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To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [R.]

Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.

A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

A female professional singer.

A cicatrix.

A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.

A feminine deserter. Milton.

maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Improvvisatrice.

A female improvvisatore. [Written also improvisatrice.]

A female interlocutor.

See Matrix.

The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

A victress. [R.] B. Jonson.

rive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

ild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.