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Table
Ta"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing
(?).]
1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.]
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by
alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping;
to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a
formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till
called for, or indefinitely.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in
order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Table
Ta"ble, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
[Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the
beasts." South.
Tableau
Ta`bleau" (?), n.; pl. Tableaux (#). [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a
painting. See Table.]
1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the
proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent
and motionless.
Tableau vivant
Ta`bleau" vi`vant" (?); pl. Tableaux vivants (#). [F.] Same as
Tableau, n., 2.
Tablebook
Ta"ble*book` (?), n. A tablet; a notebook.
Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.
Tablecloth
Ta"ble*cloth` (?), n. A cloth for covering a table, especially one
with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for
meals.
Table d'h\'93te
Ta"ble d'h\'93te" (?); pl. Tables d'h\'93te (#). [F., literally, table
of the landlord.] A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
Table-land
Ta"ble-land` (?), n. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining
table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.
Tableman
Ta"ble*man (?), n.; pl. Tablemen (. A man at draughts; a piece used in
playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.
Tablement
Ta"ble*ment (?), n. (Arch.) A table. [Obs.]
Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.
Tabler
Ta"bler (?), n.
1. One who boards. [Obs.]
2. One who boards others for hire. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Tablespoon
Ta"ble*spoon` (?), n. A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the
table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Tablespoonful
Ta"ble*spoon`ful (?), n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls (. As much as a
tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually
reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
Tablet
Ta"blet (?), n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
1. A small table or flat surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or
engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn
as a preservative against the plague.
6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of
dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat
squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a
round or rounded form.
Tableware
Ta"ble*ware` (?), n. Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Tabling
Ta"bling (?), n.
1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores
or projections, as in shipbuilding.
3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.
4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).
5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.]
Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.
Taboo
Ta*boo" (?), n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or
approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an
interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the
islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]
Taboo
Ta*boo", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabooing.]
To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict
approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a
sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]
Tabor
Ta"bor (?), n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor,
Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb a kind
of lute, or giutar, or Per. tab\'c6r a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.]
(Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both
being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]
Tabor
Ta"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taboring.]
[Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.]
1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.
Tabor
Ta"bor, v. t. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Taborer
Ta"bor*er (?), n. One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
Taboret
Tab"o*ret (?), n. [Dim. of tabor. Cf. Tabret.] (Mus.) A small tabor.
[Written also tabouret.]
Taborine
Tab"o*rine (?), n. [OF. tabourin, F. tambourin. See Tabor, and cf.
Tambourine.] (Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Taborite
Ta"bor*ite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who
suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from
Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their
struggles.
Tabour
Ta"bour (?), n. & v. See Tabor.
Tabouret
Tab"ou*ret (?), n. [F., dim. of OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See Tabor.]
1. Same as Taboret.
2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool;
-- so called from its resemblance to a drum.
3. An embroidery frame. Knight.
Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the
presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high
rank at the French court.
Tabrere
Tab"rere (?), n. A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tabret
Tab"ret (?), n. A taboret. Young.
Tabu
Ta*bu" (?), n. & v. See Taboo.
Tabula
Tab"u*la (?), n.; pl. Tabul\'91 (#). [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of
certain corals and hydroids.
Tabula rasa ( [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind
in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a
term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory
opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
Tabular
Tab"u*lar (?), a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See
Table.] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the
uses of the word). Specifically: -- (a) Having a flat surface; as, a
tabular rock. (b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.
(c) Set in squares. [R.] (d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular
statistics. (e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as,
tabular right ascension. Tabular difference (Math.), the difference
between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its
proper place in the table. -- Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.
Tabularization
Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of
being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tabularize
Tab"u*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tabularizing (?).] To tabulate.
Tabulata
Tab`u*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zo\'94l.) An
artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse
septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are
examples. <-- ## note that Pocillopora is italicised but not listed
separately in this dictionary. Favosites is not italicised, and has an
entry as a headword. Is that the difference between italicisation or
not for genus names? -->
Tabulate
Tab"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.]
1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be
tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
Tabulation
Tab`u*la"tion (?), n. The act of forming into a table or tables; as,
the tabulation of statistics.
Tac
Tac (?), n. [Cf. Tack, n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary
payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
Tacamahac, Tacamahaca
Tac"a*ma*hac` (?), Tac`a*ma*ha"ca (?), n.
1. A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of
the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from
East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous
exhudation of the balsam poplar.
2. (Bot.) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North
America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
Tacaud
Ta*caud" (?), n. [Cf. F. tacaud. See Tomcod.] (Zo\'94l.) The bib, or
whiting pout. [Prov. Eng.]
Tace
Tace (?), n. The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6),
under Cross, n. Mollett.
Tace
Tace, n. See Tasse. Fairholt.
Tacet
Ta"cet (?), v.impers. [L., it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of tacere to be
silent.] (Mus.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or
instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
Tache
Tache (?), n. [See Tack a kind of nail.] Something used for taking
hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [Obs.] Ex. xxvi. 6.
Tache
Tache, n. [F. tache spot. See Techy.] A spot, stain, or blemish.
[Obs.] Warner.
Tachhydrite
Tach*hy"drite (?), n. [Gr. (Min.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and
magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon
exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
Tachina
Tach"i*na (?), n.; pl. Tachin\'91 (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any
one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied
genera. Their larv\'91 are external parasites of other insects.
Tachometer
Ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. -meter: cf. F. tachom\'8atre.] An
instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the
velocity, of a moving body or substance. Specifically: -- (a) An
instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or
canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by
the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork. (b)
An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving
shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is
driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves
a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial. (c)
(Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a
h\'91matachometer.
Tachydidaxy
Tach"y*di*dax`y (?), n. [Gr. A short or rapid method of instructing.
[R.]
Tachyglossa
Tach`y*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A division of
monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New
Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.
Tachygraphic, Tachygraphical
Tach`y*graph"ic (?), Tach`y*graph"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F.
tachygraphique.] Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in
shorthand.
Tachygraphy
Ta*chyg"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy: cf. F. tachygraphie.] The art or
practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor
(The Alphabet).
Tachylyte
Tach"y*lyte (?), n. [Gr. (Min.) A vitreous form of basalt; -- so
called because decompposable by acids and readily fusible.
Tacit
Tac"it (?), a. [L. tacitus, p.p. of tacere to be silent, to pass over
in silence; akin to Goth. to be silent, Icel. , OHG. dag\'c7n: cf. F.
tacite. Cf. Reticent.] Done or made in silence; implied, but not
expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not
interposing an objection. -- Tac"it*ly, adv.
The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil
contracts. Jer. Taylor.
Taciturn
Tac"i*turn (?), a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See Tacit.]
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. --
Tac"i*turn*ly, adv. Syn. -- Silent; reserved. Taciturn, Silent. Silent
has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent
from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious
man is at times silent; one who is taciturn may now and then make an
effort at conversation.
Taciturnity
Tac`i*tur"ni*ty (?), n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnit\'82.]
Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.
The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the
company of strangers. V. Knox.
The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense.
Macaulay.
Tack
Tack (?), n. [From an old or dialectal form of F. tache. See Techy.]
1. A stain; a tache. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. L. tactus.] A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
[Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.
Tack
Tack, n. [OE. tak, takke, a fastening; akin to D. tak a branch, twig,
G. zacke a twig, prong, spike, Dan. takke a tack, spike; cf. also Sw.
tagg prickle, point, Icel. t\'beg a willow twig, Ir. taca a peg, nail,
fastening, Gael. tacaid, Armor. & Corn. tach; perhaps akin to E. take.
Cf. Attach, Attack, Detach, Tag an end, Zigzag.]
1. A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat
head.
2. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t.,
3. Macaulay.
Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp.
Burnet.
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3. (Naut.) (a) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners
of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship);
also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to
the boom. (b) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually
fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of
schooners (see Illust. of Sail). (c) The direction of a vessel in
regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack;
-- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard
side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of
direction.
4. (Scots Law) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let,
for hire; a lease. Burrill.
5. Confidence; reliance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tack of a flag (Naut.), a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the
hoist for securing the flag to the halyards. -- Tack pins (Naut.),
belaying pins; -- also called jack pins. -- To haul the tacks aboard
(Naut.), to set the courses. -- To hold tack, to last or hold out.
Milton.
Tack
Tack (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking.]
[Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. take. See Tack
a small nail.]
1. To fasten or attach. "In hopes of getting some commendam tacked to
their sees." Swift.
And tacks the center to the sphere. Herbert.
2. Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by
stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to
tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to
tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
3. In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append;
-- often with on or to. Macaulay.
4. (Naut.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing
closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails
so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her
former course.
NOTE: &hand; In ta cking, a ve ssel is brought to point at first
directly to windward, and then so that the wind will blow against
the other side.
Tack
Tack, v. i. (Naut.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting
the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to
have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails.
See Tack, v. t., 4.
Monk, . . . when he wanted his ship to tack to larboard, moved the
mirth of his crew by calling out, "Wheel to the left." Macaulay.
Tacker
Tack"er (?), n. One who tacks.
Tacket
Tack"et (?), n. [Dim. of tack a small nail.] A small, broad-headed
nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Tackey
Tack"ey (?), a. & n. See Tacky.
Tacking
Tack"ing, n. (Law) A union of securities given at different times, all
of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can
interpose his claim. Bouvier.
NOTE: &hand; Th e doctrine of tacking is not recognized in American
law.
Kent.
Tackle
Tac"kle (?; sometimes improperly pronounced ?, especially by seamen),
n. [OE. takel, akin to LG. & D. takel, Dan. takkel, Sw. tackel;
perhaps akin to E. taw, v.t., or to take.]
1. Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a
rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as
distinct from the block.
2. Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved
or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly,
specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.
NOTE: &hand; In Chaucer, it denotes usually an arrow or arrows.
3. (Naut.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase
where more than one block is used.
Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See
under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle (Naut.), anchors, cables, etc. --
Gun tackle, the apparatus or appliances for hauling cannon in or out.
-- Tackle fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle,
to which the power is applied. -- Tack tackle (Naut.), a small tackle
to pull down the tacks of the principal sails. -- Tackle board, Tackle
post (Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk,
for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.
Tackle
Tac"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tackled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tackling.]
[Cf. LG. takeln to equip. See Tackle, n.]
1. To supply with tackle. Beau. & Fl.
2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a
horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]
3. To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his
antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and strength in
tackling windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her
defeat. Dublin Univ. Mag.
<-- 4. (Football) To cause the ball carrier to fall to the ground,
thus ending the forward motion of the ball. 5. To begin to deal with;
as, to tackle the problem. -->
Tackled
Tac"kled (?), a. Made of ropes tacked together.
My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled
stair. Shak.
Tackling
Tac"kling, n. (Naut.)
1. Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails,
etc.
2. Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling. Walton.
3. The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a
carriage, or the like; harness.
Tacksman
Tacks"man (?), n.; pl. Tacksmen (. (Scots Law) One who holds a tack or
lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. Sir W. Scott.
The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the "peerage" of the
little community, must be the captains. Macaulay.
Tacky
Tack"y (?), a. [Cf. Techy, Tack a spot.] Sticky; adhesive; raw; --
said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.] <-- 2. In
poor taste; appearing cheap; gaudy; unstylish. Broadly used to
describe objects whose style is disapproved of by the speaker. 3.
Tactless; in poor taste; -- used to describe behavior. -->
Taconic
Ta*con"ic (?), a. (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of
rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were
once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to
belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Tact
Tact (?), n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere, tactum, to
touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.]
1. The sense of touch; feeling.
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as
well as sight? Southey.
Now, sight is a very refined tact. J. Le Conte.
2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception
or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required
by circumstances.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those
of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and
wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay.
A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of
her sex surpassed the tact of ours. Macaulay.
Tactable
Tac"ta*ble (?), a. Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They
[women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.
Tactic, Tactical
Tac"tic (?), Tac"tic*al (?), a. [Gr. tactics.] Of or pertaining to the
art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
Tactic
Tac"tic (?), n. See Tactics.
Tactician
Tac*ti"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. tacticien.] One versed in tactics; hence,
a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager. <-- as, a skilled
parliamentary tactician. -->
Tactics
Tac"tics (?), n. [Gr. tactique.]
1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order
for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is
divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary
tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
2. Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Tactile
Tac"tile (?), a. [L. tactilis, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F.
tactile.] Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch;
perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched;
as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets."
Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.),
the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch.
The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the
skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the
forearm. H. N. Martin.
Tactility
Tac*til"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. tactilit\'82.] The quality or state of
being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Taction
Tac"tion (?), n. [L. tactio, from tangere, tactum, to touch.] The act
of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction."
Chesterfield.
Tactless
Tact"less (?), a. Destitute of tact.
Tactual
Tac"tu*al (?), a. [See Tact.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the
sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused
over the entire body. Tyndall.
Tadpole
Tad"pole` (?), n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t\'bedie, t\'bedige) + poll;
properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage
it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first
destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig,
polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]
Tadpole fish. (Zo\'94l.) See Forkbeard (a).
T\'91dium
T\'91"di*um (?), n. [L.] See Tedium.
Tael
Tael (?), n. [Malay ta, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. tola,
Skr. tul\'be a balance, weight, tul to weigh.] A denomination of
money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a
dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
[Written also tale.]
Taen, OR Ta'en
Taen (?), OR Ta'en, p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.
[Poetic & Scot.] Burns.
T\'91nia
T\'91"ni*a (?), n.; pl. T\'91ni\'91 (#). [L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common
tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and
lines of nervous matter in the brain.
3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze,
separating it from the architrave.
T\'91niada
T\'91*ni"a*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as T\'91nioidea.
T\'91niata
T\'91`ni*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. taenia a ribbon.] (Zo\'94l.) A
division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike
body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
T\'91nidium
T\'91*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. T\'91nidia (#). [NL., dim. fr. L. taenia a
ribbon.] (Zo\'94l.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of
the trache\'91 of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
T\'91nioglossa
T\'91`ni*o*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An extensive
division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and
narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large
number of families both marine and fresh-water.
T\'91nioglossate
T\'91`ni*o*glos"sate (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
T\'91nioglossa.
T\'91nioid
T\'91"ni*oid (?), a. [T\'91nia + -oid.]
1. Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Like or pertaining to T\'91nia.
T\'91nioidea
T\'91`ni*oi"de*a (?), n. pl. (Zo\'94l.) The division of cestode worms
which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
T\'91niola
T\'91*ni"o*la (?), n.; pl. T\'91niol\'91 (#). [L., dim. of taenia a
ribbon.] (Zo\'94l.) One of the radial partitions which separate the
internal cavities of certain medus\'91.
T\'91niosomi
T\'91`ni*o*so"mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order of
fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon
fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
Tafferer
Taf"fer*er (?), n. (Naut.) See Taffrail.
Taffeta, Taffety
Taf"fe*ta (?), Taf"fe*ty (?), n. [F. taffetas, It. taffet\'85, from
Per. t\'beftah, originally, twisted, woven, from t\'beftan to twist,
to spin.] A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster
called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of
silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.
Taffrail
Taff"rail (?), n. [D. tafereel a panel, picture, fr. tafel table, fr.
L. tabula. See Table.] (Naut.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which
is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved
work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]
Taffy
Taf"fy (?), n. [Prov. E. taffy toffy.]
1. A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and
poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]
2. Flattery; soft phrases. [Slang]
Tafia
Taf"i*a (?), n. [Cf. F. & Sp. tafia, It. taffia; fr. Malay t\'bef\'c6a
a spirit distilled from molasses. Cf. Ratafia.] A variety of rum.
[West Indies]
Tag
Tag (?), n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a
prickle, point, tooth.]
1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight
hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or
lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. <-- Tag sale.
[From the price tag usually attached to each item] A sale of usually
used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or
bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a
location which is not a normal retail establishment.
NOTE: Frequently it is he ld in th e pr ivate ho me or in a yard
attached to a private home belonging to the seller. Similar to a
yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea market, where used items are
sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.
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Tag
Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging (?).]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay.
His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning
word. Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of
tag. See Tag, a play.
Tag
Tag, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with
after; as, to tag after a person.
Tag
Tag, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's play in which one
runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being
touched.
Tagbelt
Tag"belt` (?), n. (Far.) Same as Tagsore. [Obs.]
Tagger
Tag"ger (?), n.
1. One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
2. That which is pointed like a tag.
Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.
3. pl. Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. Knight.
4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep. Knight. <-- [Colloq.]
One who spray-paints a distinctive logo on a wall or other property
not his own. -->
Taglet
Tag"let (?), n. A little tag.
Taglia
Tagl"ia (?), n. [It., a cutting, a pulley, from tagliare to cut. See
Tailor.] (Mech.) A peculiar combination of pulleys. Brande & C.
Tagliacotain
Tagl`ia*co"tain (?), a. (Surg.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a
Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of
rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]
Taglioni
Tagl*io"ni (?), n. A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so
named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable
greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel. Sir W. Scott.
Taglock
Tag"lock` (?), n. An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.
Tagnicate
Tag"ni*cate (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The white-lipped peccary.
Tag-rag
Tag"-rag` (?), n. & a. [See Tag an end, and Rag.] The lowest class of
people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true
man. Shak.
Tagsore
Tag"sore` (?), n. (Far.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool
from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also
tagbelt. [Obs.]
Tagtail
Tag"tail` (?), n.
1. A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
2. A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the
latter; a hanger-on.
Taguan
Tag"u*an (?), n. [From the native name in the East Indies.] (Zo\'94l.)
A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two
feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
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Taguicati
Ta`gui*ca"ti (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zo\'94l.) The
white-lipped peccary.
Taha
Ta"ha (?), n. The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis
texor).
Tahaleb
Ta*ha"leb (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A fox (Vulpes
Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
Tahitian
Ta*hi"ti*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the
Pacific Ocean. -- n. A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
Tahr
Tahr (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Thar.
Tail
Tail (?), n. [F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law)
Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged,
or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the
other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.
Tail
Tail, a. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Tail
Tail, n. [AS. t\'91gel, t\'91gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw.
tagel, Goth. tagl hair. \'fb59.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage
of an animal.
NOTE: &hand; Th e tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of
movable vertebr\'91, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales
like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds
consists of several more or less consolidated vertebr\'91 which
supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more
particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering
hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term tail is
sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect,
and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape
or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those
tails that hang on willow trees. Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as
opposed to the head, or the superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut. xxviii.
13.
4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on." Sir W.
Scott.
5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy,
or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads
or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of
deciding some point by its fall.
6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achens. It is
formed of the permanent elongated style.
8. (Surg.) (a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end,
which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more
painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing. (b) One of
the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one
or more times.
9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be
lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or
downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
11. pl. Same as Tailing, 4.
12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a
slate or tile.
13. pl. (Mining) See Tailing, n., 5.
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail coverts (Zo\'94l.), the
feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes
much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the
quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under
tail coverts. -- Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the
tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as
Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending
from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a
direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter
part of it, when the wind has greatly abated. Totten. -- Tail of a
lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. --
Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to
break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in
advancing the lines of approach. -- Tail spindle, the spindle of the
tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- To turn
tail, to run away; to flee.
Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way;
but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.
Tail
Tail, v. t.
1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as
that which can not be evaded. [Obs.]
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was
tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next
Parliament. Fuller.
2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras.
To tail in OR on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or
some other support; as, to tail in a timber.
Tail
Tail, v. i.
1. (Arch.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon
a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
2. (Naut.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of
a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Tail on. (Naut.) See Tally on, under Tally.
Tailage
Tail"age (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) See Tallage.
Tail-bay
Tail"-bay` (?), n.
1. (Arch.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the
other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest
girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
Tailblock
Tail"block` (?), n. (Naut.) A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
Tailboard
Tail"board` (?), n. The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon,
which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or
unloading.
Tailed
Tailed (?), a. Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails;
-- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
Tailing
Tail"ing (?), n.
1. (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Gwilt.
2. (Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing
and winnowing; chaff.
5. pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail
of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure
whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.
Taille
Taille (?), n. [F. See Tally, Tailor.]
1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.]
Whether that he paid or took by taille. Chaucer.
2. (O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord,
upon his subjects.
The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example
of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the
farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm.
A. Smith.
3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the
tenor viol or viola.
Tailless
Tail"less (?), a. Having no tail. H. Spencer.
Taillie
Tail"lie (?), n. (Scots Law) Same as Tailzie.
Tailor
Tai"lor (?), n. [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F.
tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for
planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.]
1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also,
one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's
tailor. Shak.
2. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b)
The silversides.
3. (Zo\'94l.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Salt-water tailor (Zo\'94l.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. --
Tailor bird (Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic
and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and
allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves
together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda,
which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green,
and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O.
coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back
and wings pale olive-green.
Tailor
Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.]
To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M.
Green.
Tailoress
Tai"lor*ess, n. A female tailor.
Tailoring
Tai"lor*ing, adv. The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Tailpiece
Tail"piece` (?), n.
1. A piece at the end; an appendage.
2. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor
framing. See Illust. of Header.
3. (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill
up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.
4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a
violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Tailpin
Tail"pin" (?), n. (Mach.) The center in the spindle of a turning
lathe.
Tailrace
Tail"race` (?), n.
1. See Race, n., 6.
2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are
conducted away.
Tailstock
Tail"stock` (?), n. The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which
carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports
the live spindle.
Tail-water
Tail"-wa`ter (?), n. Water in a tailrace.
Tailzie
Tail"zie (-z&icr; OR -y&icr;), n. [F. tailler to cut. See Tail a
limitation.] (Scots Law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal
course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
[Written also tailzee.]
Tain
Tain (?), n. [OE. tein, teyne; cf. Icel. teinn a twig, akin to AS.
t\'ben, Goth. tains.] Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
Knight.
Taint
Taint (?), n. [Cf. F. atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See Attaint.]
1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.]
This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath.
Chapman.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being
broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable
or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
Taint
Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tainted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tainting.] To
thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
Taint
Taint, v. t.
1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a
lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely. Massinger.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. [Obs.]
They tainted each other on the helms and passed by. Ld. Berners.
Taint
Taint, v. t. [F. teint, p.p. of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere,
tinctum. See Tinge, and cf. Tint.]
1. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with
something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect;
to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
2. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. Shak.
Syn. -- To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease;
vitiate; poison.
Taint
Taint (?), v. i.
1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something
corrupting.
I can not taint with fear. Shak.
2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in
warm weather.
Taint
Taint, n.
1. Tincture; hue; color; tinge. [Obs.]
2. Infection; corruption; deprivation.
He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was
beyond the power of medicine to remove. Macaulay.
3. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
Taintless
Taint"less, a. Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taintlessly
Taint"less*ly, adv. In a taintless manner.
Tainture
Tain"ture (?), n. [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.]
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.] Shak.
Taintworm
Taint"worm` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect
larva.
Taira
Tai"ra (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tayra.
Tairn
Tairn (?), n. See Tarn. Coleridge.
Tait
Tait (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian
marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a
long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey
and insects. Called also noolbenger.
Taja\'87u, Tajassu
Ta*ja\'87"u, Ta*jas"su (?), n. [Pg. taja\'87\'a3, from Braz.
taya\'87\'a3 a hog or swine.] (Zo\'94l.) The common, or collared,
peccary.
Take
Take (?), obs. p. p. of Take. Taken. Chaucer.
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Take
Take, v. t. [imp. Took (?); p. p. Takend (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.]
[Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t\'c7kan to touch; of
uncertain origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or
otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure;
to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically: -- (a) To
obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or
control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to
capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a
ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize;
-- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27.
Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves
are wise, but others weak. Pope.
They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with
sickness. Bacon.
There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine
yield blood. Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to
engage; to interest; to charm.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25.
Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no
patience. Wake.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen
features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their
imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have
recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan
was taken. 1 Sam. xiv. 42.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take
for the destroying . . . of sinners. Hammond.
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it
takes so much cloth to make a coat.
This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. I.
Watts.
(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to
take picture of a person.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden.
(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to
a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most
lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's
self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy
or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as
a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following
complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I
take the liberty to say. (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child
to church. (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
He took me certain gold, I wot it well. Chaucer.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the
breath from one; to take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to
acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: -- (a) To accept, as something
offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Num.
xxxv. 31.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim.
v. 10.
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to
swallow; as, to take food or wine. (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to
undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. (d) To bear
without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure;
as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man. (e) To admit,
as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to
accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand;
to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to
take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men
for spies.
You take me right. Bacon.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the
science love of God and our neighbor. Wake.
[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice
in a disguise. South.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to
submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses;
as, to take a form or shape.
I take thee at thy word. Rowe.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold.
Dryden.
To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under
Aback, Advantage, etc. -- To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to
aim. -- To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. -- To take arms, to
commence war or hostilities. -- To take away, to carry off; to remove;
to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away
the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away."
Dryden. -- To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self. -- To take care, to
exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for
oxen?" 1 Cor. ix. 9. -- To take care of, to have the charge or care
of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. -- To take down. (a) To
reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take
down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble;
as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be
impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow;
as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to
take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to
take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect,
To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the
right OR to the left (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left;
to move, as troops, to the right or left. -- To take heart, to gain
confidence or courage; to be encouraged. -- To take heed, to be
careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give."
Dryden. -- To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways. -- To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. -- To take horse, to
mount and ride a horse. -- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b)
To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into
a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To
admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win
by conquest. [Obs.]
For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman.
(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can
take in a long train of propositions." I. Watts. (h) To receive
regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.] -- To
take in hand. See under Hand. -- To take in vain, to employ or utter
as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in
vain." Ex. xx. 7. -- To take issue. See under Issue. -- To take leave.
See Leave, n., 2. -- To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to
receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. -- To
take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. --
To take notice of. See under Notice. -- To take oath, to swear with
solemnity, or in a judicial manner. -- To take off. (a) To remove, as
from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as,
to take off a load; to take off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as, to take
off the head, or a limb. (c) To destroy; as, to take off life. (d) To
remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument. (e)
To withdraw; to call or draw away. Locke. (f) To swallow; as, to take
off a glass of wine. (g) To purchase; to take in trade. "The Spaniards
having no commodities that we will take off." Locke. (h) To copy; to
reproduce. "Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (i) To
imitate; to mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of;
as, more scholars than preferments can take off. [R.] Bacon. <-- to
begin to fly; -- said of an airplane, or of a person operating an
airplane or other flying device. --> -- To take on, to assume; to take
upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. -- To
take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures
of one's own choice. -- To take order for. See under Order. -- To take
order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take
orders. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter
some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. -- To take out. (a) To
remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out;
to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot
from cloth. (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
<-- "produce"?? better, "obtain" --> (d) To put an end to; as, to take
the conceit out of a man. (e) To escort; as, to take out to dinner.<--
usu. paying the expenses --> -- To take over, to undertake; to take
the management of. [Eng.] Cross (Life of G. Eliot). -- To take part,
to share; as, they take part in our rejoicing. -- To take part with,
to unite with; to join with.<-- take part in = participate in --> --
To take place, root, sides, stock, etc. See under Place, Root, Side,
etc. -- To take the air. (a) (Falconry) To seek to escape by trying to
rise higher than the falcon; -- said of a bird. (b) See under Air. --
To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. -- To take thought, to be
concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27. -- To take
to heart. See under Heart. -- To take to task, to reprove; to censure.
-- <-- to take to the air, to take off. --> To take up. (a) To lift;
to raise. Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a
lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to
fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to
occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of
room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the
finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion."
Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to
take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
The ancients took up experiments upon credit. Bacon.
(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange.
(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous
succession.
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous
tale. Addison.
<-- The second volume takes up where the first left off. --> (l) To
assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up
the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take
up our old trade of conquering." Dryden. (m) To comprise; to include.
"The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years."
Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting;
to espouse the cause of; to favor. Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To collect; to
exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up
commodities upon our bills." Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take
up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of
parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in
sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] Shak. <-- (s) To accept from someone, as a wager or a
challenge. "J. took M. up on his challenge." --> -- To take up arms.
Same as To take arms, above. -- To take upon one's self. (a) To
assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the
fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow
to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment. -- To take up the gauntlet. See under
Gauntlet.
Take
Take (?), v. i.
1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended
effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus
did not take. Shak.
When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon.
In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is
overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon.
2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it,
if the thing should take. Addison.
3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to
proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed,
took to the hedge.
4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does
not take well.
To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he
takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after
his father. -- To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take
on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent
manner. -- To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to
become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but
take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him."
Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning,
who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than
men of the world." Addison. -- To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.]
"Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion."
Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] Locke. -- To take up with. (a) To be
contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with;
as, to take up with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an
extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up
with probabilities." I. Watts. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with.
[Obs.] L'Estrange. -- To take with, to please. Bacon.
Take
Take, n.
1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at
one haul or catch.
2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
Take-in
Take"-in` (?), n. Imposition; fraud. [Colloq.]
Taken
Tak"en (?), p. p. of Take.
Take-off
Take"-off` (?), n. An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
Taker
Tak"er (?), n. One who takes or receives; one who catches or
apprehended.
Take-up
Take"-up` (?), n. (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens;
specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack
thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
Taking
Tak"ing (?), a.
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting.
Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller.
2. Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. --
Tak"ing*ness, n.
Taking
Tak"ing, n.
1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.]
What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the
basket! Shak.
3. Malign influence; infection. [Obs.] Shak.
Taking-off
Tak"ing-off` (?), n. Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take,
v. t.
The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
Talapoin
Tal"a*poin (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus,
OR Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.
Talaria
Ta*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [L., from talaris pertaining to the ankles, fr.
talus ankle.] (Class. Myth.) Small wings or winged shoes represented
as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.
Talbot
Tal"bot (?), n. A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit
of game. [Obs.] Wase (1654).
NOTE: &hand; The figure of a dog is borne in the arms of the Talbot
family, whence, perhaps, the name.
Talbotype
Tal"bo*type (?), n. (Photog.) Same as Calotype.
Talc
Talc (?), n. [F. talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL. talcus; all fr. Ar.
talq.] (Min.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish,
or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact
texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc
slate.
Talcose, Talcous
Tal*cose" (?), Talc"ous (?), a. [Cf. F. talqueux.] (Min.) Of or
pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
Tale
Tale (?), n. See Tael.
Tale
Tale, n. [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D. taal speech,
language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal, tala, number, speech,
Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech, Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf.
Tell, v. t., Toll a tax, also Talk, v. i.]
1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of
what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
"The tale of Troy divine." Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's
tale." Chaucer.
We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration;
a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or
stated.
The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. Hooker.
And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale.
Milton.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.
3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.]
To tell tale of, to make account of. [Obs.]
Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his
heart. Chaucer.
Syn. -- Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account;
legend; narrative.
Tale
Tale (?), v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
Talebearer
Tale"bear`er (?), n. One who officiously tells tales; one who
impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc.,
and makes mischief.
Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to
inflame her resentment. Macaulay.
Talebearing
Tale"bear`ing, a. Telling tales officiously.
Talebearing
Tale"bear`ing, n. The act of informing officiously; communication of
sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.
Taled
Ta"led (?), n. (Jewish Antiq.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth
put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.
Taleful
Tale"ful (?), a. Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.
Talegalla
Tal`e*gal"la (?), n. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of Australian birds
which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.
Talent
Tal"ent (?), n. [F., fr. L. talentum a talent (in sense 1), Gr.
tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t.,
Tolerate.]
1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money
equal to 60 min\'91 or 6,000 drachm\'91. The Attic talent, as a
weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver
money, its value was \'9c243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents.
Jowett (Thucid.).
2. Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver
it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about
93
3. Inclination; will; disposition; desire. [Obs.]
They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit.
Chaucer.
4. Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or
capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in
business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably
originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv.
14-30).
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a
critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes. Dryden.
His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him
generally popular. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Ability; faculty; gift; endowment. See Genius.
Talented
Tal"ent*ed, a. Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent;
mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).
NOTE: &hand; Th is wo rd has been strongly objected to by Coleridge
and some other critics, but, as it would seem, upon not very good
grounds, as the use of talent or talents to signify mental ability,
although at first merely metaphorical, is now fully established,
and talented, as a formative, is just as analogical and legitimate
as gifted, bigoted, moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and numerous
other adjectives having a participal form, but derived directly
from nouns and not from verbs.
