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T R I G L A. 
TRI'FORM, adj. [triformis, Latin.] Having a triple 
shape. 
The moon her monthly round 
Still ending, still renewing through mid heaven. 
With borrow’d light her countenance triform 
Hence fills, and empties, to enlighten the earth. Milton. 
TRIFORIUM, the gallery which usually goes round a 
church of the pointed style, over the side-aisles, so called by 
Gervasius and other ancient writers. 
TRIFORMIS, an epithet given to Diana. 
To TRIG, v. a. [perhaps from cpig, Sax. alveus.] To 
fill; to stuff. This is still a northern verb; and trig is also 
there used as an adjective for full. —By how much the more 
a man’s skin is full trig'd with flesh, blood, and natural spirits. 
More. 
To TRIG, v. a. [Irega, Goth., tardare. Serenius. —See 
Trigger.] To stop a wheel; to catch a wheel so as to pre¬ 
vent it from going backward or forward. Bailey. 
TRIG, adj » Full. See To Trig. —Trim; neat, [per¬ 
haps from to trick, to dress.] Used in some parts of the 
north, and in Scotland. 
TRIGA, a kind of car, or chariot, with three horses. 
TRI'GAMY, s. [roei? and yapa;, Gr.] State of being 
married three times; state of having three husbands or wives 
at one time.—They marry oft-times at nine or twelve years 
of age; the laity twice, ecclesiastics but once; trigamy to 
all is hateful. Sir T. Herbert. 
TRIGARDON, a small place of European Turkey, on the 
coast of the ancient iEtolia. It occupies the site of the an¬ 
cient town of iEniades, at the mouth of the large river 
Achelous, now the Aspro-Patamo. It was once commercial 
and populous, but from the accumulation of sand, vessels 
cannot now approach it. 
TRIGAULT (Nicholas), a Jesuit missionary, w r as born 
at Douay, in 1577, and having entered into the Society of 
Jesus, was sent, in 1610, on amission to the East Indies. 
After a year’s residence in China, he came to Europe for a 
recruit of missionaries, and returned with forty-four asso¬ 
ciates. At length his life and labours terminated at Nanking, 
in 1628. Of his works, which were numerous, we shall 
only mention his treatise, entitled “ De Christiana Expedi- 
tione apud Sinas ex Matthei Ricci Commentariis,” 1615,4to. 
This w'ork, composed from the memoirs of Ricci, contains a 
description of the manners, laws, and customs of the empire 
of China, with an account of the acts of the Jesuits in that 
country. “ A Chinese Dictionary,” 3 vols. printed in 
China. Moreri. 
TRIGEMINI NERVI, the nerves of the fifth pair of the 
head. 
TRI'GGER, s. [from trigue, Fr.; from intricare, Latin.] 
A catch to hold the wheel on steep ground. The catch that 
being pulled looses the cock of the gun.—The pulling the 
trigger of the gun with which the murder is committed, has 
no natural connection with those ideas that make up the com¬ 
plex one, murder. Locke. 
TRIGI'NTALS, s. [from triginta, Latin.] Trentals or 
trigintals were a number of masses to the tale of thirty, in¬ 
stituted by Saint Gregory. Ay life. 
TRIGLA, or Gurnard, a genus of fish of the order of 
the Thoracici; the characters of which are, that the head is 
large, mailed, and marked by rough lines; the eyes large 
and round at the vertex; the mouth large; the palate and 
mandibles armed with sharpened teeth; and the nostrils 
double; the aperture of the branchiae or gills large; the gill- 
cover spiny, and the gill membrane seven-rayed; the body 
covered with scales, wedge-formed ; the back straight, with a 
longitudinal furrow on both sides, spinous; the lateral line 
near the back, straight; the abdomen thick, the ventral and 
pectoral fins large, and, in some species, near the pectoral 
fins are finger-shaped processes. 
1. Trigla cataphracta, or red gurnard.—With double fin¬ 
gers ; forked elongated snout, and octagonal mailed body: 
its length is about twelve inches: the longitudinal rows or 
divisions of the body are marked by twelve serrated or 
aculeated lines; beneath the throat is a pair of ramified cirri; 
the pectoral fins and tail are pale-brown; the other fins 
pale-yellow, and nearly transparent; rays of the first dorsal 
fin running out beyond the membrane.—A native of the 
Mediterranean. 
