TREILLAGE — TRIDENT NWAD TREILLAGE.1

TREILLAGE, n. trel’lage. In gardening, a sort of rail-work, consisting of light posts and rails for supporting espaliers, and sometimes for wall trees. NWAD TREILLAGE.1

TRELLIS, n. In gardening, a structure or frame of cross-barred work, or lattice work, used like the treillage for supporting plants. NWAD TRELLIS.1

TRELLISED, a. Having a trellis or trellises. NWAD TRELLISED.1

TREMBLE, v.i. [L. tremo.] NWAD TREMBLE.1

1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder. NWAD TREMBLE.2

Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. NWAD TREMBLE.3

2. To shake; to quiver; to totter. NWAD TREMBLE.4

Sinai’s gray top shall tremble. NWAD TREMBLE.5

3. To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles. NWAD TREMBLE.6

TREMBLEMENT, n. In French music, a trill or shake. NWAD TREMBLEMENT.1

TREMBLER, n. One that trembles. NWAD TREMBLER.1

TREMBLING, ppr. Shaking, as with fear, cold or weakness; quaking; shivering. NWAD TREMBLING.1

TREMBLINGLY, adv. So as to shake; with shivering or quaking. NWAD TREMBLINGLY.1

Tremblingly she stood. NWAD TREMBLINGLY.2

TREMBLING-POPLAR, n. The aspen tree, so called. NWAD TREMBLING-POPLAR.1

TREMENDOUS, a. [L. tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.] NWAD TREMENDOUS.1

1. Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful. Hence, NWAD TREMENDOUS.2

2. Violent; such as may astonish by its force and violence; as a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall; a tremendous noise. NWAD TREMENDOUS.3

TREMENDOUSLY, adv. In a manner to terrify or astonish; with great violence. NWAD TREMENDOUSLY.1

TREMENDOUSNESS, n. The state or quality of being tremendous, terrible or violent. NWAD TREMENDOUSNESS.1

TREMOLITE, n. A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered. It is classed by Hauy with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole grammatite. It is of three kinds, asbestos, common, and glassy tremolite; all of a fibrous or radiated structure, and of a pearly color. NWAD TREMOLITE.1

Tremolite is a subspecies of straight edged augite. NWAD TREMOLITE.2

TREMOR, n. [L. from tremo.] An involuntary trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm or old. NWAD TREMOR.1

He fell into a universal tremor. NWAD TREMOR.2

TREMULOUS, a. [L. tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.] NWAD TREMULOUS.1

1. Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling christian. NWAD TREMULOUS.2

2. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. NWAD TREMULOUS.3

TREMULOUSLY, adv. With quivering or trepidation. NWAD TREMULOUSLY.1

TREMULOUSNESS, n. The state of trembling or quivering; as the tremulousness of an aspen leaf. NWAD TREMULOUSNESS.1

TREN, n. A fish spear. NWAD TREN.1

TRENCH, v.t. NWAD TRENCH.1

1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. [This is the appropriate sense of the word.] NWAD TRENCH.2

2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.] NWAD TRENCH.3

3. To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing. NWAD TRENCH.4

4. To cut a long gash. [Not in use.] NWAD TRENCH.5

TRENCH, v.i. To encroach. [See Intrench.] NWAD TRENCH.6

TRENCH, n. A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land. NWAD TRENCH.7

1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench, as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, etc. To open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach. NWAD TRENCH.8

TRENCHANT, a. Cutting; sharp. [Little used.] NWAD TRENCHANT.1

TRENCHED, pp. Cut into long hollows or ditches; furrowed deep. NWAD TRENCHED.1

TRENCHER, n. A wooden plate. Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution. NWAD TRENCHER.1

1. The table. NWAD TRENCHER.2

2. Food; pleasures of the table. NWAD TRENCHER.3

It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers. NWAD TRENCHER.4

TRENCHER-FLY, n. [trencher and fly.] One that haunts the tables of others; a parasite. NWAD TRENCHER-FLY.1

TRENCHER-FRIEND, n. [trencher and friend.] One who frequents the tables of others; a spunger. NWAD TRENCHER-FRIEND.1

