trindle 
Whether they have not removed all images, candle- 
sticks, trimtels.'or rolls of wax. 
Abp. Cranmer, Articles of Visitation. 
These long strings of wax taper were not very thick, 
and instead of being cut into sizes short enough for use 
at the altar and about the church, were left in their one 
entire length, coiled up, however, into folds, so as to form 
what we are to understand by tritulles, or rolls of wax. 
WiUdna Con., iv. 7, in Rock's Church of our Fathers, III. 
[i. 237, note. 
3. In bookbinding, one of several pieces of 
wood or generally metal, of this form r L ~^. 
which are put between the cords and boards to 
flatten the back and the fore edge of the book 
preparatory to cutting. 
Before the face [of a book] is cut, it is necessary to have 
the back flattened by passing trinities through between the 
cords and the boards. Encyc. Brit.. IV. 43. 
trindle (trin'dl), v. ; pret. and pp. trindled, ppr. 
tri ndling. [< ME. trindlen; a var. of treadle, 
trundle.'} I. intrans. 1. To roll. 
His hevid trindeld on the sand. 
Iwain and Oawin, 1. 3259 (Ritson's Metr. Rom., I.). 
I tryndell, as a boule or a stone dothe. Je ronlle. 
Palsgrave, p. 762. 
2. To move with an easy, rolling gait; bowl; 
trundle; trot. 
Just like the Laird o' Kittlegab's French cook, wi' his 
turnspit doggie trindling ahint him. 
Scott, Waverley, xlii. 
II. trans. To trundle; roll; bowl. Jamieson. 
[Obsolete or dialectal in all uses.] 
trindletailt (trin'dl-tal), n. Same as trttndk- 
tail. 
Your Dogges are trindle-tailes and curs. 
Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindness (Works, II. 99). 
trine 1 !, [ME. trinen (pret. iron, tronc), < Sw. 
trina = Dan. trine, step, tread.] I. intrans. To 
step; go; proceed. 
Then he bowez fro his hour in to the brode halle, . . . 
Trmi fro table to table & talkede ay myrthe. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 132. 
The wenches hym wyth ... by the way folsed ; . . . 
Trynande ay a hyje trot that torne neuer dorsten. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), li. 976. 
II. trans. To follow; pursue, as a path or 
course. 
To-warde the throne thay trone a tras. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1112. 
trine 2 t, '' t. [ME. trinen for atrinen, < AS. 
tetltrinan, touch upon, touch, < set, at, on, + 
hrinan, touch : see rine 2 . For the apheresis, cf . 
twit, twite, for atwite.} To touch; handle; feel 
of. 
Alle hij were vnhardy that houede ther other stode, 
To touche hym other to tryne hym other to take hym doun 
and graue hym. Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 87. 
trine 3 (tiin), . and n. [Formerly also (in her- 
aldry) trian, trien; < ME. trine, tryne = F. trin, 
trine = Sp. Pg. It. trino, < L. trinus, threefold, 
pi. trini, three by three, three each, < trcs (tri-), 
three: see three.] I. a. 1. Threefold; triple: 
as, trine dimension (that is, length, breadth, 
and thickness). 
The Eternal Love and Pees, 
That of the tryne compas lord and gyde is. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 45. 
That Power, Love, and Wisdom, one in essence, but 
trine in manifestation, to answer the needs of our triple 
nature, and satisfy the senses, the heart, and the mind. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 118. 
2. In astrol., pertaining to a trine; being in 
trine. 
Why, I saw this, and could have told you, too, 
That he beholds her with a trine aspect 
Here out of Sagittary. 
Fletcher (and others), Bloody Brother, iv. 2. 
Trine immersion or aspersion, the immersion or 
sprinkling of a pel-son in baptism thrice once in the 
name of each person of the Trinity. 
II. n. 1. A set or group of three; a trio; a 
triad. 
Appeare then, O thou treble Trine 
Of number, with the Muses nine. 
Heywood, Prologues and Epilogues (Works, ed. 1874, VI. 
[351). 
A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. 
2. [cop.] Specifically, the Trinity. 
If a good Disputant, then, in the stead 
Of finding out the Truth, with Truth I wrangle; 
Or, if into Arithmeticke incline, 
In studying Number, I forget the Trim. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 489. 
The mighty Trine the triple empire shared. 
Dryden, Britannia Rediviva, 1. 33. 
3. In astrol., the aspect of two planets distant 
from each other 120 degrees, or the third part 
of the zodiac. The trine was supposed to be 
a benign aspect. 
