Chapter Troopial to Trout of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

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.

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 tropes and figures of speech.

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, adv.

Tropologize
(Tro*pol"o*gize) v. t. To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.]

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. Browne.

Trossers
(Tros"sers) n. pl. Trousers. [Obs.] 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. trottn to tread. See Tread.]

1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.

Franklin.

Trot
(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, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]

Trot
(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 the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman

2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

3. One who trots; a child; a woman.

An old trot with ne'er a tooth.

Shak.

Troth
(Troth) n. [A variant of truth. See Truth.]