<B>trousers, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a two-legged, outer garment reaching from the waist to the ankles or to the knees, worn especially by men and boys. (SYN) breeches, pants, knickerbockers, slacks. <DD><B> 2. </B>the loose, baglike drawers or pantaloons that are a part of the native dress of both men and women in certain Moslem countries. <DD><B> 3. </B>the lower part of any one of certain two-piece garments, especially pajamas. </DL>
<A NAME="trousersuit">
<B>trouser suit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a pants suit. </DL>
<A NAME="trousseau">
<B>trousseau, </B>noun. pl. <B>trousseaux</B> or <B>trousseaus.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bride's outfit of clothes, linen, or the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) a bundle. </DL>
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<B>trout, </B>noun, pl. <B>trouts</B> or (collectively) <B>trout.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of certain food and game fishes of the same family as the salmon. Trout are found chiefly in cool, fresh waters, although some migrate from the sea to spawn, such as the rainbow trout or steelhead, the cutthroat trout, and the brown trout. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a group of similar and related fishes, such as the Dolly Varden, the brook trout, and the lake trout. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of certain fishes which resemble a trout to some extent, such as the trout perch. adj. <B>troutless.</B> adj. <B>troutlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="troutfly">
<B>trout fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fishing fly used in trout fishing. </DL>
<A NAME="troutlet">
<B>troutlet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a little trout. </DL>
<A NAME="troutlily">
<B>trout lily,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the yellow dogtooth violet or adder's-tongue. </DL>
<A NAME="troutling">
<B>troutling, </B>noun. <B>=troutlet.</B></DL>
<A NAME="troutperch">
<B>trout perch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either of two North American fishes having certain striking similarities to both the trouts and the perches. </DL>
<A NAME="trouvaille">
<B>trouvaille, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> something found unexpectedly; windfall; godsend. </DL>
<A NAME="trouvere">
<B>trouvere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a class of poets who flourished in northern France from the 1000's to the 1300's, and whose works were chiefly epic in character. </DL>
<A NAME="trouveur">
<B>trouveur, </B>noun. <B>=trouvere.</B></DL>
<A NAME="trove">
<B>trove, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>something of value found; find; discovery. <BR> <I>Ex. delighted as a child at each new trove (Rudyard Kipling).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a treasure. </DL>
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<B>trover, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) an action for the recovery of the value of personal property illegally converted by another to his own use. </DL>
<A NAME="trow">
<B>trow, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to believe or think. </DL>
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<B>trowel, </B>noun, verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-eling</B> or (especially British) <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a tool with a broad, flat blade, used for spreading or smoothing plaster or mortar. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tool with a curved blade, used in gardening for loosening earth or taking up small plants. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to spread (a substance) or smooth (a surface) with or as if with a trowel; form or mold with a trowel. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put, place, or move (something) with a trowel, especially thickly or clumsily. <BR> <I>Ex. to trowel mud into a hole; (Figurative.) to trowel praise.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>lay it on with a trowel,</B> </I>to be lavish or excessive in expression as of praise or apology. <BR> <I>Ex. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> noun <B>troweler,</B> (especially British,) <B>troweller.</B> adj. <B>trowellike.</B> </DL>
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<B>trowel bayonet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bayonet with a short and broad but sharp-pointed, trowellike blade, intended to serve also as an entrenching tool. </DL>
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<B>trowelbeak, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a broad-beaked bird, or broadbill, of Sumatra. </DL>
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<B>troy, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> in, of, or by troy weight. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=troy weight.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="troyweight">
<B>troy weight,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a standard system of weights used for gems and precious metals. One pound troy equals a little over four fifths of an ordinary pound. In the United States: <DL COMPACT><DD> 24 grains = 1 pennyweight or 1.55 grams <DL COMPACT><DD> 20 pennyweight = 1 ounce or 31.1035 grams <DL COMPACT><DD> 12 ounces or 5,760 grains = 1 pound or 373.24 grams <DL COMPACT><DD> In Great Britain the ounce and decimal units of the ounce are used. </DL>
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<A NAME="trp">
<B>trp</B> (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> troop. </DL>
<A NAME="truancy">
<B>truancy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the act or habit of playing truant; truant behavior. </DL>
<A NAME="truant">
