Obs. rare. [L. tripūs, a. Gr. τρίπους TRIPOD.] a. = TRIPOS 2 a. b. = TRIPOD A. 1.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 37. Wits … who never … were at all inspir’d from a Tripus’s, Terræ-filius’s, or Prævaricator’s speech.
1697. Bentley, Phal. (1699), 458. Gelon … made a Golden Tripus of xvi Talents, and sent it to Delphi a Donary to Apollo.
