Chapter 1772

Troll"my*dames` (?) , n. [F. trou-madame pigeon holes.] The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames .] [Obs.]

Shak.

Trollop <Xpage=1543>

Trol"lop (?) , n. [From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull .] A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

Trollopee <Xpage=1543>

Trol`lop*ee" (?) , n. A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.]

Goldsmith.

Trombone <Xpage=1543>

Trom"bone (?) , n. [It., aug. of tromba a trumpet: cf. F. trombone . See Trump a trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

2. (Zo\'94l.) The common European bittern.

Trommel <Xpage=1543>

Trom"mel (?) , n. [Cf. G. trommel a drum.] (Mining) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

Raymond.

Tromp <Xpage=1543>

Tromp (?) , n. [F. trombe , trompe , a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet.] A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe , and trombe .]

Tromp, Trompe <Xpage=1543>

Tromp , Trompe , n. [See Trump a trumpet.] A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Trompil <Xpage=1543>

Tromp"il (?) , n. [OF. trompille , equiv. to F. trompette a trumpet.] An aperture in a tromp.

Tron <Xpage=1543>

Tron (?) , n. See 3d Trone , 2. [Obs. or Scott.]

Trona <Xpage=1543>

Tro"na (?) , n. [Of Egyptian or North African origin.] (Chem. & Min.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O , occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao , and by the ancients nitrum .

Tronage <Xpage=1543>

Tron"age (?) , n. [From Trone a steelyard.] A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool. [Obs.]

Nares.

Tronator <Xpage=1543>

Tro*na"tor (?) , n. [LL. See Tronage .] An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool. [Obs.]

Trone <Xpage=1543>

Trone (?) , n. A throne. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Trone <Xpage=1543>

Trone , n. [Cf. Prov. F. trogne a belly.] A small drain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Trone, Trones <Xpage=1543>

Trone (?) , Trones (?) , n. [LL. trona , fr. L. trutina a balance; cf. Gr. <?/.] 1. A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.]

2. A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.]

Jamieson.

Trone stone , a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] -- Trone weight , a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.

Troop <Xpage=1543>

Troop (?) , n. [F. troupe , OF. trope , trupe , LL. troppus ; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. &thorn;orp a hamlet, village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, E. thorp . Cf. Troupe .] 1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

That which should accompany old age -- As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends -- I must not look to have. Shak.

2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.

Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars. Shak.

His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay.

3. (Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

W. Coxe.

5. (Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

Troop <Xpage=1543>

Troop , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trooped (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping .] 1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. "Armies . . . troop to their standard."

Milton.

2. To march on; to go forward in haste.

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

Troopbird <Xpage=1543>

Troop"bird` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) Any troupial.

Trooper <Xpage=1543>

Troop"er , n. A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

<-- 2. a state police officer; a mounted police officer.

3. trouper. -->

Troopfowl <Xpage=1543>

Troop"fowl` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The American scaup duck. [Local, U. S.]

Troopial <Xpage=1543>

Troop"i*al (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Troupial .

Troopmeal <Xpage=1543>

Troop"meal` (?) , adv. [ Troop + -meal as in piecemeal .] By troops; in crowds. [Obs.]

So, troopmeal , Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman.

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Troopship <Xpage=1544>

Troop"ship` (?) , n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]

Troostite <Xpage=1544>

Troost"ite (?) , n. [So named after Dr. Gerard Troost , of Nashville, Tenn.] (Min.) Willemite.

Trop\'91olin <Xpage=1544>

Tro*p\'91"o*lin (?) , n. (Chem.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium ( Trop\'91olum ).

Trope <Xpage=1544>

Trope (?) , n. [L. tropus , Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to turn. See Torture , and cf. Trophy , Tropic , Troubadour , Trover .] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used.

In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. Bancroft.

&hand; Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor , metonymy , synecdoche , and irony . Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.

Tropeine <Xpage=1544>

Tro*pe"ine (?) , n. (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

Trophi <Xpage=1544>

Tro"phi (?) , n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a feeder, fr. <?/ to feed.] (Zo\'94l.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxill\'91, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

Trophic <Xpage=1544>

Troph"ic (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ nursing. See Trophi .] (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition .

Trophied <Xpage=1544>

Tro"phied (?) , a. Adorned with trophies.

The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.

Trophonian <Xpage=1544>

Tro*pho"ni*an (?) , a. [L. Trophonianus , fr. Trophonius , Gr. <?/, a Grecian architect, fabled to have been the builder of the first temple of Apollo at Delphi. He was worshiped after death, and had a celebrated oracle in a cave in B&oe;otia.] Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.

