‖n. pl. [ L., nourishes, pl. of altrix. ] (Zool.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] (Mus.) A female professional singer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. cicatrix. ] A cicatrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See Crocodile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. [ 1913 Webster ]

That bare vowel, I, shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Script.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. [ 1913 Webster ]

The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's [ Rev. Ver. basilisk's ] den. Is. xi. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any venomous or deadly thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. desertrix. ] A feminine deserter. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ It. fraticelli, lit., little brothers, dim. fr. frate brother, L. frater. ] (Eccl. Hist.) (a) The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. (b) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. frictrix, fr. fricare to rub. ] A lewd woman; a harlot. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Improvvisatrice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Improvvisatrici [ It. See Improvise. ] A female improvvisatore. [ Written also improvisatrice. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A female interlocutor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. matrice. See Matrix. ] See Matrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. centered upon the mother. [ Narrower terms: matriarchal (vs. patriarchal) ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. centered upon the father. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to cover. ] (Zool.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. A victress. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]