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trice (trīs)

transitive verb triced, tricing tric′·ing

to haul up (a sail, etc.) and secure with a small line: usually with up

Etymology: ME trisen < MDu, to pull, hoist < trise, windlass, roller

noun

a very short time; instant; moment: now only in the phrase in a trice

Etymology: < at a trice, with one pull

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trice Synonyms

trice

n.

while, second, minute; see instant, moment 1.


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trice Usage Examples

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron's dule-tree.
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Change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue For the raptures and roses of vice.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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