TRIDENTATE — TRIQUETROUS NWAD TRIDENTATE.1

TRIDENTATE, a. [L. tres and dens, tooth.] Having three teeth. NWAD TRIDENTATE.1

TRIDIAPASON, n. [tri and diapason.] In music, a triple octave or twenty second. NWAD TRIDIAPASON.1

TRIDING. [See Trithing.] NWAD TRIDING.1

TRIDODECAHEDRAL, a. [Gr. three, and dodecahedral.] NWAD TRIDODECAHEDRAL.1

In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each containing twelve faces. NWAD TRIDODECAHEDRAL.2

TRIDUAN, a. [L. triduum; tres and dies, day.] Lasting three days, or happening every third day. [Little used.] NWAD TRIDUAN.1

TRIENNIAL, a. [L. triennis, triennium; tres, three, and annus, year.] NWAD TRIENNIAL.1

1. Continuing three years; as triennial parliaments. NWAD TRIENNIAL.2

2. Happening every three years; as triennial elections. Triennial elections and parliaments were established in England in 1695; but these were discontinued in 1717, and septennial elections and parliaments were adopted, which still continue. NWAD TRIENNIAL.3

TRIENNIALLY, adv. Once in three years. NWAD TRIENNIALLY.1

TRIER, n. [from try.] One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines any thing by a test or standard. NWAD TRIER.1

1. One who tries judicially; a judge who tries a person or cause; a juryman. [See Trior.] NWAD TRIER.2

2. A test; that which tries or approves. NWAD TRIER.3

TRIERARCH, n. [Gr. a trireme, and a chief.] In ancient Greece, the commander of a trireme; also, a commissioner who was obliged to build ships and furnish them at his own expense. NWAD TRIERARCH.1

TRIETERICAL, a. [L. trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. year.] NWAD TRIETERICAL.1

Triennial; kept or occurring once in three years. [Little used.] NWAD TRIETERICAL.2

TRIFALLOW, v.t. [L. tres, three, and fallow.] To plow land the third time before sowing. NWAD TRIFALLOW.1

TRIFID, a. [L. trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.] NWAD TRIFID.1

In botany, divided into three parts by linear sinuses with strait margins; three-cleft. NWAD TRIFID.2

TRIFISTULARY, a. [L. tres and fistula, a pipe.] Having three pipes. NWAD TRIFISTULARY.1

TRIFLE, n. A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character. NWAD TRIFLE.1

With such poor trifles playing. NWAD TRIFLE.2

Moments make the year, and trifles, life. NWAD TRIFLE.3

Trifles NWAD TRIFLE.4

Are to the jealous confirmations strong. NWAD TRIFLE.5

TRIFLE, v.i. To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity. NWAD TRIFLE.6

They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. NWAD TRIFLE.7

1. To indulge in light amusements. NWAD TRIFLE.8

To trifle with, to mock; to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness. NWAD TRIFLE.9

To trifle with, to spend in vanity; to waste. NWAD TRIFLE.10

To trifle away, to no good purpose; as, to trifle with time, or to trifle away time; to trifle with advantages. NWAD TRIFLE.11

TRIFLE, v.t. To make of no importance. [Not in use.] NWAD TRIFLE.12

TRIFLER, n. One who trifles or acts with levity. NWAD TRIFLER.1

TRIFLING, ppr. Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest. NWAD TRIFLING.1

1. a. Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifling debt; a trifling affair. NWAD TRIFLING.2

TRIFLING, n. Employment about things of no importance. NWAD TRIFLING.3

TRIFLINGLY, adv. In a trifling manner; with levity; without seriousness or dignity. NWAD TRIFLINGLY.1

TRIFLINGNESS, n. Levity of manners; lightness. NWAD TRIFLINGNESS.1

1. Smallness of value; emptiness; vanity. NWAD TRIFLINGNESS.2

TRIFLOROUS, a. [L. tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.] Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as a triflorous peduncle. NWAD TRIFLOROUS.1

TRIFOLIATE, a. [L. tres, three, and folium, leaf.] Having three leaves. NWAD TRIFOLIATE.1

TRIFOLIOLATE, a. Having three folioles. NWAD TRIFOLIOLATE.1

TRIFOLY, n. Sweet trefoil. [See Trefoil.] NWAD TRIFOLY.1

TRIFORM, a. [L. triformis; tres and forma.] Having a triple form or shape; as the triform countenance of the moon. NWAD TRIFORM.1

