Word Meanings - TRICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To haul and tie up by means of a rope. (more info) Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a 1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. Out of his seat

Additional info about word: TRICE

To haul and tie up by means of a rope. (more info) Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a 1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRICE)

• Instant
• Moment
• second
• minute
• twinkling
• trice
• flash
• importance
• weight
• force
• gravity
• consequence
• avail
• Step
• Advance
• pace
• space
• grade
• remove
• degree
• gradation
• progression
• track
• walk
• gait
• proceeding
• action
• measure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRICE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Fail
• fall
• disappoint
• betray
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to TRICE)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• INSTANT
  upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• TWINKLE
  1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• AVAIL
  1. To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton. 2. To promote; to assist. Pope. To avail one's
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.