To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.

A token of victory.

In a triumphant manner.

One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.

Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant.

One of tree men united in public office or authority.

Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.

A triumvirate.

Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.

The active young larva of any oil beetle. It has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. See Illust. of Oil beetle, under Oil.

The quality or state of being triune; trinity.

The quality or state of being trivalent.

Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.

Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

Having three valves; three-valved.

A truant.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.

A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

A trivial matter or method; a triviality.

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

In a trivial manner.

Quality or state of being trivial.

The three / liberal/ arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. Three times a week. A triweekly publication.

See Trode.

The cry of a buck in rutting time.

A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.

A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region.

A trochaic verse or measure.

Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.

Resembling a wheel.

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.

See Trocar.

A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

The crocodile bird.

A division of birds comprising the humming birds.

OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work.

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae.

The crocodile bird, or trochil.

A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species. Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. The crocodile bird.

One of the small branches of a stag's antler.

A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.

See Trochiscus.

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

A pulley.

Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.

A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.

Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.

An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

imp. p. p. of Tread.

p. p. of Tread.

One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, or cave man. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.

A genus of apes including the chimpanzee.

Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.

Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.

Like or pertaining to the trogons.

A wooden trough, forming a drain.

Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.

Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

A large, handsome American butterfly (Euph/ades troilus, or Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings; -- also called troilus butterfly.

Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Troy.

a large hollow wooden horse built by Greek soldiers besieging Troy during the Trojan War, and left as a /gift/ when they pretended to abandon their seige. It was taken into the city by the Trojans, and Greek soldiers concealed inside came out and opened the gates to the city, enabling the capture of the city by the Greeks.

The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

One who trolls.

The game of nineholes.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

A kind of loose dress for women.

A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

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.

A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

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.

A trumpet; a trump.

An aperture in a tromp.

See 3d Trone, 2.

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.

A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.

An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.

A small drain.

A steelyard.

To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.

Any troupial.

A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

The American scaup duck.

Same as Troupial.

By troops; in crowds.

A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.

Willemite.

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 (Tropaeolum).

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. The word or expression so used.

Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

Adorned with trophies.

Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.

The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.

The placenta.

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.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

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.

In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.

A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

Modification of the direction of growth, caused by some external influence, such as light; -- sometimes used for motion of an organism toward or away from an external stimulus, more properly called taxis.

One who deals in tropes; one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.

A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.

Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.

Trousers.

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.