Troop

trōōp, n. a crowd or collection of people: a company: soldiers taken collectively, an army, usually in pl. : a small body of cavalry, forming the unit of formation, consisting usually of sixty men, corresponding to a company of infantry: the command of a troop of horse.— v.i. to collect in numbers: to march in a company, or in haste.— ns. Troop′er , a private cavalry soldier: a cavalry horse: a troop′-ship; Troop′-horse , a cavalry horse; Troop′-ship , a ve el for conveying soldiers.— Trooping the colours , a ceremony performed at the public mounting of garrison guards.— Household troops (see House ). [Fr. troupe , prob. through Low L. forms, from L. turba , a crowd.]