=Trueworth=, brother of Lydia, and friend of Sir William Fondlove.--S. Knowles, _The Love-Chase_ (1837). =Trull= (_Dolly_). Captain Macheath says of her, “She is always so taken up with stealing hearts, that she does not allow herself time to steal anything else” (act ii. 1).--Gay, _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1727). =Trulla=, the daughter of James Spenser, a Quaker. She was first dishonored by her father, and then by Simeon Wait (_or_ Magna´no), the tinker. He Trulla loved, Trulla more bright Than burnished armor of her knight, A bold virago, stout and tall As Joan of France or English Mall. S. Butler, _Hudibras_, i. 2 (1663). =Trul´liber= (_Parson_), a fat clergyman; ignorant, selfish, and slothful.--Fielding, _The Adventures of Joseph Andrews_ (1742). Parson Barnabas, Parson Trulliber, Sir Wilful Witwould, Sir Francis Wronghead, Squire Western, Squire Sullen; such were the people who composed the main strength of the Tory party for sixty years after the Revolution.--Macaulay. ⁂ “Sir Wilful Witwould,” in _The Way of the World_, by Congreve; “Sir Francis Wronghead,” in _The Provoked Husband_, by C. Cibber; “Squire Western,” in _Tom Jones_, by Fielding; “Squire Sullen,” in _The Beaux’ Stratagem_, by Farquhar. =Trunnion= (_Commodore Hawser_), a one-eyed naval veteran, who has retired from the service in consequence of injuries received in engagements; but he still keeps garrison in his own house, which is defended with drawbridge and ditch. He sleeps in a hammock, and makes his servants sleep in hammocks, as on board ship, takes his turn on watch, and indulges his naval tastes in various other ways. Lieutenant Jack Hatchway is his companion. When he went to be married, he rode on a hunter which he steered like a ship, according to the compass, tacking about, that he might not “go right in the wind’s eye.”--T. Smollett, _The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle_ (1750). It is vain to criticize the manœuvre of Trunnion, tacking his way to church on his wedding day, in consequence of a head wind.--_Encyc. Brit._, Art. “Romance.” ⁂ Dickens has imitated this in Wemmick’s house, which had flag and drawbridge, fortress and gun in miniature; but the conceit is more suited to “a naval veteran” than a lawyer’s clerk. (See WEMMICK.) =Truscott= (_Jack_), officer in U. S. Army, and, according to his wife, “gallant, noble, gentle, tender, true, faithful--and--um--_sweet_!” Truscott’s character, said to be drawn from life, is one of the finest in Captain Charles King’s series of military novels. Truscott leads the rescuing party to the cottonwood copse where a handful of U. S. soldiers are penned in by Indians.