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Tribe

TRIBE, noun [Latin tribus.]

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

4. A division; a number considered collectively.

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.

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

TRIBE, verb transitive To distribute into tribes or classes. [Not much used.]

Triblet

TRIB'LET

TRIBOM'ETER, noun [Gr. to rub or wear, and measure.] An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction.

Triboulet

TRIB'OULET, noun A goldsmith's tool for making rings.

Tribrach

TRI'BRACH, noun [Gr. three, and short.] In ancient prosody, a poetic foot of three short syllables, as melius.

Tribracteate

TRIBRAC'TEATE, adjective Having three bracts about the flower.

Tribulation

TRIBULA'TION, noun [Latin tribulo, to thrash, to beat.] Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution.

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

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

Tribunal

TRIBU'NAL, noun [Latin tribunal from tribunus, a tribune, who administered justice.]

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

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

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

Tribunary

TRIB'UNARY, adjective [from tribune.] Pertaining to tribunes.

Tribune

TRIB'UNE, noun [Latin tribunus, from tribus, tribe.]

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.

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

Tribuneship

TRIB'UNESHIP, noun The office of a tribune.

Tribunician

TRIBUNI'CIAN

TRIBUNI'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to tribunes; as tribunician power or authority.

1. Suiting a tribune.

Tribunitial

TRIBUNI'TIAL, a. Pertaining to tribunes; as tribunician power or authority. 1. Suiting a tribune.

Tributary

TRIB'UTARY, adjective [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.

1. Subject; subordinate.

He, to grace his tributary gods--

2. Paid in tribute.

No flatt'ry tunes these tributary lays.

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

TRIB'UTARY, noun 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!

Tribute

TRIB'UTE, noun [Latin tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.]

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.

2. A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect.

3. Something given or contributed.

Trical

CATADIOPTRIC, TRICAL, adjective Reflecting light.

Tricapsular

TRICAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin tres, three, and capsula, a little chest.]

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

Trice

TRICE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to haul and tie up by means of a small rope or line.

TRICE, noun A very short time; an instant; a moment.

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

A man shall make his fortune in a trice

Trichotomous

TRICHOT'OMOUS, adjective [See Trichotomy.] Divided into three parts, or divided by threes; as a trichotomous stem.

Trichotomy

TRICHOT'OMY, noun [Gr. three, and to cut or divide.] Division into three parts.

Trick

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

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.

He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick

2. A dexterous artifice.

On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate.

3. Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth.

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

5. A collection of cards laid together.

6. An unexpected event.

Some trick not worth an egg. [Unusual.]

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.]

TRICK, verb transitive To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

TRICK, verb transitive To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically.

TRICK her off in air.

It is often followed by up, off, or out.

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

TRICK, verb intransitive To live by deception and fraud.

Tricked

TRICK'ED, participle passive Cheated; deceived; dressed.

Tricker

TRICK'ER

TRICK'ERY, noun The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem.

Trickery

TRICK'ERY, n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem.

Tricking

TRICK'ING, participle present tense Deceiving; cheating; defrauding.

1. Dressing; decorating.

TRICK'ING, noun Dress; ornament.

Trickish

TRICK'ISH, adjective Artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

Trickle

TRICK'LE, verb intransitive [allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.]

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

Fast beside there trickled softly down

A gentle stream.

Trickling

TRICK'LING, participle present tense Flowing down in a small gentle stream.

TRICK'LING, noun The act of flowing in a small gentle stream.

He wakened by the trickling of his blood.

Trickment

TRICK'MENT, noun Decoration. [Not used.]

Trickster

TRICK'STER, noun One who tricks; a deceiver; a cheat.

TRICK'ER, noun A trigger. [See Trigger.]

Tricksy

TRICK'SY, adjective [from trick.] Pretty; brisk. [Not much used.]

TRICK'-TRACK, noun A game at tables.

Tricliniary

TRICLIN'IARY, adjective [Latin 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.

Tricoccous

TRICOC'COUS, adjective [Latin 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.

Tricorporal

TRICOR'PORAL, adjective [Latin tricorpor; tres and corpus.] Having three bodies.

Tricuspidate

TRICUS'PIDATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and cuspis, a point.]

