tri loculate (trilokulat)

three, + loculus, cell, + -atel.] lar. [L. tres (tri-), Same as trilocu trimming. [Early mod. E. also trim me, trymme; Beyng ryght wery of that Jorney, ffor the bestys that we rode vpon [were] ryght weke and ryght simple, and evyll trymed to Jorney with. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 55. Andrea Bragadino had charge on that part of the castle,... trimming and digging out new flanckers for the better defence of the Arsenall. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. i. 122. Back to my lonely home retire, And light my lamp, and trim my fire. Scott, Marmion, ii., Int. You don't care to be better than a bird trimming its feathers, and pecking about after what pleases it. George Eliot , Felix Holt, x. 2. Naut., to adjust or balance, as a ship or boat, by distributing the weight of the lading so equally that it shall sit well on the water. A ve el is said to be trimmed by the head or by the stern respectively when the weight is so disposed as to make it draw more water toward the head than toward the stern, or the reverse. With all hands she did lighten her sterne, and trim me her head. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 448. My old friend... seated himself, and trimmed the boat with his coachman, who, being a very sober man, always serves for ballast on these occasions. lenstein."