A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert] Durer were the more trifiers, whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical propor tions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Bacon Shall I, who can enchant the boist'rous deep, Bid Boreas halt, make hills and forests move; Shall I be baffled by the trifler, love? Granville. As much as systematical learning is decried by some vain triflers of the age, it is the happiest way to furnish the mind with knowledge. Watts. Triflers not ev'n in trifles can excel; 'Tis solid bodies only polish well. TRIFLING. adj. [from trifle.] Young. Wanting worth; unimportant; wanting weight. To a soul supported with an assurance of the divine favour, the honours or afflictions of this life, will be equally trifling and contemptible. Rogers's Sermons. TRIFLINGLY.adv. [from trifling.] Without weight; without dignity; without importance. Those who are carried away with the spontaneous current of their own thoughts, must never humour their minds in being thus triflingly busy. Locke. TRIFOLIATE. adj. [tres and folium, Lat.] Trifoliate cytisus restrain'd its boughs TRIFORM. adj. [triformis, Lat.] Having The moon her monthly round TRIGGER. n. s. [Derived by Junius from TRICKER. 1. A catch to hold the wheel on steep ground. 2. The catch that being pulled looses the cock of the gun. The pulling the trigger of the gun with which the murder is committed, has no natural connection with those ideas that make up the complex one, murder. Locke. TRINGINTALS. n s. [from triginta, Lat. thirty.] Trentals or trigintals were a number of masses to the tale of thirty, instituted by Saint Gregory. Ayliffe. TRIGLYPH. n. s. [In architecture.] A Harris. A Guardian. On a discovery of Pythagoras, all trigonometru, mulousness of musick. Long has a race of heroes fill'd the stage, Through the soft silence of the listning night, 1. To trickle; to fall in drops or slender streams. Did your letters pierce the queen to any demon- -Aye! she took 'em ; read 'em in my presence; Am I call'd upon the grave debate, TRILUMINAR. Į adj [triluminaris, Lat.] TRIM. adj. [gernýmmed, Sax. completed.] T'one paine in cottage doth take, To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes Dost thou not blush to live so like a beast, So trim, so dissolute, so loosely drest? Dryd. Pers. To TRIM. v. a. [τrimman, Sax. to build.] 1. To fit out. 2. The ordinary height of a man ninety-six digits, the ancient Egyptians estimated to be equal to that mystical cubit among them stiled passus Ibidis, or the trigm that the Ibis makes at every step, consisting of three latera, each thirty-two digits. Hale's Origin of Mankind. TRIGONAL. adj. [from trigon.] Trian- 3. gular; having three corners. A spar of a yellow hue shot into numerous trigonal pointed shoots of various sizes, found growing to one side of a perpendicular fissure of a stratum of freestone. Woodward. TRIGONOMETRY. n. s. [τpiyeros and 4. μέτρο .] Trigonometry is the art of measuring triangles, or of calculating the sides of a triangle sought, and this is plain or spherical. Harris. Yet are the men more loose than they! O'er globes, and sceptres, now, on thrones it swells, Now, trims the midnight lamp in college cells Young 5. To balance a vessel. Sir Roger put his coachman to trim the boat, 6. It has often up emphatical. He gave you all the duties of a man, If such by trimming and time-serving, which are but two words for the same thing, betray the church by nauseating her pious orders, this will produce confusion. South. For men to pretend that their will obeys that law, while all besides their will serves the faction; what is that but a gross, fulsome juggling with their duty, and a kind of trimming it between God and the devil? South TRIM. n.s. He who would hear what ev'ry fool cou'd say, Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein Like a rich bride does to the ocean swim, Was trimly woven, and in tresses wrought. Spens. TRIMMER. n. s. [from trim.] 1. One who changes sides to balance parties; a turncoat. Malicious censurers ever, a wall. Sunk of himself. To shave; to clip. The barber may trim religion as he pleases. Howel. I found her trimming up the diadem The same bat taken after by a weazel beggel for mercy: No, says the weazel, no mercy to mouse: Well, says t'other, but you may see by my wings that I am a bird; and so the bat 'scap d in both by playing the trimmer. L'Estrange To confound his hated coin, Swift. A piece of wood inserted. Before they pin up the frame of ground-plates, they must fit in the summer and the girders, and all the joists and the trimmers for the stair-case. TRIMMING. n. s. [from trim.] Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. Orna mental appendages to a coat or gown. petty elegance of dress. Spenser, 12. To strike from under the body. 1 tript up thy heels and beat thee. Shakesp. The words of Hobbes's defence trip up the heels of his cause; I had once resolved. To resolve presupposeth deliberation, but what deliberation can there be of that which is inevitably determined by causes without ourselves? Bramhall. 4. TRINE, n. s. [trine, Fr. trinus, Lat.] An To th' other five, Their planetary motions, and aspects, Now frequent trines the happier lights among. And high-rais'd Jove from his dark prison freed, Those weights took off that on his planet hung, Will gloriously the new-laid works succeed. Dryden. From Aries right-ways draw a line, to end In the same round, and let that line subtend An equal triangle; now since the lines Must three times touch the round, and meet three signs, Where'er they meet in angles those are trines. Creech. To TRINE. v. a. [from the noun.] To put in a trine aspect. This advantage age from youth has won, Dryden. TRINITY. n. s. [trinitas, Lat. trinite, Fr.] The incomprehensible union of Locke. the Three Persons in the Godhead, Touching the picture of the Trinity, I hold it blasphemous and utterly unlawful. Peacham. In my whole essay there is not any thing like an objection against the Trinity. TRINKET. n. s. [This Skinner derives somewhat harshly from trinquet, Fr. trinchetto, Ital. a topsail. I rather imagine it corrupted from tricket, some petty finery or decoration.] 1. Toys; ornaments of dress; superfluities of decoration. Beauty and use can so well agree together, that of all the trinkets where with they are attired, there is not one but serves to some necessary purpose. Sidney. They throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed. Shakesp. Winter's Tale. Let her but have three wrinkles in her face, Soon will you hear the sawcy steward say, Pack up with all your trinkets, and away. Dryden's Juvenal. She was not hung about with toys and trinkets, Arbuthnot tweezer-cases, pocket-glasses. How Johnny wheedled, threaten'd, fawn'd, Till Phyllis all her trinkets pawn'd. Swift. 2. Things of no great value; tackle e; tools. What husbandlie husbands, except they be fooles, But handsom have storehouse for trinkets and Go with all your servants and trinkets about you. L'Estrange TRIO'BOLAR. adj. [triobolaris, Lat.] Vile; mean; worthless. Turn your libel into verse, and then it may pass current amongst the balladmongers for a triobolar ballad. Cheyne. To TRIP. v. a. [treper, Fr. trippen, Dut.] To supplant; to throw by striking the feet from the ground by a sudden motion. These women 5. They then, who of each trip th' advantage take, Find but those faults which they want wit to make. Dryden Each seeming trip, and each digressive start, Displays their case the more,and deep-plann'd art. Harte A short voyage or journey. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. Pope. TRIPARTITE. adj. [tripartite, Fr. tripartitus, Lat.] Divided into three parts; having three corresponding copies; relating to three parties. Our indentures tripartite are drawn. Shakesp. Henry IV. adversaries, if any where they chance to trip, press-TRIPE. n. s. [tripe, Fr. trippa, Ital. and eth him as thereby making all sorts of men God's enemies. Hooker Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse: he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger Dryden. when most secure. Many having used their utmost diligence to secure a retention of the things committed to the memory, cannot certainly know where it will trip and fail them. South. Wili shines in mixed company, making his real ignorance appear a seeming one: our club has caught him tripping, at which times they never spare him. Span.] 1. The intestines; the guts. 2. How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd? -I like it well. Shakesp. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. TRI PEDAL. adj. [tres and pes, Lat.] Addison's Spectator.TRIPETALOUS. adj. [Tpes and wétanov.] Having a flower consisting of three leaves. Several writers of uncommon erudition would Expose my ignorance, if they caught me tripping in a matter of so great moment. Addison's Spectator. To stumble; to titubate. I may have the idea of a man's drinking till his tongue trips, yet not know that it is called drunkenness. Locke. To run lightly. In silence sad, Trip we after the night's shade. Shakesp. The old saying is, the third pays for all; the triplex, Sir, is a good tripping measure. TRIPHTHONG. n. s. [triphthongue, Fr. Teas and polyn.] A coalition of three vowels to form one sound: as, eau; eye. TRIPLE. adj. [triple, Fr. triplex, triplus, Lat.] 1. Threefold; consisting of three con joined. