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Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones. Bacon.

Same as Triblet.

d after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.

(b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

Dividing into double or treble ramifications; -- said of a leaf or stem. [R.] Loudon.

o; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length. Double six thousand, and then treble that. Shak.

scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G# (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

e or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott.

heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc. For my part, so far as concerns me; for my share. -- For the most part. See under Most, a. -- In good part, as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner. Hooker. In…

thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.

A treble singer.

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] Halliwell.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift.

Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.