Webster's Dictionary 1913

4672

Tricarbimide

Tri‐car″bi‐mide (?), n. [Pref. tri- + carbimide.] (Chem.) See under Cyanuric.

4673

Trice

Trice (?), v. t. [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley...

4674

Trice (2)

Trice, n. [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.] A very short time; an instant; a moment; — now ...

4675

Tricennarious

Tri′cen‐na″ri‐ous (?), a. Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.

4676

Tricennial

Tri‐cen″ni‐al (?), a. [L. tricennium thirty years; triginta thirty + annus year: cf. L. tricennalis.] Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring onc...

4677

Tricentenary

Tri‐cen″te‐na‐ry (?), a. [Pref. tri- + centenary.] Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. — n. A period of three centuries, or three hundr...

4678

Triceps

‖Tri″ceps (?), n. [NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.] (Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., ...

4679

Trichiasis

‖Tri‐chi″a‐sis (?), 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.

4680

Trichina

‖Tri‐chi″na (–nȧ), n.; pl.Trichinæ (#). (Zoöl.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the vol...

4681

Trichiniasis

‖Trich′i‐ni″a‐sis (?), n.(Med.) Trichinosis.

4682

Trichinize

Trich″i‐nize (?), v. t. To render trichinous; to affect with trichinæ; — chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.

4683

Trichinoscope

Tri‐chi″no‐scope (?), n. [Trichina + -scope.] An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

4684

Trichinosis

‖Trich′i‐no″sis (?), n. [NL. See Trichina.] (Med.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinæ in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, a...

4685

Trichinous

Trich″i‐nous (?), a. Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.

4686

Trichite

Trich″ite (?), n.1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.2. (Zoöl.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, f...

4687

Trichiuriform

Trich′i‐u″ri‐form (?), a.(Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridæ, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

4688

Trichiuroid

Trich′i‐u″roid (?), a. [Trichiurus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.

4689

Trichiurus

‖Trich′i‐u″rus (?), n.(Zoöl.) A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.

4690

Trichloride

Tri‐chlo″ride (?), n. [Pref. tri- + chloride.] (Chem.) A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

4691

Trichobranchia

‖Trich′o‐bran″chi‐a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �, �, hair + branchia.] (Zoöl.) The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfi...

4692

Trichocyst

Trich″o‐cyst (?), n.(Zoöl.) A lasso cell.

4693

Trichogyne

Trich″o‐gyne (?), n.(Bot.) The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. — Trich′o‐gyn″ic (#), a.

4694

Trichomanes

Tri‐chom″a‐nes (?), 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 ...

4695

Trichomatose

Tri‐chom″a‐tose′ (?), a.(Med.) Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; — said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.

4696

Trichome

Trich″ome (?), n. [See Trichomatose.] (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 a...

4697

Trichophore

Trich″o‐phore (?), n. 1. (Bot.) The special cell in red algæ which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.2. (Zoöl.) One of the saclike organs from which the ...

4698

Trichopter

Tri‐chop″ter (?), n.(Zoöl.) One of the Trichoptera.