Obs. rare. [f. TROW v. (cf. Norse, Sw., Dan. tro).]
1. Belief; faith, trust.
c. 1300. Cursor M., 22722 (Edin.). Þai þat war in dred and dout, Þar-of wit trow [v.rr. trouth, trouþe] he broht þaim out.
[1883. G. Stephens, Bugge’s Stud. N. Mythol., 149. Teaching of the new trow by help of the old.]
2. Fancy, supposition.
14[?]. Beryn, 38. For they that loven so passyngly, such trowes þey have echone.
a. 1536. Calisto & Melib., A iv. Her lyttyll handis in meane maner this is no trow.
3. Faith as pledged, covenant: = TROTH sb. 2.
1515. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., V. 40. For keeping the day of trow.
1634. Malory’s Arthur, IX. viii. (1816), I. 375. Then sir Plenorius yielded him and his tower, and all his prisoners at his will; and then sir Launcelot received him, and took his trow [1470–85 trouthe].
