Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 70
Tres-tyne (n.) (Zool.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.
Tret () Obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. -- Chaucer.
Tret (n.) (Com.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. -- M'Culloch.
TRET, () weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any commodity. It differs from tare. (q.v.)
Tretable (a.) Tractable; moderate. [Obs.]
By nature debonaire and tretable. -- Chaucer.
Trething (n.) A tax; an impost. [Obs.] -- Johnson. Tretis
Tretis (n.) Alt. of Tretys.
Tretys (n.) A treatise; also, a treaty. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Tretis
Tretis (a.) Alt. of Tretys.
Tretys (a.) Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. [Obs.] "Her nose tretys." -- Chaucer.
Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
Trevet (n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet. Trew
Compare: Trivit
Trivet (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]
Trivet (n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat. -- Knight.
Trivet table, A table supported by three legs. -- Dryden.
Trew (a.) Alt. of Trewe.
Trewe (a.) True. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trews (n. pl.) Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders. "He wore the trews, or close trowsers, made of tartan." -- Sir W. Scott.
Trews (n.) Tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan.
Trewth (n.) Truth. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trey (n.) Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey. -- Chaucer.
Trey (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Trey (n.) One of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three].
Tri- () A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.
Tri- () (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.
Tri-City, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000): 3519
Housing Units (2000): 1409
Land area (2000): 7.566289 sq. miles (19.596599 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.566289 sq. miles (19.596599 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74650
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.991481 N, 123.312353 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Tri-Lakes, IN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Indiana
Population (2000): 3925
Housing Units (2000): 1652
Land area (2000): 35.160049 sq. miles (91.064104 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.897983 sq. miles (2.325765 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 36.058032 sq. miles (93.389869 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76526
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 41.229009 N, 85.472531 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Triable (a.) Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." -- Boyle.
Triable (a.) (Law) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
Triableness (n.) Quality or state of being triable.
Triacid (a.) (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
Triacle (n.) See Treacle. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Triacontahedral (a.) Having thirty sides.
Triaconter (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
Triad (n.) A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
Triad (n.) (Mus.) A chord of three notes.
Triad (n.) (Mus.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
Triad (n.) (Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three.
Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together.
Hindu triad. See Trimurti.
Triad (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Triad (n.) A set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple].
Triad (n.) Three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity].
Triad (n.) A three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones [syn: common chord, triad].
Triadelphous (a.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
Triadic (a.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
Triakisoctahedron (n.) A trigonal trisoctahedron.
Trial (n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.
Trial (n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
Trial (n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
Trial (n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
Trial (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
Trial (n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
Trial (n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Triality (n.) Three united; state of being three.
Trialogue (n.) A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
Triamide (n.) An amide containing three amido groups.
Triamine (n.) An amine containing three amido groups.
Triander (n.) Any one of the Triandria.
Triandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.
Triandrian (a.) Alt. of Triandrous.
Triandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
Triangle (n.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
Triangle (n.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
Triangle (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
Triangle (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.
Triangle (n.) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
Triangle (n.) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
Triangled (a.) Having three angles; triangular.
Triangular (a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
Triangular (a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Triangulares (n. pl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
Triangularity (n.) The quality or state of being triangular.
Triangularly (adv.) In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle.
Triangulated (imp. & p. p.) of Triangulate.
Triangulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triangulate.
Triangulate (v. t.) To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
Triangulate (v. t.) To make triangular, or three-cornered.
Triangulation (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
Triarchies (n. pl. ) of Triarchy.
Triarchy (n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.
Triarian (a.) Occupying the third post or rank.
Triarticulate (a.) Having three joints.
Trias (n.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
Triassic (a.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
Triassic (n.) The Triassic formation.
Triathlon (n.) [C]【體】三項全能運動；鐵人三項（游泳、單車、賽跑三項全能賽）A sport competition in which competitors run, swim, and cycle long distances.
Triatic (a.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
Triatomic (a.) Having three atoms; -- said of certain elements or radicals.
Triatomic (a.) Having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic.
Tribal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
Tribalism (n.) The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
Tribasic (a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
Tribble (n.) A frame on which paper is dried.
Tribe (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes. [R.]
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. -- Abp. Nicolson. Triblet
Tribe (n.) [C] 部落；種族 [G]；一幫，一夥 [the S] A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." -- Rev. v. 5.
A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. -- Shak.
Tribe (n.) (Bot.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.
Tribe (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
Tribe (n.) A division, class,
or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have
originated; as, the city of
Tribe (n.) (Stock Breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
Tribe (n.) A social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe, folk].
Tribe (n.) A federation (as of American Indians) [syn: tribe, federation of tribes].
Tribe (n.) (Biology) A taxonomic category between a genus and a Subfamily.
Tribe (n.) Group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe].
Triblet (n.) Alt. of Tribolet.
Tribolet (n.) A goldsmith's tool used in making rings.
Tribolet (n.) A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes.
Tribolet (n.) A tapering mandrel.
Tribometer (n.) An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces.
Tribrach (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
Tribracteate (a.) Having three bracts.
Tribual (a.) Alt. of Tribular.
Tribular (a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
Tribulation (n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. -- Matt. xiii. 21.
In the world ye shall have tribulation. -- John. xvi. 33.
Tribulation (n.) An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation].
Tribulation, () Trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut. 4:30; Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Matt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.
Tribulation (n.) Unhappiness, pain, or suffering.
Tribulation (n.) An experience that causes someone to suffer.
Tribulation (n.) Distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution; also : A trying experience.
// The trials and tribulations of starting a new business.
Tribunal (n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
Tribunal (n.) Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
Tribunal (n.) [Sp.] In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.
Tribunal (n.) An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: court, tribunal, judicature].
Tribunal. () The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose a jurisdiction sometimes it is taken for the jurisdiction which they exercise.
Tribunal. () This term is Latin, and derives its origin from the elevated seat where the tribunes administered justice.
Tribunary (a.) Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
Tribunate (n.) The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.
Tribune (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
Note: The tribunes were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, of whom there were from four to six in each legion. Other officers were also called tribunes; as, tribunes of the treasury, etc.
Tribune (n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
Tribune (n.) (Ancient Rome) An official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests.
Tribune (n.) The apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne.
Tribune, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 835
Housing Units (2000): 425
Land area (2000): 0.747538 sq. miles (1.936114 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.747538 sq. miles (1.936114 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71450
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.470288 N, 101.754489 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67879
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Headwords:
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