tropology 
WhctluT due to (/<;//.,(.//./, nr to whatever other cniiae, 
umlUviioaU . . . are unwisely i ...... li-i ..... -il, ..r ilr|ni.. :it. .1. 
'/'. ////, M...I. Kng., p. 170. 
2. A treatise on tropes or figures. 
l,-;inn'il persona who have written vocabularies, tntpoto- 
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Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 183.1), II. 121. 
3. Specifically, that ne of a Scripture text 
whicn gives it a moral significance apart from, 
or rather implied or involved in, its ilin-ct 
and temporary meaning. 
troppo (trop'po), adv. [It. ; = F. trnp, too much : 
see de trop.] In WHM'C, too much; excessively. 
Most frequently us.'.l in such direction! as allegro, vivace, 
andante, etc., ma nori Irapjiu (allegro, vivace, andante, etc., 
but not i"<i much so). Set- laiito. 
trosserst, /'' An obsolete form of trousem. 
And trmam made of thy skin to tumble In. 
Beau. and Fl. t Coxcomb, ii. 
trot 1 (trot), r.; pret. and ji|>. Irnltfil, ppr. /;.//- 
tiny. [< ME. trotten, < OF. trotter, troter, F. 
trotter = Pr. Sp. Pg. trotar = It. trottare, trot, 
< ML. * 'trottare, trotare, trot, go; prob. < OHO. 
tmlton, tread, MHG. trotten, run (G. trotten, 
trottiercn, trot, after Bom.), freq. of OHG. tre- 
tan, MHG. G. treten, tread: see tread, and cf. 
trod, trade. The usual derivation, < ML. 'tola- 
tare, through the assumed series 'tlutare, > "tlo- 
tare, > trotare, trot (see Mutation), is improba- 
ble.] I. intrans. 1. To go at a quick, steady 
pace; run; go. 
Al IK it so that no man fynden slial 
Noon In this world that trotteth hool in al, 
Me man, ne beest Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 294. 
Being pricked with as strong an itch to be 
Abroad, and trot about the world, as she. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, vL 222. 
2. Specifically, to go at the quick, steady pace 
known as a trot. See trot 1 , n., 2, and trotter. 
-"L, 
Successive Positions of a Hone in Trotting. 
{After instantaneous photographs made by Eadweard Muybridge.) 
Sometimes he troll, as It he told the steps, 
With gentle majesty and modest pride. 
Slink., Venus and Adonis, 1. 277. 
This is true, whether they [animals] move per latent, 
that Is, two legs of one side together, which Is tolutatlon 
or ambling, or per dlametrum, lifting one foot before and 
the cross foot behind, which is succussatlon or trotting. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Iv. 6. 
I aaw Lady Suffolk trot a mile in 2.26. Flora Temple 
has trotted close down to 2.20. and Ethan Allen In t.2!>, 
or less. 0. W. Holme*, Professor, vli. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to trot ; ride at a trot. 
He that can trot a courser, break a rush, 
And, arm'd in proof, dare dure a straw's strong push. 
Martian, Satires, I. 28. 
2. To ride over or about at a trot. 
This lovely boy . . . bestrld a Scythian steed, 
Trotting the ring, and tilting at a glove. 
Marlmcf, Tamburlaine, II., 1. 3. 
He made him turn, and stop, and bound, 
To gallop and to trot the round ; 
He scarce could stand on any ground, 
He was so full of mettle. 
Drat/ton, Nymphidia. 
3. To use a "pony" or some similar means in 
studying; "pony': as, to trot a lesson. [Col- 
lege slang, U. S.] To trot out, to cause to trot, as 
a horse, to show hi* panes ; hence, to bring or draw out 
fi.r exhibition. [Colloq.] 
They would sit for hours solemnly trotting out tor one 
another's admiration th. n oommonplaoM of the pin!., 
->j. In. nl copy-hook, utitll 1 tink'h .1 from head to foot. 
H. i 'tiriftif Murray, Weaker Veasel, xlll. 
trot 1 (trot), . [< ME. trot, < OF. trot = 1'r. 
trot = Sp. Pp. troti- = It. trntto (G. trott); from 
tin. verb.] I. (juick, steady movement; "go": 
as, to keep one on the imi all day. [Now col- 
loq.l 2. A gait faster than the walk and slow- 
er than the run. In the trot of bipeds both feet are 
alternately off the ground at the same time for an Inter 
val In each step ; In that of quadrupeda, In a very slow trot 
there Is always one foot on the ground a part of the time 
two feet, and a part of the time three. If fast, there are two 
Intervals In each stride when all the feet are off the ground 
(the stride being the distance In time or space between the 
successive point* on the ground touched by the same foot), 
the horse leaving the ground from the hind feet in succes- 
sion, while In the run he leaves the ground from a fore foot. 
