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Trice   /traɪs/   Listen
noun
Trice  n.  A very short time; an instant; a moment; now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." " On a trice." "A man shall make his fortune in a trice."


verb
Trice  v. t.  (Written also trise)  
1.
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. (Obs.) " Out of his seat I will him trice."
2.
(Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.





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"Trice" Quotes from Famous Books



... were out in a trice: a sapling was procured, and cut into short pieces; these were notched, and tied at intervals along the rope. Our "Jacob's ladder" ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... plain they were not enjoying the proceedings. Just as Calhoun reached these groups, a heavy hand was laid on his shoulder, and a stern low voice said: "You are our prisoner; better come quietly and make no disturbance." And in a trice Calhoun felt each of his arms grasped by strong hands. He was powerless in the iron grip by which he was held; if help there was, it ...
— Raiding with Morgan • Byron A. Dunn
... demolished every proof of the existence of God. To attain this end we have—imitating Feuerbach to some extent, according to whom man adored his own Being in God—assumed that it is liberty which the citizen seeks in Government. And as to liberty we have in a trice transformed this into "absolute" liberty, into Anarchist liberty. Eins, zwei, drei; ...
— Anarchism and Socialism • George Plechanoff
... on the wing She darted, but, alas! Dropped from one flying foot the tiny Slipper made of glass; But she got away, and well it was She did, for in a trice Her coach changed to a pumpkin, ...
— On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates
... her feet, Madam Conway's bonnet went on in a trice, and taking her shawl in her hand she walked outdoors, barely expressing her thanks to Mrs. Douglas, who, greatly distressed at her abrupt departure, ran for the herb tea, and taking the tin cup in her hand followed her guest to ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes


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