2. Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser.

Treen liquors, especially that of the date.

Evelyn.

Treen, obs. pl. of Tree. " The shady treen." Fairfax.

Tree"nail` (?), n. [Tree + nail.] (Shipbuilding) A long wooden pin used

in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

[Written also trenail, and trunnel.]

Tre"fle (?), n. [F. tréfle. See Trefoil.] (Fort.) A species of time; —

so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

||Tré`flé" (?), a. [F. tréflé. See Trefoil.] (Her.) Having a

||three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely,

||ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

||

Tre"foil (?), n. [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It.

trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.] 1.

(Bot.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white

clover, red clover, etc.; — less properly, applied also to the

nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

2. (Arch.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or

foils.

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