Sos Sos (part 7)

Defn: Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TARDILY
Tar"di*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tardy manner; slowly.

TARDINESS
Tar"di*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tardy.

TARDITATION
Tar`di*ta"tion, n.

Defn: Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

TARDITY
Tar"di*ty, n. Etym: [L. tarditas.]

Defn: Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K. Digby.

TARDO
Tar"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Slow; — a direction to perform a passage slowly.

TARDO
Tar"do, n. Etym: [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A sloth.

TARDY Tar"dy, a. [Compar. Tardier; superl. Tardiest.] Etym: [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.

Defn: To make tardy. [Obs.] Shak.

TARE
Tare, obs. imp. of Tear.

Defn: Tore.

TARE Tare, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.

TARE Tare, n. Etym: [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr. Ar. tarah thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject, remove.] (Com.)

Defn: 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.]

Defn: To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

TARED
Tared, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

TARENTE
Ta*ren"te, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tarente.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: See Tarantism.

TARENTULA
Ta*ren"tu*la, n.

Defn: See Tarantula.

TARGE
Targe, n. Etym: [F. Cf. Target.]

Defn: A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A buckler on a targe."
Chaucer.

TARGET
Tar"get, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

4. (Railroad)

Defn: A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

TARGETED
Tar"get*ed, a.

Defn: Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.

TARGETEER
Tar`get*eer", n.

Defn: One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written also targetier.]

TARGUM Tar"gum, n.; pl. Targums. Heb. Targumim. Etym: [Chald. targum interpretation, fr. targem to interpret. Cf. Truchman, and Dragoman.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.

TARIFF Tar"iff, n. Etym: [F. tarif; cf. Sp. & Pg. tarifa, It. tariffa; all fr. Ar. ta'rif 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: The United 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.]

Defn: To make a list of duties on, as goods.

TARIN
Tar"in, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The siskin. [Prov.]

TARING
Tar"ing, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common tern; — called also tarret, and tarrock. [Prov.
Eng.]

TARLATAN
Tar"la*tan, n.

Defn: A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

TARN
Tarn, n. Etym: [OE. terne, Icel. tjörn.]

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who, or that which, tarnishes.

TARO
Ta"ro, n. Etym: [From the Polynesian name.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F.; cf. It. tarocco.]

Defn: A game of cards; — called also taroc. Hoyle.

TARPAN
Tar"pan, n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

TARPAULIN
Tar*pau"lin, n. Etym: [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.

TARPEIAN
Tar*pe"ian, a. [L. Tarpeius, prop., pertaining to Tarpeia.]

Defn: Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

TARPON
Tar"pon, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tarpum.

TARPUM
Tar"pum, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.

TARRACE
Tar"race, n.

Defn: See Trass. [Obs.]

TARRAGON Tar"ra*gon, n. Etym: [Sp. taragona, Ar. tarkh; perhaps fr. Gr. draco; cf. L. dracunculus tarragon. Cf. Dragon.] (Bot.)

Defn: A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in
France for flavoring vinegar.

TARRAS
Tar"ras, n.

Defn: See Trass. [Obs.]

TARRE
Tarre, v. t. Etym: [OE. tarien, terien, to irritate, provoke, AS.
tergan to pull, pluck, torment; probably akin to E. tear, v.t. *63.
Cf. Tarry, v.]

Defn: To set on, as a dog; to incite. [Obs.] Shak.

TARRIANCE
Tar"ri*ance, n.

Defn: The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness. [Archaic] Shak.
And after two days' tarriance there, returned. Tennyson.

TARRIER
Tar"ri*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, tarries.

TARRIER
Tar"ri*er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A kind of dig; a terrier. [Obs.]

TARROCK Tar"rock, n. Etym: [Greenland tattarock.] (Zoöl.) (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. Etym: [From Tar, n.]

Defn: Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

TARRY Tar"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarrying.] Etym: [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.

Defn: Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

TARSAL
Tar"sal, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye).
— n.

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tercel. [Obs.]

TARSALE
Tar*sa"le, n.; pl. Tarsalia. Etym: [NL.] (Anat.)

Defn: One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

TARSE
Tarse, n. Etym: [Cf. Tassel, Tiercel.] (Falconry)

Defn: The male falcon.

TARSE
Tarse, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tarse.] (Anat.)

Defn: tarsus.

TARSECTOMY
Tar*sec"to*my, n. Etym: [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

TARSEL
Tar"sel, n.

Defn: A male hawk. See Tercel. [Obs.]

TARSI
Tar"si, n.,

Defn: pl. of Tarsus.

TARSIA; TARSIATURA
Tar"si*a, Tar`si*a*tu"ra, n. Etym: [It.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. F. tarsier.]

Defn: See Tarsius.

TARSIUS
Tar"si*us, n. Etym: [NL. See Tarsus.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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-.

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

TARSOTOMY
Tar*sot"o*my, n. Etym: [Tarsus + Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

TARSUS
Tar"sus, n.; pl. Tarsi. Etym: [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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

TART
Tart, a. Etym: [AS. teart. *63. 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. Etym: [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.]

Defn: A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

TARTAN Tar"tan, n. Etym: [F. tiretane linsey-woolsey, akin to Sp. tiritaña a sort of thin silk; cf. Sp. tiritar to shiver or shake with cold.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. tartane, or Sp., Pg., or It. tartana; all perhaps of Arabic origin.] (Naut.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr.

1. (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Per. Tatar, of Tartar origin.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

TARTAR
Tar"tar, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tartare.]

Defn: See Tartarus. Shak.

TARTARATED
Tar"tar*a`ted, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Tartrated.

TARTAREAN; TARTAREOUS Tar*ta"re*an, Tar*ta"re*ous, a. Etym: [L. tartareus: cf. F. tartaréen.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

TARTAREOUS
Tar*ta"re*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. 1st Tartarous.]

1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.

TARTARIAN; TARTARIC
Tar*ta"ri*an, Tar*tar"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz.

TARTARIAN
Tar*ta"ri*an, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.

TARTARIC
Tar*tar"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
[Obs.]

TARTARIZE
Tar"tar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tartarized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tartarizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. tartariser.] (Chem.)

Defn: To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar. [R.]
Tartarized antimony (Med. Chem.), tartar emetic.

TARTARIZE
Tar"tar*ize, v. t.

Defn: To cause to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by conquest.

TARTAROUS
Tar"tar*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tartareux.]

Defn: Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.

TARTAROUS
Tar"tar*ous, a.

Defn: Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured;
irritable.
The Tartarous moods of common men. B. Jonson.

TARTARUM
Tar"ta*rum, n. (Chem.)

Defn: See 1st Tartar.

TARTARUS
Tar"ta*rus, n. Etym: [L., from Gr. (Class. Myth.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Tartarus. [Obs.] Spenser.

TARTINI'S TONES Tar*ti"ni's tones`. Etym: [From Tartini, an Italian violinist, who discovered them in 1754.]

Defn: See the Note under Tone.

TARTISH
Tart"ish, a.

Defn: Somewhat tart.

TARTLET
Tart"let, n.

Defn: A small tart. V. Knox.

TARTLY
Tart"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tart manner; with acidity.

TARTNESS
Tart"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tart.

Syn. — Acrimony; sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity; asperity; acerbity; harshness. See Acrimony.

TARTRALIC
Tar*tral"ic, a. Etym: [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A salt of tartramic acid.

TARTRAMIC
Tar*tram"ic, a. Etym: [Tarto- + amic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.

TARTRAMIDE
Tar*tram"ide, n. Etym: [Tarto- + amide.] (Chem.)

Defn: An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

TARTRATE
Tar"trate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tartrate.] (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of tartaric acid.

TARTRATED
Tar"tra`ted, a. (Med. Chem.)

Defn: Containing, or derived from, tartar; combined with tartaric acid.

TARTRAZINE
Tar"tra*zine, n. Etym: [Tartaric + hydrazine.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride, C4H4O5, of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline deliquescent substance.

TARTRO-
Tar"tro-.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A salt of tartronic acid.

TARTRONIC
Tar*tron"ic, a. Etym: [Tartro- + malonic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tartronic + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.

TARTROVINIC
Tar`tro*vin"ic, a. Etym: [Tartro- + vinic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. tartufe.]

Defn: A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in
Fiction.

TARTUFFISH; TARTUFISH
Tar*tuff"ish, Tar*tuf"ish, a.

Defn: Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical. Sterne.

TARWEED
Tar"weed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of
California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

TAS
Tas, n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A heap. [Obs.] "The tas of bodies slain." Chaucer.

TAS
Tas, v. t.

Defn: To tassel. [Obs.] "A purse of leather tassed with silk."
Chaucer.

TASCO
Tas"co, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. tasconio.]

Defn: A kind of clay for making melting pots. Percy Smith.

TASIMER
Ta*sim"er, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.] (Physics)

Defn: 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. Etym: [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. tâche, 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.

Defn: 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.

TASK WAGE
Task wage. (Polit. Econ.)

Defn: A wage paid by the day, or some fixed period, on condition that a minimum task be performed. When the workman is paid in proportion for excess over the minimum, the wage is one for piece-work.

TASKWORK
Task"work`, n.

Defn: Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

TASLET
Tas"let, n. Etym: [See Tasse a piece of armor.]

Defn: A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

TASMANIAN
Tas*ma"ni*an, a.

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. — Tasmanain wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; — called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.

TASSE
Tasse, n. Etym: [OF. tassette.]

Defn: A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

Note: Usually the tasse 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)

Defn: A male hawk. See Tercel.

TASSEL
Tas"sel, n. Etym: [See Teasel.]

Defn: A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

TASSEL Tas"sel, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.]

Defn: To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

TASSEL
Tas"sel, v. t.

