Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Tromped, pt. s. sounded the trumpet, E 1719.

Trompes, pl. trumpeters, 7. 30; A 2671. Trompe occurs in this sense in R. Eden, First Three Books on America, ed. Arber, p. 5, l. 9.

Trompours, pl. trumpeters, A 2671 n.

Tronchoun, s. broken shaft of a spear, A 2615. O. F. tronchon.

Trone, s. throne, T. iv. 1079, 1086; HF. 1384, 1397; A 2529, F 275; throne (of God), heaven, C 842. O. F. trone.

Tropik, s. the turning-point, a name for the solstitial points, A. i. 17. 8, 39.

Tropos, s. a turning; but interpreted by Chaucer to mean 'agaynward,' i.e. backward, A. i. 17. 8. Gk. τρόπος, a turn.

Troste, ger. to trust, L. 253 a. See Truste.

Trotte, v.; Trotteth, pr. s. trots, i.e. goes, is, E 1538; Trotte, imp. s. D 838.

Troublable, adj. disturbing, B 4. m 2. 7.