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The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states.

To enlarge by extension of territory.

In regard to territory; by means of territory.

Possessed of territory. [R.]

arge extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton.

A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

Thirteen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

The quality or state of being titular. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.

mmon; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.

The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.

One who believes in tritheism.

Of or pertaining to tritheism. Bolingbroke.

A tritheist. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] Blackstone.

A salt of trithionic acid.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.