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

Tridactylous

TRIDAC'TYLOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and a toe.] Having three toes.

Tride

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

Trident

TRI'DENT, noun [Latin tridens; tres, three, and dens, tooth.]

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.

TRI'DENT

Tridentate

TRIDENT'ATE, adjective [Latin tres and dens, tooth.] Having three teeth.

Tridented

TRI'DENTED, adjective Having three teeth or prongs.

Tridiapason

TRIDIAPA'SON, noun [tri and diapason.] In music, a triple octave or twenty second.

Triding

TRI'DING. [See Trithing.]

Tridodecahedral

TRIDODECAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. three, and dodecahedral.]

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

Triduan

TRID'UAN, adjective [Latin triduum; tres and dies, day.] Lasting three days, or happening every third day. [Little used.]

Triennial

TRIEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin triennis, triennium; tres, three, and annus, year.]

1. Continuing three years; as triennial parliaments.

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.

Triennially

TRIEN'NIALLY, adverb Once in three years.

Trier

TRI'ER, noun [from try.] One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines any thing by a test or standard.

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

2. A test; that which tries or approves.

Trierarch

TRI'ERARCH, noun [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.

Triet

TRIET, adjective [Latin tritus, from tero, to wear.] Worn out; common; used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; as a trite remark; a trite subject.

Trieterical

TRIETER'ICAL, adjective [Latin trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. year.]

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

Trifallow

TRI'FALLOW, verb transitive [Latin tres, three, and fallow.] To plow land the third time before sowing.

Trifid

TRIF'ID, adjective [Latin trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.]

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

Trifistulary

TRIFIS'TULARY, adjective [Latin tres and fistula, a pipe.] Having three pipes.

Trifle

TRI'FLE, noun A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character.

With such poor trifles playing.

Moments make the year, and trifles, life.

Trifles

Are to the jealous confirmations strong.

TRI'FLE, verb intransitive To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity.

They trifle and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.

1. To indulge in light amusements.

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

To trifle with, to spend in vanity; to waste.

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

TRI'FLE, verb transitive To make of no importance. [Not in use.]

Trifler

TRI'FLER, noun One who trifles or acts with levity.

Trifling

TRI'FLING, participle present tense Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.

1. adjective Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifling debt; a trifling affair.

TRI'FLING, noun Employment about things of no importance.

Triflingly

TRI'FLINGLY, adverb In a trifling manner; with levity; without seriousness or dignity.

Triflingness

TRI'FLINGNESS, noun Levity of manners; lightness.

1. Smallness of value; emptiness; vanity.

Triflorous

TRIF'LOROUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.] Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as a triflorous peduncle.

Trifoliate

TRIFO'LIATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and folium, leaf.] Having three leaves.

Trifoliolate

TRIFO'LIOLATE, adjective Having three folioles.

Trifoly

TRI'FOLY, noun Sweet trefoil. [See Trefoil.]

Triform

TRI'FORM, adjective [Latin triformis; tres and forma.] Having a triple form or shape; as the triform countenance of the moon.

Trig

TRIG, verb transitive To fill; to stuff. [Not in use.]

1. To stop; as a wheel.

TRIG, adjective Full; trim; neat. [Not in use.]

Trigamy

TRIG'AMY, noun [Gr. three, and marriage.] State of being married tree times; or the state of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Trigger

TRIG'GER, noun

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

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

Trigintals

TRIGIN'TALS, noun [Latin triginta.] Trentals; the number of thirty masses to be said for the dead.

Triglyph

TRIG'LYPH, noun [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.

Trigon

TRIG'ON, noun [Gr. three, and angle.]

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

2. A kind of triangular lyre or harp.

Trigonal

TRIG'ONAL

TRIGONOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.

Trigonometrical

TRIGONOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.

Trigonometrically

TRIGONOMET'RICALLY, adverb According to the rules or principles of trigonometry.

Trigonometry

TRIGONOM'ETRY, noun [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

Trigonous

TRIG'ONOUS, adjective Triangular; having three angles or corners.

1. In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles.

Trigyn

TRI'GYN, noun [Gr. three, and a female.] In botany, a plant having three pistils.