Tales
Ta"les (?), n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl.
Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the
courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors
regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount.
Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are
summoned. Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are
admitted of the tales. Blount. Craig. -- Tales de circumstantibus
[L.], such, or the like, from those standing about.
Talesman
Tales"man (?), n.; pl. Talesmen (. (Law) A person called to make up a
deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.
Taleteller
Tale"tell`er (?), n. One who tells tales or stories, especially in a
mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
Talewise
Tale"wise` (?), adv. In a way of a tale or story.
Taliacotian
Tal"ia*co`tian (?), a. See Tagliacotian.
Taliation
Tal`i*a"tion (?), n. Retaliation. [Obs.]
Just heav'n this taliation did decree. Beaumont.
Talion
Ta"li*on (?), n. [F., fr. L. talio, perh. fr. talis such. Cf.
Retaliation.] Retaliation. [R.] Holinshed.
Talipes
Tal"i*pes (?), n. [NL., fr. L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis, a foot;
cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet, properly, to walk on the
ankles.] (Surg.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
NOTE: &hand; Se veral va rieties ar e di stinguished; as , Ta lipes
varus, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in
which the foot is bent outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces
backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and T.
calcaneus (called also talus), in which the sole faces forward and
the patient walks upon the heel.
Talipot
Tal"i*pot (?), n. [Hind. t\'belp\'bet the leaf of the tree.] (Bot.) A
beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of
Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet
high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as
umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into
strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
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Talisman
Tal"is*man (?), n.; pl. Talismans (#). [Sp., from Ar. tilism, tilsam,
a magical image, pl. tilsam\'ben, fr. Gr.
1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious
observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful
effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a
heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic
stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive
its influence.
2. Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in
averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to
avert diseases. Swift.
Talismanic, Talismanical
Tal`is*man"ic (?), Tal`is*man"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. talismanique.] Of
or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or
preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
Talk
Talk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.]
[Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or
OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak
indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to
interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti,
tulk\'d3ti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about;
or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).]
1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in
familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you,
and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.
2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1.
3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors
talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of
Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage
done." Addison. -- To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove
gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
Talk
Talk, v. t.
1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to
talk French.
2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of
conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to
talk away an evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves
mad." Shak.
To talk over. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to
deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To
change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk
over an opponent.
Talk
Talk, n.
1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual
discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation,
or the mutual converse of two or more.
In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope.
Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too
commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference;
communication. See Conversation.
Talkative
Talk"a*tive (?), a. Given to much talking. Syn. -- Garrulous;
loquacious. See Garrulous. -- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. --
Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
Talker
Talk"er (?), n.
1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of
conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four
different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick.
Macaulay.
2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a
boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.
Talking
Talk"ing, a.
1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
2. Given to talk; loquacious.
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age
and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
Tall
Tall (?), a. [Compar. Taller (?); superl. Tallest.] [OE. tal seemly,
elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale,
bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn.
tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.]
1. High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension
upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral
extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or
mast.
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton.
2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.]
As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification.
Massinger.
His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly
recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with
three thousand tall men. Grafton.
3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or
Slang] B. Jonson. Syn. -- High; lofty. -- Tall, High, Lofty. High is
the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or
raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has
a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a
tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill.
Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an
imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now
properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral
acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a
lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with
the grand or admirable.
Tallage, Talliage
Tal"lage (?), Tal"li*age (?), n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf.
Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights,
and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also
tailage, taillage.]
NOTE: &hand; When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage;
when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by
military tenure, hidage.
Blackstone.
Tallage
Tal"lage, v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
Tallier
Tal"li*er (?), n. One who keeps tally.
Tallness
Tall"ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tall; height of
stature.
Tallow
Tal"low (?), n. [OE. taluh, talugh; akin to OD. talgh, D. talk, G.,
Dan. and Sw. talg, Icel. t\'d3lgr, t\'d3lg, t\'d3lk; and perhaps to
Goth. tulgus firm.]
1. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated
from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
NOTE: &hand; Th e so lid co nsistency of tallow is due to the large
amount of stearin it contains. See Fat.
2. The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain
plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the
sheep and ox kinds.
Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. -- Tallow catch, a keech. See
Keech. [Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or
to sell, tallow candles. -- Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow
chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on. -- Tallow
tree (Bot.), a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds
of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is
applied to the same purposes.
Tallow
Tal"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallowing.]
1. To grease or smear with tallow.
2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow
sheep.
Tallower
Tal"low*er (?), n. An animal which produces tallow.
Tallow-face
Tal"low-face` (?), n. One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.
Tallow-faced
Tal"low-faced` (?), a. Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
Tallowing
Tal"low*ing, n. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow;
also, the property in animals of producing tallow.
Tallowish
Tal"low*ish, a. Having the qualities of tallow.
Tallowy
Tal"low*y (?), a. Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
Tallwood
Tall"wood` (?), n. [Cf. Tally.] Firewood cut into billets of a certain
length. [Obs.] [Eng.]
Tally
Tal"ly (?), n.; pl. Tallies (#). [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a
cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by
taill\'82, p.p. of tailler. See Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation,
Taille, Tallage.]
1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as
the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc.,
on which corresponding accounts were kept.
NOTE: &hand; In pu rshasing and selling, it was once customary for
traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and
to mark with a score or notch, on each, the number or quantity of
goods delivered, -- the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser
the other. Before the use of writing, this, or something like it,
was the only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were received
as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer were
tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other
being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent
to government.
2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on
wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
They were framed the tallies for each other. Dryden.
4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn
a tally in a game.
5. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on
account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the
tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the
seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement.
The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. -- To
strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.
Tally
Tal"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallying.]
[Cf. F. tialler to cut. See Tally, n.]
1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond;
to cause to fit or suit.
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. Pope.
2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or
outboard. W. C. Russell.
Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.
Tally
Tal"ly (?), v. i.
1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
Addison.
Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. Walpole.
2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a
line or tail.
Tally
Tal"ly (?), adv. [See Tall, a.] Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] Beau. &
Fl.
Tallyho
Tal"ly*ho` (?), interj. & n.
1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.
2. A tallyho coach.
Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
Tallyman
Tal"ly*man (?), n.; pl. Tallymen (.
1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally
trade.
Talma
Tal"ma (?), n.; pl. Talmas (#). [Prob. so called from Talma, a French
actor.] (a) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part
of the dress of ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly by
gentlemen.
Talmud
Tal"mud (?), n. [Chald. talm&umac;d instruction, doctrine, fr. lamad
to learn, limmad to teach.] The body of the Jewish civil and canonical
law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
NOTE: &hand; The Talmud consists of two parts, the Mishna, or text,
and the Gemara, or commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud
is restricted, especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There
are two Talmuds, the Palestinian, commonly, but incorrectly, called
the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the Babylonian Talmud. They contain
the same Mishna, but different Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is
about three times as large as the other, and is more highly
esteemed by the Jews.
Talmudic, Talmudical
Tal*mud"ic (?), Tal*mud"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. talmudique.] Of or
pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek;
Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.
Talmudist
Tal"mud*ist (?), n. [Cf. F. talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one
who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Talmudistic
Tal`mud*is"tic (?), a. Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
Talon
Tal"on (?), n. [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle,
heel.]
1. The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a
bird of prey. Bacon.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the
face of an elephant's tooth.
3. (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the
top; -- usually called an ogee.
NOTE: &hand; Wh en th e concave part is at the top, it is called an
inverted talon.
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot
the bolt. Knight.
Talook, Taluk
Ta*look", Ta*luk" (?), n. [Ar. ta'lluq.] A large estate; esp., one
constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of
which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public
revenue due from it. [India]
Talookdar, Talukdar
Ta*look"dar, Ta*luk"dar (?), n. [Hind., fr. Per. ta'lluqd\'ber.] A
proprietor of a talook. [India]
Talpa
Tal"pa (?), n. [L., mole.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of small insectivores
including the common European mole.
Talus
Ta"lus (?), n.; pl. Tali (#). [L., the ankle, the ankle bone.]
1. (Anat.) The astragalus.
2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note
under Talipes.
Talus
Ta"lus, n. [F.]
1. (Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
2. (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a
precipice.
Tamability
Tam`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tamable;
tamableness.
Tamable
Tam"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from
wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness, n.
Tamandu
Ta*man"du (?), n. [Sp., from the native name: cf. F. tamandua.]
(Zo\'94l.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the
tropical parts of South America.
NOTE: &hand; It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout,
small ears, and short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at
the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat
prehensile at the end. Called also tamandua, little ant-bear,
fourmilier, and cagouare. The collared, or striped, tamandu
(Tamandua bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some
writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety.
Tamanoir
Ta`ma*noir" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The ant-bear.
Tamarack
Tam"a*rack (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of
Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and
Larch. (b) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California,
etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
Tamaric
Tam"a*ric (?), n. [L. tamarice. See Tamarisk.] A shrub or tree
supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.]
He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when
good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
Tamarin
Tam"a*rin (?), n. [From the native name in Cayenne.] (Zo\'94l.) Any
one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys
of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
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Tamarind
Tam"a*rind (?), n. [It. tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg. tamarindo,
tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhind\'c6, literally, Indian date; tamar a
dried date + Hind India: cf. F. tamarin. Cf. Hindoo.] (Bot.)
1. A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies,
and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for
its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with
wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the
branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
2. One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an
acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant
drink.
Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the
acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. -- Velvet tamarind. (a) A West
African leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small
black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. -- Wild
tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the
tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the
Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.
Tamarisk
Tam"a*risk (?), n. [L. tamariscus, also tamarix, tamarice, Skr.
tam\'bela, tam\'belaka, a tree with a very dark bark; cf. tamas
darkness: cf. F. tamarisc, tamarix, tamaris.] (Bot.) Any shrub or tree
of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic.
They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An
Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which
produces an incrustation of salt.
Tambac
Tam"bac (?), n. (Metal.) See Tombac. [Obs.]
Tambour
Tam"bour (?), n.
1. (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a
tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of
cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a
frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
3. (Arch.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
4. (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space
before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is
arranged like a stockade.
5. (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic
membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are
connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register
the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
Tambour
Tam"bour, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamboured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tambouring.] To embroider on a tambour.
Tambourin
Tam`bou`rin" (?), n. [F. See Tambourine.]
1. A tambourine. [Obs.]
2. (Mus.) An old Proven\'87al dance of a lively character, common on
the stage.
Tambourine
Tam`bour*ine" (?), n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour,
and cf. Tamborine.] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only
one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a
timbrel.
Tambreet
Tam"breet (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The duck mole.
Tamburin
Tam`bu*rin" (?), n. See Tambourine. Spenser.
Tame
Tame (?), v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.] To broach or
enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal
out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps
the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which
not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of
need. Fuller.
Tame
Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer (?); superl. Tamest.] [AS. tam; akin to D.
tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame,
Gr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. \'fb61. Cf.
Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.]
1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to
man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon.
3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid;
as, a tame poem; tame scenery. Syn. -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tame
Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS.
tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z\'84hmen, OHG. zemmen,
Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and
familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness
and stubbornness. Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or
passions of youth.
Tameable
Tame"a*ble (?), a. Tamable. Bp. Wilkins.
Tameless
Tame"less, a. Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp.
Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.
Tamely
Tame"ly, adv. In a tame manner.
Tameness
Tame"ness, n. The quality or state of being tame.
Tamer
Tam"er (?), n. One who tames or subdues.
Tamias
Ta"mi*as (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of ground squirrels,
including the chipmunk.
Tamil
Ta"mil (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also Tamul.]
Tamil
Ta"mil, n. [Written also Tamul.]
1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon
and Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages.
See Dravidian, a.
Tamilian
Ta*mil"i*an (?), a. & n. Tamil.
Tamine, Taminy
Tam"ine (?), Tam"i*ny (?), n. [Cf. F. tamis a sort of sieve. Cf.
Stamin, Temse.] A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tamis
Tam"is (?), n. [F., a kind of sieve.]
1. A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
2. The cloth itself; tammy.
Tamis bird (Zo\'94l.), a Guinea fowl.
Tamkin
Tam"kin (?), n. A tampion. Johnson (Dict.).
Tammy
Tam"my (?), n.; pl. Tammies (.
1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed,
-- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Tamp
Tamp (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.]
[Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See Tampion.]
1. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other
material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of
the explosion from being misdirected.
2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth
so as to make a smooth place.
Tampan
Tam"pan (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.
Tampeon
Tam"pe*on (?), n. See Tampion. Farrow.
Tamper
Tamp"er (?), n.
1. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by
filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tamper
Tam"per (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tampering.] [A corruption of temper.]
1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper
with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon.
2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.
Tamperer
Tam"per*er (?), n. One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.
Tampico fiber OR fibre
Tam*pi"co fi"ber OR fi"bre (?). A tough vegetable fiber used as a
substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle
are both used under this name.
Tamping
Tamp"ing (?), n.
1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a
hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting
the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in
tamping for blasting.
Tampion
Tam"pi*on (?), n. [F. tampon, tapon, tape, of Dutch or German origin.
See Tap a pipe or plug, and cf. Tamp, Tampop, Tompion.] [Written also
tampeon, and tompion.]
1. A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of
ordnance, when not in use.
2. (Mus.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
Tampoe
Tam"poe (?), n. (Bot.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree
(Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an
apple.
Tampon
Tam"pon (?), n. [F. See Tampion.] (Surg.) A plug introduced into a
natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest
hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
Tampon
Tam"pon, v. t. (Surg.) To plug with a tampon.
Tampoon
Tam"poon (?), n. [See Tampion.] The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Tam-tam
Tam"-tam` (?), n. [Hind.; of imitative origin.] (Mus.) (a) A kind of
drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called
also tom-tom. (b) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.
Tamul
Ta"mul (?), a. & n. Tamil.
Tan
Tan (?), n. [Chin.] See Picul.
Tan
Tan, n. [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of
Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a
forest. Cf. Tawny.]
1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a
mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has
been used. Called also tan bark.
2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as,
hands covered with tan.
Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the
liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping
bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. --
Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Tan
Tan, a. Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. Black and tan. See under
Black, a.
Tan
Tan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] [F.
tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.]
1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual
process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark,
whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in
several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in
some degree impervious to water.
NOTE: &hand; Th e es sential re sult in tanning is due to the fact
that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of
insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may
be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as
alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain
processes of tanning.
2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun;
as, to tan the skin.
Tan
Tan (?), v. i. To get or become tanned.
Tana
Ta"na (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Banxring.
Tanager
Tan"a*ger (?), n. [NL. tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian tangara.]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds
belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager
(Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are
common species of the United States.
Tanagrine
Tan"a*grine (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
Tanagroid
Tan"a*groid (?), a. [Tanager + -oid.] (Zo\'94l.) Tanagrine.
Tanate
Ta*na"te (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides),
native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail.
Called also raccoon dog.
Tandem
Tan"dem (?), adv. & a. [L. tandem at length (of time only), punningly
taken as meaning, lengthwise.] One after another; -- said especially
of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
Tandem
Tan"dem, n. A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove
tandems." Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two
or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. --
Tandem bicycle OR tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider
sits before the other.
Tang
Tang (?), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. tang seaweed, Sw. t\'86ng,
Icel. þang. Cf. Tangle.] (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus
nodosus). Dr. Prior. Tang sparrow (Zo\'94l.), the rock pipit. [Prov.
Eng.]
Tang
Tang, n. [Probably fr. OD. tanger sharp, tart, literally, pinching;
akin to E. tongs. \'fb59. See Tong.]
1. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something
extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the
cask.
2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny. Fuller.
A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics. Jeffrey.
3. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. tangi a projecting point;
akin to E. tongs. See Tongs.] A projecting part of an object by means
of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything
resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: -- (a) The part
of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted
into the handle. (b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket
barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. (c) The part of a
sword blade to which the handle is fastened. (d) The tongue of a
buckle. [Prov. Eng.]
Tang
Tang, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Twang. This word has become
confused with tang tatse, flavor.] A sharp, twanging sound; an
unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tang
Tang, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tanging.] To
cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak.
To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to
make a din.
Tang
Tang, v. i. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak.
Tangalung
Tan"ga*lung (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) An East Indian civet (Viverra
tangalunga).
Tangence
Tan"gence (?), n. Tangency. [R.]
Tangency
Tan"gen*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or
touching.
Tangent
Tan"gent (?), n. [L. tangens, -entis, p.pr. of tangere to touch; akin
to Gr. tangente. Cf. Attain, Contaminate, Contingent, Entire, Tact,
Taste, Tax, v. t.] (Geom.) A tangent line curve, or surface;
specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve
that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line
being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle
produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, OR
Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc.
-- Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length of the tangent of
an arc, the radius being reckoned unity. -- Tangent galvanometer
(Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short
needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle
is proportional to the strength of the current. -- Tangent of an
angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the
angle. -- Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of
a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from
the center through the other extremity o. <-- references are to a
figure showing the tangent of an arc -->
Tangent
Tan"gent, a. [L. tangens, -entis, p.pr.] Touching; touching at a
single point; specifically (Geom.) meeting a curve or surface at a
point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or
surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line
tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
Tangent plane (Geom.), a plane which touches a surface in a point or
line. -- Tangent scale (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon. --
Tangent screw (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm.
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Tangental
Tan*gen"tal (?), a. (Geom.) Tangential.
Tangential
Tan*gen"tial (?), a. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the
direction of a tangent. Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts
on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the
body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; --
distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the
tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the
velocity. -- Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
Tangentially
Tan*gen"tial*ly, adv. In the direction of a tangent.
Tangerine
Tan"ger*ine` (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A kind of orange,
much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is
said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written also
tangierine.]
Tangfish
Tang"fish` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The common harbor seal. [Prov. Eng.]
Tanghinia
Tan*ghin"i*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
Tangibility
Tan`gi*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. tanggibilit\'82.] The quality or state
of being tangible.
Tangible
Tan"gi*ble (?), a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F.
tangible. See Tangent.]
1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by
the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron.
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others. Southey.
-- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.
Tangle
Tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling
(?).] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed.
See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock,
as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to
entangle; to ravel.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
"Tangled in amorous nets." Milton.
When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.
Tangle
Tan"gle, v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a
tangle.
Tangle
Tan"gle, n.
1. [Cf. Icel. þ\'94ngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish
seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the
ocean. C. Kingsley.
2. [From Tangle, v.] A knot of threads, or other thing, united
confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl;
as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also
figuratively.
3. pl. An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which
are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar
substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other
similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker (Zo\'94l.), the
turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
Tanglefish
Tan"gle*fish` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of
Europe.
Tanglingly
Tan"gling*ly (?), adv. In a tangling manner.
Tangly
Tan"gly (?), a.
1. Entangled; intricate.
2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.
Tangram
Tan"gram (?), n. [Cf. Trangram.] A Chinese toy made by cutting a
square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as
shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various
ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now
often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
Tangue
Tangue (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The tenrec.
Tangun
Tan"gun (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of
Thibet.
Tangwhaup
Tang"whaup (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Tanier
Tan"i*er (?), n. (Bot.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagitt\'91folium),
the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written
also tannier.]
Tanist
Tan"ist (?), n. [Ir. tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second person in
rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to a prince.] In Ireland, a
lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a
family, under the system of tanistry.
This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory
within the present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower.
Tanistry
Tan"ist*ry (?), n. [See Tanist.] In Ireland, a tenure of family lands
by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was
admitted by election.
NOTE: &hand; Th e pr imitive in tention seems to have been that the
inheritance should descend to the oldest or most worthy of the
blood and name of the deceased. This was, in reality, giving it to
the strongest; and the practice often occasioned bloody feuds in
families, for which reason it was abolished under James I.
Tanite
Ta"nite (?), n. A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of
cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Tank
Tank (?), n. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in
weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.
Tank
Tank, n. [Pg. tanque, L. stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian
origin. Cf. Stank, n.] A large basin or cistern; an artificial
receptacle for liquids. Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the
water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender. -- Tank
iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet
iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zo\'94l.), a small nematoid worm
found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of
the Guinea worm.
Tanka
Tan"ka (?), n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25
feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. S. W.
Williams.
Tankard
Tank"ard (?), n. [OF. tanquart; cf. OD. tanckaert; of uncertain
origin.] A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the
manner of Bacchus. Arbuthnot.
Tankia
Tan"ki*a (?), n. (Naut.) See Tanka.
Tankling
Tank"ling (?), n. A tinkling. [Obs.]
Tanling
Tan"ling (?), n. One tanned by the sun. [R.]
Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter. Shak.
Tannable
Tan"na*ble (?), a. That may be tanned.
Tannage
Tan"nage (?), n. A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning.
[R.]
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.
Tannate
Tan"nate (?), n. [Cf. F. tannate.] (Chem.) A salt of tannic acid.
Tanner
Tan"ner (?), n. One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them
into leather by the use of tan.
Tannery
Tan"ner*y (?), n.; pl. Tanneries (#). [Cf. F. tannerie.]
1. A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
2. The art or process of tanning. [R.] Carlyle.
Tannic
Tan"nic (?), a. Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling,
tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from
nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an
astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black
compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and
gallotannic acid. (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent
substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the
vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.
Tannier
Tan"ni*er (?), n. (Bot.) See Tanier.
Tannin
Tan"nin (?), n. [Cf. F. tannin.] (Chem.) Same as Tannic acid, under
Tannic.
Tanning
Tan"ning, n. The art or process of converting skins into leather. See
Tan, v. t., 1.
Tanrec
Tan"rec (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tenrec.
Tansy
Tan"sy (?), n. [OE. tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp. tanaceto, NL.
tanacetum, Pg. atanasia, athanasia, Gr. 'aqanasi`a immortality, fr.
'aqa`natos immortal; 'a priv. + qa`natos death.]
1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy
(T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a
very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose
water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow
dish. [Obs.] Pepys.
Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves
more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant
(Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.
Tant
Tant (?), n. [Cf. Taint tincture.] (Zo\'94l.) A small scarlet
arachnid.
Tantalate
Tan"ta*late (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tantalic acid.
Tantalic
Tan*tal"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from,
or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series
of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of
phosphorus.
Tantalism
Tan"ta*lism (?), n. [See Tantalize.] A punishment like that of
Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good
which is not attainable; tantalization. Addison.
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people? Josiah
Quincy.
Tantalite
Tan"ta*lite (?), n. [Cf. F. tantalite.] (Min.) A heavy mineral of an
iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate
of iron.
Tantalization
Tan`ta*li*za"tion (?), n. The act of tantalizing, or state of being
tantalized. Gayton.
Tantalize
Tan"ta*lize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tantalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tantalizing (?).] [From Tantalus: cf. F. tantaliser.] To tease or
torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but
continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of
reach; to tease; to torment.
Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy
life. Dryden.
Syn. -- To tease; vex; irritate; provoke. -- Tantalize, Disappoint. To
disappoint is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to be)
appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the
ground. To tantalize, a much stronger term, describes a most
distressing form of disappointment, as in the case of Tantalus, the
Phrygian king. To tantalize is to visit with the bitterest
disappointment -- to torment by exciting hopes or expectations which
can never be realized.
Tantalizer
Tan"ta*li`zer (?), n. One who tantalizes.
Tantalizingly
Tan"ta*li`zing*ly (?), adv. In a tantalizing or teasing manner.
Tantalum
Tan"ta*lum (?), n. [NL. So named on account of the perplexity and
difficulty encounterd by its discoverer (Ekeberg) in isolating it. See
Tantalus.] (Chem.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain
minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a
dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic
weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.
Tantalus
Tan"ta*lus (?), n. [L., from Gr. Ta`ntalos.] (Gr. Myth.)
1. A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed
in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded
whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung
branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he
stretched out his hand to grasp them.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.
Tantalus's cup (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup,
within which is the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon,
the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and
allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches
as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of
the mouth of the figure in the cup.
Tantamount
Tan"ta*mount` (?), a. [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E. amount.]
Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam.
The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount
to ruin. De Quincey.
Tantamount
Tan"ta*mount`, v. i. To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Tantivy
Tan*tiv"y (?), adv. [Said to be from the note of a hunting horn.]
Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride
tantivy.
Tantivy
Tan*tiv"y, n. A rapid, violent gallop; an impetulous rush. Cleverland.
Tantivy
Tan*tiv"y, v. i. To go away in haste. [Colloq.]
Tantrum
Tan"trum (?), n. A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.
[Colloq.] Thackeray.
Tanyard
Tan"yard` (?), n. An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried
on; a tannery.
Tanystomata
Tan`y*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A division of
dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains
lancelike mandibles and maxill\'91. The horseflies and robber flies
are examples.
Taoism
Ta"o*ism (?), n. One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by
the state. -- Ta"o*ist, a. & n.
Tap
Tap (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tapping.] [F.
taper to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp, tapps, a blow,
tappe a paw, fist, G. tappen to grope.]
1. To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap
lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
2. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
Tap
Tap, n. [Cf. F. tape. See Tap to strike.]
1. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. Addison.
2. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in
repairing or renewing the sole or heel. <-- a piece of metal so
fastened, used to reduce wear on the shoe, or for the purpose of tap
dancing. -->
3. pl. (Mil.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all
lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given
about a quarter of an hour after tattoo. Wilhelm.
Tap
Tap, v. i. To strike a gentle blow.
Tap
Tap, n. [AS. t\'91ppa, akin to D. tap, G. zapfen, OHG. zapfo, Dan.
tap, Sw. tapp, Icel. tappi. Cf. Tampion, Tip.]
1. A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
2. A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like;
a faucet.
3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of
liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. [Colloq.]
4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
[Colloq.]
5. (Mech.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut,
consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as
to have cutting edges.
On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or
furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a
screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. -- Tap bolt, a bolt
with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed
into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and
receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the
slag of a puddling furnace.
Tap
Tap, v. t.
1. To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a
cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
2. Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap
telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap
the treasury. <-- to tap a telephone. -->
3. To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing. Shak.
He has been tapping his liquors. Addison.
4. (Mech.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool
called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
Tapa
Ta"pa (?), n. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the
inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
Tapayaxin
Ta`pa*yax"in (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma
orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also
horned toad.
Tape
Tape (?), n. [AS. t\'91ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]
1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric
used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a
tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Red tape. See under Red. -- Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria
spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish
water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild
celery. -- Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
Tapeline
Tape"line` (?), n. A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as
inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for
measuring.
Taper
Ta"per (?), n. [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.]
1. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small
light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated
object; as, the taper of a spire.
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Taper
Ta"per (?), a. [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its
form.] Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one
end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
Taper
Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.] To
become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers
toward one end.
Taper
Ta"per, v. t. To make or cause to taper.
Tapered
Ta"pered (?), a. Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
[R.] T. Warton.
Tapering
Ta"per*ing (?), a. Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. --
Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
Taperness
Ta"per*ness, n. The quality or state of being taper; tapering form;
taper. Shenstone.
Tapestry
Tap"es*try (?), n.; pl. Tapestries (#). [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to
carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet,
carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. Tapis,
Tippet.] A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or
other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial
and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is
also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind
of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed
before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry
moth. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.
Tapestry
Tap"es*try, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapestried (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tapestrying.] To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock
tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.
Tapet
Tap"et (?), n. [L. tapete. See Tapestry.] Worked or figured stuff;
tapestry. [R.] Spenser.
Tapeti
Tap"e*ti (?), n.; pl. Tapetis (#). [Braz.] (Zo\'94l.) A small South
American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
Tapetum
Ta*pe"tum (?), n. [NL., from L. tapete a carpet, a tapestry.] (Anat.)
An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many
animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make
the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of
pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
Tapeworm
Tape"worm` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of cestode
worms belonging to T\'91nia and many allied genera. The body is long,
flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in
shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer
than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual
organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with
two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera),
and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the
intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larv\'91
(see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when
swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the
mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
NOTE: &hand; Th ree sp ecies ar e common parasites of man: the pork
tapeworm (T\'91nia solium), the larva of which is found in pork;
the beef tapeworm (T. mediocanellata), the larva of which lives in
the flesh of young cattle; and the broad tapeworm (Bothriocephalus
latus) which is found chiefly in the inhabitants of the mountainous
regions of Europe and Asia. See also Echinococcus, Cysticercus,
Proglottis, and 2d Measles, 4.
Taphouse
Tap"house` (?), n. A house where liquors are retailed.
Taphrenchyma
Taph*ren"chy*ma (?), n. [Gr. enchyma, as in parenchyma.] (Bot.) Same
as Bothrenchyma.
Tapinage
Tap"i*nage (?), n. [See Tapish.] A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] Gower.
Tapioca
Tap`i*o"ca (?), n. [Braz. tapioka: cf. Pg., Sp. & F. tapioca.] A
coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly
changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava.
It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See
Cassava.
Tapir
Ta"pir (?), n. [Braz. tapy'ra: cf. F. tapir.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus,
Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper
lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short,
close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on
the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
NOTE: &hand; Th e be st-known species are the Indian tapir (Tapirus
Indicus), native of the East Indies and Malacca, which is black
with a broad band of white around the middle, and the common
American tapir (T. Americanus), which, when adult, is dull brown.
Several others species inhabit the Andes and Central America.
Tapir tiger (Zo\'94l.), the wallah.
Tapiroid
Ta"pir*oid (?), a. [Tapir + -oid.] (Zo\'94l.) Allied to the tapir, or
the Tapir family.
Tapis
Ta"pis (?), n. [F. See Tapestry.] Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a
council table. On, OR Upon, the tapis, on the table, or under
consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis.
Tapis
Tap"is (?), v. t. To cover or work with figures like tapestry. [R.]
Holland.
Tapiser
Tap"is*er (?), n. [F. tapissier.] A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.
[R.] Chaucer.
Tapish
Tap"ish (?), v. i. [F. se tapir to squat.] To lie close to the ground,
so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
[Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so
soft. Chapman.
Taplash
Tap"lash` (?), n. Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).
Taplings
Tap"lings (?), n. pl. The strong double leathers by which the two
parts of a flail are united. Halliwell.
Tapoa tafa
Ta*po"a ta"fa (?). (Zo\'94l.) A small carnivorous marsupial
(Phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail
with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed
phascogale.
Tappen
Tap"pen (?), n. An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the
intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
Tapper
Tap"per (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus
minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred
woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]
Tappester
Tap"pes*ter (?), n. [See Tapster.] A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tappet
Tap"pet (?), n. (Mach.) A lever or projection moved by some other
piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a
view to produce change or regulate motion. G. Francis. Tappet motion,
a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without an
eccentric or cam, -- used in steam pumps, etc.
Tappice, Tappis
Tap"pice (?), Tap"pis (?), v. i. See Tapish.
Tappit hen
Tap"pit hen` (?).
1. A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.] Jamieson.
2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three
quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, though to resemble a
crested hen. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Taproom
Tap"room` (?), n. A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.
The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of
soldiers smoking. Macaulay.
Taproot
Tap"root` (?), n. (Bot.) The root of a plant which penetrates the
earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Tapster
Tap"ster (?), n. [AS. t\'91ppestre a female tapster. See Tap a plug,
pipe, and -ster.] One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other
liquor.
Taqua-nut
Ta"qua-nut` (?), n. (Bot.) A Central American name for the ivory nut.
Tar
Tar (?), n. [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.] A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.]
Swift.
Tar
Tar, n. [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer,
theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tj\'84ra, Dan. ti\'91re, and to E. tree.
\'fb63. See Tree.] A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the
distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition
according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. -- Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft
native bitumen. -- Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from
junk and old tarred rope. Knight. -- Tar water. (a) A cold infusion of
tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas
works. -- Wood tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by
the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used
in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to
water.
Tar
Tar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tarring.] To
smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. To tar
and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.
Taranis
Tar"a*nis (?), n. [L. taranis, from the Celtic; cf. W. & Corn. taran
thunder.] (Myth.) A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle,
but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
Tarantass
Tar`an*tass" (?), n. [Russ. tarantas'.] A low four-wheeled carriage
used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles
which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the
wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
Tarantella
Tar`an*tel"la (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) (a) A rapid and delirious sort of
Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so
called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the
poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in
Apulia. (b) Music suited to such a dance.
