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Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 33

(Lat. tree, three, and dens, a tooth.) The sceptre which the poets and painters of antiquity placed in the hand of Neptune is so called by way of eminence. It is in the form of a Bpear or fork with three prongs or teeth; hence the name. See Nepttnk. TRl' [s. 1281]