TRENCHER-MAN, n. [trencher and man.] NWAD TRENCHER-MAN.1

1. A feeder; a great eater. NWAD TRENCHER-MAN.2

2. A cook. NWAD TRENCHER-MAN.3

TRENCHER-MATE, n. [trencher and mate.] A table companion; a parasite. NWAD TRENCHER-MATE.1

TRENCHING, ppr. Cutting into trenches; digging; ditching. NWAD TRENCHING.1

TRENCH-PLOW, n. [trench and plow.] A kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows. NWAD TRENCH-PLOW.1

TRENCH-PLOW, v.t. [trench and plow.] To plow with deep furrows. NWAD TRENCH-PLOW.2

TRENCH-PLOWING, n. The practice or operation of plowing with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. NWAD TRENCH-PLOWING.1

TREND, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to trundle, or to run.] NWAD TREND.1

To run; to stretch; to tend; to have a particular direction; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. NWAD TREND.2

TREND, n. That part of the stock of an anchor from which the size is taken. NWAD TREND.3

TREND, v.t. In rural economy, to free wool from its filth. [Local.] NWAD TREND.4

TRENDER, n. One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Local.] NWAD TRENDER.1

TRENDING, ppr. Running; tending. NWAD TRENDING.1

1. Cleaning wool. [Local.] NWAD TRENDING.2

TRENDING, n. The operation of freeing wool from filth of various kinds. NWAD TRENDING.3

TRENDLE, n. Any thing round used in turning or rolling; a little wheel. NWAD TRENDLE.1

TRENTAL, TRENTALS, n. [L. triginta.] An office for the dead in the Romish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party’s death. NWAD TRENTAL.1

TREPAN, n. [L. tero, terebra, on the root Rp.] In surgery, a circular saw for perforating the skull. It resembles a wimble. NWAD TREPAN.1

TREPAN, v.t. To perforate the skull and take out a piece; a surgical operation for relieving the brain from pressure or irritation. NWAD TREPAN.2

Trepan, a snare, and trepan, to ensnare, are from trap, and written trepan, which see. NWAD TREPAN.3

TREPANNED, pp. Having the skull perforated. NWAD TREPANNED.1

TREPANNER, n. One who trepans. NWAD TREPANNER.1

TREPANNING, ppr. Perforating the skull with a trepan. NWAD TREPANNING.1

TREPANNING, n. The operation of making an opening in the skull, for relieving the brain from compression or irritation. NWAD TREPANNING.2

TREPHINE, n. [See Trepan.] An instrument for trepanning, more modern than the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimblet, and a little sharp perforator, called the center-pin. NWAD TREPHINE.1

TREPHINE, v.t. To perforate with a trephine; to trepan. NWAD TREPHINE.2

TREPID, a. [L. trepidus.] Trembling; quaking. [Not used.] NWAD TREPID.1

TREPIDATION, n. [L. trepidatio, form trepido, to tremble.] NWAD TREPIDATION.1

1. An involuntary trembling; a quaking or quivering, particularly from fear or terror; hence, a state of terror. The men were in great trepidation. NWAD TREPIDATION.2

2. A trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections. NWAD TREPIDATION.3

3. In the old astronomy, a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament, to account for the changes and motion of the axis of the world. NWAD TREPIDATION.4

4. Hurry; confused haste. NWAD TREPIDATION.5

TRESPASS, v.i. [L. trans, beyond, and passer, to pass.] NWAD TRESPASS.1

1. Literally, to pass beyond; hence primarily, to pass over the boundary line of another’s land; to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. A man may trespass by walking over the ground of another, and the law gives a remedy for damages sustained. NWAD TRESPASS.2

2. To commit any offense or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude to the injury of another. NWAD TRESPASS.3

If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him-- 1 Kings 8:31. See Luke 17:3, 4. NWAD TRESPASS.4

3. In a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty. NWAD TRESPASS.5

In the time of his disease did he trespass yet more. 2 Chronicles 28:22. NWAD TRESPASS.6

We have trespassed against our God. Ezra 10:2. NWAD TRESPASS.7

4. To intrude; to go too far; to put to inconvenience by demand or importunity; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. NWAD TRESPASS.8

