Tricker to Trigamous
Tricker
(Trick"er) n. One who tricks; a trickster.
Tricker
(Trick"er), n. A trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Boyle.
Trickery
(Trick"er*y) n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Trickiness
(Trick"i*ness) n. The quality of being tricky.
Tricking
(Trick"ing), a. Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
Tricking
(Trick"ing), n. Dress; ornament. Shak.
Trickish
(Trick"ish), a. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
— Trick"ish*ly, adv. — Trick"ish*ness, n.
Trickle
(Tric"kle) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled (trik"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling ] [OE. triklen, probably
for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strican. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to
run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain.
Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.
Spenser. Trickment
(Trick"ment) n. Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.
Tricksiness
(Trick"si*ness) n. The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
Trickster
(Trick"ster) n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Tricksy
(Trick"sy) a. [From Trick.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak.
he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom.
Coleridge. Tricktrack
(Trick"track`) n. [F. trictrac. Cf. Ticktack backgammon.] An old game resembling backgammon.
Tricky
(Trick"y) a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Triclinate
(Tric"li*nate) a. (Min.) Triclinic.
Tricliniary
(Tri*clin"i*a*ry) a. [L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.] Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the
ancient mode of reclining at table.
Triclinic
(Tri*clin"ic) a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. to incline.] (Crystallog.) Having, or characterized by, three
unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.
Triclinium
(||Tri*clin"i*um) n.; pl. Triclinia [L., from Gr. (see Tri- ) + a couch.] (Rom. Antiq.) (a)
A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. (b) A
dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
Tricoccous
(Tri*coc"cous) a. [Gr. tri`kokkos with three grains or berries; (see Tri-) + ko`kkos grain,
seed.] (Bot.) Having three cocci, or roundish carpels. Gray.
Tricolor
(Tri"col`or) n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three- colored; tri
(see Tri-) + L. color color.] [Written also tricolour.]
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
