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noun

Treble n. (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. Note: This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices.

adjective

Treble adj.

Threefold; triple. "A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls."

(Mus.)

(a)

Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.

(b)

Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.

verb

Treble v. t. (past & past part. trebled; pres. part. trebling)

To make thrice as much; to make threefold. "Love trebled life."

To utter in a treble key; to whine. (Obs.) "He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply."

Treble v. i. To become threefold.

adverb

Treble adv. Trebly; triply. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... resembled in color such milk as had already undergone that operation. She appeared, indeed, to have many symptoms of a deep jaundice in her look; but the strength and firmness of her voice overbalanced them all; the tone of this was a sharp treble at a distance, for I seldom heard it on the same floor, but was usually waked with it in the morning, and entertained with it almost continually through ...

— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

... addition to his old books on ethics and philosophy, to which he has returned with such pleasure, he cultivates his garden. He dotes on his flowers. He is proud of them. He takes prizes at the shows; and the success is still remembered of the treble carnation, streaked red and yellow, which he exhibited as ...

— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... company of wizards, leaving their medicine-pots upon the ground, formed themselves in a treble line, and marching to where the king stood, they saluted him. Then they sang the praises of their god, and in a song that had been prepared, heaped insult upon the God of the white man and upon the messenger who preached Him. To all of this ...

— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard

... manufacture, the patentee should not fail to divide the rights into different classes, granting each party only such rights as they may be interested in. In this way the patentee can quite often double or treble the receipts from ...

— Practical Pointers for Patentees • Franklin Cresee

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