Fortunate aspects of trine and sextile, 
Ready to pour propitious influences. 
Tomkis (?), Albumazar, ii. 3. 
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trinity 
The Sun in trine to Mars "cooperates to increase prob tringoid (tring'goid), . [< Tringa + Gr. mice, 
ity, industry, honour, and _ajljaudable qualities/' _ ^ form.] Kesembling the genus Tringa; like a 
sandpiper. The Tliinoeoridee have been singu- 
larly called tringoid yronxc. 
Tririgoides(tring-goi'dez), H. [NL.( Bonaparte, 
1831), < Tringti + Gr. fitfof, form.] A genus of 
small tattlers; the spotted sandpipers. Also 
Zadkiel's Gram, of Astrol., p. 390. 
4. In hei\, a group of three, especially three 
animals, used as a bearing. 
trine 3 (trin), v.; pret. and pp. trined, ppr. trin- 
inij. [< trine^, .] I. traits. To put or join in 
the aspect of trine. 
By fortune he was now to Venus trined, 
And with stern Mars in Capricorn was join'd. 
Dryden., Pal. and Arc., ill. 389. 
II. t intrans. To hang: in allusion to the 
triple tree that is, the gallows. [Old cant.] 
There be of these Rogues Curtails, wearing short cloaks, 
that will change their apparel as occasion serveth, and 
their end is either hanging, which they call Trining in 
their language, or die miserably of the pox. 
Harman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 31. 
trinely (trin'li), adv. In a threefold manner or 
measure. 
One God, 
In Essence One, In Person Trinely-odAe. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
innervate (tri-ner'vat), a. [< L. ires (tri-), 
three, + nervtts, nerve, + -<UeX] 1. In bot., 
three-nerved; having three nerves extending 
from the base to the apex: as, a trinervate leaf. 
2. In entom., having three nerves, nervures, 
or veins, as an insect's wing; trinerved. 
trinerve (tri-nerv'), a. [< L. tres (tri-), three, 
+ nennts, nerve.] Same as trinervate. 
trinerved (tri-nervd'), a. [< trinerve + -erf 2 .] 
In bot. and eiitom., same as trinervate. 
called Actitis. The common sandpiper of Europe, etc., 
is T. hypoleucus; the spotted sandpiper of America, T. 
macularms. The latter is 7 or 8 inches long ; the upper 
Spotted Sandpif 
parts are Quaker-color, finely marked with black; the 
under parts are white, crowded with round black spots ; 
the bill is pale-yellow, tipped with black, and the feet are 
flesh-colored. This sandpiper abounds in suitable places 
prehensive, embracing not only the sandpipers proper, but 
throughout the United States, breeds at large in its North 
American range, and lays four eggs in a slight nest on the 
, riT-r ,-w ground. It is familiarly known as the sand-lark, peeticeet 
Tringa (tnng'ga), w. [NL. (Linuteus), for *lry- ( from it8 cry ^ an a teetertail, tilt-up, tip-tip, from its habit 
gas, < Gr. rpvyyai;, a bird, the same as irvyapyof of jetting the tail. 
(see pygargne).'} 1. A genus of sandpipers, of Trinia (trin'i-a), n. [NL. (Hoffman, 1814), 
the family Scolopacidse. It was formerly very com- named after Karl von Trinins (d. 1844). a bota- 
nist of St. Petersburg, and a writer upon grass- 
es.] A genus of umbelliferous plants, of the 
tribe Amminese and subtribe Eitammineee. It is 
characterized by flowers with obsolete calyx-lobes, acute 
petals, and fruit with its ridges traversed by conspicuous 
oil-tubes. The 7 or 8 species are natives of the Mediter- 
ranean region and of temperate parts of Asia. They are 
smooth branching perennials with decompound leaves, 
and usually yellow dioecious flowers in compound umbels, 
with few rays, and few or no bracts and bractlets. For 
T. mdgaris, see honewort. 
trinidadot, [So called from the island of 
Trinidad. See tobacco.'] Trinidad tobacco. 
And make the fantastic Englishmen, above the rest, 
more cunning in the distinction of thy roll Trinitlado, 
leaf and pudding than the whitest-toothed blackamoor 
in all Asia. DeUer Gull's Hornbook, p. 31. 
Body o' me ! here 's the remainder of seven pound since 
yesterday was seven night. Tis your right Trinidado. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. 
Knot or Canute { Tringa c, 
full plumage. 
