tron at or (tron at or)

[ML., tronchon2t, n. See trunchon2 . tronçonnée (F. pron. trôn-so-na'), a. [F. tron- çonné, tronçon , a stump: see truncheon.] In her ., same as shivered : noting a tilting-lance. tronel (tron or trōn), n. [ OF.trone (ML.trona), a weighing-machine, trana , trani , m., = Dan. trane , a crane: see crane 2.] 1. Same as tron , 1. And frae his body taken the head, And quarter'd him upon a trone . The Gallant Grahams (Child's Ballads, VII. 143). 21. A market or market-place. - Trone weight. Same as tron weight (which see, under tron ). trone2 (tròn), n. A small drain. [Prov. Eng.] trone3t, n. and v. throne. troolie-palm (tröʻli-päm), n. A name of the bu u-palm. troop (tröp), n. [Formerly also troope, troupe (still used in some senses); A Middle English form of origin unknown. According to Diez, a change, in the mouth of Germans, from L. turba into * trupa, whence, by change of gender, trop us, troppus. Cf. tropel.] 1. An a emblage of people; a multitude; a company; a band. We come by troops to the place of a embly, that, being banded as it were together, we may be supplicants enough to besiege God with our prayers. Tertullian , quoted in Hooker's Eccles. Polity, v. 24. Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. Shak., Macbeth, v. 3. 25. There was a troup o' gentlemen Came riding merrilie by. The Broom of Cow den knows (Child's Ballads, IV. 45). 2. A body of soldiers: generally used in the plural, signifying soldiers in general, whether more or le numerous, and whether belonging to the infantry, cavalry, or artillery. Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars, That make ambition virtue! Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 349. Colonel Prendergast, the commandant of the station, had but 800 troops , of whom 200 only were Europe ans, to meet a force of overwhelming superiority in numbers. Corn hill Mag ., Oct., 1888, p. 380. 3. In cavalry, the unit of formation, consisting usually of sixty troopers, commanded by a сарtain, and corresponding to a company of infantry. When a troop dismounts and acts on foot, it is still called by that name. Stocqueler. Hence-4. The command by commi ion and rank of such a troop of horse. His papa would have purchased him a troop -nay, a lieutenant-colonelcy - some day, but for his fatal exce es. Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confe ions. 5. A band or company of performers; a troupe. - 6. A particular roll or call of the drum; a signal for marching. Tony's beat of the troop was the signal for the soldiers to a emble. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 13. 7. A herd or flock of beasts or birds: as, a troop of antelopes or sparrows. - Household troops. See household. - Subsidiary troops. See sub sidiary. troop (tröp), v. [ What would ye, soldiers? wherefore troop ye Like mutinous madmen thus? Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iv. 7. Now from the roost. Come trooping at the housewife's well-known call The feather'd tribes domestic. Cowper , Task, v. 61. The Maids of Nazareth, as they trooped to fill Their balanced urns beside the mountain rill. O. W. Holmes, The Mother's Secret. 2. To march; to march in or form part of a troop or company. Nor do I as an enemy to peace Troop in the throngs of military men. IMG:content-0939.jpg:[graphic] 3. To march off in haste. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 62. Aurora's harbinger, At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards. Skak ., M. N. D., iii. 2. 382. But, whatever she had to say for herself, she was at last forced to troop off. Add is on, Spectator, No. 464. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 48. 4t. To a ociate or consort. A snowy dove trooping with crows. Shak., R. and J., i. 5. 50. II. trans. 1. To a ociate as in a troop or company. To troope my selfe with such a crew of men As shall so fill the downes of Affrica. Greene, Orlando Furioso, 1. 213. 2. To form into troops, as a regiment. - Trooping the colors, in the British army, an elaborate ceremony performed at the public mounting of garrison guards. troop-bird (tröp'bėrd), n. A troopial. trooper (trö'per), n. [F. troupier; as troop +-er1.] 1. A private soldier in a body of cavalry; a horse-soldier. The troopers , according to custom, fired without having dismounted. Scott, Old Mortality, xvi. 2. A cavalry horse; a troop-horse.-3. A troopship. Native trooper, in Australia, a member of a body of mounted police recruited from the aborigines and officered by white men. - Trooper's damn. See damn. troop-fowl (tröp'foul), n. The American scaup: same as flocking - fowl. F. C. Browne. [Ma achusetts.]