Tro*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; a wheel + -meter.] A contrivance for
computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
Troch"o*sphere (?), n. [Gr. &?; a wheel + sphere.] (Zoöl.) A young
larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a
circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.
||Tro"chus (?), n.; pl. Trochi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a wheel.] (Zoöl.)
||Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to
||Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidæ. Some of the
||species are called also topshells.
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Tro"co (?), n. An old English game; — called also lawn billiards.
Trod (?), imp. & p. p. of Tread.
Trod"den (?), p. p. of Tread.
Trode (?), archaic imp. of Tread.
On burnished hooves his war-horse trode.
Tennyson.
Trode, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See Tread.] Tread; footing.
[Written also troad.][Obs.] Spenser.
Trog"lo*dyte (?), n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. &?; one who creeps into
holes; &?; a hole, cavern (fr. &?; to gnaw) + &?; enter: cf. F.
troglodyte.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves,
instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the
primitive races of man were troglodytes.
In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it
beareth called the "mad lake."
Holland.