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s un turns back, of which the north has the tropic of Cancer, 
and the south the tropic of Capricorn. 
Since on ev’ry sea, on ev’ry coast, 
Your men have been distress’d, your navy tost. 
Seven times the sun has either tropic view’d. 
The winter banish’d, and the spring renew’d. Dry den. 
TRO'PICALLY, adv. Figuratively.—The mouse trap ! 
marry, how ? tropically. Shakspeare. 
TRO'PIST, s. [tropiste , French.] One who deals in 
tropes: a name also given to a sect which pretended to 
explain the Scriptures altogether by tropes and figures. 
TROPOLO'GICAL, adj. [rpowo? and Xoyo<;, Greek.] 
Varied by tropes; changed from the original import of the 
words.—What should be the true moral or tropo/ogical 
reason of salt being used in all sacrifices. Biblioth. Bill. 
TROPO'LOGY, s. [rpoTro? and Xoyoi;, Greek.] A rhe¬ 
torical 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 literal ities. Brown. 
TROPPAU, or Oppaw, the capital of Austrian Silesia, 
till lately the residence of the regency, and still the seat of a 
high court of justice. It stands at the confluence of the 
Oppa and Mohe, is still surrounded with a wall, and has 
two public squares. The number of inhabitants is nearly 
10,000; 87 miles south south-east of Breslau, and 162 east 
of Prague. Lat. 49. 50. 1. N. long. 17. 50. 45. E. 
TROPPAU, a principality of Silesia, bounded on the 
north by the principality of Oppeln, on the east by Ratibor 
and Teschen, and on the south and west by Moravia. 
TROPPAU, a circle of Austrian Silesia, containing se¬ 
veral lordships, and the parts of the principalities of Trop- 
pau, Jagerndorf, and Neisse, that were retained by Austria, 
when the rest of Silesia was ceded to Frederick II. Its 
area is 1080 square miles; its population somewhat below 
200,000. 
TROQUES, a bay at the south extremity of Lake Huron, 
separated from Matchudock bay on the north-east by a broad 
promontory. 
TROQU1RE, a parish of Scotland, in the stewartry of 
Kirkcudbright, lying on the river Nith, opposite the parish 
of Dumfries, and connected with it by a handsome bridge. 
Population 3409. 
TROSA, a sea-port of the middle part of Sweden, in Su- 
dermanuland, on the Baltic. Population only 500. Its 
harbour is small but secure. 
TROSACHS, certain rugged and stupendous mountains 
of Scotland, in Perthshire, which have been greatly visited 
since they have been made the scene of the adventures of the 
Lady of the Lake. In entering the Trosachs the mind is im¬ 
pressed with a feeling of wildness and of rude grandeur. It 
seems as if a whole mountain had been torn in pieces, and 
frittered down by a convulsion of the earth, and the huge 
fragments of rocks, woods, and hills, scattered in confusion 
into the east end, and on the sides of Loch Catherine. Tra¬ 
vellers who wish to see all they can of this singular pheno¬ 
menon, generally sail west on the south side of the lake, to 
the rock and den of the ghost, whose dark recesses the ima¬ 
gination conceived to be the habitation of supernatural 
beings. Every rock has its echo. Down the side of the 
mountain, after a shower of rain, flow a hundred 
streams, which rush with incredible velocity and noise into 
the lake, and spread their foam upon its surface. On one 
side the water eagle sits in majesty undisturbed, on his well 
known rock, in sight of his nest on the top of Benvenu; 
the heron stalks among the reeds in search of his prey; and 
the sportive ducks gambol on the waters. On the other, the 
wild goats climb where they have scarce ground for the soles 
of their feet; and the wild fowls perched on trees, or on the 
pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at 
man. This scene is closed by a west view of the lake for 
several miles, having its sides lined with alternate clumps of 
wood and arable fields, and the smoke rising in spiral co¬ 
lumns through the air, from villages which are concealed by 
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the intervening woods; and the prospect is bounded by the 
towering Alps of Arroquhar, which are chequered with snow, 
or hide their heads in the clouds. 
TROSSBERG, a small town of Bavaria, on the river 
Alza; 42 miles east of Munich, with 800 inhabitants. 
TRO'SSERS, s. [trousses, French.] Breeches; hose. 
See Trouse. —You rode like a kern of Ireland; your French 
hose off, and in your strait trossers. Shakspeare. 
TROSSULI, among the Romans, a name given by some 
to the guards that attended the kings of Rome, otherwise 
called celeres. 
TROSTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 6| miles 
north-north-east of St. Edmund’s Bury. 
TROSTREY, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire; 
3 miles north-by-west of Usk. 
TROSTRIE, Loch, a small but beautiful lake of Scot¬ 
land, in Kirkcudbright stewartry, in the parish of Twyne- 
holtne, abounding with pikes. 
To TROT, v. n. [trotter , French ; trotten, Dutch. Dr. 
Johnson. Wachter, with Verelius, derives it from the Su. 
Goth, trotta, fatigare; Lye and Serenius from the Icelandic 
tritta, Sueth. tratta, cursitare, brevibus et citatis passibus 
ire; frequentat a traeda, ire.] 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 inch’d bridges, to 
course his own shadow for a traitor. Shakspeare.— To 
walk fast; or to travel on foot: in a ludicrous or con¬ 
temptuous sense. 
TROT, s. The jolting high pace of a horse. 
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. 
An old woman in contempt. Derivation uncertain.—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. Shakspeare. 
TROTBY, a river of England, in Monmouthshire, which 
runs into the Wye below Monmouth. 
TROTH, s. [ trouth , old English; cpecS, Saxon.] Be¬ 
lief ; faith; fidelity. 
Saint Withold met the night-mare, 
Bid her alight and her troth plight. Shakspeare. 
Truth; verity. 
In troth thou’rt able to instruct grey hairs, 
And teach the wily African deceit. Addison. 
TRO'THLESS, adj. Faithless; treacherous.—Thrall to 
the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax. 
To TRO'THPLIGHT, v. a. To affiance; to betroth. 
This, your son-in-law, 
Is trothplight to your daughter. Shakspeare. 
TRO'THPLIGHT, s. The act of plighting troth; the act 
of betrothing; an instrument used in the preparation of flax. 
It is placed before the body and shoved forward by an inde¬ 
licate movement. Hence some have read the preceding 
quotation 
Ls rank as any flax-wench that huts tow 
lefore her trothplight. Shakspeare. 
TRO'TTER, s. One that walks a jolting pace; one that 
uns up and down. Huloet. —A sheep’s foot. 
’he chief of your fayre 
light stand now by potters, 
Lnd suche as sell trotters. Skelton. 
A horse whose trot is very swift. 
TROTTERNISH POINT, a headland on the west-north¬ 
west coast of the isle of Skye. 
TROTTESCLIFFE, or Trosley, a parish of England, 
i Kent; 2 miles north-east-by-east of Wrotham. 
TROTTON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 3£ miles 
rest-north-west of Midhurst. 
TROU PETIT, a port of the island of St. Domingo.— 
’here is another port of the same name on the west coast. It 
i also the name of a bay on the south coast. 
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