Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 78

Trogonoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the trogons.

Trogue (n.) A wooden trough, forming a drain.

Troic (a.) Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.

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

Troili (pl. ) of Troilus

Troiluses (pl. ) of Troilus

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

Trojan (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.

Trojan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.

Troll (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.

Trolled (imp. & p. p.) of Troll

Trolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Troll

Troll (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

Troll (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

Troll (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.

Troll (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

Troll (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.

Troll (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.

Troll (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.

Troll (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.

Troll (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.

Troll (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

Troll (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.

Troll (n.) A trolley.

Troller (n.) One who trolls.

Trolley (n.) Alt. of Trolly

Trolly (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.

Trolly (n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.

Trolly (n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

Trolly (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

Trollmydames (n.) The game of nineholes.

Trollop (n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

Trollopee (n.) A kind of loose dress for women.

Trombone (n.) 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.

Trombone (n.) The common European bittern.

Trommel (n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

Tromp (n.) 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.

Tromp (n.) Alt. of Trompe

Trompe (n.) A trumpet; a trump.

Trompil (n.) An aperture in a tromp.

Tron (n.) See 3d Trone, 2.

Trona (n.) 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 (n.) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.

Tronator (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.

Trone (n.) A throne.

Trone (n.) A small drain.

Trone (n.) Alt. of Trones

Trones (n.) A steelyard.

Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.

Troop (n.) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

Troop (n.) Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.

Troop (n.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

Troop (n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

Troop (n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

Trooped (imp. & p. p.) of Troop

Trooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Troop

Troop (v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.

Troop (v. i.) To march on; to go forward in haste.

Troopbird (n.) Any troupial.

Trooper (n.) A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

Troopfowl (n.) The American scaup duck.

Troopial (n.) Same as Troupial.

Troopmeal (adv.) By troops; in crowds.

Troopship (n.) A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.

Troostite (n.) Willemite.

Tropaeolin (n.) 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 (n.) 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.

Trope (n.) The word or expression so used.

Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

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

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

Trophied (a.) Adorned with trophies.

Trophonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.

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

Trophosperm (n.) The placenta.

Trophies (pl. ) of Trophy

Trophy (n.) 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.

Trophy (n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

Trophy (n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.

Trophy (n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

Tropic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

Tropic (n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.

Tropic (n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

Tropic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

Tropical (n.) 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.

Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Tropically (adv.) In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

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

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

Tropine (n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

Tropist (n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

Tropologic (a.) Alt. of Tropological

Tropological (a.) Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

Tropologize (v. t.) To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.

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

Trossers (n. pl.) Trousers.

Trotted (imp. & p. p.) of Trot

Trotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trot

Trot (v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

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