TRESPASS, n. In law, violation of another’s rights, not amounting to treason, felony, or misprision of either. Thus to enter another’s close, is a trespass; to attack his person is a trespass. When violence accompanies the act, it is called a trespass vi et armis. NWAD TRESPASS.9

1. Any injury or offense done to another. NWAD TRESPASS.10

If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14. NWAD TRESPASS.11

2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. Colossians 2:13. NWAD TRESPASS.12

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1. NWAD TRESPASS.13

TRESPASSER, n. One who commits a trespass; one who enters upon another’s land or violates his rights. NWAD TRESPASSER.1

1. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner. NWAD TRESPASSER.2

TRESPASSING, ppr. Entering another man’s inclosure; injuring or annoying another; violating the divine law or moral duty. NWAD TRESPASSING.1

TRESS, n. A knot or curl of hair; a ringlet. NWAD TRESS.1

Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare. NWAD TRESS.2

TRESSED, a. Having tresses. NWAD TRESSED.1

1. Curled; formed into ringlets. NWAD TRESSED.2

TRESSURE, n. In heraldry, a kind of border. NWAD TRESSURE.1

TRESTLE, n. tres’l. NWAD TRESTLE.1

1. The frame of a table. NWAD TRESTLE.2

2. A movable form for supporting any thing. NWAD TRESTLE.3

3. In bridges, a frame consisting of two posts with a head or cross beam and braces, on which rest the string-pieces. [This is the use of the word in New England. It is vulgarly pronounced trussel or trussl.] NWAD TRESTLE.4

Trestle-trees, in a ship, are two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the top-mast. NWAD TRESTLE.5

TRET, n. [probably from L. tritus, tero, to wear.] NWAD TRET.1

In commerce, an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four per cent on the weight of commodities. It is said this allowance is nearly discontinued. NWAD TRET.2

TRETHINGS, n. Taxes; imposts. [I know not where used. It is unknown, I believe, in the United States.] NWAD TRETHINGS.1

TREVET, n. [three-feet, tripod.] A stool or other thing that is supported by three legs. NWAD TREVET.1

TREY, n. [L. tres; Eng. three.] A three at cards; a card of three spots. NWAD TREY.1

TRI, a prefix in words of Greek and Latin origin, signifies three. NWAD TRI.1

TRIABLE, a. [from try.] That may be tried; that may be subjected to trial or test. NWAD TRIABLE.1

1. That may undergo a judicial examination; that may properly come under the cognizance of a court. A cause may be triable before one court, which is not triable in another. In England, testamentary causes are triable in the ecclesiastical courts. NWAD TRIABLE.2

TRIACONTAHEDRAL, a. [Gr. thirty, and side.] Having thirty sides. In mineralogy, bounded by thirty rhombs. NWAD TRIACONTAHEDRAL.1

TRIACONTER, n. [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a vessel of thirty oars. NWAD TRIACONTER.1

TRIAD, n. [L. trias, from tres, three.] The union of three; three united. In music, the common chord or harmony, consisting of the third, fifth and eighth. NWAD TRIAD.1

TRIAL, n. [from try.] Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining its effect, or what can be done. A man tries to lift a stone, and on trial finds he is not able. A team attempts to draw a load, and after unsuccessful trial, the attempt is relinquished. NWAD TRIAL.1

1. Examination by a test; experiment; as in chimistry and metallurgy. NWAD TRIAL.2

2. Experiment; act of examining by experience. In gardening and agriculture, we learn by trial what land will produce; and often, repeated trials are necessary. NWAD TRIAL.3

3. Experience; suffering that puts strength, patience of faith to the test; afflictions or temptations that exercise and prove the graces or virtues of men. NWAD TRIAL.4

Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. Hebrews 11:36. NWAD TRIAL.5

4. In law, the examination of a cause in controversy between parties, before a proper tribunal. Trials are civil or criminal. Trial in civil causes, may be by record or inspection; it may be by witnesses and jury, or by the court. By the laws of England and of the United States, trial by jury, in criminal cases, is held sacred. No criminal can be legally deprived of that privilege. NWAD TRIAL.6

