TRIM

The position of the keel of a ship with respect to a horizontal line. Also the disposition of the weights or stowage, as favourable or otherwise for sailing, which are expre ed by in trim, and out of trim. TRIMERANS, Trimer a. {Gr. r^ut, three, and ji^i^ot, a part.) The name of a section of Coleopterous insects, including those which have each tarsus composed of three articulations. [s. 1275]