By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
Dryden.
Tri*nerv"ate (?), a. [NL. trinervatus; pref. tri- + L. nervus nerve.]
(Bot.) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base
to the apex; — said of a leaf. Gray.
{ Tri"nerve` (?), Tri"nerved` (?), } a. [Pref. tri- + nerve.] (Bot.)
Same as Trinervate.
||Trin"ga (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of limicoline birds including
||many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.
||
Trin"gle (?), n. [F. tringle.] A curtain rod for a bedstead.
Trin"goid (?), a. [Tringa + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to Tringa,
or the Sandpiper family.
Trin`i*ta"ri*an (?), a. [Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity.] Of or
pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in
that doctrine.
Trin`i*ta"ri*an, n. 1. One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St.
John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the
purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.
Trin`i*ta"ri*an*ism (?), n. The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine
that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.
Tri*ni`tro*cel"lu*lose" (?), n. Gun cotton; — so called because
regarded as containing three nitro groups.
Tri*ni`tro*phe"nol (?), n. (Chem.) Picric acid.
Trin"i*ty (?), n. [OE. trinitee, F. trinité, L. trinitas, fr. trini
three each. See Trinal.] 1. (Christian Theol.) The union of three
persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so
that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to
individuality.
2. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as
the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
3. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the
triangle.
Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and
navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the
like. — Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; — so called
from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. — Trinity
term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.
Trin`i*u"ni*ty (?), n. [See Trinity, and Unity.] Triunity; trinity.
[Obs.]
As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject
them as scholastic notions.
Milton.
Trink (?), n. A kind of fishing net. [Obs.] Crabb.
Trin"ket (?), n. [F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail,
trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular.] (Naut.) A
three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on
a lateen yard.
Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our
hands.
Hakluyt.
Trin"ket, n. [OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence, probably, a toy knife
worn as an ornament; probably from an Old French dialectic form of
trenchier to cut. Cf. Trench, v. t.] 1. A knife; a cutting tool.
Tusser.