trip-book 
trip-book (trip'biik), . A book in which the 
account of a voyage of a fishing-vessel is made 
up, showing the shares belonging respectively 
to the vessel and the crew. [Massachusetts.] 
trip-cord (trip'k6rd), . In agri., a cord which 
when pulled trips the lever or detent of a hay- 
carrier, or apparatus for unloading hay from 
wagons and transferring it to mows in barns. 
tripe (trip), . [< ME. tripe, trype = MD. tr/j/i, 
tripe, < OF. tripe, F. tripe = Sp. Pg. tripa = It. 
trippa, entrails, belly, tripe; of. Ir. triopas, pi., 
tripes, entrails, W. tripa, entrails; Bret, stri- 
pen, tripe, pi. stripennou, stripou, entrails.] 1. 
The entrails, bowels, intestines, or guts ; hence, 
the belly : chiefly used in the plural. [Now only 
in low use.] 
Of Inde the gredy grypes 
Myght tore out all thy try-pet! 
"'ryllyp Sp 
. 308. 
These portions [of the bullock], with the legs (ca 
"feet" in the trade), form what is styled the tripe-m* 
Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe, 
No flight of fatall Birds, 
Nor trembling tripes of sacrificed lleards. 
Sylvester, tr. of Dn Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 
The Turk, when he hath his Tripe full of Pelaw, or of 
Mutton and Rice, will go ... either to the next Well or 
River to drink Water. Howell, Letters, ii. 54. 
2. The greater part of the stomach of a rumi- 
nant, as the ox, dressed and used for food. 
Tripe includes the whole of the cardiac division of the 
stomach that is, of the two compartments known as 
the rumen, or paunch, and the reticulum. The former 
(called plain tripe) is the most extensive ; the latter is the 
best, being that called honeycomb tripe. See cut under 
Jluminantia. 
How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd? 
Shall., T. of the S., iv. 3. 20. 
tripedal (trip'e-dal or tri'ped-al), a. [< L. tripe- 
dttlis, < tres (tri-), "three, + pes(ped-), foot: see 
pedal.} Three-footed: as, a tripedal stand. 
tripe-de-roche (trep'de-rosh'), n. [F.: tripe, 
tripe ; de, of; roche, rock.] A vegetable substance 
sometimes eaten by hunters and arctic explorers 
when no better food is to be found. It is fur- 
nished by various lichens of the genera Gyrophora and Utn- 
bilicaria. Tripe-de-roche is slightly nutritive, but bitter 
and purgative. See Pyxinei. 
tripel (trip'el), n. Same as tripoli. 
tripeman (trip'man), n. ; pi. tripemen (-men). 
A man who prepares tripe and hawks it about. 
[London, Eng.] 
called 
. '.-man's 
portion, and are disposed of to him by the butcher for 
6. 6d. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 9. 
tripennate (tri-pen'at), a. [< L. tres (tri-), 
three, + pennatus, winged: see peiinatej] In 
bot., tripinnate. 
tripersonal (tri-per'son-al), a. [< L. tres (tri-), 
three, + persona, person": see personal.'] Con- 
sisting of three persons. 
One Tri-personaU Godhead. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
tripersonalist (tri-per'son-al-ist), n. [< triper- 
sonal + -ist.~\ A believer in the Trinity; a 
Trinitarian. 
tripersonality (tri-per-sp-nal'i-ti), n. [< tri- 
personal + -it i/.] The state of existing in three 
persons in one Godhead ; trinity. 
