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Troopship (?), n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]
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Troostite (?), n. [So named after Dr. Gerard Troost, of Nashville, Tenn.] (Min.) Willemite.
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Tropæolin (?), n. (Chem.) 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 (Tropæolum).
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Trope (?), n. [L. tropus, Gr. �, fr. � to turn. See , and cf. , , , .] (Rhet.) (a) 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. (b) The word or expression so used.
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In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. Bancroft.
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☞ Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.
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Tropeine (?), n. (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
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Trophi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � a feeder, fr. � to feed.] (Zoöl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
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Trophic (?), a. [Gr. � nursing. See .] (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
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Trophied (?), a. Adorned with trophies.
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The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.
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Trophonian (?), a. [L. Trophonianus, fr. Trophonius, Gr. �, a Grecian architect, fabled to have been the builder of the first temple of Apollo at Delphi. He was worshiped after death, and had a celebrated oracle in a cave in Bœotia.] Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.
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Trophosome (?), n. [Gr. � a feeder + -some body.] (Zoöl.) The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
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Trophosperm (?), n. [Gr. � a feeder + � seed: cf. F. trophosperme. See .] (Bot.) The placenta.
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Trophy (?), n.; pl. Trophies (#). [F. trophée (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr. �, strictly, a monument of the enemy's defeat, fr.� a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. � to turn. See .] 1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) 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.
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☞ A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol.
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2. 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.
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3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
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Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears,
And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars,
And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden.
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4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
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Coloq. Trophy money , a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia.
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Tropic (?), a. [Atropine + -ic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
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Tropic, n. [F. tropique, L. tropicus of or belonging to a turn, i. e., of the sun, Gr. � of the solstice, � (sc. �) the tropic or solstice, fr. � to turn. See .] 1. (Astron.) 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.
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2. (Geog.) (a) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names. (b) pl. The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
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The brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the greenhouse and the saloon. Bancroft.
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Tropic, a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
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Coloq. Tropic bird (Zoöl.), any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Phaëthon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Phaëthon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.
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Tropical (?), a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. �. See , n.] 1. 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.
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2. [From .] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor.
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The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South.
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Coloq. Tropic month . See Lunar month, under . -- Coloq. Tropic year , the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
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Tropically, adv. In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
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Tropidine (?), n. [See .] (Chem.) An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
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Tropilidene (?), n. [See .] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
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Tropine (?), n. [From .] (Chem.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
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Tropism (trōpĭz'm), n. [Gr. troph a turning, trepein to turn + -ism.] (Physiol.) 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.
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Tropist (?), n. [Cf. F. tropiste. See .] 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.
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{ Tropologic (?), Tropological (?), } a. [Gr. �: cf. F. tropologique. See .] Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton. -- Tropologically, adv.
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Tropologize (?), v. t. To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.]
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If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.
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Tropology (?), n. [Gr. �; � a trope + � discourse: cf. F. tropologie.] A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word. Sir T. Browne.
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Troppo (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.
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Trossers (?), n. pl. Trousers. [Obs.] Shak.
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Trot (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott�n to tread. See .] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See , n.
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2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
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He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.
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Trot, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
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Coloq. To trot out , to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]
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Trot, n. [F. See , v. i.] 1. 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. “The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot.” Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
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2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
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3. One who trots; a child; a woman.
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An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak.
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Troth (?), n. [A variant of truth. See .] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity.
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Bid her alight
And hertroth plight. Shak.
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2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. Shak.
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In troth, thou art able to instruct gray hairs. Addison.
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3. Betrothal.
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Trothless, a. Faitless; false; treacherous.
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Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax.
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Trothplight (?), v. t. To betroth. [Obs.]
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Trothplight, a. Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.] Shak.
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Trothplight, n. The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.
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Trothplighted, a. Having fidelity pledged.
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Trotter (?), n. 1. One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.
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2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.
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Trottoir (?), n. [F., from trotter to trot. See .] Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.
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Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.
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Troubadour (?), n. [F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. � a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See , and cf. .] 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.
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Troublable (?), a. Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] “troublable ire.” Chaucer.
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Trouble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Troubled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Troubling.] [F. troubler, OF. trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. turbulare, L. turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr. �, and perhaps to E. thorp; cf. Skr. tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. .] 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. John v. 4.
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God looking forth will trouble all his host. Milton.
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2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
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Now is my soul troubled. John xii. 27.
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Take the boy to you; he so troubles me
'T is past enduring. Shak.
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Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.
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3. To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
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Syn. -- To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy; tease; vex; molest.
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Trouble (?), a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] “With full trouble cheer.” Chaucer.
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Trouble, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See , v. t.] 1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
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Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise. Milton.
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Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles. Shak.
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2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
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3. (Mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
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Coloq. To get into trouble , to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. To take the trouble , to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience.
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She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.
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Syn. -- Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation; vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity; embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
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Troubler (?), n. One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.
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The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
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Troublesome (?), a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer.
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These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton.
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My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope.
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Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting; irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate.
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-- Troublesomely, adv. -- Troublesomeness, n.
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Troublous (?), a. Full of trouble; causing trouble. “In doubtful time of troublous need.” Byron.
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A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.
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Trou-de-loup (?), n.; pl. Trous-de-loup (�). [F. trou hole + de of + loup wolf.] (Mil.) 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.
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Trough (trŏf), n. [OE. trough, trogh, AS. trog, troh; akin to D., G., & Icel. trog, Sw. tråg, Dan. trug; probably originally meaning, made of wood, and akin to E. tree. √63 & 241. See , and cf. .] 1. 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.
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2. Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
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3. (Meteor.) The transverse section of a cyclonic area where the barometric pressure, neither rising nor falling, has reached its lowest point.
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Coloq. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Coloq. Trough of the sea , the depression between two waves.
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Trough-shell (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See .
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Troul (?), v. t. & i. See .
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Trounce (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing (?).] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See .] To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]
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Troupe (?), n. [F., troop. See .] A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
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Troupial (?), n. [F. troupiale.] (Zoöl.) 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. [Written also troopial.]
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Trouse (?), n. Trousers. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Trousering (?), n. Cloth or material for making trousers.
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Trousers (?), n. pl. [OF. trousses breeches worn by pages, from trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See , and cf. , .] A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
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Trousse (tr�s), n. [F. See ; cf. .] A case for small implements; as, a surgeon's trousse.
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Trousseau (tr�sō), n. [F., fr. OF. trossel, dim. of trousse a bundle, truss. See .] 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.
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Trout (trout), n. [AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trwkths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trwgein to gnaw.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidæ. 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.
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