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A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.

ng the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly. Sing, and dance it trippingly. Shak. Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue. Shak.

Trituration. [R.]

A noun having three cases only.

Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically: --

Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. [R.] " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.

To dance. [R.] Cockeram.

The act of dancing. [R.] Bacon. Carlyle.

Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [Written also cantraip.] [Scot.]

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. R. Owen. Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Cen…

Centripetency.

Tendency toward the center.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.

Same as Countertrippant.

lity of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forcéps. -- n.

Same as Lithotriptist.

See Lithotriptor.