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5. Trichosanthes pilosa.—Stem and leaves hairy ; spikes 
axillary; bractes lanceolate, serrate; pomes ovate, acute.— 
Native of Cochinchina. 
6. Trichosanthes tricuspidata.—Pomes ovate, acute, leaves 
three-cusped, smooth, many-nerved ; stipules roundish, thick, 
crenate; spikes axillary.—Native of Cochinchina. 
7. Trichosanthes scabra.—Pomes roundish; leaves roundish, 
rugged, very much wrinkled; peduncles one-flowered.— 
Native of Cochinchina. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds on a hot-bed 
early in the spring; and treat the plants in the same way as 
cucumbers and melons. 
TRICHOSTEMA [from the Gr. Srpjf, Tp<%o?, hair , and 
stamen. Hairy-stamened], in Botany, a genus of 
the class didynamia, order gymnospermia, natural order of 
verticillatae or labiatae.—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, two-lipped; upper lip twice as large, trifid, equal, 
acute; lower two-parted, acute. Corolla one-petalled, rin- 
gent; tube very short; upper lip compressed, sickle-shaped; 
lower three-parted, the middle segment very small, oblong. 
Stamina: filaments four, capillary, very long, curved in; 
two of them a little shorter. Anthers simple. Pistil: germ 
four-cleft. Style capillary, length and figure of the fila¬ 
ments. Stigma bifid. Pericarp none. Calyx larger, re¬ 
flexed, so that the upper lip becomes the lower, ventricose, 
converging. Seeds four, roundish.— Essential Character. 
Corolla: upper lip sickle-shaped. Stamina very long. 
1. Trichostema dichotoma.—Stamens very long; standing 
out. This is an annual plant, which rises about six or eight 
inches high, dividing into small branches.—Native of Vir¬ 
ginia and Pennsylvania. 
2. Trichostema brachiata. — Stamens short; included. 
This has an herbaceous branching stalk, which rises from 
nine inches to a foot high.—Native of Virginia. 
3. Trichostema spiralis.—Stems very long; spiral. Stem 
herbaceous, four feet high, erect. Flowers white-violet, in 
long terminating spikes.—’Native of Cochinchina. 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds in autumn, 
in pots filled with light earth: in winter place the pots under 
a frame, to shelter them from severe frost, but expose them 
to the open air at all times when the weather is mild. In 
the spring transplant them on to a bed of light earth; shad¬ 
ing them from the sun till they have taken new root, and 
keep them clean from weeds. 
TRICHOSTOMUM. (Hairy-mouthed.) One of Hedwig’s 
genera of mosses, including some of Linnaeus’s bryums. One 
of them, namely, Trichostomum capillaceum, is figured in 
t. 1152, of English Botany. 
TRICHO'TOMY, s. [r^xoropea, Gr.] Division into 
three parts.—Some disturb the order of nature by dichoto¬ 
mies, trichotomies, sevens, twelves: let the subject with the 
design you have in view determine the number of parts into 
which you divide it. Watts. 
TRICK, s. [triche, old Fr.; track, Dutch; from trie- 
gen, Germ., to deceive.} A sly fraud.—Sir Thomas Moor 
said, that a trick of law had no less power than the wheel 
of fortune, to lift men up, or cast them down. Ralegh. —A 
dexterous artifice. 
Gather the lowest and leaving the top. 
Shall teach thee a trick for to double thy crop. Tusser. 
A vicious practice. 
Suspicion shall be stuck full of eyes: 
For treason is but trusted like a fox. 
Who ne’er so tame, so cherish’d and lock’d up. 
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Shakspeare. 
A juggle; an antic; any thing done to cheat jocosely, 
or to divert. 
A reverend prelate stopp’d his coach and six. 
To laugh a little at our Andrew’s tricks. Prior. 
An unexpected effect. 
So fellest foes who broke their sleep. 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends. 
Shakspeare. 
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A practice; a manner; a habit. We still say, he has a 
trick of winking with his eyes, of speaking loud, &c._I 
spoke it but according to the trick: if you’ll hang me, you 
may. Shakspeare. —A number of cards laid regularly up 
in play: as, a trick of cards.—A plait or knot of hair. 
[Trica, low Lat. See the second meaning of To Trick.] 
—I prefer that kind of tire:—it stirs me more than all your 
court-curls, or your spangles, or your tricks: I affect not 
these high gable-ends, these Tuscan tops. B. Jonson. 
To TRICK, v. a. [tricher, Fr.; triegen, Germ.] To 
cheat; to impose on; to defraud.—It is impossible that the 
whole world should thus conspire to cheat themselves, to put 
a delusion on mankind, and trick themselves into belief. 
Stephens. —To dress; to decorate; to adorn; properly to 
knot.—They turned the imposture upon the king, and gave 
out, that to defeat the true inheritor he had tricked up a boy 
in the likeness of Edward Plantagenet. Bacon. —To per¬ 
form with a light touch: though it may mean here to dress. 
[Trycka, Swed.] It is a term of heraldry; as, to trick 
arms.—They are blazoned there; there they are tricked, 
they and their pedigrees. B. Jonson. 
To TRICK, v. n. To live by fraud. 
Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving. 
And murdering plays, which still they call reviving. Dry den. 
TRI'CKER, s. [this is often written trigger .] The 
catch which being pulled disengages the cock of the gun, 
that it may give fire. 
As a goose 
In death contracts his talons close; 
So did the knight, and with one claw 
The tricker of his pistol draw. Hudibras. 
TRI'CKERY, s. Act of dressing up; artifice.—You 
taught us to set a just value upon the eccentricities of im¬ 
petuous and untutored genius, by giving us an opportunity 
to compare them with the trickeries of cold and systematic 
refinement. Dr. Parr. 
TRI'CKING, s. Dress; ornament.—Get us properties 
and tricking for our fairies. Shakspeare. 
TRI'CKISH, adj. Knavishly artful; fraudulently cun¬ 
ning; mischievously subtle.—All he says is in a loose, slip¬ 
pery, and trickish way of reasoning. Atterbury. 
To TRI'CKLE, v. n. [Of this word there is no etymo-. 
logy that seems well authorized or probable. Dr. Johnson .] 
To fall in drops; to rill in a slender stream. 
Imbrown’d with native bronze, lo! Henly stands, 
Tuning his voice and balancing his hands: 
How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! 
How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung. Pope. 
TRI'CKMENT, s. Decoration. 
No tomb shall hold thee; 
But these two arms; no trickments but my tears 
Over thy hearse. Beaum. and FI. 
TRI'CKSTER, s. One who practises tricks.—Another of 
these tricksters wrote and published a piece entitled. The 
Assembly Man. Robinson. 
TRI'CKSY, adj. Pretty; dainty; neat; brisky; lively; 
merry. Still used in some parts of the north. 
The fool hath planted in his memory 
An army of good words; and I do know 
A many fools that stand in better place. 
Garnish’d like him, that for a tricksy word 
Defy the matter. Shakspeare. 
TRI'CKTRACK, s. [trictrac, French.] A game at 
tables.—Loitering in sloth and idleness, cross-legged like so 
many taylors, the Turk wastes almost his whole time, lolling 
on these cushions or sophas, smoaking tobacco, and drink¬ 
ing coffee or sherbet, without either diversion or amusement, 
but playing with shells, or at trick-track, or the goose. Me¬ 
moirs of P. H. Bruce. 
TRICOLOOR, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic. Lat. 11. 59. N. long. 79. 20. E. 
TRICO'RPORAL, adj. [tricorpus, Lat.] Having three 
bodies. 
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