| Trice 1. (v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. 2. (v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope. 3. (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. Thesaurus Entries breath, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, sec, second, shake, split second, stroke, tick, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, wink |