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See Morisco.

Dancing the morrice; dancing. In shoals and bands, a morrice train. Wordsworth.

A morris dancer. [Obs.]

Nurse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A nurse. [Obs.] Spenser.

Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.

d or demanded in market or in barter; cost. "Buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isa. lv. 1. We can afford no more at such a price. Shak.

Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.

A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.

The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.

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.]

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.