Word Meanings - OWENITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

• CLYDESDALETERRIER
  One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, but smaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erect ears.
• Tricot
  A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.
• Trilobite
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on e
• Tripody
  Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
• Triangulated
  of Triangulate
• TRIGERPROCESS
  A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.
• Tridecatylene
  A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; -- called also tridecylene, and tridecene.
• Trimester
  A term or period of three months.
• Triquadrantal
  Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.
• TRIPHAMMER
  A tilt hammer.
• Triens
  A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.
• Trimorphism
  The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.
• Triseralous
  Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.
• Tribunitian
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority.
• TRITHEISTICTRITHEISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to tritheism. Bolingbroke.
• Trifle
  A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
• Trinity
  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.
• Tristichous
  Arranged in three vertical rows.
• Tricentenary
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.

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