<B>truant, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a child who stays away from school without permission. (SYN) absentee. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a person who neglects duty or business. (SYN) shirker. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with a truant. <BR> <I>Ex. a truant report.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of a truant; lazy. <BR> <I>Ex. truant behavior.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>being a truant. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) The truant shepherd left his sheep.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) wandering. <BR> <I>Ex. That truant dog won't stay home.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be a truant, especially from school. <BR><I>expr. <B>play truant,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to stay away from school without permission. </I> <I>Ex. The boys played truant to go to see the parade.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to stay away from work or duties. <BR> <I>Ex. Several employees who often played truant were recently fired.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="truantofficer">
<B>truant officer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an official whose job is to locate and return truants to school. </DL>
<A NAME="truantry">
<B>truantry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B> <B>=truancy.</B></DL>
<A NAME="truce">
<B>truce, </B>noun, verb, <B>truced,</B> <B>trucing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of stopping fighting; peace for a short time. <BR> <I>Ex. A truce was declared between the two armies. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice (Thoreau).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an agreement or treaty effecting this; armistice. <BR> <I>Ex. to sign a truce.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a rest from trouble or pain; respite from something irksome, painful, or oppressive. <BR> <I>Ex. The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make a truce. </DL>
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<B>Truce of God,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cessation of all active warfare, personal feuding, etc., such as was generally practiced on Sundays and holy days by Christians during the 1000's and 1100's. </DL>
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<B>trucial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or bound by a truce (used especially in reference to a truce between the British government and certain sheikdoms in southeastern Arabia, made in 1853). <BR> <I>Ex. the trucial states.</I> </DL>
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<B>truck</B> (1), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a motor vehicle designed primarily for the carrying of things rather than people, ranging in size from small vehicles used to carry tools or deliver parcels to large vehicles used to carry very heavy objects, such as furniture and commodities in bulk; motor truck. <DD><B> 2. </B>a strongly built cart, wagon, or other vehicle used for a similar purpose. <DD><B> 3. </B>a frame with two small wheels at the front and handles at the back, used for moving trunks and other heavy loads. <DD><B> 4. </B>a strongly built, rectangular platform resting on four wheels, used to move heavy or bulky objects in a warehouse or factory. <DD><B> 5. </B>any one of various small, light, four-wheeled conveyances used in stores, libraries, and other places, moved by pushing or pulling. <DD><B> 6. </B>a frame that swivels, with two or more pairs of wheels, for supporting the front end of a locomotive or each end of a railroad car. <DD><B> 7. </B>(British.) a flatcar, gondola, or other railroad freight car without a top. <DD><B> 8. </B>a small wooden wheel or roller, such as was formerly used on gun carriages. <DD><B> 9. </B>a wooden or metal disk or block at the top of a flagpole or mast with holes through which the ropes for hoisting a flag or pennant are passed. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to carry or move on a truck or trucks. <BR> <I>Ex. to truck freight to the warehouse.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to drive a truck. <DD><B> 2. </B>to engage in trucking goods, especially as a business; operate a trucking business. <DD><B> 3. </B>to dance the trucking. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of a truck. <DD><B> 2. </B>for a truck; used on trucks. <BR> <I>Ex. a truck tire, a truck license.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="truck">
<B>truck</B> (2), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>vegetables raised for the market. <DD><B> 2. </B>small articles of little value; odds and ends. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) rubbish; trash. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) dealings. <BR> <I>Ex. She has no truck with peddlers.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>exchange; barter. <DD><B> 6. </B>the payment of wages in goods or kind, rather than in money. <DD><B> 7. </B>the system or practice of such payment. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to give in exchange; barter. <BR> <I>Ex. Liberty's too often truck'd for Gold (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of truck; having to do with truck. </DL>
<A NAME="truckage">
<B>truckage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the carrying of goods by a truck or trucks. <DD><B> 2. </B>the charge for carrying by truck. </DL>
<A NAME="truckcrop">
<B>truck crop,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a crop grown on a truck farm. </DL>
<A NAME="truckdriver">
<B>truckdriver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who drives a truck; trucker. </DL>
<A NAME="trucker">
<B>trucker</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who drives a truck. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who owns a business that carries goods by truck. </DL>
<A NAME="trucker">
<B>trucker</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a person who grows garden produce for market; truck farmer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a barterer; bargainer. </DL>
