n. (Chem.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (
n. [ L. tropus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover. ] (Rhet.)
In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a feeder, fr. &unr_; to feed. ] (Zool.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_; nursing. See Trophi. ] (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing;
a. Adorned with trophies. [ 1913 Webster ]
The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. Trophonianus, fr. Trophonius, Gr. &unr_;, a Grecian architect, fabled to have been the builder of the first temple of Apollo at Delphi. He was worshiped after death, and had a celebrated oracle in a cave in Bœotia. ] Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; a feeder + -some body. ] (Zool.) The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; a feeder + &unr_; seed: cf. F. trophosperme. See Trophi. ] (Bot.) The placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]
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☞ A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol. [ 1913 Webster ]
Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears,
And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars,
And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Trophy money,