Defn: To adorn with tassels. Chaucer.

TASSET
Tas"set, n. Etym: [See Tasse.]

Defn: 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.

TASTABLE
Tast"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

TASTE Taste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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: Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillæ 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 æsthetic 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: In a tasty manner.

TASTING
Tast"ing, n.

Defn: 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. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: 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.

2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

TAT
Tat, n. Etym: [Hind. tat.]

Defn: Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]

TAT
Tat, n. Etym: [Hind. tatt.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A pony. [India]

TATAUPA
Ta*tau"pa, n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).

TATCH
Tatch, n. Etym: [F. tache spot. See Techy.]

Defn: A spot or stain; also, a trick. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

TATH
Tath, obs.

Defn: 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

TATH Tath, n. Etym: [Prov. E.; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ta dung, ta the grass of a manured pasture, te to manure. *58. 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.

Defn: To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

TATOU
Ta*tou", n. Etym: [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Of Brazilian origin; cf. Pg. tatu, F. tatou.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The peba.

TATT
Tatt, v. t. & i.

Defn: To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.

TATTA
Tat"ta, n. Etym: [Hind. , tati.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).

TATTER Tat"ter, n. Etym: [Icel. tötur, töttur, pl. tötrar, ; cf. Norw. totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern tatters. *240.]

Defn: 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.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the
meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes, swadding clothes,
F. maillot. See Tatter, and Mail armor.]

Defn: A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. L'Estrange.

TATTERSALL'S
Tat"ter*sall's, n.

Defn: A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard
Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on
English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

TATTING
Tat"ting, n.

Defn: 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.]
Etym: [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.

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

Note: The common 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.

Defn: Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

TATTLING
Tat"tling, a.

Defn: Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.
— Tat"tling*ly, adv.

TATTOO Tat*too", n. Etym: [Earlier taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap, faucet + toe to, shut (i. e., the taps, or drinking houses, shut from the soldiers).] (Mil.)

Defn: 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.]
Etym: [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu
puncturation (in Otaheite).]

Defn: 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 (.

Defn: 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.

TATTY
Tat"ty, n.; pl. Tatties (#). [Hind. tsatstsi.]

Defn: A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]

TATU
Ta*tu", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tatou.

TATUSIID
Ta*tu"si*id, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.

TAU
Tau, n. Etym: [Gr. tay^ the letter t (English T).] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: See Taut. Totten.

TAUGHT
Taught,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Teach. Etym: [AS. imp. tæhte, p.p. getæht.]

Note: See Teach.

TAUNT Taunt, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. tant so great, F. tant so much, L. tantus of such size, so great, so much.] (Naut.)

Defn: Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.

TAUNT
Taunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Taunting.] Etym:
[Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for
tenter. See Tempt.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who taunts.

TAUNTING
Taunt"ing, a. & n.

Defn: from Taunt, v.
Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.

TAUNTINGLY
Taunt"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a taunting manner.

TAUNTRESS
Taunt"ress, n.

Defn: A woman who taunts.

TAUPIE; TAWPIE
Tau"pie, Taw"pie, n. [Cf. Icel. topi fool, Dan. taabe, Sw. tåp.]

Defn: A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

TAUR
Taur, n. Etym: [L. Taurus.]

Defn: The constellation Taurus. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TAURICORNOUS Tau`ri*cor"nous, a. Etym: [L. tauricornis; taurus a bull + cornu a horn.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having horns like those of a bull. Sir T. Browne.

TAURID
Tau"rid, n. [Taurus + 1st -id.] (Astron.)

Defn: Any of a group of meteors appearing November 20-23; — so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus.

TAURIDOR
Tau`ri*dor", n. Etym: [See Toreador.]

Defn: A bull Sir W. Scott.

TAURIFORM Tau"ri*form, a. Etym: [L. tauriformis; taurus a bull + -form: cf. F. tauriforme.]

Defn: Having the form of a bull.

TAURINE
Tau"rine, a. Etym: [L. taurinus, fr. taurus a bull. See Taurus.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

TAURINE Tau"rine, n. Etym: [So named because it was discovered in the bile of the ox. See Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

TAUROCHOLIC
Tau`ro*chol"ic, a. Etym: [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr. taurocolle.]

Defn: Glue made from a bull's hide.

TAUROMACHIAN
Tau`ro*ma"chi*an, a. Etym: [See Tauromachy.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to bullfights.
— n.

Defn: A bullfighter.

TAUROMACHY
Tau*rom"a*chy, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Bullfighting.

TAURUS
Tau"rus, n. Etym: [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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

TAURYLIC
Tau*ryl"ic, a. Etym: [L. taurus a bull + E. phenylic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

TAUT
Taut, a. Etym: [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]

1. (Naut.)

Defn: 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.

TAUTAUG
Tau*taug", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tautog.

TAUTEGORICAL
Tau`te*gor"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Allegory.]

Defn: Expressing the same thing with different words; — opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.

TAUTOCHRONE
Tau"to*chrone, n. Etym: [Gr. tautochrone.] (Math.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.

TAUTOG Tau*tog", n. Etym: [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Tautological.

TAUTOLOGICAL
Tau`to*log"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tautologique.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who uses tautological words or phrases.

TAUTOLOGIZE
Tau*tol"o*gize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tautologized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tautologizing.]

Defn: To repeat the same thing in different words.

TAUTOLOGOUS
Tau*tol"o*gous, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. [R.]
Tooke.

TAUTOLOGY
Tau*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. tautologia, Gr. tautologie.] (Rhet.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism.

TAUTOMERISM
Tau*tom"er*ism, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.
[R.] Cudworth.

TAUTOPHONICAL
Tau`to*phon"ic*al, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound.

TAUTOPHONY
Tau*toph"o*ny, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Repetition of the same sound.

TAUTOZONAL
Tau`to*zon"al, a. Etym: [Gr. zonal.] (Crystallog.)

Defn: Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.

TAVERN Tav"ern, n. Etym: [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a hut, booth, tavern. Cf. Table, Tabernacle.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. tavernier, L. tabernarius.]

Defn: One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.

TAVERNING
Tav"ern*ing, n.

Defn: A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our tavernings."
Bp. Hall.

TAVERNMAN
Tav"ern*man, n.; pl. Tavernmen (.

Defn: The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]

TAW
Taw, n.

Defn: Tow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TAW
Taw, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Tew to tow, Tow, v. t.]

Defn: To push; to tug; to tow. [Obs.] Drayton.

TAW Taw, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tawing.] Etym: [OE. tawen, tewen, AS. tawian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. tewa order, taujan to do, and E. tool. *64. 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. Etym: [Cf. AS. taw 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.

Defn: In a tawdry manner.

TAWDRINESS
Taw"dri*ness, n.

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

TAWDRY
Taw"dry, n.; pl. Tawdries (.

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

TAWERY
Taw"er*y, n.

Defn: A place where skins are tawed.

TAWNINESS
Taw"ni*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tawny.

TAWNY Taw"ny, a. [Compar. Tawnier; superl. Tawniest.] Etym: [F. tanné, p.p. of tanner to tan. See Tan, v. t. & n. Cf. Tenné.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Taw to beat.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

TAX
Tax, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; — said of certain birds.

TAXATION Tax*a"tion, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.

3. Tax; sum imposed. [R.] Daniel.

4. Charge; accusation. [Obs.] Shak.

TAX CERTIFICATE
Tax certificate. (Law)

Defn: The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purchaser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument of conveyance (called a tax deed) of the land, to be executed by the proper officer.

TAXEL
Tax"el, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The American badger.

TAXEOPODA
Tax`e*op"o*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -poda.] (Paleon.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who collects taxes or revenues.
— Tax"gath`er*ing, n.

TAXIARCH
Tax"i*arch, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

TAXICORN Tax"i*corn, n. Etym: [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennæ are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.

TAXIDERMIC
Tax`i*der"mic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. taxidermique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.

TAXIDERMIST
Tax"i*der`mist, n.

Defn: A person skilled in taxidermy.

TAXIDERMY
Tax"i*der`my, n. Etym: [Gr. taxidermie. See Tactics, Tear, v. t.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. taxus a yew.] (Chem.)

Defn: A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.C35H47NO10

TAXIS
Tax"is, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. Dunglison.

TAXLESS
Tax"less, a.

Defn: Free from taxation.

TAXOLOGY
Tax*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.)

Defn: Same as Taxonomy.

TAXONOMIC
Tax`o*nom"ic, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.

TAXONOMIST
Tax*on"o*mist, n.

Defn: One skilled in taxonomy.

TAXONOMY
Tax*on"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: Same as Taxer, n., 2.

TAXPAYER
Tax"pay`er, n.

Defn: One who is assessed and pays a tax.

TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
Tay"lor-White" proc`ess. (Metal.)

Defn: A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated to between 370º and 670º C., and cooled in air.

TAYRA
Tay"ra, n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The teasel. [Obs.]

TAZZA
Taz"za, n. Etym: [It.]

Defn: An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

T CART
T" cart`.

Defn: See under T.

TCHAWYTCHA
Tcha*wy"tcha, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The quinnat salmon. [Local, U.S.]

TCHICK
Tchick, n. [Imitative.]

Defn: A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse. — v. i.

Defn: To make a tchick.

T CONNECTION
T connection. (Elec.)

Defn: The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary circuits. The reverse arrangement may be used to transform from two-phase. — T"-connected, a.

TEA
Tea, n. Etym: [Chin. tsha, Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. thé.]

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: 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: "No knowledge 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
— 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.

Defn: To take or drink tea. [Colloq.]

TEABERRY
Tea"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The checkerberry.