TRIG, v.t. To fill; to stuff. [Not in use.] NWAD TRIG.1

1. To stop; as a wheel. NWAD TRIG.2

TRIG, a. Full; trim; neat. [Not in use.] NWAD TRIG.3

TRIGAMY, n. [Gr. three, and marriage.] State of being married tree times; or the state of having three husbands or three wives at the same time. NWAD TRIGAMY.1

TRIGGER, n. NWAD TRIGGER.1

1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity. NWAD TRIGGER.2

2. The catch of a musket or pistol; the part which being pulled, looses the lock for striking fire. NWAD TRIGGER.3

TRIGINTALS, n. [L. triginta.] Trentals; the number of thirty masses to be said for the dead. NWAD TRIGINTALS.1

TRIGLYPH, n. [Gr. three, and sculpture.] An ornament in the frieze of the Doric column, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels, cut to a right angle, called glyphs, and separated by three interstices, called femora. NWAD TRIGLYPH.1

TRIGON, n. [Gr. three, and angle.] NWAD TRIGON.1

1. A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. NWAD TRIGON.2

2. A kind of triangular lyre or harp. NWAD TRIGON.3

TRIGONAL, TRIGONOUS, a. Triangular; having three angles or corners. NWAD TRIGONAL.1

1. In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles. NWAD TRIGONAL.2

TRIGONOMETRICAL, a. Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry. NWAD TRIGONOMETRICAL.1

TRIGONOMETRICALLY, adv. According to the rules or principles of trigonometry. NWAD TRIGONOMETRICALLY.1

TRIGONOMETRY, n. [Gr. a triangle, and to measure.] The measuring of triangles; the science of determining the sides and angles of triangles, by means of certain parts which are given. When this science is applied to the solution of plane triangles, it is called plane trigonometry; when its application is to spherical triangles, it is called spherical trigonometry. NWAD TRIGONOMETRY.1

TRIGYN, n. [Gr. three, and a female.] In botany, a plant having three pistils. NWAD TRIGYN.1

TRIGYNIAN, a. Having three pistils. NWAD TRIGYNIAN.1

TRIHEDRAL, a. [See Trihedron.] Having three equal sides. NWAD TRIHEDRAL.1

TRIHEDRON, n. [Gr. three, and side.] A figure having three equal sides. NWAD TRIHEDRON.1

TRIJUGOUS, a. [L. tres, three, and jugum, yoke.] In botany, having three pairs. A trijugous leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets. NWAD TRIJUGOUS.1

TRILATERAL, a. [L. tres, three, and latus, side.] Having three sides. NWAD TRILATERAL.1

TRILITERAL, a. [L. tres, three, and litera, letter.] Consisting of three letters; as a triliteral root or word. NWAD TRILITERAL.1

TRILITERAL, n. A word consisting of three letters. NWAD TRILITERAL.2

TRILL, n. A quaver; a shake of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument. [See Shake.] NWAD TRILL.1

TRILL, v.t. To utter with a quavering or tremulousness of voice; to shake. NWAD TRILL.2

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay. NWAD TRILL.3

TRILL, v.i. To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. NWAD TRILL.4

And now and then an ample tear trill’d down NWAD TRILL.5

Her delicate cheek. NWAD TRILL.6

1. To shake or quaver; to play in tremulous vibrations of sound. NWAD TRILL.7

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. NWAD TRILL.8

TRILLED, pp. Shaken; uttered with rapid vibrations. NWAD TRILLED.1

TRILLING, ppr. Uttering with a quavering or shake. NWAD TRILLING.1

TRILLION, n. tril’yun. [a word formed arbitrarily of three, or Gr. million.] The product of a million multiplied by a million, and that product multiplied by a million; or the product of the square of a million multiplied by a million. Thus 1,000,000 x 1,000,000=1,000,000,000,000, and this product multiplied by a million= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. NWAD TRILLION.1

TRILOBATE, a. [L. tres and locus.] Having three lobes. NWAD TRILOBATE.1

TRILOCULAR, a. [L. tres and locus, a cell.] In botany, three-celled; having three cells for seeds; as a trilocular capsule. NWAD TRILOCULAR.1

TRILUMINAR, TRILUMINOUS, a. [L. tres and lumen, light.] Having three lights. NWAD TRILUMINAR.1

