Trice, n. [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an
instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.] A
very short time; an instant; a moment; — now used only in the phrase in
a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak.
A man shall make his fortune in a trice.
Young.
Tri`cen*na"ri*ous (?), a. Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.
[R.]
Tri*cen"ni*al (?), a. [L. tricennium thirty years; triginta thirty +
annus year: cf. L. tricennalis.] Of or pertaining to thirty years;
consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.
Tri*cen"te*na*ry (?), a. [Pref. tri- + centenary.] Including, or
relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. — n. A
period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the
three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.
||Tri"ceps (?), n. [NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres,
||tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief.]
||(Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of
||the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon
||at the elbow.
||
||Tri*chi"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair.]
||(Med.) A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in
||upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the
||lids.
||
||Tri*chi"na (-n), n.; pl. Trichinæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; hairy, made
||of hair, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair.] (Zoöl.) 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 larvæ 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.
||
||Trich`i*ni"a*sis (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Trichinosis.
||
Trich"i*nize (?), v. t. To render trichinous; to affect with trichinæ;
— chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.
Tri*chi"no*scope (?), n. [Trichina + -scope.] An apparatus for the
detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
||Trich`i*no"sis (?), n. [NL. See Trichina.] (Med.) The disease
||produced by the presence of trichinæ in the muscles and intestinal
||track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling
||those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
||
Trich"i*nous (?), a. Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis;
affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.