Trigynian

TRIGYN'IAN, adjective Having three pistils.

Trihedral

TRIHE'DRAL, adjective [See Trihedron.] Having three equal sides.

Trihedron

TRIHE'DRON, noun [Gr. three, and side.] A figure having three equal sides.

Trijugous

TRIJU'GOUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and jugum, yoke.] In botany, having three pairs. A trijugous leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

Trilateral

TRILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin tres, three, and latus, side.] Having three sides.

Triliteral

TRILIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin tres, three, and litera, letter.] Consisting of three letters; as a triliteral root or word.

TRILIT'ERAL, noun A word consisting of three letters.

Trill

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

TRILL, verb transitive To utter with a quavering or tremulousness of voice; to shake.

The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.

TRILL, verb intransitive To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

And now and then an ample tear trill'd down

Her delicate cheek.

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

To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.

Trilled

TRILL'ED, participle passive Shaken; uttered with rapid vibrations.

Trilling

TRILL'ING, participle present tense Uttering with a quavering or shake.

Trillion

TRILLION, noun 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.

Trilobate

TRILO'BATE, adjective [Latin tres and locus.] Having three lobes.

Trilocular

TRILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin tres and locus, a cell.] In botany, three-celled; having three cells for seeds; as a trilocular capsule.

Triluminar

TRILU'MINAR

TRILU'MINOUS, adjective [Latin tres and lumen, light.] Having three lights.

Triluminous

TRILU'MINOUS, a. [L. tres and lumen, light.] Having three lights.

Trim

TRIM, adjective 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.

TRIM, verb transitive

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

The hermit trimm'd his little fire.

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

I was trimm'd in Julia's gown.

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

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

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

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

7. To make neat; to adjust.

I found her trimming up the diadem

On her dead mistress--

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

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.

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

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

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

To trip up, to dress; to put in order.

TRIM, verb intransitive To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

TRIM, noun Dress; gear; ornaments.

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

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.

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

Trimeter

TRIM'ETER, noun A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.

TRIM'ETER

Trimetrical

TRIMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr. three measures.] Consisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six feet.

Trimly

TRIM'LY, adverb Nicely; neatly; in good order.

Trimmed

TRIM'MED, participle passive Put in good order; dressed; ornamented; clipped; shaved; balanced; rebuked.

Trimmer

TRIM'MER, noun One that trims; a timeserver.

1. A piece of timber fitted in.

All the joists and the trimmers for the staircase--

Trimming

TRIM'MING, participle present tense Putting in due order; dressing; decorating; pruning; balancing; fluctuating between parties.

TRIM'MING, noun Ornamental appendages to a garment, as lace, ribbons and the like.

Trimness

TRIM'NESS, noun Neatness; snugness; the state of being close and in good order.

Trinal

TRI'NAL, adjective [Latin trinus, three.] Threefold.

Trine

TRINE, adjective Threefold; as trine dimension, that is, length, breadth and thickness.

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

TRINE, verb transitive To put in the aspect of a trine

Trinervate

TRINERV'ATE, adjective [Latin tres and nervus.] In botany, having three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting behind or beyond the base.

Trinerve

TRI'NERVE

TRI'NERVED, adjective In botany, a trinerved or three-nerved leaf, has three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf.

Trinerved

TRI'NERVED, a. In botany, a trinerved or three-nerved leaf, has three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf.

Tringle

TRIN'GLE, noun 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.

Trinitarian

TRINITA'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to the Trinity, or to the doctrine of the Trinity.

TRINITA'RIAN, noun One who believes the doctrine of the Trinity.

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

Trinity

TRIN'ITY, noun [Latin trinitas; tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.]

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

In my whole essay, there is not any thing like an objection against the trinity

Trinket

TRINK'ET, noun

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

2. A thing of little value; tackle; tools.

Trinomial

TRINO'MIAL, adjective [Latin 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.

TRINO'MIAL, noun A root of three terms or parts.

Trio

TRI'O, noun A concert of three parts; three united.

Triobolar

TRIOB'OLAR, adjective [Latin triobolaris; tres and obolus.] Of the value of three oboli; mean; worthless. [Not used.]

Trioctahedral

TRIOCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [tri and octahedral.] In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing eight faces.

Trioctile

TRIOC'TILE, noun [Latin 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.

Trior

TRI'OR

TRI'ER, noun [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.

Trip

TRIP, verb transitive

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.

2. To supplant; to overthrow by depriving of support.

3. To catch; to detect.

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

TRIP, verb intransitive To stumble; to strike the foot against something, so as to lose the step and come near to fall; or to stumble and fall.

1. To err; to fail; to mistake; to be deficient.

Virgil pretends sometimes to trip

TRIP, verb intransitive

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

She bounded by and tripp'd so light.

They had not time to take a steady sight.

Thus from the lion trips the trembling doe.

2. To take a voyage or journey.

TRIP, noun A stroke or catch by which a wrestler supplants his antagonist.

And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

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

2. A failure; a mistake.

Each seeming trip and each digressive start.

3. A journey; or a voyage.

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

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

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

Tripartite

TRIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin tripartitus; tres, three, and partitus, divided; partior.]

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.

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

Tripartition

TRIPARTI'TION, noun A division by three, or the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

Tripe

TRIPE, noun

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

2. In ludicrous language, the belly.

Tripe-Man

TRI'PE-MAN, noun A man who sells tripe.

Tripedal

TRIP'EDAL, adjective [Latin tres and pes.] Having three feet.

Tripennate

TRIPEN'NATE

TRIPER'SONAL, adjective [Latin tres and persona.] Consisting of three persons.

Tripersonal

TRIPER'SONAL, a. [L. tres and persona.] Consisting of three persons.

Tripersonality

TRIPERSONAL'ITY, noun The state of existing in three persons in one Godhead.

Tripetalous

TRIPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-petaled; having three petals or flower leaves.

Triphane

TRI'PHANE, noun A mineral, spodumene.

Triphthong

TRIPH'THONG, noun [Gr. three, and sound.] A coalition of three vowels in one compound sound, or in one syllable, as in adieu, eye.

Triphthongal

TRIPHTHON'GAL, adjective Pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of a triphthong.

Triphyllous

TRIPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. three, and leaf.] In botany, three-leaved; having three leaves.

Tripinnate

TRIPIN'NATE, adjective [Latin 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.

Triple

TRIP'LE, adjective [Latin triplex, triplus; tres and plico, to fold.]

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

By thy triple shape as thou are seen--

2. Treble; three times repeated. [See Treble.]

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.

TRIP'LE, verb transitive To treble; to make threefold or thrice as much or as many. [Usually written treble.]

Triplet

TRIP'LET, noun [from triple.] Three of a kind, or three united.

1. In poetry, three verses rhyming together.

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

Triplicate

TRIP'LICATE, adjective [Latin triplicatus, triplico; tres and plico, to fold.] Made thrice as much; threefold.

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

Triplication

TRIPLICA'TION, noun The act of trebling or making threefold, or adding three together.

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

Triplicity

TRIPLIC'ITY, noun [Latin triplex.] Trebleness; the state of being threefold.

Triply-Ribbed

TRIP'LY-RIBBED, adjective [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.

TRIP'-MADAM, noun A plant.

Tripod

TRI'POD, noun [Latin tripus, tripodis; Gr. three, and foot.]

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

Tripoli

TRIP'OLI, noun 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.

Tripoline

TRIP'OLINE, adjective Pertaining to tripoli.

Tripos

TRI'POS, noun A tripod, which see.

Tripped

TRIP'PED, participle passive [from trip.] Supplanted.

Tripper

TRIP'PER, noun One who trips or supplants; one that walks nimbly.

Tripping

TRIP'PING, participle present tense Supplanting; stumbling; falling; stepping nimbly.

1. adjective Quick; nimble.

TRIP'PING, noun The act of tripping

1. A light dance.

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

Trippingly

TRIP'PINGLY, adverb Nimbly; with a light nimble quick step; with agility.

Sing and dance it trippingly

Speak the speech trippingly on the tongue.

Triptote

TRIP'TOTE, noun [Gr. three, and case.] In grammar, a name having three cases only.

Tripudiary

TRIPU'DIARY, adjective [Latin tripudium.] Pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing.