TRIM, a. Firm; compact; tight; snug; being in good order. We say of a ship, she is trim, or trim-built; every thing about the man is trim. We say of a person, he is trim, when his body is well shaped and firm; and we say, his dress is trim, when it sits closely to his body and appears tight and snug; and of posture we say, a man or a soldier is trim, when he stands erect. It is particularly applicable to soldiers, and in Saxon, truma is a troop or body of soldiers. NWAD TRIM.1

TRIM, v.t. NWAD TRIM.2

1. In a general sense, to make right, that is, to put in due order for any purpose. NWAD TRIM.3

The hermit trimm’d his little fire. NWAD TRIM.4

2. To dress; to put the body in a proper state. NWAD TRIM.5

I was trimm’d in Julia’s gown. NWAD TRIM.6

3. To decorate; to invest or embellish with extra ornaments; as, to trim a gown with lace. NWAD TRIM.7

4. To clip, as the hair of the head; also, to shave; that is, to put in due order. NWAD TRIM.8

5. To lop, as superfluous branches; to prune; as, to trim trees. NWAD TRIM.9

6. To supply with oil; as, to trim a lamp. NWAD TRIM.10

7. To make neat; to adjust. NWAD TRIM.11

I found her trimming up the diadem NWAD TRIM.12

On her dead mistress-- NWAD TRIM.13

8. In carpentry, to dress, as timber; to make smooth. NWAD TRIM.14

9. To adjust the cargo of a ship, or the weight of persons or goods in a boat, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well. Thus we say, to trim a ship or a boat. NWAD TRIM.15

10. To rebuke; to reprove sharply; a popular use of the word. NWAD TRIM.16

11. To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails. NWAD TRIM.17

To trim in, in carpentry, to fit, as a piece of timber into other work. NWAD TRIM.18

To trip up, to dress; to put in order. NWAD TRIM.19

TRIM, v.i. To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each. NWAD TRIM.20

TRIM, n. Dress; gear; ornaments. NWAD TRIM.21

1. The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing. NWAD TRIM.22

Trim of the masts, is their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distant, far forward or much aft, erect or raking. NWAD TRIM.23

Trim of sails, is that position and arrangement which is best adapted to impel the ship forward. NWAD TRIM.24

TRIMETER, n. A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures. NWAD TRIMETER.1

TRIMETER, TRIMETRICAL, a. [Gr. three measures.] Consisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six feet. NWAD TRIMETER.2

TRIMLY, adv. Nicely; neatly; in good order. NWAD TRIMLY.1

TRIMMED, pp. Put in good order; dressed; ornamented; clipped; shaved; balanced; rebuked. NWAD TRIMMED.1

TRIMMER, n. One that trims; a timeserver. NWAD TRIMMER.1

1. A piece of timber fitted in. NWAD TRIMMER.2

All the joists and the trimmers for the staircase-- NWAD TRIMMER.3

TRIMMING, ppr. Putting in due order; dressing; decorating; pruning; balancing; fluctuating between parties. NWAD TRIMMING.1

TRIMMING, n. Ornamental appendages to a garment, as lace, ribbons and the like. NWAD TRIMMING.2

TRIMNESS, n. Neatness; snugness; the state of being close and in good order. NWAD TRIMNESS.1

TRINAL, a. [L. trinus, three.] Threefold. NWAD TRINAL.1

TRINE, a. Threefold; as trine dimension, that is, length, breadth and thickness. NWAD TRINE.1

TRINE, n. [supra.] In astrology, the aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, forming the figure of a trigon or triangle. NWAD TRINE.2

TRINE, v.t. To put in the aspect of a trine. NWAD TRINE.3

TRINERVATE, a. [L. tres and nervus.] In botany, having three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting behind or beyond the base. NWAD TRINERVATE.1

TRINERVE, TRINERVED, a. In botany, a trinerved or three-nerved leaf, has three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf. NWAD TRINERVE.1

TRINGLE, n. In architecture, a little square member or ornament, as a listel, reglet, platband and the like, but particularly a little member fixed exactly over every triglyph. NWAD TRINGLE.1

TRINITARIAN, a. Pertaining to the Trinity, or to the doctrine of the Trinity. NWAD TRINITARIAN.1

TRINITARIAN, n. One who believes the doctrine of the Trinity. NWAD TRINITARIAN.2

1. One of an order of religious, who made it their business to redeem christians from infidels. NWAD TRINITARIAN.3

TRINITY, n. [L. trinitas; tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.] NWAD TRINITY.1

In theology, the union of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. NWAD TRINITY.2

In my whole essay, there is not any thing like an objection against the Trinity. NWAD TRINITY.3

