Webster's Dictionary 1913

4726

Trickster

Trick″ster (?), n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

4727

Tricksy

Trick″sy (?), a. [From Trick.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. “My tricksy spirit!” Shak.he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

4728

Tricktrack

Trick″track′ (?), n. [F. trictrac. Cf. Ticktack backgammon.] An old game resembling backgammon.

4729

Tricky

Trick″y (?), a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

4730

Triclinate

Tric″li‐nate (?), a.(Min.) Triclinic.

4731

Tricliniary

Tri‐clin″i‐a‐ry (?), a. [L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.] Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.

4732

Triclinic

Tri‐clin″ic (?), a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. � to incline.] (Crystallog.) Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystalliza...

4733

Triclinium

‖Tri‐clin″i‐um (?), n.; pl.Triclinia (#). [L., from Gr. �, �; � (see Tri-) + � a couch.] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table...

4734

Tricoccous

Tri‐coc″cous (?), a. [Gr. τρίκοκκοσ with three grains or berries; � (see Tri-) + κόκκοσ grain, seed.] (Bot.) Having three cocci, or roundish carpels. Gray.

4735

Tricolor

Tri″col′or (?), n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see Tri-) + L. color color.] [Written also tricolour.]1. The national Fr...

4736

Tricolored

Tri″col′ored (?), a. Having three colors.

4737

Tricornigerous

Tri′cor‐nig″er‐ous (?), a. [L. tricorniger; tricornis three-horned (see Tri-, and Horn) + -gerere to bear.] Having three horns.

4738

Tricorporal

{ Tri‐cor″po‐ral (?), Tri‐cor″po‐rate (?), } a. [L. tricorpor; tri- (see Tri-) + corpus, -oris, body.] (Her.) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.

4739

Tricostate

Tri‐cos″tate (?), a. [Pref. tri- + costate.] (Bot.) Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.

4740

Tricot

‖Tri′cot″ (?), n. A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

4741

Tricrotic

Tri‐crot″ic (?), a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. � to beat.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

4742

Tricrotism

Tri″cro‐tism (?), n.(Physiol.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tri...

4743

Tricrotous

Tri″cro‐tous (trī″krō̍‐tŭs), a.(Physiol.) Tricrotic.

4744

Tricurvate

Tri‐cur″vate (trī̍‐kûr″vā̍t), a. [Pref. tri- + curvate.] (Zoöl.) Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).

4745

Tricuspid

Tri‐cus″pid (?), a. [L. tricuspis, -idis; tri- (see Tri-) + cuspis a point: cf. F. tricuspide.] 1. Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.2. (Anat.) ...

4746

Tricuspidate

Tricus″pid‐ate (?), a. Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.

4747

Tricycle

Tri″cy‐cle (?), n. [Pref. tri- + cycle as inbicycle.] A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

4748

Tridacna

‖Tri‐dac″na (?), n.(Zoöl.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or fiv...

4749

Tridactyl

{ Tri‐dac″tylTri‐dac″tyle } (?), a. [Gr. �: � (see Tri-) + � digit: cf. F. tridactyle.] (Biol.) Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a co...

4750

Tridactylous

Tri‐dac″tyl‐ous (?), a.(Biol.) Tridactyl.

4751

Triddler

Trid″dler (?), n.(Zoöl.) The jacksnipe.

4752

Tride

Tride (?), a. [Cf. F. tride lively, quick.] Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; — a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.