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

Tropological :: Tropological (a.) Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

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..

Heliograph :: Heliograph (n.) An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3..

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..

Tropeine :: Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

Reotrope :: Reotrope (n.) See Rheotrope.

Breastrope :: Breastrope (n.) See Breastband.

Tralation :: Tralation (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.

Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..

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

Synecdochical :: Synecdoche (n.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc..

Table :: Table (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

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

Heliotroper :: Heliotroper (n.) The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

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..

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

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

Tropist :: Tropist (n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech..

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