white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; — called also urao, and by
the ancients nitrum.
Tronage
(Tron"age) n. [From Trone a steelyard.] A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of
weighing wool. [Obs.] Nares.
Tronator
(Tro*na"tor) n. [LL. See Tronage.] An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool. [Obs.]
Trone
(Trone) n. A throne. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Trone
(Trone), n. [Cf. Prov. F. trogne a belly.] A small drain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Trone
(Trone Trones) n. [LL. trona, fr. L. trutina a balance; cf. Gr. .]
1. A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other,
beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] — Trone weight, a weight
formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.
Troop
(Troop) n. [F. troupe, OF. trope, trupe, LL. troppus; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. þorp a hamlet,
village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, E. thorp. Cf. Troupe.]
1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
That which should accompany old age —
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends —
I must not look
to have.
Shak. 2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; — now generally used in the plural.
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars.
Shak.
His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
Macaulay. 3. (Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty
men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry.
Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe.
5. (Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Troop
(Troop), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping.]
1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. "Armies . . . troop to their standard."
Milton.
2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men.
Shak. Troopbird
(Troop"bird`) n. (Zoöl.) Any troupial.
Trooper
(Troop"er), n. A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