Tarantism
Tar"ant*ism (?), n. [It. tarantismo: cf. F. tarentisme. See
Tarantula.] (Med.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor,
and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced
by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure
except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also
tarentism.]
Tarantula
Ta*ran"tu*la (?), n.; pl. E. Tarantulas (#), L. Tarantul\'91 (#).
[NL., fr. It. tarantola, fr. L. Tarentum, now Taranto, in the south of
Italy.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of large spiders,
popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European
species (Tarantula apuli\'91). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent
countries are large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.]
Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which
captures the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) and places it in its
nest as food for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.
Tarantulated
Ta*ran"tu*la`ted (?), a. Bitten by a tarantula; affected with
tarantism.
Tarbogan
Tar*bog"an (?), n. & v. See Toboggan.
Tarboosh
Tar*boosh" (?), n. [Ar. tarb; perhaps from Per. sar-posh headdress:
cf. F. tarbouch.] A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations,
sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to
make a turban. See Fez.
Tardation
Tar*da"tion (?), n. [L. tardatio, fr. tardare, tardatum, to retard,
delay, fr. tardus slow.] The act of retarding, or delaying;
retardation. [Obs.]
Tardigrada
Tar`di*gra"da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tardigrade, a.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are
noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See
Sloth, 3.
2. (Zo\'94l.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also
bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
Tardigrade
Tar"di*grade (?), a. [L. tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi to step: cf.
F. tardigrade.]
1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] G. Eliot.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
Tardigrade
Tar"di*grade, n. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Tardigrada.
Tardigradous
Tar"di*gra`dous (?), a. Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Tardily
Tar"di*ly (?), adv. In a tardy manner; slowly.
Tardiness
Tar"di*ness, n. The quality or state of being tardy.
Tarditation
Tar`di*ta"tion (?), n. Tardiness. [Obs.]
To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's
affairs. Herrick.
Tardity
Tar"di*ty (?), n. [L. tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K.
Digby.
Tardo
Tar"do (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage
slowly.
Tardo
Tar"do, n. [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zo\'94l.) A sloth.
Tardy
Tar"dy (?), a. [Compar. Tardier (?); superl. Tardiest.] [F. tardif,
fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.]
1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.
2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be
tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.
3. Unwary; unready. [Obs.] Hudibras.
4. Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier. Syn. -- Slow; dilatory; tedious;
reluctant. See Slow.
Tardy
Tar"dy, v. t. To make tardy. [Obs.] Shak.
Tare
Tare (?), obs. imp. of Tear. Tore.
Tare
Tare, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch the wild
vetch.]
1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern
naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it
tares? Matt. xiii. 27.
The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only
deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Baird.
2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of
the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for
fodder.
Tare
Tare, n. [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr. Ar. tarah
thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject, remove.] (Com.)
Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight
of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed
with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or
quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight
of such cask, bag, etc.
Tare
Tare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taring.] To
ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
Tared
Tared (?), a. (Chem.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or
standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing
precipitates.
Tarente
Ta*ren"te (?), n. [Cf. F. tarente.] (Zo\'94l.) A harmless lizard of
the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern
Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
Tarentism
Tar"ent*ism (?), n. See Tarantism.
Tarentula
Ta*ren"tu*la (?), n. See Tarantula.
Targe
Targe (?), n. [F. Cf. Target.] A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A
buckler on a targe." Chaucer.
Target
Tar"get (?), n. [OF. targette, dim. of OF. & F. targe, of Teutonic
origin; cf. AS. targe, OD. targie, G. zarge a frame, case, border,
OHG. zarga, Icel. targa shield.]
1. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in
war.
2. (a) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the
accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. (b) The pattern
or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or
mark; as, he made a good target.
3. (Surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
4. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show
its position, or for use as a signal.
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Targeted
Tar"get*ed (?), a. Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.
Targeteer
Tar`get*eer" (?), n. One who is armed with a target or shield.
[Written also targetier.]
Targum
Tar"gum (?), n.; pl. Targums (#). Heb. Targumim (#). [Chald.
targ&umac;m interpretation, fr. targ\'c7m to interpret. Cf. Truchman,
and Dragoman.] A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old
Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.
Targumist
Tar"gum*ist, n. The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.
Tariff
Tar"iff (?), n. [F. tarif; cf. Sp. & Pg. tarifa, It. tariffa; all fr.
Ar. ta'r\'c6f information, explanation, definition, from 'arafa, to
know, to inform, explain.]
1. A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government
of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a
protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U.S. 1833).
NOTE: &hand; Th e Un ited States and Great Britain impose no duties
on exports; hence, in these countries the tariff refers only to
imports.
2. The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a
tariff of two cents a pound.
3. Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of
fees, or of railroad fares. Bolingbroke.
Tariff
Tar"iff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tariffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tariffing.]
To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Tarin
Tar"in (?), n. [F.] (Zo\'94l.) The siskin. [Prov.]
Taring
Tar"ing (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)The common tern; -- called also tarret, and
tarrock. [Prov. Eng.]
Tarlatan
Tar"la*tan (?), n. A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for
dresses.
Tarn
Tarn (?), n. [OE. terne, Icel. tj\'94rn.] A mountain lake or pool.
A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below. Wordsworth.
Tarnish
Tar"nish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarnishing.] [F. ternir, fr. OHG. tarnen to darken, to conceal, hide;
akin to OS. dernian to hide, AS. dernan, dyrnan, OHG. tarni hidden,
OS. derni, AS. derne, dyrne. Cf. Dern, a., and see -ish.] To soil, or
change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the
air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster
of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish
the purity of color. "Tarnished lace." Fuller. Used also figuratively;
as, to tarnish one's honor. Syn. -- To sully; stain; dim.
Tarnish
Tar"nish, v. i. To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will
tarnish in a foul air.
Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright, Grow stale and
tarnish with our daily sight. Dryden.
Tarnish
Tar"nish, n.
1. The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.
2. (Min.) A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a
slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in
columbite.
Tarnisher
Tar"nish*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tarnishes.
Taro
Ta"ro (?), n. [From the Polynesian name.] (Bot.) A name for several
aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia
macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large
ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked
and used for food in tropical countries.
Tarot
Tar"ot (?), n. [F.; cf. It. tarocco.] A game of cards; -- called also
taroc. Hoyle.
Tarpan
Tar"pan (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A wild horse found
in the region of the Caspian Sea.
Tarpaulin
Tar*pau"lin (?), n. [Tar + palling a covering, pall to cover. See Pall
a covering.]
1. A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition,
used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by
sailors and others.
3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.
To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a
strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.
Tarpon
Tar"pon (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tarpum.
Tarpum
Tar"pum (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis
Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It
often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery
scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in
fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and
jewfish.
Tarquinish
Tar"quin*ish (?), a. Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud;
haughty; overbearing.
Tarrace
Tar"race (?), n. See Trass. [Obs.]
Tarragon
Tar"ra*gon (?), n. [Sp. taragona, Ar. tarkh; perhaps fr. Gr. draco;
cf. L. dracunculus tarragon. Cf. Dragon.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus
Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.
Tarras
Tar"ras (?), n. See Trass. [Obs.]
Tarre
Tarre (?), v. t. [OE. tarien, terien, to irritate, provoke, AS. tergan
to pull, pluck, torment; probably akin to E. tear, v.t. \'fb63. Cf.
Tarry, v.] To set on, as a dog; to incite. [Obs.] Shak.
Tarriance
Tar"ri*ance (?), n. The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.
[Archaic] Shak.
And after two days' tarriance there, returned. Tennyson.
Tarrier
Tar"ri*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tarries.
Tarrier
Tar"ri*er, n. (Zo\'94l.) A kind of dig; a terrier. [Obs.]
Tarrock
Tar"rock (?), n. [Greenland tattarock.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) The young of
the kittiwake gull before the first molt. (b) The common guillemot.
[Prov. Eng.] (c) The common tern.
Tarry
Tar"ry (?), a. [From Tar, n.] Consisting of, or covered with, tar;
like tar.
Tarry
Tar"ry (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarrying.] [OE. tarien to irritate (see Tarre); but with a change of
sense probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay, OF. targier,
fr. (assumed) LL. tardicare, fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry,
fr. tardus slow. Cf. Tardy.]
1. To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv. 14.
2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
Come down unto me, tarry not. Gen. xic. 9.
One tarried here, there hurried one. Emerson.
3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2.
Syn. -- To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.
Tarry
Tar"ry, v. t.
1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.]
Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.
2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic]
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the
grinding. Shak.
He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.
Tarry
Tar"ry, n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.
Tarsal
Tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the
foot or eye). -- n. A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal
tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind
of bleareye.
Tarsal
Tar"sal (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tercel. [Obs.]
Tarsale
Tar*sa"le (?), n.; pl. Tarsalia (#). [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones or
cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with
the metatarsals.
Tarse
Tarse (?), n. [Cf. Tassel, Tiercel.] (Falconry) The male falcon.
Tarse
Tarse (?), n. [Cf. F. tarse.] (Anat.) tarsus.
Tarsectomy
Tar*sec"to*my (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.) The operation of excising
one or more of the bones of the tarsus.
Tarsel
Tar"sel (?), n. A male hawk. See Tercel. [Obs.]
Tarsi
Tar"si (?), n., pl. of Tarsus.
Tarsia, Tarsiatura
Tar"si*a (?), Tar`si*a*tu"ra (?), n. [It.] A kind of mosaic in
woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later,
in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes,
landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying
pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of
walnut wood.
Tarsier
Tar"si*er (?), n. [Cf. F. tarsier.] See Tarsius.
Tarsius
Tar"si*us (?), n. [NL. See Tarsus.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of nocturnal
lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and
very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral
lemur, podji, and tarsier.
Tarso-
Tar"so- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.
Tarsometatarsal
Tar`so*met`a*tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both the
tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations. (b) Of
or pertaining to the tarsometatarsus.
Tarsometatarsus
Tar`so*met`a*tar"sus (?), n.; pl. Tarsometatarsi (#). [NL.] (Anat.)
The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the
union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
Tarsorrhaphy
Tar*sor"rha*phy (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.) An operation to diminish
the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding
cicatrices.
Tarsotomy
Tar*sot"o*my (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.) The operation of cutting or
removing the tarsal cartilages.
Tarsus
Tar"sus (?), n.; pl. Tarsi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. Tarse.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the
foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven
short bones. (b) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in
the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage,
and tarsal plate.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually
consists of form two to five joints.
Tart
Tart (?), a. [AS. teart. \'fb63. Cf. Tear, v. t.]
1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
2. Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart
rebuke.
Why art thou tart, my brother? Bunyan.
Tart
Tart, n. [OE. tarte, F. tarte; perhaps originally the same word as
tourte, LL. torta, fr. L. tortus, p.p. of torquere to twist, bend,
wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf.
Torture, n.] A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry,
containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
Tartan
Tar"tan (?), n. [F. tiretane linsey-woolsey, akin to Sp. tirita\'a4a a
sort of thin silk; cf. Sp. tiritar to shiver or shake with cold.]
Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various
colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of
tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it
does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott.
The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with
hatred. Macaulay.
Tartan
Tar"tan, n. [F. tartane, or Sp., Pg., or It. tartana; all perhaps of
Arabic origin.] (Naut.) A small coasting vessel, used in the
Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a
bowsprit with staysail or jib.
Tartar
Tar"tar (?), n. [F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro,
LL. tartarum, LGr.
1. (Chem.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting
essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream
of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and,
in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine
stone, etc.
2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary
mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under Cream. -- Tartar emetic (Med.
Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a
poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic
taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.
Tartar
Tar"tar (?), n.
1. [Per. T\'bet\'ber, of Tartar origin.] A native or inhabitant of
Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly
Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written
also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
2. A person of a keen, irritable temper.
To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves
too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]
Tartar
Tar"tar, a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tartar
Tar"tar, n. [Cf. F. tartare.] See Tartarus. Shak.
Tartarated
Tar"tar*a`ted (?), a. (Chem.) Tartrated.
Tartarean, Tartareous
Tar*ta"re*an (?), Tar*ta"re*ous (?), a. [L. tartareus: cf. F.
tartar\'82en.] Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
Tartareous
Tar*ta"re*ous, a. [Cf. 1st Tartarous.]
1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
2. (Bot.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are
tartareous.
Tartarian, Tartaric
Tar*ta"ri*an (?), Tar*tar"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in
Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See
Barometz.
Tartarian
Tar*ta"ri*an (?), n. (Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the
Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
Tartaric
Tar*tar"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from,
or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely diffused
throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries,
etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance,
C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in
medicine, in dyeing, calico printing, photography, etc., and also as a
substitute for lemon juice. Called also dextro-tartaric acid. (b) By
extension, any one of the series of isomeric acids (racemic acid,
levotartaric acid, inactive tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid
proper is the type.
Tartarine
Tar"tar*ine (?), n. (Old Chem.) Potassium carbonate, obtained by the
incineration of tartar. [Obs.]
Tartarize
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tartarized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tartarizing (?).] [Cf. F. tartariser.] (Chem.) To impregnate with, or
subject to the action of, tartar. [R.] Tartarized antimony (Med.
Chem.), tartar emetic.
Tartarize
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t. To cause to resemble the Tartars and their
civilization, as by conquest.
Tartarous
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. tartareux.] Containing tartar; consisting
of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
Tartarous
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar;
ill-natured; irritable.
The Tartarous moods of common men. B. Jonson.
Tartarum
Tar"ta*rum (?), n. (Chem.) See 1st Tartar.
Tartarus
Tar"ta*rus (?), n. [L., from Gr. (Class. Myth.) The infernal regions,
described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is
above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for
the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often
used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.
Tartary
Tar"ta*ry (?), n. Tartarus. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Tartini's tones
Tar*ti"ni's tones` (?). [From Tartini, an Italian violinist, who
discovered them in 1754.] See the Note under Tone.
Tartish
Tart"ish (?), a. Somewhat tart.
Tartlet
Tart"let (?), n. A small tart. V. Knox.
Tartly
Tart"ly, adv. In a tart manner; with acidity.
Tartness
Tart"ness, n. The quality or state of being tart. Syn. -- Acrimony;
sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity; asperity; acerbity;
harshness. See Acrimony.
Tartralic
Tar*tral"ic (?), a. [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous
deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric,
tartrilic, or tartrylic acid.
Tartramate
Tar*tram"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tartramic acid.
Tartramic
Tar*tram"ic (?), a. [Tarto- + amic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of
tartaric acid.
Tartramide
Tar*tram"ide (?), n. [Tarto- + amide.] (Chem.) An acid amide
derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline
substance.
Tartrate
Tar"trate (?), n. [Cf. F. tartrate.] (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid.
Tartrated
Tar"tra`ted (?), a. (Med. Chem.) Containing, or derived from, tartar;
combined with tartaric acid.
Tartrazine
Tar"tra*zine (?), n. [Tartaric + hydrazine.] (Chem.) An artificial
dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl
hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
Tartrelic
Tar*trel"ic (?), a. [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.) Of,
pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride, C4H4O5, of tartaric acid,
obtained as a white crystalline deliquescent substance.
Tartro-
Tar"tro-. A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry
to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or
derivatives.
Tartronate
Tar"tro*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tartronic acid.
Tartronic
Tar*tron"ic (?), a. [Tartro- + malonic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, an organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid)
obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline
substance.
Tartronyl
Tar"tro*nyl (?), n. [Tartronic + -yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical
constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain
of its derivatives.
Tartrovinic
Tar`tro*vin"ic (?), a. [Tartro- + vinic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to,
or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in
combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.
Tartuffe, Tartufe
Tar*tuffe", Tar*tufe" (?), n. [F. tartufe.] A hypocritical devotee.
See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Tartuffish, Tartufish
Tar*tuff"ish, Tar*tuf"ish, a. Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.
Sterne.
Tarweed
Tar"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A name given to several resinous-glandular
composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia,
Hemizonia, and Madia.
Tas
Tas (?), n. [F.] A heap. [Obs.] "The tas of bodies slain." Chaucer.
Tas
Tas, v. t. To tassel. [Obs.] "A purse of leather tassed with silk."
Chaucer.
Tasco
Tas"co (?), n. [Cf. Sp. tasconio.] A kind of clay for making melting
pots. Percy Smith.
Tasimer
Ta*sim"er (?), n. [Gr. -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for detecting
or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It
consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon,
forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being
varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the
object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the
current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer.
It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. T. A.
Edison.
Task
Task (?), n. [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. t\'83che, for tasche, LL.
tasca, taxa, fr. L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See Tax, n. &
v.]
1. Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or
amount.
Ma task of servile toil. Milton.
Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close.
Longfellow.
2. Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury.
To take to task. See under Take. Syn. -- Work; labor; employment;
business; toil; drudgery; study; lesson; stint.
Task
Task, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tasking.]
1. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business,
labor, or duty to.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.
2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors. Beau. & Fl.
Tasker
Task"er (?), n.
1. One who imposes a task.
2. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. [R.]
3. A laborer who receives his wages in kind. [Scot.]
Taskmaster
Task"mas`ter (?), n. One who imposes a task, or burdens another with
labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11.
All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great
Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
Taskwork
Task"work` (?), n. Work done as a task; also, work done by the job;
piecework.
Taslet
Tas"let (?), n. [See Tasse a piece of armor.] A piece of armor
formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.
Tasmanian
Tas*ma"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's
Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically
(Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited
Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. (Bot.) See the
Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain devil. (Zo\'94l.) See under Devil.
-- Tasmanain wolf (Zo\'94l.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; --
called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.
Tasse
Tasse (?), n. [OF. tassette.] A piece of armor for the thighs, forming
an appendage to the ancient corselet.
NOTE: &hand; Us ually th e ta sse was a plate of iron swinging from
the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by
this name.
Tassel
Tas"sel (?), n. (Falconry) A male hawk. See Tercel.
Tassel
Tas"sel, n. [See Teasel.] A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a
teasel.
Tassel
Tas"sel, n. [OE., a fastening of a mantle, OF. tassel a fastening,
clasp, F. tasseau a bracket, Fr. L. taxillus a little die, dim. of
talus a die of a longish shape, rounded on two sides and marked only
on the other four, a knuckle bone.]
1. A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to
curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
2. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the
splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its
plumage. Longfellow.
3. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put
between the leaves.
4. (Arch.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of
plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely
used in the United States.
Tassel flower (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus
Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which
they bear.
Tassel
Tas"sel, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tasseled (?) or Tasselled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tasseling or Tasselling.] To put forth a tassel or flower; as,
maize tassels.
Tassel
Tas"sel, v. t. To adorn with tassels. Chaucer.
Tasset
Tas"set (?), n. [See Tasse.] A defense for the front of the thigh,
consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the
lower edge of the corselet.<-- same as tasse? -->
Tastable
Tast"a*ble (?), a. Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory;
relishing.
Taste
Taste (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.]
[OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by
the touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to
touch sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.]
1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.] Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer.
2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor
of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used
figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine. John ii. 9.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of
pity or remorse. Gibbon.
3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey. 1 Sam. xiv. 29.
4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience;
to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man. Heb. ii. 9.
5. To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense
of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
Milton.
Taste
Taste, v. i.
1. To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try
the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
2. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the
specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular
quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes
of garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of
this action. Shak.
3. To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. Dryden.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to
taste of nature's bounty. Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once. Shak.
Taste
Taste, n.
1. The act of tasting; gustation.
2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to
the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by
means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a
bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties
of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by
contact with the organs of taste.
NOTE: &hand; Ta ste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter
with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the
glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papill\'91 on the surface
of the tongue. The base of the tongue is considered most sensitive
to bitter substances, the point to sweet and acid substances.
4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now
with for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no taste Of popular applause. Dryden.
5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity,
proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly
in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance
with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph
in bad taste.
7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak.
8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of
eaten; a bit. Bacon.
9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. Syn. -- Savor; relish;
flavor; sensibility; gout. -- Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some
consider taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple exercise
of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of
anything which deserves the name. An original sense of the beautiful
is just as necessary to \'91sthetic judgments, as a sense of right and
wrong to the formation of any just conclusions or moral subjects. But
this "sense of the beautiful" is not an arbitrary principle. It is
under the guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness
with the progress of the individual and of society at large; it has
its laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it is in the
development of these laws that we find the true "standard of taste."
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong,
and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of
decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or
disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of
gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone,
when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
Akenside.
Taste of buds, OR Taste of goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end
organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of
modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.
Tasteful
Taste"ful (?), a.
1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope.
2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste;
tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste"ful*ly, adv. --
Taste"ful*ness, n.
Tasteless
Taste"less, a.
1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless
age. Orrery.
3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of
drapery. -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.
Taster
Tast"er (?), n.
1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to
ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a
cheese taster, or the like.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the
polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding
zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Tastily
Tast"i*ly (?), adv. In a tasty manner.
Tasting
Tast"ing, n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste;
the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Tasto
Tas"to (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
Tasto solo, single touch; -- in old music, a direction denoting that
the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be
performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
Tasty
Tast"y (?), a. [Compar. Tastier (?); superl. Tastiest.]
1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See
Taste, n., 5.<-- not used in that sense now. -->
2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as,
tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
Tat
Tat (?), n. [Hind. t\'bet.] Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the
Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]
Tat
Tat, n. [Hind. tatt.] (Zo\'94l.) A pony. [India]
Tataupa
Ta*tau"pa (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A South American
tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Tatch
Tatch (?), n. [F. tache spot. See Techy.] A spot or stain; also, a
trick. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
Tath
Tath (?), obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tath
Tath, n. [Prov. E.; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ta dung, ta the grass
of a manured pasture, te to manure. \'fb58. Cf. Ted.]
1. Dung, or droppings of cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a
pasture. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tath
Tath, v. t. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing
them to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tatou
Ta*tou" (?), n. [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zo\'94l.) The giant armadillo
(Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five
feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers,
feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
Tatouay
Tat"ou*ay (?), n. [Of Brazilian origin; cf. Pg. tatu, F. tatou.]
(Zo\'94l.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical
parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed
of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round
and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore
feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
Tatouhou
Tat"ou*hou (?), n. [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zo\'94l.) The peba.
Tatt
Tatt (?), v. t. & i. To make (anything) by tatting; to work at
tatting; as, tatted edging.
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Tatta
Tat"ta (?), n. [Hind. , t\'bet\'c6.] A bamboo frame or trellis hung at
a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle,
in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]
Tatter
Tat"ter (?), n. One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of
Needlework).
Tatter
Tat"ter (?), n. [Icel. t\'94tur, t\'94ttur, pl. t\'94trar, ; cf. Norw.
totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern tatters. \'fb240.] A rag, or a part
torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags. Shak.
Tatter
Tat"ter, v. t. [p. p. Tattered (?).] To rend or tear into rags; --
used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. Pope.
Tatterdemalion
Tat`ter*de*mal"ion (?), n. [Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the
meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes, swadding clothes, F.
maillot. See Tatter, and Mail armor.] A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
L'Estrange.
Tatting
Tat"ting (?), n. A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a
peculiar stitch. Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used
in tatting is wound.
Tattle
Tat"tle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tattling
(?).] [Akin to OE. tateren, LG. tateln, D. tateren to stammer, and
perhaps to E. titter.]
1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to
chat.
The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative. Dryden.
2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a
tattling girl.
Tattle
Tat"tle, n. Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
[They] told the tattle of the day. Swift.
Tattler
Tat"tler (?), n.
1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. Jer. Taylor.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged
sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
NOTE: &hand; Th e co mmon American species are the greater tattler,
or telltale (T. melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser
yellowlegs (T. flavipes), the solitary tattler (T. solitarius), and
the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also
telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs,
yellowshanks, and yelper.
Tattlery
Tat"tler*y (?), n. Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
Tattling
Tat"tling (?), a. Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. --
Tat"tling*ly, adv.
Tattoo
Tat*too" (?), n. [Earlier taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap, faucet + toe
to, shut (i. e., the taps, or drinking houses, shut from the
soldiers).] (Mil.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at
night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their
quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. The Devil's tattoo.
See under Devil.
Tattoo
Tat*too", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tattooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tattooing.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu
puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in
coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be
washed out.
Tattoo
Tat*too", n.; pl. Tattoos (. An indelible mark or figure made by
puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures;
-- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both
in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations,
especially by sailors.
Tatu
Ta*tu" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tatou.
Tatusiid
Ta*tu"si*id (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any armadillo of the family
Tatusiid\'91, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also
used adjectively.
Tau
Tau (?), n. [Gr. tay^ the letter t (English T).] (Zo\'94l.) The common
American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek
letter tau (t). Tau cross. See Illust. 6, of Cross.
Taught
Taught (?), a. See Taut. Totten.
Taught
Taught, imp. & p. p. of Teach. [AS. imp. t&aemac;hte, p.p.
get&aemac;ht.]
NOTE: See Teach.
Taunt
Taunt (?), a. [Cf. OF. tant so great, F. tant so much, L. tantus of
such size, so great, so much.] (Naut.) Very high or tall; as, a ship
with taunt masts. Totten.
Taunt
Taunt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Taunting.]
[Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for
tenter. See Tempt.] To reproach with severe or insulting words; to
revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her. Shak.
Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See Deride.
Taunt
Taunt, n. Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting
invective.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts. Shak.
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest. Prior.
Taunter
Taunt"er (?), n. One who taunts.
Taunting
Taunt"ing, a. & n. from Taunt, v.
Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
Tauntingly
Taunt"ing*ly, adv. In a taunting manner.
Tauntress
Taunt"ress (?), n. A woman who taunts.
Taur
Taur (?), n. [L. Taurus.] The constellation Taurus. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tauricornous
Tau`ri*cor"nous (?), a. [L. tauricornis; taurus a bull + cornu a
horn.] (Zo\'94l.) Having horns like those of a bull. Sir T. Browne.
Tauridor
Tau`ri*dor" (?), n. [See Toreador.] A bull Sir W. Scott.
Tauriform
Tau"ri*form (?), a. [L. tauriformis; taurus a bull + -form: cf. F.
tauriforme.] Having the form of a bull.
Taurine
Tau"rine (?), a. [L. taurinus, fr. taurus a bull. See Taurus.]
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
Taurine
Tau"rine (?), n. [So named because it was discovered in the bile of
the ox. See Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body occurring in small
quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but
especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of
taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of
the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and
is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur,
being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C
Taurocholate
Tau`ro*cho"late (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A salt of taurocholic acid;
as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
Taurocholic
Tau`ro*chol"ic (?), a. [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining
to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid)
composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile
and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence
appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and
alcohol. It has a bitter taste.
Taurocol, Taurocolla
Tau"ro*col (?), Tau`ro*col"la (?), n. [NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr.
taurocolle.] Glue made from a bull's hide.
Tauromachian
Tau`ro*ma"chi*an (?), a. [See Tauromachy.] Of or pertaining to
bullfights. -- n. A bullfighter.
Tauromachy
Tau*rom"a*chy (?), n. [Gr. Bullfighting.
Taurus
Tau"rus (?), n. [L., akin to Gr. steer. See Steer a young ox.]
1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of
the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked
thus [&taurus;] in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation, containing
the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the
latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic
cattle.
Taurylic
Tau*ryl"ic (?), a. [L. taurus a bull + E. phenylic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat
cattle, and probably identical with cresol.
Taut
Taut (?), a. [Dan. t\'91t; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]
1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is
tightly strained.
2. Sung; close; firm; secure.
Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in
discipline.
Tautegorical
Tau`te*gor"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Allegory.] Expressing the same thing
with different words; -- opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.
Tautochrone
Tau"to*chrone (?), n. [Gr. tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved line, such
that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will
always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the
curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base
horizontal is a tautochrone.
Tautochronous
Tau*toch"ro*nous (?), a. (Math.) Occupying the same time; pertaining
to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tautog
Tau*tog" (?), n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name,
translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him
tauta\'a3og.] (Zo\'94l.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or
Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult
it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish
gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
[Written also tautaug.]
Tautologic
Tau`to*log"ic (?), a. Tautological.
Tautological
Tau`to*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. tautologique.] Involving tautology;
having the same signification; as, tautological expression. --
Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv. Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the
same sound or syllable many times.
Tautologist
Tau*tol"o*gist (?), n. One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tautologize
Tau*tol"o*gize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tautologized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tautologizing (?).] To repeat the same thing in different words.
Tautologous
Tau*tol"o*gous (?), a. [Gr. Repeating the same thing in different
words; tautological. [R.] Tooke.
Tautology
Tau*tol"o*gy (?), n. [L. tautologia, Gr. tautologie.] (Rhet.) A
repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition
of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything
as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following
lines: --
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds
brings on the day. Addison.
Syn. -- Repetition. -- Tautology, Repetition. There may be frequent
repetitions (as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by
necessity or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being a
sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the sound.
Tautomeric
Tau`to*mer"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Relating to, or characterized by,
tautomerism.
Tautomerism
Tau*tom"er*ism (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) The condition, quality, or
relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives,
which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the
other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus,
the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism.
Tautoousian, Tautoousious
Tau`to*ou"si*an (?), Tau`to*ou"si*ous (?), a. [Gr. Having the same
essence; being identically of the same nature. [R.] Cudworth.
Tautophonical
Tau`to*phon"ic*al (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by,
tautophony; repeating the same sound.
Tautophony
Tau*toph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. Repetition of the same sound.
Tautozonal
Tau`to*zon"al (?), a. [Gr. zonal.] (Crystallog.) Belonging to the same
zone; as, tautozonal planes.
Tavern
Tav"ern (?), n. [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a hut,
booth, tavern. Cf. Table, Tabernacle.] A public house where travelers
and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an
inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to
sell liquor in small quantities.
Taverner
Tav"ern*er (?), n. [F. tavernier, L. tabernarius.] One who keeps a
tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
Taverning
Tav"ern*ing, n. A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our
tavernings." Bp. Hall.
Tavernman
Tav"ern*man (?), n.; pl. Tavernmen (. The keeper of a tavern; also, a
tippler. [Obs.]
Taw
Taw (?), n. Tow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Taw
Taw, v. t. [Cf. Tew to tow, Tow, v. t.] To push; to tug; to tow.
[Obs.] Drayton.
Taw
Taw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tawing.] [OE.
tawen, tewen, AS. t\'bewian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. t\'c7wa
order, taujan to do, and E. tool. \'fb64. Cf. 1st Tew, Tow the coarse
part of flax.]
1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat;
to scourge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and
kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and
other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
Taw
Taw, n. [Cf. AS. t\'bew instrument.]
1. A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Tawdrily
Taw"dri*ly (?), adv. In a tawdry manner.
Tawdriness
Taw"dri*ness, n. Quality or state of being tawdry.
A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by
tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
Tawdry
Taw"dry (?), a. [Compar. Tawdrier (?); superl. Tawdriest.] [Said to be
corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda,
implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey,
where laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in
Isle Ely, and probably at other places, on the day of the saint, which
was the 17th of October.]
1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.]
And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.
Spenser.
2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an
excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry
dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.<-- tacky? -->
He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry
courtiers. Spectator.
Tawdry
Taw"dry, n.; pl. Tawdries (. A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at
St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]
Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for
their necks. Drayton.
Tawer
Taw"er (?), n. One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
Tawery
Taw"er*y (?), n. A place where skins are tawed.
Tawniness
Taw"ni*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tawny.
Tawny
Taw"ny (?), a. [Compar. Tawnier (?); superl. Tawniest.] [F. tann\'82,
p.p. of tanner to tan. See Tan, v. t. & n. Cf. Tenn\'82.] Of a dull
yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are
sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's
tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.
Taws
Taws (?), n. [See Taw to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of
punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and
tawse.] [Scot.]
Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.
Tax
Tax (?), n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply,
to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to
touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]
1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by
authority. Specifically: -- (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons
or property for the support of a government.
A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most
rapacious. Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls,
lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on
carriages, and the like.
NOTE: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc.
(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray
its expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or
service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on
time or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] Johnson.
Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn. -- Impost;
tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom;
demand.
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Tax
Tax (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] [Cf.
F. taxer. See Tax, n.]
1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon;
to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support
of government.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we
are taxed by government. Franklin.
2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as,
to tax the cost of an action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with,
rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
I tax you, you elements, with unkindness. Shak.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their
crimes. Dryden.
Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.
Taxability
Tax`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being taxable;
taxableness.
Taxable
Tax"a*ble (?), a.
1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes;
as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.
2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff
of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- Tax"a*ble*ness, n. --
Tax"a*bly, adv.
Taxaspidean
Tax`as*pid"e*an (?), a. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Having the posterior tarsal
scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said
of certain birds.
Taxation
Tax*a"tion (?), n. [F. taxation, L. taxatio a valuing, estimation,
from L. taxare. See Tax.]
1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects
of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or
company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a
system of raising revenue.
2. (Law) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
3. Tax; sum imposed. [R.] Daniel.
4. Charge; accusation. [Obs.] Shak.
Taxel
Tax"el (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The American badger.
Taxeopoda
Tax`e*op"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. -poda.] (Paleon.) An order of
extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.
Taxer
Tax"er (?), n.
1. One who taxes.
2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread,
and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. [Camb.
Univ., Eng.] [Written also taxor.]
Taxgatherer
Tax"gath`er*er (?), n. One who collects taxes or revenues. --
Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
Taxiarch
Tax"i*arch (?), n. [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.) An Athenian military officer
commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.
Taxicorn
Tax"i*corn (?), n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.]
(Zo\'94l.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antenn\'91
are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.
Taxidermic
Tax`i*der"mic (?), a. [Cf. F. taxidermique.] Of or pertaining to the
art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
Taxidermist
Tax"i*der`mist (?), n. A person skilled in taxidermy.
Taxidermy
Tax"i*der`my (?), n. [Gr. taxidermie. See Tactics, Tear, v. t.] The
art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as
to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
Taxine
Tax"ine (?), n. [L. taxus a yew.] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid of
bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew
(Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.<-- a mixture of compounds. Taxine
A has form. C35H47NO10
Taxis
Tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial
tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing
it. Dunglison.
Taxless
Tax"less, a. Free from taxation.
Taxology
Tax*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.) Same as Taxonomy.
Taxonomic
Tax`o*nom"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the
laws and principles of classification; classificatory.
Taxonomist
Tax*on"o*mist (?), n. One skilled in taxonomy.
Taxonomy
Tax*on"o*my (?), n. [Gr. That division of the natural sciences which
treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or
principles of classification.
Taxor
Tax"or (?), n. [NL.] Same as Taxer, n., 2.
Taxpayer
Tax"pay`er (?), n. One who is assessed and pays a tax.
Tayra
Tay"ra (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A South American
carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and
thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet. [Written
also taira.]
Tazel
Ta"zel (?), n. (Bot.) The teasel. [Obs.]
Tazza
Taz"za (?), n. [It.] An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat,
shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
Tchawytcha
Tcha*wy"tcha (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The quinnat salmon. [Local, U.S.]
T cart
T" cart` (?). See under T.
Tea
Tea (?), n. [Chin. tsh\'be, Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th\'82.]
1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, OR Camellia,
Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to
some extent into some other countries.
NOTE: &hand; Teas are classed as green or black, according to their
color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various
other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like.
The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment
which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green
tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood
fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are
rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of
their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried.
Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some
time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands
until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few
minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a
few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over
a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes
repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper
color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest
kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and
Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from
young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are
Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the
finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly
from young spring buds. See Bohea, Congou, Gunpowder tea, under
Gunpowder, Hyson, Oolong, and Souchong.
K. Johnson. Tomlinson.
NOTE: &hand; "N o kn owledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached
Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal
and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the
introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch
established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these
adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and
brought it to Europe."
Encyc. Brit.
2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is
a common beverage.
3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves
of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.
4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper.
Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha edulis; also (Bot.), the plant
itself. See Kat. -- Assam tea, tea grown in Assam, in India,
originally brought there from China about the year 1850. --
Australian, OR Botany Bay, tea (Bot.), a woody clambing plant (Smilax
glycyphylla). -- Brazilian tea. (a) The dried leaves of Lantana
pseodothea, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried
leaves of Stachytarpheta mutabilis, used for adulterating tea, and
also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. -- Labrador tea. (Bot.)
See under Labrador. -- New Jersey tea (Bot.), an American shrub, the
leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot.
See Redroot. -- New Zealand tea. (Bot.) See under New Zealand. --
Oswego tea. (Bot.) See Oswego tea. -- Paraguay tea, mate. See 1st
Mate. -- Tea board, a board or tray for holding a tea set. -- Tea bug
(Zo\'94l.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by
sucking the juice of the tender leaves. -- Tea caddy, a small box for
holding tea. -- Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually lined
with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. -- Tea
clam (Zo\'94l.), a small quahaug. [Local, U.S.] -- Tea garden, a
public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. -- Tea
plant (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a
beverage by infusion; specifically, Thea Chinensis, from which the tea
of commerce is obtained. -- Tea rose (Bot.), a delicate and graceful
variety of the rose (Rosa Indica, var. odorata), introduced from
China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated.
-- Tea service, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea
table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk
pitcher, and sugar dish. -- Tea set, a tea service. -- Tea table, a
table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. -- Tea
taster, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. --
Tea tree (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See Tea plant, above.<-- In
Australia and New Zealand, tea tree refers to a tree or tall shrib,
Leptospermum scoparium, having white bell-shaped flowers. The leaves
are used to prepare an infusion; an oil, tea tree oil, is also
derived, and claimed to have therapeutic properties, as for healing
burns of the skin. --> -- Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of
an urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing,
tea.
Tea
Tea, v. i. To take or drink tea. [Colloq.]
Teaberry
Tea"ber`ry (?), n. (Bot.) The checkerberry.
Teach
Teach (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taught (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teaching.]
[OE. techen, imp. taughte, tahte, AS. t, imp. t, to show, teach, akin
to t\'becn token. See Token.]
1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to
impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to
inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach
arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.
If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should
practice them. South.
2. To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide
the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of
studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples."
Mark ix. 31.
The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.
3. To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.
I shall myself to herbs teach you. Chaucer.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies. Jer. ix. 5.
NOTE: &hand; Th is ve rb is often used with two objects, one of the
person, the other of the thing; as, he taught me Latin grammar. In
the passive construction, either of these objects may be retained
in the objective case, while the other becomes the subject; as, I
was taught Latin grammar by him; Latin grammar was taught me by
him.
Syn. -- To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel;
admonish. See the Note under Learn.
Teach
Teach (?), v. i. To give instruction; to follow the business, or to
perform the duties, of a preceptor.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach. Chaucer.
The priests thereof teach for hire. Micah iii. 11.
Teachable
Teach"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also,
willing to receive instruction; docile.
We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn
our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.
Teachableness
Teach"a*ble*ness, n. Willingness to be taught.
Teache
Teache (?), n. [Cf. Ir. teaghaim, Gael. teasaich, to heat.] (Sugar
Works) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated
in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.
Teacher
Teach"er (?), n.
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is
to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the
gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
The teachers in all the churches assembled. Sir W. Raleigh.
Teaching
Teach"ing, n. The act or business of instructing; also, that which is
taught; instruction. Syn. -- Education; instruction; breeding. See
Education.
Teachless
Teach"less, a. Not teachable. [R.] Shelley.
Teacup
Tea"cup` (?), n. A small cup from which to drink tea.
Teacupful
Tea"cup`ful (?), n.; pl. Teacupfuls (. As much as a teacup can hold;
enough to fill a teacup.
Tead, Teade
Tead, Teade (?), n. [L. taeda, teda.] A torch. [Obs.] "A burning
teade." Spenser.
Teagle
Tea"gle (?), n. [Cf. Tackle.] A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a
crane; a lift. [Prov. Eng.]
Teague
Teague (?), n. [Cf. W. taeog, taeawg, adj., rustic, rude, n., a
vassal, villain, pleasant, clown, Ir. th rural, boorish.] An Irishman;
-- a term used in contempt. Johnson.
Teak
Teak (?), n. [Malayalm tekku.] (Bot.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona
grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly
valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the
tree. [Written also teek.] African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana)
of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; -- called also
African oak. -- New Zeland teak, a large tree (Vitex littoralis) of
New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.
Teakettle
Tea"ket`tle (?), n. A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea,
coffee, etc.
Teal
Teal (?), n. [OE. tele; akin to D. teling a generation, production,
teal, telen to breed, produce, and E. till to cultivate. The English
word probably once meant, a brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of
the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is
handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the
wings.
NOTE: &hand; Th e co mmon Eu ropean te al (A nas cr ecca) an d th e
European blue-winged teal, or garganey (A. querquedula or A.
circia), are well-known species. In America the blue-winged teal
(A. discors), the green-winged teal (A. Carolinensis), and the
cinnamon teal (A. cynaoptera) are common species, valued as game
birds. See Garganey.
Goose teal, a goslet. See Goslet. -- Teal duck, the common European
teal.
Team
Team (?), n. [OE. tem, team, AS. te\'a0m, offspring, progeny, race of
descendants, family; akin to D. toom a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team,
bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget, Icel. taumr to rein,
bridle, Dan. t\'94mme, Sw. t\'94m, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to
draw. \'fb64. See Tug, and cf. Teem to bear.]
1. A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a
litter.
A team of ducklings about her. Holland.
2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.
A long team of snowy swans on high. Dryden.
3. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same
vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team
of dolphins." Spenser.
To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman.
It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team
of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them
out of the slough. Macaulay.
4. A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang;
especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a
match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
5. (Zo\'94l.) A flock of wild ducks.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a
lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his
bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is,
goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.
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Team
Team (?), v. i. To engage in the occupation of driving a team of
horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods,
etc.; to be a teamster. <-- team up, to form one or more teams, either
for a common endeavor, or to compete in a contest. -->
Team
Team, v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.]
Thoreau.
Teamed
Teamed (?), a. Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.]
Let their teamed fishes softly swim. Spenser.
Teaming
Team"ing (?), n.
1. The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying,
as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.
2. (Manuf.) Contract work. [R.] Knight.
Teamster
Team"ster (?), n. One who drives a team.
Teamwork
Team"work` (?), n. Work done by a team, as distinguished from that
done by personal labor.
Teapot
Tea"pot` (?), n. A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from
which it is poured into teacups.
Teapoy
Tea"poy (?), n. [Hind. tip\'bei; Hind. tin there + Per. p\'bee foot.]
An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for
holding tea.
Tear
Tear (?), n. [AS. te\'a0r; akin to G. z\'84rhe, OHG. zahar, OFries. &
Icel. t\'ber, Sw. t\'86r, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. d\'c7r, W.
dagr, OW. dacr, L. lacrima, lacruma, for older dacruma, Gr.
Lachrymose.]
1. (Physiol.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in
small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and
the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion.
Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the
nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it
overflows the lids.
And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. Chaucer.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also,
a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees
with precious tears. Dryden.
3. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. [R.]
"Some melodous tear." Milton.
NOTE: &hand; Te ar is so metimes us ed in th e fo rmation of
self-explaining compounds; as, tear-distilling, tear-drop,
tear-filled, tear-stained, and the like.
Tear
Tear (?), v. t. [imp. Tore (?), ((Obs. Tare) (; p. p. Torn (?); p. pr.
& vb. n. Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to
destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear, zehren to
consume, Icel. t\'91ra, Goth. gata\'a1ran to destroy, Lith. dirti to
flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. dar to burst. \'fb63. Cf.
Darn, Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to
lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or
flesh.
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. Shak.
2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a
party or government torn by factions.
3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a
child torn from its home.
The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me. Addison.
4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
5. To move violently; to agitate. "Once I loved torn ocean's roar."
Byron.
To tear a cat, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially applied to
theatrical ranting. [Obs.] Shak. -- To tear down, to demolish
violently; to pull or pluck down. -- To tear off, to pull off by
violence; to strip. -- To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence;
as, to tear out the eyes. -- To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a
fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
foundation of government or order.<-- tear sheet, (a) a sheet usu.
with performations, intended to be torn from a book or booklet to be
used for some purpose. (b) any sheet torn from a publication. -->
Tear
Tear (?), v. i.
1. To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth
tears easily.
2. To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence;
hence, to rage; to rave.
Tear
Tear (?), n. The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a
fissure. Macaulay. Wear and tear. See under Wear, n.
Tearer
Tear"er (?), n. One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages
or raves with violence.
Tear-falling
Tear"-fall`ing (?), a. Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling
pity." Shak.
Tearful
Tear"ful (?), a. Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as,
tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
Tearless
Tear"less, a. Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. --
Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.
Tearpit
Tear"pit` (?), n. (Anat.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid
of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable
of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
Tear-thumb
Tear"-thumb` (?), n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of plants
of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute
reflexed prickles.
Teary
Tear"y (?), a.
1. Wet with tears; tearful.
2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
Tea-saucer
Tea"-sau`cer (?), n. A small saucer in which a teacup is set.
Tease
Tease (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teasing.]
[AS. t to pluck, tease; akin to OD. teesen, MHG. zeisen, Dan. t\'91se,
t\'91sse. \'fb58. Cf. Touse.]
1. To comb or card, as wool or flax. "Teasing matted wool."
Wordsworth.
2. To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
3. (Anat.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or
similar instruments.
4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb,
or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
Cowper.
He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to
his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.
Syn. -- To vex; harass: annoy; disturb; irritate; plague; torment;
mortify; tantalize; chagrin. -- Tease, Vex. To tease is literally to
pull or scratch, and implies a prolonged annoyance in respect to
little things, which is often more irritating, and harder to bear,
than severe pain. Vex meant originally to seize and bear away hither
and thither, and hence, to disturb; as, to vex the ocean with storms.
This sense of the term now rarely occurs; but vex is still a stronger
word than tease, denoting the disturbance or anger created by minor
provocations, losses, disappointments, etc. We are teased by the
buzzing of a fly in our eyes; we are vexed by the carelessness or
stupidity of our servants.
Not by the force of carnal reason, But indefatigable teasing.
Hudibras.
In disappointments, where the affections have been strongly placed,
and the expectations sanguine, particularly where the agency of
others is concerned, sorrow may degenerate into vexation and
chagrin. Cogan.
Tease tenon (Joinery), a long tenon at the top of a post to receive
two beams crossing each other one above the other.
Tease
Tease (?), n. One who teases or plagues. [Colloq.]
Teasel
Tea"sel (?), n. [OE. tesel, AS. t, t, the fuller's herb. See Tease.]
[Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.]
1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D.
fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly,
hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap
on woolen cloth.
NOTE: &hand; Sm all te asel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is D.
sylvestris.
2. A bur of this plant.
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing
cloth.
Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are
fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.
Teasel
Tea"sel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teaseled (?) or Teaselled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Teaseling or Teaselling.] To subject, as woolen cloth, to the
action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to
raise a nap.
Teaseler
Tea"sel*er (?), n. One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
[Written also teaseller, teasler.]
Teaseling
Tea"sel*ing, n. The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of
teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]
Teaser
Teas"er (?), n.
1. One who teases or vexes.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]
Teasle
Tea"sle (?), n. & v. t. See Teasel.
Teaspoon
Tea"spoon` (?), n. A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea,
coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
Teaspoonful
Tea"spoon`ful (?), n.; pl. Teaspoonfuls (. As much as teaspoon will
hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram
or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Teat
Teat (?), n. [OE. tete, titte, AS. tit, titt; akin to LG. & OD. titte,
D. tet, G. zitze: cf. F. tette, probably of Teutonic origin.]
1. The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or
breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
2. (Mach.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an
animal.
Teated
Teat"ed, a. Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.
Teathe
Teathe (?), n. & v. See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]
Teatish
Teat"ish (?), a. Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See
Tettish. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Teaze-hole
Teaze"-hole` (?), n. [Corrupted fr. F. tisard fire door.] (Glass
Works) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.
Teazel
Tea"zel (?), n. & v. t. See Teasel.
Teazer
Tea"zer (?), n. [Corrupted fr. F. tiser to feed a fire.] The stoker or
fireman of a furnace, as in glass works. Tomlinson.
Teazle
Tea"zle (?), n. & v. t. See Teasel.
Tebeth
Te"beth (?), n. [Heb.] The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical
year, answering to a part of December with a part of January. Esther
ii. 16.
Techily
Tech"i*ly (?), adv. In a techy manner.
Techiness
Tech"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being techy.
Technic
Tech"nic (?), a. Technical.
Technic
Tech"nic, n. [See Technical, a.]
1. The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic
execution; technique.
They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike
Artificer. Tyndall.
2. pl. Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice
of an art or science.
Technical
Tech"nic*al (?), a. [Gr. text: cf. F. technique.] Of or pertaining to
the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like;
specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words
of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.
Technicality
Tech`ni*cal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Technicalities (.
1. The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession,
sect, or the like.
The technicalities of the sect. Palfrey.
Technically
Tech"nic*al*ly (?), adv. In a technical manner; according to the
signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
Technicalness
Tech"nic*al*ness, n. The quality or state of being technical;
technicality.
Technicals
Tech"nic*als (?), n. pl. Those things which pertain to the practical
part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
Technicist
Tech"ni*cist (?), n. One skilled to technics or in one or more of the
practical arts.
Technicological
Tech`ni*co*log"ic*al (?), a. Technological; technical. [R.] Dr. J.
Scott.
Technicology
Tech`ni*col"o*gy (?), n. Technology. [R.]
Technics
Tech"nics (?), n. The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of
learning as respect the arts.
Technique
Tech`nique" (?), n. [F.] Same as Technic, n.
Technism
Tech"nism (?), n. Technicality.
Technologic
Tech`no*log"ic (?), a. Technological.
Technological
Tech`no*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. technologique.] Of or pertaining to
technology.
Technologist
Tech*nol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in technology; one who treats of
arts, or of the terms of arts.
Technology
Tech*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy; cf. Gr. technologie.] Industrial
science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts,
especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving,
metallurgy, etc.
NOTE: &hand; Technology is not an independent science, having a set
of doctrines of its own, but consists of applications of the
principles established in the various physical sciences (chemistry,
mechanics, mineralogy, etc.) to manufacturing processes.
Internat. Cyc.
Techy
Tech"y (?), a. [From OE. tecche, tache, a habit, bad habit, vice, OF.
tache, teche, a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice, F. tache a spot,
blemish; probably akin to E. tack a small nail. See Tack a small nail,
and cf. Touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Tectibranch
Tec`ti*branch (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used
adjectively.
Tectibranchia
Tec`ti*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL.] Same as Tectibranchiata.
Tectibranchiata
Tec`ti*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tectus (p.p. of tegere
to cover) + Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An order, or suborder, of gastropod
Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the
back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it
is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and
the bubble shells are examples.
Tectibranchiate
Tec`ti*bran"chi*ate (?), a. [L. tectus (p.p. of tegere to cover) + E.
branchiate.] (Zo\'94l.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or
pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n. A tectibranchiate mollusk.
Tectly
Tect"ly (?), adv. [L. tectus covered, fr. tegere to cover.] Covertly;
privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Tectology
Tec*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.) A division of morphology
created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting
the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is
regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each
organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.
Tectonic
Tec*ton"ic (?), a. [L. tectonicus, Gr. Of or pertaining to building or
construction; architectural.
Tectonics
Tec*ton"ics (?), n. The science, or the art, by which implements,
vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably
to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with
artistic sentiments and ideas.
Tectorial
Tec*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. tectorius.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti
in the internal ear.
Tectrices
Tec"tri*ces (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to cover.]
(Zo\'94l.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of
Bird.
Tecum
Te"cum (?), n. (Bot.) See Tucum.
Ted
Ted (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tedded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tedding.]
[Prob. fr. Icel. te to spread manure, fr. ta manure; akin to MHG.
zetten to scatter, spread. \'fb58. Cf. Teathe.] To spread, or turn
from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly
used in the past participle.
The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton.
The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.
Tedder
Ted"der (?), n. A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite
its drying.
Tedder
Ted"der, n. [OE. \'fb64. See Tether.] Same as Tether.
Tedder
Ted"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teddered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teddering.]
Same as Tether.
Te Deum
Te` De"um (?). [L., from te (accus. of tu thou) + Deum, accus. of Deus
God. See Thou, and Deity.]
1. An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship,
but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words
"Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman
Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In
its English form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it
forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England
and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
2. A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a
principal part.
Tedge
Tedge (?), n. (Founding) The gate of a mold, through which the melted
metal is poured; runner, geat.
Tediosity
Te`di*os"i*ty (?), n. Tediousness. [Obs.]
Tedious
Te"di*ous (?), a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium.] Involving
tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like;
wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n.
I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak.
I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.
Syn. -- Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
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Tedium
Te"di*um (?), n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also t\'91dium.]
Cowper.
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Prof. Wilson.
The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing
scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.
Tee
Tee (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tj\'be to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in
curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth <-- or short peg stuck
into the ground --> from which the ball is struck in golf.
Tee
Tee, n. A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect
a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so
called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
Tee iron
Tee" i`ron (?). See T iron, under T.
Teek
Teek (?), n. (Bot.) See Teak. [Obs.]
Teel
Teel (?), n. Sesame. [Sometimes written til.] Teel oil, sesame oil.
Teelseed
Teel"seed` (?), n. The seed of sesame.
Teem
Teem (?), v. t. [Icel. t\'91ma to empty, from t\'d3mr empty; akin to
Dan. t\'94mme to empty, Sw. t\'94mma. See Toom to empty.]
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] Swift.
2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a
mold, with molten metal.
Teem
Teem, v. t. [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.] To think fit. [Obs. or R.]
G. Gifford.
Teem
Teem, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming.] [OE.
temen, AS. t\'c7man, t, from te\'a0m. See Team.]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant;
to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. Shak.
2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing;
to be prolific; to abound.
His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former
villainy. Sir W. Scott.
The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time.
F. Harrison.
Teem
Teem, v. t. To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute
teems a new one. Shak.
Teemer
Teem"er (?), n. One who teems, or brings forth.
Teemful
Teem"ful (?), a.
1. Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]
2. Brimful. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Teeming
Teem"ing, a. Prolific; productive.
Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
Teemless
Teem"less, a. Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.
[Poetic] Dryden.
Teen
Teen (?), n. [OE. tene, AS. te\'a2na reproach, wrong, fr. te\'a2n to
accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere
to say. See Token.] Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Spenser.
With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.
Teen
Teen, v. t. [AS. te\'a2nian, t, to slander, vex. \'fb64. See Teen, n.]
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers
Plowman.
Teen
Teen, v. t. [See Tine to shut.] To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Teenage
Teen"age (?), n. The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov.
Eng.] Halliwell.
Teend
Teend (?), v. t. & i. [See Tinder.] To kindle; to burn. [Obs.]
Herrick.
Teenful
Teen"ful (?), a. Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.
[Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Teens
Teens (?), n. pl. [See Ten.] The years of one's age having the
termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen;
as, a girl in her teens.
Teeny
Tee"ny (?), a. Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]
Teeny
Teen"y (?), a. [See Teen grief.] Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
[Prov. Eng.]
Teeong
Tee*ong" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The mino bird.
Teest
Teest (?), n. A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
Teetan
Tee"tan (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Teetee
Tee"tee (?), n. [Sp. tit\'a1.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South
American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied
genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the
squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and
saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).
Teeter
Tee"ter (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Teetered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Teetering.] [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel. titra to
tremble, OHG. zittar\'d3n, G. zittern.] To move up and down on the
ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to
seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter. [U. S.]
[The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down. H.
W. Beecher.
Teeter-tail
Tee"ter-tail` (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note
under Sandpiper.
Teeth
Teeth (?), n., pl. of Tooth.
Teeth
Teeth (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teethed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teething.]
To breed, or grow, teeth.
Teething
Teeth"ing (?), n. The process of the first growth of teeth, or the
phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
Teetotal
Tee*to"tal (?), a. Entire; total. [Colloq.]
Teetotaler
Tee*to"tal*er (?), n. One pledged to entire abstinence from all
intoxicating drinks.
Teetotalism
Tee*to"tal*ism (?), n. The principle or practice of entire abstinence,
esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Teetotally
Tee*to"tal*ly (?), adv. Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]
Teetotum
Tee*to"tum (?), n. [For T-totum. It was used for playing games of
chance, and was four-sided, one side having the letter T on it,
standing for Latin totum all, meaning, take all that is staked, whence
the name. The other three sides each had a letter indicating an
English or Latin word; as P meaning put down, N nothing or L. nil, H
half. See Total.] A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and
twirled by the fingers.
The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a
teetotum nearly spent. Dickens.
Teetuck
Tee"tuck (?), n. The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Teeuck
Tee"uck (?), n. The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Teewit
Tee"wit (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]
Teg
Teg (?), n. A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second
year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tegmen
Teg"men (?), n.; pl. Tegmina (#). [L., fr. tegere, tectum, to cover.]
1. A tegument or covering.
2. (Bot.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and
delicate; the endopleura.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain
Orthoptera.
4. pl. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tectrices.
Tegmental
Teg*men"tal (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or
tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental
cells of the taste buds.
Tegmentum
Teg*men"tum (?), n.; pl. Tegmenta (#). [L., a covering.] (Anat.) A
covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers
in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
Teguexin
Te*guex"in (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large South American lizard (Tejus
teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above,
marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits,
insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied
species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
Tegula
Teg"u*la (?), n.; pl. Tegul\'91 (#). [L., a tile, dim. fr. tegere to
cover.] (Zo\'94l.) A small appendage situated above the base of the
wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Tegular
Teg"u*lar (?), a. [LL. tegularis, from L. tegula a tile. See Tile.] Of
or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles;
consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.
Tegulated
Teg`u*la"ted (?), a. Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal,
overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.
Tegument
Teg"u*ment (?), n. [L. tegumentum, from tegere to cover. See Thatch,
n., and cf. Detect, Protect.]
1. A cover or covering; an integument.
2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ
of such a body; skin; hide.
Tegumentary
Teg`u*men"ta*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82gumentaire.] Of or pertaining to
a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a
tegument or covering.
Te-hee
Te-hee" (?), n. & interj. A tittering laugh; a titter. "'Te-hee,'
quoth she." Chaucer.
Te-hee
Te-hee", v. i. To titter; to laugh derisively.
She cried, "Come, come; you must not look grave upon me." Upon
this, I te-heed. Madame D'Arblay.
Teil
Teil (?), n. [OF. teil, til, L. tilia.] (Bot.) The lime tree, or
linden; -- called also teil tree.
Teind
Teind (?), n. [Cf. Icel. t\'c6und. See Tithe.] A tithe. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Teine
Teine (?), n. See Teyne. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Teinland
Tein"land (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane
or lord. Burrill.
Teinoscope
Tei"no*scope (?), n. [Gr. -scope.] (Physics) An instrument formed by
combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the
light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are
increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope. Sir D.
Brewster.
Teint
Teint (?), n. [F. teint, teinte. See Tint.] Tint; color; tinge, See
Tint. [Obs.]
Time shall . . . embrown the teint. Dryden.
Teinture
Tein"ture (?), n. [F. See Tincture.] Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.]
Holland.
Tek
Tek (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A Siberian ibex.
Telamones
Tel`a*mo"nes (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. (Arch.)
Same as Atlantes.
Telangiectasis
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.) Dilatation of the
capillary vessels.
Telangiectasy
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sy (?), n. (Med.) Telangiectasis.
Telarly
Te"lar*ly (?), adv. In a weblike manner. [Obs.] "Telarly interwoven."
Sir T. Browne.
Telary
Te"la*ry (?), a. [LL. telaris, fr. L. tela a web. See Toil a snare.]
Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. "Pictures of
telary spiders." Sir T. Browne.
Teledu
Tel"e*du (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps)
allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it
emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high
mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also
stinking badger, and stinkard.
Telegram
Tel"e*gram (?), n. [Gr. -gram.] A message sent by telegraph; a
telegraphic dispatch.
NOTE: &hand; "A fr iend desires us to give notice that he will ask
leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the
vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or
telegraphic communication." Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April
6, 1852).
Telegrammic
Tel`e*gram*mic (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram;
laconic; concise; brief. [R.]
Telegraph
Tel"e*graph (?), n. [Gr. toli) + -graph: cf. F. t\'82l\'82graphe. See
Graphic.] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence
rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted
visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of
words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
NOTE: &hand; Th e in struments us ed ar e cl assed as in dicator,
type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs,
according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a
pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly
used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters
from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a
sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced
by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the
United States the recording instrument is now little used, the
receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and
short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an
electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking
of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces
upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the
letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.
Acoustic telegraph. See under Acoustic. -- Dial telegraph, a telegraph
in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are
placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the
apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at
the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the
sending station. -- Electric telegraph, OR Electro-magnetic telegraph,
a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs
to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated
by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. -- Facsimile
telegraph. See under Facsimile. -- Indicator telegraph. See under
Indicator. -- Pan-telegraph, an electric telegraph by means of which a
drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly
reproduced at a distant station. -- Printing telegraph, an electric
telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at
a distant station, in letters, not signs. -- Signal telegraph, a
telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or
otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at
another; a semaphore. -- Submarine telegraph cable, a telegraph cable
laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. --
Telegraph cable, a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting
wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to
bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a
strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a
town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. -- Telegraph plant
(Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans) native of the East
Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore.
Telegraph
Tel"e*graph (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telegraphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Telegraphing (?).] [F. t\'82l\'82graphier.] To convey or announce by
telegraph.
Telegrapher
Te*leg"ra*pher (?), n. One who sends telegraphic messages; a
telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
Telegraphic
Tel`e*graph"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82l\'82graphique.] Of or pertaining
to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic
signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
Telegraphical
Tel`e*graph"ic*al (?), a. Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Telegraphist
Te*leg"ra*phist (?), n. One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Telegraphy
Te*leg"ra*phy (?), n. [Cf. F. t\'82l\'82graphie.] The science or art
of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as,
submarine telegraphy.
Telemeter
Te*lem"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. -meter.] An instrument used for measuring
the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a
micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real
dimensions are known. <-- A measuring instrument which sends the
information obtained from its sensors by radio to a base station. Such
instruments are used for measuring conditions in space or in other
locations difficult of access for humans observers, or merely to allow
one observer to monitor conditions in many places simultaneaously.
Telemetry. The science or process of making remote measurements and
sending the data by radio. -->
Teleocephial
Te`le*o*ceph"i*al (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An extensive
order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as
bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
Teleological
Te`le*o*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82l\'82ologique.] (Biol.) Of or
pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design. --
Te`le*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Teleologist
Te`le*ol"o*gist (?), n. (Biol.) One versed in teleology.
Teleology
Te`le*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F.
t\'82l\'82ologie.] The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif.
(Biol.), the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of
organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by
purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical
explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine
of adaptation to purpose.
Teleophore
Te"le*o*phore` (?), n. [Gr. teleos complete + (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Gonotheca.
Teleorganic
Te`le*or*gan"ic (?), a. [Gr. teleos complete + E. organic.] (Physiol.)
Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
Teleosaur
Te`le*o*saur" (?), n. (Paleon.) Any one of several species of fossil
suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles
are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebr\'91.
Teleosaurus
Te`le*o*sau"rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.) A genus of extinct
crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender
snout.
Teleost
Te"le*ost (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Teleosti. Also used
adjectively.
Teleostean
Te`le*os"te*an (?), a. (Zo\'94l.)Of or pertaining to the teleosts. --
n. A teleostean fish.
Teleostei
Te`le*os"te*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A subclass of
fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from
the ganoids.
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Teleostomi
Te"le*os`to*mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) An extensive
division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the
ganoids.
Teleozoic
Te`le*o*zo"ic (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having tissued composed of cells.
Teleozo\'94n
Te*le*o*zo"\'94n (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A metazoan.
Telepathy
Te*lep"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. The sympathetic affection of one mind by the
thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without
communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. --
Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.
Telepheme
Tel"e*pheme (?), n. [Gr. A message by a telephone. [Recent]
Telephone
Tel"e*phone (?), n. [Gr. (Physics) An instrument for reproducing
sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
NOTE: &hand; Th e or dinary te lephone co nsists es sentially of a
device by which currents of electricity, produced by sounds through
the agency of certain mechanical devices and exactly corresponding
in duration and intensity to the vibrations of the air which attend
them, are transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on
suitable mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by repeating the
vibrations. The necessary variations in the electrical currents are
usually produced by means of a microphone attached to a thin
diaphragm upon which the voice acts, and are intensified by means
of an induction coil. In the magnetic telephone, or
magneto-telephone, the diaphragm is of soft iron placed close to
the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire, and
its vibrations produce corresponding vibrable currents in the wire
by induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a device in
which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a thin diaphragm,
which are directly transmitted along a wire or string connecting it
to a similar diaphragm at the remote station, thus reproducing the
sound. It does not employ electricity.
Telephone
Tel"e*phone, v. t. To convey or announce by telephone.
Telephonic
Tel`e*phon"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82l\'82phonique. See Telephone.]
1. Conveying sound to a great distance.
2. Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.
Telephonically
Tel`e*phon"ic*al*ly (?), adv. By telephonic means or processes; by the
use of the telephone.
Telephony
Te*leph"o*ny (?), n. The art or process of reproducing sounds at a
distance, as with the telephone.
Telepolariscope
Tel`e*po*lar"i*scope (?), n. [Gr. polariscope.] (Opt.) A polariscope
arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.
Telerythin
Tel`e*ryth"in (?), n. [Gr. erythrin.] (Chem.) A red crystalline
compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because
regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
Telescope
Tel"e*scope (?), n. [Gr. t\'82lescope. See Telegraph, and -scope.] An
optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly
bodies.
NOTE: &hand; A te lescope as sists th e ey e ch iefly in two ways;
first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object
is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and, secondly, by
collecting, and conveying to the eye, a larger beam of light than
would enter the naked organ, thus rendering objects distinct and
visible which would otherwise be indistinct and or invisible. Its
essential parts are the object glass, or concave mirror, which
collects the beam of light, and forms an image of the object, and
the eyeglass, which is a microscope, by which the image is
magnified.
Achromatic telescope. See under Achromatic. -- Aplanatic telescope, a
telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece. -- Astronomical telescope, a
telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to
reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently
exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical
observations. -- Cassegrainian telescope, a reflecting telescope
invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in
having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed
nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian represents objects
inverted; the Gregorian, in their natural position. The Melbourne
telescope (see Illust. under Reflecting telescope, below) is a
Cassegrainian telescope. -- Dialytic telescope. See under Dialytic.
Equatorial telescope. See the Note under Equatorial. -- Galilean
telescope, a refracting telescope in which the eyeglass is a concave
instead of a convex lens, as in the common opera glass. This was the
construction originally adopted by Galileo, the inventor of the
instrument. It exhibits the objects erect, that is, in their natural
positions. -- Gregorian telescope, a form of reflecting telescope. See
under Gregorian. -- Herschelian telescope, a reflecting telescope of
the form invented by Sir William Herschel, in which only one speculum
is employed, by means of which an image of the object is formed near
one side of the open end of the tube, and to this the eyeglass is
applied directly. -- Newtonian telescope, a form of reflecting
telescope. See under Newtonian. -- Photographic telescope, a telescope
specially constructed to make photographs of the heavenly bodies. --
Prism telescope. See Teinoscope. -- Reflecting telescope, a telescope
in which the image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by
two speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the
smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See
Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, AND Newtonian, telescopes,
above. -- Refracting telescope, a telescope in which the image is
formed by refraction through an object glass. -- Telescope carp
(Zo\'94l.), the telescope fish. -- Telescope fish (Zo\'94l.), a
monstrous variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes. --
Telescope fly (Zo\'94l.), any two-winged fly of the genus Diopsis,
native of Africa and Asia. The telescope flies are remarkable for
having the eyes raised on very long stalks. -- Telescope shell
(Zo\'94l.), an elongated gastropod (Cerithium telescopium) having
numerous flattened whorls. -- Telescope sight (Firearms), a slender
telescope attached to the barrel, having cross wires in the eyepiece
and used as a sight. -- Terrestrial telescope, a telescope whose
eyepiece has one or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the
purpose of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect.
Telescope
Tel"e*scope (?), a. [imp. & p. p. Telescoped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Telescoping (?).] To slide or pass one within another, after the
manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into
collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into
another. [Recent]
Telescope
Tel"e*scope, v. t. To cause to come into collision, so as to
telescope. [Recent]
Telescopic, Telescopical
Tel`e*scop"ic (?), Tel`e*scop"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82lescopique.]
1. Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.
2. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.
3. Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as,
a telescopic eye; telescopic vision.
4. Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another,
like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.),
constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the
telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war
vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
Telescopically
Tel`e*scop"ic*al*ly, adv. In a telescopical manner; by or with the
telescope.
Telescopist
Te*les"co*pist (?), n. One who uses a telescope. R. A. Proctor.
Telescopy
Te*les"co*py (?), n. The art or practice of using or making
telescopes.
Telesm
Tel"esm (?), n. [Ar. tilism. See Talisman.] A kind of amulet or
magical charm. [Obs.] J. Gregory.
Telesmatic, Telesmatical
Tel`es*mat"ic (?), Tel`es*mat"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to
telesms; magical. J. Gregory.
Telespectroscope
Tel`e*spec"tro*scope (?), n. [Gr. spectroscope.] (Astron.) A
spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of
distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.
Telestereoscope
Tel`e*ste"re*o*scope (?), n. [Gr. stereoscope.] (Opt.) A stereoscope
adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic
stereoscope.
Telestic
Te*les"tic (?), a. [Gr. Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.
[R.] Cudworth.
Telestich
Te*les"tich (?), n. [Gr. A poem in which the final letters of the
lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
Telethermometer
Tel`e*ther*mom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. thermometer.] (Physics) An apparatus
for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a
thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
Teleutospore
Te*leu"to*spore (?), n. [Gr. spore.] (Bot.) The thick-celled winter or
resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late
summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
Telic
Tel"ic (?), a. [Gr. (Gram.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as
distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic. Gibbs.
Tell
Tell (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Telling.] [AS.
tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G.
z\'84hlen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to
speak, t\'91lle to count. See Tale that which is told.]
1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate;
to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. "An heap of coin he
told." Spenser.
He telleth the number of the stars. Ps. cxlvii. 4.
Tell the joints of the body. Jer. Taylor.
2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
Of which I shall tell all the array. Chaucer.
And not a man appears to tell their fate. Pope.
3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen. xii. 18.
4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach;
to inform.
A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of? Shak.
5. To order; to request; to command.
He told her not to be frightened. Dickens.
6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out;
to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other
begins.
7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
[Obs.]
I ne told no dainity of her love. Chaucer.
NOTE: &hand; Te ll, th ough equivalent in some respect to speak and
say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell truth or
falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something
or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse, or
oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in
commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you know.
To tell off, to count; to divide. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- To
communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform; acquaint; report;
repeat; rehearse; recite.
Tell
Tell, v. i.
1. To give an account; to make report.
That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all
thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7.
2. To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells;
every expression tells.
To tell of. (a) To speak of; to mention; to narrate or describe. (b)
To inform against; to disclose some fault of. -- To tell on, to inform
against. [Archaic & Colloq.]
Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David. 1 Sam. xxvii.
11.
Tell
Tell, n. That which is told; tale; account. [R.]
I am at the end of my tell. Walpole.
Tell
Tell, n. [Ar.] A hill or mound. W. M. Thomson.
Tellable
Tell"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being told.
Tellen
Tel"len (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of Tellina.
Teller
Tell"er (?), n.
1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or
describer.
2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed
to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the
king. Cowell.
3. An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in,
and pays money out on checks.
4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative
body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
Tellership
Tell"er*ship, n. The office or employment of a teller.
Tellina
Tel*li"na (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine bivalve
mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
Telling
Tell"ing (?), a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling
speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.
Telltale
Tell"tale` (?), a. Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.
Telltale
Tell"tale`, n.
1. One who officiously communicates information of the private
concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
2. (Mus.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected
with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when
the wind is exhausted.
3. (Naut.) (a) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which,
in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. (b) A
compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can
see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
4. (Mach.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording
something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory
hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to
their employers what they have done or omitted.
5. (Zo\'94l.) The tattler. See Tattler.
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Tellural
Tel*lu"ral (?), a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or pertaining to
the earth. [R.]
Tellurate
Tel"lu*rate (?), n. [Cf. F. tellurate. See Tellurium.] (Chem.) A salt
of telluric acid.
Telluret
Tel"lu*ret (?), n. (Chem.) A telluride. [Obsoles.]
Tellureted
Tel"lu*ret`ed (?), n. (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with tellurium;
tellurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen
(Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to
hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.
Tellurhydric
Tel`lur*hy"dric (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating,
hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in
solution.
Tellurian
Tel*lu"ri*an (?), a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] Of or pertaining
to the earth. De Quincey.
Tellurian
Tel*lu"ri*an, n.
1. A dweller on the earth. De Quincey.
2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce
the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
[Written also tellurion.]
Telluric
Tel*lu"ric (?), a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth: cf. F. tellurique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Amid these hot, telluric flames. Carlyle.
2. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling,
tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the
element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds;
as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.
Telluric bismuth (Min.), tetradymite. -- Telluric silver (Min.),
hessite.
Telluride
Tel"lu*ride (?), n. (Chem.) A compound of tellurium with a more
positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.
Tellurism
Tel"lu*rism (?), n. An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by
Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the
agency of a telluric spirit or influence. [R.] S. Thompson.
Tellurite
Tel"lu*rite (?), n.
1. (Chem.) A salt of tellurous acid.
2. (Min.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or
yellowish crystals.
Tellurium
Tel*lu"ri*um (?), n. [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] (Chem.)
A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium,
occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic
luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in
the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te.
Atomic weight 125.2. Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. --
Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium.
Tellurize
Tel"lu*rize (?), v. t. (Chem.) To impregnate with, or to subject to
the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past
participle; as, tellurized ores.
Tellurous
Tel"lu*rous (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived
from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those
compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with
telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to
sulphurous acid.
Telodynamic
Tel`o*dy*nam"ic (?), a. [Gr. dynamic.] Relating to a system for
transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or
cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
Teloogoo
Tel`oo*goo" (?), n. See Telugu. D. O. Allen.
Telotrocha
Te*lot"ro*cha (?), n.; pl. Telotroch\'91 (#). [NL. See Telotrochal.]
(Zo\'94l.) An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.
Telotrochal, Telotrochous
Te*lot"ro*chal (?), Te*lot"ro*chous (?), a. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Having
both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the
larv\'91 of certain annelids.
Telotype
Tel"o*type (?), n. [Gr. -type.] An electric telegraph which prints the
messages in letters and not in signs.
Telpher
Tel"pher (?), n. [Gr. (Elec.) A contrivance for the conveyance of
vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. Telpher
line, OR Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles
for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current
conveyed by the line.
Telpherage
Tel"pher*age (?), n. The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of
electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.
Telson
Tel"son (?), n.; pl. Telsons (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) The
terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea
and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
Telugu
Tel`u*gu" (?), n.
1. A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras
presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani
(in its various forms) and Bengali. [Spelt also Teloogoo.]
2. One of the people speaking the Telugu language.
Telugu
Tel`u*gu", a. Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.
Temerarious
Tem`er*a"ri*ous (?), a. [L. temerarius. See Temerity.] Unreasonably
adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless;
heedless. -- Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly, adv.
I spake against temerarious judgment. Latimer.
Temeration
Tem`er*a"tion (?), n. [L. temerare to defile.] Temerity. [Obs.] Jer.
Taylor.
Temerity
Te*mer"i*ty (?), n. [L. temeritas, from temere by chance, rashly;
perhaps akin to Skr. tamas darkness: cf. F. t\'82m\'82rit\'82.]
Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness;
as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness;
precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness.
These words are closely allied in sense, but have a slight difference
in their use and application. Temerity is Latin, and rashness is
Anglo-Saxon. As in many such cases, the Latin term is more select and
dignified; the Anglo-Saxon more familiar and energetic. We show
temerity in hasty decisions, and the conduct to which they lead. We
show rashness in particular actions, as dictated by sudden impulse. It
is an exhibition of temerity to approach the verge of a precipice; it
is an act of rashness to jump into a river without being able to swim.
Temerity, then, is an unreasonable contempt of danger; rashness is a
rushing into danger from thoughtlessness or excited feeling.
It is notorious temerity to pass sentence upon grounds uncapable of
evidence. Barrow.
Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she
plucked, she eat. Milton.
Temerous
Tem"er*ous (?), a. Temerarious. [Obs.]
Tempean
Tem*pe"an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly,
celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery;
resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.
Temper
Tem"per (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tempering.] [AS. temprian or OF. temper, F. temp\'82rer, and (in sense
3) temper, L. temperare, akin to tempus time. Cf. Temporal, Distemper,
Tamper.]
1. To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as
by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to
soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy
itself could not have dictated a milder system. Bancroft.
Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been
brutes without you. Otway.
But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.
Byron.
She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her,
that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and
colors. Addison.
2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered
itself to every man's liking. Wisdom xvi. 21.
3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper
iron or steel.
The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden.
4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism & Obs.]
With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and
Tartare tempereth. Spenser.
5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for
making brick, loam for molding, etc.
6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or
to that in actual use. Syn. -- To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe;
calm.
Temper
Tem"per, n.
1. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture
of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just
combination; as, the temper of mortar.
2. Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or
relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and
melancholy.
The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the
exquisiteness of his torment. Fuller.
3. Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly
with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty
temper; a fretful temper.
Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heared and
judged. Milton.
The consequents of a certain ethical temper. J. H. Newman.
4. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep
one's temper.
To fall with dignity, with temper rise. Pope.
Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. B. Jonson.
5. Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a
reproachful sense. [Colloq.]
6. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its
hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the
temper of iron or steel.
7. Middle state or course; mean; medium. [R.]
The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of
theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere
man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.
Macaulay.
8. (Sugar Works) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the
process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Temper screw, in deep well boring, an adjusting screw connecting the
working beam with the rope carrying the tools, for lowering the tools
as the drilling progresses. Syn. -- Disposition; temperament; frame;
humor; mood. See Disposition.
Temper
Tem"per, v. i.
1. To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft
and pliable.
I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and
shortly will I seal with him. Shak.
Tempera
Tem"pe*ra (?), n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting;
distemper.
NOTE: &hand; Th e te rm is ap plied es pecially to ea rly Italian
painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white
of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the
like.
Temperable
Tem"per*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being tempered.
The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.
Temperament
Tem"per*a*ment (?), n. [L. temperamentum a mixing in due proportion,
proper measure, temperament: cf. F. temp\'82rament. See Temper, v. t.]
1. Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative
proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and
temperament. Sir M. Hale.
2. Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual
compromises or concessions. [Obs.]
However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament
that can be found in things of this nature, so disputable on their
side. Milton.
3. The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing
rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such
adjustment is effected.
Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular assemblies. Sir
J. Mackintosh.
4. Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature. [Obs.]
Bodies are denominated "hot" and "cold" in proportion to the
present temperament of that part of our body to which they are
applied. Locke.
5. (Mus.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs,
pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the
vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part
canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale
of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far
artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and
this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies
the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones
answer for every key or scale, C# becoming identical with Db, and so
on.<-- = tempering -->
6. (Physiol.) The peculiar physical and mental character of an
individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to
individual variation in the relations and proportions of the
constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile,
blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament,
sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these
fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
Equal temperament (Mus.), that in which the variations from
mathematically true pitch are distributed among all the keys alike. --
Unequal temperament (Mus.), that in which the variations are thrown
into the keys least used.
Temperamental
Tem`per*a*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to temperament;
constitutional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Temperance
Tem"per*ance (?), n. [L. temperantia: cf. F. temp\'82rance. See
Temper, v. t.]
1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural
appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation;
as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of
joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in
respect to using intoxicating liquors.
2. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. [R.] "A
gentleman of all temperance." Shak.
He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance. Spenser.
3. State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. [Obs.] "Tender and
delicate temperance." Shak.
Temperance society, an association formed for the purpose of
diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.
Temperancy
Tem"per*an*cy (?), n. Temperance.
Temperate
Tem"per*ate (?), a. [L. temperatus, p.p. of temperare. See Temper, v.
t.]
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate
language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak.
That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for
our temperate kings. Tennyson.
3. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions;
as, temperate in eating and drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.
4. Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. Pope.
Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between
either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because
the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in
the frigid zones. Syn. -- Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
Temperate
Tem"per*ate (?), v. t. To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to
temper. [Obs.]
It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.
Temperately
Tem"per*ate*ly (?), adv. In a temperate manner.
Temperateness
Tem"per*ate*ness, n. The quality or state of being temperate;
moderateness; temperance.
Temperative
Tem"per*a*tive (?), a. [Cf. L. temperativus soothing.] Having power to
temper. [R.] T. Granger.
Temperature
Tem"per*a*ture (?), n. [F. temp\'82rature, L. temperatura due measure,
proportion, temper, temperament.]
1. Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame
and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and
a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon.
Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the
brain. I. Watts.
2. Freedom from passion; moderation. [Obs.]
In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth, Most goodly
temperature you may descry. Spenser.
3. (Physics) Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as
indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or
pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air;
high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of
boiling.
4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.]
Made a temperature of brass and iron together. Holland.
Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under Absolute. -- Animal
temperature (Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in
the bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The
ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of
the food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during
respiration. See Homoiothermal. -- Temperature sense (Physiol.), the
faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of perceiving
differences of temperature in external objects. H. N. Martin.
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Tempered
Tem"pered (?), a. Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel;
having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a
good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
Temperer
Tem"per*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a
machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Tempering
Tem"per*ing, n. (Metal.) The process of giving the requisite degree of
hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially,
the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for
various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article,
when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an
excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness
is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the
color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of
temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors,
and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps,
etc.; brown yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged
with purple for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch
springs; blue for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with
green, too soft for steel instruments.
Tempest
Tem"pest (?), n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp\'88te, (assumed) LL. tempesta,
fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to
tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and
violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious
storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock
transfixed. Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a
tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
[Archaic] Smollett.
NOTE: &hand; Te mpest is so metimes us ed in th e fo rmation of
self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving,
tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the like.
Syn. -- Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
Tempest
Tem"pest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp\'88ter to rage.] To
disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. Milton.
Tempest
Tem"pest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Tempestive
Tem*pes"tive (?), a. [L. tempestivus.] Seasonable; timely; as,
tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Tempestivily
Tem`pes*tiv"i*ly (?), n. [L. tempestivitas.] The quality, or state, of
being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Tempestuous
Tem*pes"tu*ous (?), a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F.
temp\'88tueux.] Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling
a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a
tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly, adv. --
Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness, n.
They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous
beard. Longfellow.
Templar
Tem"plar (?), n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See
Temple a church.]
1. One of a religious and military order first established at
Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection
of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or
Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an
apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
NOTE: &hand; Th e or der wa s fi rst li mited in nu mbers, and its
members were bound by vows of chastity and poverty. After the
conquest of Palestine by the Saracens, the Templars spread over
Europe, and, by reason of their reputation for valor and piety,
they were enriched by numerous donations of money and lands. The
extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led
to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 1312.
2. A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at
London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights
Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. [Eng.]
3. One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons,
called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men,
styled Good Templars.
Templar
Tem"plar, a. Of or pertaining to a temple. [R.]
Solitary, family, and templar devotion. Coleridge.
Template
Tem"plate (?), n. Same as Templet.
Temple
Tem"ple (?), n. [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom
for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Temple
Tem"ple, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps
originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to be the same
word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or appointed time. See Temporal
of time, and cf. Tempo, Tense, n.]
1. (Anat.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and
forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
2. One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows,
and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in
place.
Temple
Tem"ple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out,
sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. t\'82mple, from the Latin. Cf.
Contemplate.]
1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the
temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. "The temple of
mighty Mars." Chaucer.
2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of
Jehovah.
Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.
3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public
worship; a church.
Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God
enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and
sanctified by prayer? Buckminster.
4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
"The temple of his body." John ii. 21.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of
God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. iii. 16.
The groves were God's first temples. Bryant.
Inner Temple, AND Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of
buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a
monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.
Temple
Tem"ple (?), v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to;
as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.
Templed
Tem"pled (?), a. Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches;
inclosed in a temple.
I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F.
Smith.
Templet
Tem"plet (?), n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small
timber.] [Spelt also template.]
1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as
a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a
wheelwright's templet.
2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall
under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
Tempo
Tem"po (?), n. [It., fr. L. tempus. See Tense, n.] (Mus.) The rate or
degree of movement in time. A tempo giusto (j&oomac;s"t&osl;) [It.],
in exact time; -- sometimes, directing a return to strict time after a
tempo rubato. -- Tempo rubato. See under Rubato.
Temporal
Tem"po*ral (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F.
temporal. See Temple a part of the head.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull
of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an
expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the
squamosal and zygoma of the lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal
petrosal and mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and
tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.
Temporal
Tem"po*ral (?), a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempus, temporis, time, portion
of time, the fitting or appointed time: cf. F. temporel. Cf.
Contemporaneous, Extempore, Temper, v. t., Tempest, Temple a part of
the head, Tense, n., Thing.]
1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this
world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are
not seen are eternal. 2 Cor. iv. 18.
Is this an hour for temporal affairs? Shak.
2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as,
temporal power; temporal courts.
Lords temporal. See under Lord, n. -- Temporal augment. See the Note
under Augment, n. Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.
Temporal
Tem"po*ral, n. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used
chiefly in the plural. Dryden.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor
or temporals. Lowell.
Temporality
Tem`po*ral"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Temporalities (#). [L. temporalitas, in
LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalit\'82.]
1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
2. The laity; temporality. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests;
especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands,
tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the
plural.
Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality
of the same church. Fuller.
Temporally
Tem"po*ral*ly (?), adv. In a temporal manner; secularly. [R.] South.
Temporalness
Tem"po*ral*ness, n. Worldliness. [R.] Cotgrave.
Temporalty
Tem"po*ral*ty (?), n. [See Temporality.]
1. The laity; secular people. [Obs.] Abp. Abbot.
2. A secular possession; a temporality.
Temporaneous
Tem`po*ra"ne*ous (?), a. [L. temporaneus happening at the right time,
fr. tempus, temporis, time.] Temporarity. [Obs.] Hallywell.
Temporarily
Tem"po*ra*ri*ly (?), adv. In a temporary manner; for a time.
Temporariness
Tem"po*ra*ri*ness, n. The quality or state of being temporary; --
opposed to perpetuity.
Temporary
Tem"po*ra*ry (?), a. [L. temporarius, fr. tempus, temporis, time: cf.
F. temporaire.] Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a
limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary
relief.
Temporary government of the city. Motley.
Temporary star. (Astron.) See under Star.
Temporist
Tem"po*rist (?), n. A temporizer. [Obs.]
Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.
Temporization
Tem`po*ri*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. temporisation.] The act of
temporizing. Johnson.
Temporize
Tem"po*rize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Temporized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Temporizing (?).] [F. temporiser. See Temporal of time.]
1. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the
current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two
parties.
They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they
needs must temporize. Daniel.
2. To delay; to procrastinate. [R.] Bacon.
3. To comply; to agree. [Obs.] Shak.
Temporizer
Tem"po*ri`zer (?), n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time,
or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a
trimmer.
A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is,
or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.
Temporizingly
Tem"po*ri`zing*ly (?), adv. In a temporizing or yielding manner.
Temporo-
Tem"po*ro- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate
connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as,
temporofacial.
Temporo-auricular
Tem`po*ro-au*ric"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the
temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
Temporofacial
Tem`po*ro*fa"cial (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple
and the face.
Temporomalar
Tem`po*ro*ma"lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the temple
and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
Temporomaxillary
Tem`po*ro*max"il*la*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the
temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
Temps
Temps (?), n. [OF. & F., fr. L. tempus. See Temporal of time.] Time.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Tempse
Tempse (?), n. See Temse. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Tempt
Tempt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempting.]
[OE. tempten, tenten, from OF. tempter, tenter, F. tenter, fr. L.
tentare, temptare, to handle, feel, attack, to try, put to the test,
urge, freq. from tendere, tentum, and tensum, to stretch. See Thin,
and cf. Attempt, Tend, Taunt, Tent a pavilion, Tent to probe.]
1. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
God did tempt Abraham. Gen. xxii. 1.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. Deut. vi. 16.
2. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is
wrong; to seduce.
Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. James i. 14.
3. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to
provoke; to instigate.
Tempt not the brave and needy to despair. Dryden.
Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire. Pope.
4. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies. Dryden.
Syn. -- To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.
Temptability
Tempt`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being temptable;
lability to temptation.
Temptable
Tempt"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
Cudworth.
Temptation
Temp*ta"tion (?), n. [OF. temptation, tentation, F. tentation, L.
tentatio.]
1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him
for a season. Luke iv. 13.
2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
Lead us not into temptation. Luke xi. 4.
3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to
something evil.
Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it, and lay the
bright temptation down. Dryden.
Temptationless
Temp*ta"tion*less, a. Having no temptation or motive; as, a
temptationless sin. [R.] Hammond.
Temptatious
Temp*ta"tious (?), a. Tempting. [Prov. Eng.]
Tempter
Tempt"er (?), n. One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the
Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to
do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson.
So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
Tempting
Tempt"ing, a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring;
seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. --
Tempt"ing*ness, n.
Temptress
Tempt"ress (?), n. A woman who entices.
She was my temptress, the foul provoker. Sir W. Scott.
Temse
Temse (?), n. [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. Tamine.] A sieve.
[Written also tems, and tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread,
Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than
common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]
Temulence, Temulency
Tem"u*lence (?), Tem"u*len*cy (?), n. [L. temulentia.] Intoxication;
inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency." Jer. Taylor.
Temulent
Tem"u*lent (?), a. [L. temulentus.] Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]
Temulentive
Tem"u*lent*ive (?), a. Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. [R.] R.
Junius.
Ten
Ten (?), a. [AS. t\'c7n, ti\'82n, t, t\'c7ne; akin to OFries. tian,
OS. tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG. zehan, Icel. t\'c6u, Sw. tio, Dan.
ti, Goth. ta\'a1hun, Lith. deszimt, Russ. desiate, W. deg, Ir. & Gael.
deich, L. decem, Gr. da\'87an. \'fb308. Cf. Dean, Decade, Decimal,
December, Eighteen, Eighty, Teens, Tithe.] One more than nine; twice
five.
With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden.
NOTE: &hand; Te n is of ten used, indefinitely, for several, many,
and other like words.
There 's proud modesty in merit, Averse from begging, and resolved
to pay Ten times the gift it asks. Dryden.
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Ten (?), n.
1. The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten
units of objects.
I will not destroy it for ten's sake. Gen. xviii. 32.
2. A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
Tenability
Ten`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tenable;
tenableness.
Tenable
Ten"a*ble (?), a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Thin,
and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant, Tent.]
Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an
assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a
tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your
silence still. Shak.
I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it
was tenable. Sir W. Scott.
Tenableness
Ten`a*ble*ness, n. Same as Tenability.
Tenace
Ten"ace (?), n. [F. tenace tenacious, demeurer tenace to hold the best
and third best cards and take both tricks, and adversary having to
lead. See Tenacious.] (Whist) The holding by the fourth hand of the
best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the
combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.
Tenacious
Te*na"cious (?), a. [L. tenax, -acis, from tenere to hold. See
Tenable, and cf. Tenace.]
1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is
in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
3. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as,
steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil. Sir I.
Newton.
4. Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking;
adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay."
Cowper.
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
-- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Te*na"cious*ness, n.
Tenacity
Te*nac"i*ty (?), n. [L. tenacitas: cf. F. t\'82nacit\'82. See
Tenacious.]
1. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or
retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without
considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as
distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
3. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies;
adhesiveness; viscosity. Holland.
4. (Physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear
without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit
area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds
per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to
produce rupture.
Tenaculum
Te*nac"u*lum (?), n.; pl. L. Tenacula (#); E. Tenaculums (#). [L., a
holder, fr. tenere to hold. Cf. Tenaille.] (Surg.) An instrument
consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly
for taking up arteries, and the like.
Tenacy
Ten"a*cy (?), n. [L. tenacia obstinacy. See Tenacious.] Tenaciousness;
obstinacy. [Obs.] Barrow.
Tenaille
Te*naille" (?), n. [F., a pair of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr. L.
tenaculum. See Tenaculum.] (Fort.) An outwork in the main ditch, in
front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Tenaillon
Te*nail"lon (?), n. [F. See Tenaille.] (Fort.) A work constructed on
each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure
additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the
bastions.
Tenancy
Ten"an*cy (?), n.; pl. Tenacies (#). [Cf. OF. tenace, LL. tenentia.
See Tenant.] (Law) (a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate;
tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. (b) (O.
Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of
another. Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
Tenant
Ten"ant (?), n. [F. tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and
cf. Lieutenant.]
1. (Law) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by
any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for
life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or
temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in
another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone,
under Tenement, 2. Blount. Wharton.
2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. "Sweet
tenants of this grove." Cowper.
The hhappy tenant of your shade. Cowley.
The sister tenants of the middle deep. Byron.
Tenant in capite [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], OR
Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of
the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are
considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled
lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the
fee of the lands and permanent possession. Blackstone. -- Tenant in
common. See under Common.
Tenant
Ten"ant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenanting.] To
hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or
his ancestors. Addison.
Tenantable
Ten"ant*a*ble (?), a. Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a
tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
Tenantless
Ten"ant*less, a. Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless
mansion. Shak.
Tenantry
Ten"ant*ry (?), n.
1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
2. Tenancy. [Obs.] Ridley.
Tenant saw
Ten"ant saw` (?). See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
Tench
Tench (?), n. [OF. tenche, F. tanche, L. tinca.] (Zo\'94l.) A European
fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It
is noted for its tenacity of life.
Tend
Tend (?), v. t. [See Tender to offer.] (O. Eng. Law) To make a tender
of; to offer or tender. [Obs.]
Tend
Tend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tended; p. pr. & vb. n. Tending.] [Aphetic
form of attend. See Attend, Tend to move, and cf. Tender one that
tends or attends.]
1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants
of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their
flocks. Shak.
And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge.
Milton.
There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn
grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and
increase lend. Emerson.
2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way
well down. Chapman.
To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide
turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.
Tend
Tend, v. i.
1. To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on
or upon.
Was he not companion with the riotous knights That tend upon my
father? Shak.
2. [F. attendre.] To await; to expect. [Obs.] Shak.
Tend
Tend, v. i. [F. tendre, L. tendere, tensum and tentum, to stretch,
extend, direct one's course, tend; akin to Gr. tan. See Thin, and cf.
Tend to attend, Contend, Intense, Ostensible, Portent, Tempt, Tender
to offer, Tense, a.]
1. To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
Two gentlemen tending towards that sight. Sir H. Wotton.
Thus will this latter, as the former world, Still tend from bad to
worse. Milton.
The clouds above me to the white Alps tend. Byron.
2. To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have
or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a
means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our
destruction.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of
every one that is hasty only to want. Prov. xxi. 5.
The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of
mankind. Tillotson.
Tendance
Tend"ance (?), n. [See Tend to attend, and cf. Attendance.]
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. [Archaic] Spenser.
The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson.
2. Persons in attendance; attendants. [Obs.] Shak.
Tendence
Tend"ence (?), n. Tendency. [Obs.]
Tendency
Tend"en*cy (?), n.; pl. Tendencies (#). [L. tendents, -entis, p.pr. of
tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend to move.] Direction or course
toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or
efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more
particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison.
In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward
perfection. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.
Tender
Tend"er (?), n. [From Tend to attend. Cf. Attender.]
1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
2. (Naut.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them
with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
<-- submarine tender, a ship which provides supplies and logistic
support to submarines. A specialization of def. 2. -->
3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and
water.
Tender
Ten"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tendered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tendering.] [F. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach, L. tendere. See
Tend to move.]
1. (Law) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to
save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or
debt.
2. To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their
services to Lord Timon. Shak.
Tender
Ten"der, n.
1. (Law) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be
performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be
incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due,
or of the amount of a note, with interest.
NOTE: &hand; To co nstitute a le gal te nder, su ch money must be
offered as the law prescribes. So also the tender must be at the
time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must
be to the full amount due.
2. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan,
of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. South.
3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an
obligation. Shak. <-- 4. (Finance) An offer to buy a certain number of
shares of stock of a publicly-traded company at a fixed price, usu. in
an attempt to gain control of the company. -->
Legal tender. See under Legal. -- Tender of issue (Law), a form of
words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question
raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. Burrill.
Tender
Ten"der, a. [Compar. Tenderer (?); superl. Tenderest.] [F. tendre, L.
tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See Thin.]
1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard;
delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
L'Estrange.
3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature;
effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you. Deut. xxviii. 56.
4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness;
compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to
pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11.
I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. Fuller.
5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! Shak.
6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. "Tender of
property." Burke.
The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and
religion. Tillotson.
7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him
good. Shak.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer
passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a
tender strain.
9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender
subject. "Things that are tender and unpleasing." Bacon.
10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a
vessel.
NOTE: &hand; Te nder is so metimes us ed in th e fo rmation of
self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking,
tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like.
Syn. -- Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind;
humane; merciful; pitiful.
Tender
Ten"der (?), n. [Cf. F. tendre.] Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.]
Shak.
Tender
Ten"der, v. t. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to
regard; to esteem; to value. [Obs.]
For first, next after life, he tendered her good. Spenser.
Tender yourself more dearly. Shak.
To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western
princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own.
Fuller.
Tenderfoot
Ten"der*foot` (?), n. A delicate person; one not inured to the
hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]
Tender-hearted
Ten"der-heart`ed (?), a. Having great sensibility; susceptible of
impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. --
Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.
Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand
them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.
Tender-hefted
Ten"der-heft`ed (?), a. Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.]
Shak.
Tenderling
Ten"der*ling (?), n.
1. One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. [R.] W. Harrison
(1586).
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the first antlers of a deer.
Tenderloin
Ten"der*loin` (?), n. A strip of tender flesh on either side of the
vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and
pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Tenderly
Ten"der*ly, adv. In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently;
softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or
affection; kindly. Chaucer.
Tenderness
Ten"der*ness, n. The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of
the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence;
kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
Tendinous
Ten"di*nous (?), a. [Cf. F. tendineux.]
1. Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
2. Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the
body.
Tendment
Tend"ment (?), n. Attendance; care. [Obs.]
Tendon
Ten"don (?), n. [F., fr. L. tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend to
move.] (Anat.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous
connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
Tendon reflex (Physiol.), a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is
made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a
sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.
Tendonous
Ten"don*ous (?), a. Tendinous.
Tendosynovitis
Ten`do*syn`o*vi"tis (?), n. [NL. See Tendon, and Synovitis.] See
Tenosynovitis.
Tendrac
Ten"drac (?), n. [See Tenrec.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species
of small insectivores of the family Centetid\'91, belonging to
Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are
more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice
tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of
the species are called also tenrec.
Tendril
Ten"dril (?), n. [Shortened fr. OF. tendrillon, fr. F. tendre tender;
hence, properly, the tender branch or spring of a plant: cf. F.
tendrille. See Tender, a., and cf. Tendron.] (Bot.) A slender,
leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a
supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling
spirally.
NOTE: &hand; Te ndrils ma y re present the end of a stem, as in the
grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules,
as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea.
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Ten"dril (?), a. Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] Dyer.
Tendriled, Tendrilled
Ten"driled, Ten"drilled (?), a. (Bot.) Furnished with tendrils, or
with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine."
Southey.
Tendron
Ten"dron (?), n. [F. Cf. Tendril.] A tendril. [Obs.] Holland.
Tendry
Ten"dry (?), n. A tender; an offer. [Obs.] Heylin.
Tene
Tene (?), n. & v. See 1st and 2d Teen. [Obs.]
Tenebr\'91
Ten"e*br\'91 (?), n. [L., pl., darkness.] (R. C. Ch.) The matins and
lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the
sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or
evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the
following days.
Tenebricose
Te*neb"ri*cose` (?), a. [L. tenebricosus.] Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
[Obs.]
Tenebrific
Ten`e*brif"ic (?), a. [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to make.]
Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns.
Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.
Tenebrificous
Ten`e*brif"ic*ous (?), a. Tenebrific.
Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.
Tenebrious
Te*ne"bri*ous (?), a. Tenebrous. Young.
Tenebrose
Ten"e*brose` (?), a. Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Tenebrosity
Ten`e*bros"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tenebrous;
tenebrousness. Burton.
Tenebrous
Ten"e*brous (?), a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F.
t\'82n\'82breux.] Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. --
Ten"e*brous*ness, n.
The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.
Tenement
Ten"e*ment (?), n. [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. t\'8anement,
LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.]
1. (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property
which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some
military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
2. (Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so
as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office,
an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like;
-- called also free OR frank tenements.
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and
the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.
3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment,
or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house
erected to be rented.
4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement,
unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece? Locke.
Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of
being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for
families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by
poor families. Syn. -- House; dwelling; habitation. -- Tenement,
House. There may be many houses under one roof, but they are
completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be
detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the
use of a family.
Tenemental
Ten`e*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being
held by tenants. Blackstone.
Tenementary
Ten`e*men"ta*ry (?), a. Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
Spelman.
Tenent
Ten"ent (?), n. [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.] A
tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
Teneral
Ten"er*al (?), a. [L. tener, -eris, tender, delicate.] (Zo\'94l.) Of,
pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of
certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the
insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Teneriffe
Ten`er*iffe" (?), n. A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but
more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called
also Vidonia.
Tenerity
Te*ner"i*ty (?), n. [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.] Tenderness. [Obs.]
Ainsworth.
Tenesmic
Te*nes"mic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized
by tenesmus.
Tenesmus
Te*nes"mus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. tenesmos.] (Med.) An urgent and
distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take
place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower
extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to
the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.
Tenet
Ten"et (?), n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person
holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is
a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with
contempt. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.
Tenfold
Ten"fold` (?), a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times
repeated.
The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform.
Milton.
Tenia
Te"ni*a (?), n. [NL.] See T\'91nia.
Tenioid
Te"ni*oid (?), a. See T\'91noid.
Tennantite
Ten"nant*ite (?), n. [Named after Smithson Tennant, an English
chemist.] (Min.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to
tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
Tenn\'82
Ten`n\'82" (?), n. [Cf. Tawny.] (Her.) A tincture, rarely employed,
which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is
represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by
vertical lines.
Tennis
Ten"nis (?), n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin,
perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see
Tenable).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in
motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing
tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay.
Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of
peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. -- Lawn
tennis. See under Lawn, n. -- Tennis court, a place or court for
playing the game of tennis. Shak.
Tennis
Ten"nis, v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing
tennis. [R.] Spenser.
Tennu
Ten"nu (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The tapir.
Ten-o'clock
Ten"-o'*clock` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See
under Star.
Tenon
Ten"on (?), n. [F., fr. tenir to hold. See Tenable.] (Carp. & Join.) A
projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to
insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a
frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the
thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the
other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. Tenon saw, a saw with a thin blade,
usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons.
[Corruptly written tenant saw.] Gwilt.
Tenon
Ten"on, v. t. To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end
of a piece of timber.
Tenonian
Te*no"ni*an (?), a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a
French anatomist. Tenonian capsule (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed
by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the
eyeball and the fat of the orbit; -- called also capsule of Tenon.
Tenor
Ten"or (?), n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on
in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See Tenable, and cf. Tenor a
kind of voice.]
1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity;
constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless
tenor of their away. Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the
general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning;
understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require
humility and meekness to all men? Spart.
3. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and
always of the same tenor. Dryden.
4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and
figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or
general import of the instrument. Bouvier.
5. [F. t\'82nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called because
the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the
plain song, air, or tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony
above and below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.) (a) The higher of the two
kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in
the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the
scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to
which the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person who sings the
tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle Tenor, different descriptions of paper
money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial
governments in the last century.
Tenosynovitis
Ten`o*syn`o*vi"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. synovitis.] (Med.)
Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Tenotome
Ten"o*tome (?), n. (Surg.) A slender knife for use in the operation of
tenotomy.
Tenotomy
Te*not"o*my (?), n. [Gr. (Surg.) The division of a tendon, or the act
of dividing a tendon.
Tenpenny
Ten"pen*ny (?), a. Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake.
See 2d Penny, n.
Tenpenny
Ten"pen*ny, a. Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
Tenpins
Ten"pins (?), n. A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins.
See Ninepins. [U. S.]
Ten-pounder
Ten"-pound`er (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus)
found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for
bait.
Tenrec
Ten"rec (?), n. [From the native name: cf. F. tanrac, tanrec,
tandrec.] (Zo\'94l.) A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native
of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and
Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied
genera. See Tendrac.
Tense
Tense (?), n. [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See
Temporal of time, and cf. Thing.] (Gram.) One of the forms which a
verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to
indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification
which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
NOTE: &hand; Th e pr imary si mple te nses ar e th ree: those which
express time past, present, and future; but these admit of
modifications, which differ in different languages.
Tense
Tense, a. [L. tensus, p.p. of tendere to stretch. See Tend to move,
and cf. Toise.] Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not
lax; as, a tense fiber.
The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness
was upon her. Goldsmith.
-- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.
Tensibility
Ten`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tensible;
tensility.
Tensible
Ten"si*ble (?), a. [See Tense, a.] Capable of being extended or drawn
out; ductile; tensible.
Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon.
Tensile
Ten"sile (?), a. [See Tense, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
2. Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. Bacon.
Tensiled
Ten"siled (?), a. Made tensile. [R.]
Tensility
Ten*sil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tensile, or capable
of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. Dr. H.
Mere.
Tension
Ten"sion (?), n. [L. tensio, from tendere, tensum, to stretch: cf. F.
tension. See Tense, a.]
1. The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or
strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the
tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
2. Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense
effort.
3. The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or
the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length;
strain. Gwilt.
4. (Mech.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of
any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting
supporting a weight equals that weight.
5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing
machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
6. (Physics) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a
body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger
space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the
tension of air.
7. (Elec.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge
tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from
a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as
the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
Tension brace, OR Tension member (Engin.), a brace or member designed
to resist tension, or subjected to tension, in a structure. -- Tension
rod (Engin.), an iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen
timber or metal framework, roofs, or the like.
Tensioned
Ten"sioned (?), a. Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A
highly tensioned string." Tyndall.
Tensity
Ten"si*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tense, or strained to
stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Tensive
Ten"sive (?), a. [Cf. F. tensif. See Tense, a.] Giving the sensation
of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
A tensive pain from distension of the parts. Floyer.
Tensor
Ten"sor (?), n. [NL. See Tension.]
1. (Anat.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
2. (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard
being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because
considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another.
See Versor.
Ten-strike
Ten"-strike` (?), n.
1. (Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the
ball<-- also, strike-->. [U. S.]
2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act. [Colloq. U.S.]
Tensure
Ten"sure (?), n. [L. tensura. See Tension.] Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.
Tent
Tent (?), n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p.p.
of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.] A kind of wine of
a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called
also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent
Tent, n. [Cf. Attent, n.]
1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Lydgate.
2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tent
Tent, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov.
Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
Tent
Tent, v. t. [OF. tenter. See Tempt.] To probe or to search with a
tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also
figuratively.
I'll tent him to the quick. Shak.
Tent
Tent, n. [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a) A roll of lint or
linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent,
used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a
wound, or to absorb discharges. (b) A probe for searching a wound.
The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Shak.
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Tent
Tent (?), n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum,
to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]
1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some
strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering
persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.
2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. --
Tent caterpillar (Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of gregarious
caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which
they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to
fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a
bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery
caterpillar, and webworm.
Tent
Tent, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge
as a tent; to tabernacle. Shak.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. W. Kittredge.
Tentacle
Ten"ta*cle (?), n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel:
cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zo\'94l.) A more or less elongated
process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or
cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of
sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zo\'94l.), a sheathlike
structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
Tentacled
Ten"ta*cled (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having tentacles.
Tentacular
Ten*tac"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. tentaculaire.] (Zo\'94l.) Of or
pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Tentaculata
Ten*tac`u*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of Ctenophora
including those which have two long tentacles.
Tentaculate, Tentaculated
Ten*tac"u*late (?), Ten*tac"u*la`ted (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having
tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
Tentaculifera
Ten`ta*cu*lif"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as Suctoria, 1.
Tentaculiferous
Ten`ta*cu*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Tentaculum + -ferous.] (Zo\'94l.)
Producing or bearing tentacles.
Tentaculiform
Ten`ta*cu"li*form (?), a. (Zo\'94l.)Shaped like a tentacle.
Tentaculite
Ten*tac"u*lite (?), n. (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of small,
conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to
be pteropods.
Tentaculocyst
Ten*tac"u*lo*cyst (?), n. [Tentaculum + cyst.] (Zo\'94l.) One of the
auditory organs of certain medus\'91; -- called also auditory
tentacle.
Tentaculum
Ten*tac"u*lum (?), n.; pl. Tentacula (#). [NL. See Tentacle.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A tentacle.
2. (Anat.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the
face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile
hair.
Tentage
Tent"age (?), n. [From Tent a pavilion.] A collection of tents; an
encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.
Tentation
Ten*ta"tion (?), n. [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.]
1. Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or
experiments. Knight.
Tentative
Ten*ta"tive (?), a. [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See Tempt.]
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A
slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.
Tentative
Ten*ta"tive, n. [Cf. F. tentative.] An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Berkley.
Tented
Tent"ed (?), a. Covered with tents.
Tenter
Ten"ter (?), n.
1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of
assistant foreman.
2. (Mach.) A kind of governor.
Tenter
Ten"ter, n. [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a stretching,
spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L. tendere, tentum, to
stretch. See Tend to move.] A machine or frame for stretching cloth by
means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and
square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. --
Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a
tenter. -- To be on the tenters, OR on the tenter-hooks, to be on the
stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.
Tenter
Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tentered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tentering.]
To admit extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacon.
Tenter
Ten"ter, v. t. To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Tentful
Tent"ful (?), n.; pl. Tentfuls (. As much, or as many, as a tent will
hold.
Tenth
Tenth (?), a. [From Ten: cf. OE. tethe, AS. te\'a2. See Ten, and cf.
Tithe.]
1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is
divided.
Tenth
Tenth (?), n.
1. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into
which anything is divided.
3. The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a
tithe. Shak.
4. (Mus.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on
the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale
and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
5. pl. (Eng. Law) (a) A temporary aid issuing out of personal
property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real
tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. (b) (Eccl.
Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the
kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the
crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty. <--
(b) sic. = tithe? what kind of "living"?? prob. living, n. 5 = "the
benefice of a clergyman" --> Burrill.
Tenthly
Tenth"ly, adv. In a tenth manner.
Tenthmeter, Tenthmetre
Tenth"me`ter, Tenth"me`tre (?), n. (Physics) A unit for the
measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make
one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.
Tenthredinides
Ten`thre*din"i*des (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A group of
Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.
Tentif
Ten"tif (?), a. Attentive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tentifly
Ten"tif*ly, adv. Attentively. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tentiginous
Ten*tig"i*nous (?), a. [L. tentigo, -inis, a tension, lecherousness,
fr. tendere, tentum, to stretch.]
1. Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Tentmaker
Tent"mak`er (?), n. One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts
xviii. 3.
Tentorium
Ten*to"ri*um (?), n. [L., a tent.] (Anat.) A fold of the dura mater
which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a
process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.
Tentory
Tent"o*ry (?), n. [L. tentorium a tent.] The awning or covering of a
tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Tentwort
Tent"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See
under Wall.
Tenuate
Ten"u*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenuating.] [L. tenuatus, p.p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis
thin. See Tenuous.] To make thin; to attenuate. [R.]
Tenuifolious
Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous (?), a. [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.)
Having thin or narrow leaves.
Tenuious
Te*nu"i*ous (?), a. [See Tenuous.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; --
opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Tenuiroster
Ten`u*i*ros"ter (?), n.; pl. Tenuirosters (#). [NL., fr. L. tenuis
thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zo\'94l.) One of the Tenuirostres.
Tenuirostral
Ten`u*i*ros"tral (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Thin-billed; -- applied to birds
with a slender bill, as the humming birds.
Tenuirostres
Ten`u*i*ros"tres (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) An artificial group of
passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
Tenuis
Ten"u*is (?), n.; pl. Tenues (#). [NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See
Tenuous.] (Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes k, p, t; -- so
called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g,
b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the
corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
Tenuity
Te*nu"i*ty (?), n. [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F.
t\'82nuit\'82. See Tenuous.]
1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad
substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the
tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the
air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.
3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.
4. Refinement; delicacy.
Tenuous
Ten"u*ous (?), a. [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.]
1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. <-- 3. Fig. Lacking
substance, as a tenuous argument. -->
Tenure
Ten"ure (?), n. [F. tenure, OF. teneure, fr. F. tenir to hold. See
Tenable.]
1. The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title
to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.
2. (Eng. Law) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
NOTE: &hand; Te nure is in separable fr om the idea of property in
land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of
tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property
in the United States, where the title to land is essentially
allodial, and almost all lands are held in fee simple, not of a
superior, but the whole right and title to the property being
vested in the owner. Tenure, in general, then, is the particular
manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership,
by fee simple, by fee tail, by courtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by
lease, at will, etc.
3. The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land
gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
4. Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men
hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone.
Cowper.
Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.
Teocalli
Te`o*cal"li (?), n.; pl. Teocallis (#). [Mexican.] Literally, God's
house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the
aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.
And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made
of serpent's skin. Longfellow.
Teosinte
Te`o*sin"te (?), n. (Bot.) A large grass (Euchl\'91na luxurians)
closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America,
but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in
many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.
Tepal
Tep"al (?), n. [F. t\'82pale, fr. p\'82tale, by transposition.] (Bot.)
A division of a perianth. [R.]
Tepee
Tep*ee" (?), n. An Indian wigwam or tent.<-- also teepee -->
Tepefaction
Tep`e*fac"tion (?), n. Act of tepefying.
Tepefy
Tep"e*fy (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Tepefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tepefying (?).] [L. tepere to be tepid + -fy; cf. L. tepefacere. See
Tepid.] To make or become tepid, or moderately warm. Goldsmith.
Tephramancy
Teph"ra*man`cy (?), n. [Gr. -mancy.] Divination by the ashes of the
altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Tephrite
Teph"rite (?), n. [Gr. (Geol.) An igneous rock consisting essentially
of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.
Tephroite
Teph"ro*ite (?), n. [See Tephrosia.] (Min.) A silicate of manganese of
an ash-gray color.
Tephrosia
Te*phro"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous
shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few
herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often
ashy-pubescent, whence the name.
NOTE: &hand; The Tephrosia toxicaria is used in the West Indies and
in Polynesia for stupefying fish. T. purpurea is used medicinally
in the East Indies. T. Virginia is the goat's rue of the United
States.
Tepid
Tep"id (?), a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to
be warm, tapas heat.] Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath;
tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.
Tepidity
Te*pid"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. t\'82pidit\'82.] The quality or state of
being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.
Tepor
Te"por (?), n. [L., fr. tepere to be tepid.] Gentle heat; moderate
warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.
Tequila
Te*qui"la (?), n. An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the
district of Tequila, Mexico.
Ter-
Ter- (?). A combining form from L. ter signifying three times, thrice.
See Tri-, 2.
Teraconic
Ter`a*con"ic (?), a. [Terebic + citraconic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and
homologous with citraconic acid.
Teracrylic
Ter`a*cryl"ic (?), a. [Terpene + acrylic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to,
or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the
distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a
peculiar cheesy odor.
Teraph
Ter"aph (?), n.; pl. Teraphs (. See Teraphim.
Teraphim
Ter"a*phim (?), n. pl. [Heb. ter\'beph\'c6m.] Images connected with
the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices
to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites
for oracular answers. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).
Terapin
Ter"a*pin (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Terrapin.
Teratical
Te*rat"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Wonderful; ominous; prodigious. [Obs.]
Wollaston.
Teratogeny
Ter`a*tog"e*ny (?), n. [Gr. (Med.) The formation of monsters.
Teratoid
Ter"a*toid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a
pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized. S. D.
Gross.
Teratological
Ter`a*to*log"ic*al (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to teratology; as,
teratological changes.
Teratology
Ter`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy: cf. Gr. t\'82ratologie.]
1. That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities,
malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either
in plants or animals.
2. Affectation of sublimity; bombast. [Obs.] Bailey.
Teratoma
Ter`a*to"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. -oma.] (Med.) A tumor, sometimes
found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture
of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.
Terbic
Ter"bic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium;
also, designating certain of its compounds.
Terbium
Ter"bi*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium.] (Chem.) A
rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist
in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare
ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.
Terce
Terce (?), n. See Tierce.
Tercel
Ter"cel (?), n. See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.
Tercelet
Terce"let (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.
Chaucer.
Tercellene
Ter"cel*lene (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Tercentenary
Ter*cen"te*na*ry (?), a. [L. ter thirce + E. centenary.] Including, or
relating to, an interval of three hundred years. -- n. The three
hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an
anniversary.
Tercet
Ter"cet (?), n. [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L.
tertius. See Tierce, and cf. Terzetto.]
1. (Mus.) A triplet. Hiles.
2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
Tercine
Ter"cine (?), n. [F., from L. tertius the third.] (Bot.) A cellular
layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo
sac. Cf. Quintine.
Terebate
Ter"e*bate (?), n. A salt of terebic acid.
Terebene
Ter"e*bene (?), n. (Chem.) A polymeric modification of terpene,
obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also
camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.
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Terebenthene
Ter`e*ben"thene (?), n. (Chem.) Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.
Terebic
Te*reb"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene
(oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4,
obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white
crystalline substance.
Terebilenic
Ter`e*bi*len"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a
modified oxidation of terebic acid.
Terebinth
Ter"e*binth (?), n. [L. terbinthus, Gr. t\'82r\'82binthe. Cf.
Turpentine.] (Bot.) The turpentine tree.
Terebinthic
Ter`e*bin"thic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to turpentine;
resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.
Terebinthinate
Ter`e*bin"thi*nate (?), a. Impregnating with the qualities of
turpentine; terbinthine.
Terebinthine
Ter`e*bin"thine (?), a. [L. terbinthinus, Gr. Of or pertaining to
turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.
Terebra
Ter"e*bra (?), n.; pl. E. Terebras (#), L. Terebr\'91 (#). [L., a
borer.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering
spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
2. (Zo\'94l.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
Terebrant
Ter"e*brant (?), a. [L. terebrans, -antis, p.pr.] (Zo\'94l.) Boring,
or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the
sawflies.
Terebrantia
Ter`e*bran"ti*a (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of Hymenoptera
including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating
plants. It includes the sawflies.
Terebrate
Ter"e*brate (?), v. t. [L. terebratus, p.p. of terebrare, from terebra
a borer, terere to rub.] To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.] Sir T.
Browne.
Terebrating
Ter"e*bra`ting (?), a.
1. (Zo\'94l.) Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form
holes in rocks, wood, etc.
2. (Med.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain,
especially to those of locomotor ataxia.
Terebration
Ter`e*bra"tion (?), n. [L. terebratio.] The act of terebrating, or
boring. [R.] Bacon.
Terebratula
Ter`e*brat"u*la (?), n.; pl. Terebratul\'91 (#). [Nl., dim. fr.
terebratus, p.p., perforated.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of brachiopods which
includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a
perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for
attachment. Called also lamp shell.
Terebratulid
Ter`e*brat"u*lid (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of Terebratula or
allied genera. Used also adjectively.
Terebratuliform
Ter`e*bra*tu"li*form (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Having the general form of a
terebratula shell.
Teredine
Ter"e*dine (?), n. [F. t\'82r\'82dine.] (Zo\'94l.) A borer; the
teredo.
Teredo
Te*re"do (?), n.; pl. E. Teredos (#), L. Teredines (#). [L., a worm
that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. terere to rub.] (Zo\'94l.)
A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into
submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.;
-- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.
Terephthalate
Ter*eph"tha*late (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of terephthalic acid.
Terephthalic
Ter`eph*thal"ic (?), a. [Terebene + phthalic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining
to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric
with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline
powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also
paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.
Teret
Ter"et (?), a. Round; terete. [Obs.] Fotherby.
Terete
Te*rete" (?), a. [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off,
fr. terere to rub.] Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as
some stems of plants.
Teretial
Te*re"tial (?), a. [See Terete.] (Anat.) Rounded; as, the teretial
tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some
fishes. Owen.
Teretous
Ter"e*tous (?), a. Terete. [Obs.]
Tergal
Ter"gal (?), a. [L. tergum the back.] (Anat. & Zo\'94l.) Of or
pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.
Tergant
Ter"gant (?), a. (Her.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.
[Written also tergiant.]
Tergeminal, Tergeminate
Ter*gem"i*nal (?), Ter*gem"i*nate (?), a. [See Tergeminous.] (Bot.)
Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Tergeminous
Ter*gem"i*nous (?), a. [L. tergeminus; ter thrice + geminus doubled at
birth, twin-born. Cf. Trigeminous.] Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.
Tergiferous
Ter*gif"er*ous (?), a. [L. tergum the back + -ferous.] Carrying or
bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear
their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.
Tergite
Ter"gite (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or
somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
Tergiversate
Ter"gi*ver*sate (?), v. i. [L. tergiversatus, p.p. of tergiversari to
turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to
turn. See Verse.] To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges;
to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.
Tergiversation
Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion (?), n. [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]
1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being
freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the
king's service. Clarendon.
Tergiversator
Ter"gi*ver*sa`tor (?), n. [L.] One who tergiversates; one who suffles,
or practices evasion.
Tergum
Ter"gum (?), n.; pl. Terga (#). [L., the back.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) The
back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate
animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Terin
Te"rin (?), n. [F. tarin, Prov. F. tairin, t\'82rin, probably from the
Picard t\'8are tender.] (Zo\'94l.) A small yellow singing bird, with
an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.
Term
Term (?), n. [F. terme, L. termen, -inis, terminus, a boundary limit,
end; akin to Gr. Thrum a tuft, and cf. Terminus, Determine,
Exterminate.]
1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound;
boundary.
Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as
nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.
2. The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of
five years; the term of life.
3. In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during
which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year
is divided into three terms.
4. (Geom.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is
the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
5. (Law) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration; as: (a) The
limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate
is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of
years. (b) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his
obligation. (c) The time in which a court is held or is open for the
trial of causes. Bouvier.
NOTE: &hand; In En gland, th ere we re fo rmerly four terms in the
year, during which the superior courts were open: Hilary term,
beginning on the 11th and ending on the 31st of January; Easter
term, beginning on the 15th of April, and ending on the 8th of May;
Trinity term, beginning on the 22d day of May, and ending on the
12th of June; Michaelmas term, beginning on the 2d and ending on
the 25th day of November. The rest of the year was called vacation.
But this division has been practically abolished by the Judicature
Acts of 1873, 1875, which provide for the more convenient
arrangement of the terms and vacations. In the United States, the
terms to be observed by the tribunals of justice are prescribed by
the statutes of Congress and of the several States.
6. (Logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the
three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle,
together called its terms or extremes. Sir W. Hamilton.
NOTE: &hand; Th e pr edicate of the conclusion is called the major
term, because it is the most general, and the subject of the
conclusion is called the minor term, because it is less general.
These are called the extermes; and the third term, introduced as a
common measure between them, is called the mean or middle term.
Thus in the following syllogism, -- Every vegetable is combustible;
Every tree is a vegetable; Therefore every tree is combustible, -
combustible, the predicate of the conclusion, is the major term;
tree is the minor term; vegetable is the middle term.
7. A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely
limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a
science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. "Terms
quaint of law." Chaucer.
In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed for
want of terms. Dryden.
8. (Arch.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure
of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal
figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
NOTE: &hand; Th e pi llar pa rt fr equently ta pers downward, or is
narrowest at the base. Terms rudely carved were formerly used for
landmarks or boundaries. Gwilt.
9. (Alg.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or
cd in ab - cd.
10. pl. (Med.) The menses.
11. pl. (Law) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when
assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the
parties; conditions.
12. (Law) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
NOTE: &hand; Terms legal and conventional in Scotland correspond to
quarter days in England and Ireland. There are two legal terms --
Whitsunday, May 15, and Martinmas, Nov. 11; and two conventional
terms -- Candlemas, Feb. 2, and Lammas day, Aug. 1. Mozley & W.
13. (Naut.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the
taffrail. J. Knowels.
In term, in set terms; in formal phrase. [Obs.]
I can not speak in term. Chaucer.
-- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or
by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause for each or any term
it is in court. -- Terms of a proportion (Math.), the four members of
which it is composed. -- To bring to terms, to compel (one) to agree,
assent, or submit; to force (one) to come to terms. -- To make terms,
to come to terms; to make an agreement: to agree. Syn. -- Limit;
bound; boundary; condition; stipulation; word; expression. -- Term,
Word. These are more frequently interchanged than almost any other
vocables that occur of the language. There is, however, a difference
between them which is worthy of being kept in mind. Word is generic;
it denotes an utterance which represents or expresses our thoughts and
feelings. Term originally denoted one of the two essential members of
a proposition in logic, and hence signifies a word of specific
meaning, and applicable to a definite class of objects. Thus, we may
speak of a scientific or a technical term, and of stating things in
distinct terms. Thus we say, "the term minister literally denotes
servant;" "an exact definition of terms is essential to clearness of
thought;" "no term of reproach can sufficiently express my
indignation;" "every art has its peculiar and distinctive terms," etc.
So also we say, "purity of style depends on the choice of words, and
precision of style on a clear understanding of the terms used." Term
is chiefly applied to verbs, nouns, and adjectives, these being
capable of standing as terms in a logical proposition; while
prepositions and conjunctions, which can never be so employed, are
rarely spoken of as terms, but simply as words.
Term
Term (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Termed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Terming.]
[See Term, n., and cf. Terminate.] To apply a term to; to name; to
call; to denominate.
Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe "imaginary
space." Locke.
Terma
Ter"ma (?), n. [NL. See Term, n.] (Anat.) The terminal lamina, or thin
ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the
brain. B. G. Wilder.
Termagancy
Ter"ma*gan*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being termagant;
turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.
Termagant
Ter"ma*gant (?), n. [OE. Trivigant, Termagant, Termagant (in sense 1),
OF. Tervagan; cf. It. Trivigante.]
1. An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan
deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities,
farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous. [Obs.]
Chaucer. "And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound [Mahomet] swore."
Spenser.
The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and
on Mahound. Fairfax.
2. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to
both sexes, now only to women.
This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh. Bale (1543).
The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant. Macaulay.
Termagant
Ter"ma*gant, a. Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious;
quarrelsome; scolding. -- Ter"ma*gant*ly, adv.
A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench. Arbuthnot.
Termatarium
Ter`ma*ta"ri*um (?), n. [NL. See Termes.] (Zo\'94l.) Any nest or
dwelling of termes, or white ants.
Termatary
Ter"ma*ta*ry (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Termatarium.
Termer
Term"er (?), n.
1. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to
practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. [Obs.] [Written
also termor.] B. Jonson.
2. (Law) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
Termes
Ter"mes (?), n.; pl. Termities (#). [L. termes, tarmes, -itis, a
woodworm. Cf. Termite.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of Pseudoneuroptera
including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.
Terminable
Ter"mi*na*ble (?), a. [See Terminate.] Capable of being terminated or
bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an
annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from
life annuity, and perpetual annuity.
Terminal
Ter"mi*nal (?), a. [L. terminals: cf. F. terminal. See Term, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity;
as, a terminal edge.
2. (Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a
terminal bud, flower, or spike.
Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See
Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. (a) The velocity acquired
at the end of a body's motion. (b) The limit toward which the velocity
of a body approaches, as of a body falling through the air.
Terminal
Ter"mi*nal, n.
1. That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.
2. (Eccl.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an
electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor,
usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by
which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole. <--
3. (a) The station at either end of a line used by a carrier (as a bus
line or railroad) for transporting freight or passengers; also, a
station on such a line which serves a large area. (b) The city in
which the terminal is located. bus terminal, a station where passenger
buses start or end a trip. freight terminal, a terminal used for
loading or unloading of freight. -->
Terminalia
Ter`mi*na"li*a (?), n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A festival celebrated
annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of
boundaries.
Terminant
Ter"mi*nant (?), n. [L. terminans, p.pr. of terminare.] Termination;
ending. [R.] Puttenham.
Terminate
Ter"mi*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Terminating.] [L. terminatus, p.p. of terminare. See Term.]
1. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to
bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or
a controversy.
3. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to
perfect.
During this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael Angelo]
terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an
incomparable style of art. J. S. Harford.
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Terminate
Ter"mi*nate (?), v. i.
1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short;
to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.
2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on
zhis side heaven. South.
Termination
Ter`mi*na"tion (?), n. [L. terminatio a bounding, fixing, determining:
cf. F. terminasion, OF. also termination. See Term.]
1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act
of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
2. That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end;
as, the termination of a line.
3. End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of
life; the termination of happiness.
4. End; conclusion; result. Hallam.
5. Last purpose of design. [R.]
6. A word; a term. [R. & Obs.] Shak.
7. (Gram.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part
added to a stem in inflection.
Terminational
Ter`mi*na"tion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to termination; forming a
termination.
Terminative
Ter"mi*na*tive (?), a. Tending or serving to terminate; terminating;
determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer.
Taylor.
Terminator
Ter"mi*na`tor (?), n. [L., he who limits or sets bounds.]
1. One who, or that which, terminates.
2. (Astron.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the
unilluminated part of the moon. <-- The Terminator. Arnold
Schwarzenegger. -->
Terminatory
Ter"mi*na*to*ry (?), a. Terminative.
Termine
Ter"mine (?), v. t. [Cf. F. terminer.] To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Terminer
Ter"mi*ner (?), n. [F. terminer to bound, limit, end. See Terminate.]
(Law) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.
Terminism
Ter"mi*nism (?), n. The doctrine held by the Terminists.
Terminist
Ter"mi*nist (?), n. [Cf. F. terministe.] (Theol.) One of a class of
theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the
probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer,
they have the offer to grace. Murdock.
Terminological
Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to terminology. --
Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Terminology
Ter`mi*nol"o*gy (?), n. [L. terminus term + -logy: cf. F.
terminologie.]
1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a
treatise on terms.
2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like;
nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence,
and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.
Terminus
Ter"mi*nus (?), n.; pl. Termini (#). [L. See Term.]
1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose
statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man,
woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in
the ground on a boundary line.
3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
4. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town
or city, at that place.
Termite
Ter"mite (?), n.; pl. Termites (#). [F. See Termes.] (Zo\'94l.) Any
one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to
Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of
White ant.
NOTE: &hand; Th ey are very abundant in tropical countries, and are
noted for their destructive habits, their large nests, their
remarkable social instincts, and their division of labor among the
polymorphic individuals of several kinds. Besides the males and
females, each nest has ordinary workers, and large-headed
individuals called soldiers.
Termless
Term"less (?), a.
1. Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless
time. [R.] "Termless joys." Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Inexpressible; indescribable. [R.] Shak.
Termly
Term"ly (?), a. Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. [R.] Bacon.
Termly
Term"ly, adv. Term by term; every term. [R.] "Fees . . . that are
termly given." Bacon.
Termonology
Ter`mo*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] Terminology. [R.]
Termor
Term"or (?), n. (Law) Same as Termer, 2.
Tern
Tern (?), n. [Dan. terne, t\'91rne; akin to Sw. t\'84rna, Icel. ; cf.
NL. sterna.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged
aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and
various allied genera.
NOTE: &hand; Te rns di ffer fr om gu lls ch iefly in their graceful
form, in their weaker and more slender bills and feet, and their
longer and more pointed wings. The tail is usually forked. Most of
the species are white with the back and wings pale gray, and often
with a dark head. The common European tern (Sterna hirundo) is
found also in Asia and America. Among other American species are
the arctic tern (S. paradis\'91a), the roseate tern (S. Dougalli),
the least tern (S. Antillarum), the royal tern (S. maxima), and the
sooty tern (S. fuliginosa).
Hooded tern. See Fairy bird, under Fairy. -- Marsh tern, any tern of
the genus Hydrochelidon. They frequent marshes and rivers and feed
largely upon insects. -- River tern, any tern belonging to Se\'89na or
allied genera which frequent rivers. -- Sea tern, any tern of the
genus Thalasseus. Terns of this genus have very long, pointed wings,
and chiefly frequent seas and the mouths of large rivers.
Tern
Tern (?), a. [L. pl. terni three each, three; akin to tres three. See
Three, and cf. Trine.] Threefold; triple; consisting of three;
ternate. Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three
together. -- Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three
by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles
(Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern
schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.
Tern
Tern, n. [F. terne. See Tern, a.] That which consists of, or pertains
to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery
resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the
drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.
She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery. Mrs. Browning.
Ternary
Ter"na*ry (?), a. [L. ternarius, fr. terni. See Tern, a.]
1. Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number
was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great
veneration.
2. (Chem.) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as
elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having
different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic
hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
Ternary
Ter"na*ry, n.; pl. Ternaries (. A ternion; the number three; three
things taken together; a triad.
Some in ternaries, some in pairs, and some single. Holder.
Ternate
Ter"nate (?), a. [NL. ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See Tern, a.]
Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or
flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly, adv.
Terneplate
Terne"plate` (?), n. [See Tern, a., and Plate.] Thin iron sheets
coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of
three metals.
Ternion
Ter"ni*on (?), n. [L. ternio, fr. terni three each. See Tern, a.] The
number three; three things together; a ternary. Bp. Hall.
Terpene
Ter"pene (?), n. [See Turpentine.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of
isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially
in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but
including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.
Terpentic
Ter*pen"tic (?), a. (Chem.) Terpenylic.
Terpenylic
Ter`pe*nyl"ic (?), a. [Terpene + -yl + -ic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining
to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also terpentic acid),
homologous with terebic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline
substance by the oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid.
Terpilene
Ter"pi*lene (?), n. (Chem.) A polymeric form of terpene, resembling
terbene.
Terpin
Ter"pin (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a
hydrate of oil of turpentine.
Terpinol
Ter"pin*ol (?), n. [Terpin + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) Any oil substance
having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin,
and regarded as a related hydrate.
Terpsichore
Terp*sich"o*re (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. (Gr. Myth.) The Muse who presided
over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Terpsichorean
Terp`sich*o*re"an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or
pertaining to dancing.
Terra
Ter"ra (?), n. [It. & L. See Terrace.] The earth; earth. Terra alba
[L., white earth] (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance
consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some
similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate
certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. -- Terra cotta. [It., fr.
terra earth + cotta, fem. of cotto cooked, L. coctus, p.p. of coquere
to cook. See Cook, n.] Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for
statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like. --
Terr\'91 filius [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to
write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of
Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. -- Terra
firma [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to water. -- Terra
Japonica. [NL.] Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind
of earth from Japan. -- Terra Lemnia [L., Lemnian earth], Lemnian
earth. See under Lemnian. -- Terra ponderosa [L., ponderous earth]
(Min.), barite, or heavy spar. -- Terra di Sienna. See Sienna.
Terrace
Ter"race (?), n. [F. terrasse (cf. Sp. terraza, It. terrazza), fr. L.
terra the earth, probably for tersa, originally meaning, dry land, and
akin to torrere to parch, E. torrid, and thirst. See Thirst, and cf.
Fumitory, Inter, v., Patterre, Terrier, Trass, Tureen, Turmeric.]
1. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one
or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed
for use or pleasure.
2. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
3. A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations
are covered with terraces.
4. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill;
hence, any street, or row of houses.
5. (Geol.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a
river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
NOTE: &hand; Ma ny ri vers ar e bordered by a series of terraces at
different levels, indicating the flood plains at successive periods
in their history.
Terrace epoch. (Geol.) See Drift epoch, under Drift, a.
Terrace
Ter"race, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terraced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Terracing
(?).] To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or
terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building. Sir H. Wotton.
Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Thomson.
Terraculture
Ter"ra*cul`ture (?), n. [L. terra the earth + cultura.] Cultivation on
the earth; agriculture. [R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al (#), a. [R.]
Terrane
Ter"rane (?), n. [F. terrain, from L. terra earth.] (Geol.) A group of
rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to
formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.
Terrapin
Ter"ra*pin (?), n. [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Zo\'94l.)
Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish
waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written also terapin,
terrapen, terrapene, and turapen.] <-- acebra? print unclear?? -->
NOTE: &hand; Th e yellow-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys acebra) of the
Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys
rugosa), native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also
potter, slider, and redfender), and the diamond-back or salt-marsh
terrapin (Malaclemmys palustris), are the most important American
species. The diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of
the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Alligator terrapin, the snapping turtle. -- Mud terrapin, any one of
numerous species of American tortoises of the genus Cinosternon. --
Painted terrapin, the painted turtle. See under Painted. -- Speckled
terrapin, a small fresh-water American terrapin (Chelopus guttatus)
having the carapace black with round yellow spots; -- called also
spotted turtle.
Terraqueous
Ter*ra"que*ous (?), a. [L. terra the earth + E. aqueous.] Consisting
of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth.
The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference
unveiled. Wordsworth.
Terrar
Ter"rar (?), n. [LL. terrarius liber. See Terrier a collection of
acknowledgments.] (O. Eng. Law) See 2d Terrier, 2.
Terras
Ter"ras (?), n. (Min.) See .
Terreen
Ter*reen" (?), n. See Turren.
Terreity
Ter*re"i*ty (?), n. Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
Terrel
Ter"rel (?), n. [NL. terrella, from L. terra the earth.] A spherical
magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of
the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.
Terremote
Terre"mote` (?), n. [OF. terremote, terremoete, fr. L. terra the earth
+ movere, motum, to move.] An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.
Terrene
Ter*rene" (?), n. A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.
Terrene
Ter*rene", a. [L. terrenus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]
1. Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.
Holland.
2. Earthy; terrestrial.
God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial
and terrene. Sir W. Raleigh.
Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith
to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor. O. Eng. Oath of
Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone.
Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our
terrene experience. Hickok.
Terrene
Ter*rene", n. [L. terrenum land, ground: cf. F. terrain.]
1. The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic]
Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.
2. (Surv.) The surface of the ground.
Terrenity
Ter*ren"i*ty (?), n. Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low
terrenity." Feltham.
Terreous
Ter"re*ous (?), a. [L. terreus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]
Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous
particles. [Obs.]
Terreplein
Terre"plein` (?), n. [F., fr. L. terra earth + planus even, level,
plain.] (Fort.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a
rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.
Terrestre
Ter*res"tre (?), a. [OE., from OF. & F. terrestre.] Terrestrial;
earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.
Terrestrial
Ter*res"tri*al (?), a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See
Terrace.]
1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as,
terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.
2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.
"The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.
3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary;
mundane.
Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser.
A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial
aims. Young.
4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or
inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or
the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward.
5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth;
as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical
telescope. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ly, adv. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ness, n.
Terrestrial
Ter*res"tri*al, n. An inhabitant of the earth.
Terrestrify
Ter*res"tri*fy (?), v. t. [L. terrestris terrestrial + -fy.] To
convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make
earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Terrestrious
Ter*res"tri*ous (?), a. [See Terrestrial.] Terrestrial. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Terret
Ter"ret (?), n. One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a
harness, through which the reins pass.
Terre-tenant
Terre"-ten`ant (?), n. [F. terre earth, land + tenant, p.pr. of tenir
to hold.] (Law) One who has the actual possession of land; the
occupant. [Written also ter-tenant.]
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Terre-verte
Terre"-verte` (?), n. [F., fr. terre earth + vert, verte, green.] An
olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.
Terrible
Ter"ri*ble (?), a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten.
See Terror.]
1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful;
formidable.
Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among
you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21.
2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.]
The terrible coldness of the season. Clarendon.
Syn. -- Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful; horrible;
shocking; awful. -- Ter"ri*ble*ness, n. -- Ter"ri*bly, adv.
Terricol\'91
Ter*ric"o*l\'91 (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. terra + colere to inhabit.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of annelids including the common earthworms and
allied species.
Terrienniak
Ter`ri*en"ni*ak (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The arctic fox.
Terrier
Ter"ri*er (?), n. [CF. L. terere to rub, to rub away, terebra a
borer.] An auger or borer. [Obs.]
Terrier
Ter"ri*er, n.
1. [F. terrier, chien terrier, from terre the earth, L. terra; cf. F.
terrier a burrow, LL. terrarium a hillock (hence the sense, a mound
thrown up in making a burrow, a burrow). See Terrace, and cf. Terrier,
2.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several
distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and
Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at
the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth
hair and upright ears.
NOTE: &hand; Mo st ki nds of terriers are noted for their courage,
the acuteness of their sense of smell, their propensity to hunt
burrowing animals, and their activity in destroying rats, etc. See
Fox terrier, under Fox.
2. [F. terrier, papier terrier, LL. terrarius liber, i.e., a book
belonging or pertaining to land or landed estates. See Terrier, 1, and
cf. Terrar.] (Law) (a) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of
the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and
services they owed to the lord, and the like. (b) In modern usage, a
book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are
described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like.
[Written also terrar.]
Terrific
Ter*rif"ic (?), a. [L. terrificus; fr. terrere to frighten + facere to
make. See Terror, and Fact.] Causing terror; adapted to excite great
fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
Terrifical
Ter*rif"ic*al (?), a. Terrific. [R.]
Terrifically
Ter*rif"ic*al*ly, adv. In a terrific manner.
Terrify
Ter"ri*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terrified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Terrifying (?).] [L. terrere to frighten + -fy: cf. F. terrifier, L.
terrificare. See Terrific, and -fy.]
1. To make terrible. [Obs.]
If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give
out license, it foils itself. Milton.
2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not terrified. Luke xxi. 9.
Terrigenous
Ter*rig"e*nous (?), a. [L. terrigena, terrigenus; terra the earth +
genere, gignere, to bring forth.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.
Territorial
Ter`ri*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. territorialis: cf. F. territorial.]
1. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits;
territorial jurisdiction.
2. Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or
territorial.
3. Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United
States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as,
Territorial governments.
Territorialize
Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Territorialized (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Territorializing (?).]
1. To enlarge by extension of territory.
2. To reduce to the condition of a territory.
Territorially
Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly, adv. In regard to territory; by means of
territory.
Territored
Ter"ri*to*red (?), a. Possessed of territory. [R.]
Territory
Ter"ri*to*ry (?), n.; pl. Territories (#). [L. territorium, from terra
the earth: cf. F. territoire. See Terrace.]
1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and
rural works between. Milton.
2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a
prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land
lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of
government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East
India Company.
3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within
the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the
Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial
governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of
the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the
country not yet formed into a Province.
Terror
Ter"ror (?), n. [L. terror, akin to terrere to frighten, for tersere;
akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf.
F. terreur. Cf. Deter.]
1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread;
fright.
Terror seized the rebel host. Milton.
2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
Those enormous terrors of the Nile. Prior.
Rulers are not a terror to good works. Rom. xiii. 3.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are
generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving,
terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like.
King of terrors, death. Job xviii. 14. -- Reign of Terror. (F. Hist.)
See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Syn. -- Alarm; fright;
consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm.
Terrorism
Ter"ror*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or
state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or
intimidation. Jefferson. <-- 2. The practise of coercing governments
to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian
targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals. -->
Terrorist
Ter"ror*ist, n. [F. terroriste.] One who governs by terrorism or
intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary
tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke. <-- 2. One who
commits terrorism{2}. -->
Terrorize
Ter"ror*ize (?), v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.] To impress with terror; to
coerce by intimidation.
Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by
ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
Terrorless
Ter"ror*less, a. Free from terror. Poe.
Terry
Ter"ry (?), n. A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or
silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used
for upholstery and trimmings.
Tersanctus
Ter*sanc"tus (?), n. [L. ter thrice + sanctus holy.] (Eccl.) An
ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its
Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the
Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the
communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.
Terse
Terse (?), a. [Compar. Terser (?); superl. Tersest.] [L. tersus, p.p.
of tergere to rub or wipe off.]
1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
[Obs.]
Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power
attractive. Sir T. Browne.
2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite
and terse gallants." Massinger.
3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to
smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay.
A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse.
Longfellow.
Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by
Johnson "cleanly written", i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth.
Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact,
with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of
Whitehead: -
"In eight terse lines has Ph\'91drus told (So frugal were the bards
of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all,
in that short space." It differs from concise in not implying,
perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional
idea of "grace or elegance." -- Terse"ly, adv. -- Terse"ness, n.
Tersulphide
Ter*sul"phide (?), n. [Pref. ter- + sulphide.] (Chem.) A
trisulphide.
Tersulphuret
Ter*sul"phu*ret (?), n. [Pref. ter- + sulphuret.] (Chem.) A
trisulphide. [R.]
Ter-tenant
Ter"-ten`ant (?), n. See Terre-tenant.
Tertial
Ter"tial (?), a. & n. [From L. tertius third, the tertial feathers
being feathers of the third row. See Tierce.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Tertiary.
Tertian
Ter"tian (?), a. [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See
Tierce.] (Med.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
Tertian
Ter"tian, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]
1. (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which
returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the
intermission lasts one day.
2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy
imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Tertiary
Ter"ti*a*ry (?), a. [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr.
tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.]
1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a
tertiary use of a word. Trench.
2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been
subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a
tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. <--
specifically, an organic compound in which teh carbon atom attached
to the eponymic functional group has three carbon atoms attached to
it; as, tertiary butyl alcohol, (CH3)3C.OH. -->
3. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
4. (Zo\'94l.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing;
tertial; -- said of quills.
Tertiary age. (Geol.) See under Age, 8. -- Tertiary color, a color
produced by the mixture of two secondaries. "The so-called tertiary
colors are citrine, russet, and olive." Fairholt. -- Tertiary period.
(Geol.) (a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic
era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary
formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the
third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and
internal organs.
Tertiary
Ter"ti*a*ry, n.; pl. Tertiaries (.
1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as,
the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite
tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. Addis & Arnold.
2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
3. (Zo\'94l.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal
joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiate
Ter"ti*ate (?), v. t. [L. tertiatus, p.p. of tertiare to do for the
third time, fr. tertius the third.]
1. To do or perform for the third time. [Obs. & R.] Johnson.
2. (Gun.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a
gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in
order to ascertain its strength.
Terutero
Ter`u*ter"o (?), n. [Probably so named from its city.] (Zo\'94l.) The
South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished
with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.
Terza rima
Ter"za ri"ma (?). [It., a third or triple rhyme.] A peculiar and
complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian
poets from the Troubadours.
Terzetto
Ter*zet"to (?), n. [It., dim. of terzo the third, L. tertius. See
Tierce.] (Mus.) A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an
instrumental) trio.
Tesselar
Tes"sel*ar (?), a. [L. tessella a small square piece, a little cube,
dim. of tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die.] Formed of
tesser\'91, as a mosaic.
Tessellata
Tes`sel*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tessellate.] (Zo\'94l.) A division
of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is
covered with tessellated plates.
Tessellate
Tes"sel*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form
into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of
France. Macaulay.
Tessellate
Tes"sel*late (?), a. [L. tesselatus.] Tessellated.
Tessellated
Tes"sel*la`ted (?), a.
1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a
tessellated pavement.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated
leaf.
Tessellation
Tes`sel*la"tion (?), n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work
so formed. J. Forsyth.
Tessera
Tes"se*ra (?), n.; pl. Tesser\'91 (#). [L., a square piece, a die. See
Tessellar.] A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like,
having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for
mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like
purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a
ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful
gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.
Tesseraic
Tes`se*ra"ic (?), a. Diversified by squares; done in mosaic;
tessellated. [Obs.] Sir R. Atkyns (1712).
Tesseral
Tes"se*ral (?), a.
1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesser\'91.
2. (Crystallog.) Isometric.
Tessular
Tes"su*lar (?), a. (Crystallog.) Tesseral.
Test
Test (?), n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t\'88t, from L.
testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of burned clay, an
earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta, and akin to torrere to
patch, terra earth (cf. Thirst, and Terrace), but cf. Zend tasta cup.
Cf. Test a shell, Testaceous, Tester a covering, a coin, Testy,
T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te.]
1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are
melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo. Chaucer.
2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination
or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. "Bring me
to the test." Shak.
3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear. Dryden.
4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness;
a touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and
end, and test of art. Pope.
5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of
admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. Dryden.
6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent
writing and the best? Dryden.
7. (Chem.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any
particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production
of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to
produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is
the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by
means of some soluble barium salt.
Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament prescribing a
form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all
officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six
months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to
receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England.
Blackstone. -- Test object (Optics), an object which tests the power
or quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree
of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its
peculiar texture or markings. -- Test paper. (a) (Chem.) Paper
prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated
with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted
upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids,
and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc.
(b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of
handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is
permitted as a mode of proving handwriting. -- Test tube. (Chem.) (a)
A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions
and for performing ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated tube. Syn. --
Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment; trial. -- Test,
Trial. Trial is the wider term; test is a searching and decisive
trial. It is derived from the Latin testa (earthen pot), which term
was early applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which metals are
melted for trial and refinement. Hence the peculiar force of the word,
as indicating a trial or criterion of the most decisive kind.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better
publish his commediation. Shak.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune, Like purest
gold, that tortured in the furnace, Comes out more bright, and
brings forth all its weight. Addison.
Test
Test, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n. Testing.]
1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to
subject to cupellation.
2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of
by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test
the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real
tendency of the existing constitution. Washington.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to
test a solution by litmus paper.
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Test
Test (?), n. [L. testis. Cf. Testament, Testify.] A witness. [Obs.]
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety
tests of that deed. Ld. Berners.
Test
Test, v. i. [L. testari. See Testament.] To make a testament, or will.
[Obs.]
Test, Testa
Test (?), Tes"ta (?), n.; pl. E. Tests (#), L. Test\'91 (#). [L. testa
a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of earthenware, a shell. See
Test a cupel.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate
animals.
NOTE: &hand; Th e te st of cr ustaceans an d in sects is composed
largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of calcium
carbonate, and is called the shell.
2. (Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Testable
Test"a*ble (?), a. [See Testament.]
1. Capable of being tested or proved.
2. Capable of being devised, or given by will.
Testacea
Tes*ta"ce*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. testaceum a shelled anumal. See
Testaceous.] (Zo\'94l.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells,
especially mollusks; shellfish.
Testacean
Tes*ta"cean (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Onr of the Testacea.
Testaceography
Tes*ta`ce*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Testacea + -graphy: cf. F.
testac\'82ographie.] The science which treats of testaceans, or
shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]
Testaceology
Tes*ta`ce*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Testacea + -logy: cf. F. testac\'82ologie.]
The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]
Testaceous
Tes*ta"ceous (?), a. [L. testaceus, fr. testa a shell. See Testa.]
1. Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a
hard shell.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish
yellow color.
Testaceous animals (Zo\'94l.), animals having a firm, calcareous
shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous
animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several
joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.
Testacy
Tes"ta*cy (?), n. [See Testate.] (Law) The state or circumstance of
being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.
Testament
Tes"ta*ment (?), n. [F., fr. L. testamentum, fr. testari to be a
witness, to make one's last will, akin to testis a witness. Cf.
Intestate, Testify.]
1. (Law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person
declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his
death.
NOTE: &hand; Th is is otherwise called a will, and sometimes a last
will and testament. A testament, to be valid, must be made by a
person of sound mind; and it must be executed and published in due
form of law. A man, in certain cases, may make a valid will by word
of mouth only. See Nuncupative will, under Nuncupative.
2. One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a
covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical
books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are
respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; --
often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter.
He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix.
15.
Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the testator
himself. Bouvier. <-- also holographic will. "Written" means, in
handwriting. -->
Testamental
Tes`ta*men"tal (?), a. [L. testamentalis.] Of or pertaining to a
testament; testamentary.
Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.
Testamentary
Tes`ta*men"ta*ry (?), a. [L. testamentarius: cf. F. testamentaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.
2. Bequeathed by will; given by testament.
How many testamentary charities have been defeated by the
negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury.
3. Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a
testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of
a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age.
Testamentation
Tes`ta*men*ta"tion (?), n. The act or power of giving by testament, or
will. [R.] Burke.
Testamentize
Tes"ta*men*tize (?), v. i. To make a will. [Obs.] Fuller.
Testamur
Tes*ta"mur (?), n. [L., we testify, fr. testari to testify.] (Eng.
Universities) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from
the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.
Testate
Tes"tate (?), a. [L. testatus, p.p. of testari. See Testament.] (Law)
Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.
Ayliffe.
Testate
Tes"tate, n. (Law) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate
person. [R.]
Testation
Tes*ta"tion (?), n. [L. testatio.] A witnessing or witness. [Obs.] Bp.
Hall.
Testator
Tes*ta"tor (?), n. [L.: cf. F. testateur.] (Law) A man who makes and
leaves a will, or testament, at death.
Testatrix
Tes*ta"trix (?), n. [L.] (Law) A woman who makes and leaves a will at
death; a female testator.
Teste
Tes"te (?), n. [So called fr. L. teste, abl. of testis a witness,
because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.] (Law) (a) A
witness. (b) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; --
said of a writ, deed, or the like. Burrill.
Tester
Tes"ter (?), n. [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F.
t\'88ti\'8are a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t\'88te, fr.
L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf.
Testi\'8are.]
1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.
3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on
me to keep off the cold. Walpole.
Tester
Tes"ter, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the
head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a
covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.] An old French silver coin,
originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced
to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern
English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also
teston. Shak.
Testern
Tes"tern (?), n. A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]
Testern
Tes"tern, v. t. To present with a tester. [Obs.] Shak.
Testes
Tes"tes (?), n., pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
Testicardines
Tes`ti*car"di*nes (?), n. pl. [NL. See Test a shell, and Cardo.]
(Zo\'94l.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a
calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula
and Spirifer are examples.
Testicle
Tes"ti*cle (?), n. [L. testiculus, dim. of testis a testicle, probably
the same word as testis a witness, as being a witness to manhood. Cf.
Test a witness.] (Anat.) One of the essential male genital glands
which secrete the semen.
Testicond
Tes"ti*cond (?), a. [L. testis testis + condere to hide.] (Zo\'94l.)
Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the
cetaceans.
Testicular
Tes*tic"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the testicle.
Testiculate
Tes*tic"u*late (?), a. [NL. testiculatus.] (Bot.) (a) Shaped like a
testicle, ovate and solid. (b) Having two tubers resembling testicles
in form, as some species of orchis.
Testi\'8are
Tes`ti*\'8are" (?), n. [OF. testiere. See Tester a headpiece.] A piece
of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.
Testif
Tes"tif (?), a. [See Testy.] Testy; headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.]
Testif they were and lusty for to play. Chaucer.
Testification
Tes`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. testificatio: cf. OF. testification. See
Testify.] The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as,
a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
Testificator
Tes"ti*fi*ca`tor (?), n. [NL.] A testifier.
Testifier
Tes"ti*fi`er (?), n. One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or
bears witness to prove anything; a witness.
Testify
Tes"ti*fy (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Testified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Testifying (?).] [OF. testifier, L. testificari; testis a witness +
-ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy, and cf. Attest, Contest, Detest,
Protest, Testament.]
1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some
fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a
knowledge of something not known to them.
Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew
what was in man. John ii. 25.
2. (Law) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for
the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court;
to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to
die. Num. xxxv. 30.
3. To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear
witness; -- with against.
O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee. Ps. l. 7.
I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Neh. xiii. 15.
Testify
Tes"ti*fy, v. t.
1. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm
or declare solemny.
We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye
receive not our witness. John iii. 11.
2. (Law) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a
tribunal, in order to prove some fact.
Testify
Tes"ti*fy, adv. In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with
petulance.
Testimonial
Tes`ti*mo"ni*al (?), n. [Cf. OF. testimoniale, LL. testimonialis, L.
testimoniales (sc. litter\'91). See Testimonial, a.]
1. A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's
character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.
2. Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of
respect, or of obligation for services rendered.
Testimonial
Tes`ti*mo"ni*al, a. [L. testimonialis: cf. F. testimonial.] Relating
to, or containing, testimony.
Testimony
Tes"ti*mo*ny (?), n.; pl. Testimonies (#). [L. testimonium, from
testis a witness: cf. OF. testimoine, testemoine, testimonie. See
Testify.]
1. A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of
establishing or proving some fact.
NOTE: &hand; Su ch de claration, in ju dicial pr oceedings, may be
verbal or written, but must be under oath or affirmation.
2. Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the
uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend
on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
3. Open attestation; profession.
[Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach.
Milton.
4. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a
testimony against them. Mark vi. 11.
5. (Jewish Antiq.) The two tables of the law.
Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Ex. xxv. 16.
6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix.
7.
Syn. -- Proof; evidence; attestation; witness; affirmation;
confirmation; averment. -- Testimony, Proof, Evidence. Proof is the
most familiar, and is used more frequently (though not exclusively) of
facts and things which occur in the ordinary concerns of life.
Evidence is a word of more dignity, and is more generally applied to
that which is moral or intellectual; as, the evidences of
Christianity, etc. Testimony is what is deposed to by a witness on
oath or affirmation. When used figuratively or in a wider sense, the
word testimony has still a reference to some living agent as its
author, as when we speak of the testimony of conscience, or of doing a
thing in testimony of our affection, etc. Testimony refers rather to
the thing declared, evidence to its value or effect. "To conform our
language more to common use, we ought to divide arguments into
demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities; ba proofs, meaning such
arguments from experience as leave no room for doubt or opposition."
Hume. "The evidence of sense is the first and highest kind of evidence
of which human nature is capable." Bp. Wilkins. "The proof of
everything must be by the testimony of such as the parties produce."
Spenser.
Testimony
Tes"ti*mo*ny (?), v. t. To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.
[Obs.] Shak.
Testiness
Tes"ti*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness;
petulance.
Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. Locke.
Testing
Test"ing (?), n.
1. The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
2. (Metal.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or
cupel; cupellation.
Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the
strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under
strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.
Testis
Tes"tis (?), n.; pl. Testes (#). [L.] (Anat.) A testicle.
Teston
Tes"ton (?), n. A tester; a sixpence. [Obs.]
Testone
Tes*tone" (?), n. [Cf. Pg. test&atil;o, tost&atil;o. See Testoon.] A
silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about
eleven cents. Homans.
Testoon
Tes*toon" (?), n. [It. testone. See Tester a coin.] An Italian silver
coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty
cents. Homans.
Testudinal
Tes*tu"di*nal (?), a. [See Testudo.] (Zo\'94l.) Of, pertaining to, or
resembling, a tortoise.
Testudinarious
Tes*tu`di*na"ri*ous (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the shell
of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or
markings of a tortoise shell.
Testudinata
Tes*tu`di*na"ta (?), n. pl. [Nl. See Testudo.] (Zo\'94l.) An order of
reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered
by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the
carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of
which consists of several plates.
Testudinate, Testudinated
Tes*tu"di*nate (?), Tes*tu"di*na`ted (?), a. [L. testudinatus, fr.
testudo, -inis, a tortoise, an arch or vault.] Resembling a tortoise
shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Testudineous
Tes`tu*din"e*ous (?), a. [L. testudineus.] Resembling the shell of a
tortoise.
Testudo
Tes*tu"do (?), n.; pl. Testudines (#). [L., from testa the shell of
shellfish, or of testaceous animals.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large
number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial
species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Gr\'91ca) and the
gopher of the Southern United States.
2. (Rom. Antiq.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with
their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when
standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a
tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other
missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved
on wheels.
3. (Mus.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so
called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of
the shell of a tortoise.
Testy
Tes"ty (?), a. [Compar. Testier (?); superl. Testiest.] [OF. testu
obstinate, headstrong, F. t\'88tu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t\'88te.
See Test a cupel.] Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor?
Shak.
I was displeased with myself; I was testy. Latimer.
Tetanic
Te*tan"ic (?), a. [Cf. L. tetanicus suffering from tetanus, Gr.
t\'82tanique.]
1. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of
tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms
into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus,
or tetanic contraction. Foster.
2. (Physiol. & Med.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or
tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic,
n.
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Tetanic
Te*tan"ic (?), n. (Physiol. & Med.) A substance (notably nux vomica,
strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts
primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively
large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
Tetanin
Tet"a*nin (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed
in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound
of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces
tetanus as one of its prominent effects. <-- ?? not in Merck --
tetanospasmin? The neurotoxin of Clostridium tetani. -->
Tetanization
Tet`a*ni*za"tion (?), n. (Physiol.) The production or condition of
tetanus.
Tetanize
Tet"a*nize (?), v. t. (Physiol.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state
of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.
Tetanoid
Tet"a*noid (?), a. [Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. & Physiol.) Resembling
tetanus.
Tetanomotor
Tet`a*no*mo"tor (?), n. (Physiol.) An instrument from tetanizing a
muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Tetanus
Tet"a*nus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally
from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of
the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected,
it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from
the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.<--
caused by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani. -->
2. (Physiol.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of
continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of
induction shocks.
Tetany
Tet"a*ny (?), n. (Med.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but
distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent
spasms.
Tetard
Te*tard" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the
Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Tetartohedral
Te*tar`to*he"dral (?), a. [Gr. (Crystallog.) Having one fourth the
number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry. --
Te*tar`to*he"dral*ly, adv.
Tetartohedrism
Te*tar`to*he"drism (?), n. (Crystallog.) The property of being
tetartohedral.
Tetaug
Te*taug" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Tautog. [R.]
Tetchiness
Tetch"i*ness, n. See Techiness.
Tetchy
Tetch"y (?), a. See Techy. Shak.
T\'88te
T\'88te (?), n. [F., the head. See Tester a covering.] A kind of wig;
false hair.
T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te
T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te" (?), n. [F., head to head. See Tester a
covering, Test a cupel.]
1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two
persons.
2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te
T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te", a. Private; confidential; familiar.
She avoided t\'88te-\'85-t\'88te walks with him. C. Kingsley.
T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te
T\'88te`-\'85-t\'88te", adv. Face to face; privately or
confidentially; familiarly. Prior.
T\'88te-de-pont
T\'88te`-de-pont" (?), n.; pl. T\'88tes-de-pont (#). [F., head of a
bridge.] (Mil.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the
enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
Tetel
Te*tel" (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A large African antelope (Alcejaphus tora).
It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.
Tether
Teth"er (?), n. [Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier,
Icel. tj\'d3, Dan. t\'94ir. \'fb64.] A long rope or chain by which an
animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only
within certain limits.
Tether
Teth"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tethered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tethering.]
To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding
within certain limits.
And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.
Tethydan
Te*thy"dan (?), n. [See Tethys.] (Zo\'94l.) A tunicate.
Tethyodea
Te`thy*o"de*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Tethys + Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A division
of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and
compound. Called also Tethioidea.
Tethys
Te"thys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of a large naked
mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and
branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are
brilliantly colored.
Tetra-
Tet"ra- (?). [Gr. Four.]
1. A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic,
tetrapetalous.
2. (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four
proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted
by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide.
Tetrabasic
Tet`ra*bas"ic (?), a. [Tetra- + basic.] (Chem.) Capable of
neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen
atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain
acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.
Tetraboric
Tet`ra*bor"ic (?), a. [Tetra- + boric.] (Chem.) Same as Pyroboric.
Tetrabranchiata
Tet`ra*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tetra-, and Branchia.]
(Zo\'94l.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living
species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and
species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites,
Orthoceras, etc.
Tetrabranchiate
Tet`ra*bran`chi*ate (?), a. [Tetra + branchiate.] (Zo\'94l.) Of or
pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata. -- n. One of the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetracarpel
Tet`ra*car"pel (?), a. [Tetra- + carpellary.] (Bot.) Composed of four
carpels.
Tetrachord
Tet"ra*chord (?), n. [L. tetrachordon, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82trachorde.]
(Anc. Mus.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or
first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable;
the two middle sounds were changeable.
Tetrachotomous
Tet`ra*chot"o*mous (?), a. [Gr. (Bot.) Having a division by fours;
separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.
Tetracid
Tet*rac"id (?), a. [Tetra + acid.] (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing
four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable
of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus,
erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.
Tetracoccous
Tet`ra*coc"cous (?), a. [See Tetra-, and Coccus.] (Bot.) Having four
cocci, or carpels.
Tetracolon
Tet`ra*co"lon (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) + (Pros.) A stanza or division in
lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
Tetracoralla
Te`tra*co*ral"la (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tetra-, and Corallum.] (Paleon.)
Same as Rugosa.
Tetractinellid
Te*trac`ti*nel"lid (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of sponge of the
division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.
Tetractinellida
Te*trac`ti*nel"li*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A division
of Spongi\'91 in which the spicules are siliceous and have four
branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellin\'91.
Tetrad
Tet"rad (?), n. [L. tetras, -adis, Gr. t\'82trade.]
1. The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
2. (Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon
is a tetrad.
Tetradactyl, Tetradactyle
Tet`ra*dac"tyl, Tet`ra*dac"tyle (?), a. [Cf. F. t\'82tradactyle.]
(Zo\'94l.) Tetradactylous.
Tetradactylous
Tet`ra*dac"tyl*ous (?), a. [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zo\'94l.) Having, or
characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
Tetradecane
Tet`ra*dec"ane (?), n. [Tetra- + Gr. (Chem.) A light oily hydrocarbon,
C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon
atoms in the molecule.
Tetradecapoda
Tet`ra*de*cap"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tetra-, and Decapoda.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Arthrostraca.
Tetradic
Tet*rad"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or
having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic
element.
Tetradite
Tet"ra*dite (?), n. [See Tetrad.] A person in some way remarkable with
regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month,
or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.
Tetradon
Tet"ra*don (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) See Tetrodon.
Tetradont
Tet"ra*dont (?), a. & n. (Zo\'94l.) See Tetrodont.
Tetradrachm, Tetradrachma
Tet"ra*drachm (?), Tet`ra*drach"ma (?), n. [NL. tetradrachma, fr. Gr.
Tetra-) + A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four
drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about
76 cents.
Tetradymite
Tet*rad"y*mite (?), n. [Gr. (Min.) A telluride of bismuth. It is of a
pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in
foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
Tetradynamia
Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + (Bot.) A
Linn\'91an class of plants having six stamens, four of which are
longer than the others.
Tetradynamian
Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an (?), n. (Bot.) A plant of the order Tetradynamia.
Tetradynamian, Tetradynamous
Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an (?), Tet`ra*dyn"a*mous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to
the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are
uniformly longer than the others.
Tetragon
Tet"ra*gon (?), n. [L. tetragonum, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82tragone.]
1. (Geom.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle,
as a square, a rhombus, etc.
2. (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when
they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a
circle. Hutton.
Tetragonal
Te*trag"o*nal (?), a.
1. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or
sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the
trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
2. (Bot.) Having four prominent longitudinal angles.
3. (Crystallog.) Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of
crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under
Crystallization.
Tetragrammaton
Tet`ra*gram"ma*ton (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + The mystic number
four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name
was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the
Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.
Tetragynia
Tet`ra*gyn"i*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. te`tra- (see Tetra-) + gynh`
a woman, female.] (Bot.) A Linn\'91an order of plants having four
styles.
Tetragynian, Tetragynous
Tet`ra*gyn"i*an (?), Te*trag"y*nous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to the
order Tetragynia; having four styles.
Tetrahedral
Tet`ra*he"dral (?), a. [See Tetrahedron.]
1. Having, or composed of, four sides.
2. (Crystallog.) (a) Having the form of the regular tetrahedron. (b)
Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of hemihedral
forms to which the tetrahedron belongs.
Tetrahedral angle (Geom.), a solid angle bounded or inclosed by four
plane angles.
Tetrahedrally
Tet`ra*he"dral*ly, adv. In a tetrahedral manner.
Tetrahedrite
Tet`ra*he"drite (?), n. [So called because the crystals of the species
are commonly tetrahedrons.] (Min.) A sulphide of antimony and copper,
with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of
copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver.
Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.
Tetrahedron
Tet`ra*he"dron (?), n. [Tetra- + Gr. (Geom.) A solid figure inclosed
or bounded by four triangles.
NOTE: &hand; In cr ystallography, th e re gular te trahedron is
regarded as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron.
Regular tetrahedron (Geom.), a solid bounded by four equal equilateral
triangles; one of the five regular solids.
Tetrahexahedral
Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dral (?), a. (Crystallog.) Pertaining to a
tetrahexahedron.
Tetrahexahedron
Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dron (?), n. [Tetra- + hexahedron.] (Crystallog.) A
solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular
faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.
Tetrakishexahedron
Tet`ra*kis*hex`a*he"dron (?), n. [Gr. hexahedron.] (Crystallog.) A
tetrahexahedron.
Tetrakosane
Tet"ra*ko*sane` (?), n. [Tetra- + Gr. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50,
resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; --
so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
Tetralogy
Te*tral"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82tralogie.] (Gr. Drama) A
group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one
satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented
consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.
NOTE: &hand; A gr oup or se ries of th ree tr agedies, exhibited
together without a fourth piese, was called a trilogy.
Tetramera
Te*tram"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tetramerous.] (Zo\'94l.) A division
of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint
being rudimentary.
Tetramerous
Te*tram"er*ous (?), a. [Tetra- + Gr.
1. (Bot.) Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous
flower.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of
certain insects.
Tetrameter
Te*tram"e*ter (?), n. [L. tetrametrus, Gr. Tetra-) +
t\'82tram\'8atre.] (GR. & Latin Pros.) A verse or line consisting of
four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of
eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
Tetramethylene
Tet`ra*meth"yl*ene (?), n. [Tetra- + methylene.] (Chem.) (a) A
hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and
regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives. (b)
Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds
which are really related to butylene.
Tetramorph
Tet"ra*morph (?), n. [Tetra- + Gr. (Christian Art) The union of the
four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented
as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being
covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested
by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)
Tetrandria
Te*tran"dri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. Tetra-) + (Bot.) A Linn\'91an
class of plants having four stamens.
Tetrandrian, Tetrandrous
Te*tran"dri*an (?), Te*tran"drous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to the
class Tetrandria.
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Tetraonid
Te*tra"o*nid (?), n. [L. tetrao a heath cock, grouse, Gr.
t\'82traonide.] (Zo\'94l.) A bird belonging to the tribe of which the
genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the
like. Used also adjectively.
Tetrapetalous
Tet`ra*pet"al*ous (?), a. [Tetra- + petal.] (Bot.) Containing four
distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.
Tetrapharmacom, Tetrapharmacum
Tet`ra*phar"ma*com (?), Tet`ra*phar"ma*cum (?), n. [NL.
tetrapharmacon, L. tetrapharmacum, Gr. Tetra-) + (Med.) A combination
of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.
Tetraphenol
Tet`ra*phe"nol (?), n. [Tetra- + phenol.] (Chem.) Furfuran. [Obs.]
Tetraphyllous
Te*traph"yl*lous (?), a. [Tetra- + Gr. (Bot.)Having four leaves;
consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.
Tetrapla
Tet"ra*pla (?), n.;
NOTE: etymologically pl., but syntactically sing.
[NL., fr. Gr. tetraplo`os, tetraploy^s, fourfold.] A Bible consisting
of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen;
hence, any version in four languages or four columns.
Tetraneumona
Tet`ra*neu"mo*na (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tetra-, and Pneumo-.] (Zo\'94l.)
A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs,
or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the
trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.
Tetrapnuemonian
Tet`rap*nue*mo"ni*an (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) One of the Tetrapneumona.
Tetrapod
Tet"ra*pod (?), n. [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zo\'94l.) An insect characterized
by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.
Tetrapody
Te*trap"o*dy (?), n. [Gr. A set of four feet; a measure or distance of
four feet.
Tetrapteran
Te*trap"ter*an (?), n. [See Tetrapterous.] (Zo\'94l.) An insect having
four wings.
Tetrapterous
Te*trap"ter*ous (?), a. [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zo\'94l.) Having four wings.
Tetraptote
Tet"rap*tote (?), n. [L. tetraptotum, Gr. (Gram.) A noun that has four
cases only. Andrews.
Tetrarch
Te"trarch (?), n. [L. tetrarches, Gr. Tetra-) + t\'82trarque. See
Arch, a.] (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a
province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty
king or sovereign.
Tetrarch
Te"trarch, a. Four. [Obs.] Fuller.
Tetrarchate
Te*trarch"ate (?), n. [Cf. F. t\'82trarchat.] (Rom. Antiq.) A
tetrarchy.
Tetrarchical
Te*trarch"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or
tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.
Tetrarchy
Tet"rarch*y (?), n.; pl. Tetrarchies (#). [L. tetrarchia, Gr.
t\'82trarchie.] (Rom. Antiq.) The district under a Roman tetrarch; the
office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
Tetraschistic
Tet`ra*schis"tic (?), a. [Gr. (Biol.) Characterized by division into
four parts.
Tetrasepalous
Tet`ra*sep"al*ous (?), a. [Tetra- + sepal.] (Bot.) Having four sepals.
Tetraspaston
Tet`ra*spas"ton (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + (Mach.) A machine in
which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.
Tetraspermous
Tet`ra*sper"mous (?), a. [Tetra- + Gr. (Bot.) Having four seeds.
Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces four seeds in each flower.
Tetraspore
Tet"ra*spore (?), n. [Tetra- + spore.] (Bot.) A nonsexual spore, one
of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. --
Tet`ra*spor"ic (#), a.
Tetrastich
Te*tras"tich (?), n. [L. tetrastichon, Gr. Tetra-) + A stanza,
epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.
Tetrastyle
Tet"ra*style (?), a. [L. tetrastylon, Gr. Tetra-) + (Arch.) Having
four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. --
n. A tetrastyle building.
Tetrasyllabic, Tetrasyllabical
Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic (?), Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F.
t\'82trasyllabique.] Consisting of, or having, four syllables;
quadrisyllabic.
Terrasyllable
Ter"ra*syl`la*ble (?), n. [Tetra- + syllable: cf. Gr. A word
consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
Tetrathecal
Tet`ra*the"cal (?), a. [Tetra- + thecal.] (Bot.) Having four
loculaments, or thec\'91.
Tetrathionate
Tet`ra*thi"on*ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tetrathionic acid.
Tetrathionic
Tet`ra*thi*on"ic (?), a. [Tetra- + thionic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining
to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H
Tetratomic
Tet`ra*tom"ic (?), a. [Tetra- + atomic.] (Chem.) (a) Consisting of
four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and
arsenic. (b) Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent;
sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether
acid or basic.
Tetravalence
Te*trav"a*lence (?), n. (Chem.) The quality or state of being
tetravalent; quadrivalence.
Tetravalent
Te*trav"a*lent (?), a. [Tetra- + L. valens, -entis, p.pr.] (Chem.)
Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
Tetraxile
Te*trax"ile (?), a. [Tetra- + axile.] (Zo\'94l.) Having four branches
diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.
Tetrazo-
Tet*raz"o- (?), a. [Tetra- + azo\'cf.] (Chem.) A combining form (also
used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double
derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of
nitrogen.
Tetrazone
Tet"ra*zone (?), n. (Chem.) Any one of a certain series of basic
compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example,
ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an
odor of leeks.
Tetric, Tetrical
Tet"ric (?), Tet"ri*cal (?), a. [L. tetricus, taetricus, from teter,
taeter, offensive, foul.] Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
[Obs.] -- Tet"ric*al*ness, n.
Tetricity
Te*tric"i*ty (?), n. [L. tetricitas, taetricitas.] Crabbedness;
perverseness. [Obs.]
Tetricous
Tet"ric*ous (?), a. Tetric. [Obs.]
Tetrinic
Te*trin"ic (?), a. [See Tetra-.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white
crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a
peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic
acid.
Tetrodon
Tet"ro*don (?), n. [Tetra- + Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous
species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera.
Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.
[Written also tetradon.]
NOTE: &hand; Th e skin is usually spinous, and the belly is capable
of being greatly distended by air or water. It includes the
swellfish, puffer (a), and similar species.
Tetrodont
Tet"ro*dont (?), a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the tetrodons. --
n. A tetrodon. [Written also tetradont, and tetraodont.]
Tetrol
Tet"rol (?), n. [Tetra- + benzol.] (Chem.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon,
C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in
the molecule. Tetrol phenol, furfuran. [Obs.]
Tetrolic
Tet*rol"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid,
C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid,
obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Tetroxide
Tet*rox"ide (?), n. [Tetra\'cf + oxide.] (Chem.) An oxide having four
atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide,
OsO.
Tetryl
Tet"ryl (?), n. [Tetra\'cf + -yl.] (Chem.) Butyl; -- so called from
the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetrylene
Tet"ryl*ene (?), n. [Tetra\'cf + ethylene.] (Chem.) Butylene; -- so
called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetter
Tet"ter (?), n. [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter,
zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin
disease. \'fb63, 240.] (Med.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes.
See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus. -- Moist tetter (Med.),
eczema. -- Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the
white bryony.
Tetter
Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.]
To affect with tetter. Shak.
Tetterous
Tet"ter*ous (?), a. Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
Tetter-totter
Tet"ter-tot`ter (?), n. [See Teeter.] A certain game of children;
seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
Tetterwort
Tet"ter*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, --
in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
Tettigonian
Tet`ti*go"ni*an (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of
Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
Tettish
Tet"tish (?), a. [Cf. Testy.] Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.]
[Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Tettix
Tet"tix (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
1. (Zo\'94l.) The cicada. [Obs. or R.]
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of small grasshoppers.
Tetty
Tet"ty (?), a. Testy; irritable. [Obs.] Burton.
Teufit
Teu"fit (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The lapwing; -- called also teuchit. [Prov.
Eng.]
Teuk
Teuk (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
Teuton
Teu"ton (?), n.; pl. E. Teutons (#), L. Teutones (#). [L. Teutones,
Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin to E. Dutch. Cf.
Dutch.]
1. One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member
of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German,
Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a
Latin race.
2. A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan,
family.
Teutonic
Teu*ton"ic (?), a. [L. Teutonicus, from Teutoni, or Teutones. See
Teuton.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons;
Germanic.
2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples
who speak these languages.
Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the
Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low
German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic
order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the
close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and
Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order
rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all
Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by
Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.
Teutonic
Teu*ton"ic (?), n. The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic
languages, collectively.
Teutonicism
Teu*ton"i*cism (?), n. A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a
Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a
Germanism.
Tew
Tew (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tewed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tewing.] [OE.
tewen, tawen. \'fb64. See Taw, v.]
1. To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
2. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease;
to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tew
Tew, v. i. To work hard; to strive; to fuse. [Local]
Tew
Tew, v. t. [Cf. Taw to tow, Tow, v. t.] To tow along, as a vessel.
[Obs.] Drayton.
Tew
Tew, n. A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Tewan
Te"wan (?), n. (Ethnol.) A tribe of American Indians including many of
the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.
Tewed
Tewed (?), a. Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local]
Mir. for Mag.
Tewel
Tew"el (?), n. [OE. tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F. tuyau; of Teutonic
origin; cf. Dan. tud, D. tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf. Tuy\'8are.]
1. A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.
2. The tuy\'8are of a furnace.
Tewhit
Te"whit (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tewtaw
Tew"taw (?), v. t. [See Tew, v. t.] To beat; to break, as flax or
hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Texas
Tex"as (?), n. A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer,
containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc. [Western U.S.]
Knight.
Text
Text (?), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr.
texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. taksh to cut,
carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle, n., Pretext, Tissue, Toil a snare.]
1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is
written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a
paraphrase, annotation, or commentary. Chaucer.
2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
[R.]
3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the
subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato,
Tully, preached! Cowper.
4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary
composition, or the like; topic; theme.
5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of
type used in printing; as, German text. <-- 6. That part of a document
(printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body
of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures,
charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic
elements as a major component. 7. Any communication composed of words.
8. A textbook. -->
Text blindness. (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word. -- Text
letter, a large or capital letter. [Obs.] -- Text pen, a kind of
metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.
Text
Text, v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Text-book
Text"-book` (?), n.
1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures
or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.
Text-hand
Text"-hand` (?), n. A large hand in writing; -- so called because it
was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the
notes in a smaller hand.
Textile
Tex"tile (?), a. [L. textilis, fr. texere to weave: cf. F. textile.
See Text.] Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile
arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile
fabrics. Textile cone (Zo\'94l.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus
textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble
certain kinds of cloth.
Textile
Tex"tile, n. That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by
weaving. Bacon.
Textman
Text"man (?), n.; pl. Textmen (. One ready in quoting texts. [R.] Bp.
Sanderston.
Textorial
Tex*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. textorius, fr. textor a weaver, fr. texere,
textum, to weave.] Of or pertaining to weaving. T. Warton.
Textrine
Tex"trine (?), a. [L. textrinus, for textorinus, fr. textor a weaver.]
Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art. Denham.
Textual
Tex"tu*al (?), a. [OE. textuel, F. textuel.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual
criticism; a textual reading. Milton.
2. Serving for, or depending on, texts. Bp. Hall.
3. Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.
"I am not textuel." Chaucer.
Textualist
Tex"tu*al*ist, n. A textman; a textuary. Lightfoot.
Textually
Tex"tu*al*ly, adv. In a textual manner; in the text or body of a work;
in accordance with the text.
Textuarist
Tex"tu*a*rist (?), n. A textuary. [R.]
Textuary
Tex"tu*a*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. textuaire.]
1. Contained in the text; textual. Sir T. Browne.
2. Serving as a text; authoritative. Glanvill.
Textuary
Tex"tu*a*ry, n. [Cf. F. textuaire.]
1. One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman. Bp. Bull.
2. One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.
Textuel
Tex"tu*el (?), a. Textual. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Textuist
Tex"tu*ist, n. A textualist; a textman. [Obs.]
The crabbed textualists of his time. Milton.
Textural
Tex"tur*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to texture.
Texture
Tex"ture (?), n. [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F.
texture. See Text.]
1. The act or art of weaving. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton.
Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their
humble texture weave. Thomson.
3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other
slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's
web.
4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with
each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united;
structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the
texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact
texture.
5. (Biol.) A tissue. See Tissue.
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Texture
Tex"ture (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Textured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Texturing.] To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]
Textury
Tex"tur*y (?), n. The art or process of weaving; texture. [Obs.] Sir
T. Browne.
Teyne
Teyne (?), n. [See Tain.] A thin plate of metal. [Obs.] "A teyne of
silver." Chaucer.
Th
Th. In Old English, the article the, when the following word began
with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word.
Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot,
etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.
Thack, Thacker
Thack (?), Thack"er (?). See Thatch, Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. &
Scot.]
Thak
Thak (?), v. t. To thwack. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Thalamencephalon
Thal`a*men*ceph"a*lon (?), n. [NL. See Thalamus, and Encephalon.]
(Anat.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain,
including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the
diencephalon; the interbrain.
Thalamic
Tha*lam"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to
thalami.
Thalamifloral, Thalamiflorous
Thal`a*mi*flo"ral (?), Thal`a*mi*flo"rous (?), a. [See Thalamus, and
Floral.] (Bot.) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; --
said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system
of De Candolle.
Thalamoc\'d2le
Thal"a*mo*c\'d2le` (?), n. [Thalamic + Cg. (Anat.) The cavity or
ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.
Thalamophora
Thal`a*moph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Foraminifera.
Thalamus
Thal"a*mus (?), n.; pl. Thalami (#). [L. thalamus chamber, Gr.
1. (Anat.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third
ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.
2. (Bot.) (a) Same as Thallus. (b) The receptacle of a flower; a
torus.
Thalassian
Tha*las"si*an (?), n. [From Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any sea tortoise.
Thalassic
Tha*las"sic (?), a. [Gr. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the sea; --
sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the
sea bottom.
Thalassinian
Thal`as*sin"i*an (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of Thalaassinid\'91, a
family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft
abdomen.
Thalassography
Thal`as*sog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy.] The study or science of the
life of marine organisms. Agassiz.
Thaler
Tha"ler (?), n. [G. See Dollar.] A German silver coin worth about
three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
Thalia
Tha*li"a (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.) (a) That one of the nine
Muses who presided over comedy. (b) One of the three Graces. (c) One
of the Nereids.
Thaliacea
Tha`li*a"ce*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Thalia.] (Zo\'94l.) A division of
Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and
Doliolum.
Thalian
Tha*li"an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining
to comedy; comic.
Thallate
Thal"late (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Thallene
Thal"lene (?), n. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar
residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.
Thallic
Thal"lic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from,
or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in
which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous
compounds; as, thallic oxide.
Thalline
Thal"line (?), a. (Bot.) Consisting of a thallus.
Thalline
Thal"line (?), n. [Gr. (Chem.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline
series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose
salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color
produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.
Thallious
Thal"li*ous (?), a. (Chem.) See Thallous.
Thallium
Thal"li*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. green line in its spectrum.] (Chem.)
A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals,
as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the
manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish
white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping
under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.
Thallogen
Thal"lo*gen (?), n. [Gr. -gen.] (Bot.) One of a large class or
division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless
plants, such as fungi, alg\'91, and lichens, that consist of a thallus
only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even
of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and
leaf.
Thalloid
Thal"loid (?), a. [Thallus + -oid.] (Bot.) Resembling, or consisting
of, thallus.
Thallophyte
Thal"lo*phyte (?), n. [Gr. (Bot.) Same as Thallogen.
Thallous
Thal"lous (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from,
or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in
which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic
compounds. [Written also thallious.]
Thallus
Thal"lus (?), n.; pl. Thalli (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A solid mass of
cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form
of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and
elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
Thammuz, Tammuz
Tham"muz (?), Tam"muz (?), n. [Heb. thamm\'d4z.]
1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew
idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been
conjectured to be the same with the Ph\'d2nician Adon, or Adonis.
Milton.
2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to
correspond nearly with our month of July.
Thamnophile
Tham"no*phile (?), n. [Gr. qa`mnos a bush + fi`los loving.] (Zo\'94l.)
A bush shrike.
Thamyn
Tha"myn (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling
the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.
Than
Than (?), conj. [OE. than, thon, then, thanne, thonne, thenne, than,
then, AS. \'ebanne, \'ebonne, \'eb\'91nne; akin to D. dan, OHG. danne,
G. dann then, denn than, for, Goth. \'edan then, and to E. the, there,
that. See That, and cf. Then.] A particle expressing comparison, used
after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or
diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is
usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case.
Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective
case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a
preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually
introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should
want.
Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Matt. xii. 42.
Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none
higher sat. Milton.
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.
Than
Than, adv. Then. See Then. [Obs.] Gower.
Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. Chaucer.
Thanage
Than"age (?), n. The district in which a thane anciently had
jurisdiction; thanedom.
Thanatoid
Than"a*toid (?), a. [Gr. -oid.] Deathlike; resembling death.
Dunglison.
Thanatology
Than`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] A description, or the doctrine,
of death. Dunglison.
Thanatopsis
Than`a*top"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. A view of death; a meditation on
the subject of death. Bryant.
Thane
Thane (?), n. [OE. thein, \'edein, AS. \'edegen, \'edegn; akin to OHG.
degan a follower, warrior, boy, MHG. degen a hero, G. degen hero,
soldier, Icel. \'edegn a thane, a freeman; probably akin to Gr.
\'edius servant, AS. \'ede\'a2n, G. dienen to serve.] A dignitary
under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two
orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and
held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were
lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their
limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its
place.
NOTE: &hand; Am ong th e ancient Scots, thane was a title of honor,
which seems gradually to have declined in its significance.
Jamieson.
Thanedom
Thane"dom (?), n. The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.
Sir W. Scott.
Thanehood
Thane"hood (?), n. The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes,
collectively. J. R. Green.
Thaneship
Thane"ship, n. The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the
seignioralty of a thane.
Thank
Thank (?), n.; pl. Thanks (#). [AS. \'edanc, \'edonc, thanks, favor,
thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank
thanks, Icel. \'ed\'94kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. \'edagks thanks;
-- originally, a thought, a thinking. See Think.] A expression of
gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or
kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now
generally used in the plural. "This ceremonial thanks." Massinger.
If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for
sinners also do even the same. Luke vi. 33.
What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will
neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he
approves not, especially in matter of sin? Milton.
Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou
hast taught. Longfellow.
His thanks, Her thanks, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or
her good will; voluntary. [Obs.]
Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks,
have no fellowship. Chaucer.
-- In thank, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.] -- Thank offering, an
offering made as an expression of thanks.
Thank
Thank (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thanked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thanking.]
[AS. \'edancian. See Thank, n.] To express gratitude to (anyone) for a
favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; --
used also ironically for blame.
"Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you," quod she. Chaucer.
I thank thee for thine honest care. Shak.
Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if
aught should fall amiss. Dryden.
Thankful
Thank"ful (?), a. [AS. \'edancfull.]
1. Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. [R.]
Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the
looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert.
2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to
acknowledge it; grateful.
Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. c. 4.
-- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n.
Thankless
Thank"less, a.
1. Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful;
ungrateful.
That she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have
a thankless child! Shak.
2. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless
task.
To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the night allowed.
Chapman.
-- Thank"less*ly (#), adv. -- Thank"less*ness, n.
Thankly
Thank"ly, adv. Thankfully. [Obs.] Sylvester (Du Bartas).
Thanksgive
Thanks"give (?), v. t. To give or dedicate in token of thanks. [Obs.
or R.] Mede.
Thanksgiver
Thanks"giv`er (?), n. One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a
kindness. Barrow.
Thanksgiving
Thanks"giv`ing (?), n.
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or
mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be
received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4.
In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high
thanksgiving still. Keble.
2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a
day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the
goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities
or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
NOTE: &hand; In th e Un ited St ates it is now customary for the
President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the
last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for
the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom
long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving
day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor.
Thankworthiness
Thank"wor`thi*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being thankworthy.
Thankworthy
Thank"wor`thy (?), a. Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude;
mreitorious.
For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure
grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. ii. 19.
Thar
Thar (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of
the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly
backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is
very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. [Written
also thaar, and tahr.]
Thar
Thar, v. impersonal, pres. [OE. thar, \'edarf, AS. \'edearf, infin.
\'edurfan to need; akin to OHG. durfan, G. d\'81rfen to be allowed,
Icel. \'edurfa to need, Goth. \'eda\'a3rban.] It needs; need. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
What thar thee reck or care? Chaucer.
Tharms
Tharms (?), n. pl. [AS. \'edearm a gut; akin to D. & G. darm, Icel.
\'edarmr, Sw. & Dan. tarm. \'fb53.] Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Ascham.
Tharos
Tha"ros (?), n. (Zo\'94l.) A small American butterfly (Phycoides
tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange
and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; --
called also pearl crescent.
That
That (?), pron., a., conj., & adv. [AS. \'eb\'91t, neuter nom. & acc.
sing. of the article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom.
masc. s\'c7, and the nom. fem. se\'a2 are from a different root. AS.
\'eb\'91t is akin to D. dat, G. das, OHG. daz, Sw. & Dan. det, Icel.
\'edat (masc. s\'be, fem. s\'d3), Goth. \'edata (masc. sa, fem.
s\'d3), Gr. tat (for tad, masc. sas, fem. s\'be); cf. L. istud that.
\'fb184. Cf. The, Their, They, Them, This, Than, Since.]
1. As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or
refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be
understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it
refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are
good apples.
The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the most celebrated
princes. Gibbon.
NOTE: &hand; That may refer to an entire sentence or paragraph, and
not merely to a word. It usually follows, but sometimes precedes,
the sentence referred to.
That be far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked. Gen. xviii. 25.
And when Moses heard that, he was content. Lev. x. 20.
I will know your business, Harry, that I will. Shak.
NOTE: &hand; That is often used in opposition to this, or by way of
distinction, and in such cases this, like the Latin hic and French
ceci, generally refers to that which is nearer, and that, like
Latin ille and French cela, to that which is more remote. When they
refer to foreign words or phrases, this generally refers to the
latter, and that to the former.
Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and
Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call. Pope.
If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. James iv. 16.
2. As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the
pronoun, but is followed by a noun.
It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of
judgment, than for that city. Matt. x. 15.
The woman was made whole from that hour. Matt. ix. 22.
NOTE: &hand; That was formerly sometimes used with the force of the
article the, especially in the phrases that one, that other, which
were subsequently corrupted into th'tone, th'tother (now written
t'other).
Upon a day out riden knightes two . . . That one of them came home,
that other not. Chaucer.
3. As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who