In the trot the limbs move In pairs, diagonally but not 
auite simultaneously, even in the "square trot." If the 
iffercnce becomes considerable, It constitutes "single 
footing" ; If the difference becomes so great that the ac- 
tion Is reversed, and the pair of limbs on the same aide 
move together. It becomes "pacing." While the trot 
is naturally a slower gait than the run. It has become 
the Instinctive fast gait In certain breeds of horses. See 
trotttr, and cut In preceding column. 
The canter Is to the gallop very much what the walk Is 
to the trot. Youatt, The Horse (Treatise on Draught). 
In those days, the Star Cambridge Coach, which left th. 
Belle Sauvage Yard In Ludgate Hill about 4 P. M., thread- 
ed all the streets between Its starting-point and Shore- 
ditch Church at a trot. Quarterly Ken., CXI.VI. 198. 
3. A toddling child ; in general, a child : a term 
of endearment. 
Ethel romped with the little children the rosy little 
trott. Thaclreray, Newcomes, x. 
4. A " pony"; a "crib." [College slang, U. 8.] 
5. A trot-line. [U. S.] 6. A small line that 
sets off from the main trot-line, to the extreme 
end of which the hook is fastened. See trot- 
line. [U. S.] Eggwlfe-trot. Same a* egg-trot. 
trot 2 t (trot), n. [A var. of trat.] An old wo- 
man : a term of disparagement. 
An aged trot and tough did marie with a lad. 
Turbrrrille, Of a Contrerie Marlage. 
An old Irnt with ne'er a tooth In her head. 
So*.,T.of the 8., L 2. 80. 
trptcozy, trotcosy (trot'ko-zi), n.; pi. trotco- 
zies, trotcogics (-ziz). [Appar. so called as en- 
abling one to 'trot,' drive, or travel 'cozy' or 
warm, < trot + cozy; less prob. orig. 'throat- 
cozy, < throat + cozy.] A warm covering for 
the head, neck, and breast in cold weather when 
one is traveling. [Scotch.] 
The upper part of his form . . . was shrouded In a large 
great-coat belted over his under habiliments, and created 
with a huge cowl of the same stuffs, which, when drawn 
over the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, 
and, being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot- 
cozy. Scott, Waverley, L 318. 
trotevalet, H. [ME., appar. < OF. 'trotctale (per- 
haps referring orig. to Scandinavian myths), < 
Icel. Thrudhvaldr, a title of Thor (Thrudhvaldr 
i /i n Hi a. the heroic defender of the gods), < 
Tlirfidlir, used only as the name of a goddess 
and of a woman, also in compound names ( = 
AS. Thrytho, the name of a woman ; cf. OHG. 
ti-ii/d. G. dial, trute , drudt, a witch), + -valdr, < 
i-iililn. rule : see wield. Cf. v;alterot.] A trifling 
thing. 
Yn gamys and festys and at the ale 
Love men to lestene trotcrale. 
MS. /fart. 1701, f. 1. (HaUiirell.) 
jwati thre traltours at o tale to-gldere weren ageln me 
sworn, 
Al ye maden trotenale [read troteuale] that I haved seld bl- 
forn; 
se ledde me bl doune and dale, an an oxe bi the born, 
Til ther as him Is browcn bale, ther his throte schal be 
schorn. Walter Mapet, Poems (ed. Wright), p. 387. 
troth (tr6th or troth), H. [< ME. trouthe, trotothe, 
Iroiight, etc., var. of treouthe, treuthe, truthe, < 
AS. treoicth, truth : see truth, the commoner 
form of the word. The proper historical pron. 
of troth is troth; so betroth, prop, be-troth'. 
The pron. tr6th (given by Sheridan) and the 
worse pron. troth (given by Walker and his 
copiers) are irregular, and are prob. artificial, 
the word in educated use being chiefly literary, 
scarcely occurring in vernacular speech.] 1. 
Truth ; verity : as, in troth (a phrase used inter- 
jectionally, and often colloquially reduced to 
troth). 
I could wish that from hencefoorth he would learne to 
tell troth. HaUuyft Voyaaet, I. MO. 
Truth, and 1 would have my will then. 
Middleton (and Men), The Widow, II. 1. 
MM. When will you come home, heart ? 
Ten. In trotn, self, 1 know not 
Deltter and Webtter, Westward Ho, L 2. 
troubadour 
2. Fiiith; fidelity: n. to pledge or plight 01 
truth. 
To a gret lady th i iht tillirht, 
t Ht th' funt nin of tli (iratei KladncMe ay; 
IM, Inue nr Ilkynn tn my pay. 
Rom. / 1'urtenan (K K. T. 8.), I 9OL 
Having wi,rn too hard a keeping oath, 
stinly to lirruk it and not break my truth. 
Slat., L L. L, I. 1. >. 
troth (troth or troth), v. I. [< troth, w.] To 
plight; betroth. 
So says the prince and my new-trvihtd lord. 
