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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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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.Trō'na, n. p. 1417(Min.) A native sesqui-carbonate of soda, which usually occurs in crystals, or fibrous masses, of a vitreous luster, and a gray or yellowish-white color.Trōn'age, n. p. 1417A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing it. [Obs.] Naves.Tro-nā'tor, n. p. 1417An officer in London whose business it was to weigh wool. [Obs.]Trŏn'cā-to, a. p. 1417(Mus.) Cut off; made short;—a term directing a note or sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.Trōne, n. p. 1417A small drain. [Prov. Eng.]Trōne or Trōnes, n. p. 1417A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A weighing machine consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar;—used for heavy wares. [Scot.]…Trone-stone p. 1417a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.]Trōn'-weight, n. p. 1417A weight formerly used in Scotland. A pound in this weight varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.Trōop, n. p. 1417A 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 taken…Trōop, v. i. p. 1417To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds. Armies, at the call of trumpet, Troop to their standard. Milton. 2. To march on; to go forward in haste. I do not, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the…Trōōp'-bĭrd, n. p. 1417(Ornith.) A conirostral bird of the order Passeres, and genus Cassicus;—called also troopial.Trōōp'er, n. p. 1417A private or soldier in a body of cavalry; a horse-soldier.Trōōp'-mēal, adv. p. 1417By troops; in crowds. [Obs.] So, troop-meal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman.Trōpe, n. p. 1417(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…Trō'phi, n. pl. p. 1417(Entom.) The parts of the mouth employed in feeding.Trō'phied, a. p. 1417Adorned with trophies. “The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.” Pope.Tro-phō'ni-an, a. p. 1417Of, or pertaining to, Trophonius, to his architecture, or to his cave.Trōph'o-spĕrm, n. p. 1417(Bot.) That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; — commonly called placenta, sometimes spermaphore, and sometimes receptacle of the seeds.Trō'phy, n. p. 1417(Antiq.) (a.) A pile of arms, taken from a vanquished enemy, raised on the field of battle by the conquerors, or, in a victory at sea, on the nearest land, often placed on the trunk of a tree, or…Trō'phy-mōn'ey, n. p. 1417A duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia.Trōp'ie, n. p. 1417(Astron.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23° 28', and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest…Trōp'ic or Trōp'ic-al, a. p. 1417Of, or pertaining to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climates; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical winds. 2. Incident to the tropics; as, tropical diseases. 3. [From…Trōp'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 1418In a tropical or figurative manner.Trōp'ie-bird, n. p. 1418(Ornith.) A bird of the genus Phæton, found at sea in the torrid zone, having very long wings and two long, slender tail-feathers.Trōp'ist, n. p. 1418One who explains the Scriptures by tropes and figures of speech; — in a less restricted sense, one who deals in tropes.Trōp'o-lōg'ie or Trōp'o-lōg'ie-al, a. p. 1418Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; changed from the original import. Burton.Trōp'o-lōg'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 1418In a tropological manner.Tro-pŏl'o-gīze, v. t. p. 1418To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to change to a figurative sense; to make a trope of. [Rare.] Cudworth.Tro-pŏl'o-gy, n. p. 1418A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or change from the original import of the word.Trōss'ers, n. pl. p. 1418Trousers. [Obs.] See TROUSERS. — Shak.Trōt, v. i. p. 1418To move faster than in walking, as a horse or other quadruped, by lifting one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time. 2. To walk or move fast; to run. He that rises late…Trŏt, v. t. p. 1418To 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…Trōt, n. p. 1418The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, when he lifts one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time. 2. An old…Trōth, n. p. 1418Belief; faith; fidelity. Bid her alight, and her troth plight. Shak. 2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison.Trŏth'less, a. p. 1418Faithless; false; perfidious; treacherous. [Obs.] “Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.” Fairfax.Trŏth'-plight, v. t. p. 1418To betroth. [Obs.]Trŏth'-plight, a. p. 1418Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.] Shak.Trŏth'-plight, n. p. 1418The act of betrothing or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.]Trōth'-plight'ed, a. p. 1418Having fidelity pledged.Trōt'ter, n. p. 1418A beast that trots, or that usually trots. 2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; — applied humorously to the human foot.Trou'ba-dour', n. p. 1418One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the latter end of the thirteenth century, principally at Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy.Troub'la-ble, a. p. 1418Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] “Troublable ire.” Chaucer.