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TRIPARTI'TION, s. A division into three parts. Ash. 
TRIPATORE, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic, and district of Tanjore. Lat. 10. 10. N. 
long. 78. 40. E. 
TRIPATORE, a town of the south of India, district of 
Baramahal. This place was frequently taken and retaken 
during the wars with Hyder Aly. Lat. 12. 32. N. long. 
78. 42. E. 
TRIPE, s. [tripe, French; trippa, Italian and Spanish.] 
The inteslines; the guts. 
How say you to a fat tripe finely broil’d ? 
—I like it well. Shakspeare. 
It is used in ludicrous language for the human belly. 
TRI'PEDAL, adj. [trcs andjwes, Latin.] Having three 
feet. 
TRIPE'RSONAL, adj. [ tres , Latin; and personal .] 
Consisting of three persons.—Thou, that sitlest in light and 
glory unapproachable. Parent of angels and men! Next, 
thee I implore, omnipotent king. Redeemer of the lost rem¬ 
nant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and ever¬ 
lasting love! And thou, the third subsistence of divine 
infinitude, illumining Spirit, the joy and solace of created 
things! one tripersonal Godhead ! look upon this thy poor 
and almost spent and expiring church. Milton. 
TRIPE'TALOUS, adj. [roeu; and wtxocko *.] Having a 
flower consisting of three leaves. 
TRIPETTY, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic, containing a very celebrated Hindoo temple. 
The image is one of the numerous incarnations of Vishnu. 
Lat. 13. 31. N. long 79. 33. E. 
TRl'PHTHONG, s. [tripthongue, French; rgeu; and 
<p^ofyr„ Greek.] A coalition of three vowels to form one 
sound : as eau ; eye. 
TRIPLARIS [from triplex, threefold], in Botany, a genus 
of the class triandria, order trigynia, natural order of poly- 
gonese (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one- 
leafed, ovate, trifid; segments lanceolate, membranaceous, 
spreading, very long,permanent; six-cleft. Corolla: petals 
three, length of the tube of the calyx; none. Stamina: 
filaments three, awl-shaped, length of the tube of the calyx. 
Anthers linear, membranous, ovate. Pistil: germ ovate, 
triangular; angles compressed. Styles three, awl-shaped, 
length of the stamens. Stigmas three-sided, villose. Peri¬ 
carp none. Seed: nut three-sided, within the ovate base 
of the calyx.— Essential Character. Calyx very large, 
three-parted, or six-parted. Corolla three-petalled, or none. 
Nut three-sided, within the ovate base of the calyx. 
1. Triplaris Americana.—Spikes erect, terminating. This 
is an upright elegant tree, with a trunk the height of a man, 
and a thin head made up of horizontal branches forming a 
long pyramid. Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, very large, 
a span long, entire, petioled. Spikes long, slender, erect, 
terminating, hairy; with small, ovate, acuminate, hairy 
bractes.—Native of South America. 
2. Triplaris ramiflora.—Racemes lateral, aggregate. This 
is a branching diffused tree. Leaves ovate, or roundish- 
ovate.—Native of the woods about Carthagena, but more 
rare than the preceding; by the river Cinu it • is more 
common. 
TRI'PLE, adj. [triple, French; triplex, triplus, Latin.] 
Threefold; consisting of three conjoined. 
See in him 
The triple pillar of the world transform’d 
Into a strumpet’s stool. Shakspeare. 
Treble; three times repeated.—We have taken this as a 
moderate measure betwixt the highest and lowest; but 
if we had taken only a triple proportion, it would have 
been sufficient. Burnet. 
To TRI'PLE, v. a. To treble; to make thrice as much, 
or as many.—To what purpose should words serve, when 
nature hath more to declare than groans and strong cries; 
more than streams of bloody sweat; more than his doubled 
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and tripled prayers can express? Hooker .—To make 
threefold. 
Time, action, place, are so preserved by thee, 
That e’en Corneille might with envy see 
Th’ alliance of his tripled unity. Dry den. 
TRI'PLET, s. Three of a kind. 
There sit C—nts, D—ks, and Harrison, 
How they swagger from their garrison ; 
Such a triplet could you tell, 
Where to find on this side hell. Swift. 
Three verses rhyming together : as. 
Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to joiu 
The varying verse, the full resounding line. 
The long majestic march and energy divine. Pope. 
TRIPLICATE, adj. [from triplex, Latin.] Made thrice 
as much .—Triplicate ratio, in geometry, is the ratio of cubes 
to each other ; which ought to be distinguished from triple. 
Harris .—All the parts, in height, length, and breadth, bear 
a duplicate or triplicate proportion one to another. Grew. 
TRIPLICATION, s. The act of trebling or adding 
three together.—Since the margin of the visible horizon in 
the heavenly globe is parallel with that in- the earthly, 
accounted but one hundred and twenty miles diameter; 
sense must needs measure the azimuths, or verticle circles, 
by triplication of the same diameter of one hundred and 
twenty. Glanville. 
TRIPLl'CITY, s. [tripliciU, French; from triplex, 
Latin.] Trebleness; state of being threefold.—It was a 
dangerous triplicity to a monarchy, to have the arms of a 
foreigner, the discontents of subjects and the title of a pre¬ 
tender to meet. Bacon. 
TRIPLOIDES, a Surgeon’s instrument with a threefold 
basis, used in the restoring of great depressions of the skull. 
TRIPLOW, or Tiiriplow, a parish of England, in 
Cambridgeshire, noted for its heath, on which the army chose 
Oliver Cromwell for their leader in 1648; 8 miles south of 
Cambridge. 
TRI'PMADAM, s. An herb .—Tripmadam is used in 
salads. Mortimer. 
TRI'POD, s. [tripus, Latin. “ Sedebat Martinus in sel- 
lula rusticana, ut est in usibus servulorum, quas nos rustici 
Galli tripetias, vos scholastici, aut certe tu qui de Graecia 
venis, tripodas nuncupatus. Snip. Sev. Dial. 2.] A seat 
with three feet, such as that from which the priestess of 
Apollo delivered oracles. 
Two tripods cast in antic mould, 
With two great talents of the finest gold. Dryden. 
TRIPOD, or Tripos, a famed sacred seat or stool sup¬ 
ported by three feet, on which the priest and sybils were 
placed to render oracles. 
TRIPOLI, an extensive territory on the northern coast of 
Africa, forming the most easterly of the Barbary states. It 
consists chiefly of a line of coast extending about 800 miles 
in length, or from Cape Razatin in 11.38. E. long., to Port 
Bomba in 32. 20. E. long. Its interior boundaries are, on 
the east the desert of Barca, on the south Fezzan, on tlie 
west Tunis, and part of the Bled el Jereede, or country 
of dates. The habitable part of this country consists chiefly 
of the coast, which for a few miles inland, is almost through¬ 
out of exuberant fertility ; but beyond this limit, the pro¬ 
ductive qualities of the soil entirely disappear, and the 
interior is occupied either with deserts ot sand, or with 
the mountainous districts of Garian and Mesulata. The 
Tripolitan territory includes the country colonised by 
the Greeks, and celebrated by them under the name of 
Cyrene. It appears then to have included a much greater 
extent of cultivated territory than now, and to have sup¬ 
ported a larger population. In the great bay called now 
the gulf of Sidra, are the quicksands so dreaded by the 
ancients, under the appellation of Syrtes. At this point the 
Greeks derived their most intimate knowledge of the African 
desert. 
