A prefix or combining element in more than thirty words, chiefly nouns and adjectives, borrowed from L or OF meaning 'three, triple' or 'triply, three times', for example: the nouns tre-foil,……

A unit of weight, a dram. …

(a) Success in battle; a victory, conquest; also, a spiritual victory; also, a great achievement; (b) the incidents, details, etc. associated with a victory. …

A native or an inhabitant of ancient Troy. …

(a) The ancient city Troy in Asia Minor;—freq. used in pictorial representation, literary account, book title, and colophon; also, the area around and including Troy; Troi contree; Troi toun; to Troi……

Eccl. A book containing tropes or sequences, a troper or sequencer. …

(a) Any of several food or game fish of the genus Salmo, prob. including the common trout (S. fario) and salmon trout (S. salar) and perh. also the sea trout (S. trutta);—freq. as a commodity; (b) a……

(a) A garment resembling a shirt or gown, worn alone or beneath a mantle, armor, etc.; (b) anat. a layer of tissue or a membrane lining or enveloping a bodily organ or member, esp. the eye; in cpds……

(a) To move about an axis, a center, or a fixed position, pivot;—also refl. [quot. a1393]; revolve; also fig. and in fig. context; also, spin, whirl; turnen abouten; turnen of herre, of the heavens……

(a) A turtledove (Streptopelia turtur); ?also, a quail [quot. a1398, 1st]; also, a representation of a turtledove [quot. c1400]; turtur brid; turtur douve; turtur eiren; (b) in conventional……

To unfasten (a lock);—used in fig. context. …

(a) Anat. The uvula; also, the epiglottis; (b) uva passe, a grape or raisin. …

(a) A metrical line; also, a line of poetry; also, one of the two lines of a couplet; verses of the deth, a work written by Helinand; in two verses, in couplets [quot. a1400 Cato(3)]; the golden……

The plant butcher’s broom or knee-holly (Ruscus aculeatus). …

The Vandals. …

(a) Any large marine mammal of the order Cetacea; also, the Biblical fish which swallowed Jonah; whale oile, the oil obtained from whale blubber, whale oil (b) the Biblical Leviathan, a sea monster……

(a) An alcoholic drink, usu. made from crushed whole grapes or from grape juice; also fig. and in fig. context; couchen win, to place a stock of wine in storage; fillen the win, give (sb.) the wine……

A medicinal plant, prob. of the genus Gladiolus; ?unbranched bur reed (Sparganium emersum). …

Some kind of plant. …