Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 77

Triumplant (v. i.) Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.

Triumplant (v. i.) Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode.

Triumplant (v. i.) Graced with conquest; victorious.

Triumplant (v. i.) Of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal.

Triumphantly (adv.) In a triumphant manner.

Triumpher (n.) One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.

Triumpher (n.) One who triumphs or rejoices for victory.

Triumphing (a.) Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant.

Triumviri (pl. ) of Triumvir

Triumvirs (pl. ) of Triumvir

Triumvir (n.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.

Triumvirate (n.) Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.

Triumvirate (n.) A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.

Triumviry (n.) A triumvirate.

Triune (a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.

Triunguli (pl. ) of Triungulus

Triungulus (n.) The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.

Triunity (n.) The quality or state of being triune; trinity.

Trivalence (n.) The quality or state of being trivalent.

Trivalent (a.) Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.

Trivalve (n.) Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

Trivalvular (a.) Having three valves; three-valved.

Trivant (n.) A truant.

Triverbial (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.

Trivet (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

Trivet (n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat.

Trivial (a.) Found anywhere; common.

Trivial (a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

Trivial (a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

Trivial (a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.

Trivial (n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

Trivialism (n.) A trivial matter or method; a triviality.

Trivialities (pl. ) of Triviality

Triviality (n.) The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

Triviality (n.) That which is trivial; a trifle.

Trivially (adv.) In a trivial manner.

Trivialness (n.) Quality or state of being trivial.

Trivium (n.) The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

Trivium (n.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Triweekly (a.) Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper.

Triweekly (adv.) Three times a week.

Triweekly (n.) A triweekly publication.

Troad (n.) See Trode.

Troat (v. i.) To cry, as a buck in rutting time.

Troat (n.) The cry of a buck in rutting time.

Trocar (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.

Trochaic (n.) A trochaic verse or measure.

Trochaic (a.) Alt. of Trochaical

Trochaical (a.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.

Trochal (a.) Resembling a wheel.

Trochanter (n.) One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

Trochanter (n.) The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.

Trochanteric (a.) Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

Trochantine (n.) The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.

Trochar (n.) See Trocar.

Troche (n.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

Trochil (n.) The crocodile bird.

Trochilic (a.) OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

Trochilics (n.) The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work.

Trochili (n. pl.) A division of birds comprising the humming birds.

Trochilidist (n.) One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae.

Trochilos (n.) The crocodile bird, or trochil.

Trochili (pl. ) of Trochilus

Trochilus (n.) A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.

Trochilus (n.) Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets.

Trochilus (n.) The crocodile bird.

Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.

Troching (n.) One of the small branches of a stag's antler.

Trochisci (pl. ) of Trochiscus

Trochiscus (n.) A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.

Trochisk (n.) See Trochiscus.

Trochite (n.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

Trochlea (n.) A pulley.

Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.

Trochlear (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.

Trochleary (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.

Trochoid (a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

Trochoid (a.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.

Trochoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.

Trochoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.

Trochoidal (a.) See Trochoid, a.

Trochometer (n.) A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

Trochosphere (n.) A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.

Trochi (pl. ) of Trochus

Trochus (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.

Troco (n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

Trod () imp. & p. p. of Tread.

Trodden () p. p. of Tread.

Trode () imp. of Tread.

Trode (n.) Tread; footing.

Troglodyte (n.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.

Troglodyte (n.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

Troglodyte (n.) The wren.

Troglodytes (n.) A genus of apes including the chimpanzee.

Troglodytes (n.) A genus of singing birds including the common wrens.

Troglodytic (a.) Alt. of Troglodytical

Troglodytical (a.) Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.

Trogon (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.

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