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TRICOT, a small town in the north of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Oise, with 1200 inhabitants; 6 miles south of 
Montdidier, and 25 north-east of Beauvais. 
TRIDACTYLIA, in Ornithology, a genus of birds, sepa¬ 
rated by Dr. Shaw from pirns, on account of the number of 
toes; this having but three, whereas the genuine pice are all 
furnished with four. Its Generic Characters are:—beak 
many-sided, straight, wedge-shaped at the tip; nostrils co¬ 
vered with setaceous recumbent feathers; and feet with only 
three toes, placed two before and one behind. The species 
are the following:-— 
1. Tridactylia hirsuta.—Downy, varied with black and 
white. See Picus Tridactylus. 
2. Tridactylia undulata.—Waved, varied with black and 
white, beneath white. The southern three-toed woodpecker 
of Latham. First described by Brisson, and by him said to 
inhabit Cayenne. 
TRIDAX [©juSaf, Gr., is the name of some pot-herb in 
Dioscorides], in Botany, a genus of the class syngenesia, 
order polygamia superflua, natural order of compositae oppo- 
sitifoliae, corymbiferse (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: 
common cylindrical, imbricate; scales ovate-oblong, ob¬ 
scurely acute, erect. Corolla: compound radiate; corollets 
hermaphrodite, tubular in the disk; female in the ray. Pro¬ 
per in the hermaphrodites funnel-form, five-toothed, erect; 
—in the females ligulate, three-parted; segments equal, the 
middle one narrower. Stamina in the hermaphrodites: fila¬ 
ments five, capillary, very short. Anther cylindrical, tubu¬ 
lar. Pistil in the hermaphrodites: germ oblong. Style 
bristle-shaped, length of the stamens. Stigma obtuse;—in 
the females, germ oblong. Style filiform, length of the 
corollet. Stigma obtuse. Pericarp none. Calyx unchanged. 
Seeds in the hermaphrodites solitary, oblong; down many- 
rayed, simple, a little longer than the calyx;—in the females, 
very like the others. Receptacle chaffy, flat; chaffs lanceo¬ 
late, shorter than the seed.— 'Essential Character. Calyx 
imbricate, cylindrical. Corollets of the ray three-parted. 
Down many-rayed, simple. Receptacle chaffy. 
Tridax procumbens.—Stalks trailing and emitting roots at 
the joints, herbaceous and hairy. Leaves placed by pairs, 
rough, hairy, about an inch and half long, and three quar¬ 
ters of an inch broad, ending in acute points, and acutely 
jagged on the edges. The flowers are produced upon long 
naked peduncles which terminate the branches. The florets 
are of a pale copper colour, inclining to white.—Native of 
America. 
Propagation and Culture. — Sow the seeds in pots 
plunged into a hot-bed. When the plants are fit to remove, 
put each into a small pot, filled with light earth: plunge the 
pots into the tan-pit; shading them from the sun till they 
have taken new root, and then treating them as other tender 
plants from the West Indies, placing them in autumn in the 
bark-stove, where they should constantly remain. 
TRIDE, adj. [among Hunters; tride, French.] Short 
and ready. Dailey. 
TRI'DENT, s. [tridens, Latin.] A three-forked scep¬ 
tre of Neptune. 
His nature is too noble for the world. 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident. Shakspeare. 
TRI'DENT, or Tride'nted, adj. Having three teeth. 
Neptune— 
Held his tridented mace upon the south: 
The winds were whist, the billows danc’d no more. 2uarles. 
TRI'DING, s. [tjnSinga, Saxon; rather trithingi] The 
third part of a county or shire. This division is only used 
in Yorkshire, where it is corrupted into riding. 
TRI'DUAN, adj. [from triduum, Lat.] Lasting three 
days.—Happening every third day. 
TRIE, a small town in the south-west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Alps, with 800 inhabitants; 13 miles 
east-north-east of Tarbes. 
TRIEBEL, a small town of the Prussian states, in Lower 
Lusatia, near the river Neisse, containing 1000 inhabitants; 
47 miles south of Frankfort on the Oder. 
