Chapter Treasury of Sciences to Tressure of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Tree of Buddha (The). The botree.

Tree of Knowledge (The). Genesis ii. 9.

Tree of Liberty A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, “as symbols of growing freedom.” The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

Tree of Life Genesis ii. 9.

Trees Trees burst into leaf -

Ash	earliest	May 13th,	latest	June 14th.
Beech	"	April 19th,	"	May 7th.
Damson	"	March 28th,	"	May 13th.
Horse-chestnut	"	March 17th,	"	April 19th.
Larch	"	March 21st,	"	April 14th.
Lime	"	April 6th,	"	May 2nd.
Mulberry	"	May 12th,	"	June 23rd.
Oak	"	April 10th,	"	May 26th.
Poplar	"	March 6th,	"	April 19th.
Spanish chestnut	"	April 20th,	"	May 20th.
Sycamore	"	March 28th,	"	April 23rd.

    Trees of the Sun and Moon. Oracular trees growing “at the extremity of India;” mentioned in the Italian romance of Guerino Meschino.

Tregeagle To roar like Tregeagle - very loudly. Tregeagle is the giant of Dosmary Pool, on Bodmin Downs (Cornwall), whose allotted task is to bale out the water with a limpet-shell. When the wintry blast howls over the downs, the people say it is the giant roaring. (See Giants .)

Tregetour A conjurer or juggler. (From Old French, tresgiat = a juggling trick.) The performance of a conjurer was anciently termed his “minstrelsy;” thus we read of Janio the juggler- “Janio le tregettor, facienti ministralsiam suam coram rege ... 20s.” (Lib. Compul. Garderoboe, an. (4 Edw. II. fol. 86), MS. Cott. Nero chap. viii.)

Tremont' Boston in Massachusetts was once so called, from the three hills on which the city stands.

Trench-the-Mer The galley of Richard Coeur de Lion; so called from its “fieetness.” Those who sailed in it were called by the same name.

Trencher A good trencher-man. A good eater. The trencher is the platter on which food is cut (French, trancher, to cut), by a figure of speech applied to food itself.
   He that waits for another's trencher, eats many a late dinner. He who is dependent on others must wait, and wait, and wait, happy if after waiting he gets anything at all.

“Oh, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes favours!
There is, betwixt that smile he would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have.”
Shakespeare: Henry VIII., iii. 2.

Trencher Cap The mortar-board cap worn at college; so called from the trenchered or split boards which form the top. Mortar-board is a perversion of the French mortier.

Trencher Friends Persons who cultivate the friendship of others for the sake of sitting at their board, and the good things they can get.

Trencher Knight A table knight, a suitor from cupboard love.

Trenchmore A popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

“Nimble-heeled mariners ... capering ... sometimes a Morisco, or Trenchmore of forty miles long.”- Taylor the Water-Poet.

Tressure (2 syl.). A border round a shield in heraldry. The origin of the tressure in the royal arms of Scotland is traced by heralds to the ninth century. They assert that Charlemagne granted