TRINKET, n. NWAD TRINKET.1

1. A small ornament, as a jewel, a ring and the like. NWAD TRINKET.2

2. A thing of little value; tackle; tools. NWAD TRINKET.3

TRINOMIAL, a. [L. tres and nomen.] In mathematics, a trinomial root, is a root consisting of three parts, connected by the signs + or -. Thus x+y+z, or a+b-c. NWAD TRINOMIAL.1

TRINOMIAL, n. A root of three terms or parts. NWAD TRINOMIAL.2

TRIO, n. A concert of three parts; three united. NWAD TRIO.1

TRIOBOLAR, a. [L. triobolaris; tres and obolus.] Of the value of three oboli; mean; worthless. [Not used.] NWAD TRIOBOLAR.1

TRIOCTAHEDRAL, a. [tri and octahedral.] In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing eight faces. NWAD TRIOCTAHEDRAL.1

TRIOCTILE, n. [L. tres, three, and octo, eight.] In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are three octants or eight parts of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. NWAD TRIOCTILE.1

TRIOR, TRIER, n. [from try.] In law, a person appointed by the court to examine whether a challenge to a panel of jurors, or to any juror, is just. The triors are two indifferent persons. NWAD TRIOR.1

TRIP, v.t. NWAD TRIP.1

1. To supplant; to cause to fall by striking the feet suddenly from under the person; usually followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling; to trip up the heels. NWAD TRIP.2

2. To supplant; to overthrow by depriving of support. NWAD TRIP.3

3. To catch; to detect. NWAD TRIP.4

4. To loose an anchor from the bottom by its cable or buoy-rope. NWAD TRIP.5

TRIP, v.i. To stumble; to strike the foot against something, so as to lose the step and come near to fall; or to stumble and fall. NWAD TRIP.6

1. To err; to fail; to mistake; to be deficient. NWAD TRIP.7

Virgil pretends sometimes to trip. NWAD TRIP.8

TRIP, v.i. NWAD TRIP.9

1. To run or step lightly; to walk with a light step. NWAD TRIP.10

She bounded by and tripp’d so light. NWAD TRIP.11

They had not time to take a steady sight. NWAD TRIP.12

Thus from the lion trips the trembling doe. NWAD TRIP.13

2. To take a voyage or journey. NWAD TRIP.14

TRIP, n. A stroke or catch by which a wrestler supplants his antagonist. NWAD TRIP.15

And watches with a trip his foe to foil. NWAD TRIP.16

1. A stumble by the loss of foot-hold, or a striking of the foot against an object. NWAD TRIP.17

2. A failure; a mistake. NWAD TRIP.18

Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. NWAD TRIP.19

3. A journey; or a voyage. NWAD TRIP.20

I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. NWAD TRIP.21

4. In navigation, a single board in plying to windward. NWAD TRIP.22

5. Among farmers, a small flock of sheep, or a small stock of them. [Local.] NWAD TRIP.23

TRIPARTITE, a. [L. tripartitus; tres, three, and partitus, divided; partior.] NWAD TRIPARTITE.1

1. Divided into three parts. In botany, a tripartite leaf is one which is divided into three parts down to the base, but not wholly separate. NWAD TRIPARTITE.2

2. Having three corresponding parts or copies; as indentures tripartite. NWAD TRIPARTITE.3

TRIPARTITION, n. A division by three, or the taking of a third part of any number or quantity. NWAD TRIPARTITION.1

TRIPE, n. NWAD TRIPE.1

1. Properly, the entrails; but in common usage, the large stomach of ruminating animals, prepared for food. NWAD TRIPE.2

2. In ludicrous language, the belly. NWAD TRIPE.3

TRIPEDAL, a. [L. tres and pes.] Having three feet. NWAD TRIPEDAL.1

TRIPE-MAN, n. A man who sells tripe. NWAD TRIPE-MAN.1

TRIPENNATE, TRIPINNATE, a. [L. tres and penna or pinna.] In botany, a tripinnate leaf is a species of superdecompound leaf, when a petiole has bipinnate leaves ranged on each side of it, as in common fern. NWAD TRIPENNATE.1

TRIPERSONAL, a. [L. tres and persona.] Consisting of three persons. NWAD TRIPERSONAL.1

TRIPETALOUS, a. [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-petaled; having three petals or flower leaves. NWAD TRIPETALOUS.1

