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Laughing. [R.] Thackeray.

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 (…

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.

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

A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals. Dryden.

A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.

Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident. [Obs.] "Jupiter's trisulc." Sir T. Browne.