Shak.
Three"-piled` (?), a. 1. Having the quality of three-pile; best; most
costly. [R.]
Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece.
Shak.
2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high- flown. "Three-piled
hyperboles." Shak.
3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth.
[Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.
Three"-ply` (?), a. Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought
together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands;
threefold.
Three"-point`ed (?), a. (Bot.) Having three acute or setigerous points;
tricuspidate.
Three"-quar`ter (?), a. (Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by
twenty-five; — said of portraitures.
Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
Three"-score` (?), a. Thrice twenty; sixty.
Three"-sid`ed (?), a. Having three sides, especially three plane sides;
as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Three"-square` (?), a. Having a cross section in the form of an
equilateral triangle; — said especially of a kind of file.
Three"-valved` (?), a. Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening
with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
Three"-way` (?), a. Connected with, or serving to connect, three
channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
Threne (?), n. [L. threnus, Gr. &?;. Cf. Drone.] Lamentation; threnody;
a dirge. Shak.
The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jer. Taylor.
{ Thre*net"ic (?), Thre*net"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;. See Threne.]
Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.
Thren"ode (?), n. A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Thren"o*dist (?), n. One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode,
or threnody.
Thren"o*dy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; a dirge + &?; a song. See Threne, and
Ode.] A song of lamentation; a threnode. Sir T. Herbert.
Threpe (?), v. t. [See Threap.] To call; to term. [Obs.] "Luna silver
we threpe." Chaucer.
Threp*sol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; nourishment + -logy.] (Med.) The
doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
Thresh (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Threshing.] Same as Thrash.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve.
Chaucer.
Thresh"er (?), n. Same as Thrasher.
Thresh"-fold` (?), n. Threshold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Thresh"old (?), n. [OE. threswold, þreshwold, AS. þrescwald, þerscwald,
þerscold, þrescold, fr. þrescan, þerscan, to thresh; akin to Icel.
þreskjöde, þröskuldr, Sw. tröskel, Dan. tærskel. See Thrash.] 1. The
plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially
of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence,
entrance; gate; door.
2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset;
as, the threshold of life.