Treille
in heraldry, a lattice; it differs from fretty in that the pieces do not interlace under and over, but cross athwart each other, and are nailed at the joint. Called also trellis.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Treille, Treitschke, Trelawny.
Treitschke
HEINRICH VON, a German historian; born in Dresden, Ger many, Sept. 15, 1834; was educated at Ger- Heidelberg, Tübingen, Bonn and Leipsic. He devoted himself to the study of his tory and became Professor of History at Freiburg in 1863, and held the same chair at Heidelberg in 1867-1874 . In the latter year he accepted the similar chair at the University of Berlin . He was the author of "Ten Years of German Struggles"; "Socialism and its Patrons"; "Two Emperors"; and the "History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century," which was his principal work, but was left unfinished. He died in Berlin, April 28, 1896.
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Trelawny
SIR JONATHAN, an English clergyman; from Westminster passed in 1663 to Christ Church, Oxford, and became bishop in turn of Bristol (1685), Exeter (1688), and Winchester (1707); he was one of the Seven Bishops tried under James II., and is the hero of R. S. Hawker's well-known ballad, "And shall Trelawny die?" This was based on a contemporary refrain, the strong feeling aroused among the Cornishmen due rather to Trelawny's being head of an ancient Cornish house than to his being a bishop or even a martyr in a good cause. 1721. Trelawny died in
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Trelawny (EDWARD JOHN an English author)
EDWARD JOHN, an English author; born in London, November 13, 1792. He is remembered as a picturesque and somewhat theatrical adventurer (supposed to be drawn by Byron in "The Corsair"), the friend of Byron, Shelley, etc., and Byron's companion (1823) in the Greek war of liberation. FF a Younger Son" (1830); but his bestknown work is " Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron" (1858), reissued in 1878 as "Records of Byron, cremated, and the ashes interred near Shelley, and the Author ." His bo Shelley's at Rome. His portrait is prebody was served in Millais's painting "The North- Sussex, Aug. 13, 1881. west Passage." He died in Sompting, der of hymenomycetous Fungals, the TREMELLINI , an order or sub-orspecies of which are of a gelatinous texcretaceous nucleus, their hymenium in ture, sometimes, though rarely, with a the more typical genera covering the whole surface without any definite upper or under side; sporophores scattered, often lobed or quadripartite; spores often producing secondary spores of spermatia. They grow upon branches or stumps of trees, in crevices of the bark, or on the dead wood, rarely on the ground. Found chiefly in temperate climates, though some are tropical. A widely distributed representative is the jew's-ear. hornblende. It is a silicate of calcium TREMOLITE , a mineral, a variety of and magnesium, is white or colorless, and usually occurs in long, prismatic crystals. genus of Octopus, with three species,
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Tremoctopus
in zoölogy, a subfrom the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Some or all of the arms are webbed aquiferous pores on the back of the head. half-way up, and there are two large
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Tremolant
an organ and harmonium stop which causes the air as it proceeds to the pipes or reeds to pass through a valve having a movable top, tached. The up-and-down movement of to which a spring and weight are atthe top of the valve gives a vibratory movement to the air, which similarly affects the sound produced. On American organs, a fan-wheel by rotating in molo. front of the wind chest causes a tre- Boston, Mass., was known. It arose from
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Tremont
the early name by which the three hills on which the city is built. It has also been called Trimount, or Trimountain.
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Trench
RICHARD CHENEVIX, Ireland, Sept. 9, 1807; was graduated at an English clergyman ; born in Dublin, Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829. He entered the Church , and became curate at Hadleigh ( 1833-1835), incumbent at Curdridge (1835-1840 ), curate to Archdeacon Wilberforce at Alverstoke (1840- Cyc. Vol. IX 1844), rector of Itchenstoke (1844-1845), was Hulsean lecturer 1845-1846, Professor of Theology at King's College, London (1846-1858), dean of Westminster (1856-1863), and was finally consecrated archbishop of Dublin, Jan. 1, 1864. He was the author of a collection of poems, and a popular writer on philological and theological subjects. His works include: "Notes on the Parables" (1841); "Notes on the Miracles" (1846); "On the Study of Words" (1851); "Proverbs and Their Lessons" (1853); "Synonyms of the New Testament" (1854); "Englis 'English, Past and Present" (1855); "On Plutarch" (1874); "Lectures on Mediæval Church History" (1878); and many others. He died March 28, 1886.
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Trenck
FRIEDRICH VON DER, BARON, a Prussian officer, celebrated for his adventures and misfortunes; born in Königsberg in 1726, and at the age of strength were built up. The simple 17 he was presented to the king, Frederick II., as a student who was well worthy the royal patronage. Frederick rapidly advanced him in the army, and manifested much regard for him; but Trenck having won the heart of Princess Amelia, the king's sister, his enemies had him accused and arrested. He was imprisoned in the fortress of Glatz, but contrived to effect his escape. He then visited the N. of Europe, Austria, and Italy. In 1758 he was seized at Danzic and was conveyed to Magdeburg, where, loaded with irons, he was for years incarcerated. On procuring his liberation, in 1763, he withdrew to Vienna, after which he went to Aix-la- Chapelle, where literature, politics, and commerce alternately occupied his attention. At his castle of Zwerbeck, in Hungary, he wrote his "Memoirs," a read over Europe. In 1791 he settled in France, joined the Jacobins, and in 1794 was charged with being a secret emissary of the King of Prussia, and died by the guillotine.
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Trendelenburg
FRIED. RICH ADOLF, a German philosopher; born in Eutin, Germany, Nov. 30, 1802. He set forth the ethical aspect of his philosophy in the treatise "The Ethical Idea of Right and Law," and the æsthetic aspect in "Niobe" (1846) and "The Cathedral of Cologne" (1853). He wrote also "Natural Justice on the Ground of Ethics" (2d ed. 1860). His principal claim to distinction as a thinker rests on his acute criticism of the systems of Kant and Hegel. He died in Berlin, Jan. 24, 1872.
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