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Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

Same as Trinervate.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

aching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

Belonging to, or made of, amber.

To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.

Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.

A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

See under Doctrine.

The state or quality of being paltry.

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.

Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa. -- n.

The quality or state of being sultry.

Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art. Denham.