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Troop
TROOP, n.
1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. Gen 49. 2 Sam 23. Hosea 7.
That which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have.
2. A body of soldiers. But applied to infantry, it is now used in the plural, troops, and this word signifies soldiers in general, whether more or less numerous, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. We apply the word to a company, a regiment or an army. The captain ordered his troops to halt; the colonel commanded his troops to wheel and take a position on the flank; the general ordered his troops to attack; the troops of France amounted to 400,000 men.
3. Troop, in the singular, a small body or company of cavalry, light horse or dragoons, commanded by a captain.
4. A company of stage-players.
TROOP, v.i. To collect in numbers.
Armies at the call of trumpet,
Troop to their standard.
1. To march in a body.
I do not, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men.
2. To march in haste or in company.
troop appears in definitions for these words:
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Action Advance Advantageous Affair Aggregate Agminal Alarm-post Allocution Along Ambuscade Ambuscaded Ambush Ammunition Animate Arrange Array Auxiliar Auxiliary Band Bastards Battalia Battalion Beset Besieged Bidet Blithe Blockade Brigade Butcher Camp Cantoned Cantonment Capitulate Captain Cavalry Cavin Center Charge Chieftain Collective Colonel Column Command Compel Concentrate Conduct Confident Confinement Confuse Conquest Contest Conversion Convoy Cope Cordon Cornet Corps Cover Croats Cut Debouch Decimate Defeat Defile Degarnish Degarnished Depredate Descent Desperately Detachment Dictate Disarray Disband Discipline Disembark Disencumber Disgracefully Dismount Dismounted Disorder Display Disposable Disposal Dispose Draw Embark Embattle Embody Encampment Ensign Envelop Environ Equestrian Equip Equipage Eruption Escalade Evolution Exclusive Exercise Field First Flank Flat Floating-bridge Flock Flower Force Foremost Form Front Gallantry Gallstone Garnish Garrison Gendarm Generalship Guard Guidon Halt Harangue Head Hem Honor Horse Hourly Hut Ignobly Imbody Impede Imperialist Inclose Incursion Indiction Ineffective Infantry Inform Inglorious Inspector Insuperable Intrepidity Issue Jolly Land Landflood Last Lead Levy Light Maneuver Manioc March Marching Marine Marshal Militia Moony Mossiness Mount Muster Muster-master Muster-roll Nothing Notwithstanding Onset Orb Order Our Outnumber Outpost Panic Parade Park Partisan Party Pervious Phalanx Pibroch Pierce Pillage Plaice Plunge Post Practicability Practice Pram Precipitance Prejudicial Preparation Prepare Quarter Quota Raise Rally Range Ranging Raw Rawness Re-collect Re-enforce Re-enforced Re-enforcement Re-formation Readiness Reanimate Rear-rank Rearward Recall Recruit Regimentals Regular Reinforcement Remunerate Rendezvous Reorganization Repass Reserve Review Round Rout Rush Rutter Sally Scaling-ladder Scantily Select Sell Sergeant Soften Solid Spend Spirit Squadron Squander Square Standard Standard-bearer Station Stipendiary Stipulation Store Storm Straggle Strength Subsidiary Subsidy Subsist Sutler Sweep Take Testudo Tortoise Traitor Transport Treaty Trim Troop Tumbrel Turm Umpire Unconditionally Unconfirmed Undisciplined Undismayed Ungarrisoned Vang Vexillation Victorious Victualer Wait War Ward Wedge Wheel-wright Wheeling Whoop Withdraw Withstand
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