truce

noun

1. A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.

   “An uneasy truce”

   “[I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.”

2. An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.

   “He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.”

   “They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.”

   “[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To come to an agreement to cease fighting.

   “Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.”