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Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.

A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.

A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.

finite branches in the direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction. Trident bat (Zoöl.), an Asiatic rhinolophid bat (Triænops Persicus), having the nose membrane in the shape of a trident.

Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.

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

Bearing a trident.

Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.

A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.

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

Quality or state of being viridescent.

Slightly green; greenish.

A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

Detestable. "Pride, abhorrent as it is." I. Taylor.