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 *chausen: also traveller's-tale and traveller's talent (Grose).

1760-62. Smollett, Greaves, vi. Aha! dost thou tip me the traveller, my boy?

Travelling-piquet, subs. phr. (old).—'A mode of amusement, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation:—A parson riding on a gray horse, with blue furniture—game; an old woman under a hedge—ditto; a cat looking out of a window—60; a man, woman, and child in a buggy—40; a man with a woman behind him—30; a flock of sheep—20; a flock of geese—10; a postchaise—5; a horseman—2; a man or woman walking—1' (Grose).

Travelling Scholarship, subs. phr. (University).—Rustication (q.v.).

1794. Gent. Mag., 1085. Soho, Jack! almost presented with a travelling scholarship? very nigh being sent to grass, hey?

Travelling Tradesman, subs. phr. (common).—A respectable mechanic in search of work.

Traverse. See Cart and Tom Cox's Transverse.

Traviata. See Come.

Tray, adj. (thieves').—Three: spec. three months' imprisonment; tray soddy mits = threepence halfpenny. [It. tre, soldi, mezza.]

1897. Marshall, Pomes, 71. And the magistrate who interviewed her left but very little doubt That the moons she'd have to do would be a tray.

Before one can say trey-ace, phr. (old).—In a moment.

Tray Trip, subs. phr. (old).—An ancient game like Scotch hop (or Hopscotch), played on a pavement, marked out in chalk into different compartments.

Treacle, subs. (common).—1. Thick inferior port.

2. (common). Love-making, spooning (q.v.). Treacle-moon = the honeymoon.

Treacle Bolly. See Bolly.

Treacle-sleep, subs. phr. (colloquial).—See quot.

1849. Carlyle [Froude, Life in London, viii.]. I fell first into a sluggish torpor, then into treacle-sleep, and so lay sound.

Treacle Town, subs. phr. (common).—1. Bristol: the city is an important centre of the sugar-refining industry. Also (2) = Macclesfield: in allusion to a hogshead of treacle which burst, and, for a time, filled the gutters.

Treacle-wag, subs. phr. (provincial).—Very small beer.

Tread (or Treadle), subs. (conventional).—The act of kind, properly of birds: as verb (or to chuck a tread) = to copulate: see Ride. Treading = copulation; tread-fowl = a cock-bird; and treddle = a whore ('a cant term'—Halliwell).

1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, 'Monk's Tale,' Prol., 57. Thow woldest han been a tredefowel aright.

1594. Shakspeare, 'Love's Lab. Lost, v. 2. 915. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws; when turtles tread.