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Tron [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 3d Trone, 2.

Trona [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.

Tronage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Formerly, a toll or duty paid for weighing wool.

Tronage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.

Tronator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An officer in London, whose business was to weigh wool.

Tronator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.

Tronco [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A term in Italian music, directing a note or sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.

Trondhjem Encyclopedia Britannica

TRONDHJEM. See Throndhjem.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 588
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Trone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A provincial word in some parts of England for a small drain.

Trone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A throne.

2. A small drain.

3. Alt. of Trones

Trones [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A steelyard.

2. A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.