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arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.

ing three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

e type of the family Tiliaceæ, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article…

Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; -- opposed to kosher.

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

int, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist. [Written also unclench.]

Bearing one flower only; as, a uniflorous peduncle.

See Uncle. [Obs.]

Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott.

To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

ia, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.

h. Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. Matt. xxiii. 27. So as no fuller on earth can white them. Mark. ix. 3.

To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast. Can blazing carbuncles with her compare. Sandys.

ause in which it stands. [Obs.] This diamond he greets your wife withal. Shak. Whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal. Lev. v. 3.