Troth"plight`, a. Betrothed; espoused; affianced. [Obs.] Shak.
Troth"plight`, n. The act of betrothing, or plighting faith;
betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.
Troth"plight`ed, a. Having fidelity pledged.
Trot"ter (?), n. 1. One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be
driven in trotting matches.
2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously,
the human foot.
Trot"toir (?), n. [F., from trotter to trot. See Trot.] Footpath;
pavement; sidewalk.
Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs.
Froude.
Trou"ba*dour` (?), 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 Trope, and cf. Trouv&?;re.] 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.
Trou"bla*ble (?), a. Causing trouble; troublesome. [Obs.] "troublable
ire." Chaucer.
Trou"ble (?), 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. Turbid.] 1. To put into
confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the
water.
John v. 4.
God looking forth will trouble all his host.
Milton.
2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret;
to annoy; to vex.
Now is my soul troubled.
John xii. 27.
Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring.
Shak.
Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
Locke.
3. To give occasion for labor to; — used in polite phraseology; as, I
will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
Syn. — To disturb; perplex; afflict; distress; grieve; harass; annoy;
tease; vex; molest.
Trou"ble (?), a. Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble
cheer." Chaucer.
Trou"ble, n. [F. trouble, OF. troble, truble. See Trouble, v. t.] 1.
The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness;
vexation; calamity.
Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.
Milton.
Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural
troubles.
Shak.
2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which
afflicts.