— Tripolitan /tri pol"i tn/ , n. , adj.
/trip"euh lee/ , n.
1. Also, Tripolitania /trip'euh li tay"nee euh, -tayn"yeuh/ ; It. /trddee'paw lee tah"nyah/ . one of the former Barbary States of N Africa: later a province of Turkey; now a part of Libya.
2. a seaport in and the capital of Libya, in the NW part. 551,477.
3. a seaport in N Lebanon, on the Mediterranean. 175,000.
4. ( l.c. ) any of several siliceous substances, as rottenstone and infusorial earth, used chiefly in polishing.