Word Meanings - TRIPODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

• THREENERVED
  Having three nerves. Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• 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.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• 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.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-sided
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Three-square
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• THREEPOINTED
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Threefold
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
• Three-valved
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• THREEPORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

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