Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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trito | Late Latin (LL) | |
*triare | Latin (lat) | |
trier | Old French (fro) | (legal) to try (in court). To choose; to select. To find. To pull. To sort. To verify; to make sure of. |
trier | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
trien | Middle English (enm) | |
try | English (en) | (legal) To put on trial.. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.. (obsolete) To do; to fare.. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.. (slang, chiefly, _, AAVE, used with another [...] |