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Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

A truchman. [Obs.]

The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.

Avengement; penal retribution; vengeance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent.

ng, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

To act up to, to equal in action; to fulfill in practice; as, he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages.

An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

ssumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.