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.

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.

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.

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.

Cloth or material for making trousers.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The American golden plover.

A little trout; a troutling.

A little trout; a troutlet.

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means. An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.

To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.

A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

See Troll.

Wearing trousers.

Same as Trousers.

Troy weight.

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.

The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.

See Truant.

To idle away; to waste.

Like a truant; in idleness.

The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.

A truffle.

A short, squat woman.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

Without a truce; unforbearing.

An interpreter. See Dragoman.

The act of killing.

Exchange of commodities; barter.

Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

One who trucks; a trafficker.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.

One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.

Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.

In a truculent manner.

To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

A truchman.

In accordance with truth; truly.