LIBERATE, English practice (law) and triple(1) (iou)

LIBERATE, English practice (law)

LIBERATE, English practice. A writ which issues on lands, tenements, and chattels, being returned under an extent on a statute staple, commanding the chattels, being returned under an extent on a statute staple, commanding the sheriff to deliver them to the plaintiff, by the extent and appraisement sheriff to deliver them to the plaintiff, by the extent and appraisement mentioned in the writ of extent, and in the sheriff' s return thereto. See mentioned in the writ of extent, and in the sheriff' s return thereto. See Com dig. Statute Staple, D 6. Com dig. Statute Staple, D 6.

triple(1) (iou)

triple adjective & adverb. ME.
[Old & mod. French triple or Latin triplus from Greek triplous. Cf. TREBLE adjective & adverb.]
A. adjective.
Consisting of three members, things, layers, sets, etc.; threefold; involving three parties; existing or occurring three times or in three ways; of three kinds. ME.
G. Grote The trireme..with a triple bank of oars. H. Jolly His triple immunization against whooping couch, diphtheria and tetanus. G. Keillor Our TV set..was receiving triple and quadruple shadow images. Spin A triple-layer fudge cake.
Three times as much or many; of three times the, or three times the, measure, amount, or capacity; treble; spec. (of a drink of spirits) constituting three times the standard measure. M16.
W. Raleigh Great conquests are won to repay the charges of Warre with triple interest. C. Lucas The quantity should not be less than triple the weight of the solids consumed.
That is one of three, third. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
b. adverb. To three times the amount or extent; three times over, triply, thrice. E17.
R. Bentley If we had double or triple as many. P. Ustinov The door was triple locked!
Special collocations & comb.: triple-A Military slang anti-aircraft artillery. triple agent = treble agent s.v. TREBLE adjective & adverb. triple alliance an alliance of three States, powers, groups, etc. triple bond Chemistry three covalent bonds between the same two atoms. triple century a score or total of 300, esp. in cricket. triple crown (a) Roman Catholic Church the Pope's tiara; (b) the action of winning all three of a group of important events in horse-racing, rugby Football, etc. triple-decker noun & adjective (designating) something with three decks or layers; spec. (designating) a sandwich consisting of three layers of bread and two layers of filling. triple harp: see HARP noun. triple-headed adjective (a) having three heads, three-headed; (b) (of a train) pulled by three locomotives. triple-header (a) (chiefly US) a three-headed thing; a situation, occurrence, etc., having three aspects or involving three participants; (b) a train pulled by three locomotives; (c) N. Amer. a sporting event at which three consecutive matches are staged. triple jump an athletic Exercise or contest comprising a hop, a step, and a jump. triple play Baseball an act or instance of putting out three runners in a row. triple point (a) Physics the temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and vapour phases of a pure substance can coexist in equilibrium; the point on a diagram representing this; an analogous point of equilibrium or stability between three phases of a system; (b) Geometry a point common to three branches of a curve, or at which a curve has three tangents. triple rhyme: involving three syllables in each rhyming line. triple salt Chemistry a salt which when crystalline is composed of three simple salts (which it usu. yields in solution) and has different properties from each. triple-spaced adjective typed or formatted so that two blank lines separate adjacent lines of text. triple spacing: in which two blank lines separate adjacent lines of (esp. typewritten) text. triple-tail a brownish fish of warm seas, Lobotes surinamensis, having the dorsal and anal fins extended into lobes resembling extra tail-fins. triple tiara: see TIARA 2. triple time Music (a) a rhythm with three beats in the bar; (b) a rhythm made three times as fast as the previous rhythm. triple tonguing Music: in which alternate movements of the tongue are made (usu. as in sounding ttk) to facilitate rapid playing of a wind instrument. triple tree arch. slang a gallows. triple vaccine Medicine (a) a vaccine containing three strains of Salmonella, used against typhoid and paratyphoid; (b) a vaccine containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and killed whooping cough bacteria, administered in early childhood.
tripleness noun (rare) L19.

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