<B>Trollopean</B> or <B>Trollopian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with, characteristic of, or like the English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) or his writings. <BR> <I>Ex. a Trollopian background of great houses and grouse moors (Mollie Panter-Downes).</I> </DL>
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<B>trollopy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a trollop; slovenly; morally loose. </DL>
<B>tromba marina,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, medieval bowed instrument with one long gut string, fingered only to produce natural harmonics. </DL>
<A NAME="trombidiasis">
<B>trombidiasis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being infested with chiggers. </DL>
<A NAME="trombone">
<B>trombone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, brass wind musical instrument with a loud tone, consisting of a long, cylindrical tube bent twice upon itself, and expanding into a bell at one end. The U-shaped bend nearer the cup mouthpiece usually is a sliding piece for varying the length of the tube and thus produce different tones. Some trombones have valves instead of a slide. </DL>
<A NAME="trombonist">
<B>trombonist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who plays the trombone. </DL>
<A NAME="trommel">
<B>trommel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a rotating cylindrical sieve used for washing and sizing ore. </DL>
<A NAME="tromometer">
<B>tromometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring or detecting very slight earthquake tremors. </DL>
<A NAME="tromp">
<B>tromp</B> (1), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><I>v.i. </I> to move with heavy, noisy steps; tramp. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to pound; thump; stamp. <BR> <I>Ex. Satchmo mopped his brow, tromped his foot, lit into a two-beat tune (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to trample. <BR> <I>Ex. If we've got to get out you go fast or you'll get tromped to death in the rush (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<B>trompe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for producing a blast, as for a forge, in which water falling in apipe carries air into a receiver, where it is compressed, and then led to the blast pipe. </DL>
<A NAME="trompeloeil">
<B>trompe-l'oeil, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an optical illusion, especially as an extreme style of realism in painting, sculpture, or architecture. <BR> <I>Ex. Trompe-l'oeil mimics architectural elements: startling, lifelike dwarfs open false doors; the long balconies missing from the palace facades are supplied in fresco in the interior (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>something done in trompe-l'oeil. <DD><B> b. </B>a school of art emphasizing this. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or in the style of trompe-l'oeil. <BR> <I>Ex. trompe-l'oeil perspective, a trompe-l'oeil painting, painter, or school.</I> </DL>
<B>-tron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) <DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with electrons, as in <I>cryotron, magnetron.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a device for directing the movement of subatomic particles, as in <I>cyclotron, synchrotron.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a device for controlling physical conditions, as in <I>biotron, phytotron, climatron.</I> </DL>
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<B>trona, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white, gray, or yellow mineral, a native hydrous sodium carbonate, used as a source of various sodium compounds. </DL>
<A NAME="trone">
<B>trone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a weighing machine, especially one for weighing merchandise in bulk. </DL>
<A NAME="troop">
<B>troop, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a group or band of persons. <BR> <I>Ex. a troop of boys.</I> (SYN) crowd, throng. <DD><B> 2. </B>a herd, flock, or swarm. <BR> <I>Ex. a troop of baboons.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a great number; lot; multitude. <DD><B> 4. </B>a tactical unit of cavalry, especially armored cavalry, usually commanded by a captain. A troop corresponds to a company or battery in other branches of the army and consists of 80 to 200 men. (Abbr:) trp (no period). <DD><B> 5. </B>a unit of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts made up of 16 to 32 members, or two to four patrols. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) a company of performers; troupe. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to gather in troops or bands; move or come together; flock; assemble. <BR> <I>Ex. The children trooped around the teacher.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to walk; go; go away. <BR> <I>Ex. throngs trooping into a store. The young boys trooped off after the older ones.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to associate (with). <DD><I>v.t. </I> to carry (the colors) before a formation of troops as part of an official ceremony. <BR><I>expr. <B>troops,</B> </I>soldiers. <BR> <I>Ex. a city filled with foreign troops. The government sent 1,500 troops to put down the revolt.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="troopcarrier">
