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trine

adj
/tɹaɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English trynen, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”); compare Old Swedish trina (“to go”).

  1. derived from trīnus
  2. derived from trin
  3. inherited from trine

Definitions

  1. Triple

    Triple; threefold.

  2. Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.

    • The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]

  3. A group of three things.

    • a single trine of brazen tortoises
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.

    2. To put in the aspect of a trine.

      • By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.

    3. To hang

      To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.

      • Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
      • Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

    4. To go.

      • Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
      • From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.

    5. A surname from German.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA