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Trichinosis

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.

Trichinous

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

Trichiuriform

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

Trichiurus

A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.

Trichloride

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

Trichobranchia

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

Trichogyne

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

Trichomanes

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.

Trichomatose

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

Trichome

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.

Trichophore

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

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.

Trichopterous

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.

Trichord

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

Trichoscolices

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

Trichotomous

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

Trichroic

Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.

Trichroism

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

Trichromatic

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

Trichromatism

The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.

Tricipital

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

Trick

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

Trickery

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

Trickish

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

Trickle

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

Tricksiness

The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness.

Trickster

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

Tricksy

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.

Tricky

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Tricliniary

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

Triclinic

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

Triclinium

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.

Tricoccous

Having three cocci, or roundish carpels.

Tricostate

Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.

Tricot

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

Tricrotic

Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

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.

Tricurvate

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

Tricuspid

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

Tricuspidate

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

Tricycle

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

Tridacna

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.

Tridactyle Tridactyl

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

Tride

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

Tridecane

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.

Tridecatoic

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

Tridecatylene

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.

Trident

Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

Tridented

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

Tridentine

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

Tridimensional

Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

Triduan

Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.

Tridymite

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

Tried

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

Triennial

Something which takes place or appears once in three years.

Triens

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

Trier

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

Trierarch

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.

Trieterical

Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial.

Trieterics

Festival games celebrated once in three years.

Trifallow

To plow the third time before sowing, as land.

Trifarious

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

Trifasciated

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

Trifid

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

Trifle

To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

Trifling

Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.

Trifolium

A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.

Triforium

The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

Triform

Having a triple form or character.

Triformity

The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

Trig

A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

Trigamist

One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Trigamous

Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

Trigamy

The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Trigastric

Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle.

Trigeminal

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.

Trigeminous

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold.

Trigenic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; -- called also ethidene-biuret or ethylidene-biuret.

Trigesimo-secundo

A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32/, and called thirty-twomo.

Trigger

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

Triglyceride

A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.

Triglyph

An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.

Trigness

The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

Trigonal

Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

Trigone

A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

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