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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.

The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

iage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir. Spenser. Ay, and we are betrothed. Shak.

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

Living among bogs.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.

To cause or produce electrotonus.