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Troat

The cry of a buck in rutting time.

Trocar

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

Trocha

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

Trochaical Trochaic

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

Trochanter

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

Trochanteric

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

Trochantine

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

Troche

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

Trochee

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.

Trochili

A division of birds comprising the humming birds.

Trochilic

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

Trochilics

The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work.

Trochilidist

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

Trochilus

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

Troching

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

Trochite

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

Trochlear

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

Trochleary

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

Trochoid

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

Trochoidal

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

Trochometer

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

Trochosphere

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

Trochus

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.

Troco

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

Trod

imp. p. p. of Tread.

Troglodyte

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.

Trogon

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.

Trogue

A wooden trough, forming a drain.

Troic

Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.

Troilite

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

Troilus

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.

Trojan

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

Trojan horse

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.

Troll

The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

Trollop

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

Trolly Trolley

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.

Trombone

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.

Trommel

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

Tromp

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.

Tron

See 3d Trone, 2.

Trona

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

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

Tronator

An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.

Troop

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

Trooper

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

Troopship

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

Tropaeolin

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).

Trope

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.

Tropeine

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

Trophi

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

Trophic

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

Trophonian

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

Trophosome

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

Trophy

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.

Tropic

Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

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.

Tropically

In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

Tropidine

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

Tropilidene

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

Tropine

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

Tropism

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.

Tropist

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.

Tropologize

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

Tropology

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

Troppo

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

Trot

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.

Troth

Belief; faith; fidelity.

Trothplight

The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.

Trotter

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

Trou-de-loup

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.

Troubadour

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.

Trouble

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

Troubler

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

Troublesome

Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

Trough

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.

Trough-shell

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Trounce

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

Troupe

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

Troupial

Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.

Trousers

A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

Trousse

A case for small implements; as, a surgeon's trousse.

Trousseau

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

Trout

Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.

Trout-colored

White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.

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