Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 71
Tribuneship (n.) The office or power of a tribune. Tribunitial, Tribunician.
Tribuneship (n.) The position of tribune.
Tribunician (a.) Alt. of Tribunitian.
Tribunitial (a.) Alt. of Tribunitian.
Tribunitian (a.) Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. -- Dryden.
A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. -- Hare.
Tribunitious (a.) Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Tributarily (adv.) In a tributary manner.
Tributariness (n.) The quality or state of being tributary.
Tributary (a.) 納貢的，附庸的，從屬的 [（+to）]；輔助的；支流的 Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. [Julius] unto Rome made them tributary. -- Chaucer.
Tributary (a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
He to grace his tributary gods. -- Milton.
Tributary (a.) Paid in tribute. "Tributary tears." -- Shak.
Tributary (a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
Tributaries (n. pl. ) of Tributary.
Tributary (n.) [C] 進貢國，附庸國 [（+to）]；進貢者；支流 A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
Tributary (n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
Tributary (a.) (Of a stream) Flowing into a larger stream.
Tributary (a.) Paying tribute; "a tributary colony."
Tributary (a.) Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor" [syn: {conducive}, {contributing(a)}, {contributive}, {contributory}, {tributary}].
Tributary (n.) A branch that flows into the main stream [syn: {feeder}, {tributary}, {confluent}, {affluent}] [ant: {distributary}].
Tributed (imp. & p. p.) of Tribute.
Tributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tribute.
Tribute (v. i.) To pay as tribute. [R.] -- Whitlock (1654).
Tribute (n.) 貢物，禮物，感謝辭 An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.
Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. -- C. C. Pinckney.
Tribute (n.) A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection.
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. -- Gray.
Tribute (n.) (Mining) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense. -- Pryce. Tomlinson.
Tribute money, Money paid as a tribute or tax.
Tribute pitch. (Mining) See under Tributer. [Eng.]
Syn: See Subsidy.
Tribute (n.) Something given or done as an expression of esteem [syn: {tribute}, {testimonial}].
Tribute (n.) Payment by one nation for protection by another.
Tribute (n.) Payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection" [syn: {protection}, {tribute}].
Tributer (n.) (Mining) One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. [Eng.]
Note: Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as agreed upon, of the value of what they raise. -- Weale.
Tricae (n. pl. ) of Trica.
Trica (n.) (Bot.) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Tricarballylic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.
Tricarbimide (n.) (Chem.) See under Cyanuric.
Cyanuric acid, () (Chem.), An organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.
Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." -- Turbervile. " On a trice." -- Shak.
A man shall make his fortune in a trice. --Young.
Trice (v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.]
Out of his seat I will him trice. -- Chaucer.
Trice (v. t.) (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
Trice (n.) A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute].
Trice (v.) Raise with a line; "trice a window shade" [syn: trice, trice up].
Trice (v.) Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope [syn: trice, trice up].
Tricennarious (a.) Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]
Tricennial (a.) Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.
Tricentenary (a.) Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
Tricentenary (n.) A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.
Tricentenary (a.) Of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years [syn: tricentenary, tricentennial].
Triceps (n.) (Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
Triceps (n.) Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii).
Trichiasis (n.) (Med.) A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.
Trichinae (n. pl. ) of Trichina.
Trichina (n.) (Zool.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
Trichiniasis (n.) [NL.] (Med.) Trichinosis.
Trichiniasis (n.) Infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted [syn: trichinosis, trichiniasis, myositis trichinosa].
Trichinize (v. t.) To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.
Trichinoscope (n.) An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
Trichinosis (n.) (Med.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
Trichinosis (n.) Infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted [syn: trichinosis, trichiniasis, myositis trichinosa].
TRICHINOSIS, (n.) The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day."
"Pork?" shrieked the patient -- "pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!"
"Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked.
"I swear it!"
"Good! -- then I will undertake to cure you."
Trichinous (a.) Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.
Trichite (n.) (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
Trichite (n.) (Zool.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.
Trichite sheaf (Zool.), One of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.
Trichiuriform (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.
Trichiuroid (a.) (Zool.) Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.
Trichiurus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.
Trichloride (n.) (Chem.) A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.
Trichloride (n.) Any compound containing three chlorine atoms in each molecule.
Trichobranchia (n.) (Zool.) The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
Trichocyst (n.) (Zool.) A lasso cell.
Trichogyne (n.) (Bot.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. -- Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.
Trichomanes (n.) (Bot.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.
Trichomanes (n.) Bristle ferns; kidney ferns [syn: Trichomanes, genus Trichomanes].
Trichomatose (a.) (Med.) Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.
Trichome (n.) (Bot.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes. -- Tri*chom"a*tous, a.
