2. A concubine; a harlot. [Obs.] Taylor (1630).

Trug"ging-house` (?), n. [See Trug, n., 2.] A brothel. [Obs.] Robert

Greene.

Tru"ism (?), n. [From True.] An undoubted or self-evident truth; a

statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or

argument; — opposed to falsism.

Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words.

J. P. Smith.

Tru`is*mat"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of

truisms. [R.]

Trull (?), n. [G. trolle, trulle; cf. OD. drol a jester, Dan. trold an

elf, imp, Sw. troll a goblin, Icel. troll, tröll, a giant, fiend,

demon. Cf. Droll, Troll.] 1. A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.

Shak.

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