Trinitarian (trin i-ta'ri-an), a. and. [< Trin- 
ity + -aritni.] I. o. 1. Pertaining to the Trin- 
all the short-billed scolapacines, including most tattlers or ity or to Trinitarianism; believing in the Trin- 
Ttttfinfnjp. It is now restricted to Rlich forms as the knot. : ,i;_ii :~T if....... ;,:/...;..,. O T>.foi 
. It is now restricted to such forms as the knot, 
T. canutus, and a few closely related sandpipers, often dis- 
tributed in several sections, as ArquattUa, Ancylochilus, 
Pelidna, Actodromas, etc. See sandpiper (with cut), also 
cuts under dunlin and stint. A few of the four-toed plov- 
ers, as the squatarole, used also to be placed in Tringa. 
2. [I. c.] A sandpiper, or some similar small 
wader Coot-footed tringa, a cootfoot. See cut un- 
der phalarope. Edwards. 
Tringeae (trin'je-e), n. pi. [NL., < Tringa + 
jty . distinguished from Unitarian. 2. Pertain- 
ing to the order of Trinitarians. 
At the dissolution there were eleven Trinitarian houses 
in England, five in Scotland, and one ... in Ireland. 
Cath. Diet., p. 810. 
II. n. 1. One who believes the doctrine of 
the Trinity. See Trinity, 3. 2. A member of 
a monastic order founded at the close of the 
twelfth century for the purpose of redeeming 
T mi J A' s Al. IWelllll UCJ1LUIV HJl 111C IJU1UVOG VI ICU^CIillliti 
-rae. J The true sandpipers, as a section of the chrigtian captives from Mohammedans by pur- 
subfamily Scolopannse. See cuts under dunlin, , . . F ,-.,*, ._j...j j-.i.i 
sanderling sandpiper, and stint. 
chase. Also called Mathurin and redemptioiiist. 
Coues, 1861. Trinitarianism (trin-i-ta'ri-an-izm), ."[< Trin- 
TnnndSBt(trm'ji-de),i.jrf. fNL., < Tringa + *- tori , m + -taT] The doctrine of the Trinita- 
> 
[< tri- + nitrate.] 
-. The sandpipers regarded as a family rians gee Trjdt 3 
apart from Scolopandx. trinitrate (tri-m'trat), n. 
Tringinffi (trm-ji'ne), n. pi. [NL , < Trmga + A nitrate c v ontaillillg f nree nitric-acid radicals. 
-in*.] The sandpipers as a subfamily of bco- Trinitrate of glyceryL same as nttroglycerin. 
lopacidse. trinitrin (tri-ni'trin), n. [< tri- + nitric + -; 2 .] 
tringine (trin'jin), a. [< Tringa + -tncl.] Hav- Same as nitroglyrerin. 
ing the character of a sandpiper; belonging to trinitrobenzol (tri-ni-tro-ben'zol), . [< tri- 
the TringinsB or Tringex: distinguished from + nitric + benzol.] A substance, CRH 3 (NO 2 )3, 
scolopacine and totanine. prepared by the continued action of iiitric acid 
tringle (tring'gl), n. [< P. tringle (Genevese on benzene, and convertible into picric acid by 
tringue), a curtain-rod, a lintel, reglet, OF. also fae action of a stronger oxidizing agent. 
, rings may aaa _ Pg . 
run, as for a curtain; hence, by extension, as -^ trindod = Ir. trionnoid = Gael, trionaiil, < 
such rods were commonly used for supporting LL\ trinita(t-)s, the number three, a triad, in 
bed-curtains, the strip, bar, or the like which theol. the Trinity (the word in all senses being 
joins the heads of high bedposts, and serves to g rs t f ou n(j ; n Tertullian), < L. trinus, threefold, 
support the canopy. 2. In gun., a ribbon or pj ^. ) .; H ; ) three by three: see trine 3 .'] 1. The 
piece of wood nailed on the sides of a travers- condition of being three ; threeness. 2. A set 
ing-platform, to prevent the trucks from run- or group of three; a triad; a trio; a trine, 
ning off in the recoil. 3. In areli., a little The world's great (rm%, Pleasure, Proflt, and Honor, 
square molding or ornament, as a listel, reglet. Roger Williams. 
or platband. 3. [cnn.] The union of three persons Father, 
tringlette (tring'glet), . [Dim. of tnngle.] SoUi ,J Hol Spirit in one Godhead; the 
A pointed stick used for opening the cames of threc f id personality of the one divine being, 
fretwork and diamond-paned windows. K. H. The statements of the doctrine of the Trinity in the creeds 
KnigJlt. of Christendom are the result of attempts to reconcile 
