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noun
A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, rare
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Synonyms: tripod
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: malleus, malleus Weberi
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
Qualifier: Cambridge University; capitalised when used as a title; Cambridge University; capitalised when used as a title
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Synonyms: tripos, bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius[w:Oxford University|Oxford University]]>
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tripūs, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); doublet of tripod, tripos, and teapoy. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.