TEACH
Teach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taught; p. pr. & vb. n. Teaching.] Etym:
[OE. techen, imp. taughte, tahte, AS. t, imp. t, to show, teach, akin
to tacn 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: This verb 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: Willingness to be taught.

TEACHE
Teache, n. Etym: [Cf. Ir. teaghaim, Gael. teasaich, to heat.] (Sugar
Works)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Syn.
— Education; instruction; breeding. See Education.

TEACHLESS
Teach"less, a.

Defn: Not teachable. [R.] Shelley.

TEACUP
Tea"cup`, n.

Defn: A small cup from which to drink tea.

TEACUPFUL
Tea"cup`ful, n.; pl. Teacupfuls (.

Defn: As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

TEAD; TEADE
Tead, Teade, n. Etym: [L. taeda, teda.]

Defn: A torch. [Obs.] "A burning teade." Spenser.

TEAGLE
Tea"gle, n. Etym: [Cf. Tackle.]

Defn: A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift. [Prov.
Eng.]

TEAGUE Teague, n. Etym: [Cf. W. taeog, taeawg, adj., rustic, rude, n., a vassal, villain, pleasant, clown, Ir. th rural, boorish.]

Defn: An Irishman; — a term used in contempt. Johnson.

TEAK
Teak, n. Etym: [Malayalm tekku.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

TEAL Teal, n. Etym: [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.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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: The common European teal (Anas crecca) and the 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. Etym: [OE. tem, team, AS. teám, 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. tömme, Sw. töm, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to draw. *64. 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A flock of wild ducks.

6. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: 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.

TEAM
Team, v. i.

Defn: 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.

Defn: To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.]
Thoreau.

TEAMED
Teamed, a.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Contract work. [R.] Knight.

TEAMSTER
Team"ster, n.

Defn: One who drives a team.

TEAMWORK
Team"work`, n.

Defn: Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

TEAPOT
Tea"pot`, n.

Defn: A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

TEAPOY
Tea"poy, n. Etym: [Hind. tipai; Hind. tin there + Per. pae foot.]

Defn: An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

TEAR
Tear, n. Etym: [AS. teár; akin to G. zärhe, OHG. zahar, OFries. &
Icel. tar, Sw. tår, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. der, W. dagr, OW.
dacr, L. lacrima, lacruma, for older dacruma, Gr. Lachrymose.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: 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: Tear is sometimes used in the formation 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.] Etym: [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear, zehren to consume, Icel. tæra, Goth. gataíran to destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. dar to burst. *63. 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
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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

TEAR-FALLING
Tear"-fall`ing, a.

Defn: Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

TEARFUL
Tear"ful, a.

Defn: Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful
eyes.
— Tear"ful*ly, adv.
— Tear"ful*ness, n.

TEARLESS
Tear"less, a.

Defn: Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.
— Tear"less*ly, adv.
— Tear"less*ness, n.

TEARPIT
Tear"pit`, n. (Anat.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

TEASE
Tease, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teased; p. pr. & vb. n. Teasing.] Etym:
[AS. t to pluck, tease; akin to OD. teesen, MHG. zeisen, Dan. tæse,
tæsse. *58. 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who teases or plagues. [Colloq.]

TEASEL
Tea"sel, n. Etym: [OE. tesel, AS. t, t, the fuller's herb. See
Tease.] [Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: 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: Small teasel 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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

TEASELING
Tea"sel*ing, n.

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]

TEASLE
Tea"sle, n. & v. t.

Defn: See Teasel.

TEASPOON
Tea"spoon`, n.

Defn: A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

TEASPOONFUL
Tea"spoon`ful, n.; pl. Teaspoonfuls (.

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

TEATED
Teat"ed, a.

Defn: Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

TEATHE
Teathe, n. & v.

Defn: See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]

TEATISH
Teat"ish, a.

Defn: Peevish; tettish; fretful; — said of a child. See Tettish.
[Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

TEAZE-HOLE
Teaze"-hole`, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. F. tisard fire door.] (Glass
Works)

Defn: The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

TEAZEL
Tea"zel, n. & v. t.

Defn: See Teasel.

TEAZER
Tea"zer, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. F. tiser to feed a fire.]

Defn: The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
Tomlinson.

TEAZLE
Tea"zle, n. & v. t.

Defn: See Teasel.

TEBETH
Te"beth, n. Etym: [Heb.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: In a techy manner.

TECHINESS
Tech"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being techy.

TECHNIC
Tech"nic, a.

Defn: Technical.

TECHNIC
Tech"nic, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

TECHNICAL
Tech"nic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. text: cf. F. technique.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

TECHNICALNESS
Tech"nic*al*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

TECHNICALS
Tech"nic*als, n. pl.

Defn: Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

TECHNICIAN
Tech*ni"cian, n.

Defn: A technicist; esp., one skilled particularly in the technical details of his work.

TECHNICIST
Tech"ni*cist, n.

Defn: One skilled to technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

TECHNICOLOGICAL
Tech`ni*co*log"ic*al, a.

Defn: Technological; technical. [R.] Dr. J. Scott.

TECHNICOLOGY
Tech`ni*col"o*gy, n.

Defn: Technology. [R.]

TECHNICS
Tech"nics, n.

Defn: The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

TECHNIPHONE
Tech"ni*phone, n. [Gr. art + -phone.] (Music)

Defn: A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.

TECHNIQUE
Tech`nique", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: Same as Technic, n.

TECHNISM
Tech"nism, n.

Defn: Technicality.

TECHNOGRAPHY
Tech*nog"ra*phy, n. [Gr. art, skill, craft + graph.]

Defn: Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples. —
Tech`no*graph"ic, Tech`no*graph"ic*al (#), a.

TECHNOLOGIC
Tech`no*log"ic, a.

Defn: Technological.

TECHNOLOGICAL
Tech`no*log"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. technologique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to technology.

TECHNOLOGIST
Tech*nol"o*gist, n.

Defn: One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

TECHNOLOGY
Tech*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy; cf. Gr. technologie.]

Defn: Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Note: 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. Etym: [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.]

Defn: Peevish; fretful; irritable.

TECTIBRANCH
Tec`ti*branch, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

TECTIBRANCHIA
Tec`ti*bran"chi*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: Same as Tectibranchiata.

TECTIBRANCHIATA Tec`ti*bran`chi*a"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tectus (p.p. of tegere to cover) + Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tectus (p.p. of tegere to cover) +
E. branchiate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. — n.

Defn: A tectibranchiate mollusk.

TECTLY
Tect"ly, adv. Etym: [L. tectus covered, fr. tegere to cover.]

Defn: Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.

TECTOLOGY
Tec*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.] (Biol.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tectonicus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

TECTONICS
Tec*ton"ics, n.

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tectorius.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to cover.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

TECUM
Te"cum, n. (Bot.)

Defn: See Tucum.

TED
Ted, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Tedding.] Etym:
[Prob. fr. Icel. te to spread manure, fr. ta manure; akin to MHG.
zetten to scatter, spread. *58. Cf. Teathe.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

TEDDER
Ted"der, n. Etym: [OE. *64. See Tether.]

Defn: Same as Tether.

TEDDER
Ted"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teddered; p. pr. & vb. n. Teddering.]

Defn: Same as Tether.

TEDESCO
Te*des"co, a.; pl. Tedeschi (#). [It., of Germanic origin. See
Dutch.]

Defn: German; — used chiefly of art, literature, etc.

TE DEUM
Te` De"um. Etym: [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)

Defn: The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

TEDIOSITY
Te`di*os"i*ty, n.

Defn: Tediousness. [Obs.]

TEDIOUS
Te"di*ous, a. Etym: [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium.]

Defn: 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.

TEDIUM Te"di*um, n. Etym: [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]

Defn: Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.]
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. Etym: [Cf. Icel. tja to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.

TEE
Tee, n.

Defn: 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.

TEEING GROUND
Teeing ground. (Golf)

Defn: The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.

TEE IRON
Tee" i`ron.

Defn: See T iron, under T.

TEEK
Teek, n. (Bot.)

Defn: See Teak. [Obs.]

TEEL
Teel, n.

Defn: Sesame. [Sometimes written til.] Teel oil, sesame oil.

TEELSEED
Teel"seed`, n.

Defn: The seed of sesame.

TEEM Teem, v. t. Etym: [Icel. tæma to empty, from tomr empty; akin to Dan. tömme to empty, Sw. tömma. See Toom to empty.]

1. To pour; — commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.

2. (Steel Manuf.)

Defn: To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

TEEM
Teem, v. t. Etym: [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.]

Defn: To think fit. [Obs. or R.] G. Gifford.

TEEM
Teem, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming.] Etym:
[OE. temen, AS. teman, t, from teám. 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: One who teems, or brings forth.

TEEMFUL
Teem"ful, a.

1. Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]

2. Brimful. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

TEEMING
Teem"ing, a.

Defn: Prolific; productive.
Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.

TEEMLESS
Teem"less, a.

Defn: Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.
[Poetic] Dryden.

TEEN Teen, n. Etym: [OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.]

Defn: Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser.
With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

TEEN Teen, v. t. Etym: [AS. teónian, t, to slander, vex. *64. See Teen, n.]

Defn: To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

TEEN
Teen, v. t. Etym: [See Tine to shut.]

Defn: To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TEENAGE
Teen"age, n.

Defn: The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

TEEND
Teend, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Tinder.]

Defn: To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

TEENFUL
Teen"ful, a.

Defn: Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

TEENS
Teens, n. pl. Etym: [See Ten.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]

TEENY
Teen"y, a. Etym: [See Teen grief.]

Defn: Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. [Prov. Eng.]

TEEONG
Tee*ong", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The mino bird.

TEEST
Teest, n.

Defn: A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

TEESWATER
Tees"wa`ter, n. [From the river Tees, northern England.]

