tripart i ent (triparshient)

[L. tres ( tri- ), three, + partien (t-) s, ppr. of partiri, divide: see part, v.] Dividing into three parts: said of a number that divides another into three equal parts. tripartite (trip'är-tit or trī-pär'tīt), a. [ She blazed abroade perdy a people small, Late landed heere, and founde this pleasaunt Ile, And how that now it was diuided all, Made tripartite , and might within a while Bee won by force, by treason, fraud, or guile. Mir. for Mags., I. 43. Wisdom is tripartite: saying, doing, avoiding. Landor , Imag. Conv., Diogenes and Plato. The tripartite division of government into legislative, a wrestler throws his antagonist. Of good hope no councell thou craue Til deeth thee caste with a trippe of di aite. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 75. Or, stript for wrestling, smears his limbs with oil, And watches, with a trip his foe to foil. Dryden , tr. of Virgil's Georgics, ii. 776. 4. A stumble by the lo of foothold or a striking of the foot against an object.-5. In mach ., a hitting of a moving part against some obstruction to its free movement.-6. A failure; an error; a blunder. And mad'st imperfect words with childish trips , Half unpronounced, slide through my infant lips. Milton, Vacation Exercise, 1. 3. How, Cousin? I'd have you to know, before this faux pas, this Trip of mine, the World cou'd not talk of me. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, v. 1. 7. In the fisheries, the catch, take, or fare of fish caught during a voyage; the proceeds of a trip anga single board or tack in plying to windward. Admiral Smyth.-9. In coursing, an unsucce ful effort of the dogs to kill. Encyc. Brit., VI. 515.-10. A small arch over a drain. Hall i well. - Jonah trip. See Jonah. - Round trip. See def. 2.- To fetch trip, to go backward in order to jump the further. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] To hail for a trip. See hail3. Syn. 2. Tour, Travel, etc. See journey.