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Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.

Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace. [R.] Quarles.

Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day. [R.] Blount.

Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign. Howell.

Once in three years.

Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial. [R.] J. Gregory.

Festival games celebrated once in three years. [R.] May.

Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

Having, or surrounded by, three fasciæ, or bands.

Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

Having three pipes. Sir T. Browne.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

A concurrence of three waves. [Obs.] "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.

Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.

(Bot.) Having three leaflets.

The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.

One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.