trout stream (troutstrem)

A stream in which trout breed or may be taken. trout-tackle (trout'tak"l), n. Fishing-tackle specially adapted or designed for taking trout. trouty (trou'ti), a. [ 6504 with a handle, used by masons, plasterers, and bricklayers for spreading and dre ing mortar Little inconsiderable rivers, as Awber, Eroways, and the like, scarce worth naming, but trouty too. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 231. trouvère (trö-var'), n . [F., trouver , find: see troubadour .] One of the medieval poets of northern France, whose productions partake of a narrative or epic character, and thus contrast broadly with the lyrical, amatory, and more polished effusions of the troubadours. The works of the trouvères include the chansons de geste, the fabliaux, poems of the Round Table cycle, the "Romance of the Rose," "Reynard the Fox," etc. Also trou veur. It is to the North of France and to the Trouvères that we are to look for the true origins of our modern literature. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 242. trover (trō'ver), n. [OF. trover , F. trouver = Pr. trobar = Sp. Pg. trovar = It. trovare, find, in vent, (a) the gaining po e ion of personal prop erty, whether by finding or otherwise; ( b ) a common-law action for damages for the wrongful taking or detention of goods from the po e ion of another. Originally this action was based on the finding by defendant of the plaintiff's goods and converting them to his own use. In course of time, however, the suggestion of the finding became mere matter of form, and all that had to be proved was that the goods were the plaintiff's and that the defendant had converted them to his own use. In this action the plaintiff could not recover the specific chattel, but only damages for its conversion. The action for such damages is now called an action for conversion. trow1 (tro), v. t. [ IMG:content-0953.png:[blocks in formation] a, Lowell pattern brick-trowel; b, bricklayers' trowel; c, London pattern trowel; d, Philadelphia pattern brick-trowel; e, f, g, molders' trowels; h, pointing-trowel; 1, plasterers' trowel; j, corner-trowel; 4, garden-trowels. molders for smoothing the surface of the sand and plaster, and for cutting bricks, and also or loam composing the mold. In one hand Swords, in th' other Trowels hold. 2. A gardeners' tool, like a small spade or scoop, Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. used for taking up plants and for other purposes. See figs. k, above. The truel firste ful ofte it must distreyne. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 16. 3. A tool used in oil-cloth manufacturing to spread paint and remove what may be superfluous. It is made of steel, is 2 feet long, and very elastic, and has a handle near the broad end. To lay on with a trowel, to lay or spread thickly and coarsely; hence, to flatter gro ly. Well said: that was laid on with a trowel . Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 112. trowel (trou'el), v. t.; pret. and pp. troweled, trowelled, ppr. troweling, trowelling. [ IMG:content-0954.png:[blocks in formation] What ails he, trow ? Trowel beak ( Corydon sumatra nus), with outline of beak from above. the shape of the very broad, depre ed beak, which is about as wide at the base as it is long. plural with the same sense: as, the mill-trows. [Scotch.] 2. A boat with an open live-well for fish; a sort of fishing-smack or lighter. To a ist and counseil theym in theire byeng and barganyng with the Bagers, such as bryngeth whete to towne, as wele in trowys as otherwyse, by lande and by watir, in kepyng downe of the market. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 424. trow3 (trou), n. Same as drow3 and troll2 . trow and i set, n. the Rose , 1. 3954. trowantt, a . and n . truant. Same as truandise . Rom . of A Middle English form of