Trippant
(Trip"pant) a. (Her.) See Tripping, a., 2.
Tripper
(Trip"per) n.
1. One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
2. An excursionist.
Trippet
(Trip"pet) n. (Mach.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
Tripping
(Trip"ping) a.
1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
2. (Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; —
said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
Tripping
(Trip"ping), n.
1. Act of one who, or that which, trips.
2. A light dance.
Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes.
Milton. 3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and
in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. Luce.
Trippingly
(Trip"ping*ly), adv. In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
Sing, and dance it trippingly.
Shak.
Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue.
Shak. Tripsis
(||Trip"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. fr. to rub.] (Med.) (a) Trituration. [R.] (b) Shampoo. [R.]
Triptote
(Trip"tote) n. [L. triptotum, Gr. with three cases; (see Tri-) + falling, fr. to fall.] (Gram.) A
noun having three cases only.
Triptych
(Trip"tych) n. [Gr. consisting of three layers or plates; (see Tri-) + a fold, layer.] Anything in
three parts or leaves. Specifically: — (a) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the
middle part.
(b) A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.
Tripudiary
(Tri*pu"di*a*ry) a. [L. tripudium a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance.]
Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. [R.] " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.
Tripudiate
(Tri*pu"di*ate) v. i. [L. tripudiare, tripudiatum.] To dance. [R.] Cockeram.
Tripudiation
(Tri*pu`di*a"tion) n. [L. tripudiatio.] The act of dancing. [R.] Bacon. Carlyle.
Triquadrantal
(Tri`quad*ran"tal) a. [Pref. tri- + quadrantal.] (Spherical Trig.) Having three quadrants; thus,
a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently
right angles.
