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Trophi

Trophies and garlands hang around the cartouche. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Trophies and garlands hang around the cartouche. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Illustrations
The trophy has a helmet, shield and crossed rider pistols. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
The trophy has a helmet, shield and crossed rider pistols. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Round shield with combatant cavalry in the center of the trophy.
Round shield with combatant cavalry in the center of the trophy.
Flat decoration with a weapon trophy in a vase at the bottom. From the base of the vase emerge two horns that end in the upper body of a satyr and a female fiddler. They each carry a female figure on their head, who in turn has a child on her head. In the center the head of a satyr.
Flat decoration with a weapon trophy in a vase at the bottom. From the base of the vase emerge two horns that end in the upper body of a satyr and a female fiddler. They each carry a female figure on their head, who in turn has a child on her head. In the center the head of a satyr.
Trophy with crossed carbines and a shield. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Trophy with crossed carbines and a shield. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Late eighteenth-century North Netherlandish drum, painted with a trophy consisting of a drum, two cannons with two powder spoons and bullets, seven flags, two rifles with bayonets, three spikes, sabers, a helmet, a cartridge bag, a stick with a liberty hat and a lion with a bundle of arrows and a scimitar in its claws. The cartridge bag says: 'CONCORDIA'.
Late eighteenth-century North Netherlandish drum, painted with a trophy consisting of a drum, two cannons with two powder spoons and bullets, seven flags, two rifles with bayonets, three spikes, sabers, a helmet, a cartridge bag, a stick with a liberty hat and a lion with a bundle of arrows and a scimitar in its claws. The cartridge bag says: 'CONCORDIA'.
Trophy of arms with cuirass, timpani and wind instruments and at the bottom a saddle with two crossed carbines. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Trophy of arms with cuirass, timpani and wind instruments and at the bottom a saddle with two crossed carbines. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
At the bottom a trophy of arms, in the center soldiers receiving an emperor and at the top women wearing a medallion with the portrait of an emperor. From a series of 6 unnumbered pages.
At the bottom a trophy of arms, in the center soldiers receiving an emperor and at the top women wearing a medallion with the portrait of an emperor. From a series of 6 unnumbered pages.
Parts of a trophy of Octavian Augustus. Three carved shields and a helmet. At the bottom right a page with title and an explanatory list of numbers.
Parts of a trophy of Octavian Augustus. Three carved shields and a helmet. At the bottom right a page with title and an explanatory list of numbers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The ear which the matador slices off the bull is his trophy.
  1. Trophi
    (Zoöl) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The Stanley Cup came from the Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley. Stanley was a fan of hockey and presented a trophy to be contested by the best amateur hockey team in Canada. The amateur HNA would later become to NHL in 1917.
  1. (n) trophi
    In cntom., those mouth-parts which are employed in taking food and preparing it for swallowing. The trophi include the labium, labrum, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua. They were formerly called instrumenta cibaria.
  2. (n) trophi
    The teeth of the mastax or pharynx of rotifers; the calcareous mastacial armature of wheel-animalcules. They are diversiform and often complicated structures. Named parts of the trophi are a median incudal piece, or incus, consisting of a central fulcrum and a pair of rami, and two hammer-like pieces, the malleoli, each consisting of a handle or manubrium and a head or uncus, which is often pectinate.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the winners of the Super Bowl.
  1. (n.pl) Trophi
    the mouth-parts of an insect—labium, labrum, maxillæ, mandibles, lingua: the teeth of the pharynx of a rotifer
Quotations
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Joseph Heller
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary NL., fr. Gr. a feeder, fr. to feed

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Gr. trophē, food.

