1. (Christian Theol.)
Defn: The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
2. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti.
3. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle. Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. — Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; — so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. — Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.
TRINIUNITY
Trin`i*u"ni*ty, n. Etym: [See Trinity, and Unity.]
Defn: Triunity; trinity. [Obs.] As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.
TRINK
Trink, n.
Defn: A kind of fishing net. [Obs.] Crabb.
TRINKET Trin"ket, n. Etym: [F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular.] (Naut.)
Defn: A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast,
probably on a lateen yard.
Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our
hands. Hakluyt.