2. 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.
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Gray.
3. (Mining) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value,
given to the miner as his recompense. Pryce. Tomlinson.
Tribute money, money paid as a tribute or tax. — Tribute pitch.
(Mining) See under Tributer. [Eng.]
Syn. — See Subsidy.
Trib"ute, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tributing.] To
pay as tribute. [R.] Whitlock (1654).
Trib"u*ter (?), n. (Mining) One who works for a certain portion of the
ore, or its value. [Eng.]
Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode
set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted
to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so
much per pound, as agreed upon, of the value of what they raise. Weale.
||Tri"ca (?), n.; pl. Tricæ (#). [NL.] (Bot.) An apothecium in certain
||lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric
||ridges and furrows.
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Tri*car`bal*lyl"ic (?), a. [Pref. tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic.]
(Chem.) 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.
Tri*car"bi*mide (?), n. [Pref. tri- + carbimide.] (Chem.) See under
Cyanuric.
Trice (?), v. t. [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. 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 pulley, D.
trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.] 1. To pull; to haul; to drag;
to pull away. [Obs.]
Out of his seat I will him trice.
Chaucer.