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Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor. Shak.

Staurolite.

A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

Somewhat rotund.

An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.

Symphyseotomy.

A game of cards; -- called also taroc. Hoyle.

The throttle valve. Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axi…

One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Tricrotic.

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

Belief; faith; fidelity. Bid her alight And hertroth plight. Shak.

Faitless; false; treacherous. Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax.

To betroth. [Obs.]

Having fidelity pledged.

One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

Footpath; pavement; sidewalk. Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.