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Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.

A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.

Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.

The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.

The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

Three-ribbed.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.

Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

d the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. C. A. Bristed.

A noun having three cases only.

Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically: --

Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.

Having three rays.

Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.

Having three rhombic faces or sides.

A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.