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A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.

• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• THREENERVED
  Having three nerves. Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Marinership
  Seamanship.
• Rocklay
  See Rokelay.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Three-sided
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREEPARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Rockless
  Being without rocks.
• Threefold
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
• Three-square
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• THREEPILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Rockling
  Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.

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