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A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv.

A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).

r end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. Gwilt.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. A sheer precipice of a thousand feet. J. D. Hooker. It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent. Wordsworth.

a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.

The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.) [Prov. Eng.]

ifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

ry, Crystalline,. -- Doctrine of the sphere, applications of the principles of spherical trigonometry to the properties and relations of the circles of the sphere, and the problems connected with them, in astronomy and geography, as to the latitudes and longitudes, distance and bearing, of places on the earth, and the…

ere, bounded by the arcs of three great circles which intersect each other. -- Spherical trigonometry. See Trigonometry. -- Spher"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Spher"ic*al*ness, n.

other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.

froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.

captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.