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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Trīv'ant, n. p. 1416A truant. [Obs.] Burton.Trī-vĕrb'ĭ-al, a. p. 1416Of, or pertaining to, certain days in the Roman calendar allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, and which were so called as on them the pretor might speak the three characteristic words of his…Trĭv'et, n. p. 1416A three-legged stool, table, or other support. See TREVET.Trĭv'et-tā/ble, n. p. 1416A table supported by three legs. “The trivet-table of a foot was lame.” Dryden.Trĭv'i-al, a. p. 1416Likely to be found any where; hence, common; ordinary; vulgar. [Obs. or rare.] As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey. 2. Of little worth or importance…Trĭv'i-al, n. p. 1416One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [Obs.] Wood.Triv'i-āl'i-ty, n. p. 1416The state or quality of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. L.…Triv'i-al-ly, adv. p. 1416In a trivial manner: in a trifling manner or degree; commonly; inconsiderably.Triv'i-al-ness, n. p. 1416The state or quality of being trivial; triviality. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle.Triv'i-ūm, n. p. 1416The three arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric;—so called because they constitute a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. ☞ The quadrivium was the four arts, music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy.…Tri'-week/ly, a. p. 1416Performed, occurring, or appearing three times a week; thrice-weekly; as, a tri-weekly newspaper. ☞ This is a convenient word, but is not legitimately formed. It should, according to its formation…Trōad, n. p. 1416See TRODE. [Obs.]Trōat, v. i. p. 1416To cry, as a buck in rutting-time.Trōat, n. p. 1416The cry of a buck in rutting-time.Trō'car, n. p. 1416A surgical instrument for evacuating fluids from cavities, as in dropsy. Dunglison.Tro-chā'ie, n. p. 1416A trochaic verse or measure.Tro-chā'ic, a. p. 1416[Fr. trochaïque, Sp. & It. tro-Tro-chā'ie-al p. 1416caico, Lat. trochāicus, Gr. τρο-χαϊκός or τροχαϊκός. See TROCHEE.] (Pros.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.Tro-chān’ter, n. p. 1416(Anat.) One of the two processes of the thigh-bone, at its upper end, called major and minor, or greater and less, or little, the major being on the outside, and the minor on the inside.Trō'chan-tē'ri-an, a. p. 1416(Anat.) Of, or pertaining to, the greater trochanter.Trō'chan-tīn'i-an, a. p. 1416(Anat.) Of, or pertaining to, the less or little trochanter. Dunglison.Trō'ehar, n. p. 1416The same as TROCAR, q. v.Trō'chē, n. p. 1416A form of medicine in a circular cake or tablet, or a stiff paste cut into proper portions and dried. It is made by mixing the medicine with sugar and mucilage, and is intended to be gradually…Trō'chee, n. p. 1416(Pros.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as motion: a choree.Trō'chil, n. p. 1416(Ornith.) An aquatic bird with long legs, and capable of running very swiftly: trochilus. It was supposed to obtain its food from the mouth of the crocodile. See TROCHILUS, 1. (a.) The crocodile…Tro-chil'ic, a. p. 1416Pertaining to, or characterized by, rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. “By art trochilic.” Camden.Tro-chil'ies, n. sing. p. 1416The science of rotary motion, or of wheel-work. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]Tro-chĭl'ĭ-dæ, n. p. 1416(Ornith.) A family of tenuirostral, passerine birds, including numerous species, most of which are of small size, and many of them remarkable for the splendor of their plumage; humming-birds. They…Tro-chil'i-dist, n. p. 1416One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming-birds, or the Trochilidæ.Trōch'i-lūs, n. p. 1416(Ornith.) (a.) An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile’s mouth. Sir T. Herbert. (b.) The golden-crowned wren. (c.) A genus of…Trō'ching, n. p. 1417One of the small branches on the top of a deer’s head.Trō'chisk, n. p. 1417A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche. [Obs.] See TROCHE.Trŏch'le-ā, n. p. 1417(Mach.) A pulley. [Obs.] 2. (Anat.) (a.) A pulley-like cartilage, through which the tendon of the trochleary muscle passes. (b.) The articular surface at the lower extremity of the shoulder-bone; —…Trōch'le-ar, a. p. 1417(Physiol. & Bot.) Shaped like a pulley; as, the trochlear muscle of the eye.Trŏch'le-a-ry, a. p. 1417(Anat.) Of, or pertaining to, the trochlea; as, the trochleary muscle, the superior oblique muscle of the eye. Trochleary nerve, the pathetic nerve, which goes to the trochleary muscle. Parr.Trō'choid, n. p. 1417(Geom.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a straight line; a cycloid. 2. (Anat.) An articulation in which one bone turns upon another like a wheel upon its axle.Tro-chōm'e-ter, n. p. 1417A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel.Trōd, imp. p. 1417of tread. See TREAD.Trōd or Trōd'den, p. p. p. 1417of tread. See TREAD.Trōde, imp. p. 1417of tread. [Obs.] See TREAD.Trōde, n. p. 1417Tread; footing. [Obs.] Spenser.Trŏg'lo-dȳte, n. p. 1417One dwelling in a subterraneous cave; — applied by the ancients to certain tribes living far up the Nile. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth, called the…Trŏg'lo-dy'tēs, n. p. 1417<br>1. (Zoöl.) A genus of quadrumanous animals, including the chimpanzee and gorilla. Baird.<br>2. (Ornith.) A genus of tenuirostral birds, including the wrens. Baird.Trōg'lo-dŷt'ie or Trōg'lo-dŷt'ie-al, a. p. 1417Of, or pertaining to, a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.Trō'gon, n. p. 1417(Ornith.) A genus of fissirostral birds, of the order Passeres, having richly-colored plumage, some part of which is usually of a metallic luster, like that of humming-birds.Trō'jan, a. p. 1417(Geog.) Of, or pertaining to, Troy or its inhabitants.Trō'jan, n. p. 1417(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.Trōll, v. t. p. 1417To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn; to drive about. “To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.” Milton. 2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. Then doth she…Trōll, v. i. p. 1417To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six. 2. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley, or by drawing the hook through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the…Trōll, n. p. 1417A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of…Trōll, n. p. 1417(Scandinavian Myth.) A supernatural being, represented as of diminutive size, and said to inhabit caves, hills, and like places. W. Scott.Trōll'er, n. p. 1417One who trolls.Tröl'ley, n. p. 1417A truck for carrying railway materials. [Eng.] Simmonds.Trōl'lōp, n. p. 1417A stroller; a loiterer; hence, a woman loosely dressed; a slattern; a slut.Trōl'lop-ee', n. p. 1417A kind of loose dress worn by women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.}Trōl'lop-ish, a. p. 1417Like a trollop or slattern; dirty.Trōl'my-dāmes, n. p. 1417The game of nine-holes. [Obs.] Shak.Trōm'bōne, n. p. 1417(Mus.) A deep-toned brass instrument of the trumpet kind, consisting of three tubes, of which the first, to which the mouth-piece is attached, and the third, which terminates in a bell-shaped…Trōmp, n. p. 1417A 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, from which…Trŏmp'il, n. p. 1417An aperture in a tromp.