Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
Trip (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
Trip (n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Trip (n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
Trip (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
Trip (n.) A troop of men; a host.
Trip (n.) A flock of widgeons.
Tripalmitate (n.) A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.
Tripalmitin (n.) See Palmitin.
Tripang (n.) See Trepang.
Triparted (a.) Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.
Triparted (a.) Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.
Tripartible (a.) Divisible into three parts.
Tripartient (a.) Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.
Tripartite (v. i.) Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.
Tripartite (v. i.) Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite.
Tripartite (v. i.) Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.
Tripartitely (adv.) In a tripartite manner.
Tripartition (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
Tripaschal (a.) Including three passovers.
Tripe (n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Tripedal (a.) Having three feet.
Tripe-de-roche (n.) Same as Rock tripe, under Rock.
Tripel (n.) Same as Tripoli.
-men (pl. ) of Tripeman
Tripeman (n.) A man who prepares or sells tripe.
Tripennate (a.) Same as Tripinnate.
Tripersonal (a.) Consisting of three persons.
Tripersonalist (n.) A Trinitarian.
Tripersonality (n.) The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
Tripery (n.) A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
Tripestone (n.) A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.
Tripetaloid (a.) Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.
Tripetalous (a.) Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Triphane (n.) Spodumene.
Triphthong (n.) A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
Triphthongal (a.) Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Triphyline (n.) Triphylite.
Triphylite (n.) A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.
Triphyllous (a.) Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Tripinnate (a.) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
Triplasian (a.) Three-fold; triple; treble.
Triple (a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Triple (a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
Triple (a.) One of three; third.
Tripled (imp. & p. p.) of Triple
Tripling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triple
Triple (a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Triple-crowned (a.) Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
Triple-headed (a.) Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
Triplet (n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
Triplet (n.) Three verses rhyming together.
Triplet (n.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.
Triplet (n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Triple-tail (n.) An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
Triplicate (v. t.) Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Triplicate (n.) A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Triplicate-ternate (a.) Triternate.
Triplication (n.) The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
Triplication (n.) Same as Surrejoinder.
Triplicity (a.) The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
Triplicostate (a.) Three-ribbed.
Triplite (n.) A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Triploblastic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.
Triploidite (n.) A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.
Triply (adv.) In a triple manner.
Tripmadam (n.) Same as Prickmadam.
Tripod (n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
Tripod (n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
Tripodian (n.) An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
Tripody (n.) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Tripoli (n.) An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Tripoline (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.
Tripoline (a.) Of or pertaining to tripoli, the mineral.
Tripolitan (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
Tripolitan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
Triposes (pl. ) of Tripos
Tripos (n.) A tripod.
Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
Trippant (a.) See Tripping, a., 2.
Tripper (n.) One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
Tripper (n.) An excursionist.
Trippet (n.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
Tripping (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
Tripping (a.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
Tripping (n.) Act of one who, or that which, trips.
Tripping (n.) A light dance.
Tripping (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
Trippingly (adv.) In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
Tripsis (n.) Trituration.
Tripsis (n.) Shampoo.
Triptote (n.) A noun having three cases only.
Triptych (n.) Anything in three parts or leaves.
Triptych (n.) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.