A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, m/l//s.

Having three bracts.

A colorless crystalline substance (C6H3OBr3) prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine. The predominant isomer is 2,4,6-tribromophenol; -- called also bromol.

Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.

That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.

In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.

The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.

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.

The office or power of a tribune.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority.

Tribunician; tribunitial.

In a tributary manner.

The quality or state of being tributary.

A ruler or state 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.

To pay as tribute.

One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.

An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.

See under Cyanuric.

A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.

Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.

A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.

Trichinosis.

To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.

Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.

Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.

A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.

A lasso cell.

The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.

Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.

Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.

A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.

The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

One of the Trichoptera.

A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.

An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.

Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem.

Division into three parts.

Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.

The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.

Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.

The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.

Containing three atoms of chromium.

Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.

To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

A trigger.

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

The quality of being tricky.

Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.

Decoration.

The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness.

One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.

An old game resembling backgammon.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Triclinic.

Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.

Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.

A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

Having three cocci, or roundish carpels.

Having three colors.

Having three horns.

Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.

Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.

A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Tricrotic.

Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).

Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.

Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.

A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (Tridacna gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.

Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.

Tridactyl.

The jacksnipe.

Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen.

A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.

A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.

Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

Having three teeth; three-toothed.

Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace.

Bearing a trident.

Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.

A triple octave, or twenty-second.

Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

A riding. See Trithing.

Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.

Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.

imp. p. p. of Try. Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

See Trihedral.

Something which takes place or appears once in three years.

Once in three years.

A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.

One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.

The commander of a trireme. At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

The office duty of a trierarch.

Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial.

Festival games celebrated once in three years.

A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine.

See Trigeminal.

To plow the third time before sowing, as land.

Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

Having, or surrounded by, three fasciae, or bands.

Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

Having three pipes.