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Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

A tambourine. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Turin. -- n. sing. & pl.

The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

The quality or state of being tributary.

Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

Same as Trinervate.

The quality or state of being tumultuary.

Quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous. [R.] Fuller.

blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after th…

See Umbra, 2.

The quality or state of being unwary; carelessness; heedlessness.

In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

Born of the same mother, but by a different father. Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. WilkiWood.

A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles.

Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.

A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.