As for terms of Trinity, Triunity, Co-essentiality, Tri- 
personality, and the like, they [the Arian and the Socini- 
an] reject them as Scholastic Notions, not to be found in 
Scripture. Milton, True Religion. 
tripery (tri'per-i), w.; pi. triperies (-iz). [= 
F. triperie (= Sp. triperia), < tripe, tripe: see 
tripe and -ery.~\ A place where tripe is pre- 
pared or sold. Quarterly Rev. 
tripes (tri'pez), n.; pi. tripedes (-pe-dez). [NL., 
< L. tripes, having three feet, < tres (tri-), three, 
+ pes, foot. Cf. trivet.] In teratol., a monster 
having three feet. 
tripe-Stone (trip'ston), n. A variety of anhy- 
drite occurring in contorted plates, so named 
from bearing some resemblance to the convo- 
lutions of the intestines. It has been found in 
Poland. 
tripetaloid (tri-pet'a-loid), a. [< Gr. rprif (rpi-), 
tbree, + TriraAov, leaf (petal), + eMof, form.] 
In hot., appearing as if furnished with three 
petals: as, a tripetaloid perianth. 
tripetaloUS (tri-pet'a-lus), a. [< Gr. rpctf (rpi-), 
three, + V/STOAOV, leaf (petal), + -ous.~\ In bot., 
three-petaled ; having three petals or flower- 
leaves. 
tripe-visaged (trip'viz"ajd), a. Having a face 
resembling tripe, either in paleness or sallow- 
ness, or in being flabby, baggy, and expression- 
less. [Rare and humorous.] 
Thou damned tript-oisaged rascal ! 
Shot., 2 Hen. IV., v. 4. 9. 
trip-gear (trip'ger), n. In a steam-engine, any 
combination of devices by which, when the 
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piston has reached a definite point in the 
stroke, or when, as in automatically variable 
cut-offs, it has reached a point dependent upon 
the work demanded of the engine, a sudden re- 
lease of the valve-opening mechanism from the 
induction-valve is effected, leaving the latter 
under control of mechanism which rapidly ef- 
fects closure. The gear is, in this operation, said to 
trip the valve-closing mechanism, and the operation is 
called tripping. An example of such valve-gear is illus- 
trated in a cut under steam-engine. Also called tripcut-off. 
trip-hammer (trip'ham"er), n. A tilting-ham- 
mer or machine-hammer operated by a cam or 
other device, which trips the lever and allows 
the hammer to fall. It is essentially the same 
as the tilt-hammer (where see cut). 
triphane (tri'fan), n. [< Gr. Tpupavr/i;, appear- 
ing threefold, < rpclf (rpt-), three, + -<t>avf/(, < 
fyaivuv, show.] Hatty's name for spodumene, 
still often used, especially by French mineralo- 
gists. 
tripharmacum (tri-far'ma-kum), n. [NL., < 
Gr. rpclf (rpi-), three, + (fapfianov, a drug.] A 
medicine having three ingredients. 
Triphasia (tri-fa'si-a), n. [NL. (Loureiro, 1790), 
< Gr. Tpttpdato;, threefold : see trifarious.] A ge- 
nus of polypetalous plants, of the order Rutacex 
and tribe Aurantiese. It is characterized by flowers 
with three calyx-lobes, three petals, six stamens, and a 
three-celled ovary with a solitary ovule in each cell. The 
only species, T. Aurantiola, the lime-berry, is said to be a 
native of China, and is widely cultivated throughout the 
tropics. It is a thorny shrub bearing alternate leaves with 
ovate obtuse and usually crenate leaflets. The fragrant 
white flowers are solitary in the axils, and are followed by 
small reddish berries with a sweet pleasant taste, resem- 
bling gooseberries in size and shape, and sometimes im- 
ported from the West Indies as a preserve. The shrub is 
known in the West Indies as lime-myrtle, and sometimes 
incorrectly as bergamot; it is used in Key West for hedges, 
and is often confounded with the trifoliate species or 
variety of Citrus in use as a stock on which to graft the 
orange. 
triphony (trif'o-ni), n. [< MGr. *Tpupuvia, < 
of, three-voiced, < Gr. rpeif (rpt-), three, 
r/, voice.] In early medieval music, diaph- 
ony for three voices. 
