Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TRI-SULC – TRI-TU'RI-UM
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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.
- 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.
- According to Linnæus, a genus of Mollusca comprehending only one species, which inhabits the cavities of submarine rocks in Italy.
- According to Cuvier, a genus of Batrachian reptiles, or aquatic salamanders, comprehending numerous species.
- 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.