/tɹaɪn/
OriginFrom Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
- not-comparableTriple; threefold.
- not-comparableDenoting 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 […]”
- A group of three things.
“a single trine of brazen tortoises”
- An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
- transitiveTo put in the aspect of a trine.
“By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.”
- UK, archaicTo 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”
- UK, obsoleteTo 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.”
Formstrines(plural) · trines(present, singular, third-person) · trining(participle, present) · trined(participle, past) · trined(past) · Trines(plural)