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To pass from one body or condition into another. Their may transmigrate into each other. Howell.

speech." Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.

A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish. [Obs.] Cowell.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign. Howell.

haracter. "This triform antagonism." I. Taylor. Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell. Lowell.

entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.

Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. Lowell.

The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk. Howell.

Having (such) a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.

A turban. [Obs.] Milton. I see the Turk nodding with his turbant. Howell.

rbed; confused; disordered. " Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners." Howell.

Tutelage. [Obs.] Howell.

A surgeon's case of instruments. Howell.

V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most…

Ubiquitous. Howell.

The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.