These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Trippant, Triptolemus, Triptolemus.
in heraldry, a term applied to beasts of chase, as passant is to beasts of prey, etc. The animal is represented with the right foot lifted up, and the other three, as it were, on the ground, as if trotting. Counter trippant is when two animals are borne trippant contraryways, as if passing each other out of the field.
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Son of Oceanus and Terra, or, according to some authorities, son of Celeus, king of Attica , and Neaera. He was in his youth cured of a severe illness by Ceres , with whom he became a great favorite. She taught him agriculture, and gave him her chariot drawn by dragons, in which he traveled over the earth, distributing corn to the inhabitants.
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in mythology, the son of Celeus, King of Attica, by Neæra. The goddess Ceres wished to make him immortal, but was prevented through the meddling curiosity of his mother. She, however, taught him agriculture, and rendered him serviceable to mankind by instructing him how to sow corn and make bread. She also gave him her chariot, drawn by two dragons, in which he traveled over the earth, and distributed corn to all the inhabitants of the world.
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a writing tablet in three parts, two of which might be folded over the middle part; hence sometimes an ecclesiastical register of names on a triple tablet, or a book or treatise in three parts or sections. Also a picture, carving, or other representation, generally on panel, with two hanging doors or leaves, by which it could be closed in front. Triptychs were constructed of various materials and dimensions; ivory and enameled triptychs were adorned with sacred subjects and emblems. They were frequently used for altar pieces. The central figure is usually complete in itself. The subsidiary designs on either side of it are smaller, and frequently correspond in size and shape to one-half of the principal picture.
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in classical antiquity, a galley or vessel having three ranks or benches of oars on each side, a common class of war ship among the ancient Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, etc. They were also provided with large square sails, which could be raised during a fair wind, to relieve the rowers. When two ships engaged, if tolerably well matched, the great object aimed at by each was, either by running up suddenly alongside of the enemy, to sweep away or disable a large number of his oars, or, by bearing down at speed, to drive the beak full into his side or quarter, in which case the planks were generally stove in, and the vessel went down. But if one of the parties was so decidedly inferior in seamanship as to be unable to cope with his antagonist in such maneuvers, he endeavored, as he approached, to grapple with him, and then the result was decided, as on land, by the numbers and bravery of the combatants.
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one of the doxologies of the Eastern Church, repeated in the form of versicle and responses by the choir in certain parts of the liturgy, and so called from the triple recurrence in it of the word hagios=holy.
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in zoölogy: (1) A genus of Salamandrinæ, with 16 species, widely distributed in temperate and sub-tropical regions. Body covered with warty tubercles, four toes on anterior, and five on posterior limbs, all without nails; no parotids; glandular pores above and behind the eyes, and a series of similar pores arranged longitudinally on each side of the body; male with well-marked discontinuous crest on back and tail; tongue globular, partially free at the sides, free behind where it is pointed. In North America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most common species. (2) A genus of Muricide (Woodward), according to some other authorities, of Cassididæ, with 100 recent species, from the West Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, India, China, the Pacific, and western Australia, ranging from low water to 10 or 20 fathoms, and one minute species has been dredged at 50 fathoms. The Great Triton (T. tritonis) is the conch blown as a trumpet by the Australian and Polynesian natives. Fossil species 45, from the Eocene of Great Britain, France , and Chile.
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the augmented fourth in music; that is, a succession of three whole tones. It is not approved for a progression in harmony and is used sparingly, and earlier never.
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in botany, a genus of Iridaceæ; about 25 species, all from southern Africa; are cultivated in greenhouses; they have yellow, orange, pink, red, blue, or greenish flowers, and are handsome when in bloom. In zoology, the type genus of Tritoniadæ, with 13 species, from Norway and Great Britain; found under stones at low water to 25 fathoms. Animal elongated; tentacles with branched filaments; veil tuberculated or digitated; gills in a single series; mouth with horny jaws, stomach simple.
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Dry grinding by special apparatus designed to make a finer powder than is possible by the ordinary means for pulverizing. When the comminution is aided by a liquid it is termed levigation.
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in Roman antiquities, a grand procession, in which a victorious general entered the city by the Porta Triumphalis, in a chariot drawn by four horses, wearing a dress of extraordinary splendor, namely, an embroidered robe, an under garment flowered with palm leaves, and a wreath of laurel round his brows. He was preceded by the prisoners taken in the war, the spoils of the cities captured, and pictures of the regions subdued. He was followed by his troops; and, after passing along the Via Sacra and through the Forum, ascended to the capitol, where he offered a bull in sacrifice to Jove. A naval triumph differed from a military one only in being on a smaller scale, and in being characterized by the exhibition of nautical trophies, such as beaks of ships. An ovation was an honor inferior to a triumph, the chief difference being that in the former the victorious general entered the city on foot, and in later times on horseback. The Senate claimed the exclusive prerogative of granting or refusing a triumph.
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