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trin|trɪn|
[perh. f. trine n., conformed to twin.]
pl. Three children or young born at one birth: = trine n. 3. Also sing. one of such; also attrib. or as adj. Cf. thrin n.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 998 The teeming matron is near her time, and from her bulk you may back her for trins. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm (1849) I. 597/2 In a small flock of 50 Leicester ewes, 48 of them had twins, and 2 trins. 1875Furnivall in Lovelich's Grail i. 291 note, Trins are always born: two males and one female. 1887― in J. Lane's Cont. Sqr.'s T. p. viii. note, Spenser..made the fay-born trin brethren, Priamond, Dyamond, and Triamond, fight Camballo..to see which of them could win Canace.
b. transf. (Min.) A compound crystal of three individuals, a trilling.
1868Dana Min. (ed. 5) 805 Tridymite,..in allusion to its compound forms of three individuals, or trins, from τρίδυµος. |