5. Temptation; test of virtue. NWAD TRIAL.7

Every station is exposed to some trials. NWAD TRIAL.8

6. State of being tried. NWAD TRIAL.9

TRIALITY, n. [form three.] Three united; state of being three. [Little used.] NWAD TRIALITY.1

TRIANDER, n. [Gr. three, and a male.] A plant having three stamens. NWAD TRIANDER.1

TRIANDRIAN, a. Having three stamens. NWAD TRIANDRIAN.1

TRIANGLE, n. [L. triangulum; tres, tria, three, and angulus, a corner.] In geometry, a figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. The three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or the number of degrees in a semicircle. NWAD TRIANGLE.1

If the three lines or sides of a triangle are all right, it is a plane or rectilinear triangle. NWAD TRIANGLE.2

If all the three sides are equal, it is an equilateral triangle. NWAD TRIANGLE.3

If two of the sides only are equal, it is an isosceles or equicrural triangle. NWAD TRIANGLE.4

If all the three sides are unequal, it is a scalene or scalenous triangle. NWAD TRIANGLE.5

If one of the angles is a right angle, the triangle is rectangular. NWAD TRIANGLE.6

If one of the angles is obtuse, the triangle is called obtusangular or amblygonous. NWAD TRIANGLE.7

If all the angles are acute, the triangle is acutangular or oxygonous. NWAD TRIANGLE.8

If the three lines of a triangle are all curves, the triangle is said to be curvilinear. NWAD TRIANGLE.9

If some of the sides are right and others curve, the triangle is said to be mixtilinear. NWAD TRIANGLE.10

If the sides are all arcs of great circles of the sphere, the triangle is said to be spherical. NWAD TRIANGLE.11

TRIANGLED, a. Having three angles. NWAD TRIANGLED.1

TRIANGULAR, a. Having three angles. NWAD TRIANGULAR.1

In botany, a triangular stem has three prominent longitudinal angles; a triangular leaf has three prominent angles, without any reference to their measurement or direction. NWAD TRIANGULAR.2

TRIANGULARLY, adv. After the form of a triangle. NWAD TRIANGULARLY.1

TRIARIAN, a. [L. triarii.] Occupying the third post or place. NWAD TRIARIAN.1

TRIBE, n. [L. tribus.] NWAD TRIBE.1

1. A family, race or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. NWAD TRIBE.2

2. A division, class or distinct portion of people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated. The city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. Rome was originally divided into three tribes; afterward the people were distributed into thirty tribes, and afterwards into thirty five. NWAD TRIBE.3

3. A number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common; as a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. NWAD TRIBE.4

Linneus distributed the vegetable kingdom into three tribes, viz. monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations. NWAD TRIBE.5

By recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a division of animals or vegetables, intermediate between order and genus. Cuvier divides his orders into families, and his families into tribes, including under the latter one or more genera. Leach, in his arrangement of insects, makes his tribes, on the contrary, the primary subdivisions of his orders, and his families subordinate to them, and immediately including the genera. NWAD TRIBE.6

Tribes of plants, in gardening, are such as are related to teach other by some natural affinity or resemblance; as by their duration, the annual, biennial, and perennial tribes; by their roots, as the bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous-rooted tribes; by the loss or retention of their leaves, as the deciduous and ever-green tribes; by their fruits and seeds, as the leguminous, bacciferous, coniferous, nuciferous and pomiferous tribes, etc. NWAD TRIBE.7

4. A division; a number considered collectively. NWAD TRIBE.8

5. A nation of savages; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as the tribes of the six nations; the Seneca tribe in America. NWAD TRIBE.9

6. A number of persons of any character or profession; in contempt; as the scribbling tribe. NWAD TRIBE.10

TRIBE, v.t. To distribute into tribes or classes. [Not much used.] NWAD TRIBE.11

TRIBLET, TRIBOULET, n. A goldsmith’s tool for making rings. NWAD TRIBLET.1

TRIBOMETER, n. [Gr. to rub or wear, and measure.] An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction. NWAD TRIBOMETER.1

TRIBRACH, n. [Gr. three, and short.] In ancient prosody, a poetic foot of three short syllables, as melius. NWAD TRIBRACH.1

