2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
TREATURE
Trea"ture, n.
Defn: Treatment. [Obs.] Fabyan.
TREATY Trea"ty, n.; pl. Treaties. Etym: [OE. tretee, F. traité, LL. tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. See Treat, and cf. Tractate.]
1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade. Spenser.
2. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.
3. A proposal tending to an agreement. [Obs.] Shak.
4. A treatise; a tract. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
TREBLE Tre"ble, a. Etym: [OE. treble threefold, OF. treble, treible, L. triplus. See Triple.]
1. Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.