Trophosome <Xpage=1544>

Troph"o*some (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ a feeder + -some body.] (Zo\'94l.) The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.

Trophosperm <Xpage=1544>

Troph"o*sperm (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ a feeder + <?/ seed: cf. F. trophosperme . See Trophi .] (Bot.) The placenta.

Trophy <Xpage=1544>

Tro"phy (?) , n. ; pl. Trophies (#) . [F. troph\'82e (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo ), L. tropaeum , trophaeum , Gr. <?/, strictly, a monument of the enemy's defeat, fr.<?/ a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. <?/ to turn. See Trope .] 1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.

&hand; A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol.

2. The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.) , an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.

Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden.

4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace .

<-- 5. An object memorializing a victory in a sporting contest.

Some trophies(5) are unique, temporary possession of the same object passing to the new victors of some periodic contest in subsequent occurrences. Others are objects of little inherent worth, given by the authority sponsoring the contest to the victor. A trophy is sometimes shaped like a cup, and in such cases may be called a cup , as the America's Cup (in Yacht racing). -->

Trophy money , a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia. <-- Trophy room, a room in which trophies are kept. -->

Tropic <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ic (?) , a. [ Atrop ine + -ic .] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

Tropic <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ic , n. [F. tropique , L. tropicus of or belonging to a turn, i . e ., of the sun, Gr. <?/ of the solstice, <?/ (sc. <?/) the tropic or solstice, fr. <?/ to turn. See Trope .] 1. (Astron.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23&deg; 28&min;, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer , and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn , from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

2. (Geog.) (a) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names. (b) pl. The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

The brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the greenhouse and the saloon. Bancroft.

Tropic <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ic , a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

Tropic bird (Zo\'94l.) , any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Pha\'89thon , found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Pha\'89thon flavirostris (called also boatswain ), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.

Tropical <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ic*al (?) , a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. <?/. See Tropic , n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

2. [From Trope .] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Jer. Taylor.

The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South.

Tropic month . See Lunar month , under Month . -- Tropic year , the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

Tropically <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ic*al*ly , adv. In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

Tropidine <Xpage=1544>

Trop"i*dine (?) , n. [See Tropine .] (Chem.) An alkaloid, C8H13N , obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.

Tropilidene <Xpage=1544>

Tro*pil"i*dene (?) , n. [See Tropine .] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.

Tropine <Xpage=1544>

Tro"pine (?) , n. [From Atropine .] (Chem.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO , produced by decomposing atropine.

Tropist <Xpage=1544>

Trop"ist (?) , n. [Cf. F. tropiste . See Trope .] One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

Tropologic, Tropological <Xpage=1544>

Trop`o*log"ic (?) , Trop`o*log"ic*al (?) , a. [Gr. <?/: cf. F. tropologique . See Tropology .] Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton . -- Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly , adv.

Tropologize <Xpage=1544>

Tro*pol"o*gize (?) , v. t. To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.]

If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.

Tropology <Xpage=1544>

Tro*pol"o*gy (?) , n. [Gr. <?/; <?/ a trope + <?/ discourse: cf. F. tropologie .] A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.

Sir T. Browne.

Trossers <Xpage=1544>

Tros"sers (?) , n. pl. Trousers. [Obs.]

Shak.

Trot <Xpage=1544>

Trot (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trotted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting .] [OE. trotten , OF. troter , F. trotter ; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread ; cf. OHG. trott<?/n to tread. See Tread .] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot , n.

2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.

Trot <Xpage=1544>

Trot , v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

To trot out , to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]

Trot <Xpage=1544>

Trot , n. [F. See Trot , v. i. ] 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot ."

Stillman (The Horse in Motion).

2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

3. One who trots; a child; a woman.

An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak.

Troth <Xpage=1544>

Troth (?) , n. [A variant of truth . See Truth .] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity.

Bid her alight And her troth plight. Shak.

2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth .

Shak.

In troth , thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison.

3. Betrothal.

Trothless <Xpage=1544>

Troth"less , a. Faitless; false; treacherous.

Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax.

Trothplight <Xpage=1544>

Troth"plight` (?) , v. t. To betroth. [Obs.]

Trothplight <Xpage=1544>

Troth"plight` , a. Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.]

Shak.

Trothplight <Xpage=1544>

Troth"plight` , n. The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.]

Shak.

Trothplighted <Xpage=1544>

Troth"plight`ed , a. Having fidelity pledged.

Trotter <Xpage=1544>

Trot"ter (?) , n. 1. One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.

Trottoir <Xpage=1544>

Trot"toir (?) , n. [F., from trotter to trot. See Trot .] Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs . Froude.

Troubadour <Xpage=1544>