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A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. Beau. & Fl.

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

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.

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.

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

Same as Triplet.

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

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 quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

In a triple manner.

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

Music for such a dance or having its slow triple time characteristic strong accent beginning every second measure.

wo persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.

a corpse is wound or wrapped. -- Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. Totten.