trice
11-trice — ⇒ EUR2/ EUSE, (A)TEUR/ (A)TRICE, ( TEUR, ATEUR, TRICE, ATRICE)suff. Suff. formant des noms d agents. I. eur, euse. [La base est en gén. un verbe, parfois un subst.] A. Le subst. dérivé (souvent adjectivable) désigne une personne. 1. Il désigne la …
12-trice — var. of trix. [ < F or It trice < L tricem, acc. of trix TRIX] * * * trice, suffix a. F. trice, ad. L. trīx, trīce m, or It. trice; in Latin forming feminines to agent nouns in tor. In Eng. formerly used in many words, as in corruptrice,… …
13trice — [[t]tra͟ɪs[/t]] PHRASE: PHR with v, PHR with cl If someone does something in a trice, they do it very quickly. He will sew it up in a trice... She was back in a trice …
14trice — I [[t]traɪs[/t]] n. a very short time; an instant: in a trice[/ex] • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME tryse; prob. repr. *trise a pull, tug, der. of trisen to pull; see trice II II trice [[t]traɪs[/t]] v. t. triced, tric•ing. Naut. 1) naut. navig. to… …
15trice — I. /traɪs / (say truys) noun a very short time; a moment; an instant: to come back in a trice. {Middle English tryse, special use of trice2 (at a trice at one tug) II. /traɪs / (say truys) verb (t) (triced, tricing) Nautical 1. to pull or haul… …
16trice up — verb 1. raise with a line trice a window shade • Syn: ↑trice • Hypernyms: ↑raise, ↑lift, ↑elevate, ↑get up, ↑bring up …
17trice — I. transitive verb (triced; tricing) Etymology: Middle English trisen, tricen to pull, trice, from Middle Dutch trisen to hoist, from trise windlass Date: 15th century to haul up or in and lash or secure (as a sail) with a small rope II. noun… …
18trice — 1. noun A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice. This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous,… …
19Trice — Recorded as Trice and Treice, this unusual name is of early medieval English origin. It is a form of the more familiar surname Tree, Trees or Treece, all being topographical names given originally to people who lived near a conspicuous tree or… …
20trice — [trʌɪs] noun (in phr. in a trice) very quickly. Origin ME trice a tug (figuratively an instant ), from MDu. trīsen pull sharply , related to trīse pulley …
