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- English Word Trews Definition Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.
- English Word Trewth Definition Truth.
- English Word Trey Definition Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
- English Word Tri- Definition A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.
- English Word Tri- Definition A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.
- English Word Tri/cia Definition The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.
- English Word Tri/cious Definition Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Tri/cia.
- English Word Triable Definition Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.
- English Word Triable Definition Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
- English Word Triableness Definition Quality or state of being triable.
- English Word Triacid Definition Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
- English Word Triacle Definition See Treacle.
- English Word Triacontahedral Definition Having thirty sides.
- English Word Triaconter Definition A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
- English Word Triad Definition A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
- English Word Triad Definition A chord of three notes.
- English Word Triad Definition The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
- English Word Triad Definition An element or radical whose valence is three.
- English Word Triadelphous Definition Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
- English Word Triadic Definition Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
- English Word Triakisoctahedron Definition A trigonal trisoctahedron.
- English Word Trial Definition The act of trying or testing in any manner.
- English Word Trial Definition Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
- English Word Trial Definition The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
- English Word Trial Definition Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
- English Word Trial Definition The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
- English Word Trial Definition That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
- English Word Trial Definition The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
- English Word Triality Definition Three united; state of being three.
- English Word Trialogue Definition A discourse or colloquy by three persons.