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Full; also, trim; neat. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] To sit on a horse square and trig. Brit. Quart. Rev.

One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; -- called also ethidene- or ethylidene-biuret.

A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.

Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece. Trigger fish (Zoöl.), a large plectognath fish (Balistes Carolinensis or B. capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polish…

A trental.

A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.

An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is al…

Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.

The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness. Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. Kane.

A figure having three angles; a triangle.

The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid.

Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.