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Trice
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.
2. To haul and tie up by means of a rope.