TUI 
TRIEDROSTYLA [derived from the Gr. to it;, thrice , 
iloa, a side, and e-tuk&f, a column ], in Natural History, 
the name of a genus of spars. 
TRIEL, a Small town in the north of France, department 
of the Seine and Oise, and adjacent to the Seine. Popula¬ 
tion 1900; 20 miles west-by-north of that capital. 
TR1EMERUS, the Three-day Fly, a fly somewhat 
like the butterfly; it has four large yellowish wings, and a 
long body, with a head furnished with long antennae, large 
eyes, and a spiral trunk.—It is found among the nettles and 
mallows. 
TRIEMIMERIS [tG r., semiternaria\, a kind 
of caesura in Latin verse, in which, after the first foot of the 
verse, there remains an odd syllable, which helps to make 
up the next foot. 
As in, llle latus niveum molli fultus hyacintho. 
TRIENAGH BAY, a bay on the west coast of Ireland. 
Lat. 54. 53. N. long. 8. 15. W. 
TRIE'NNIAL, adj. [triennis, Lat.] Lasting three years. 
—Richard the third, though he came in by blood, yet the 
short time of his triennial reign he was without any, and 
proved one of my best lawgivers. Howell. —Happening 
every third year.—To the bishop for procurations, on account 
of his triennial visitation, three shillings and eight pence. 
Wart on. 
TRIENS, in Antiquity, a copper money, of the value of 
one-third of an as, which on one side bore a Janus’s head, 
and on the other a water-rat. 
TRIENTALIS [so named from its small size], in Botany, 
a genus of the class heptandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of rotaceae, lysimachiee (Juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth seven-leaved; leaflets lanceolate, acumi¬ 
nate, spreading, permanent. Corolla stellate, fiat, one- 
petalled, equal, seven-parted, very slightly cohering at the 
base; segments ovate-lanceolate. Stamina: filaments seven, 
capillary, inserted into the claws of the corolla, patulous, 
length of the calyx. Anthers simple. Pistil: germ globular. 
Style filiform, length of the stamens. Stigma headed. Peri¬ 
carp: berry capsular, juiceless, globular, one-celled, covered 
with a very thin crust, opening by various sutures. Seeds 
some, angular. Receptacle very large, hollowed out for the 
seeds.— Essential Character. Calyx seven-leaved. Co¬ 
rolla seven-parted, equal, flat. Berry juiceless. 
Trientalis Europaca, or chickweed winter-green.—Root 
perennial, somewhat tuberous, creeping. Stem simple, erect, 
a span high, almost naked at bottom, leafy at top. Leaves 
clustered, spreading, lanceolate, quite entire, smooth, veined. 
Peduncles terminating, aggregate, one-flowered, spreading. 
Flowers snow-white, very elegant.—Native of the northern 
parts of Europe, Canada, and Siberia, in woods on the sides 
of mountains, and on turfy heaths; in Yorkshire and North¬ 
umberland. It is more plentiful in Scotland. 
TRI'ER, s. One who tries experimentally.—The ingeni¬ 
ous triers of the German experiment found, that their glass 
vessel was lighter when the air had been drawn out than be¬ 
fore by an ounce and very near a third. Doyle. —One who 
examines judicially.—Courts of justice are bound to take no¬ 
tice of acts of parliament, and .whether they are truly pleaded 
or not; and therefore they are the triers of them. Hale. 
—Test; one who brings to the test. 
You were used 
To say, extremity was the trier of spirits; 
That common chances common men could bear. 
Shakspeare. 
TRIESCH, or Tzeszte, a small town of the Austrian 
states, in Moravia; 6 miles south-west of Iglau. Population 
2900. 
TRIESTE, Government of, a province of the Austrian 
empire, containing the southern half of the kingdom of 
Illyria, and bordering on the Adriatic, Croatia, and the 
government of Laybach. Its territorial extent is 5020 square 
miles, and its population 540,000. The province is divided 
into the four circles of Trieste, Goritz, Fiume, and Carlstadt. 
See farther, Illyria, Istria, and Goritz. 
TRIESTE, a circle of the government of the same name, 
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