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

A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]

A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

A triple octave, or twenty-second. Busby.

Having a triple form or character. "This triform antagonism." I. Taylor. Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell. Lowell.

onunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

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

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

Same as Triplet.

or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]

The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (Harpullia pendula). J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

iolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle. -- Turnip fly. (Zoöl.) (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia r…

To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. [Obs.] The life out of her body for to twin. Chaucer.

he sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oi…

To divest of clothing; to strip. [Obs.] Donne.

To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree. Bacon.