TRIBRACTEATE, a. Having three bracts about the flower. NWAD TRIBRACTEATE.1

TRIBULATION, n. [L. tribulo, to thrash, to beat.] Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution. NWAD TRIBULATION.1

When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, he is offended. Matthew 13:21. NWAD TRIBULATION.2

In the world ye shall have tribulation. John 16:33. NWAD TRIBULATION.3

TRIBUNAL, n. [L. tribunal, from tribunus, a tribune, who administered justice.] NWAD TRIBUNAL.1

1. Properly, the seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice. NWAD TRIBUNAL.2

2. More generally, a court of justice; as, the house of lords in England is the highest tribunal in the kingdom. NWAD TRIBUNAL.3

3. In France, a gallery or eminence in a church or other place, in which the musical performers are placed for a concert. NWAD TRIBUNAL.4

TRIBUNARY, a. [from tribune.] Pertaining to tribunes. NWAD TRIBUNARY.1

TRIBUNE, n. [L. tribunus, from tribus, tribe.] NWAD TRIBUNE.1

1. In ancient Rome, an officer or magistrate chosen by the people to protect them from the oppression of the patricians or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls. These magistrates were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, each of whom commanded a division or legion. In the year of Rome 731, the senate transferred the authority of the tribunes to Augustus and his successors. There were also other officers called tribunes; as tribunes of the treasury, of the horse, of the making of arms, etc. NWAD TRIBUNE.2

2. In France, a pulpit or elevated place in the chamber of deputies, where a speaker stands to address the assembly. NWAD TRIBUNE.3

TRIBUNESHIP, n. The office of a tribune. NWAD TRIBUNESHIP.1

TRIBUNICIAN, TRIBUNITIAL, a. Pertaining to tribunes; as tribunician power or authority. NWAD TRIBUNICIAN.1

1. Suiting a tribune. NWAD TRIBUNICIAN.2

TRIBUTARY, a. [from tribute.] Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. The republic of Ragusa is tributary to the grand seignor. Many of the powers of Europe are tributary to the Barbary states. NWAD TRIBUTARY.1

1. Subject; subordinate. NWAD TRIBUTARY.2

He, to grace his tributary gods-- NWAD TRIBUTARY.3

2. Paid in tribute. NWAD TRIBUTARY.4

No flatt’ry tunes these tributary lays. NWAD TRIBUTARY.5

3. Yielding supplies of any thing. The Ohio has many large tributary streams; and is itself tributary to the Mississippi. NWAD TRIBUTARY.6

TRIBUTARY, n. One that pays tribute or a stated sum to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security. What a reproach to nations that they should be the tributaries of Algiers! NWAD TRIBUTARY.7

TRIBUTE, n. [L. tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.] NWAD TRIBUTE.1

1. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty. The Romans made all their conquered countries pay tribute, as do the Turks at this day; and in some countries the tribute is paid in children. NWAD TRIBUTE.2

2. A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect. NWAD TRIBUTE.3

3. Something given or contributed. NWAD TRIBUTE.4

TRICAPSULAR, a. [L. tres, three, and capsula, a little chest.] NWAD TRICAPSULAR.1

In botany, three-capsuled; having three capsules to each flower. NWAD TRICAPSULAR.2

TRICE, v.t. In seamen’s language, to haul and tie up by means of a small rope or line. NWAD TRICE.1

TRICE, n. A very short time; an instant; a moment. NWAD TRICE.2

If they get never so great spoil at any time, they waste the same in a trice. NWAD TRICE.3

A man shall make his fortune in a trice. NWAD TRICE.4

TRICHOTOMOUS, a. [See Trichotomy.] Divided into three parts, or divided by threes; as a trichotomous stem. NWAD TRICHOTOMOUS.1

TRICHOTOMY, n. [Gr. three, and to cut or divide.] Division into three parts. NWAD TRICHOTOMY.1

TRICK, n. [L. tricor, to play tricks, to trifle, to baffle. We see the same root in the Low L. intrico, to fold, and in intrigue. Trick is from drawing, that is, a drawing aside, or a folding, interweaving, implication.] NWAD TRICK.1

