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Thrice twenty; sixty.

Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.

A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]

Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.

See Teil.

The person to whom a transfer in made.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.

A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.

A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

The quantity or number which fills a tree.

Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.

Made of wood; wooden. [Obs.] " Treen cups." Camden.

A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]

of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten.