Troop"i*al (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Troupial.
Troop"meal` (?), adv. [Troop + - meal as in piecemeal.] By troops; in
crowds. [Obs.]
So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts.
Chapman.
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Troop"ship` (?), n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of
troops; a transport. [Eng.]
Troost"ite (?), n. [So named after Dr. Gerard Troost, of Nashville,
Tenn.] (Min.) Willemite.
Tro*pæ"o*lin (?), 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).
Trope (?), n. [L. tropus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to turn. See Torture, and
cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.] (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.
In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a
trope never passed his lips.
Bancroft.
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.
Tro*pe"ine (?), n. (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal
salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
||Tro"phi (?), 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.
||
Troph"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; nursing. See Trophi.] (Physiol.) Of or
connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called
trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
Tro"phied (?), a. Adorned with trophies.
The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.
Pope.
Tro*pho"ni*an (?), 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.
Troph"o*some (?), n. [Gr. &?; a feeder + - some body.] (Zoöl.) The
nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the
gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
Troph"o*sperm (?), n. [Gr. &?; a feeder + &?; seed: cf. F.
trophosperme. See Trophi.] (Bot.) The placenta.
Tro"phy (?), 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 Trope.] 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.
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.
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.
3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory,
as arms, flags, standards, etc.
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.
4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed
soul is a trophy of grace.
Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by
housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like,
for the militia.
Trop"ic (?), 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.
Trop"ic, 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 Trope.] 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.
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.
The brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the
greenhouse and the saloon.
Bancroft.
Trop"ic, a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
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.
Trop"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. &?;. See Tropic,
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.
2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense;
being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor.
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.
Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. — 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.
Trop"ic*al*ly, adv. In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
Trop"i*dine (?), n. [See Tropine.] (Chem.) An alkaloid, C8H13N,
obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid
having a coninelike odor.
Tro*pil"i*dene (?), n. [See Tropine.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon
obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is
regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
Tro"pine (?), n. [From Atropine.] (Chem.) A white crystalline alkaloid,
C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
Trop"ist (?), n. [Cf. F. tropiste. See Trope.] 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.
{ Trop`o*log"ic (?), Trop`o*log"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F.
tropologique. See Tropology.] Characterized by tropes; varied by
tropes; tropical. Burton. — Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Tro*pol"o*gize (?), v. t. To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to
make a trope of. [R.]
If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence.
Cudworth.
Tro*pol"o*gy (?), 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.
Tros"sers (?), n. pl. Trousers. [Obs.] Shak.
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 Tread.] 1. To proceed by
a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See
Trot, n.