1. A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

2. An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.

TEETAN
Tee"tan, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

TEETEE
Tee"tee, n. Etym: [Sp. tití.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).

TEETER
Tee"ter, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Teetered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Teetering.] Etym: [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel.
titra to tremble, OHG. zittaron, G. zittern.]

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

TEETH
Teeth, n.,

Defn: pl. of Tooth.

TEETH
Teeth, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teethed; p. pr. & vb. n. Teething.]

Defn: To breed, or grow, teeth.

TEETHING
Teeth"ing, n.

Defn: The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

TEETOTAL
Tee*to"tal, a.

Defn: Entire; total. [Colloq.]

TEETOTALER
Tee*to"tal*er, n.

Defn: One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

TEETOTALISM
Tee*to"tal*ism, n.

Defn: The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.

TEETOTALLY
Tee*to"tal*ly, adv.

Defn: Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]

TEETOTUM Tee*to"tum, n. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

TEE-TO-TUM
Tee-to"-tum, n. [Cf. Teetotaler.]

Defn: A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [Colloq. or Cant]

TEETUCK
Tee"tuck, n.

Defn: The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

TEEUCK
Tee"uck, n.

Defn: The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]

TEEWIT
Tee"wit, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

TEG
Teg, n.

Defn: A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TEGMEN
Teg"men, n.; pl. Tegmina. Etym: [L., fr. tegere, tectum, to cover.]

1. A tegument or covering.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain
Orthoptera.

4. pl. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tectrices.

TEGMENTAL
Teg*men"tal, a. (Biol.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L., a covering.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Tegulæ. Etym: [L., a tile, dim. fr. tegere to cover.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of
Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

TEGULAR
Teg"u*lar, a. Etym: [LL. tegularis, from L. tegula a tile. See Tile.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [Cf. F. tégumentaire.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

TE-HEE
Te-hee", n. & interj.

Defn: A tittering laugh; a titter. "'Te-hee,' quoth she." Chaucer.

TE-HEE
Te-hee", v. i.

Defn: 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. Etym: [OF. teil, til, L. tilia.] (Bot.)

Defn: The lime tree, or linden; — called also teil tree.

TEIND
Teind, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. tiund. See Tithe.]

Defn: A tithe. [Scot.] Jamieson.

TEINE
Teine, n.

Defn: See Teyne. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TEINLAND
Tein"land, n. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.

TEINOSCOPE
Tei"no*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. -scope.] (Physics)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. teint, teinte. See Tint.]

Defn: Tint; color; tinge, See Tint. [Obs.]
Time shall . . . embrown the teint. Dryden.

TEINTURE
Tein"ture, n. Etym: [F. See Tincture.]

Defn: Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.] Holland.

TEK
Tek, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A Siberian ibex.

TELAMONES
Tel`a*mo"nes, n. pl. Etym: [L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Atlantes.

TELANGIECTASIS
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

TELANGIECTASY
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sy, n. (Med.)

Defn: Telangiectasis.

TELARLY
Te"lar*ly, adv.

Defn: In a weblike manner. [Obs.] "Telarly interwoven." Sir T.
Browne.

TELARY Te"la*ry, a. Etym: [LL. telaris, fr. L. tela a web. See Toil a snare.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.
"Pictures of telary spiders." Sir T. Browne.

TELAUTOGRAM
Tel*au"to*gram, n.

Defn: A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

TELAUTOGRAPH
Tel*au"to*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + autograph.]

Defn: A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. —Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.

TELECHIROGRAPH Tel`e*chi"ro*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + chei`r, cheiro`s, hand + - graph.]

Defn: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

TELEDU
Tel"e*du, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

TELEGA
Te*le"ga, n. [Russ. telyega.]

Defn: A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.

TELEGONY
Te*leg"o*ny, n. [Gr. th e far + root of Gr. to be born.] (Biol.)

Defn: The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. — Te*leg"o*nous (#), a.

TELEGRAM
Tel"e*gram, n. Etym: [Gr. -gram.]

Defn: A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

Note: "A friend 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.

Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. [R.]

TELEGRAPH
Tel"e*graph, n. Etym: [Gr. toli) + -graph: cf. F. télégraphe. See
Graphic.]

Defn: 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: The instruments used are classed as indicator, 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.] Etym: [F. télégraphier.]

Defn: To convey or announce by telegraph.

TELEGRAPHER
Te*leg"ra*pher, n.

Defn: One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

TELEGRAPHIC
Tel`e*graph"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. télégraphique.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Telegraphic.
— Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

TELEGRAPHIST
Te*leg"ra*phist, n.

Defn: One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

TELEGRAPHONE
Te*leg"ra*phone, n. [Gr. th e far + -graph + sound.]

Defn: An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
Tel`e*graph"o*scope, n. [Gr. th e far + -graph + -scope.]

Defn: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

TELEGRAPH PLANT
Telegraph plant.

Defn: An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

TELEGRAPHY
Te*leg"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. télégraphie.]

Defn: The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.

TELEHYDROBAROMETER
Tel`e*hy`dro*ba*rom"e*ter, n. [Gr. th e far + hydrobarometer.]

Defn: An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.

TELE-ICONOGRAPH
Tel`e-i*con"o*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + iconograph.]

1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.

2. A form of facsimile telegraph.

TEL-EL-AMARNA
Tel`-el-A*mar"na, n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.]

Defn: A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c..

TELELECTRIC
Tel`e*lec"tric, a. [Gr. th e far + electric.] (Elec.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

TELELECTROSCOPE
Tel`e*lec"tro*scope, n. [Gr. th e far + electro- + -scope.]

Defn: Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

TELEMECHANIC
Tel`e*me*chan"ic, a. [Gr. th e far + mechanic.]

Defn: Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. —Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.

TELEMETEOROGRAPH
Tel`e*me`te*or"o*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + meteorograph.]

Defn: Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. — Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

TELEMETER
Te*lem"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.]

Defn: 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.

TELEMETROGRAPH
Tel`e*met"ro*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + me`tron measure + -graph.]

Defn: A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. — Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy (#), n. — Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic (#), a.

TELEMOTOR
Tel`e*mo"tor, n. [Gr. th e far + motor.] (Naut.)

Defn: A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

TELENERGY
Tel*en"er*gy, n. [Gr. th e far + energy.]

Defn: Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. — Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.

TELENGISCOPE
Te*len"gi*scope, n. [Gr. th e far + near + -scope.] (Optics)

Defn: An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.

TELEOCEPHIAL
Te`le*o*ceph"i*al, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. F. téléologique.] (Biol.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: One versed in teleology.

TELEOLOGY Te`le*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F. téléologie.]

Defn: The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.),

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. teleos complete + (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Gonotheca.

TELEORGANIC
Te`le*or*gan"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. teleos complete + E. organic.]
(Physiol.)

Defn: Vital; as, teleorganic functions.

TELEOSAUR
Te`le*o*saur", n. (Paleon.)

Defn: Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebræ.

TELEOSAURUS
Te`le*o*sau"rus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.

TELEOST
Te"le*ost, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

TELEOSTEAN
Te`le*os"te*an, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
— n.

Defn: A teleostean fish.

TELEOSTEI
Te`le*os"te*i, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.

TELEOSTOMI
Te"le*os`to*mi, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes
(Teleostei) and the ganoids.

TELEOZOIC
Te`le*o*zo"ic, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having tissued composed of cells.

TELEOZOON; TELEOZOOEN
Te*le*o*zo"ön, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A metazoan.

TELEPATHY
Te*lep"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: A message by a telephone. [Recent]

TELEPHONE
Tel"e*phone, n. Etym: [Gr. (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

Note: The ordinary telephone consists essentially 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.

Defn: To convey or announce by telephone.

TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
Tel`e*phone ex*change".

Defn: A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.

TELEPHONIC
Tel`e*phon"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. téléphonique. 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.

Defn: By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.

TELEPHONY
Te*leph"o*ny, n.

Defn: The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

TELEPHOTE
Tel"e*phote, n. [Gr. th e far + fw^s, fwto`s, light.]

Defn: A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

TELEPHOTO
Tel`e*pho"to, a.

Defn: Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

TELEPHOTOGRAPH
Tel`e*pho"to*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + photograph.]

Defn: A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

TELEPHOTOGRAPHIC
Tel`e*pho`to*graph"ic, a.

Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

TELEPHOTOGRAPHY
Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.

3. Less properly, phototelegraphy.

TELEPOLARISCOPE
Tel`e*po*lar"i*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. polariscope.] (Opt.)

Defn: A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.

TELERYTHIN
Tel`e*ryth"in, n. Etym: [Gr. erythrin.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. télescope. See Telegraph, and -scope.]

Defn: An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

Note: A telescope assists the eye chiefly 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 (Zoöl.), the telescope fish. — Telescope fish (Zoöl.), a monstrous variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes. — Telescope fly (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. [Recent]

TELESCOPE BAG
Telescope bag.

Defn: An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

TELESCOPIC; TELESCOPICAL
Tel`e*scop"ic, Tel`e*scop"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. télescopique.]

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.

Defn: In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.

TELESCOPIC SIGHT
Tel`e*scop"ic sight`.

Defn: A sight consisting of a small telescope, as on a compass or rifle.

TELESCOPIST
Te*les"co*pist, n.

Defn: One who uses a telescope. R. A. Proctor.

TELESCOPY
Te*les"co*py, n.

Defn: The art or practice of using or making telescopes.

TELESEISM
Tel"e*seism, n. [Gr. th e far + shock.]

Defn: A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument.
— Tel`e*seis"mic (#), a.

TELESEME
Tel"e*seme, n. [Gr. th e far + sign.]

Defn: A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

TELESM
Tel"esm, n. Etym: [Ar. tilism. See Talisman.]