Tripudiation

TRIPUDIA'TION, noun [Latin tripudio, to dance.] Act of dancing.

Tripyramid

TRIPYR'AMID, noun [Latin 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.

Triquetrous

TRIQUE'TROUS, adjective [Latin triquetrus, from triquetra, a triangle.]

Three-sided; having three plane sides.

Triradiated

TRIRA'DIATED, adjective [Latin tres and radius.] Having three rays.

Trireme

TRI'REME, noun [Latin triremis; tres and remus.] A galley or vessel with three benches or ranks of oars on a side.

Trirhomboidal

TRIRHOMBOID'AL, adjective [tri and rhomboidal.] Having the form of three rhombs.

Trisacramentarian

TRISACRAMENTA'RIAN, noun [Latin tres, three, and sacrament.]

One of a religious sect who admit of three sacraments and no more.

Trisagion

TRISAG'ION, noun [Gr. three, and holy.] A hymn in which the word holy is repeated three times.

Trisect

TRISECT', verb transitive [Latin tres, three, and seco, to cut.] To cut or divide into three equal parts.

Trisected

TRISECT'ED, participle passive Divided into three equal parts.

Trisecting

TRISECT'ING, participle present tense Dividing into three equal parts.

Trisection

TRISEC'TION, noun [Latin tres and sectio, a cutting.] The division of a thing into three parts; particularly in geometry, the division of an angle into three equal parts.

Trisepalous

TRISEP'ALOUS, adjective In botany, having three sepals to a calyx.

Trispast

TRIS'PAST

TRISPAS'TON, noun [Gr. to draw.] In mechanics, a machine with three pulleys for raising great weights.

Trispaston

TRISPAS'TON, n. [Gr. to draw.] In mechanics, a machine with three pulleys for raising great weights.

Trispermous

TRISPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. three, and seed.] Three-seeded; containing three seeds; as a trispermous capsule.

Trist

TRIST

TRIST'FUL, adjective [Latin tristis, sad.] Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Not used.]

Trisulc

TRISULC', noun [Latin trisulcus.] Something having three points. [Not in use.]

Trisyllabic

TRISYLLAB'IC

TRISYLLAB'ICAL, adjective [from trisyllable.] Pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as a trisyllabic word or root.

Trisyllabical

TRISYLLAB'ICAL, a. [from trisyllable.] Pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as a trisyllabic word or root.

Trisyllable

TRISYL'LABLE, noun [Latin tres, three, and syllaba, syllable.] A word consisting of three syllables.

Tritely

TRI'TELY, adverb In a common manner.

Triteness

TRI'TENESS, noun Commonness; staleness; a state of being worn out; as the triteness of an observation or a subject.

Triternate

TRITERN'ATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and ternate.] Having three biternate leaves, or the divisions of a triple petiole subdivided into threes; a species of superdecompound leaf.

Tritheism

TRITHE'ISM, noun The opinion or doctrine that there are three Gods in the Godhead.

Tritheist

TRITHE'IST, noun One who believes that there are three distinct Gods in the Godhead, that is, three distinct substances, essences of hypostases.

Tritheistic

TRITHEIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to tritheism.

Tritheite

TRITHE'ITE, noun A tritheist.

Trithing

TRI'THING, noun [from three.] One of the divisions of the county of York in England, which is divided into three parts. It is now called Riding.

Tritical

TRIT'ICAL, adjective [from trite.] Trite; common. [Not in use.]

Triticalness

TRIT'ICALNESS, noun Triteness. [Not used.]

Triton

TRI'TON, noun In mythology, a fabled sea demi-god, supposed to be the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as half man and half fish.

1. A genus of the molluscal order of worms.

2. A bird of the West Indies, famous for its notes.

Tritone

TRI'TONE, noun [Latin tres and tonus.] In music, a false concord, consisting of three tones, two major and one minor tone, or of two tones and two semitones; a dissonant interval.

Tritoxyd

TRITOX'YD, noun [Gr. third, and oxyd.] In chimistry, a substance oxydized in the third degree.

Triturable

TRIT'URABLE, adjective [See Triturate.] Capable of being reduced to a fine powder by pounding, rubbing or grinding.

