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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Trophied
(a.)
Adorned with trophies.
Trophies
(pl. )
of Trophy
Trophonian
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or
his cave and oracle.
Trophosome
(n.)
The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as
distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
Trophosperm
(n.)
The placenta.
Trophy
(n.)
A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of
battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes
trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.
Trophy
(n.)
The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp.
(Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons,
offensive and defensive.
Trophy
(n.)
Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of
victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
Trophy
(n.)
Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every
redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
Tropic
(a.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from
atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance
slightly soluble in water.
Tropic
(n.)
One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere,
situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and
parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination
north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the
northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the
Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they
touch the ecliptic.
Tropic
(n.)
One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude
corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
Tropic
(n.)
The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or
near them on either side.
Tropic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Tropical
(n.)
Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical
climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
Tropical
(n.)
Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being
of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Tropically
(adv.)
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
Tropidine
(n.)
An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical
dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
Tropilidene
(n.)
A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation
of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with
dipropargyl.
Tropine
(n.)
A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by
decomposing atropine.