trigamous (trigamus)

[= F. trigame = Sp. trigamo Pg. trigamo, γάμος, marriage.] Of or pertaining to trigamy.-2. In bot., having three sorts of flowers in the same head-male, female, and her maphrodite. = Sp. Trig loch in mer of the lock; by extension, in cro bows and similar arms, the lever which, when pre ed, liberates the string of the bow. See hair - trigger, and cuts under gun, revolver, and rifle. As a goose In death contracts his talons close, So did the knight, and with one claw The tricker of his pistol draw. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 528. 2. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.-3. In ship - building, a wooden piece employed employed to hold up a dog shore. It is removed just before launching, when the dog shore is knocked away. - Hair trigger. See hair -trigger. Set trigger, a form of trigger which can be set as a hair trigger by being pushed into a certain position; also, a second trigger which, when pre ed, converts another into a hair-trigger, and so serves to set the latter. Each of these devices is or has been a common attachment of sporting-rifles. - Trigger area, or trigger point, in med., a sensitive region of the body, irritation of which may give rise to certain phenomena, either physiological or pathological, in some other part. triggered (trig'erd), a. [ trigger-guard (trig'er-gärd), n. Same as guard, (6). trigger-hair (trig'er-har), n. A minute tactile filament or palpicil set at the mouth of the cnida or thread-cell in some cœlenterates, serving to touch off the cell and so fire out the enidocil or stinging-hair; a kind of hair-trigger attached to a nematocyst. trigger-line (trig'er-lin), ine (trig'er-lin), n. In ordnance, the cord by which a gun-lock is operated. trigger-plant (trig'er-plant), n. A plant of IMG:content-0870.png:[blocks in formation] trigamy (trig'a-mi), n. [ trigamia , trigamia , τριγαμία , «τρί- γαμος, thrice married: see trigamous.] Triple marriage; the state of one who has been thrice married; especially, the state or offense of having three wives or husbands at the same Trigla (trig'la), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1758), time. Some few of their Priests are learned. For them it is law full to marry; but bigamy is forbidden them, and trig amy detested in the Laiety. Sandys, Travailes, p. 64. It is what he calls trigamy , Madam, or the marrying of three wives, so that good old men may be solaced at once by the companionship of the wisdom of maturity, and of those le perfected but hardly le engaging qualities which are found at an earlier period of life. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, i. tri gastric (tri-gas'trik), a. [ τρεῖς (τρι-), three, + γαστήρ ( γαστρ- ), belly.] In an at ., having three fleshy bellies, as a muscle. Trentals or trigintals were a number of ma es to the tale of thirty, instituted by Saint Gregory. Ayliffe , Parergon. Gurnard ( Trigla gurnard us). τρίγλα, τρίγλη, α a mullet.] The typical genus of Triglidæ; the gurnards. See gurnard. trigeminal (tri-jem'i-nal), a . and n. [L. tri- geminus , three at a birth (see tri geminous ), triglandularuan -al.] I. a. 1. In an at . and zoöl . , triple, triune, or threefold: specifically noting the trifacial or fifth cranial nerve (which see, under trifacial ). Also tri geminous .-2. Of or pertaining to the trigeminal nerve: as, a trigeminal foramen. IMG:content-0871.png:[blocks in formation]