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TROIZKOI SERGIEV, a small town in the interior of 
European Russia, in the government of Moscow ; 32 miles 
south-east of that capital. It contains 4000 inhabitants. 
TROJA, a small town of Italy, in the east part of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the Capitanata; 33 miles south-west 
of Manfredonia, and 60 north-east of Naples. 
TROJA, a petty island of the Mediterranean, off the 
coast of Tuscany, in the province of Sienna. 
TRAJANOW, a small town in the south-west of Euro¬ 
pean Russia, in the government ofVolhynia, not far from 
Vlodzimirzetz/' 
TROKI, a small town in the west of European Russia, 
in Lithuania, and the government of Grodno; 20 miles west 
of Wilna, and 180 east of Konigsberg. 
TROKI, New, another small town of Russian Lithuania; 
18 miles west of Wilna. 
To TROLL, v. a. [trollen , to roll, Dutch; perhaps from 
trochlea, Latin; a thing to turn round.] To move cir¬ 
cularly; to drive about. 
Then doth she trowle to me the bowle, 
Even as a malt-worm should; 
And saith, sweet heart, I took my part 
Of this joly good ale and old. 
Ballad in Gamm. Gurton's Needle. 
To move volubly. 
Bred only and completed to the taste 
Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, 
To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton. 
To utter volubly, [perhaps from tralla, Su. Goth, to sing.] 
Will you troll the catch 
You taught me but while-ere ? Shalcspeare. 
To draw on. [ troler , French, to lead, to draw.] He 
trowls and baits him with a nobler prey. Hammond. 
To TROLL, v. n. To go round; to be moved cir¬ 
cularly. 
Nappy ale in a browne bowle. 
Which did about the board merrily trowle. Old Ballad. 
To roll; to run round. 
How pleasant on the banks of Styx, 
To troll it in a coach and six. Swift. 
To fish for a pike with a rod which has a pulley towards 
the bottom. 
Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to fake. 
Nor trowle for pikes, dispeoples of the lake. Gay. 
TROLLHETTA. a village of Sweden, in West Goth¬ 
land ; 15 miles east-south-east of Uddevalla. Here is a cele¬ 
brated cataract in the river Gotha-Elf, not far from the place 
where it issues from the lake Wenner. 
TROLLIUS [trollblume seems to signify in German a 
magical flower], in Botany, a genus of the class polyandria, 
order polygynia, natural order of multisiliquee, ranunculacese 
(Juss).— Generic Character 1 . Calyx none. Corolla: petals 
about fourteen, subovate, deciduous, in the three outer rows 
three, in the inmost five. Nectaries nine, linear, flat, curved 
in, perforated at the base finwards. Stamina: filaments 
numerous, bristle-shaped, shorter than the corolla; anthers 
erect. Pistil: germs numerous, sessile, columnar. Styles 
none. Stigma mucronate, shorter than the stamens. Pe¬ 
ricarp: capsules numerous, collected into a head, ovate, 
with a point curved back. Seeds solitary.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx none. Petals about 14. Capsules nume¬ 
rous, ovate, many-seeded. 
1. Trollius Europseus, or European globe-flower.—Corol¬ 
las converging; nectaries length of the stamens. Root per¬ 
ennial, fibrous, black, from which spring up many leaves 
resembling those of Wolf’s-bane, cut into five segments al¬ 
most to the bottom. The stalk rises almost two ieet high; 
it is smooth, hollow, and branches towards the top. Each 
branch is terminated by one large yellow flower, shaped like 
that of crowfoot, but without any calyx.—Native of the 
North of Europe, Carniola, Dauphine, Piedmont, Siberia. 
In the northern counties of England, in Wales, and Scot- 
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land, on the sides of mountains and mountainous meadows, 
in moist shady places. 
2. Trollius Asiaticus, or Asiatic globe-flower.—Corollas 
spreading; nectaries longer than the stamens. The Siberian 
globe-flower differs from the first in having larger leaves, of 
a lighter green colour, with fewer and larger segments.— 
Native of Siberia. Cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1759. It 
flowers in May and June. 
Propagation and Culture. —Part the roots at the end of 
September, when the leaves are beginning to decay, planting 
them at a foot distance, in a shady situation and a moist 
soil. The plants should not be parted oftener than once in 
three years, nor into parts too small. 
TRO'LLOP, s. [A low word, derivation unknown.] A 
slattern, a woman loosely dressed.—The remembrance of 
his old conversation among the viraginian trollops. Milton. 
TROLLOPE'E, s. A kind of loose dress for women. 
]\ ot now in use. —There goes Mrs. Roundabout; I mean 
the fat lady in the lutestring trollopee. Goldsmith. 
TROLMYDAMES, s. [from trou-madame, French.] 
The game of nine holes. Warburton. —A fellow I have 
known to go about with trolmy dames: I knew him once a 
servant of the prince. Shahspeare. 
TROMBONE, a wind instrument blown by the mouth, 
and resembling in form a military trumpet, of w’hich it is the 
base, the name implying thegreirt trumpet. See Music. 
TROMPERWICK, Gulf of, a bay, but by no means a 
safe one, on the east coast of the island of Usedom, in the 
Baltic. Lat. 54. 40. N. long. 13. 40. E. 
TROMPETAS, a large and abundant river of Brazil, 
which runs south, and enters the Amazons on the north 
shore, near the strait of Pauxis, in lat. 1. 50. S. 
TROMPEUR, Cape, del Enganna, or False Cape, 
is the easternmost point of the island of St. Domingo. Lat. 
18. 25. N. long. 68.35. W. 
TROMPIA, a valley of Austrian Italy, in the Milanese 
delegation of Brescia. It is divided into 19 communes, and 
contains above 13,000 inhabitants. 
TROMSOE, an island on the north-west coast of Norway, 
which, though extensive, contains only from 3000 to 4000 
inhabitants. 
TRO'NAGE, 5. Money paid for weighing. 
TRONAIOR, an officer of the city of London, whose 
business it was to weigh the wool brought into that city. 
TRONCO, in the Italian music, by the French called 
coup de grace, is used to intimate to the voices as well as 
instruments, that they are not to draw out the sound to its 
natural length, but cut it short. 
TROND, St., or St. Troijen, an inland town of the 
Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, with a population 
of 7300; 18 miles north-west of Liege, and 20 west of 
Maestricht. 
TRONDA, or Trondray, a small island of Shetland, 
lying opposite to the village of Scalloway. It is about 3} 
miles long, and 2 broad. 
TRONE, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Wantage, 
Berkshire. 
TRONEKEN, a village of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, in the Hundsruck; 12 miles south-south-east 
ofTraarbach, and 16 east of Treves. 
TRONQUIERE, a petty town in the south of France, 
department of the Lot, with 1100 inhabitants. It stands on 
the small river Bave; 14 miles north of Figeac. 
TRONTO, a river of Italy, in the States of the Church, 
which rises in the Appennines, and flowing along the border 
of the Neapolitan dominions, discharges itself into the Adriatic. 
TRONTO, Castf.l del, a strong castle of Italy, in the 
north-east part of the kingdom of Naples, province of Abruz- 
za Ultra, situated on a lofty rock. 
TRONZZANO, a small town in the north-west of Italy, 
in Piedmont, province of Vercelli, with 2500 inhabitants. 
TROO, a small town in the central part of France, de¬ 
partment of the Loire and Cher, with 1100 inhabitants; 
partly employed in the manufacture of woollen stuffs; 10 
miles south-west of Vendome. 
TROOLIE, 
