Also Orkney and Shetland word for a troll.
Yet my teasing ways, it seems, are intolerable-- Are women only to tease, I trow?Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Archaic: to believe, think, or suppose.(Origin: bef. 900; ME trowen, OE tréow(i)an to believe, deriv. of tréow belief; akin to ON trūa, G trauen, Goth trauan to trust, believe)
Also Orkney and Shetland word for a troll.
Yet my teasing ways, it seems, are intolerable-- Are women only to tease, I trow?
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Archaic: to believe, think, or suppose.
(Origin: bef. 900; ME trowen, OE tréow(i)an to believe, deriv. of tréow belief; akin to ON trūa, G trauen, Goth trauan to trust, believe)