2. Trigla lyra, or red gurnard.—Silvery beneath, with 
triple fingers, and bifid denticulated snout. This is the piper 
of the British Zoology. Its length is from one to two feet of 
more; its lateral line formed of small scales; its scales are 
small, pectoral fins large, slightly tinged with dull blue; tail 
of like colour; the other fins yellowish, with red rays.— 
Native of the European seas, and considered as an excellent 
fish for the table. 
3. Trigla gurnardus, or grey gurnard.—With triple fin* 
gers, and lateral line mailed with rounded whitish scales : 
length the same as that of the former; colour above deep 
grey, with blackish and red spots, beneath silvery; scales 
small, lateral line strongly marked with a series of larger, 
rounded, whitish scales, with a dusky central spot.—Native 
of the European seas, and not uncommon about our own 
coasts, feeding on worms, insects, &c. 
4. Trigla cuculus, or red cuckow gurnard.—Silvery be¬ 
neath, with triple fingers, and first dorsal fin marked by a 
black spot; an elegant species, about a foot in length, of a 
more slender shape than the last; colour on the upper parts 
a beautiful red, more or less distinctly marked by whitish 
transverse bars; scales extremely small; lateral line com¬ 
posed of pointed white scales edged with black, and a similar 
row on each side of the back; fins transparent; the first 
dorsal marked on the edge by a black spot, the second tinged 
near its edge with yellow.—Native of the European seas, and 
esteemed as a food. 
5. Trigla lucerna.—With triple fingers, sub-bifid snout, 
and lateral line bifid at the tail.—Native of the Northern 
seas, and conjectured to be a variety of the trigla hirundo. 
6. Trigla hirundo, or grey-brown gurnard.—Silvery be¬ 
neath, with triple fingers, and very large olivaceous pectoral 
fins spotted with blue : the Sapphiric gurnard of the British 
Zoology; and stock-fish of Willughby. Of the same size 
with the grey gurnard; scales middle-sized, lateral line 
rough, pectoral fins very large, of a violaceous olive, some¬ 
times richly edged and spotted with blue.—Native of the 
European seas, occasionally springing out of the water to 
some distance by means of its large pectoral fins. 
7. Trigla lineata, or red gurnard.'—Marked above by 
dusky-sanguine spots, with the body crossed on each side by 
numerous perpendicular lines: the streaked gurnard of the 
British Zoology. Size and habit of trigla cuculus ; colour 
bright-red, abdomen silvery; on each side of the back, close 
to the base of the dorsal fins, a row of broad, serrated, short 
processes of a yellow colour; lateral line formed by a row of 
similar ones; scales small, sides above and below the lateral 
line marked into very numerous, narrow perpendicular divi¬ 
sions; pectoral fins large, rounded, of a dusky-brown, spotted 
with black ; rest of the fins yellowish, with a tinge of red, 
especially the tail, which is slightly lunated.—Native of the 
Mediterranean sea. 
8. Trigla Asiatica, or silvery gurnard.—With quadruple 
fingers; body smooth, snout smooth and prominent; ante¬ 
rior gill-covers serrated; pectoral fins falcated.—Native of 
the Indian seas. 
9. Trigla evolans, or springing gurnard.—With triple 
fingers, and three serrated spines between the dorsal fins; 
allied to the trigla volitans, but funished with three separate 
pectoral processes; the pectoral fins very large, but less than 
those of the next species; the pectoral fins blackish.—Native 
of the American seas. 
10. Trigla volitans, or red gurnard.—With aculeated 
scales, very large pectoral fins spotted with blue, and sex¬ 
tuple fingers connected by a membrane ; the milvus of Sal- 
vian, Aldrovandus, Willughby, &c. This is a highly singular 
and beautiful species; length about twelve inches; colour 
crimson above, pale or whitish beneath ; head blunt, armed 
on each side with two very strong large spines, pointing back¬ 
wards ; the whole body covered with very strong carinated 
