Trophi
‖Tro″phi (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Trophic
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...
Trophied
Tro″phied (?), a. Adorned with trophies.The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.
Trophonian
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 aft...
Trophosome
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.
Trophosperm
Troph″o‐sperm (?), n. [Gr. � a feeder + � seed: cf. F. trophosperme. See Trophi.] (Bot.) The placenta.
Trophy
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 turni...
Tropic
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 slightl...
Tropic (2)
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...
Tropic (3)
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. Th...
Tropical
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 tropi...
Tropically
Trop″ic‐al‐ly, adv. In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
Tropidine
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.
Tropilidene
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.
Tropine
Tro″pine (?), n. [From Atropine.] (Chem.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
Tropism
Tro″pism (?), n. [Gr. � a turning, � to turn + -ism.] (Physiol.) Modification of the direction of growth.
Tropist
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 trop...
Tropologic
{ 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, ...
Tropologize
Tro‐pol″o‐gize (?), v. t. To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.If... Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.
Tropology
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. ...
Troppo
‖Trop″po (?), adv.(Mus.) Too much; as, allegro ma non troppo, brisk but not too much so.
Trossers
Tros″sers (?), n. pl. Trousers. Shak.
Trot
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 trea...
Trot (2)
Trot, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse...
Trot (3)
Trot, n. [F. See Trot, v. i.] 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of...
Troth
Troth (?), n. [A variant of truth. See Truth.] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity.Bid her alightAnd hertroth plight. Shak.2. Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth. Shak.In troth, tho...
Trothless
Troth″less, a. Faitless; false; treacherous.Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax.