TROGLODYTE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

2.
n.

An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

3.
n.

The wren.


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