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Trochi [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Trochus

Trochil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile's mouth.

2. A name given to the golden crowned wren.

3. In zoology, the humming bird or honeysucker, a kind of beautiful little birds, natives of America.

4. In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.

Trochil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The crocodile bird.

Trochili [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A division of birds comprising the humming birds.

Trochili [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Trochilus

Trochilic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having power to draw out or turn round.

Trochilic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.

Trochilics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The science of rotary motion.

Trochilics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work.

Trochilidist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae.

Trochilos [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The crocodile bird, or trochil.

Trochilus [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. TRO'CHILUS

2. TRO'CHINGS, noun The small branches on the top of a deer's head.

Trochilus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.

2. Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets.

3. The crocodile bird.

4. An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.

Troching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the small branches of a stag's antler.

Trochisch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of tablet or lozenge.

Trochisci [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Trochiscus

Trochiscus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.

Trochisk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Trochiscus.

Trochite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In natural history, a kind of figured fossil stone, resembling parts of plants, called St. Cuthbert's beads. These stones are usually of a brownish color; they break like spar, and are easily dissolved in vinegar. Their figure is generally cylindrical, sometimes a little tapering. Two, three or more of these joined, constitute an entrochus.

2. Fossil remains of the shells called trochus.

Trochite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.