Triturate

TRIT'URATE, verb transitive [Latin trituro, from tritus, tero, to wear.] To rub or grind to a very fine powder, and properly to a finer powder than that made by pulverization.

Triturated

TRIT'URATED, participle passive Reduced to a very fine powder.

Triturating

TRIT'URATING, participle present tense Grinding or reducing to a very fine powder.

Trituration

TRITURA'TION, noun The act of reducing to a fine powder by grinding.

Triture

TRI'TURE, noun A rubbing or grinding. [Not used.]

Triturium

TRITU'RIUM, noun A vessel for separating liquors of different densities.

Triumph

TRI'UMPH, noun [Latin triumphus.]

1. Among the ancient Romans, a pompous ceremony performed in honor of a victorious general, who was allowed to enter the city crowned, originally with laurel, but in later times with gold, bearing a truncheon in one hand and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a chariot drawn by two white horses, and followed by the kings, princes and generals whom he had vanquished, loaded with chains and insulted by mimics and buffoons. The triumph was of two kinds, the greater and the less. The lesser triumph was granted for a victory over enemies of less considerable power, and was called an ovation.

2. State of being victorious.

Hercules from Spain

Arriv'd in triumph from Geryon slain.

3. Victory; conquest.

The vain coquets the trifling triumphs boast.

4. Joy or exultation for success.

Great triumph and rejoicing was in heav'n.

5. A card that takes all others; now written trump, which see.

TRI'UMPH, verb intransitive To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory.

How long shall the wicked triumph? Psalms 94:3.

1. To obtain victory.

There fix thy faith, and triumph o'er the world.

Attir'd with stars, we shall forever sit

Triumphing over death.

2. In insult upon an advantage gained.

Let not my enemies triumph over me. Psalms 25:2.

Sorrow on all the pack of you

That triumph thus upon my misery.

3. To be prosperous; to flourish.

Where commerce triumph'd on the favoring gales.

triumph over, to succeed in overcoming; to surmount; as, to triumph over all obstacles.

Triumphal

TRIUMPH'AL, adjective [Latin triumphalis.] Pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; as a triumphal crown or car; a triumphal arch.

TRIUMPH'AL, noun A token of victory.

Triumphant

TRIUMPH'ANT, adjective [Latin triumphans.] Celebrating victory; as a triumphant chariot.

1. Rejoicing as for victory.

Successful beyond hope to lead you forth

Triumphant out of this infernal pit.

2. Victorious; graced with conquest.

So shall it be in the church triumphant

Athena, war's triumphant maid--

3. Celebrating victory; expressing joy for success; as a triumphant song.

Triumphantly

TRIUMPH'ANTLY, adverb In a triumphant manner; with the joy and exultation that proceeds from victory or success.

Through armed ranks triumphantly she drives.

1. Victoriously; with success.

Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin.

2. With insolent exultation.

Triumpher

TRI'UMPHER, noun One who triumphs or rejoices for victory; one who vanquishes.

1. One who was honored with a triumph in Rome.

Triumphing

TRI'UMPHING, participle present tense Celebrating victory with pomp; vanquishing; rejoicing for victory; insulting on an advantage.

Triumvir

TRI'UMVIR, noun [Latin tres, three, and vir, man.] One of three men united in office. The triumvirs, Latin triumviri, of Rome, were three men who jointly obtained the sovereign power in Rome. The first of these were Caesar, Crassus and Pompey.

Triumvirate

TRIUM'VIRATE, adjective A coalition of three men; particularly, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.

1. Government by three men in coalition.

Triune

TRI'UNE, adjective [Latin tres and unus.] Three in one; an epithet applied to God, to express the unity of the Godhead in a trinity of persons.

Triunity

TRIU'NITY, noun Trinity. [Not used.]

Trivalvular

TRIVALV'ULAR, adjective Three-valved; having three valves.

Trivant

TRIV'ANT, noun A truant.

Triverbial

TRIVERB'IAL, adjective [Latin triverbium.] triverbial days, in the Roman calendar, were juridical or court days, days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes; called also dies fasti. There were only twenty eight in the year.

Trivet

TRIV'ET, noun A three legged stool. [See Trevet.]