Shall., Mu.'li x.l... III. 1. SK. 
trothle8St (trdth'les or troth'len), a. K truth 
+ -less. Ct.trntlilixit.] FuithlcHH; treacherous. 
A trnttdiae or perfidious fellow. 
Vmtegan, Rest, of Decayed Intclllitence (ed. 1828), p. 20B. 
N..W, trnOtlea King, what fruits have braving boasts? 
Petit, Edward I. 
troth-plight (troth'plit), a. [Early mod. E. 
triintlii-iilijiiht. } lietrothed; espoused; affianced. 
[Obsolete or provincial.] 
This Is your son-in-law, 
And son unto the king, who, heavens directing, 
Is troth-plight to your daughter. 
Shall., W. T., v. *. 161. 
That wench will be troth- flight to th' drat man as will 
wed her and keep her I' plenty. 
Mrt. OtuttU, Sylvia's Lovers, x. 
troth-plight (troth'plit), r. t. [Early mod. E. 
trouthe-flyiiht; < tiotli-i>lif/ht, .] To betroth 
or affiance. PalKijrnre. ^Obsolete or provin- 
cial.] 
troth-plight (tr6th'plit), 11. [< troth-plight, r.] 
The actof be trothingorplighting faith, whether 
in friendship or in marriage. Shak., W. T.. i. -. 
1!7H. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
troth-plighted (trSth'pH'ted), a. Having 
plighted troth ; pledged. [Obsolete or provin- 
cial] 
troth-ring (troth 'ring), n. A betrothal ring. 
Mm. liroirninij, Aurora Leigh, ix. [Rare.] 
troth-tellingf ( troth 'tel'ing), a. Truth-telling. 
H'ychcrlcy, Gentleman Dancing-Master, iv. 1. 
trot-line (trot 'lin), n. A kind of trawl-line, 
consisting of a stout cord, commonly one or 
two hundred yards long, with baited hooks 
attached by short lines at intervals of two or 
three feet. One end of the line Is tied to a stake or 
tree on the bank, and the other Is sunk by means of a 
weight. The trot-line takes catfish and other bottom- 
fish. Seetrairf. [Southern U. 8.1 
trotter (trot'er), n. [< ME. trotter, < OF. trotter, 
< ML. triitnriiis (cf. also tiilutiiriiix). a trotter, < 
trotare, trot: see trot 1 .'] 1. One who or that 
which trots ; specifically, a trotting horse, espe- 
cially one of a breed of horses noted for speed 
in trotting. A great part of the best trotters In the 
United States (where the breed has been brought to per- 
fection) are descended through HambUtonlan from the 
English thoroughbred Messenger. The mile record Is now 
(1891) held by Maud S. (from the Kentucky blue-grass re- 
gion), which in 1885 at Cleveland trotted a mile in 2 min- 
utes 8} seconds. On the race-track trotters are driven 
In light skeleton wagons called sulkies. See (rod, ., 2. 
Item, ther be bowt for yow I1J. horse at Seynt Feythys 
feyer, and all be trotterut, ryth faylr horse, God save hem, 
and they be well kepyd. I'atton Letter*, I. Hi. 
My chestnut horse was a fast trotter. 
T. //oar, Gilbert Gurney. (Latham.) 
The trotter represents a breed which has not yet reached 
Its limit of speed, and there are very few In the extreme 
front. It was just so with the running horses In the early 
days of that breed, so far as we can Judge from the data 
we now hare. 
W. H. Breurr, In Rep. Conn. Board of Agrl. for Jan., 1890. 
2. A foot, (a) The human foot. (Slang.] (t) The 
foot of an animal used for food : as, pigs' trotten; sheep's 
trottfn. 
trotter-boiler (trot'er-boi'ler), n. One whose 
business it is to treat the hoofs of animals by 
boiling and other operations for separating from 
the horny parts the fat, glue-stock, etc. Work- 
shop Receiptii, 2d ser., p. 308. 
trotter-oil (trot'er-oil), . An oil obtained in 
boiling down sheep's and calves' feet. 
trottles (trot'lz), n. [Origin obscure.] The 
prickly comfrey, Symphytum aspfrrimum. 
trottoir (trot-wor'), [F., sidewalk, < trot- 
ter, trot: see frofi.j A footway on each side 
of a street ; a sidewalk. 
Paris U very badly lighted at nights, and the want of a 
trottoir It a very great evil. 
Sydney Smith, To Mrs. Sydney Smith. 
troubadour (trO'ba-dSr), . [< F. troubadour, < 
Pr. trobador (Pr. also trobaire = F. trourere) = 
Sp. Pg. trovador = It. trovatore ML. as if *tro- 
liiilur), < OF. trorer, trurer, F. trourrr = Pr. 
trobar = Sp. Pg. trovar = It. trorare, find, in- 
vent, compose, < ML. 'tro/xirc. compose, sing. 
< lr(>i>us, a song, orig. a figure of speech, trope : 
see trnjif. trorer. Cf. trourere.] One of a class 