Trichophore (n.) (Bot.) The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.
Trichophore (n.) (Zool.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise. -- Trich`o*phor"ic, a.
Trichopter (n.) (Zool.) One of the Trichoptera.
Phryganeides (n. pl.) (Zool.) A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written also Phryganides.]
Trichoptera (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.
Trichoptera (n.) An order of insects consisting of caddis flies [syn: Trichoptera, order Trichoptera].
Trichopteran () (Zool.) One of the Trichoptera.
Trichopteran (n.) Caddis fly [syn: trichopterous insect, trichopteran, trichopteron].
Trichopterous (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.
Trichord (n.) (Mus.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
Trichoscolices (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
Trichotomous (a.) Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. -- Martyn.
Trichotomy (n.) Division into three parts.
Trichroic (a.) Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.
Trichroism (n.) (Min.) The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.
Trichroism (n.) Pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions.
Trichromatic (a.) (Zool.) Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.
Trichromatic (a.) Having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision"; "a trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process in photography" [syn: trichromatic, trichrome, tricolor].
Trichromatism (n.) (Zool.) The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.
Trichromic (a.) (Opt.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.
Trichromic (a.) (Chem.) Containing three atoms of chromium.
Tricipital (a.) (Anat.) Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.
Trick (n.) [C] 詭計；騙局；謀略；花招；惡作劇；輕率愚蠢的行為；習慣，癖好 [（+of）]； 竅門，招數，手法； 戲法，把戲；特技，妙計； （橋牌）一圈 An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. -- South.
I know a trick worth two of that. -- Shak.
Trick (n.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
Trick (n.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys. -- Prior.
Trick (n.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
The trick of that voice I do well remember. -- Shak.
He hath a trick of C[oe]ur de Lion's face. -- Shak.
Trick (n.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Trick (n.) (Card Playing) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
On one nice trick depends the general fate. -- Pope.
Trick (n.) (Naut.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
Trick (n.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: Stratagem; wile; fraud; cheat; juggle; finesse; sleight; deception; imposture; delusion; imposition.
Tricked (imp. & p. p.) of Trick.
Tricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trick.
Trick (v. t.) 哄騙 [O]；裝飾，打扮 [（+out/ up/ off）] To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
Trick (v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." -- Pope.
People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. -- Locke.
They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been. -- Macaulay.
Trick (v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. -- B. Jonson.
Trick (n.) A cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" [syn: trick, fast one].
Trick (n.) A period of work or duty.
Trick (n.) An attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick".
Trick (n.) A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on].
Trick (n.) An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deception].
Trick (n.) A prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick].
Trick (n.) (Card games) In a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner.
Trick (v.) (v. i.) 哄騙；惡作劇；戲弄 [（+with）] Deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" [syn: flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on].
Trick (a.) [Z] 有訣竅的；特技的；魔術的；欺詐的；（骨頭等）似快要折斷的，脆弱的 Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion.
// A trick question.
Trick (a.) (North American) Liable to fail; defective.
// A trick knee.
Tricker (n.) One who tricks; a trickster.
Tricker (n.) A trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Boyle.
Tricker (n.) Someone who plays practical jokes on others [syn: prankster, cut-up, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker].
Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Trickery (n.) Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery].
Trickery (n.) The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan].
Trickily (adv.) 詭計多端地；狡猾地；難以捉摸地In an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully].
Trickiness (n.) The quality of being tricky.
Trickiness (n.) The quality of being a slippery rascal [syn: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness].
Trickiness (n.) The quality of requiring skill or caution; "these puzzles are famous for their trickiness".
Tricking (a.) Given to tricks; tricky. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tricking (n.) Dress; ornament. -- Shak.
Trickish (a.) Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
Trickled (imp. & p. p.) of Trickle.
Trickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trickle.
Trickle (v. i.) [Q] 滴；淌；細細地流；慢慢地移動；稀稀落落地來（或去） To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain. -- Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. -- Spenser.
Trickle (n.) 滴；淌；細流，涓流 [S1] [（+of）] The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. -- James Bryce.
Trickle (n.) Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble].
Trickle (v.) (v. t.) 使滴；使淌；使細細地流 Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter].
Trickment (n.) Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears." -- Beau. & Fl.
Tricksiness (n.) The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. -- G. Eliot.
Trickster (n.) One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Tricksy (a.) Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" -- Shak.
He tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. -- Coleridge.
Tricksy (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily].
Tricktrack (n.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Tricky (a.) 狡猾的；機警的；足智多謀的 Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Tricky (a.) Not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky].
Tricky (a.) Having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow" [syn: catchy, tricky].
Tricky (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily].
Triclinate (a.) (Min.) Triclinic.