the act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.-an agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.-a proposal tending to an agreement.-a treatise; a tract.