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A three-square float (file) used by comb makers.

mmonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transpare…

To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.

To entrance. And three I left him tranced. Shak.

tock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. Bithell. -- Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made. -- Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draught…

line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.

Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift.

A game at cards for three.

Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or t…

A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips. Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey. Chaucer.

A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.

Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.

A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

Three united; state of being three. [R.] H. Wharton.