Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 77
Triumphant (a.) Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.
Successful beyond hope to lead ye forth Triumphant out of this infernal pit. -- Milton.
Triumphant (a.) Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode.
Triumphant (a.) Graced with conquest; victorious.
Athena, war's triumphant maid. -- Pope.
So shall it be in the church triumphant. -- Perkins.
Triumphant (a.) Of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal. [Obs.]
Captives bound to a triumphant car. -- Shak.
Church triumphant, The church in heaven, enjoying a state of triumph, her warfare with evil being over; -- distinguished from church militant. See under Militant.
Triumphant (a.) Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant].
Triumphant (a.) Experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious].
Triumphantly (adv.) In a triumphant manner.
Triumphantly (adv.) In a triumphant manner; "she shouted triumphantly."
Triumpher (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.
Triumpher (n.) One who triumphs or rejoices for victory.
Triumphing (a.) Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant. -- Tri"umph*ing*ly, adv.
Triumviri (n. pl. ) of Triumvir.
Triumvirs (n. pl. ) of Triumvir.
Triumvir (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.
Note: In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last.
Triumvir (n.) One of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome.
Triumvirate (n.) Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.
Triumvirate (n.) A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.
Triumvirate (n.) A group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority.
Triumviry (n.) A triumvirate. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Triune (a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.
Triune (a.) Being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity; "a triune God."
Triunguli (n. pl. ) of Triungulus.
Triungulus (n.) (Zool.) The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.
Triunity (n.) The quality or state of being triune; trinity. -- Dr. H. More.
Trivalence (n.) (Chem.) The quality or state of being trivalent.
Trivalent (a.) (Chem.) Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.
Trivalent (a.) Having a valence of three.
Trivalve (n.) Anything having three valves, especially a shell.
Trivalvular (a.) Having three valves; three-valved.
Trivant (n.) A truant. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Triverbial (a.) (Rom. Antiq.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.
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.
Trivet (n.) A three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth.
Trivet (n.) A stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table.
Trivial (a.) 瑣細的；不重要的；無價值的；淺薄的；無能的；輕浮的；【古】普通的，平凡的 Found anywhere; common. [Obs.]
Trivial (a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. -- De Quincey.
Trivial (a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
The trivial round, the common task. -- Keble.
Trivial (a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.
Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), The specific name.
Trivial (n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] -- Skelton. Wood.
Trivial (a.) (Informal) Small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial].
Trivial (a.) Of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" [syn: superficial, trivial].
Trivial (a.) Concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind."
Trivial (a.) Too simple to bother detailing.
Trivial (a.) Not worth the speaker's time.
Trivial (a.) Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly { cretinous would have thought of them already.
Trivial (a.) Any problem one has already solved (some claim that hackish trivial usually evaluates to ?I've seen it before?). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at variance with those of non-hackers. See nontrivial, {uninteresting.
The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an amazing degree (see his essay ?Los Alamos From Below? in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!), defined trivial theorem as ?one that has already been proved?.
Trivial. () Of small importance. It is a rule in equity that a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being below the dignity of the court. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4237. See Hopk. R. 112; 4 John. Ch. 183; 4 Paige, 364.
Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), The specific name.
Trivialism (n.) A trivial matter or method; a triviality. -- Carlyle.
Trivialities (n. pl. ) of Triviality.
Triviality (n.) The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.
Triviality (n.) That which is trivial; a trifle.
The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. -- Lyon Playfair.
Triviality (n.) The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: pettiness, triviality, slightness, puniness].
Triviality (n.) A detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality].
Triviality (n.) Something of small importance [syn: triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer].
Trivially (adv.) In a trivial manner.
Trivially (adv.) With little effort; "we can prove trivially that this theorem is false."
Trivially (adv.) In a frivolously trivial manner; "trivially motivated requests."
Trivialness (n.) Quality or state of being trivial.
Trivium (n.) The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.
Trivium (n.) (Zool.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
Trivium (n.) (Middle Ages) An introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence.
Triweekly (a.) Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper.
Triweekly (adv.) Three times a week.
Triweekly (n.) A triweekly publication.
Note: This is a convenient word, but is not legitimately formed. It should mean occurring once in three weeks, as triennial means once in three years. Cf. Biweekly.
Troad (n.) See Trode. [Obs.]
Compare: Trode
Trode (n.) Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] -- Spenser.
Troat (v. i.) To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
Troat (n.) The cry of a buck in rutting time.
Troat (v.) Emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time.
Trocar (n.) (Surg.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]
Trochaic (n.) (Pros.) A trochaic verse or measure. -- Dryden.
Trochaic (a.) Alt. of Trochaical.
Trochaical (a.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.
Trochaic (a.) Of or consisting of trochees; "trochaic dactyl."
