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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Tributary
(a.)
Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make
up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.;
contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself
tributary to the Mississippi.
Tributary
(n.)
A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to
a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection,
or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
Tributary
(n.)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a
lake; an affluent.
Tribute
(n.)
An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing,
paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of
submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of
some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.
Tribute
(n.)
A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service,
etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or
deserved; as, a tribute of affection.
Tribute
(n.)
A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value,
given to the miner as his recompense.
Tribute
(v. i.)
To pay as tribute.
Tributed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Tribute
Tributer
(n.)
One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its
value.
Tributing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Tribute
Trica
(n.)
An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface
marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Tricae
(pl. )
of Trica
Tricarballylic
(a.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex
tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet
roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline
substance.
Tricarbimide
(n.)
See under Cyanuric.
Trice
(v. t.)
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
Trice
(v. t.)
To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
Trice
(n.)
A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in
the phrase in a trice.
Tricennarious
(a.)
Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.
Tricennial
(a.)
Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty
years; occurring once in every thirty years.
Tricentenary
(a.)
Including, or relating to, the interval of three
hundred years; tercentenary.