1. An artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception; a fraudful contrivance for an evil purpose, or an underhand scheme to impose upon the world; a cheat or cheating. We hear of tricks in bargains, and tricks of state. NWAD TRICK.2

He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. NWAD TRICK.3

2. A dexterous artifice. NWAD TRICK.4

On one nice trick depends the gen’ral fate. NWAD TRICK.5

3. Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth. NWAD TRICK.6

4. The sly artifice or legerdemain of a juggler; as the tricks of a merry Andrew. NWAD TRICK.7

5. A collection of cards laid together. NWAD TRICK.8

6. An unexpected event. NWAD TRICK.9

Some trick not worth an egg. [Unusual.] NWAD TRICK.10

7. A particular habit or manner; as, he has a trick of drumming with his fingers, or a trick of frowning. [This word is in common use in America, and by no means vulgar.] NWAD TRICK.11

TRICK, v.t. To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse. NWAD TRICK.12

TRICK, v.t. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically. NWAD TRICK.13

Trick her off in air. NWAD TRICK.14

It is often followed by up, off, or out. NWAD TRICK.15

People are lavish in tricking up their children in fine clothes, yet starve their minds. NWAD TRICK.16

TRICK, v.i. To live by deception and fraud. NWAD TRICK.17

TRICKED, pp. Cheated; deceived; dressed. NWAD TRICKED.1

TRICKER, TRICKSTER, n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a cheat. NWAD TRICKER.1

TRICKER, n. A trigger. [See Trigger.] NWAD TRICKER.2

TRICKERY, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem. NWAD TRICKERY.1

TRICKING, ppr. Deceiving; cheating; defrauding. NWAD TRICKING.1

1. Dressing; decorating. NWAD TRICKING.2

TRICKING, n. Dress; ornament. NWAD TRICKING.3

TRICKISH, a. Artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. NWAD TRICKISH.1

TRICKLE, v.i. [allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.] NWAD TRICKLE.1

To flow in a small gentle stream; to run down; as, tears trickle down the cheek; water trickles from the eaves. NWAD TRICKLE.2

Fast beside there trickled softly down NWAD TRICKLE.3

A gentle stream. NWAD TRICKLE.4

TRICKLING, ppr. Flowing down in a small gentle stream. NWAD TRICKLING.1

TRICKLING, n. The act of flowing in a small gentle stream. NWAD TRICKLING.2

He wakened by the trickling of his blood. NWAD TRICKLING.3

TRICKMENT, n. Decoration. [Not used.] NWAD TRICKMENT.1

TRICKSY, a. [from trick.] Pretty; brisk. [Not much used.] NWAD TRICKSY.1

TRICK-TRACK, n. A game at tables. NWAD TRICK-TRACK.1

TRICLINIARY, a. [L. tricliniaris, from triclinium, a couch to recline on at dinner.] Pertaining to a couch for dining, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table. NWAD TRICLINIARY.1

TRICOCCOUS, a. [L. tres, three, and coccus, a berry.] A tricoccous or three-grained capsule is one which is swelling out in three protuberances, internally divided into three cells, with one seed in each; as in Euphorbia. NWAD TRICOCCOUS.1

TRICORPORAL, a. [L. tricorpor; tres and corpus.] Having three bodies. NWAD TRICORPORAL.1

TRICUSPIDATE, a. [L. tres, three, and cuspis, a point.] NWAD TRICUSPIDATE.1

In botany, three-pointed; ending in three points; as a tricuspidate stamen. NWAD TRICUSPIDATE.2

TRIDACTYLOUS, a. [Gr. three, and a toe.] Having three toes. NWAD TRIDACTYLOUS.1

TRIDE, a. Among hunters, short and ready; fleet; as a tride pace. NWAD TRIDE.1

TRIDENT, n. [L. tridens; tres, three, and dens, tooth.] NWAD TRIDENT.1

In mythology, a kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, which the fables of antiquity put into the hands of Neptune, the deity of the ocean. NWAD TRIDENT.2

TRIDENT, TRIDENTED, a. Having three teeth or prongs. NWAD TRIDENT.3