Trivial

TRIV'IAL, adjective [Latin trivialis; probably from Gr.; Latin tero, trivi, to wear, or from trivium, a highway.]

1. Trifling; of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; as a trivial subject; a trivial affair.

2. Worthless; vulgar.

Trivial name, in natural history, the common name for the species, which added to the generic name forms the complete denomination of the species; the specific name. Thus in Lathyrus aphaca, Lathyrus is the generic name, and aphaca the trivial or specific name, and the two combined form the complete denomination of the species. Linne at first applied the term specific name to the essential character of the species, now called the specific definition or difference; but it is now applied solely to the trivial name.

Triviality

TRIVIAL'ITY, noun Trivialness. [Not much used.]

Trivially

TRIV'IALLY, adverb Commonly; vulgarly.

1. Lightly; inconsiderably; in a trifling degree.

Trivialness

TRIV'IALNESS, noun Commonness.

1. Lightness; unimportance.

Troat

TROAT, verb intransitive To cry, as a buck in rutting time.

TROAT, noun The cry of a buck in rutting time.

Trocar

TRO'CAR, noun A surgical instrument for tapping dropsical persons and the like.

Trochaic

TROCHA'IC

TROCHA'ICAL, adjective [See Trochee.] In poetry, consisting of trochees; as trochaic measure or verse.

Trochanter

TROCHAN'TER, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, the trochanters are two processes of the thigh bone, called major and minor, the major on the outside, and the minor on the inside.

Troche

TRO'CHE, noun [Gr. a wheel.] A form of medicine in a cake or tablet, or a stiff paste cut into proper portions and dried. It is made by mixing the medicine with sugar and the mucilage of gum tragacanth, intended to be gradually dissolved in the mouth and slowly swallowed, as a demulcent to sheath the epiglottis, and as a remedy for the bronchocele.

Trochee

TRO'CHEE, noun [Latin trochoeus.] In verse, a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.

Trochil

TRO'CHIL, noun [Latin trochilus; Gr. to run.]

1. An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile's mouth.

2. A name given to the golden crowned wren.

3. In zoology, the humming bird or honeysucker, a kind of beautiful little birds, natives of America.

4. In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.

Trochilic

TROCHIL'IC, adjective Having power to draw out or turn round.

Trochilics

TROCHIL'ICS, noun [Latin trochilus.] The science of rotary motion.

Trochilus

TRO'CHILUS

TRO'CHINGS, noun The small branches on the top of a deer's head.

Trochisch

TRO'CHISCH, noun [Gr.] A kind of tablet or lozenge.

Trochite

TRO'CHITE, noun [Latin trochus; Gr. to run.]

1. In natural history, a kind of figured fossil stone, resembling parts of plants, called St. Cuthbert's beads. These stones are usually of a brownish color; they break like spar, and are easily dissolved in vinegar. Their figure is generally cylindrical, sometimes a little tapering. Two, three or more of these joined, constitute an entrochus.

2. Fossil remains of the shells called trochus.

Trochlea

TROCH'LEA, noun [Latin a pulley, from Gr. to run.] A pulley-like cartilage, through which the tendon of the trochleary muscle passes.

Trochleary

TROCH'LEARY, adjective [from Latin trochlea.] Pertaining to the trochlea; as the trochleary muscle, the superior oblique muscle of the eye; the trochleary nerve, the pathetic nerve, which goes to that muscle.

Trochoid

TRO'CHOID, noun [Latin trochus, to run.] In geometry, a curve generated by the motion of a wheel; the cycloid.

Trod

TROD, preterit tense of tread.

TROD

Trodden

TRODDEN, participle passive of tread.

Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles. Luke 21:24.

Trode

TRODE, old preterit tense of tread.

TRODE, noun Tread; footing.

Troglodyte

TROG'LODYTE, noun [Gr. a cavern, and to enter.] The Troglodytes were a people of Ethiopia, represented by the ancients as living in caves, about whom we have many fables.

Troll

TROLL, verb transitive To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.

They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.

TROLL about the bridal bow.

TROLL, verb intransitive To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.

1. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.

Trolled

TROLLED, participle passive Rolled; turned about.