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 otheiwise for sailing, which are expre ed by in trim, and out of trim. TRIMERANS, Trimcra. (Gr. rpus, three, and ucpo;, a part.) The name of a section of Coleopterous insects, including those which have each tarsus composed of three articulations. TRl' [s. 1286]