TROW (2)

Trow (?), v. i. & t. [[OE. trowen, AS. treówan to trust, believe, fr. treów trust, treówe true, faithful. See True.]] To believe; to trust; to think or suppose. So that ye trow in Christ, and you baptize. Chaucer. A better priest, I trow, there nowhere none is. Chaucer. It never yet was worn, I trow. Tennyson. ☞ I trow, or trow alone, was formerly sometimes added to questions to express contemptuous or indignant surprise. What tempest, I trow, threw this whale . . . ashore? Shak. What is the matter, trow? Shak.