Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TRI'FLE – TRIG-ON-O-MET'RIC-AL
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TRI'FLE, n. [It coincides with trivial, – which see.]
- A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Moments make the year, and trifles, life. Young. Trifles / Are to the jealous confirmations strong. Shak.
- A cake.
TRI'FLE, v.i.
- To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. Hooker.
- To indulge in light amusements. Law. To trifle with, to mock; to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness. To trifle with, or To trifle away, to spend in vanity; to waste to no good purpose; as, to trifle with time, or to trifle away time; to trifle with advantages.
TRI'FLE, v.t.
To make of no importance. [Not in use.]
TRI'FLER, n.
One who trifles or acts with levity. Bacon.
TRI'FLING, n.
Employment about things of no importance.
TRI'FLING, ppr.
- Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.
- adj. Being of small value or importance; trivial; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
TRI'FLING-LY, adv.
In a trifling manner; with levity; without seriousness or dignity.
TRI'FLING-NESS, n.
- Levity of manners; lightness. Entick.
- Smallness of value; emptiness; vanity.
TRI-FLO'ROUS, a. [L. tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.]
Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. Martyn.
TRI-FO'LI-ATE, a. [L. tres, three, and folium, leaf.]
Having three leaves. Harte.
TRI-FO'LI-O-LATE, a.
Having three folioles. Decandolle.
TRI'FO-LY, n.
Sweet trefoil. [See Trefoil.] Mason.
TRI'FORM, a. [L. triformis; tres and forma.]
Having a triple form or shape; as, the triform countenance of the moon. Milton.
TRI-FUR'CA-TED, a.
Having three branches or forks.
TRIG, a.
Full; trim; neat. [Not in use.]
TRIG, v.t. [W. trigaw. See Trigger.]
- To fill; to stuff. [Not in use.]
- To stop; as a wheel. Bailey.
TRIG'A-MOUS, a. [Gr. τρεις and γαμος, marriage.]
In botany, having three sorts of flowers in the same head, male, female, and hermaphrodite. Brande.
TRIG'A-MY, n. [Gr. τρεις, three, and γαμος, marriage.]
State of being married three times; or the state of having three hushands or three wives at the same time. Herbert.
TRIG'GER, n. [W. trigaw, to stop; Dan. trekker, to draw; trykker, to press or pinch; or trygger, to make sure; trug, Sw. trygg, safe, secure; trycka, to press. This is the Eng. true, or from the same root.]
- A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
- The catch of a musket or pistol; the part which being pulled, looses the lock for striking fire.
TRI-GIN'TALS, n. [L. triginta.]
Trentals; the number of thirty masses to be said for the dead.
TRIG'LYPH, n. [Gr. τρεις, three, and γλυφη, sculpture.]
An ornament in the frieze of the Doric column, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels, cut to a right angle, called glyphs, and separated by three interstices, called femora. Cyc.
TRI-GLYPH'IC, or TRI-GLYPH'IC-AL, a.
- Consisting of or pertaining to triglyphs.
- Containing three sets of characters or sculptures. Gliddon.
TRIG'ON, n. [Gr. τρεις, three, and γωνια, angle.]
- A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. Cyc.
- A kind of triangular lyre or harp.
TRIG'ON-AL, or TRIG'ON-OUS, a.
- Triangular; having three angles or corners.
- In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles. Martyn.
Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.