.

2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Genesis 35:16.

TRAV’AILverb transitive To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm. [Not in use.]

TRAV’AILnoun Labor with pain; severe toil.

As every thing of price, so doth this require travail

1. Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail


Trust


TRUSTnoun

1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.

He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Proverbs 29:25.

2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psalms 71:1.

3. Charge received in confidence.

Reward them well, if they observe their trust

4. That which is committed to one’s care. Never violate a sacred trust

5. Confident opinion of any event.

His trust was with th’ Eternal to be deem’d

Equal in strength.

6. Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust

7. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust

8. Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Every man’s talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable.

9. Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty.

10. State of him to whom something is entrusted.

I serve him truly, that will put me in trust

11. Care; management. 1 Timothy 6:17.

12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another.

TRUSTverb transitive To place confidence in; to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us.

He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived.

1. To believe; to credit.

TRUST me, you look well.

2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.

3. To venture confidently.

Fool’d by thee, to trust thee from my side.

4. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions.

It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust

TRUSTverb intransitive To be confident of something present or future.

trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 1:12.

We trust we have a good conscience. Hebrews 13:18.

1. To be credulous; to be won to confidence.

Well, you may fear too far–

Safer than trust too far.

To trust in, to confide in; to place confidence in; to rely on; a use frequent in the Scriptures.

TRUST in the Lord, and do good. Psalms 37:3.

They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Isaiah 42:17.

To trust to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.

The men of Israel–trusted to the liars in wait. Judges 20:36.