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. He throws his arm, and with a long-drawn dash A better soil shall give ye thanks. Milton's Arcades. And serve to trip before the victor's chariot. Addis. In Britain's isles, as Heylin notes, The ladies trip in petticoats. Addison. Prior. They gave me instructions how to slide down and trip up the steepest slopes. To take a short voyage. TRIP. n. s. [from the verb] Pope. 1. A stroke or catch by which the wrestler Othou dissembling cub! whut wilt thou be, It was a noble time when trips and Cornish hugs could make a man immortal. Addison on Medals. Shakesp. 2. A stumble by which the foothold is lost. Strong Alcides, after he had slain The triple Geryon, drove from conquer'd Spain Dryden's Eneid. His captive herds. Out bounc'd the mastiff of the triple head; Away the hare with double swiftness fled. Swift. Treble; three times repeated. We have taken this as a moderate measure betwixt the highest and lowest; but if we had taken only a triple proportion, it would have been sufficient. Burnet. If then the atheist can have no imagination of more senses than five, why doth he suppose that a body is capable of more? If we had double or triple as many, there might be the same suspicion for a greater number without end. Bentley. To TRIPLE. v. a. [from the adjective.] 1. To treble; to make thrice as much, or as many. To what purpose should words serve, when na ture hath more to declare than groans and strong cries; more than streams of hoody sweat; more than his doubled and tripled p.ayers can express? Hooker. If these halfpence should gain admittance, in no long space of time his limited quantity would be tripled upon us. Swift 2. To make threefold. Time, action, place, are so preserv'd by thee That e'en Corneille might with envy see Th' alliance of his tripled unity. TRIPLET. n. s. [from triple.] Dryde 1. Three of a kind. There sit C-nts, D-ks, and Harrison, How they swagger from their garrison; Such a triplet could you tell Where to find on this side hell? Swift. 2. Three verses rhyming together; as, 1 frequently make use of triplet rhymes, because they bound the sense, making the last verse of the triplet a pindarick. Dryden. TRIPLICATE. adj. [from triplex, Lat.] Made thrice as much. Triplicate ratio, in geometry, is the ratio of cubes to each other; which ought to be distinguished from triple. Harris. All the parts, in height, length, and breadth, bear a duplicate or triplicate proportion one to another. Grew. TRIPLICATION. n. s. [from triplicate] The act of trebling, or adding three together. Since the margin of the visible horizon in the heavenly globe is parallel with that of the earthly, accounted but one hundred and twenty miles diameter; sense must needs measure the azimuths, or vertical circles, by triplication of the same diameter of one hundred and twenty. Glanville. TRIPLICITY. n. s. [triplicité, Fr. from triplex, Lat.] Trebleness; state of being threefold. It was a dangerous triplicity to a monarchy, to have the arms of a foreigner, the discontents of subjects, and the title of a pretender, to meet. Bacon's Henry VII. Affect not duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. Watts's Logick. TRIPMADAM. n. s. An herb. Tripmadam is used in salads. Mortimer's Husban. TRIPOD. n. s. [tripus, Lat.] A seat with three feet, such as that from which the priestess of Apollo delivered oracles. Two tripods cast in antick mould, With two great talents of the finest gold. Dryd. Æn. TRIPOLY. n. s. [I suppose from the place whence it is brought.] A sharp cutting sand. In polishing glass with putty, or tripoly, it is not to be imagined that those substances can by grating and fretting the glass bring all its least particles to an accurate polish. Newton. TRIPOS. n. s. A tripod. See TRIPOD. Welcome all that lead or follow, Craz'd fool, who wouldst be thought an oracle, Come down from off the tripos, and speak plain. Dryden. TRIPPER. 7. 