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 (Tropaeolum). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tropus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover. ] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n.; pl. Trophies [ F. trophée (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr. &unr_;, strictly, a monument of the enemy's defeat, fr.&unr_; a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. &unr_; to turn. See Trope. ] 1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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 ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. [ 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 ]

4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia. [ 1913 Webster ]