Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRI'DENT
TRI'DENT, or TRI'DENT-EDTRI'DENT'ATE
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.
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