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Refuse; dregs. [R.]

An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained saccharimetry.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

A fencing master. [Obs.] Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.

Having, or consisting of, three members.

A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.

One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.

Having the parts in threes.

btained, by the oxidation of mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance. [Written also trimesic.]

A term or period of three months.

Trimestrial. Southey.

Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

Consisting of three poetical measures. -- n.

(Chem.) A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.

A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.

Same as Orthorhombic.

Same as Trimeter.