Definition of trunk

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Trunk (n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath..

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Untrunked :: Untrunked (a.) Separated from its trunk or stock.
Side :: Side (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side..
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc..
Acrolith :: Acrolith (n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood..
Bard :: Bard (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Pandiculation :: Pandiculation (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy..
Stocker :: Stockdove (n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees..
Induviate :: Induviate (a.) Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree..
Aura :: Aura (n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches..
Manitrunk :: Manitrunk (n.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.
Limb :: Limb (n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish..
Truncal :: Truncal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body..
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..
Luggage :: Luggage (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents..
Grass Tree :: 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..
Stud :: Stud (n.) A stem; a trunk.
Tree :: Tree (n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
Excurrent :: Excurrent (a.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top..
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