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pl. [Gr. trophos =one who feeds or nourishes; trephoto nourish.] Entom.: The organs about the mouth in insects. These are of two types, the masticatory and the suctorial, which are sometimes modified and occasionally combined. The trophi of Masticatory Insects, such as Beetles, consist of (1) an upper lip, or labrum; (2) a pair of mandibles, for biting; (3) a pair of maxillæ, for chewing; (4) a lower lip, or labium. In the Suctorial Insects, such as the Butterflies, the labrum and mandibles are rudimentary; the maxille are greatly elongated, and form a spiral trunk, or antlia, by which the juices of flowers are sucked up. troph-ic, *troph-ic-al, adj . [Gr. trophikos = nursing, tending, from trop he =nourishment.] Per taining or relating to the direct influence of nour ishment or nutrition. trophic-nerves, s. pl. Physiol .: Any nerves which either actually influence nutrition, or have been supposed to do so; as the fifth or trigeminal nerve, which has a certain influence on the nutrition of the eye. ( Foster : Physiol ., ch. v., § 5.) tro-phied, *tro-phyed, a. [Eng. trophy; -ed.] Adorned with trophies. "The name that wont the trophy'd arch to grace." Rowe : Lucan ; Pharsalia , viii. troph-is, s. [Gr. trophis =well-fed, stout, large.] Botany : A genus of Artocarpaceæ. Flowers dicecious, spike axillary, males with four stamens, females with a single ovule. Fruit succulent. Natives of both the East and the West Indies. Trophis american a , the Ramoon tree, is about twenty feet high, and bears pleasantly flavored drupes about the size of grapes. It is a native of the West Indies, where the leaves and twigs are eaten by cattle. The milky juice of T. asper , a small evergreen Indian tree, is applied to cracked heels and sore hands. It is astringent and septic, and the bark, in decoction, is used as a lotion in fevers; the rough leaves are employed to polish wood. T. spinosa is another Indian species; its fruit is eaten in curries. the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic. "Seven times the sun has either tropic view'd, The winter banish'd, and the spring renew'd." Dryden: Virgil's Eneid , i. 1,064. 2. Geog.: One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, being at the same distance from the terrestrial equator as the celestial tropics are from the celes- tial equator. The one north of the equator is called the Tropic of Cancer and that south of the equator the Tropic of Capricorn. Over these circles the sun is vertical when his declination is greatest, and they include that portion of the globe called the torrid zone, a zone about 47° wide, having the equator for a central line. B. As adjective: Of or pertaining to the tropics, tropical. "Hurra, hurra! Our watch is done! We hail once more the tropic sun." Scott: Bridal of Trier main , iii. 24. The stars are brighter in the tropics than in the easier. Cyclones arise within the tropics. The characteristic vegetation of the tropics consists of gigantic endogens, as palms, some of which rise to a height of from 100 to 200 feet. More polypetalous exogens are arborescent than in temperate climes. The Conifere exist chiefly on mountains. Ferns abound in tropical islands, and deltas where water is plentiful, so that in some localities from 250 to 300 species may be gathered. The tropical type of vegetation was separated at a remote period into New. Shells are brighter than in lands where the sun is le powerful, the birds more numerous and of gayer plumage, the feline tribe larger and in greater numbers. The Anthropidæ have their appro priate seat in tropical lands. Chem.: C9H10O3. A monobasic acid, obtained by digesting atropine and belladonna with baryta water. It crystallizes in needles and plates slightly soluble in water, and melts at 117°. trop-ic-al (1), a. [Eng. tropic (1); -al .] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; being or lying within the tropics. "Many reasons may be a igned for this, beside the accidental ones from the make of the particular coun- tries, tropical winds, or the like."- Dampier : Voyages (an. 1688). 3. Incident to the tropics; as tropical diseases. tropical-lichen, s. rative; metaphorical; of the nature of a trope. "This is all which we mean besides the tropical and figurative presence." -Bp. Taylor: Real Presence, § 1. trop-ic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. tropical (2); -ly.] in a tropical or figurative manner; figuratively. "He grants it in plain terms, that Christ's body is chewed, is attrite or broken with the teeth, and that not IMG:content-1488.png:[blocks in formation] B. Trans.: To cause to trot; to ride at a trot. "The whips trotted the pack to Gravel-hill."-London "There are the vendors of watercre es and flowers, there are the boilers of trotters , the dealers in whelks and winkles."-London Daily Telegraph . trot'-ting, pr . par . or a. [TROT, v.] trotting-horse, s . Zool. & Sport. A horse trained to trot at high speed without breaking into a gallop. Trotting horses are of two distinct races: (1) The Ru ian, which is Arabian on a Flemish stock, attaining high speed, but with bad knee-action; (2) the Amer- ican, which is probably both Barb and Arabian on an English stock. Some of the fastest English trotting horses can cover a mile in three minutes, while American trotters have done the same dis- tance in a few seconds over two minutes. The American trotting horse has been constantly in- creasing in speed, and what a few years ago was considered a wonderful performance is now looked upon as commonplace. "The history of the rise of the trotting horse-especially from the time of "Rarus" down to the days of "Nancy Hanks"- presents a constantly lower record of the time re- quired to trot a mile. The names of individual American trotters are known all over the world, and the prices paid for some of them seem almost fabulous. The record for several years after the advent of "Maud S." remained stationary, but since has been eclipsed several times. "Nancy Hanks" trotted a mile, against time, in two minutes and four seconds, harne ed to a pneumatic sulky weighing 62% lbs. and accompanied by a running horse, on the regulation track, Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 28, 1892. "Alix," in harne , trotted a mile against time in two minutes and three and three- fourths seconds, at Galesburg, Ill., Sept. 19, 1894. "Star Pointer," in harne , paced a mile against time in one minute and fifty-nine and one-fourth seconds, at Readville, Ma ., Aug. 28, 1897. 1. Ord . Lang .: Sheep's dung. 2. Bot.: Symphytum asperrimum. trot-toir (oir as wâr), s. [Fr.] The footway on each side of a street; a foot-pavement. My hand off (though 'twere ki ed the hour before And promised a pearl troth - ring for the next)." E. B. Browning: Aurora Leigh , ix. *troth'-le , *troth-le e, a. [Eng. troth ; -le .] Faithle , treacherous. "You follow but a rash and trothle guide, That leades vain men ami e.' *troŭb'-la-ble, a. [Eng. troubl ( e );- able .] Caus- ing or liable to cause trouble; troublesome. "And troublable ire, that araiseth in hem the flode of troublinges, tour men teth on that other side."-Chaucer: Boecius , bk. iv. trouble (le as el), *trub-le, v. t. & i. [O. Fr. trubler, trobler (Fr. troubler ), as if from a Low Lat. turbulo , from Lat. turbula =a disorderly crowd, a little crowd, dim in. of turba =acrowd; Gr. tyrbē =a throng, disorder.] *trouble-rest, s. A disturber of rest or quiet. *trouble-state, s. A disturber of the community. "Those fair baits those trouble - states still use," Daniel : Civil Wars, troublesome