tricelt (tris)

[ tri - ), from a tryse); later also in the phrases at, with, on, or in a trice; appar. lit. 'a pull, jerk,' i. e. a single quick motion, The howndis that were of gret prise Pluckid downe dere all at a tryse. Ipomedon , 1. 392 (Weber's Metr. Rom., II. 295). What makes the waxen forme to be of slender price? But cause with force of fire it melts and wasteth with a trice. Turberville, To his Friend. On a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them. Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 238. many Years a rearing was Howell, Letters, I. iii. 30. That Structure which was so dashed, as it were, in a Trice. In a trice the whole room was in an uproar. Steele, Tatler, No. 266.