To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. [Colloq.] — To
take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give
one's self inconvenience.
She never took the trouble to close them.
Bryant.
Syn. — Affliction; disturbance; perplexity; annoyance; molestation;
vexation; inconvenience; calamity; misfortune; adversity;
embarrassment; anxiety; sorrow; misery.
Trou"bler (?), n. One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or
molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.
The rich troublers of the world's repose.
Waller.
Trou"ble*some (?), a. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome;
wearisome.
This troublesome world.
Book of Common Prayer.
These troublesome disguises that we wear.
Milton.
My mother will never be troublesome to me.
Pope.
Syn. — Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; harassing; annoying; disgusting;
irksome; afflictive; burdensome; tiresome; wearisome; importunate.
— Trou"ble*some*ly, adv. — Trou"ble*some*ness, n.
Trou"blous (?), a. Full of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time
of troublous need." Byron.
A tall ship tossed in troublous seas.
Spenser.
||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.
||
Trough (?), 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. &?; & 241. See Tree, and cf. Trug.] 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.
2. Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape;
as, trough between two ridges, etc.
Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V- shaped gutter, usually hung
below the eaves of a house. — Trough of the sea, the depression between
two waves.
Trough"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra.
See Mactra.
Troul (?), v. t. & i. See Troll.
Trounce (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Trouncing (?).] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See
Truncheon.] To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to
castigate. [Colloq.]
||Troupe (?), n. [F., troop. See Troop.] A company or troop, especially
||the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
||
Troup"i*al (?), 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.]
Trouse (?), n. Trousers. [Obs.] Spenser.
Trou"ser*ing (?), n. Cloth or material for making trousers.
Trou"sers (?), n. pl. [OF. trousses breeches worn by pages, from
trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See Truss, and cf. Trossers,
Trouse.] A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to
the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
||Trous`seau" (tr`s"), n. [F., fr. OF. trossel, dim. of trousse a
||bundle, truss. See Truss.] 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.
||
Trout (trout), n. [AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trw`kths
a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw`gein 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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The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout
(Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important
American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout
(Salvelinus fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada; the
red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma); the lake trout (see
Namaycush); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo
purpuratus); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the
blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout (see under Salmon.)
The European trout has been introduced into America.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less
resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the
same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common
squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; — called also
salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See
Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.
Trout perch (Zoöl.), a small fresh- water American fish (Percopsis
guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales
and mouth.
Trout"bird` (trout"brd`), n. (Zoöl.) The American golden plover.
[Local, U. S.]
Trout"-col`ored (-kl`rd), a. White, with spots of black, bay, or
sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.
Trout"let (-lt), n. A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
Trout"ling (-lng), n. A little trout; a troutlet.
{ ||Trou`vère" (?), ||Trou`veur" (?), } n. [F. trouveur, trouvère. See
Troubadour.] One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France
from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
Tro"ver (tr"vr), n. [OF. trover, truver, to find, F. trouver; probably
originally, to invent or compose (melodies), fr. (assumed) LL. tropare.
See Troubadour, Trope, and cf. Contrive, Reirieve, Trouveur.] (Law) (a)
The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other
means. (b) An action to recover damages against one who found goods,
and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies
in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by
another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an
immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
Trow (?), n. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing
fish. Knight.
Trow (?), v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS. treówan to trust, believe, fr.
treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.] To believe; to trust; to
think or suppose. [Archaic]
So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize.
Chaucer.
A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is.
Chaucer.
It never yet was worn, I trow.
Tennyson.
I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to
express contemptuous or indignant surprise.
What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore?
Shak.
What is the matter, trow?
Shak.
Trow"el (?), n. [OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L.
trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. &?; a stirrer,
ladle, G. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS.
þwiril. Cf. Twirl.] 1. A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing
mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2. A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants,
stirring the earth, etc.