Definition of trunk

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Trunk (n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column..

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Lid :: Lid (n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk..
Sit :: 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..
Intrunk :: Intrunk (v. t.) To inclose as in a trunk; to incase.
Mail :: Mail (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried..
Pack :: Pack (n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater..
Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..
Arm :: Arm (n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard..
Boxfish :: Boxfish (n.) The trunkfish.
Stud :: Stud (n.) A stem; a trunk.
Alitrunk :: Alitrunk (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Crotch :: Crotch (n.) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree..
Tray :: Tray (n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles..
Bust :: Bust (n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body..
Hornbeam :: Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech..
Truncus :: Truncus (n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.
Bard :: Bard (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Side :: Side (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side..
Cocoa Palm :: 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..
Limb :: Limb (n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
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