certain quantity or number of persons, when a division is made of a city or people into quarters or districts.

Traboli, a town of Asia Minor, on the coast of the Black Sea, curiously built; the houses being scattered along the edges of the precipices and sides of the mountains. The town contains two handsome khans. The port is good, and vessels may ride securely in it in stormy weather. The surrounding hills, though they are uncultivated, afford good pastureage for numerous flocks of sheep and goats. The town contains 400 families. It is seventy-two miles east of Trebisond.

Trichychys, in ancient poetry, a foot consisting of three short syllables; as, melius.