A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
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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.
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.
A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.
Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.
Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend.
An honest fellow.
One really beloved.
The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (Tuber aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.
A trough, or tray. A hod for mortar. An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
A brothel.
An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms.
Having a delicately crackled surface; -- applied to porcelian, etc.
A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
Worthless or deceptive in character.
To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
One who sounds a trumpet.
A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
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