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a warlike trophy. South America. This 

 fanciful but elegant name was chosen by 

 Linnaeus for this singular and striking ge- 

 nus, because he conceived the shield-like 

 leaves and the brilliant flowers, shaped 

 like golden helmeU, pierced through and 

 through, and stained with blood, might 

 well justify such an allusion. 



TROFZ, Lat. tropus, Or. TJOTOJ, from 

 rST*, to turn. In rhetoric, an expression 

 used in a different sense from that which 

 it properly signifies. Tropes are of four 

 kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, 

 and irony. 



TEOP'ICS, from rfrrr,, a turning. 1. In 

 astronomy, the circle of the sphere which 

 bounds the sun's declination, south or 

 north: the line drawn through the two 

 solstitial points, at which the sun returns 

 back. The northern extremity is termed 

 the tropic of cancer, and the southern the 

 tropic of capricorn. 1. In geography, the 

 two circles of the globe drawn parallel to 

 the equator, through the beginning of 

 cancer and of capricorn, 23 28 north and 

 south of the equator. 



TROC'EADOURS, Fr. trouver, to find. A 

 school of poets who lived from the llth to 

 the end of the 13th century, in the south 

 of France, Catalonia, Arragon, and the 

 north of Italy. 



THOUGH OF THK SB*.. The hollow be- 

 tween two waves. 



TROCT. A well-known fish, the talma 

 fario, which grows to about a foot in 

 length. It is much modified by the kind 

 of stream or water in which it lives, and 

 hence has arisen an opinion that a great 

 many species exist. The Lochleven trout 

 (the salmo ceelifer, Parn.), is a distinct 

 species, as is also the salmon trout (the 

 talma trutta, Lin.). The Northern charr 

 (salmo umbla, Cuv., Yarr.), is also some- 

 times confounded with the salmo fario or 

 common trout. See SALMO. 



TRO'VER, Fr. trouver, to find. In com- 

 mon law, an action which a man has 

 against one that having found any of his 

 goods, refuses to deliver them up. 



THOT WEIGHT. One of the most an- 

 cient of the different weights used in 

 Britain, said to have been named from 

 Troyes, in France, where it was first 

 adopted in Europe, being brought from 

 the East during the Crusades. The Eng- 

 lish Troy pound contains 12 ounces of 480 

 grains each. Used for weighing gold, 

 silver, &c., and in the compounding of 

 medicines. 



TRCCB or GOD. Treuga Dei. A sus- 

 pension of arms, which occasionally took 

 place in the middle ages, putting a stop to 

 private hostilities. 



TRUCK. 1. In navigation, a circular 

 piece of elm, with a small sheave on each 

 tide, fixed upon the upper end of a flag- 



staff, and used to reeve the halliards. 



2. In gunnery, a round piece of wood, 

 formed like a wheel, and fixed on the axle 

 of a carriage, to move heavy ordnance. 



3. As applied to railways, a step or 



platform, running upon wheels, and used 

 for the. conveyance of ordinary stages, 

 coaches, and carriages, which are placed 

 upon it. 



TRUCK-SYSTEM. A name given to a 

 practice in mining and manufacturing 

 districts, of paying the wages of workmen 

 in goods instead of money. 



TRUF'FLE. The root of the LycopercUm 

 tuber, which grows abundantly in the 

 warmer parts of Europe. Truffles are 

 reckoned a great delicacy. 



TRUM'FET, Germ, trompete. A wind in 

 strument of music, much used in martial 

 exercises. It is the loudest of all wind 

 iBitrumunts. It is commonly made of 



brass. There are also speaking and hear 

 ing trumpets, which are simply tubular 

 bodies, with a trumpet -shaped mouth. 



TBUN'CATE, Lat. truncatus, lopped. 

 Appearing as if cut off with a pair of 

 scissors. 



TRUNCA'TIPEXNES. In entomology, a 

 tribe of Carabici, consisting ot Anthia, 

 Oruphiplerus, Aptinus, Srachinu*. t'as- 

 nonia, &c. They are sc called, because the 

 extremity of their elytra is almost always 

 truncated. See CARAEI-S. 



THUM'DLE. 1. A little wheel. 2. A 



low cart with little wheels. 



TRUNK, Lat. truncus. 1. In architec- 

 ture, the same as shaft. 2. In animate, 



that section of the body between the head 

 and the abdomen. 



TRCS'NION, Fr. trognon. The trunnions 

 of a piece of ordnance are two knobs, 

 which project from the opposite sides, and 

 serve to support the piece on the cheeks 

 of the carriage. The trunnion-plates are 

 the two plates in travelling-carriages, 

 mortars, and howitzers, which cover the 

 upper parts of the side-pieces, and go 

 under the trunnions. The trunnion ring 

 is the next before the trunnions. 



TRUSS. 1. In surgery, a bandage for 

 hernia. 2. In carpentry, when gird- 

 ers are very long, or the weight which a 

 floor is destined to support is very great, 

 they are trussed: that is, for a simple 

 beam is substituted a frame so constructed 

 that the pressure is thrown more upon the 

 walls, and the possibility of the beam 

 being broken is prevented. This frame is 

 called a truss. A truss -partition is one 



formed by a truss. 3. In nat-igation, a 



truss is a machine to pnll a lower yard 



