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An owl. [Obs.] Spenser.

A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision. [R.] Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. Milton.

Such. [Obs.] Swich things as that I know I will declare. Chaucer.

A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ov…

Trichinosis.

To render trichinous; to affect with trichinæ; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

The disease produced by the presence of trichinæ in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.

Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.

A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridæ, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.

A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.