TRIET
TRIET, adjective [Latin tritus, from tero, to wear.] Worn out; common; used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; as a trite remark; a trite subject.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TRIETERICAL
TRIETER'ICAL, adjective [Latin trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. year.]Triennial; kept or occurring once in three years. [Little used.]
TRIFALLOW
TRI'FALLOW, verb transitive [Latin tres, three, and fallow.] To plow land the third time before sowing.
TRIFID
TRIF'ID, adjective [Latin trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.]In botany, divided into three parts by linear sinuses with strait margins; three-cleft.
TRIFISTULARY
TRIFIS'TULARY, adjective [Latin tres and fistula, a pipe.] Having three pipes.
TRIFLE
TRI'FLE, noun A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character.With such poor trifles playing.Moments make the year, ...
TRIFLER
TRI'FLER, noun One who trifles or acts with levity.
TRIFLING
TRI'FLING, participle present tense Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.1.adjective Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifl...
TRIFLINGLY
TRI'FLINGLY, adverb In a trifling manner; with levity; without seriousness or dignity.
TRIFLINGNESS
TRI'FLINGNESS, noun Levity of manners; lightness.1. Smallness of value; emptiness; vanity.
TRIFLOROUS
TRIF'LOROUS, adjective [Latin tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.] Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as a triflorous peduncle.
TRIFOLIATE
TRIFO'LIATE, adjective [Latin tres, three, and folium, leaf.] Having three leaves.
TRIFOLIOLATE
TRIFO'LIOLATE, adjective Having three folioles.
TRIFOLY
TRI'FOLY, noun Sweet trefoil. [See Trefoil.]
TRIFORM
TRI'FORM, adjective [Latin triformis; tres and forma.] Having a triple form or shape; as the triform countenance of the moon.
TRIG
TRIG, verb transitive To fill; to stuff. [Not in use.]1. To stop; as a wheel.TRIG, adjective Full; trim; neat. [Not in use.]
TRIGAMY
TRIG'AMY, noun [Gr. three, and marriage.] State of being married tree times; or the state of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
TRIGGER
TRIG'GER, noun1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.2. The catch of a musket or pistol; the part which being pulled, looses the lock for striking fire.
TRIGINTALS
TRIGIN'TALS, noun [Latin triginta.] Trentals; the number of thirty masses to be said for the dead.
TRIGLYPH
TRIG'LYPH, noun [Gr. three, and sculpture.] An ornament in the frieze of the Doric column, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels,...
TRIGON
TRIG'ON, noun [Gr. three, and angle.]1. A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.2. A kind of triangular l...
TRIGONAL
TRIG'ONALTRIGONOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.
TRIGONOMETRICAL
TRIGONOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.
TRIGONOMETRICALLY
TRIGONOMET'RICALLY, adverb According to the rules or principles of trigonometry.
TRIGONOMETRY
TRIGONOM'ETRY, noun [Gr. a triangle, and to measure.] The measuring of triangles; the science of determining the sides and angles of triangles, by means of certain parts which a...
TRIGONOUS
TRIG'ONOUS, adjective Triangular; having three angles or corners.1. In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles.
TRIGYN
TRI'GYN, noun [Gr. three, and a female.] In botany, a plant having three pistils.