v. t. [ OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist. ] [ Written also trise. ] 1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin. ] A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. “With a trice.” Turbervile. “ On a trice.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tricennium thirty years; triginta thirty + annus year: cf. L. tricennalis. ] Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. tri- + centenary. ] Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n. A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. triceps, having three beads; tres, tria, three + caput head: cf. F. triceps. See Three, and Chief. ] (Anat.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow. [ 1913 Webster ]