2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high- flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." Shak.
3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau.
& Fl.
Three-ply
(Three"-ply`) a. Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or
carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
Three-pointed
(Three"-point`ed) a. (Bot.) Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
Three-quarter
(Three"-quar`ter) a. (Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; — said of portraitures.
Three-quarter length,
a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
Three-score
(Three"-score`) a. Thrice twenty; sixty.
Three-sided
(Three"-sid`ed) a. Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem,
leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Three-square
(Three"-square`) a. Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; — said
especially of a kind of file.
Three-valved
(Three"-valved`) a. Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a
three-valved pericarp.
Three-way
(Three"-way`) a. Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-
way cock or valve.
Threne
(Threne) n. [L. threnus, Gr. . Cf. Drone.] Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak.
The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jer. Taylor. Threnetic
(Thre*net"ic Thre*net"ic*al) a. Threne.]—> Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.
Threnode
(Thren"ode) n. A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Threnodist
(Thren"o*dist) n. One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
Threnody
(Thren"o*dy) n. [Gr. a dirge + a song. See Threne, and Ode.] A song of lamentation; a
threnode. Sir T. Herbert.
Threpe
(Threpe) v. t. [See Threap.] To call; to term. [Obs.] "Luna silver we threpe." Chaucer.
Threpsology
(Threp*sol"o*gy) n. [Gr. nourishment + -logy.] (Med.) The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise
on nutrition.
Thresh
(Thresh) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.] Same as Thrash.
He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve.
Chaucer. Thresher
(Thresh"er) n. Same as Thrasher.
Thresh-fold
(Thresh"-fold`) n. Threshold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Threshold
(Thresh"old) n. [OE. threswold, þreshwold, AS. þrescwald, þerscwald, þerscold, þrescold, fr. þrescan,
þerscan, to thresh; akin to Icel. þreskjöde, þröskuldr, Sw. tröskel, Dan. tærskel. See Thrash.]