Trichina
in zoölogy, a genus of Nematoidæ, established by Owen for the reception of the minute spiral flesh worm, T. spiralis, discovered in human muscle by Sir James Paget, in 1835, when a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Mr. Hilton, of Guy's, had previously noticed gritty particles in human muscles, and recognized them as the results of parasites, afterward shown (by Owen) to be young trichinæ. The trichinæ met with in human muscle are minute immature worms, spirally coiled in small oval cysts, scarcely visible to the naked eye, measuring 1/78 inch in length and 1/136 inch in breadth. Sometimes the worms are not encysted, and measure 1/25 inch in length and 1/360 inch in breadth. The mature and reproductive trichinæ inhabit the intestinal canal of mammals, including man, and live for four or five weeks, attaining ability to reproduce on the second day of their introduction. The male is about 1/18 and the female 1/8 inch long. The eggs are hatched within the female, and as soon as the embryos are expelled they bore their way into the muscles, and there in about 14 days assume the form known as T. spiralis, often setting up trichiniasis. Thus the only way in which trichinæ can get into the human system is by being swallowed alive with pieces, of imperfectly-cooked muscle in which source of infection to man, as it is peculiarly liable to the presence of encysted trichinæ.
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Trichinopoli
the chief town of the district of the same name, Madras presidency, British India; on the Cauvery river; 320 miles S. S. W. of Madras. It is celebrated for its fort, which was built (circa 1570) by a native prince of Madura, and formed the object of all the wars between the English and the French in Southern India between 1749 and 1763, when Clive first rose to fame. The fort occupies a granite cliff rising 500 feet above the plain, crowned with a small pagoda, with a cave temple hewn out of its S. face. The walls have been leveled and the most filled up, and the whole is now being laid out as a boulevard. Trichinopoli is the headquarters of the brigadier commanding the Southern Division of the Madras army. There are barracks for European troops and artillery. In the church is the tomb of Bishop Heber, who died here in 1826. The manufactures include jewelry, paintings on talc, paper and pith pith orna ornaments. Pop. about 124,000. The district of Trichinopoli, which lies on both banks of the Cauvery, landward of Tranjore, has an area of 3,515 square miles. It abounds with gneiss, granite, iron ore and limestone. The products are rice, cotton, sugar, oil seeds, and tobacco. The exports include saltpeter, hewn stone for building, and grindstones. The imports are English piece goods. Besides the manufactures of the town, basket boats are made of wicker work covered with hides.
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Trickett
WILLIAM, an American lawyer; born in England, in 1840; was graduated at Dickinson College in 1868 and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was made dean of Dickinson School of Law in 1890; was candidate for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on the Democratic ticket in 1898. He was the author of "Law of Liens in Pennsylvania" (3 vols. 1882); "Law of Limitations in Pennsylvania" (1884); "Law of Assignments in Pennsylvania" (1884); "Law of Boroughs in Pennsylvania" (2 vols. 1893 and 1898); "Law of Streets and Roads in Pennsylvania" (1894); "Law of Guardians in Pennsylvania" (1900); and "Law of Partition in Pennsylvania" (1900).
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Triclinium
in Roman antiquities, in early times, the whole family sat together in the atrium, or public room; but when mansions were built upon a large scale, one or more spacious spacious banqueting halls commonly formed part of the plan, such apartments being classed under the general title of triclinia. The word triclinium, however, in its strict signification, denotes not the apartment, but a set of low divans or couches grouped round a table; these couches, according to the usual arrangement, being three in number, and arranged round three sides of the table, the fourth side being left open for the ingress and egress of the attendants, to set down and remove the dishes. Each couch was calculated to hold three persons, though four might be squeezed exhibition was held at Trieste in 1882. in. Men always reclined at table, table, resting on the left elbow, their bodies slighttheir limbs ly elevated by cushions, and stretched out at full length their right arm free.
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Tricolor
in heraldry, a flag composed of three colors nearly equal in mass. The term is applied especially to the flag of France adopted during the Revolution. It consists of three equal vertical parts, blue next to the mast, red at the extremity and white between. The colors, red, white, and blue, are the same as those of our own flag. It is the distribution of these into three equal oblong masses that entitles the French flag to the name of tricolor. See Flag ; Union Jack
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Tricolor
a flag or banner having three colors; specifically, a flag having three colors arranged in equal stripes or masses. The present European tricolor designs are, for Belgium, black, yellow, red, divided vertically; France, blue, white, red, divided vertically; Holland, red, white, blue, divided horizontally; Italy, green, white, red, divided vertically. During the revolution of 1789 in France the revolutionists adopted as their colors the three colors of the city of Paris for their symbol. The three colors were first devised by Mary Stuart, wife of Francis II. The white represented the royal house of France; the ! blue, Scotland; and the red, Switzerland, in compliment to the Swiss guards, whose livery it was. In botany, Amaranthus tricolor, a species from China, with bright foliage, but insignificant flowers.
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Tricot
tre'ko, a fine woolen fabric so woven as to imitate the face effect of knitted goods or jersey cloth. The name tricot is French for knitted. Tricot is made in several weights and is in use for women's gowns and suits, and for men's suits.
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