Defn: A kind of amulet or magical charm. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

TELESMATIC; TELESMATICAL
Tel`es*mat"ic, Tel`es*mat"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to telesms; magical. J. Gregory.

TELESPECTROSCOPE
Tel`e*spec"tro*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. spectroscope.] (Astron.)

Defn: A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.

TELESTEREOGRAPH
Tel`e*ste"re*o*graph`, n. [Gr. th e far + stereograph.]

Defn: An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph. —
Tel`e*ste`re*og"ra*phy (#), n.

TELESTEREOSCOPE
Tel`e*ste"re*o*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. stereoscope.] (Opt.)

Defn: A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

TELESTIC
Te*les"tic, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Tending or relating to a purpose or an end. [R.] Cudworth.

TELESTICH
Te*les"tich, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

TELETHERMOGRAPH Tel`e*ther"mo*graph, n. [Gr. th e far + thermo- + -graph.] (Physics) (a) A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. (b) An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.

TELETHERMOMETER
Tel`e*ther*mom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. thermometer.] (Physics)

Defn: An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

TELEUTOSPORE
Te*leu"to*spore, n. Etym: [Gr. spore.] (Bot.)

Defn: The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order
Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.

TELFORD
Tel"ford, a. [After Thomas Telford, a Scotch road engineer.]

Defn: Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

TELFORDIZE
Tel"ford*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telfordized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Telfordizing.]

Defn: To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.

TELHARMONIC
Tel`har*mon"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to telharmonium.

TELHARMONIUM; TELHARMONY
Tel`har*mo"ni*um, n. [Gr. th e far + harmolium.]

Defn: An instrument for producing music (Tel*har"mo*ny ), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.

TELIC
Tel"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Gram.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. zählen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, tælle 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: Tell, though 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.

Defn: That which is told; tale; account. [R.]
I am at the end of my tell. Walpole.

TELL
Tell, n. Etym: [Ar.]

Defn: A hill or mound. W. M. Thomson.

TELLABLE
Tell"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being told.

TELLEN
Tel"len, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The office or employment of a teller.

TELLINA
Tel*li"na, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.

TELLING
Tell"ing, a.

Defn: Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
— Tell"ing*ly, adv.

TELLTALE
Tell"tale`, a.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The tattler. See Tattler.

TELLURAL
Tel*lu"ral, a. Etym: [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the earth. [R.]

TELLURATE
Tel"lu*rate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tellurate. See Tellurium.] (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of telluric acid.

TELLURET
Tel"lu*ret, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A telluride. [Obsoles.]

TELLURETED
Tel"lu*ret`ed, n. (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

TELLURIAN
Tel*lu"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; — formerly called telluret.

TELLURISM
Tel"lu*rism, n.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A salt of tellurous acid.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.

TELLURIUM
Tel*lu"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]
(Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. dynamic.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: See Telugu. D. O. Allen.

TELOTROCHA
Te*lot"ro*cha, n.; pl. Telotrochæ. Etym: [NL. See Telotrochal.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.

TELOTROCHAL; TELOTROCHOUS
Te*lot"ro*chal, Te*lot"ro*chous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; — applied to the larvæ of certain annelids.

TELOTYPE
Tel"o*type, n. Etym: [Gr. -type.]

Defn: An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.

TELPHER
Tel"pher, n. Etym: [Gr. (Elec.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
Fleeming Jenkin.

TELSON
Tel"son, n.; pl. Telsons. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.

TEMBLOR
Tem*blor", n. [Sp.]

Defn: An earthquake. [Western U. S.]

TEMERARIOUS
Tem`er*a"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. temerarius. See Temerity.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. temerare to defile.]

Defn: Temerity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

TEMERITY Te*mer"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. temeritas, from temere by chance, rashly; perhaps akin to Skr. tamas darkness: cf. F. témérité.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Temerarious. [Obs.]

TEMPEAN
Tem*pe"an, a.

Defn: 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.]
Etym: [AS. temprian or OF. temper, F. tempérer, 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [It.] (Paint.)

Defn: A mode or process of painting; distemper.

Note: The term is applied especially to early 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.

Defn: Capable of being tempered.
The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.

TEMPERAMENT
Tem"per*a*ment, n. Etym: [L. temperamentum a mixing in due
proportion, proper measure, temperament: cf. F. tempérament. 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.)

Defn: 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 D, and so on.

6. (Physiol.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] Sir T.
Browne.

TEMPERANCE
Tem"per*ance, n. Etym: [L. temperantia: cf. F. tempérance. 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.

Defn: Temperance.

TEMPERATE Tem"per*ate, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper. [Obs.]
It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston.

TEMPERATELY
Tem"per*ate*ly, adv.

Defn: In a temperate manner.

TEMPERATENESS
Tem"per*ate*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.

TEMPERATIVE
Tem"per*a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. L. temperativus soothing.]

Defn: Having power to temper. [R.] T. Granger.

TEMPERATURE Tem"per*a*ture, n. Etym: [F. température, 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)

Defn: 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.

TEMPERED
Tem"pered, a.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TEMPER SCREW
Tem"per screw.

1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

2. A set screw used for adjusting.

TEMPEST Tem"pest, n. Etym: [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (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: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation 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. Etym: [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

TEMPESTIVE
Tem*pes"tive, a. Etym: [L. tempestivus.]

Defn: Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood.
— Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]

TEMPESTIVILY
Tem`pes*tiv"i*ly, n. Etym: [L. tempestivitas.]

Defn: The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.
[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TEMPESTUOUS Tem*pes"tu*ous, a. Etym: [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. tempêtueux.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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: The order was first limited in numbers, 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a temple. [R.]
Solitary, family, and templar devotion. Coleridge.

TEMPLATE
Tem"plate, n.

Defn: Same as Templet.

TEMPLE
Tem"ple, n. Etym: [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving)

Defn: A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

TEMPLE Tem"ple, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. témple, 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.

TEMPLED
Tem"pled, a.

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [It., fr. L. tempus. See Tense, n.] (Mus.)

Defn: The rate or degree of movement in time. A tempo giusto (joos"to) Etym: [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. Etym: [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F. temporal. See Temple a part of the head.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. temporalitas, in
LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.]

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.

Defn: In a temporal manner; secularly. [R.] South.

TEMPORALNESS
Tem"po*ral*ness, n.

Defn: Worldliness. [R.] Cotgrave.

TEMPORALTY
Tem"po*ral*ty, n. Etym: [See Temporality.]

1. The laity; secular people. [Obs.] Abp. Abbot.

2. A secular possession; a temporality.

TEMPORANEOUS Tem`po*ra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [L. temporaneus happening at the right time, fr. tempus, temporis, time.]

Defn: Temporarity. [Obs.] Hallywell.

TEMPORARILY
Tem"po*ra*ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In a temporary manner; for a time.

TEMPORARINESS
Tem"po*ra*ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being temporary; — opposed to perpetuity.

TEMPORARY Tem"po*ra*ry, a. Etym: [L. temporarius, fr. tempus, temporis, time: cf. F. temporaire.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: A temporizer. [Obs.]
Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.

TEMPORIZATION
Tem`po*ri*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. temporisation.]

Defn: The act of temporizing. Johnson.

TEMPORIZE
Tem"po*rize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Temporized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Temporizing.] Etym: [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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: In a temporizing or yielding manner.

TEMPORO-
Tem"po*ro-.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.

TEMPOROFACIAL
Tem`po*ro*fa"cial, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

TEMPOROMALAR
Tem`po*ro*ma"lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

TEMPS
Temps, n. Etym: [OF. & F., fr. L. tempus. See Temporal of time.]

Defn: Time. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TEMPSE
Tempse, n.

Defn: See Temse. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

TEMPT Tempt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tempting.] Etym: [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.

Defn: The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.

TEMPTABLE
Tempt"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted. Cudworth.

TEMPTATION Temp*ta"tion, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin. [R.]
Hammond.

TEMPTATIOUS
Temp*ta"tious, a.

Defn: Tempting. [Prov. Eng.]

TEMPTER
Tempt"er, n.

Defn: 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.

Defn: Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive;
enticing; as, tempting pleasures.
— Tempt"ing*ly, adv.
— Tempt"ing*ness, n.

TEMPTRESS
Tempt"ress, n.

Defn: A woman who entices.
She was my temptress, the foul provoker. Sir W. Scott.

TEMSE
Temse, n. Etym: [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. Tamine.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. temulentia.]

Defn: Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency."
Jer. Taylor.

TEMULENT
Tem"u*lent, a. Etym: [L. temulentus.]

Defn: Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]

TEMULENTIVE
Tem"u*lent*ive, a.

Defn: Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. [R.] R. Junius.

TEN Ten, a. Etym: [AS. ten, tién, t, tene; akin to OFries. tian, OS. tehan, D. tien, G. zehn, OHG. zehan, Icel. tiu, Sw. tio, Dan. ti, Goth. taíhun, Lith. deszimt, Russ. desiate, W. deg, Ir. & Gael. deich, L. decem, Gr. daçan. *308. Cf. Dean, Decade, Decimal, December, Eighteen, Eighty, Teens, Tithe.]

Defn: One more than nine; twice five.
With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden.

Note: Ten is often 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.

TEN
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.

Defn: The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

TENABLE
Ten"a*ble, a. Etym: [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See
Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant,
Tent.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Same as Tenability.

TENACE Ten"ace, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [L. tenacitas: cf. F. ténacité. 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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L., a holder, fr. tenere to hold. Cf. Tenaille.] (Surg.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tenacia obstinacy. See Tenacious.]

Defn: Tenaciousness; obstinacy. [Obs.] Barrow.

TENAILLE
Te*naille", n. Etym: [F., a pair of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr.
L. tenaculum. See Tenaculum.] (Fort.)

