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.

Tread; footing.

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 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.

Belief; faith; fidelity.

Faitless; false; treacherous.

The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.

Having fidelity pledged.

One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

Causing trouble; troublesome.

The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.

Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

Full of trouble; causing trouble.

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

See Troll.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

A company or troop, especially the company of performers in a play or an opera.