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red with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.

Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

Having three valves; three-valved.

Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless. [Spelt also unrivalled.] Pope.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

on. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

otice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. Merivale.

to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

Arrival. [Obs.] Shak.

Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer. How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.

late their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.…

The office of an augur. Merivale.

or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." Dryden. See On board, below.

ich can be used to increase one's power or influence. He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. London Times.

make no errors; to act shrewdly. -- To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. -- To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. -- Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of t…

ng goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England.