Usage in the news

The collision broke off the little man on top the trophy. blog.oregonlive.com

View full size Submitted photo Jordan-Elbridge marching band members show off their first-place trophy Sunday after returning from the 2012 Yamaha Cup at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. syracuse.com

From Trophy Property to Fixer-Upper . businessweek.com

Running of the Wheeler-Schebler Trophy Race at Indianapolis in 1909. blog.mlive.com

The Caledonia Warriors hoisted their championship trophy for the crowds to view seconds after it was presented to them following their 27-0 win over Moose Lake/Willow River. hometownargus.com

Saline wins "Snowman Building Champion of the Free World " trophy. michiganradio.org

The finale of the Freightliner Trucks' "Run Smart Hauler Challenge" took place on Oct 13 and Tony Sessions, driver of the #38 hauler for Turner Motorsports, claimed the grand prize and Freightliner Trucks trophy. fleetowner.com

My friend Chris McKenna just sent this video shot by bike evangelist Michael McGettigan of University City's Trophy Bikes. citypaper.net

In one corner is traditional power Shenendehowa a program that has won enough league and Section II titles to fill a trophy case. spotlightnews.com

Also, John Calipari and the University of Kentucky get a championship-trophy cake from a regular Kentucky Cake Boss (Cake Boss. espn.go.com

OMS sixth-grader Ben Varner is ready for bigger cars and bigger trophies. oxfordleader.com

WINSTED, MN – Eight-year-old Connor Fasching has been racing go-kart s for four years and has two bookcases full of trophies to prove it. herald-journal.com

Packers golden boy Hornung adds another trophy to the case. greenbaypressgazette.com

The Oak Creek-Franklin football rivalry is so big, the teams play for a trophy. jsonline.com

JAROMIR JAGR said yesterday that his goal was to push Claude Giroux over the top in the NHL's Art Ross Trophy race during the second half of the season. philly.com

Usage in scientific papers

These arguments do not resist closer examination and the trophy for a hybrid meson is still open.
Non quark-antiquark light meson spectroscopy

Usage in literature

On the following day Alkibiades erected a trophy and ravaged the country of Pharnabazus, no one daring to oppose him. "Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)" by Plutarch

Pigsticking law awards the trophy to the rider whose spear first inflicts a wound on the boar. "The Jungle Girl" by Gordon Casserly

The Lacedaemonians set up a trophy for themselves, and the Athenians another one apart. "Plutarch's Lives, Volume II" by Aubrey Stewart & George Long

We arrived at dark, and at once set to work preparing the trophy. "African Camp Fires" by Stewart Edward White

His head was cut off by the civilized conquerors, and sent as a trophy to Maurice. "The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire" by George Rawlinson

On the contrary, he galloped off; seemingly, quite proud of his trophy. "The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself" by De Witt C. Peters

The trophy we tied with a rope. "The Killer" by Stewart Edward White

I've been making enquiries, and there isn't such a thing as a form trophy. "The Luckiest Girl in the School" by Angela Brazil

Over and over we played the game and a million caresses were lavished upon the trophy. "Football Days" by William H. Edwards

It was a great joy to him to bring the trophies of his struggles to his general. "Georges Guynemer" by Henry Bordeaux

Usage in poetry
The antient pile by time is raz'd,
Where gothic trophies frown'd,
Where once the gilded armour blaz'd,
And banners wav'd around.
"Edwin and Eltruda, a Legendary Tale" by Helen Maria Williams
He moves amid the warriors of the day,
Just such a soldier as the art
That builds its trophies upon human clay
Moulds of a cheerful heart.
"Ripley" by Henry Timrod Author object (292)
And doubts and darkness now are fled:
Ye mourners! mourn not for the dead;
The dead have triumphed. Come and see
The trophies of their victory.
"The Resurrection" by John Bowring Author object (359)
Then full of Heaven, the mystic Dove
Hovering His gracious brow above,
To shun the voice and eye of praise,
And in the wild His trophies raise:-
"Tuesday In Whitsun-Week" by John Keble Author object (382)
Ah! what is science, what is art,
Or what the pleasure these impart?
Ye trophies, which the learn'd pursue
Through endless, fruitless toils, adieu!
"To a Lady of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library" by William Shenstone Author object (719)
'He lives! Britannia warm replies,
As high the trophied urn she rears;
'He lives in Virtue's bursting sighs,
His Country's Praise! -- his Country's Tears!'
"On The Death Of Lieut. Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby. Killed At The Battle Of Alexandria, In Egypt, Marc" by Hector MacNeill