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Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

f the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.

One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] Halliwell.

Three times. "Thrice in vain." Spenser. Verily I say unto thee. That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Matt. xxvi. 34.

ch it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles.

It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence…

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

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

A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U.S.]

itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. Milton.

Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.

The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

nt; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred. We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. Shak. Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten. Quant. Rev.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

y the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance. Too many of the financiers by professions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on…

, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. or ts color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.