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[F. tripe cation = Sp. tri plica cion = Pg. on = Pg. triplicação = It. madame, trique- madame, stonecrop.] A spe triplicazione, triplicare, triple: see triplicate.] 1. The act of trebling, or making threefold, or adding three together.-2. Threefold plication; formation of triplicates; that which is triplicate or three fold: as, a triplication of peritoneum.-3. In civil law, same as surrejoinder in common law. tri plicature (trip'li-ka-tūr), n. [ plicature and quadruplicature. triplicity (tri-plis'i-ti), n. [OF. * triplicite, F. trip licité Pr. trip licit at = Sp. triplicidad = Pg. triplicitade = It. trip licità, Hauynge onely one god, whom we honour in triplicitie of person, we do not woorship that kind of men with diuine honoure. Peter Martyr (tr. of Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 65). Your majesty standeth invested of that triplicity which in great veneration was ascribed to the ancient Hermes. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. IMG:content-0900.png:[blocks in formation] The powerful planets, how, in their degrees, In their due seasons, they do fall and rise; And how the signs, in their triplicities , By sympathizing in their trine consents With those inferior forming elements, Drayton, Man in the Moone. Fiery triplicity. See fiery . triplicostate (trip-li-kos'tāt), a. [L. triplus , threefold, + costa , rib.] In bot ., triplinerved; triple-nerved or triple-ribbed. tripliform (trip'li-form), a. [L. triplus , three fold, + form a , form.] Triple in form; tri- formed; formed by three. [Rare.] IMG:content-0901.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0902.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0903.jpg:[graphic] three feet or three legs; as a noun, a three-legged ta = ble, a three-legged stool, a three-footed bra kettle, a musical instrument, etc.; II. n. 1. In clas sical antiq ., a seat, table, or other article resting on three feet. Specifically - (a) A three legged seat or table. (b) A pot or caldron used for boiling meat, and either raised upon a three-legged frame or stand, or made with three feet in the same piece with itself. (c) A Tripod Vase. bronze altar, originally identical in form with the caldron described above. It had three rings at the top to serve as handles, and in many representations shows a central support or upright in addition to the three legs. It was when seated upon a tripod of this nature, over a cleft in the ground in the innermost sanctuary, that the Pythian prieste es at Delphi gave their oracular responses. The celebrity of this tripod, which was peculiarly sacred to the Pythian Apollo and was a usual attribute of him, led to in numerable imitations of it, which were made to be used in sacrifice; and ornamented tripods of similar form, sometimes made of the precious metals, were given as prizes at the Pythian games and elsewhere, and were frequently placed as votive gifts in temples, especially in those of Apollo. See cut on following page, and cut under Pythia. After the Persian war the victors at Platæa dedicated thank-offering to the Delphic Apollo a gold tripod mounted on a bronze pillar composed of three intertwined serpents. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 246. 2. Hence, any object having three feet or legs, as a three-legged stool. The Prophete was seated on a tripod in front of the fire, distilling strong waters out of pennyroyal. Kingsley, Westward Ho, iv. 3. A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at the top, for supporting a theodolite, tripod Prophetic Tripod of the Delphian Apollo.- From a Greek red-figured hydria, in the Vatican. compa , camera, or other instrument. See cuts under rock - drill and transit.-4. In an at. and zoöl., a tripodal formation; a three-pronged or triradiate structure, as a bone. The premaxillary bone of birds is a tripod. - Tripod of life, or vital tripod, the brain, the lungs, and the heart, upon the continuous and consentaneous action of which life rests as on a triple support. tripodal (trip'ō-dal), a. [ tripodic (tri-pod'ik), a. [ I have observed this tripodic walk in earwigs, water scorpions, aphides, and some beetles. Nature, XLIII. 223. 6488 departments specified in the quotation; also, the honor examination itself in any of these departments. In the mathematical tripos the three grades of the first part of the examination are respectively wranglers, senior optimes, and junior optimes; in the other triposes, and in Part II. of the mathematical tripos they are first, second, and third cla es. Dickens's Dict. Cambridge, p. 124. trippant (trip'ant), a. [ The arms on the bishop's tomb were Or, on a chevron vert between three bucks trippant proper as many cinque foils of the field, etc. Stag Trippant. N. and Q., 7th ser., XI. 115. trippant-counter (trip'ant-kounter), a. her ., same as counter - trippant . trippet, n. An obsolete form of trip1 , trip2 . tripper (trip'er), n. [ tripod-jack (tripod-jak), п. A screw-jack upper, mounted on three legs connected to a common base-plate to give them a sufficient bearing. E. H. Knight. tripody (trip'ō-di), n.; pl. tripodies (-diz). [