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A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.

Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship. [R.] The tribual lispings of the Ephraimites. Fuller.

That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction. When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. Matt. xiii. 21. In the world ye shall have tribulation. John. xvi. 33.

Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.

The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.

An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

The office or power of a tribune.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.

Tribunician; tribunitial. [Obs.] Bacon.

In a tributary manner.

The quality or state of being tributary.

Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. [Julius] unto Rome made them tributary. Chaucer.

otection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute. Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. C. C. Pinckney.

One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. [Eng.]

A turban. [Obs.] With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.

Same as Zareba.

er; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. Dunglison.