English Dictionary: trow | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trow \Trow\, n. A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Trow \Trow\, v. i. & t. [OE. trowen, AS. tre[a2]wan to trust, believe, fr. tre[a2]w trust, tre[a2]we true, faithful. See {True}.] To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. [Archaic] So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. --Chaucer. A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. --Chaucer. It never yet was worn, I trow. --Tennyson. Note: I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise. What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore? --Shak. What is the matter, trow? --Shak. |