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vince of Madrid, situated on the Tagus; 68 miles east-north¬ 
east of Madrid, and 26 south-by-westof Siguen§a. 
TRILU'MINAR, or Trilu'minous, adj. [ triluminaris, 
Lat.] Having three lights. Diet. 
TRIM, adj. [jecjiymmeb, Sax., completed; Cfiyman, 
tpymian, to prepare, to dispose or set out.~\ Nice; snug; 
dressed up. It is used with slight contempt. 
A trim exploit, a manly enterprize. 
To conjure tears up in a poor maid’s eyes 
With your derision. Shakspeare. 
TRIM, s. Dress; geer; ornaments. It is now a word 
of slight contempt. 
They come like sacrifices in their trim. 
And to the fire-ey’d maid of smoky war, 
All hot, and bleeding, will we offer them. Shakspeare. 
Trimming.—The gold, that was laid upon the trim of 
vests, was in perfect lustre. Sir T. Herbert. 
To TRIM, v. a. [epyman, Saxon, to prepare .] To fit 
out. 
Malicious censurers ever, 
As rav’nous fishes do a vessel follow 
That is new tritnm'd. Shakspeare. 
To dress; to decorate. 
Our youth got me to play the woman’s part, 
And I was trimm'd in madam Julia’s gown. Shakspeare. 
To shave; to clip.—Mephibosheth had neither dressed 
his feet, nor trimmed his beard. 2 Sam. —To make neat; 
to adjust. 
I fouud her trimming up the diadem 
On her dead mistress. Shakspeare. 
To balance a vessel.—Sir Roger put his coachman to trim 
the boat. Spectator. —To lose in fluctuating between two 
parties. 
He who would hear what every fool could say. 
Would never fix his thoughts, but trim his time away. 
Dry den. 
It has often up emphatical. 
He gave you all the duties of a man, 
Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue. 
Spoke your deservings like chronicle. Shakspeare. 
To TRIM, v. n. To balance; to fluctuate between two 
arties.—If such by trimming and time-serving, which are 
ut two words for the same thing, betray the church by nau¬ 
seating her pious orders, this will produce confusion. South. 
TRIM, a town of Ireland, in the county of Eastmeath, on 
the river Bayne. It is the county town, and before the union 
sent two members to the Irish parliament. It is governed by 
a sovereign recorder, and town clerk; 20 miles south-west of 
Drogheda, and 23 north-west of Dublin. Lat. 53. 32. N. 
long. 6. 4S. W. 
TRIMAPORE, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic. Lat. 10. 20. N. long. 78.55. E. 
TRIMBUCK,a strong fortress of Hindostan, province of 
Aurungabad, situated near the source of the river Godavery, 
which in 1818 surrendered to the British after a short bom¬ 
bardment. Lat. 20.1. N. long. 73. 42. E. 
TRIMDON, a township of England, in the county of 
Durham; 8 miles south-east of Durham. 
TRI'METER, adj. [rpp.tr pc, Gr.; trimetre, Fr.] Con¬ 
sisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six 
feet.—Though the iambic verse consists of six feet, yet it is 
called trimeter, two feet being joined together in scanning. 
Roscommon. 
TRIMMINGIIAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 5 
miles south-east-by-east of Cromer. 
TRIMLEY, St. Martin’s, a parish of England, in Suf¬ 
folk ; 8k miles south-east-by-east of Ipswich. 
TRIMLEY, St. Mahy, another parish in the above coun¬ 
ty, adjoining the foregoing. 
TRI'MLY, adv. Nicely ; neatly. 
Her yellow golden hair 
Was trimly woven, and in tresses wrought. Spenser. 
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TRPMMER, s. One who changes sides to balance par¬ 
ties ; a turncoat. 
To confound his hated coin. 
All parties and religions join, 
Whigs, tories, trimmers. Swift. 
A piece of wood inserted.—Before they pin up the frame 
of ground-plates, they must fit in the summer and the 
girders, and all the joists and the trimmers for the stair-case. 
Moxon. 
TRl'MMING, s. Ornamental appendages to a coat or 
gown.—Judgment without vivacity of imagination is too 
heavy, and like a dress without fancy ; and the last without 
the first is too gay, and but all trimming. Garth. 
TRI'MNESS, s. Neatness; petty elegance of dress. 
Sherwood. 
TRIMPLEY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Kid¬ 
derminster ; 2 miles north of Bewdley. 
TRI'NAL, adj. [ trinus, Lat.] Threefold. 
That far-beaming blaze of majesty, 
Wherewith he wont at heaven’s high council-table 
To sit the midst of trinal unity, 
He laid aside. Milton. 
TRINCO, a small pleasant town, with a church, on a 
mountain torrent of the same name, situated on the great 
road from Buenos Ayres to Potosi; 1000 miles from the for¬ 
mer place. 
TRINCOMALEE, a town, fortress, and excellent harbour 
of Ceylon. It is situated on the north-east side of the island. 
The town is of greater extent than Columbo, but contains 
fewer houses, and much less population. The fort is very 
strong, and commands the principal bays, particularly the 
entrance to the harbour. It has also a citadel called Fort 
Ostenburgh, erected on a cliff which projects into the sea, 
and which cannot be attacked till after the capture of the 
lower fort. Lat. 8 . 31. N. long. 81. 23. E. 
TRINDELEN, a rock in the Scaggerac, almost equally 
distant from the coasts of Jutland and Norway; 7 miles 
north-north-east from the island of Lessoe. Lat. 67.27. N. 
long. 11. 1. E. 
TRI'NDLE, s. See Trundle. 
TRINE, s. [ trinus , Lat.] An aspect of planets placed in 
three angles of a trigon, in which they are supposed by astro¬ 
logers to be eminently benign. 
To the other five, 
Their planetary motions, and aspects, 
In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, 
Of noxious efficacy. Milton. 
TRINE, adj. [trinus, Lat.] Threefold; thrice repeated. 
—In other parts trine immersion most commonly prevailed, 
as it does in the Greek church to this very day. Wheatley. 
To TRINE, v. a. To put in a trine aspect. 
This advantage age from youth has won, 
As not to be outridden, though outrun ; 
By fortune he was now to Venus trin'd. 
And with stern Mars in Capricorn was join’d. Dryden. 
TRINESIA, or Trinasus, a small town of European 
Turkey, in the Morea, at the bottom of the gulf of Koloky- 
thia, situated to the right of the mouth of the Eurotas. Near 
it are the ruins of Gythium, the military fort of the Lacede¬ 
monians ; 22 miles south of the ruins of Sparta. 
TRING, a market town of England, in the county of 
Hertford, situated on the borders of Buckinghamshire, near 
the Brawnstone canal. The town is very neat, and contains 
many handsome houses. At Little Tring, a neighbouring 
village in this parish, rises one of the heads or branches of 
the Thames, which leaving the county at Puttenham, runs by 
Aylesbury to Thame. Tring was anciently a considerable 
town, and gave name to the hundred. Population 1847; 22 
miles west of Hertford. 
TRING, a township of Lower Canada, in the district 
of Quebec, and county of Buckingham. 
TRINGA, or Sand-piper, the name of a distinct genus 
of birds, of the order of the Grallae; the distinguishing cha¬ 
racters of which are, that the beak is roundish, and of the 
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