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- Trunk - n. - The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
- Trunk - n. - The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
- Trunk - n. - The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
- Trunk - n. - That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- Trunk - n. - That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
- Trunk - n. - The proboscis of an elephant.
- Trunk - n. - The proboscis of an insect.
- Trunk - n. - A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
- Trunk - n. - A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
- Trunk - n. - A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- Trunk - n. - A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- Trunk - n. - A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- Trunk - v. t. - To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
- Trunk - v. t. - To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
- Trunkback - n. - The leatherback.
- Trunked - a. - Having (such) a trunk.
- Trunkfish - n. - Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
- Trunkful - n. - As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
- Trunkfuls - pl. - of Trunkful
- Trunkwork - n. - Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
- Induviate - a. - Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree.
- Limb - n. - A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
- Pan - n. - The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
- Thorax - n. - The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
- Cycas - n. - A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
- Pandiculation - n. - A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
- Cocoa palm - - A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
- Side - n. - The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
- Grass tree - - An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.
- Synangium - n. - The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
- Stump - n. - The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
- Talipot - n. - A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
- Untrunked - a. - Separated from its trunk or stock.
- Heartwood - n. - The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
- Carbuncle - n. - A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
- Pylangium - n. - The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
- Sit - v. t. - To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
- Set - v. t. - To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
- Canoe - n. - A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
- Trunk - n. - The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
- Torso - n. - The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.
- Paddlewood - n. - The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
- Fast - n. - The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
- Support - v. t. - To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
- Tamarind - n. - A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
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- H1503 גֶּזַע - 1503 גֶּזַע - גֶּזַע - - gezaʻ - geh'-zah - from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees); the trunk or stump of atree (as felled or as planted); stem, stock. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8560 תֹּמֶר - 8560 תֹּמֶר - תֹּמֶר - - tômer - to'-mer - from the same root as תָּמָר; a palm trunk; palm tree. - Noun Masculine - heb