Defn: An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

TENAILLON
Te*nail"lon, n. Etym: [F. See Tenaille.] (Fort.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [F. tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.]

1. (Law)

Defn: 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 Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
— Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.

TENANTLESS
Ten"ant*less, a.

Defn: 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`.

Defn: See Tenon saw, under Tenon.

TENCH
Tench, n. Etym: [OF. tenche, F. tanche, L. tinca.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Tender to offer.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: To make a tender of; to offer or tender. [Obs.]

TEND
Tend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tended; p. pr. & vb. n. Tending.] Etym:
[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. Etym: [F. attendre.]

Defn: To await; to expect. [Obs.] Shak.

TEND
Tend, v. i. Etym: [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. Etym: [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.

Defn: Tendency. [Obs.]

TENDENCY Tend"en*cy, n.; pl. Tendencies. Etym: [L. tendents, -entis, p.pr. of tendere: cf. F. tendance. See Tend to move.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [From Tend to attend. Cf. Attender.]

1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

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.]
Etym: [F. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach, L. tendere. See Tend
to move.]

1. (Law)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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: To constitute a legal tender, such 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. 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.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: Heeling over too easily when under sail; — said of a vessel.

Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation 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. Etym: [Cf. F. tendre.]

Defn: Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] Shak.

TENDER
Ten"der, v. t.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the first antlers of a deer.

TENDERLOIN
Ten"der*loin`, n.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

Defn: Attendance; care. [Obs.]

TENDON Ten"don, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend to move.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Tendinous.

TENDOSYNOVITIS
Ten`do*syn`o*vi"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Tendon, and Synovitis.]

Defn: See Tenosynovitis.

TENDRAC
Ten"drac, n. Etym: [See Tenrec.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidæ, 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.

TENDRE
Ten"dre, n. [F.]

Defn: Tender feeling or fondness; affection.

You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre.
Thackeray.

TENDRESSE
Ten*dresse", n. [F.]

Defn: Tender feeling; fondness. [Obs., except as a French word]

TENDRIL
Ten"dril, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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: Tendrils may represent 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.

TENDRIL
Ten"dril, a.

Defn: Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] Dyer.

TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
Ten"driled, Ten"drilled, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.
"The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

TENDRON
Ten"dron, n. Etym: [F. Cf. Tendril.]

Defn: A tendril. [Obs.] Holland.

TENDRY
Ten"dry, n.

Defn: A tender; an offer. [Obs.] Heylin.

TENE
Tene, n. & v.

Defn: See 1st and 2d Teen. [Obs.]

TENEBRAE
Ten"e*bræ, n. Etym: [L., pl., darkness.] (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tenebricosus.]

Defn: Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

TENEBRIFIC
Ten`e*brif"ic, a. Etym: [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to make.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Tenebrific.
Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.

TENEBRIOUS
Te*ne"bri*ous, a.

Defn: Tenebrous. Young.

TENEBROSE
Ten"e*brose`, a.

Defn: Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

TENEBROSITY
Ten`e*bros"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

TENEBROUS Ten"e*brous, a. Etym: [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement,
LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.]

1. (Feud. Law)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.

TENEMENTARY
Ten`e*men"ta*ry, a.

Defn: Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.

TENENT Ten"ent, n. Etym: [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.]

Defn: A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

TENERAL
Ten"er*al, a. Etym: [L. tener, -eris, tender, delicate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.]

Defn: Tenderness. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

TENESMIC
Te*nes"mic, a. (Med.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

TENESMUS
Te*nes"mus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. tenesmos.] (Med.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See
Tenable.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: See Tænia.

TENIOID
Te"ni*oid, a.

Defn: See Tænoid.

TENNANTITE Ten"nant*ite, n. Etym: [Named after Smithson Tennant, an English chemist.] (Min.)

Defn: A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite.
It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.

TENNE
Ten`né", n. Etym: [Cf. Tawny.] (Her.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin,
perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see
Tenable).]

Defn: 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.

Defn: To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
[R.] Spenser.

TENNO
Ten*no", n. [Jap. tenno, fr. Chin. t'ien heaven + wang king.]

Defn: Lit., King of Heaven; — a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

TENNU
Ten"nu, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The tapir.

TENNYSONIAN
Ten`ny*so"ni*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

TEN-O'CLOCK
Ten"-o'*clock`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.

TENON
Ten"on, n. Etym: [F., fr. tenir to hold. See Tenable.] (Carp. &
Join.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

TENONIAN
Te*no"ni*an, a. (Anat.)

Defn: 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.

TENONITIS
Ten`o*ni"tis, n. [NL., Gr. te`nwn tendon + -itis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of a tendon.

TENONITIS
Ten`o*ni"tis, n. [NL. See Tenonian, -itis.]

Defn: Inflammation of the Tenonian capsule.

TENOR Ten"or, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. ténor, 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.

TENORRHAPHY
Te*nor"rha*phy, n. [Gr. te`nwn tendon + -rhaphy.] (Surg.)

Defn: Suture of a tendon.

TENOSITIS
Ten`o*si"tis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. te`nwn tendon + -itis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of a tendon.

TENOSYNOVITIS
Ten`o*syn`o*vi"tis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. synovitis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

TENOTOME
Ten"o*tome, n. (Surg.)

Defn: A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

TENOTOMY
Te*not"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

TENPENNY
Ten"pen*ny, a.

Defn: Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

TENPENNY
Ten"pen*ny, a.

Defn: Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

TENPINS
Ten"pins, n.

Defn: A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See
Ninepins. [U. S.]

TEN-POUNDER
Ten"-pound`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [From the native name: cf. F. tanrac, tanrec, tandrec.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See
Temporal of time, and cf. Thing.] (Gram.)

Defn: 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: The primary simple tenses are three: those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages.

TENSE Tense, a. Etym: [L. tensus, p.p. of tendere to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Toise.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.

TENSIBLE
Ten"si*ble, a. Etym: [See Tense, a.]

Defn: Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon.

TENSILE
Ten"sile, a. Etym: [See Tense, a.]

1. Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

2. Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. Bacon.

TENSILED
Ten"siled, a.

Defn: Made tensile. [R.]

TENSILITY
Ten*sil"i*ty, n.

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.

TENSITY
Ten"si*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

TENSIVE
Ten"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tensif. See Tense, a.]

Defn: Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
A tensive pain from distension of the parts. Floyer.

TENSOR
Ten"sor, n. Etym: [NL. See Tension.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

2. (Geom.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
[U. S.]

2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act. [Colloq. U.S.]

TENSURE
Ten"sure, n. Etym: [L. tensura. See Tension.]

Defn: Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.

TENT Tent, n. Etym: [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p.p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. Attent, n.]

1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Lydgate.

2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TENT
Tent, v. t.

Defn: To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

TENT
Tent, v. t. Etym: [OF. tenter. See Tempt.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

TENT Tent, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. — Tent caterpillar (Zoöl.), 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.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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 (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

TENTACLED
Ten"ta*cled, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having tentacles.

TENTACULAR
Ten*tac"u*lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tentaculaire.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

TENTACULATA
Ten*tac`u*la"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

TENTACULATE; TENTACULATED
Ten*tac"u*late, Ten*tac"u*la`ted, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

TENTACULIFERA
Ten`ta*cu*lif"e*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Suctoria, 1.

TENTACULIFEROUS
Ten`ta*cu*lif"er*ous, a. Etym: [Tentaculum + -ferous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Producing or bearing tentacles.

TENTACULIFORM
Ten`ta*cu"li*form, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Shaped like a tentacle.

TENTACULITE
Ten*tac"u*lite, n. (Paleon.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tentaculum + cyst.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the auditory organs of certain medusæ; — called also auditory tentacle.

TENTACULUM
Ten*tac"u*lum, n.; pl. Tentacula. Etym: [NL. See Tentacle.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tentacle.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [From Tent a pavilion.]

Defn: A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

TENTATION
Ten*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See
Temptation.]

1. Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

2. (Mech.)

Defn: A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight.

TENTATIVE
Ten*ta"tive, a. Etym: [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See
Tempt.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. F. tentative.]

Defn: An essay; a trial; an experiment. Berkley.

TENTED
Tent"ed, a.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A kind of governor.

TENTER Ten"ter, n. Etym: [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a stretching, spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move.]

Defn: 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.]

Defn: To admit extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacon.

TENTER
Ten"ter, v. t.

Defn: To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

TENTFUL
Tent"ful, n.; pl. Tentfuls (.

Defn: As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

TENTH
Tenth, a. Etym: [From Ten: cf. OE. tethe, AS. teó. 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.)

Defn: 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. Burrill.

TENTHLY
Tenth"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tenth manner.

TENTHMETER; TENTHMETRE
Tenth"me`ter, Tenth"me`tre, n. (Physics)

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

TENTIF
Ten"tif, a.

Defn: Attentive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TENTIFLY
Ten"tif*ly, adv.

Defn: Attentively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TENTIGINOUS Ten*tig"i*nous, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts xviii. 3.

TENTORIUM
Ten*to"ri*um, n. Etym: [L., a tent.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tentorium a tent.]

Defn: The awning or covering of a tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.

TENTWORT
Tent"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.]
Etym: [L. tenuatus, p.p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis thin.
See Tenuous.]

Defn: To make thin; to attenuate. [R.]

TENUIFOLIOUS
Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous, a. Etym: [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having thin or narrow leaves.

TENUIOUS
Te*nu"i*ous, a. Etym: [See Tenuous.]

Defn: Rare or subtile; tenuous; — opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.

TENUIROSTER Ten`u*i*ros"ter, n.; pl. Tenuirosters. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Tenuirostres.

