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A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the Real Property (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir Robert Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has be…

A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper.

The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

A Linnæan class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.

Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." Rev. v. 5. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

ered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.

Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.

A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.

The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.

io (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3. -- Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt. -- Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity. -- Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal…

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

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.