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Trope :: Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech..

Rheotrope :: Rheotrope (n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.

Buntline :: Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in..

Hydrotrope :: Hydrotrope (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Footrope :: Footrope (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse..

Breastrope :: Breastrope (n.) See Breastband.

Trope :: Trope (n.) The word or expression so used.

Tropology :: Tropology (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word..

Boraginaceous :: Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants..

Girasole Girasol :: Girasole Girasol (n.) See Heliotrope.

Stirt :: Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope..

Sematrope :: Sematrope (n.) An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.

Metonymy :: Metonymy (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections..

Reotrope :: Reotrope (n.) See Rheotrope.

Boltrope :: Boltrope (n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) See Bloodstone (a).

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

Bloodstone :: Bloodstone (n.) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope..

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