TENUIROSTRAL
Ten`u*i*ros"tral, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Thin-billed; — applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

TENUIROSTRES
Ten`u*i*ros"tres, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

TENUIS
Ten"u*is, n.; pl. Tenues. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See
Tenuous.] (Gr. Gram.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité.
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. Etym: [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.]

1. Thin; slender; small; minute.

2. Rare; subtile; not dense; — said of fluids.

Defn: Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

TENURE
Ten"ure, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

Note: Tenure is inseparable from 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. Etym: [Mexican.]

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A large grass (Euchlæna 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. Etym: [F. tépale, fr. pétale, by transposition.] (Bot.)

Defn: A division of a perianth. [R.]

TEPEE
Tep*ee", n.

Defn: An Indian wigwam or tent.

TEPEFACTION
Tep`e*fac"tion, n.

Defn: Act of tepefying.

TEPEFY
Tep"e*fy, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Tepefied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tepefying.] Etym: [L. tepere to be tepid + -fy; cf. L. tepefacere.
See Tepid.]

Defn: To make or become tepid, or moderately warm. Goldsmith.

TEPHRAMANCY
Teph"ra*man`cy, n. Etym: [Gr. -mancy.]

Defn: Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

TEPHRITE
Teph"rite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Geol.)

Defn: An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.

TEPHROITE
Teph"ro*ite, n. Etym: [See Tephrosia.] (Min.)

Defn: A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray color.

TEPHROSIA
Te*phro"si*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: 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: 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. Etym: [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]

Defn: Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid
vapors.
— Tep"id*ness, n.

TEPIDITY
Te*pid"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tépidité.]

Defn: The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.

TEPOR
Te"por, n. Etym: [L., fr. tepere to be tepid.]

Defn: Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.

TEQUILA
Te*qui"la, n.

Defn: An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of
Tequila, Mexico.

TER-
Ter-.

Defn: A combining form from L. ter signifying three times, thrice.
See Tri-, 2.

TERACONIC
Ter`a*con"ic, a. Etym: [Terebic + citraconic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.

TERACRYLIC
Ter`a*cryl"ic, a. Etym: [Terpene + acrylic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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 (.

Defn: See Teraphim.

TERAPHIM
Ter"a*phim, n. pl. Etym: [Heb. teraphim.]

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Terrapin.

TERATICAL
Te*rat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Wonderful; ominous; prodigious. [Obs.] Wollaston.

TERATOGENY
Ter`a*tog"e*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: The formation of monsters.

TERATOID
Ter"a*toid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.]

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

TERATOLOGY
Ter`a*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. Gr. tératologie.]

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. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -oma.] (Med.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

TERBIUM
Ter"bi*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium.]
(Chem.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: See Tierce.

TERCEL
Ter"cel, n.

Defn: See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.

TERCELET
Terce"let, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet. Chaucer.

TERCELLENE
Ter"cel*lene, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TERCENTENARY
Ter*cen"te*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. ter thirce + E. centenary.]

Defn: Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.
— n.

Defn: The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

TERCET Ter"cet, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L. tertius. See Tierce, and cf. Terzetto.]

1. (Mus.)

Defn: A triplet. Hiles.

2. (Poetry)

Defn: A triplet; a group of three lines.

TERCINE
Ter"cine, n. Etym: [F., from L. tertius the third.] (Bot.)

Defn: A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

TEREBATE
Ter"e*bate, n.

Defn: A salt of terebic acid.

TEREBENE
Ter"e*bene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: 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.

TEREBENTHENE
Ter`e*ben"thene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

TEREBIC
Te*reb"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. terbinthus, Gr. térébinthe. Cf.
Turpentine.] (Bot.)

Defn: The turpentine tree.

TEREBINTHIC
Ter`e*bin"thic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

TEREBINTHINATE
Ter`e*bin"thi*nate, a.

Defn: Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

TEREBINTHINE
Ter`e*bin"thine, a. Etym: [L. terbinthinus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

TEREBRA
Ter"e*bra, n.; pl. E. Terebras, L. Terebræ. Etym: [L., a borer.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire.
They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

TEREBRANT
Ter"e*brant, a. Etym: [L. terebrans, -antis, p.pr.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Boring, or adapted for boring; — said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

TEREBRANTIA
Ter`e*bran"ti*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

TEREBRATE Ter"e*brate, v. t. Etym: [L. terebratus, p.p. of terebrare, from terebra a borer, terere to rub.]

Defn: To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TEREBRATING
Ter"e*bra`ting, a.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Boring; perforating; — applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Boring; piercing; — applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

TEREBRATION
Ter`e*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. terebratio.]

Defn: The act of terebrating, or boring. [R.] Bacon.

TEREBRATULA Ter`e*brat"u*la, n.; pl. Terebratulæ. Etym: [Nl., dim. fr. terebratus, p.p., perforated.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

TEREBRATULIFORM
Ter`e*bra*tu"li*form, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

TEREDINE
Ter"e*dine, n. Etym: [F. térédine.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A borer; the teredo.

TEREDO Te*re"do, n.; pl. E. Teredos, L. Teredines. Etym: [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. terere to rub.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

TEREK
Ter"ek, n. [Because found on the Terek River in the Caucasus.]

Defn: A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

TEREPHTHALATE
Ter*eph"tha*late, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of terephthalic acid.

TEREPHTHALIC
Ter`eph*thal"ic, a. Etym: [Terebene + phthalic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Round; terete. [Obs.] Fotherby.

TERETE Te*rete", a. Etym: [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off, fr. terere to rub.]

Defn: Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

TERETIAL
Te*re"tial, a. Etym: [See Terete.] (Anat.)

Defn: Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.

TERETOUS
Ter"e*tous, a.

Defn: Terete. [Obs.]

TERGAL
Ter"gal, a. Etym: [L. tergum the back.] (Anat. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

TERGANT
Ter"gant, a. (Her.)

Defn: Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant. [Written also tergiant.]

TERGEMINAL; TERGEMINATE
Ter*gem"i*nal, Ter*gem"i*nate, a. Etym: [See Tergeminous.] (Bot.)

Defn: Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

TERGEMINOUS Ter*gem"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. tergeminus; ter thrice + geminus doubled at birth, twin-born. Cf. Trigeminous.]

Defn: Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.

TERGIFEROUS
Ter*gif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. tergum the back + -ferous.]

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

TERGIVERSATE Ter"gi*ver*sate, v. i. Etym: [L. tergiversatus, p.p. of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]

Defn: To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
[R.] Bailey.

TERGIVERSATION Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. Etym: [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. Etym: [L.]

Defn: One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

TERGUM Ter"gum, n.; pl. Terga. Etym: [L., the back.] (Zoöl.) (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. Etym: [F. tarin, Prov. F. tairin, térin, probably from the
Picard tère tender.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the
European siskin. Called also tarin.

TERM
Term, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: 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: In England, there were formerly 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)

Defn: 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: The predicate 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.)

Defn: 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: The pillar part frequently tapers downward, or is narrowest at the base. Terms rudely carved were formerly used for landmarks or boundaries. Gwilt.

9. (Alg.)

Defn: A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.

10. pl. (Med.)

Defn: The menses.

11. pl. (Law)

Defn: Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.

12. (Law)

Defn: In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.

Note: 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.)

Defn: 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.] Etym:
[See Term, n., and cf. Terminate.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL. See Term, n.] (Anat.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

TERMAGANT Ter"ma*gant, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL. See Termes.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

TERMATARY
Ter"ma*ta*ry, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Termatarium.

TERM DAY
Term day.

Defn: A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

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)

Defn: One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

TERMES Ter"mes, n.; pl. Termities. Etym: [L. termes, tarmes, -itis, a woodworm. Cf. Termite.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

TERMINABLE
Ter"mi*na*ble, a. Etym: [See Terminate.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TERMINALIA
Ter`mi*na"li*a, n. pl. Etym: [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

TERMINANT
Ter"mi*nant, n. Etym: [L. terminans, p.pr. of terminare.]

Defn: Termination; ending. [R.] Puttenham.

TERMINATE
Ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terminated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Terminating.] Etym: [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.

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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

TERMINATIVE
Ter"mi*na*tive, a.

Defn: Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining;
definitive. Bp. Rust.
— Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

TERMINATOR
Ter"mi*na`tor, n. Etym: [L., he who limits or sets bounds.]

1. One who, or that which, terminates.

2. (Astron.)

Defn: The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

TERMINATORY
Ter"mi*na*to*ry, a.

Defn: Terminative.

TERMINE
Ter"mine, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. terminer.]

Defn: To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

TERMINER
Ter"mi*ner, n. Etym: [F. terminer to bound, limit, end. See
Terminate.] (Law)

Defn: A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

TERMINISM
Ter"mi*nism, n.

Defn: The doctrine held by the Terminists.

TERMINIST
Ter"mi*nist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. terministe.] (Theol.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: Of or pertaining to terminology.
— Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

TERMINOLOGY Ter`mi*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [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.

TERM INSURANCE
Term insurance.

Defn: Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

TERMINUS
Ter"mi*nus, n.; pl. Termini. Etym: [L. See Term.]

1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

2. (Myth.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. See Termes.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; — called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

Note: They 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.

Defn: Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. [R.] Bacon.

TERMLY
Term"ly, adv.

Defn: Term by term; every term. [R.] "Fees . . . that are termly given." Bacon.

TERMONOLOGY
Ter`mo*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: Terminology. [R.]

TERMOR
Term"or, n. (Law)

Defn: Same as Termer, 2.

TERM POLICY
Term policy.

Defn: A policy of term insurance.

TERN Tern, n. Etym: [Dan. terne, tærne; akin to Sw. tärna, Icel. ; cf. NL. sterna.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.

