Also 6 truse. Now rare. [f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To make a truce.
1569. Stocker, trans. Diod. Sic., III. v. 109. Who after that victorie, trused with the Aretians.
1731. Fielding, Mod. Husb., II. xi. If you please, my lord, to truce with your proposals.
1893. E. L. Wakeman, in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 25 May. The factions had attacked each other, retreated, parleyed, blarneyed, scorned, truced.
2. trans. To bring to an end by or as by means of a truce; to put an end to.
1618. Middleton, Peacemaker, Wks. (Bullen), VIII. 326. Spain … betwixt whom and England the ocean ran with blood…, nor ever truced her crimson effusion.
1706. T. Baker, Tunbr. Walks, II. i. We may truce the debate.
