AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
tremendous: fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
tremex: a genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. the female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. see illust. of horntail.
tremolite: a white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.
tremolo: the rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.-a certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.
tremor: a trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
tremulous: shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.-affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
trench: to cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.-to fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.-to cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.-to dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.-to encroach; to intrench.-to have direction; to aim or tend.-a long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.-an alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.-an excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. the term includes the parallels and the approaches.
trench-plough: to plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
trenchant: fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.-fig.: keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
trencher: one who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.-a large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.-the table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
trencher-man: a feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.-a cook.-a table companion; a trencher mate.
trenchmore: a kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.-to dance the trenchmore.
trend: to have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.-to cause to turn; to bend.-inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.-to cleanse, as wool.-clean wool.
trental: an office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.-hence, a dirge; an elegy.
trenton period: a subdivision in the lower silurian system of america; -- so named from trenton falls, in new york. the rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the trenton, utica, and cincinnati epochs. see the chart of geology.
trepan: a crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. see trephine.-a kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.-to perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.-a snare; a trapan.-a deceiver; a cheat.-to insnare; to trap; to trapan.
trepang: any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in china; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
trephine: an instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. it is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.-to perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
trepidation: an involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.-hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.-a libration of the starry sphere in the ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
tres-tyne: in the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. this tyne appears in the third year. in those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. see illust. under rucervine, and under rusine.
trespass: to pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.-to commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.-to go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.-to commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.-any injury or offence done to another.-any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.-an unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.-an action for injuries accompanied with force.
trespasser: one who commits a trespass-one who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights.-a transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.
tress: a braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.-fig.: a knot or festoon, as of flowers.
tressed: having tresses.-formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.
tressure: a kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
tressured: provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
trestle: a movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.-the frame of a table.
trestletree: one of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural.
trestlework: a viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
tret: 3d pers. sing. pres. of tread, for treadeth.-an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
tretys: a treatise; also, a treaty.-long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty.
trevat: a weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
trey: three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
tri-: a prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.-a prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.
tri/cious: having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order tri/cia.
triable: fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.-liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
triacid: capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
triaconter: a vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
triad: a union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.-a chord of three notes.-the common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.-an element or radical whose valence is three.
triadelphous: having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. see illust. under adelphous.
trial: the act of trying or testing in any manner.-any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.-the act of testing by experience; proof; test.-examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.-the state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.-that which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.-the formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
triandrous: of or pertaining to the triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
triangle: a figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.-an instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.-a draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.-a kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.-a small constellation situated between aries and andromeda.-a small constellation near the south pole, containing three bright stars.
triangular: having three angles; having the form of a triangle.-oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
triangulares: the triangular, or maioid, crabs. see illust. under maioid, and illust. of spider crab, under spider.
triangulate: to divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.-to make triangular, or three-cornered.
triangulation: the series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
triarchy: government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.
trias: the formation situated between the permian and lias, and so named by the germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in german the bunter sandstein, muschelkalk, and keuper.
triassic: of the age of, or pertaining to, the trias.-the triassic formation.
triatomic: having three atoms; -- said of certain elements or radicals.-having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic.
tribalism: the state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
tribasic: capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
tribe: a family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of israel, descended from the twelve sons of jacob.-a number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.-a nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the six nations; the seneca tribe.-a division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of athens was divided into ten tribes.-a family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the duchess tribe of shorthorns.-to distribute into tribes or classes.
tribolet: a goldsmith's tool used in making rings.-a steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes.-a tapering mandrel.
tribular: of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
tribunal: the seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.-hence, a court or forum; as, the house of lords, in england, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
tribune: an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.-anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in france, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
tribunitian: of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority.
tributary: paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.-hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.-paid in tribute.-yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the mississippi.-a ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.-a stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
tribute: an annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.-a personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection.-a certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.-to pay as tribute.
trica: an apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
tricarballylic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, c3h5.(co2h)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.
trice: to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.-to haul and tie up by means of a rope.-a very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
tricennial: of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.
tricentenary: including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.-a period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.
triceps: a muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
trichiasis: a disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.
trichina: a small, slender nematoid worm (trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. when insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
trichinize: to render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.
trichinoscope: an apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
trichinosis: the disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. it is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
trichinous: of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.
trichite: a kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. see illust. of crystallite.-a delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.
trichiuriform: like or pertaining to the genus trichiurus or family trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.
trichobranchia: the gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
trichogyne: the slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.
trichomanes: any fern of the genus trichomanes. the fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the united states.
trichomatose: affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. see plica, 1.
trichome: a hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. the sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
trichophore: the special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. see illust. of trichogyne.-one of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
trichoptera: a suborder of neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. it comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.
trichoscolices: an extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
trichotomous: divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem.
trichroic: exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.
trichroism: the quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.
trichromatic: having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.
trichromic: of, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.-containing three atoms of chromium.
trick: an artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.-a sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.-mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.-a particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.-a knot, braid, or plait of hair.-the whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.-a turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.-a toy; a trifle; a plaything.-to deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.-to dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.-to draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
trickery: the art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
trickish: given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
tricliniary: of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
triclinic: having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. see the note under crystallization.
triclinium: a couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.-a dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
tricolor: the national french banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.-hence, any three-colored flag.
tricot: a fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.
tricrotism: that condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. the pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
tricurvate: curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see illust. of spicule).
tricuspid: having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.-of or pertaining to the tricuspid valves; as, tricuspid obstruction.
tricuspidate: three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.
tricycle: a three-wheeled velocipede. see illust. under velocipede.  cf. bicycle.
tridacna: a genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the indian and pacific oceans. one species (t. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. called also paw shell, and fountain shell.
tridactyle: having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
tride: short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen.
tridecane: a hydrocarbon, c13h28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.
tridecatoic: of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. it is a white crystalline substance.
tridecatylene: a hydrocarbon, c13h26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.
trident: a kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of neptune.-a three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.-a three-pronged fish spear.-a curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.-having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.
tridented: having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace.
tridentine: of or pertaining to trent, or the general church council held in that city.
tridymite: pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. it is found in trachyte and similar rocks.
tried: imp. & p. p. of try.-proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.
triennial: continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.-happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation.-something which takes place or appears once in three years.
triens: a roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. see 3d as, 2.
trier: one who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.-one who tries judicially.-a person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.-that which tries or approves; a test.
trierarch: the commander of a trireme.-at athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.