Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRI-SULC, n. [L. trisulcus.]

Something having three furrows. [Not in use.] Brown.

TRI-SULC'ATE, a.

Having three furrows.

TRIS-YL-LAB'IC, or TRIS-YL-LAB'IC-AL, a. [from trisyllable.]

Pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, a trisyllabic word or root.

TRIS-YL'LA-BLE, n. [L. tres, three, and syllaba, syllable.]

A word consisting of three syllables.

TRITE, a. [L. 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. Swift.

TRITE-LY, adv.

In a common manner.

TRITE-NESS, n.

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

TRI-TERN'ATE, a. [L. tres, three, and ternate.]

Three times ternate. A petiole, which separates into three, and is again divided at each point into three, and on each of these nine points bears three leaflets.

TRI'THE-ISM, n. [Fr. tritheisme; Gr. τρεις, three, and Θεος, God.]

The opinion or doctrine that there are three Gods in the Godhead.

TRI'THE-IST, n.

One Who believes that there are three distinct Gods in the Godhead, that is, three distinct substances, essences or hypostases. Encyc.

TRI-THE-IST'IC, a.

Pertaining to tritheism.

TRI-THE'ITE, n.

A tritheist.

TRITH-ING, n. [from three.]

One of the divisions of the county of York In England, which is divided into three parts. It is now called Riding. Blackstone.

TRIT'IC-AL, a. [from trite.]

Trite; common. [Not in use.]

TRIT'IC-AL-NESS, n.

Triteness. [Not used.] Warton.

TRI'TON, n.

1. 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. Cyc.
2. According to Linnæus, a genus of Mollusca comprehending only one species, which inhabits the cavities of submarine rocks in Italy.
3. According to Cuvier, a genus of Batrachian reptiles, or aquatic salamanders, comprehending numerous species.
4. A bird of the West Indies, famous for its notes. Ray. Cyc.

TRI'TONE, n. [L. tres and tonus.]

In music, a false concord, consisting of three tones, two major and one minor tone, or of two tones and two semi-tones; a dissonant interval. Cyc.

TRI-TOX'YD, n. [Gr. τριτος, third, and oxyd.]

In chimistry, a non-acid compound of one equivalent of a base, with three equivalents of oxygen.

TRIT'U-RA-BLE, a. [See Triturate.]

Capable of being reduced to a fine powder by pounding, rubbing or grinding. Brown.

TRIT'U-RATE, v.t. [L. 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.

TRIT'U-RA-TED, pp.

Reduced to a very fine powder.

TRIT'U-RA-TING, ppr.

Grinding or reducing to a very a fine powder.

TRIT-U-RA'TION, n.

The act of reducing to a fine powder by grinding.

TRI'TURE, n.

A rubbing or grinding. [Not used.] Cheyne.

TRI-TU'RI-UM, n.

A vessel for separating liquors of different densities.