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imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.

Laughing. [R.] Thackeray.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

finite branches in the direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction. Trident bat (Zoöl.), an Asiatic rhinolophid bat (Triænops Persicus), having the nose membrane in the shape of a trident.

Having three teeth; three-toothed. Lee.

Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace. [R.] Quarles.

Bearing a trident.

Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.

ernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

beetles of which the larvæ bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata). -- Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several species of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma). See Comma butterfly, under Comma. -- Elm moth (…

dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden.

Possible; probable, but not sure. [R.] Then add those maybe years thou hast to live. Driden.

genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

rn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

partake of; to have a part or share in; to share. Let every one partake the general joy. Driden.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden.

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.