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  • English Word Tropic Definition One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
  • English Word Tropic Definition The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
  • English Word Tropic Definition Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
  • English Word Tropical Definition Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
  • English Word Tropical Definition Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
  • English Word Tropically Definition In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
  • English Word Tropidine Definition An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
  • English Word Tropilidene Definition A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
  • English Word Tropine Definition A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
  • English Word Tropist Definition One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
  • English Word Tropologic Definition Alt. of Tropological
  • English Word Tropological Definition Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
  • English Word Tropologize Definition To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
  • English Word Tropology Definition A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
  • English Word Trossers Definition Trousers.
  • English Word Trot Definition To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
  • English Word Trot Definition Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
  • English Word Trot Definition To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
  • English Word Trot Definition 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 the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
  • English Word Trot Definition Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
  • English Word Trot Definition One who trots; a child; a woman.
  • English Word Troth Definition Belief; faith; fidelity.
  • English Word Troth Definition Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.
  • English Word Troth Definition Betrothal.
  • English Word Trothless Definition Faitless; false; treacherous.
  • English Word Trothplight Definition To betroth.
  • English Word Trothplight Definition Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
  • English Word Trothplight Definition The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.
  • English Word Trothplighted Definition Having fidelity pledged.
  • English Word Trotted Definition of Trot