triphthong (trif'thong or trip'thong), n. [= 
F. triphthongue = Sp. triptongo = Pg. triptongo, 
tritongo = It. trittongo, < NL. triphthongus, < 
MGr. T/w'^floj-yof, with triple sound or vowel, < 
Gr. rpelc (fpt-), three, + ffloyy-ii, $S6yyo(, voice, 
sound.] A combination of three vowels in a 
single syllable forming a simple or compound 
sound; a group of three vowel characters rep- 
resenting combinedly a single or monosyllabic 
sound, as eau in beau, ieu in adieu, eye, etc. ; a 
vowel trigraph. 
triphthongal (trif-th6ng'gal or trip-thong'gal), 
a. [<, triphthong -t- -aJ.] Pertaining to a triph- 
thong ; consisting of a triphthong. 
triphyline (trif'i-lin), n. [< Gr. rpeif (rpi-), 
three, + (fniAri, tribe, community (see pht/le), + 
-iwe 2 .] A mineral consisting of the phosphates 
of the three metals iron, manganese, and lithi- 
um. It occurs usually in cleavable masses of a bluish- or 
greenish-gray color. Lithiophilite is a variety of salmon- 
yellow or clove-brown color, containing chiefly manganese 
and lithium with very little iron. 
triphylite (trif'i-Ht), n. [< Gr. rpelf (rpi-), 
three, -t- <t>v2.q, tribe, + -te2.] Same as triphy- 
line. 
triphyllous (tri-fil'us), a. [< Gr. TpifoMaf, 
three-leaved, < rpeif (rpi-), three, + </>i>)2ov, a 
leaf.] Infect., three-leaved; having three leaves. 
Triphysite (trif'i-sit), . [< Gr. rpelf (rpt-), 
three, + Qvaif, nature, + -ite2.] One of a parl 
party 
in Spain in the latter part of the seventh cen- 
tury which held that there are three natures 
in Christ the human, the divine, and a third 
nature resulting from the union of the two. 
Tripier's operation. See operation. 
tripinnate (tri-pin'at), a. [< L. tres ( tri-), three, 
+ pinnatus, winged: see pinnate.] In bot., 
threefold pinnate : noting a leaf in which there 
are three series of pinnee or leaflets, as when 
the leaflets of a bipinnate leaf are themselves 
pinnate. 
tripinnately (tri-pin'at-li), adv. In a tripin- 
nate manner. 
tripinnatifid (tri-pi-nat'i-fid), a. [< tri- + pin- 
natifid.} In bot., pinnatifid with the segments 
twice divided in a pinnatifid manner. 
tripinnatisect (tri-pi-nat'i-sekt), a. [< tri- + 
j>i>niatisect.~\ In bot., parted to the base in a 
tripinnate manner, as a leaf 
tripitaka (tri-pit'a-ka), . [Skt., 'three bas- 
kets, '< tri, three, + pitalca, basket.] The com- 
plete collection of the northern Buddhist scrip- 
tures, in the three divisions of Sutra, Vinaya, 
and Abhidharma. 
triple 
triplasiant (tri-pla'si-an), a. [< Gr. Tpnr'/.doiuf, 
three times as many, < Tprif (rpt-), three, -f 
-KAaatof as in 6mAaato(. twofold.] Threefold; 
triple; treble. 
triplasic (tri-plas'ik), a. [< LL. triplimhts, < Gr. 
Tpnr'Admof. see triplaian.J Triple; threefold; 
specifically, in anc. pros., constituting the pro- 
portion of three to one : as, the triplasic ratio 
(of times or semeia in thesis and arsis) ; char- 
acterized by such a proportion of thesis and 
arsis: as, a triplasic foot. The only clear instance 
of a triplasic foot seems to be an amphibrach standing 
at the beginning of a colon or verse of Ionics a majore. 
Beside these three 
ratios of arsis and the- 
sis, . . . Aristoxenus 
mentions two others : 
the triplaric, in which 
the two parts of the 
foot are as 3 to 1 . . . 
J '. Hadley, Essays, p. 98. 
triple (trip'l), .. 
and n. [< F. triple 
= Sp. Pg. It. triplo, 
< L. triplus (= Gr. 