TRIPHANE, n. A mineral, spodumene. NWAD TRIPHANE.1

TRIPHTHONG, n. [Gr. three, and sound.] A coalition of three vowels in one compound sound, or in one syllable, as in adieu, eye. NWAD TRIPHTHONG.1

TRIPHTHONGAL, a. Pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of a triphthong. NWAD TRIPHTHONGAL.1

TRIPHYLLOUS, a. [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-leaved; having three leaves. NWAD TRIPHYLLOUS.1

TRIPLE, a. [L. triplex, triplus; tres and plico, to fold.] NWAD TRIPLE.1

1. Threefold; consisting of three united; as a triple knot; a triple tie. NWAD TRIPLE.2

By thy triple shape as thou are seen-- NWAD TRIPLE.3

2. Treble; three times repeated. [See Treble.] NWAD TRIPLE.4

Triple time, in music, is that in which each bar is divided into three measures or equal parts, as three minims, three crotchets, three quavers, etc. NWAD TRIPLE.5

TRIPLE, v.t. To treble; to make threefold or thrice as much or as many. [Usually written treble.] NWAD TRIPLE.6

TRIPLET, n. [from triple.] Three of a kind, or three united. NWAD TRIPLET.1

1. In poetry, three verses rhyming together. NWAD TRIPLET.2

2. In music, three notes sung or played in the time of two. NWAD TRIPLET.3

TRIPLICATE, a. [L. triplicatus, triplico; tres and plico, to fold.] Made thrice as much; threefold. NWAD TRIPLICATE.1

Triplicate ratio, is the ratio which cubes bear to each other. NWAD TRIPLICATE.2

TRIPLICATION, n. The act of trebling or making threefold, or adding three together. NWAD TRIPLICATION.1

1. In the civil law, the same as sur-rejoinder in common law. NWAD TRIPLICATION.2

TRIPLICITY, n. [L. triplex.] Trebleness; the state of being threefold. NWAD TRIPLICITY.1

TRIPLY-RIBBED, a. [triple and rib.] In botany, having a pair of large ribs branching off from the main one above the base, as in the leaves of many species of sunflower. NWAD TRIPLY-RIBBED.1

TRIP-MADAM, n. A plant. NWAD TRIP-MADAM.1

TRIPOD, n. [L. tripus, tripodis; Gr. three, and foot.] NWAD TRIPOD.1

A bench, stool or seat supported by three legs, on which the priest and sibyls in ancient times were placed to render oracles. NWAD TRIPOD.2

TRIPOLI, n. In mineralogy, a mineral originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It has a dull argillaceous appearance, but is not compact. It has a fine hard grain, but does not soften by water, or mix with it. It is principally composed of silex. NWAD TRIPOLI.1

TRIPOLINE, a. Pertaining to tripoli. NWAD TRIPOLINE.1

TRIPOS, n. A tripod, which see. NWAD TRIPOS.1

TRIPPED, pp. [from trip.] Supplanted. NWAD TRIPPED.1

TRIPPER, n. One who trips or supplants; one that walks nimbly. NWAD TRIPPER.1

TRIPPING, ppr. Supplanting; stumbling; falling; stepping nimbly. NWAD TRIPPING.1

1. a. Quick; nimble. NWAD TRIPPING.2

TRIPPING, n. The act of tripping. NWAD TRIPPING.3

1. A light dance. NWAD TRIPPING.4

2. The loosing of an anchor from the ground by its cable or buoy-rope. NWAD TRIPPING.5

TRIPPINGLY, adv. Nimbly; with a light nimble quick step; with agility. NWAD TRIPPINGLY.1

Sing and dance it trippingly. NWAD TRIPPINGLY.2

Speak the speech trippingly on the tongue. NWAD TRIPPINGLY.3

TRIPTOTE, n. [Gr. three, and case.] In grammar, a name having three cases only. NWAD TRIPTOTE.1

TRIPUDIARY, a. [L. tripudium.] Pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. NWAD TRIPUDIARY.1

TRIPUDIATION, n. [L. tripudio, to dance.] Act of dancing. NWAD TRIPUDIATION.1

TRIPYRAMID, n. [L. tres and pyramis.] In mineralogy, a genus of spars, the body of which is composed of single pyramids, each of three sides, affixed by their base to some solid body. NWAD TRIPYRAMID.1

TRIQUETROUS, a. [L. triquetrus, from triquetra, a triangle.] NWAD TRIQUETROUS.1

Three-sided; having three plane sides. NWAD TRIQUETROUS.2