[L. tres.]

1. Two and one.

I offer thee three things. 2 Samuel 24:12.

2. It is often used like other adjectives, without the noun to which it refers.

Abishai--attained not to the first three. 2 Samuel 23:18-19.

3. Proverbially, a small number.

Away, thou three-inched fool. [I believe obsolete.]