Adjacent Words
To trail oarsTo train
To train a gun
To train up
To travel by dak
To travel post
To traverse a yard
To tread a measure
To tread on
To tread on the neck of
To tread out
To tread the stage
To tread upon one's heels
To tread upon the heels of
To trench at
To trim in
To trim up
To troop the
To trot out
To trump up
To truss a person
To truss up
To trust
To trust in
To trust on
To try a fall
To try conclusions
To try on
To tumble home
To turn
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Trifle Tri"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. --Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.
