Trilithic
(Tri*lith"ic) a. Pertaining to a trilith.
Trilithon
(Tril"i*thon) n.; pl. Trilithons [NL., fr. Gr. of or with three stones; (see Tri-) + stone.] (Archæol.)
A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway,
as among the ancient Celts.
Trill
(Trill) v. i. [OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. þyrla
to whirl, and E. thrill. Cf. Thrill.] To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each
other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott.
And now and then an ample tear trilled down
Her delicate cheek.
Shak.
Whispered sounds
Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.
Glover. Trill
(Trill) v. t. [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.] To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] Gascoigne.
Bid him descend and trill another pin.
Chaucer. Trill
(Trill), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trilled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trilling.] [It. trillare; probably of imitative origin.]
To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
Thomson. Trill
(Trill), v. i. To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling
sound; to quaver.
To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
Dryden. Trill
(Trill), n. [It. trillo, fr. trillare. See Trill to shake.]
1. A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by
the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth — tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip — against
another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.
2. The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
3. (Mus.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the
rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.
Trillachan
(Tril"la*chan) n. (Zoöl.) The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Trilling
(Tril"ling) n. [Cf. G. drilling.]
1. One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.
2. (Crystallog.) A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals.
Trillion
(Tril"lion) n. [F. trillion, formed from the pref. tri- in imitation of million a million. Cf. Billion.]
According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States,
the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English
notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a
unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Trillium
(||Tril"li*um) n. [NL.; cf. L. trilix triple-woven, triple.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants; the
three-leaved nightshade; — so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.
Trillo
(||Tril"lo) n. [It. See Trill.] (Mus.) A trill or shake. See Trill.
