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Bot.: Viola tricolor. ( Britten & Holland . ) *three-farthings, s. A very thin silver coin of the reign of Elizabeth, bearing a profile of the sovereign with a rose at the back of her head. three-foot, a. 1. Measuring three feet; as, a three - foot rule. *2. Having three feet or legs. "When on my three- foot stool I sit, and tell The warlike feats I have done." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iii. 8. three-girred, a . Surrounded with three hoops. ( Scotch .) three-headed, a . Having three heads. "Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed can is." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. Three-headed rail: One having three treads united by webs set at an angle of 120 with each other. three-high roll, s. Metal-work.: A rolling apparatus in which three rollers are arranged in a vertical series, so that the metal may be pa ed through between the middle and lower roll and then back between the middle and upper one; rolling it at each pa age without changing the direction of motion of the rolls. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; are probably called kings from Psalm lxxii. 10, which verse is used as an antiphon in the office for Epiphany. According to tradition, their names were Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, and on their return to the East they received baptism. The Empre Helena is said to have brought their bones to Constantinople, whence they were removed to Milan, and afterward to Cologne. The Chapel of the Three Kings, built by the Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519), in Cologne Cathedral, is supposed to contain their relics. three-leaved gra , s. Bot.: The genus Trifolium.