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The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

See Camouflet.

The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.

ing or wearing a stole. After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. G. Fletcher.

ge Univ. Eng.] Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.

A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

Ohe who tosser. J. Fletcher.

straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

Trebly; triply. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

de of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.