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Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.

A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.

A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.

nfinite 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.

side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. Shak.

A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff. [Obs.]

To surpass in striding.

To stride over or beyond.

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

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

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.