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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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"Treble" Quotes from Famous Books

... will break and boil enough, and because in this there is a double Security by length of boiling, and a quantity of Hops shifted; but in the new way there is only a single one, and that is by a double or treble allowance of fresh Hops boiled only half an Hour in the Wort, and for this Practice a Reason is assigned, that the Hops being endowed with discutient apertive Qualities, will by them and their great quantity ...

— The London and Country Brewer • Anonymous

... that each of these short lines represents a note of music, and that the irregularity of their arrangement indicates the succession of these notes; so that each of these crooked lines signifies the movement of one of the parts of the melody, the four moving approximately together denoting the treble, alto, tenor and bass respectively, though they do not necessarily appear in that order in this astral form. Here it is necessary to interpolate a still further explanation. Even with a melody so comparatively simple as this there are tints and shades ...

— Thought-Forms • Annie Besant

... professing to despise a man who knew nothing of game but its taste. The conversation reverted to technicalities of sport, full of terms and phrases unintelligible to Harvey; recounting feats with 'Empress' and 'Paradox', the deadly results of a 'treble A', or of 'treble-nesting slugs', and boasting of a 'right and left with No. 6'. Hugh appeared to forget all about his domestic calamity; only when his guests rose did he recur to it, and with an ...

— The Whirlpool • George Gissing

... gloom with his mother, when, for no reason that could be given, he fell from his habitual majesty to the tender dependence of a little boy, just as his voice broke from its nascent base to its earlier treble at moments when he least expected or wished such a thing to happen. His stately but vague ideal of himself was supported by a stature beyond his years, but this rendered it the more difficult for him to bear the humiliation of his sudden collapses, and made him at other times the easier ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... ballad, while at times Jim's heavy bass and Jo's lighter treble were joined in a rollicking American song. They laughed without reason, for the simple joy of being alive and on the move; but as pride sometimes goes before destruction, so ...

— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt

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