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Word Meanings - OWENITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

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  • TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
    Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • TRINE
    The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon. In sextile, square, and trine. Milton. 2. A triad; trinity. A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.
  • TRICLINATE
    Triclinic.
  • TRIPUDIARY
    Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.
  • TRILOBITE
    Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
  • TRIOECIOUS
    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 Trioecia.
  • TRINKETER
    One who trinkets.
  • TRIBUNARY
    Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
  • TRIALITY
    Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
  • TRISKELION; TRISKELE
    A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
  • 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.
  • TRIFURCATE; TRIFURCATED
    Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
  • TRIGONAL
    Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.
  • TRICHINA
    A small, slender nematoid worm 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 larvæ is swallowed by man, they
  • TRINDLE
    See TRUNDLE
  • TRIPODIAN
    An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
  • TRINOCTIAL
    Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
  • TRIAMIDE
    An amide containing three amido groups.
  • LATERAN
    The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
  • TRISACRAMENTARIAN
    One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • VENTRILOQUY
    See VENTRILOQUISM
  • INTRINSICAL
    1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
  • PEDESTRIAN
    Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
  • SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
  • ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
    Of or pertaining to anemometry.
  • TRAY-TRIP
    An old game played with dice. Shak.
  • NAVEL-STRING
    The umbilical cord.
  • STRIATUM
    The corpus striatum.
  • CEPHALOTRIBE
    An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • FRICATRICE
    A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
  • TERRESTRIFY
    To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUBTRIPLICATE
    Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios. Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cube roota/b.
  • TANTRISM
    The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.

 

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