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ommon; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.

A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li. 17. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton.

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

Worn out.

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

A salt of hyponitrous acid.

A lithotriptor.

A salt of nitrous acid. Amyl nitrite, a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.

A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.

uent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]

aëriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.

Subdued; humbled; contrite. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17.

rived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.