a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
late 13c., "long lock of hair," from O.Fr. tresse "a plait or braid of hair" (12c.), perhaps from V.L. *trichia "braid, rope," from Gk. trikhia "rope," from thrix (gen. trikhos) "hair."