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r solve, a traverse (Naut.), to reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse. -- Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watc…

nial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. Chaucer. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. Pope.

Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. Spenser. Drayton.

A triad; trinity. [R.] A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.

A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

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.

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

Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. [Obs.]

In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.

revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. Swift.

To mingle; to mix. [Obs.] Crashaw.

To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.

To unfold, or render single.

Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.

Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly. [R.] F. Lieber.

Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.

Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.

Having but a single horn; -- said of certain insects. "Unicornous beetles." Sir T. Browne.

Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.