Tptir%.6o$, Tptirtovf;), 
triple, threefold, < 
tres (tri-), three, 
+ -plus, akin to E. 
-fold. Cf. treble, 
from the same 
source, and tltrib- 
ble, a mixture of 
triple, treble, with 
three.] I. a. 1. 
Consisting of 
three ; threefold ; 
characterized by a 
subdivision into 
three parts or into 
threes: as, a triple . T "P| e wil "'l 1 T; M ; di<!V . al Geomet- 
nc style of middle of i3th century. 
Knot; a tnple Win- Lincoln Cathedral, England. 
dow. 
By thy triple shape, as thou art seen 
In heaven, earth, hell, and everywhere a queen, 
Grant this my first desire. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 232. 
2. Three times repeated ; treble. 
The glorious Salust, moral!, true-divine, . . . 
Makes Heav'n his subject, and the Earth his stage, 
The Arts his Actors, and the Triple-Trine. 
O. Qay-Wood, Sonnet to J. Sylvester. 
The pineapples, in triple row. 
Cowper, Pineapple and Bee. 
3f. Being one of three; third. 
Many receipts he gave me ; chiefly one . . . 
He bade me store up, as a triple eye, 
Safer than mine own two, more dear. 
Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. 111. 
Triple Alliance, (a) A league between England, Swe- 
den, and the Netherlands, formed in 1688, and designed to 
check French aggressions. (6) A league between France, 
Great Britain, and the Netherlands, formed in 1717, and 
directed chiefly against Spain. After the accession to it of 
Austria in 1718 it was known as the Quadruple Alliance, 
(c) An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and 
Italy, formed about 1883, and designed to check Russia 
and also France. It is chiefly the creation of Prince Bis- 
marck, and by its provisions the three powers are bound 
to support one another in certain contingencies. Its influ- 
ence has succeeded to that of the League of the Three Em- 
perors (the German, Austrian, and Russian), which was 
also largely the creation of Bismarck. Triple-coil nest- 
spring, a form of spiral spring consisting of three coils fit- 
ted one within another. Triple congruency. See m- 
gruency. Triple counterpoint. See counterpoint*, 3 (c). 
Triple crown, in her.: (a) Same as tiara, 5. (b) A bear- 
ing representing three royal or imperial crowns set one 
upon another in pale. Such a bearing, having also clouds at 
the base, forms part of the arms of the London Drapers' 
Company. Triple-cylinder steam-engine, an engine 
having three cylinders connected at different angles with 
the same shaft, used to avoid a dead-center. Another form 
takes the steam from two cylinders, and exhausts alter- 
nately into a large one. Triple equality. See ,/.,/./. 
equality, under equality Triple expansion-engine. 
See expangion-enffine and gteaifi-engiiie. Triple fugue, a 
fugue with three subjects. See/wywe. Triple octave, in 
music, the interval of three octaves, or a tone at such an in- 
terval from a given tone. Triple phosphate, phosphate 
of ammonium and magnesium, found in the urine in the 
shape of prismatic crystals. Triple pile. See pile?. 
Triple plume, in her., three feathers combined in a plume 
or set side by side, as in the case of the ostrich-feather 
badge of the Prince of Wales, which has varied in design at 
ditferent times. Triple point, line, plane, a point, line, 
or plane formed by the coincidence of three, and counting 
as three. Triple progression, in inwste, an old name 
for a series of perfect fifths. Triple ratio. See ratio. 
Triple rhythm. See rhythm, 2 (&).- Triple salts, the 
name formerly given to chemical compounds consisting of 
one acid and two different bases, or of two acids and one 
base : but such salts are now more properly designated 
double salts, most of them consisting of the same acid and 
two different bases, as Rochelle salts, which are composed 
of soda, potassa, and tartaric acid. Triple screw. See 
jcreici. Triple suspension. See mspcimun. Triple 
telephone, a form of telephone in which the mouthpiece 
Is so placed relatively to two ear-receivers that the mes- 
