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- English Word Trifling Definition Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
- English Word Trifloral Definition Alt. of Triflorous
- English Word Triflorous Definition Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
- English Word Trifluctuation Definition A concurrence of three waves.
- English Word Trifoliate Definition Alt. of Trifoliated
- English Word Trifoliated Definition Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.
- English Word Trifoliolate Definition Having three leaflets.
- English Word Trifolium Definition A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.
- English Word Trifoly Definition Sweet trefoil.
- English Word Triforium Definition The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.
- English Word Triform Definition Having a triple form or character.
- English Word Triformity Definition The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.
- English Word Trifurcate Definition Alt. of Trifurcated
- English Word Trifurcated Definition Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
- English Word Trig Definition To fill; to stuff; to cram.
- English Word Trig Definition Full; also, trim; neat.
- English Word Trig Definition To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
- English Word Trig Definition A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
- English Word Trigamist Definition One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.
- English Word Trigamous Definition Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.
- English Word Trigamy Definition The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
- English Word Trigastric Definition Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle.
- English Word Trigeminal Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.
- English Word Trigeminous Definition Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold.
- English Word Trigenic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; -- called also ethidene- / ethylidene-biuret.
- English Word Trigesimo-secundo Definition Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
- English Word Trigesimo-secundo Definition A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32¡, and called thirty-twomo.
- English Word Trigger Definition A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
- English Word Trigger Definition A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.
- English Word Trigintal Definition A trental.