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See Tapish.

The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Three times. "Thrice in vain." Spenser. Verily I say unto thee. That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Matt. xxvi. 34.

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

To entice. [Obs.] The Coronation.

Enticement. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at th…

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]

Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.

A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.

Two times; once and again. He twice essayed to cast his son in gold. Dryden.

A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.

A subordinate officer.

Unicellular.

Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.

Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.

Want of justice; injustice. [Obs.] Hales.