Tree. This might once have been used of the dead timber, no less than of the living growth; this use surviving still in ‘roodtree,’ ‘axletree,’ ‘saddletree.’
In a greet hous ben not oneli vessels of gold and of silver, but also of tree [lignea, Vulg.] and of erthe.—2 Tim. ii. 20. Wiclif.
He had a castel of tre, which he cleped Mategrifon.—Capgrave, Chronicle of England, p. 145.
Take down, take down that mast of gowd,
Set up a mast of tree;
Ill sets it a forsaken lady
To sail sae gallantlie.
Old Ballad.
Triumph. A name often transferred by our early writers to any stately show or pageantry whatever, not restricted, as now, to one celebrating a victory. See Bacon’s Essay, the 37th, with the heading ‘Of Masks and Triumphs,’ passim.
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