Altrices :: Altrices (n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces..

Cantatrice :: Cantatrice (n.) A female professional singer.

Cicatrice :: Cicatrice (n.) A cicatrix.

Cicatrices :: Cicatrices (pl. ) of Cicatri.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent..

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.

Desertrice :: Desertrice (n.) A feminine deserter.

Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century..

Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..

Fricatrice :: Fricatrice (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.

Generatrices :: Generatrices (pl. ) of Generatri.

Improvisatrice :: Improvisatrice (n.) See Improvvisatrice.

Improvvisatrice :: Improvvisatrice (n.) A female improvvisatore.

Interlocutrice :: Interlocutrice (n.) A female interlocutor.

Matrice :: Matrice (n.) See Matrix.

Matrices :: Matrices (pl. ) of Matri.

Rectrices :: Rectrices (pl. ) of Rectri.

Tectrices :: Tectrices (n. pl.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird..

Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

Trice :: Trice (v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

Trice :: Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

Tricennarious :: Tricennarious (a.) Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.

Tricennial :: Tricennial (a.) Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.

Tricentenary :: Tricentenary (a.) Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary..

Tricentenary :: Tricentenary (n.) A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary..

Triceps :: Triceps (n.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow..

Victrice :: Victrice (n.) A victress.

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