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

A trisaccharide.

Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident. [Obs.] "Jupiter's trisulc." Sir T. Browne.

species common in Switzerland. The most common species the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.

as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Macaulay. -- Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. Byron.…

A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

Never mounted by a rider; unbroken. "Unbacked colts." Shak.

. Milton. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides. Milton.

rom a horse; to cause to dismount; also, to take a horse or horses from; as, to unhorse a rider; to unhorse a carriage. Cowper.

ndicating intelligence or sense; senseless; expressionless; as, an unmeaning face. There pride sits blazoned on the unmeaning brow. Trumbull. -- Un*mean"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*mean"ing*ness, n.

To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to." They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser. Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon…

Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself in vainglory. Shak.

ducts, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.

y-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.

An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit. The exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled. Macaulay.

one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.