Dictionary entry

Trow (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.