n. [ L. ala wing + truncus trunk. ] (Zool.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ Cf. Icel. kr&unr_;nka to croak. ] To cry like a crane. [ Obs. ] “The crane crunketh.” Withals (1608). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink. ] 1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drunken condition; a spree. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Drunk + -ard. ] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.

{ } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [ R. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. manus hand + E. trunk. ] (Zool.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. from Shrink. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. tronquer. See Truncate. ] 1. To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [ Obs. ] “Out of the trunked stock.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tronc, L. truncus, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as trompe a trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of a tree (see Trump a trumpet). Cf. Truncate. ] 1. The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

About the mossy trunk I wound me soon,
For, high from ground, the branches would require
Thy utmost reach. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus. [ 1913 Webster ]

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6. (Zool.) (a) The proboscis of an elephant. (b) The proboscis of an insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A long tube through which pellets of clay, p&unr_;as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Locked up in chests and trunks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Steam Engine) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trunk engine, a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10. --
Trunk hose, large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees. --
Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance. --
Trunk turtle (Zool.), the leatherback. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The leatherback. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a trunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

. An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trunkfuls As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1st pref. un- + trunk. ] Separated from its trunk or stock. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]