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† ˈtrisulc, ˈtrisulk, a. (n.) Obs.
[ad. L. trisulc-us three-cleft, f. tri-, tri- + sulcus furrow. Cf. F. trisulce (trisulque, 16th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
Three-cleft, three-forked, trifurcate: esp. as an epithet of the lightning or thunderbolt, after L. trisulcum fulmen (Varro), Jovis telum trisulcum (Ovid), etc.
1609Heywood Rape Lucrece i. ii, That hand That flings the trisulke thunder. 1611― Gold. Age v. i, Jupiter..Who thunder and the trisulke lightning beares. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xiv. 142 The Tongue of man is not double, or trisulke, or bisulke, as in some creatures. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxxii, Jupiter confound me with his trisulk lightning if I lie! 1656Blount Glossogr., Trisulk (trisulcus), having three edges, or three furrows. 1658in Phillips.
B. ellipt. as n. A thunderbolt.
1637Heywood Dial. iv. Wks. 1874 VI. 160 Hand once againe thy Trisulk, and retire To Oeta, and there kindle't with new fire. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 239 They..never..looke upon him, least the fulgor of his aspect might peradventure prove no lesse formidable than the Trisulk of Iupiter. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 100 If we consider the threefold effect of Jupiters Trisulk, to burn, discusse and terebrate. |