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- English Word Troop Definition A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
- English Word Troop Definition A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- English Word Troop Definition To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- English Word Troop Definition To march on; to go forward in haste.
- English Word Troopbird Definition Any troupial.
- English Word Trooped Definition of Troop
- English Word Trooper Definition A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
- English Word Troopfowl Definition The American scaup duck.
- English Word Troopial Definition Same as Troupial.
- English Word Trooping Definition of Troop
- English Word Troopmeal Definition By troops; in crowds.
- English Word Troopship Definition A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
- English Word Troostite Definition Willemite.
- English Word Tropaeolin Definition 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 (Tropaeolum).
- English Word Trope Definition 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.
- English Word Trope Definition The word or expression so used.
- English Word Tropeine Definition Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
- English Word Trophi Definition The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
- English Word Trophic Definition Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
- English Word Trophied Definition Adorned with trophies.
- English Word Trophies Definition of Trophy
- English Word Trophonian Definition Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.
- English Word Trophosome Definition The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
- English Word Trophosperm Definition The placenta.
- English Word Trophy Definition 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.
- English Word Trophy Definition 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.
- English Word Trophy Definition Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
- English Word Trophy Definition Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
- English Word Tropic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
- English Word Tropic Definition 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.