<B>troop carrier,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an aircraft or ship used to carry troops. <DD><B> 2. </B>a half-track used to carry military personnel. </DL>
<A NAME="trooper">
<B>trooper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soldier in the cavalry, especially one with the rank of private attached to a troop of cavalry. (SYN) dragoon. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mounted policeman. The state police of some states are called troopers, because they were originally organized as mounted troops. <I>Trooper</I> is used both generically and as a specific designation. <BR> <I>Ex. a New York state trooper, Trooper Jones.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(in Australia) any mounted policeman. <DD><B> 4. </B>a cavalry horse. (SYN) charger. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=troopship.</B> <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=paratrooper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="troopial">
<B>troopial, </B>noun. <B>=troupial.</B></DL>
<A NAME="trooping">
<B>trooping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the transporting of troops. </DL>
<A NAME="troops">
<B>troops, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>troop.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="troopship">
<B>troopship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a ship used to carry soldiers, especially one designed or modified for such use; transport. </DL>
<A NAME="troostite">
<B>troostite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of willemite, with admixture of manganese, occurring in reddish hexagonal crystals. </DL>
<A NAME="trop">
<B>trop, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) too many; too much. </DL>
<B>tropacocaine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline alkaloid obtained from dried coca leaves or made synthetically, used as a local anesthetic. </DL>
<A NAME="tropaeolin">
<B>tropaeolin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of orange or yellow azo dyes, of complex composition, belonging to the class of sulfonic acids. </DL>
<B>tropaeolum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lums,</B> <B>-la.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of native South American trailing or climbing herbs; nasturtium. </DL>
<A NAME="troparion">
<B>troparion, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> in the Greek Church: <DD><B> 1. </B>a short hymn. <DD><B> 2. </B>a stanza of a hymn. </DL>
<A NAME="trope">
<B>trope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the use of a word or phrase in a sense different from its ordinary meaning; use of a figure of speech. (SYN) metonymy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a word or phrase so used; figure of speech; figurative language. (Example:) "All in a hot and <I>copper</I> sky, The <I>bloody</I> sun at noon." <DD><B> 3. </B>(formerly, in the Western Church) a phrase, sentence, or verse interpolated into some part of the liturgy. <DD><B> 4. </B>a subject heading. </DL>
<A NAME="tropeolin">
<B>tropeolin, </B>noun. <B>=tropaeolin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="tropeoline">
<B>tropeoline, </B>noun. <B>=tropaeolin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="trophallaxis">
<B>trophallaxis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-laxes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the reciprocal exchange of food among social insects. <BR> <I>Ex. [In] some groups of termites ... an adult worker caste takes charge of nest building and trophallaxis, or mutual feeding (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="trophic">
<B>trophic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with nutrition. <BR> <I>Ex. trophic diseases, the trophic capacity of an ecosystem.</I> adv. <B>trophically.</B> </DL>
<B>trophic level,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Ecology.) any one of the stages in the flow of food from one population of organisms to another. <BR> <I>Ex. The sequence of trophic levels in any ecosystem forms a food chain (Clarence J. Hylander).</I> </DL>
<B>trophoblast, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of cells external to the embryo in many mammals, having the function of supplying it with nourishment. </DL>
<A NAME="trophoblastic">
<B>trophoblastic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the trophoblast. </DL>
<A NAME="trophology">
<B>trophology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of physiology that deals with nutrition. </DL>
<A NAME="trophonian">
<B>Trophonian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Trophonius, the legendary builder of the original temple of Apollo at Delphi, who after his death was worshipped as a god, and had a famous oracle in a cavern in Boeotia. </DL>
<A NAME="trophopathy">
<B>trophopathy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any derangement of nutrition, especially of a tissue. </DL>
<A NAME="trophoplasm">
<B>trophoplasm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the nutritive protoplasm of a cell. <DD><B> 2. </B>a constituent of the cytoplasm. </DL>
<A NAME="trophozoite">
<B>trophozoite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sporozoan during its growing stage. </DL>
