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a. Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. “Brinish tears.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being brinish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers.
Syn. -- genus Calandrinia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Named after Count Cancrin, a minister of finance in Russia. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinis hair + cultura. ] Relating to the growth of hair. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. criniger; crinis hair + gerere to bear. ] Bearing hair; hairy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Crinite, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

He the star crinital adoreth. Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crinitus, p. p. of crinire to provide or cover with hair, fr. crinis hair. ] 1. Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. “Comate, crinite, caudate stars.” Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Bearded or tufted with hairs. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.
Syn. -- family Cyprinidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.
Syn. -- order Cypriniformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To defibrinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Paleon.) Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; in + &unr_; a lily: cf. F. encrinite. ] (Paleon.) A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.

{ } a. (Paleon.) Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖def>Gregarinæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Dyeing) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A government by mandarins (senses 1 or 2); character or spirit of the mandarins{ 2 }. F. Lieder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bombastic literary style marked by the use of metaphors and antitheses characteristic of the Italian poet Giambattista Marini (1569-1625). -- Ma*ri"nist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + Gr. kri`non a lily. ] (Zool.) Any species of Pentacrinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. peregrinitas: cf. F. pérégrinité. ] 1. Foreignness; strangeness. [ Obs. ] “Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Travel; wandering. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "ro`don rose + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; lily.] (Paleon.) A rose encrinite. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. ruber red + erythrin. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tetra-. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. trinitaire. See Trinity. ] Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Moslems. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Picric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trinitee, F. trinité, L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See Trinal. ] 1. (Christian Theol.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. --
Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. --
Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Trinity, and Unity. ] Triunity; trinity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Urine + -ferous. ] Bearing or conveying urine; as, uriniferous tubules. [ 1913 Webster ]