A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
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Same as Trier, 2 and 3.
A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol A trisaccharide.
An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.
A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.
See Palmitin.
See Trepang.
Divisible into three parts.
Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.
Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.
In a tripartite manner.
A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
Including three passovers.
The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
Same as Rock tripe, under Rock.
Having three feet.
Same as Tripoli.
A man who prepares or sells tripe.
Same as Tripinnate.
Consisting of three persons.
A Trinitarian.
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.
Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.
Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Spodumene.
A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Triphylite.
A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.
Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
The three divisions, or /baskets/ (pitakas), of buddhist scriptures, -- the Vinayapitaka [Skr. Vinayapi/aka] , or Basket of Discipline; Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.
Three-fold; triple; treble.
To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
Having three principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.
A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Triternate.
The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
Three-ribbed.
A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.
A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.
In a triple manner.
Same as Prickmadam.
Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline. A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
A tripod.
See Tripping, a., 2.
One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
Act of one who, or that which, trips.
In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
Trituration. Shampoo.
A noun having three cases only.
Anything in three parts or leaves. A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.
Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing.
To dance.
The act of dancing.
Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.
Triquetrous.
Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.
One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).
Having three rays.
Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.
An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
Having three rhombic faces or sides.
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.
To cut or divide into three parts.
Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.
The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts.
Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.
Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.
A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
The lockjaw.
A nitrate formed from three molecules of nitric acid; also, less properly, applied to certain basic nitrates; as, trisnitrate of bismuth.
A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
Containing three seeds; three-seeded; as, a trispermous capsule.
Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system.
Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
A cattle fair.
Tristearin.
See Stearin.
Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
In a tristful manner; sadly.
Arranged in three vertical rows.
Having, or consisting of, three stigmas.
To make sad.
Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.
See Trist, a.
Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.
Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.
A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, /syllable/ is a trisyllabic word.
A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.
One who believes in tritheism.
Of or pertaining to tritheism.
A tritheist.
One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.
A salt of trithionic acid.
Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
containing tritium; -- of chemical compounds; as, tritiated thymine.
Trite.
A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum repens, formerly Triticum repens) as a white amorphous substance.
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