8. [from trip.] One who trips. TRIPPING. adj. [from trip.] nimble. Quick; This ditty after me Sing, and dance it trippingly. Shakesp. Speak the speech trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it as many of our players do, I had as lieve the town-crier had spoke my lines. Shakesp. Hamlet. TRIPTOTE. n. s. [triptoton, Lat.] Triptote is a noun used but in three cases. Clarke. TRIPU DIARY. adj. [tripudium, Lat.] Performed by dancing. Claudius Pulcher underwent the like success when he continued the tripudiary augurations. Brown's Vulgar Errours. TRIPU'DIATION. n. s. [tripudium, Lat.] Act of dancing. TRIRE ME. n. s. [triremis, Lat.] A galley with three benches of oars on a side. TRISECTION. n. s. [tres and sectio, Lat.] Division into three equal parts; the trisection of an angle is one of the desiderata of geometry. TRI'STFUL. adj. [tristis, Lat.] Sad; melancholy; gloomy; sorrowful. A bad word. Heav'n's face doth glow With tristful visage; and, as 'gainst the doom, Is thoughtsick at the act. Shakesp. Hamlet. TRISU ́LC. n. s. [trisulcus, Lat.] A thing of three points. Consider the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisule, to burn, discuss, and terebrate. Brown's Vulg. Err. TRISYLLABICAL. adj. [tresyllabe, Fr. from trisyllable.] Consisting of three syllables. TRISY'LLABLE. n. s. [trisyllaba, Lat.] A word consisting of three syllables. TRITE. adj. [tritus, Lat.] Worn out; stale; common; not new. 1. Vile; worthless; vulgar; such as may be picked up in the highway. 2. Be subjects great, and worth a poet's voice, For men of sense despise a trivial choice. Room Light; trifling; unimportant; inconsi derable. This use is more frequent, though less just. This argues conscience in your grace, But the respects thereof are nice and trivial. All circumstances well considered. Shak. Rich.IIL This way of measuring felicities was so natural to him, that it would occur even in the me trivial instances. Fril See, you mad fools, who, for some trinal right, For love, or for mistaken honour, fight. Dristen. Were they only some slight and trivial indis cretions, to which the example of the world es posed us, it might perhaps not much concern on religion. Regen In every work regard the writer's end; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. The ancient poets are like many modern ladies; let an action be never so trivial in itself, they a ways make it appear of the utmost importance. Pope. TRIVIALLY, adv. [from trivial.] 1. Commonly; vulgarly. Money is not the sinews of war, as is trivially said, where the sinews of men's arms, in efferal Bac nate people, fail. 2. Lightly; inconsiderably. TRIVIALNESS. n. s. [from trivial.] 1. Commonness; vulgarity. 2. Lightness; unimportance. TRIUMPH. n. s. [triumphus, Lat. triomphe, Fr.] 1. Pomp with which a victory is publickly celebrated. These duties cannot but appear of infinite concern when we reflect how uncertain our time is; this may be thought so trite and obvious a reflection, that none can want to be reminded of it. Rogers's Sermons. She gives her tongue no moment's rest, In phrases batter'd, stale, and trite, Which modern ladies call polite. TRI'TENESS. n. s. [from trite.] Stale-2. ness; commonness. Swift. TRITHEISM. n. s. [tritheisme, Fr. Tis and 90s. The opinion which holds three distinct gods. TRITURABLE. adj. [triturable, Fr. from triturate. Possible to be pounded or comminuted. It is not only triturable and reducible to powder by contrition, but will not subsist in a violent fire. Brown. Hence will I drag thee headlong by the bee's Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave; And there cut off thy most ungracious head, Which I will bear in triumph to the king. Shakesp In ancient times the triumphs of the generals from victory, and the great donatives upon die banding the armies, were things able to enflame all men's courage. Bacon State of being victorious. Sublime with expectation when to see In triumph issuing forth their glorious chief. Mitt. Hercules from Spain Arriv'd in triumph, from Geryon slain. Dryd. Es. 3. Victory; conquest. 5. TRITURATION. n. s. [trituration, Fr. 4. trituro, Lat.] Reduction of any substances to powder upon a stone with a muller, as colours are ground: it is also called levigation. He affirmeth, that a pumice stone powdered is lighter than one entire; that abatement can hardly be avoided in trituration. Brown's Vulgar Errours. TRIVET. n. s. [See TREVET.] thing supported by three feet. Auy The best at horse-race he ordain'd a lady for his prize, Generally praiseful; fair and young, and skill'd in housewiferies Of all kind fitting; and withal a trivet, that enclos'd Twenty-two measures. Chapman's Iliad. The trivet table of a foot was lame; A blot which prudent Baucis overcame, Who thrusts beneath the limping leg a sherd. Dryd. TRIVIAL. adj. [trivial, Fr. trivialis, Lat.] Eros has Pack'd cards with Cæsar,and false play'd my glory Unto an enemy's triumph. Shakesp. Ant. and Chef Each order bright Sung triumph, and him sung victorious king. Mil. If fools admire, or whining coxcombs tuast, The vain coquets the trifling triumphs boast. Legie. Joy for success. Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven. Mia A conquering card now called trump. See TRUMP. To TRIUMPH, v. n. [triumpho, Lat. triompher, Fr. This word is always accented in prose on the first syllable, but in poetry sometimes on the last.] 1. To celebrate a victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment. Jch,11.3. Your victory, alas! begets my fears; Can you not then triumph without my tears? Dryd 2. To obtain victory. This great commander sought many times to persuade Solyman to forbeau to use his forces any farther against the Christians, over whom he had sufficiently triumphed, and turn them upon the Persians. Knolles's History of the Turks Think you, but that I know our state secure, Off with the traitor's head; Shakesp. Henry VI. Milton. As in the militant church men are excommuni cate, not so much for their offence, as for their obstinacy; so shall it be in the church triumphant: the kingdom of heaven shall be barred against men, not so much for their sin committed, as for their lying therein without repentance. Perkins. He speedily through all the hierarchies Intends to pass triumphant, and give laws. Milton. Athena, war's triumphant maid, The happy son will, as the father, aid. Pope's Odys. TRIUMPHANTLY. adv. [from triumphant.] !. In a triumphant manner in token of Upon the dancing banners of the French; From Salem unto Rome triumphantly she brought. 2. Victoriously; with success. Thou must, as a foreign recreant, be led With manacles along our street; or else Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin, And bear the palm. Shakesp. Coriolanus. 8. With insolent exultation. A mighty governing lye goes round the world, and has almost banished truth out of it; and so reigning triumphantly in its stead, is the source of most of those confusions that plague the universe. South's Sermons. TRIUMPHER. n. s. [from triumph.] One who triumphs. These words become your lips, as they pass thro' them, } A And enter in our ears, like great triumphers In their applauding gates. Shak. Timon of Athens. August was dedicated to Augustus by the senate, because in the same month he was the first time created consul, and thrice triumpher in Rome. Peacham on Drawing. TRIUMVIRATE. n. s. [triumviratus, or TRIUMVIRI. triumviri, Lat.] coalition or concurrence of three men. Lepidus of the triumvirate Should be depos'd. Shakesp. Antony and Cleopatra. The triumviri, the three corner cap of society. Shakesp. During that triumvirate of kings, Henry the eighth of England, Francis the first of France, and Charles the fifth emperor of Germany, none of the three could win a palm of ground but the other two would balance it. Bacon's Essays. With these the Piercies them confederate, And, as three heads, conjoin in one intent, And, instituting a triumvirate, Do part the land in triple government. Daniel's Civil War. Thou, infernal serpent, shalt not long Rule in the clouds; like an autumnal star, Or lightning, thou shalt fall from heav'n tred down Under his feet. Milton's Paradise Regained. Ev'n the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. Addis. TRODE, the preterite of tread. They trode the grapes, and made merry. Judges, ix 27. TRODE. n. s. [from trode, pret. of tread.] Footing. The trode is not so tickle. Spenser. They never set foot on that same trode, But baulke their right way, and strain abroad. Spens. TROGLODYTE. n. s. [Tęwyλodels] One who inhabits caves of the earth. Procure me a troglodyte footman, who can catch a roe at his full speed. Arbuthnot and Pope. To TROLL. v. a. [trollen to roll, Dut. perhaps from trochlea, Lat. a thing to turn round.] To move circularly; to drive about. With the phant'sies of hey troll, Troll about the bridal bowl, And divide the broad-bread cake, Round about the bride's stake. Ben Jons. Underw To TROLL. v. n. 1. TRIUNE. adj. [tres and unus, Lat.] At 2. once three and one. To fish for a pike with a rod which has a pulley towards the bottom, which I suppose gives occasion to the term. Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, TROLLOP. n. s. [A low word, I know Nor troule for pikes, dispeoplers of the lake. Gay not whence derived. A slatternly loose woman. TRO'LMY DAMES. n. s. know not the meaning.] [Of this word I A fellow I have known to go about with trolmsdames: I knew him once a servant of the prince. Shakesp. Winter's Tale TRONAGE. n. s. Money paid for weighing TROOP. n. s. [troupe, Fr. troppa, Ital. troope, Dut. trop, Swed. troppa, low Lat.] The handle of the trocar is of wood, the canula of silver, and the perforator of steel. Sharp's Surg. TROCHA'ICAL. adj. [trochaïque, Fr. trochaicus, Lat.] Consisting of trochees. TROCHANTERS. n. s. [Tpoxavlñges.] Two processes of the thigh bone, called rotator major and minor, in which the tendons of many muscles terminate. Dict. 1. A company; a number of people col It is requisite that we rightly understand some 2. Eneas seeks his absent foe, The trochisks of vipers, so much magnified, and the flesh of snakes some ways condited and cor The dry streets flow'd with men, That troop'd up to the king's capacious court. 3. To march in company. Chapman. I do invest you jointly with my power, Preheminence, and all the large effects That troop with majesty. Shakesp. King Lear. TROOPER. n. s. [from troop.] A horse soldier. A trooper fights only on horseback; a dragoon marches on horseback, but fights either as a horseman or footman. Custom makes us think well of any thing: what can be more indecent than for any to wear boots but troopers and travellers? yet not many years since it was all the fashion. Grew. TROPE. n. s. [rgón; trope, Fr. tropus, For rhetorick he could not ope Hudibras. If this licence be included in a single word, it admits of tropes; if in a sentence, of figures. Dryd. TROPHIED. adj. [from trophy.] Adorned with trophies. Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, What trophy then shall I most fit devise, Of my love's conquest, peerless beauty's prize Adorn'd with honour, love, and chastity? Spenser To have borne His bruised helmet and his bended sword Giving all trophy, signal, and ostent, Shakesp. Henry V. Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.. Shakesp. Shakesp. In ancient times, the trophies erected upon the place of the victory, the triumphs of the generals upon their return, the great donatives upon the disbanding of the armies, were things able to inflame all men's courage. Bacon's Essays. Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden. The tomb with manly arms and trophies grace, To shew posterity Elpenor was. Pope's Odyssey. Set up each senseless wretch for nature's boast, On whom praise shines, as trophies on a post. Young. TROPICAL. adj. [from trope.] 1. Rhetorically changed from the original meaning. A strict and literal acceptation of a loose and tropical expression was a second ground. Brown's Vulgar Errours. The words are tropical or figurative, and import an hyperbole, which is a way of expressing things beyond what really and naturally they are in themselves. South. The foundation of all parables is, some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable, and the thing intended by it. South's Sermons. 2. [From tropick.] Placed near the tropick; belonging to the tropick. Salmon. The pine apple is one of the tropical fruits. TRO'PICK. n. s. [tropique, Fr. tropicus, Lat.] The line at which the sun turns back, of which the north has the tropick of Cancer, and the south the tropick of Capricorn. Under the tropick is our language spoke, And part or Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. Waller. Since on ev'ry sea, on ev'ry coast, Your men have been distress'd, your navy tost, Seven times the sun has either tropick view'd, The winter banish'd, and the spring renew'd. Dryd. TROPOLOGICAL. adj. [tropologique, Fr. Tçóz and λóy.] Varied by tropes; changed from the original import of the words. TROPOLOGY. n. s. [rgów and A rhetorical mode of speech including tropes, or a change of some word from the original meaning. Not attaining the deuterology and second intention of words, they omit their superconsequences, coherences, figures, or tropologies, and are not persuaded beyond their literalities. Brown's Vulg. Err. TRO'SSERS. n. s. [trousses, Fr.] Breeches; hose. See TROUSE. You rode like a kem of Ireland; your French hose off, and in your strait trossers. Shak. Henry V. To TROT. v. n. [trotter, Fr. trotten, Dut.] 1. To move with a high jolting pace. Poor Tom, that hath made him proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting horse, over four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Shakesp. King Lear. : Whom doth time trot withal? -He trots hard with a young maid, between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized if the interim be but a sevennight, time's pace is so hard, that it seems the length of seven years. Shakesp. As you like it. Take a gentle trotting horse, and come up and see your old friends. Dennis 2. To walk fast; or, to travel on foot: in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. TROT. n. s. [trot, Fr. from the verb.] 1. The jolting high pace of a horse. His honesty is not 2. So loose or easy, that a ruffling wind While the world now rides by, now lags behind. Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move; So hung his destiny, never to rot While he might still jog on and keep his trot. Milton. The virtuoso's saddle will amble when the world is upon the hardest trot. Dryden. An old woman, in contempt. I know not whence derived. Give him gold enough, and marry him to an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Shakesp. Taming of the Shrew. How now, bold-face! cries an old trot; sirrah, we eat our own hous, and what you eat you steal. TROTH. n. s. [trouth, old Engl. treoð, Sax.] 1. Belief; faith; fidelity. Estrange. Shakesp. Saint Withold met the night-mare, Bid her light and her troth plight. Stephen assails the realm, obtains the crown, Such tumults raising as torment them both: The afflicted state, divided in their troth And partial faith, most miserable grown, Endures the while. 2. Truth; verity. TROTTER. n. s. [from trot.] To TROUBLE. v. a. [troubler, Fr.] 1. To disturb; to perplex. 2. 3. 4. 5. An hour before the worshipp'd sun Peer'd through the golden window of the east, A troubled mind drew me to walk abroad. Shakesp But think not here to trouble holy rest. Mit Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke on Education, To afflict; to grieve. It would not trouble me to be slain for thee, but much it torments me to be slain by thee. Sidnes. They pertinaciously maintain, that afflictions are no real evils, and therefore a wise man ought not to be troubled at them. Tillotion Though it is in vain to be troubled for that which 1 cannot chuse, yet I cannot chuse but be afflicted. Tilleyn To distress; to make uneasy. He had credit enough with his master to pro vide for his own interest, and troubled not himsel for that of others. Clarendon Be not dismay'd nor troubled at these tidings Milton He was sore troubled in mind, and much cis tressed. To busy; to engage 1 Mar. overmuch. Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things. Luke, 1. 41. To give occasion of labour to. A word of civility or slight regard. I will not trouble myself to prove that all terma are not definable, from that progress in infuitus which it will lead us into. Seas are troubled when they do revoke Their flowing waves into themselves again. Davies It is not bare agitation, but the sediment at the bottom, that troubles and defiles the water. South. The best law in our days is that which continues our judges during their good behaviour, without leaving them to the mercy of such who might, by an undue influence, trouble and pervert the course of justice. Addison's Guardian. Thy force alone their fury can restrain, And smooth the waves, or swell the troubled main Dryden 8. In low language.] To sue for a debt. TROUBLE. n. s. [trouble, Fr.] 1. Disturbance; perplexity. They all his host derided, while they stood, A while in trouble. 2. Affliction; calamity. Double, double, toil and trouble, Milton Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Shakesp. Macbeth. 3. Molestation; obstruction; inconveni ence. Take to thee from among the cherubim Thy choice of flaming warriours, lest the fiend Some new trouble raise. Daniel's Civil War. 4. Uneasiness; vexation. 1 have dream'd In troth, thou 'rt able to instruct grey hairs, And teach the wily African deceit. Addison's Cato. TRO'THLESS. adj. [from troth.] Faithless; treacherous. Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax. TRO'TH PLIGHT. adj. [troth and plight.] Betrothed; affianced. This, your son in law, Is trothplight to your daughter. Shak. Winter's Tale. Milton Of much offence and trouble, which my mind Knew never till this irksome night. Milton TROUBLER. n. s. [from trouble.] Dis turber; confounder. Unhappy falls that hard necessity, Quoth he, the troubler of my happy peace, And vowed foe of my felicity. Spenser |