troublyt (trubli)

[ These fisher is of God shulden mannis lawe, that is trobly water. 2. Troubled; confused; distraught. It may fall sumtyme that the trubylyere that thou hase bene owtwarde with actyfe werkes, the mare brynnande desyre thou sall hafe to Godd. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 31. Chaucer, Boëthius, iv. meter 5. The trowbly erroure of oure ignoraunce. 3. Turbulent; tempestuous; stormy. The trouble wynde that hyht Auster. Chaucer, Boëthius, i. meter 7. trouflyngt, n. A Middle English form of trifling . trough (trof), n. [ trough , trogh , trou , trog , troh , a trough, a small boat ( trohscip , trochscip, a cock-boat), = D. trog = OHG. MHG. troc (trog-), G. trog = Icel. trog = Dan. trug = Sw. tråg , a trough; cf. It. truogo , a trough, tree , AS. treów, etc.: see tree. Cf. trow2, trogue , and tray1.] 1. An open receptacle, generally long and narrow, as for water. Specifically - ( a ) A wooden receptacle or basin in which to knead dough. She lifted the ma of dough out of the trough before her, and let it sink softly upon the board. Howells , Annie Kilburn, xiv. (b) A large ve el, usually oblong, designed to hold water or food for animals. One meets everywhere in the roads [of Switzerland] with fountains continually running into huge troughs that stand underneath them, which is wonderfully commodious in a country that so much abounds with horses and cattle. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 519). (c) A conduit for rain-water, placed under the eaves of a building; an eaves-trough. (d) In printing: (1) A watertight box in which paper is dipped to dampen it for the pre . (2) The iron or metal-lined box in which inking-rollers are cleaned and forms are washed. (e) In fish - culture , a hatching-trough. 2t. A small boat; a canoe or dug-out. If none had proceeded further then the inuentions of our predece ors, we had had nothyng in the Poets aboue Andronicus, and nothing in histories aboue the Annales or Cronicles of Bys shoppes, and had yet haue sayled in troughes or in boates. R. Eden (First Books on America, ed. Arber, p. xlviii.). There is a great caue or ditch of water. where come every morning at the break of day twentie or thirtie canoas or troughes of the Indians. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 454. 3. A concavity or hollow; a depre ion between two ridges or between two waves; an oblong basin-shaped hollow: as, the trough of the sea. Where the trough of one wave coincides with the crest of another, if that crest be equal, the resultant motion at that point is null. This is the result of the mutual interference of waves. A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 129. 4. The array of connected cells of a voltaic battery, in which the copper and zinc plates of each pair are on opposite sides of the partition.-5. In chem ., a vat or pan containing water over which gas is distilled.-6. In electroplating , a tray or vat which holds the metallic solution. E. H. Knight . - Gla trough. (a) A deep and narrow box of clear gla for holding objects for microscopic study in their natural liquids. (b) A similar device for holding the developing or fixing bath in dry-plate photography, in order that the changes in the plate submerged in the bath can be observed. - Pneumatic trough. See pneumatic . -Trough of barometric depre ion, an advancing area of low pre ure, the line of places, lying transverse trough to the direction of motion, at which the barometer has reached its lowest point, and is about to rise. In V-shaped depre ions the advancing trough is frequently a ociated with a coincident advancing line of squalls.