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Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] Halliwell.

In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very. Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you To pardon me. Shak. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. Shak.

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. Milton.

rection; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift.

A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or t…

A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.

A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.

The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty- two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32º, and called thirty-twomo.

Threefold. "Trinal unity." Milton. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

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

Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. By thy triple shape as thou art seen. Dryden.

Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.

Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.

The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.