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trine
/tɹaɪn/
verb 3adj 2noun 2name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
single
VERB + TRINE
chats, says
TRINE + NOUN
aspects, brazen, ruffin, rum-coves, sextile, tortoises
PREP.
on
Definitions
adj
1
Triple; threefold.
2
Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]
noun
1
A group of three things.
a single trine of brazen tortoises
2
An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
verb
1
To put in the aspect of a trine.
By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
2
To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
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The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]
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a single trine of brazen tortoises
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By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
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Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
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Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin
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Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
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