Trochal (a.) (Zool.) Resembling a wheel.
Trochal disk (Zool.), The cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.
Trochanter (n.) (Anat.) One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
Trochanter (n.) (Zool.) The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.
Trochanter (n.) One of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached.
Trochanteric (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
Trochantine (n.) (Zool.) The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.
Trochar (n.) (Surg.) See Trocar.
Compare: Trocar
Trocar (n.) (Surg.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]
Troche (n.) (Pharm.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.
Troche (n.) A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: cough drop, troche, pastille, pastil].
Trochee (n.) (Pros.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
Trochee (n.) A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables.
Trochil (n.) (Zool.) The crocodile bird.
The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Trochilic (a.) Of or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." -- Camden.
Trochilics (n.) The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work. -- Wilkins.
Compare: Trochilus
Trochilus (n.; pl. Trochili.) (Zool.) A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
Trochilus (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. [Obs.]
Trochilus (n.) (Zool.) The crocodile bird.
Trochilus (n.) (Arch.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.
Trochili (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of birds comprising the humming birds.
Trochilidist (n.) One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae. -- Gould.
Trochilos (n.) (Zool.) The crocodile bird, or trochil.
Compare: Crocodile
Crocodile (n.) (Zool.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile ({Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile ({Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
Crocodile (n.) (Logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Crocodile bird (Zool.), An African plover ({Pluvianus [ae]gypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers.
Crocodile tears, False or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.
Crocodile (n.) Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters
Compare: Rubythroat
Rubythroat (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States ({Trochilus colubris).
Trochili (n. pl. ) of Trochilus.
Trochilus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
Trochilus (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. [Obs.]
Trochilus (n.) (Zool.) The crocodile bird.
Trochilus (n.) (Arch.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.
Troching (n.) (Zool.) One of the small branches of a stag's antler.
Trochisci (n. pl. ) of Trochiscus.
Trochiscus (n.) (Pharm.) A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.
Trochisk (n.) See Trochiscus. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Trochite (n.) (Paleon.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
Trochlea (n.) (Mach.) A pulley. [Obs.]
Trochlea (n.) (Anat.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.
Trochlear (n.) (Anat.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.
Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.
Trochlear (n.) Either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes [syn: trochlear, trochlear nerve, trochlearis, fourth cranial nerve].
Trochleary (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.
Trochoid (n.) (Geom.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.
Trochoid (a.) (Anat.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
Trochoid (a.) (Zool.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
Trochoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.
Trochoidal (a.) (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.
Trochoidal (a.) (Anat. & Zool.) See Trochoid, a.
Trochometer (n.) A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
Trochosphere (n.) (Zool.) A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.
Trochi (n. pl. ) of Trochus.
Trochus (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.
Troco (n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
Tread (v. i.) [imp. Trod; p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] To set the foot; to step.
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. -- Pope.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Pope.
The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. -- Chaucer.
Tread (v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. -- Milton.
Tread (v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. -- Shak.
To tread on or To tread upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." -- Deut. xxxiii. 29.
To tread on or To tread upon. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." -- Wordsworth.
To tread upon the heels of, To follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." -- Milton.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel. -- Shak.
Trod () imp. & p. p. of Tread.
Trodden () p. p. of 踩；踏 Tread.
Trode () imp. of Tread.
On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. -- Tennyson.
Trode (n.) Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] -- Spenser.
Troglodyte (n.) (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." -- Holland.
Troglodyte (n.) (Zool.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
Troglodyte (n.) (Zool.) The wren.
Troglodyte (n.) One who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte].
Troglodyte (n.) Someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte].
Troglodyte (n.) [Commodore] A hacker who never leaves his cubicle. The term gnoll (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.
Troglodyte (n.) A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination ITS troglodyte was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride.
Troglodyte, () (Commodore) A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.
Troglodyte, () A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung around some during the Usenet and e-mail wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride. [{Jargon File] (1995-01-11)
Troglodyte, (n.) Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the Socialists of Judah.
Troglodytes (n.) (Zool.) A genus of apes including the chimpanzee.
Note: The chimpanzee is now named Pan troglodytes., and its genus is Pan.
Troglodytes (n.) (Zool.) A genus of singing birds including the common wrens. Troglodytic
Troglodytes (n.) Type genus of the Troglodytidae [syn: Troglodytes, genus Troglodytes].
Troglodytic (a.) Alt. of Troglodytical.
Troglodytical (a.) Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
Trogon (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.
Note: Some of the species have a train of long brilliant feathers lying over the tail and consisting of the upper tail coverts. Unlike other birds having two toes directed forward and two backward, they have the inner toe turned backward. A few species are found in Africa and India, but the greater number, including the most brilliant species, are found in tropical America. See Illust. of Quesal.
Trogon (n.) Forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails.