Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.]
{Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time
persons have worked.
{Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for
registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman
visits certain stations in his beat.
{Time enough}, in season; early enough. ``Stanly at Bosworth
field, . . . came time enough to save his life.'' --Bacon.
{Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which
can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain
definite interval after being itself ignited.
{Time immemorial}, or {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See
under {Immemorial}.
{Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when
wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when
locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
{Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the
day, as ``good morning,'' ``good evening,'' and the like;
greeting.
{To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t.
{To make time}.
(a) To gain time.
(b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something;
as, the trotting horse made fast time.
{To move}, {run}, or {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or
go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest
possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance
which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is
to run against time.
{True time}.
(a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly.
(b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit
of the sun's center over the meridian.
True \True\, a. [Compar. {Truer}; superl. {Truest}.] [OE. trewe,
AS. tre['o]we faithful, true, from tre['o]w fidelity, faith,
troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi,
adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue,
n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n., Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan.
tro, adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tro, n., Goth. triggws,
adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith. Cf.
{Trow}, {Trust}, {Truth}.]
1. Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state
of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or
the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true
history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
2. Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern;
exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the
original.
Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. --Sir
W. Scott.
3. Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince,
or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false,
fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to
her husband; an officer true to his charge.
Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled. --Milton.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. --Herbert.
4. Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended;
genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of
country; a true Christian.
The true light which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. --John i. 9.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
--Pope.
Note: True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.
{Out of true}, varying from correct mechanical form,
alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not
perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in
the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.]
{A true bill} (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned
by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges
to be true.
{True time}. See under {Time}.