a. Obs. [OE. þrili, þrieliʓ = OHG. drilîch, MHG. drilich, drilch, mod.Ger. drillich, app. WGer. ad. L. trilīx, trilīc-em woven with three threads, f. trēs, tri- three + līcium a thread of a web, a thrum. Cf. Ger. zwillich, TWILL.] Woven with three threads; threefold, triple; three in one.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), Interpr., 322. Trilex, ðrili.
a. 800. Leiden Gloss. (O.E.T.), 158. Triplex, drili.
a. 1000. Ags. Glosses, in Wr.-Wülcker, 279/3. Triligium, þrieliʓ hræʓil.
a. 1225. St. Marher., 11. Þrumnesse þreo fald … þrile i þreo hades.
a. 1225. Ancr. R. 26. Ȝif me on, almihti God, þrile ine [printed me] þreo hodes, þeos ilke þreo þinges.
