Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRI-COC'COUS, a. [L. 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. Martyn.

TRI-COL-OR, n.

The national French banner of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

TRI-CORN-IG'E-ROUS, a. [L. tres and cornu.]

Having three horns.

TRI-COR'PO-RAL, a. [L. tricorpor; tres and corpus.]

Having three bodies. Todd.

TRI-CUSP'ID, a.

Having three points.

TRI-CUS'PID-ATE, a. [L. tres, three, and cuspis, a point.]

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

TRI-DAC'TYL-OUS, a. [Gr. τρεις, three, and δακτυλος, a toe.]

Having three toes.

TRIDE, a.

Among hunters, short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace. Bailey. Cyc.

TRI'DENT, or TRI'DENT-ED, a.

Having three teeth or prongs.

TRI'DENT, n. [Fr. from L. 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'ATE, a. [L. tres and dens, tooth.]

Having three teeth. Lee.

TRI-DI-A-PA'SON, n. [tri and diapason.]

In music, a triple octave or twenty-second. Busls

TRI'DING, ppr. [See TRITHING.]

TRI-DO-DEC-A-HE'DRAL, a. [Gr. τρεις, three, and dodecahedral.]

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

TRID'U-AN, a. [L. triduum; tres and dies, day.]

Lasting three days, or happening every third day. [Little used.]

TRI-EN'NI-AL, a. [Fr. triennal; L. 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.

TRI-EN'NI-AL-LY, adv.

Once in three years.

TRI'ER, n. [from try.]

1. One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines any thing by a test or standard.
2. One who tries judicially; a judge who tries a person or cause; a juryman. [See Trior.]
3. A test; that which tries or approves. Shak.

TRI'ER-ARCH, n. [Gr. τριηρης, a trireme, and αρχος, 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. Mitford.

TRI-E-TER'IC-AL, a. [L. trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. ετος, year.]

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

TRI-FAL'LOW, v.t. [L. tres, three, and fallow.]

To plow land the third time before sowing. Mortimer.

TRI-FAL'LOW-ED, pp.

Plowed the third time before sowing.

TRI-FAL'LOW-ING, ppr.

Plowing the third time before sowing. Ash.

TRIF'ID, a. [L. trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.]

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

TRI-FIS'TU-LA-RY, a. [L. tres and fistula, a pipe.]

Having three pipes. Brown.