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Tripolitza – Trunk Fish

Tripolitza

a town of southern Greece, in the province of Arcadia. Previous to the revolution it was the capital of Morea, but Ibrahim Pasha took possession of it in 1828 and razed it to the ground. It has since been rebuilt.

Pop. about 12,000.

Trippant

in heraldry, a term applied to beasts of chase, as passant is to beasts of prey, etc. The animal is represented with the right foot lifted up, and the other three, as it were, on the ground, as if trotting. Counter trippant is when two animals are borne trippant contraryways, as if passing each other out of the field.

Trisagion

one of the doxologies of the Eastern Church, repeated in the form of versicle and responses by the choir in certain parts of the liturgy, and so called from the triple recurrence in it of the word hagios=holy.

Tritone

the augmented fourth in music; that is, a succession of three whole tones. It is not approved for a progression in harmony and is used sparingly, and earlier never.

Trezen

a very ancient Greek city, capital of the S. E. district of Argolis.

It was the birthplace of THESEUS (q. v.).

TROGLODYTE. See CAVE DWELLERS.

Troglodytide

in ornithology, the wrens, a family of Passerine birds with 17 genera and 94 species. They are rather abundant and varied in the Neotropical region, with a few species scattered through the Nearctic, Palæarctic, and parts of the Oriental region. The constitution of the family is by no means well determined.

Trope

in rhetoric, a term applied to a word or expression diverted from its original to a figurative signification, and thus including allegory, irony, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.

Tropine

C8H15NO; an organic base obtained by heating atropine with a saturated solution of baryta water, and precipitating the baryta with carbonic acid gas. It has a strong alkaline reaction, is soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, melts at 62°, and boils at 229°.

From its ethereal solution it crystallizes in colorless anhydrous tables.

Troppo

in music, an Italian term for too much.

Truckee River

a river in California, forming the outlet of Lake Tahoe. It runs nearly N. and enters the State of Nevada, intersecting Washoe county and emptying into Pyramid Lake.

It is nearly 125 miles long and abounds in trout.

Trumpet Flower

a name applied to various large tubular flowers, as those of the Bignonia.

Trunk Fish

a popular name for any species of the genus Ostracion, from the fact that the body is clothed in an TRUNK FISH inflexible armor of hard plates, the tail, fins, and gill openings passing through holes in this coat of mail.