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trident, n. (a.)|ˈtraɪdənt|
[ad. L. tridens, trident-em, f. tri- three + dens, dent-em tooth. Cf. F. trident (13–14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. An instrument or weapon with three prongs. esp.
a. A three-pronged fish-spear or sceptre as the attribute of the sea-god Poseidon or Neptune, also figured as borne by Britannia.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 18 In the swing of his trident he constituted two lord admirals ouer the whole navy of England. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 256 He would not flatter Neptune for his Trident, Or Ioue, for's power to Thunder. 1612Dekker Lond. Triumph. Wks. 1873 III. 241 In his hand he holds a siluer Trident, or Three-forked Mace. 1697Dryden æneid i. 208 The God himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands. 1849James Woodman vii, Some serrated at the edges like Neptune's trident. 1898Rawlings Brit. Coinage 113 In 1797 we have the first English regal copper penny... Britannia seated to right, the union shield at her side, a palm branch in her right hand and a trident in her left.
b. A three-pronged spear used by the retiarius in ancient Roman gladiatorial combats.
1693Stepney in Dryden Juvenal viii. (1697) 209 As Retiarius he Attacks his Foe; First waves his Trident ready for the throw, Next casts his Net. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxxix, He flung down net and dagger and trident, and, retreating to the barrier, stood there with folded arms.
c. fig. or in fig. context.
1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 202 The Syllogisme, which by the saying of a Grecian is the Trident and Mace of Philosophie, is in your Writings all painted and perfumed. 1698Congreve Birth of Muse 109 To Worlds remote, she [Britannia] wide extends her Reign, And wields the Trident of the stormy Main. 1804A. Duncan (title) The British Trident; or, Register of Naval Actions. 1812Wellesley Parl. Deb. 30 Nov., To concede the points..would be to throw into her hands the trident of the main.
d. (With capital initial.) (a) The name of a type of U.S. nuclear-powered submarine designed to carry ballistic missiles; (b) a type of submarine-launched ballistic missile designed to be carried by a Trident submarine. Cf. ULMS s.v. U II. 5 a.
1972N.Y. Times 17 May 25/2 The Navy's projected new nuclear submarine and missile, known until now as Ulms, has been renamed the Trident. 1975Bull. Atomic Scientists (Chicago) XXXI. iv. 13 Trident—A proposed super-quiet, highly maneuverable sub designed to fire very long-range missiles. 1978Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 1977 102 A new submarine-launched ballistic missile.., the Trident, entered the flight test phase January 18. 1986Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 16/1 Mrs Thatcher has returned from Camp David with the assurances she sought over Trident.
2. transf. Applied to something resembling a trident in shape or configuration, as a three-pronged fork, a piece of land with three promontories.
1730Swift Let. to Gay 10 Nov., Tell her Grace, that the ill management of forks is not to be help'd when they are only bidential..her Grace hath cost me thirty pounds to provide Tridents for fear of offending her. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 101 The two other peninsulas, which form the trident of Chalcidice.
3. Geom. Name of a plane cubic curve of a form suggesting a three-pronged weapon; also trident curve. Also called Cartesian parabola (parabola b).
1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Trident is a Name given by Sir Is. Newton to that kind of Parabola, by which D'Cartes constructed Equations of six Dimensions. 1795Hutton Math. Dict. II. 191 Cartesian Parabola..xy = ax3 + bx2 + cx + d..being Newton's 66th species of lines of the 3d order, and called by him a Trident. 1864Cayley Math. Papers V. 364 The Trident Curve.
4. attrib. and Comb., as trident-bearer, trident-swayer, trident tooth; trident-armed, trident-bearing, trident-shaped adjs.
1866J. Conington æneid i. 226 He, *trident-armed, each dull weight heaves.
1749G. West Odes Pindar i. Antistr. v, Invocating oft the name Of the *Trident-bearing God. Strait the *Trident-bearer came.
1871Kingsley At Last xiv, A curious *trident-shaped stand..on the horns of which garlands of flowers are hung as offerings.
1904C. Lanier Sonn. in Daily Chron. 21 Apr. 3/2 *Trident-swayer of emotion's trembling sea!
1901G. Meredith tr. Iliad, Reading of Life 128 The God drives deep his *trident teeth.
B. as adj. Having three prongs or forks; tridental. Also fig.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 24 Neptune..with his trident mace. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 97 A Trident mischief that doth wound, Requires a Treble Patience to afford Relief. 1864[see 3 above]. 1910Expositor Aug. 139 He is represented..hurling the trident lightning and with a huge club. |