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TROOLIE, an island of Dutch Guiana, situated at the 
mouth of the Essequebo. 
TROON, a promontory of Scotland, in Ayrshire, in the 
parish of Dundonald, projecting about a mile into the frith 
of Clyde; 5 miles south of Irvine, and 7 north of Ayr. 
Lat. 55. 36. N. long. 4.36. W. 
TROONGOOMBA, a small walled village of Central 
Africa; 12 miles south-west of Benown. 
TROOP, s. [ troupe , French; troppa, Italian; troope, 
Dutch; trop, Swedish ; troppa, low Latin. Dr. Johnson.] 
A company; a number of people collected together. 
That which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have. Shakspearc. 
A body of soldiers. 
jEneas seeks his absent foe. 
And sends his slaughtered troops to shades below. Dryden' 
A small body of cavalry. 
To TROOP, v. n. To march in a body. 
I do not, as an enemy to peace, 
Troop in the throngs of military men. 
But rather shew aWhile like fearful war. 
Shdkspeare. 
To march in haste. 
Yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger. 
At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and' there. 
Troop home to churchyards. Shakspearc. 
To march in compauy. 
I do invest you jointly with my power. 
Pre-eminence, and all the large effects 
That troop with majesty. 
Shakspearc. 
TRGO'PER, s. 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 nbt many 
years since it was all the fashion. Grew. 
TROPE, s. [rpoiro?, Greek; tropus, Latin.] A change 
of a word from its original signification; as, the clouds 
foretel rain,- for fore shew. 
For rhetoric he could not ope 
His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Hudibras. 
TROPZEOLUM [dimin. from tropaeum, a trophy ], in 
Botany, a- genus of the class octandria, order monogynia, 
natural order of trihilatae, gerania (Juss J.—-Generic Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, five-cleft, from upright 
spreading, acute, coloured, deciduous; the two lower seg¬ 
ments narrower, horned at the back with an awl-shaped, 
straight, longer nectary. Corolla: petals five, roundish, 
inserted into the divisions of the calyx; two upper sessile, 
the others lower, with oblong, ciliate claws. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments eight, awl-shaped, short, declining, unequal; anthers 
erect, oblong, rising. Pistil: germ roundish, three-lobed, 
striated. Style simple, erect, length of the stamens. Stigma 
trifid, acute. Pericarp: berries (or nuts) somewhat solid, 
three, on one side convex, grooved, and striated, on the 
other angular. Seeds three, gibbous on one side, angular 
on the other, roundish, grooved, and striated —Essential 
Character. Calyx one-leafed, with a spur. Petals four, 
unequal. Nuts three, coriaceous. 
1. Tropaeolum minus, or small Indian cress.—Stem her¬ 
baceous, trailing. Leaves almost circular, smooth, grayish. 
Flowers axillary, on very long peduncles, composed of five 
acute-pointed petals, the two upper large and rounded, the 
three under narrow, jointed together at bottom and length¬ 
ened out into a tail two inches long. There are two varieties 
of this, one with a deep orange-coloured flower inclined to 
red, and the other with a pale yellow flower.—Native of 
Peru. 
2. Tropaeolum majus, or great Indian cress..—Leaves pel¬ 
tate, repand; petals obtuse. The second sort is larger in all 
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parts. The flowers of this are larger and more beautiful fhan 
the preceding. This and the two following are datives of 
Peru. 
3. Tropaeolum hybridum, or bastard Indian cress.—Leaves 
subpeltate, five-lobed; lobes obtuse, subrepand; petals 
wedged, toothed at the tip. 
4. Tropseolum peregrinum, or fringe-flowered Indian 
cress..— Leaves subpeltate, fiVe-lobed-palmate, somewhat 
toothed; petals laciniated. 
5. Tropaeolum pentaphyllum, or five-leaved Indian cress. 
-—Leaves quinate; leaflets quite entire, acute; petals shorter 
than the calyx, quite entire, acute. 
TROfiEA, a small toftm in the south-west of the kingdom 
of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, fh'c see of a bishop, with about 
4000 inhabitants; 37 miles north-north-east of Reggio. 
TROPES, St., a small sea-port in the south-east of 
France, department of the Var. It has 3700 inhabitants, 
employed for the most part in the tunny and pilchard fish¬ 
ery, and in the coasting trade; 30 miles east-by-north of 
Toulon. Lat. 43. 16. 27. N. long. 6. 38. 44. E. 
TRO'PHIED, adj. Adorned with trophies. 
Some greedy minion or imperious wife, 
The trophy'd arches, story’d halls invade. 
And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. Pope. 
TROPHIS [from rgefa, nutria: on account of its nou¬ 
rishing quality as fodder for cattle,] in Botany, a genus of 
the class dicecia, order tetrandria, natural order of calyci- 
florae, incertae sedis (Juss.) —Generic Character. Male.— 
Calyx none. Corolla: petals four, obtuse, spreading. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments four, capillary, longer than the corolla. 
Female on a distinct plant.—Calyx one-leafed, very small, 
closely investing the germ. Corolla none. Pistil: germ 
ovate. Style filiform, two-parted. Stigmas adnate. Peri¬ 
carp : berry substriated, wrinkled, one-celled. Seeds single, 
subglobular.— Essential Character. Male.—Calyx none. 
Corolla four-petalled. Female.—Calyx none. Corolla none. 
Style two-parted. Berry one-seeded. 
1. Trophis Americana, or the ramoon tree.—This is a tree 
twenty feet high at most, with nearly upright, round, even 
branches. Leaves oblong, acuminate, with the point blunt, 
entire, beneath netted-veined and paler. Male flowers in pe- 
duncled roundish aments, an inch long, erect, axillary, sub¬ 
solitary : flowers approximating, minute, whitish. Female 
flowers in axillary racemes, two together, longer than the 
petioles, composed of seven or eight sessile, alternate, hori¬ 
zontal flowers. 
2. Trophis laurifolia, or laurel-leaved trophis.—Leaves 
elliptic-ohlong, acute at each end, smooth, entire. Berry 
with two horns, and two or four seeds..—Native of Quito and 
New Granada. A tree with thick, nearly round, branches. 
3. Trophis aspera, or rough-leaved trophis.—Leaves obo- 
vate, unequally serrated, very rough on both sides. Petals 
four in all the flowers —Native of woods and thickets at 
Tranquebar. 
4. Trophis spinosa, or thorny trophis.—Branches thorny. 
Leaves elliptical, entire, smooth.—Native of Java. 
TRO'PHY, s. [tropieum, trophceum, Latin.] Something- 
shewn or treasured up in proof of victory. 
To have borne 
His bruised helmet and his bended sword 
Before him through the city; he forbids; 
Giving all trophy, signal and ostent. 
Quite from himself to God. Shakspearc. 
TROPIC KEYS, small islands or shoals among the Vir¬ 
gin islands, between Great Passage island and the east coast 
of Porto Rico. They are so named from their abounding in 
birds called tropicos. 
TRO'PICAL, adj. Rhetorically changed from the origi¬ 
nal meaning.—The foundation of all parables is, some ana¬ 
logy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of 
the parable, and the thing intended by it. South. —Placed 
near the tropic; belonging to the tropic.—The pine-apple is 
one of the tropical fruits. Salmon. 
TRO'PIC, s. [ tropicus , Latin.] The line at which the 
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