trine

adj

1. (not-comparable)Triple; threefold.
2. (not-comparable)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. (transitive)To put in the aspect of a trine.

   “By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.”

2. (UK, archaic)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.”

3. (UK, obsolete)To go.

   “Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.”

   “From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.”

name

1. A surname from German.