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A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. Ascham.

Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.

Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial. Sir T. Browne.

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. Shak.

To recall; to bring back. To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits. Berkeley.

A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. the trivial round, the common task. Keble.

A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.

Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence. A slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos. Sir W. Scott.

Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

species, or the essential difference. The present specific name he at first called the trivial name. -- Specific performance (Law), the peformance of a contract or agreement as decreed by a court of equity.

r in some definite direction. -- Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is the principal agent used in separating the ore from the sand and gravel. -- Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked. Ure. -- To…

Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

A vessel used for sublimation. Vials, crosslets, and sublimatories. Chaucer.

A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.…

king cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young.