Note: Terns differ from gulls chiefly 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. paradisæa), 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 Seëna 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. Etym: [L. pl. terni three each, three; akin to tres three.
See Three, and cf. Trine.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. terne. See Tern, a.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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 (.

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL. ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See Tern, a.]

Defn: Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches,
leaves, or flowers.
— Ter"nate*ly, adv.

TERNEPLATE
Terne"plate`, n. Etym: [See Tern, a., and Plate.]

Defn: Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; — so called because made up of three metals.

TERNION
Ter"ni*on, n. Etym: [L. ternio, fr. terni three each. See Tern, a.]

Defn: The number three; three things together; a ternary. Bp. Hall.

TERPENE
Ter"pene, n. Etym: [See Turpentine.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Terpenylic.

TERPENYLIC
Ter`pe*nyl"ic, a. Etym: [Terpene + -yl + -ic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

TERPIN
Ter"pin, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

TERPINOL
Ter"pin*ol, n. Etym: [Terpin + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gr. Myth.)

Defn: The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

TERPSICHOREAN
Terp`sich*o*re"an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

TERRA
Ter"ra, n. Etym: [It. & L. See Terrace.]

Defn: The earth; earth. Terra alba Etym: [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. Etym: [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. — Terræ filius Etym: [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 Etym: [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to water. — Terra Japonica. Etym: [NL.] Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan. — Terra Lemnia Etym: [L., Lemnian earth], Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian. — Terra ponderosa Etym: [L., ponderous earth] (Min.), barite, or heavy spar. — Terra di Sienna. See Sienna.

TERRACE Ter"race, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

Note: Many rivers are 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.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. terra the earth + cultura.]

Defn: Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [R.] —
Ter`ra*cul"tur*al, a. [R.]

TERRA INCOGNITA
Ter"ra in*cog"ni*ta. [L.]

Defn: An unknown land; unexplored country.

The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still almost terræ
incognitæ.
A. R. Colquhoun.

TERRANE
Ter"rane, n. Etym: [F. terrain, from L. terra earth.] (Geol.)

Defn: A group of rocks having a common age or origin; — nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

TERRAPIN
Ter"ra*pin, n. Etym: [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.]

Note: The 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. Etym: [L. terra the earth + E. aqueous.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [LL. terrarius liber. See Terrier a collection of acknowledgments.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: See 2d Terrier, 2.

TERRAS
Ter"ras, n. (Min.)

Defn: See .

TERREEN
Ter*reen", n.

Defn: See Turren.

TERREITY
Ter*re"i*ty, n.

Defn: Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

TERREL
Ter"rel, n. Etym: [NL. terrella, from L. terra the earth.]

Defn: A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.

TERREMOTE Terre"mote`, n. Etym: [OF. terremote, terremoete, fr. L. terra the earth + movere, motum, to move.]

Defn: An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.

TERRENE
Ter*rene", n.

Defn: A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.

TERRENE
Ter*rene", a. Etym: [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. Etym: [L. terrenum land, ground: cf. F. terrain.]

1. The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic] Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.

2. (Surv.)

Defn: The surface of the ground.

TERRENITY
Ter*ren"i*ty, n.

Defn: Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity."
Feltham.

TERREOUS
Ter"re*ous, a. Etym: [L. terreus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]

Defn: Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. [Obs.]

TERREPLEIN Terre"plein`, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. terra earth + planus even, level, plain.] (Fort.)

Defn: The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

TERRESTRE
Ter*res"tre, a. Etym: [OE., from OF. & F. terrestre.]

Defn: Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

TERRESTRIAL
Ter*res"tri*al, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: An inhabitant of the earth.

TERRESTRIFY
Ter*res"tri*fy, v. t. Etym: [L. terrestris terrestrial + -fy.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [See Terrestrial.]

Defn: Terrestrial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TERRET
Ter"ret, n.

Defn: One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

TERRE-TENANT Terre"-ten`ant, n. Etym: [F. terre earth, land + tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold.] (Law)

Defn: One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
[Written also ter-tenant.]

TERRE-VERTE
Terre"-verte`, n. Etym: [F., fr. terre earth + vert, verte, green.]

Defn: An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

TERRIBLE
Ter"ri*ble, a. Etym: [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.

TERRICOLAE
Ter*ric"o*læ, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. terra + colere to inhabit.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.

TERRIENNIAK
Ter`ri*en"ni*ak, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The arctic fox.

TERRIER Ter"ri*er, n. Etym: [CF. L. terere to rub, to rub away, terebra a borer.]

Defn: An auger or borer. [Obs.]

TERRIER
Ter"ri*er, n.

1. Etym: [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.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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: Most kinds 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [L. terrificus; fr. terrere to frighten + facere to make. See Terror, and Fact.]

Defn: Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

TERRIFICAL
Ter*rif"ic*al, a.

Defn: Terrific. [R.]

TERRIFICALLY
Ter*rif"ic*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a terrific manner.

TERRIFY
Ter"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terrified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Terrifying.] Etym: [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. Etym: [L. terrigena, terrigenus; terra the earth + genere, gignere, to bring forth.]

Defn: Earthborn; produced by the earth.

TERRINE
Ter*rine", n. [F. See Tureen.]

1. A dish or pan, originally of earthenware, such as those in which various dishes are cooked and served; esp., an earthenware jar containing some table delicacy and sold with its contents.

2. (Cookery) A kind of ragout formerly cooked and served in the same dish; also, a dish consisting of several meats braised together and served in a terrine.

3. A soup tureen.

TERRITORIAL
Ter`ri*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [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.

Defn: In regard to territory; by means of territory.

TERRITORIAL WATERS
Ter`ri*to"ri*al wa"ters. (Internat. Law)

Defn: The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states.

Perhaps it may be said without impropriety that a state has theoretically the right to extend its territorial waters from time to time at its will with the increased range of guns. Whether it would in practice be judicious to do so . . . is a widely different matter . . . . In any case the custom of regulating a line three miles from land as defining the boundary of marginal territorial waters is so far fixed that a state must be supposed to accept it in absence of express notice. W. E. Hall.

TERRITORIED
Ter"ri*to*ried, a.

Defn: Possessed of territory. [R.]

TERRITORY Ter"ri*to*ry, n.; pl. Territories. Etym: [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. Etym: [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: 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. Etym: [Cf. F. terrorisme.]

Defn: The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.

Defn: 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. Etym: [F. terroriste.]

Defn: One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

TERRORIZE
Ter"ror*ize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. terroriser.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Free from terror. Poe.

TERRY
Ter"ry, n.

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. ter thrice + sanctus holy.] (Eccl.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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 Phædrus 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. Etym: [Pref. ter- + sulphide.] (Chem.)

Defn: A trisulphide.

TERSULPHURET
Ter*sul"phu*ret, n. Etym: [Pref. ter- + sulphuret.] (Chem.)

Defn: A trisulphide. [R.]

TER-TENANT
Ter"-ten`ant, n.

Defn: See Terre-tenant.

TERTIAL Ter"tial, a. & n. Etym: [From L. tertius third, the tertial feathers being feathers of the third row. See Tierce.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tertiary.

TERTIAN
Ter"tian, a. Etym: [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See
Tierce.] (Med.)

Defn: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

TERTIAN
Ter"tian, n. Etym: [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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. (CH3)3C.OH.

3. (Geol.)

Defn: Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

TERTIUM QUID
Ter"ti*um quid. [L.]

Defn: A third somewhat; something mediating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

TERUTERO
Ter`u*ter"o, n. Etym: [Probably so named from its city.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.

TERZA RIMA
Ter"za ri"ma. Etym: [It., a third or triple rhyme.]

Defn: A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

TERZETTO
Ter*zet"to, n. Etym: [It., dim. of terzo the third, L. tertius. See
Tierce.] (Mus.)

Defn: A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.

TESLA COIL; TESLA TRANSFORMER Tes"la coil, Tes"la trans*form"er. [After N. Tesla, American electrician.] (Elec.)

Defn: A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.

TESSELAR Tes"sel*ar, a. Etym: [L. tessella a small square piece, a little cube, dim. of tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die.]

Defn: Formed of tesseræ, as a mosaic.

TESSELLATA
Tes`sel*la"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tessellate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. tesselatus.]

Defn: Tessellated.

TESSELLATED
Tes"sel*la`ted, a.

1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.

TESSELLATION
Tes`sel*la"tion, n.

Defn: The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. J.
Forsyth.

TESSERA
Tes"se*ra, n.; pl. Tesseræ. Etym: [L., a square piece, a die. See
Tessellar.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [Obs.] Sir
R. Atkyns (1712).

TESSERAL
Tes"se*ral, a.

1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesseræ.

2. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Isometric.

TESSULAR
Tes"su*lar, a. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Tesseral.

TEST Test, n. Etym: [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. têt, 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, Tête- à-tête.]

1. (Metal.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

TEST
Test, n. Etym: [L. testis. Cf. Testament, Testify.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. testari. See Testament.]

Defn: To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

TEST; TESTA Test, Tes"ta, n.; pl. E. Tests, L. Testæ. Etym: [L. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of earthenware, a shell. See Test a cupel.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

TESTABLE
Test"a*ble, a. Etym: [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. Etym: [NL., fr. L. testaceum a shelled anumal.
See Testaceous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.

TESTACEAN
Tes*ta"cean, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Onr of the Testacea.

TESTACEOGRAPHY Tes*ta`ce*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Testacea + -graphy: cf. F. testacéographie.]

Defn: The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]

TESTACEOLOGY
Tes*ta`ce*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Testacea + -logy: cf. F. testacéologie.]

Defn: The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]

TESTACEOUS
Tes*ta"ceous, a. Etym: [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. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), 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. Etym: [See Testate.] (Law)

Defn: The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

TESTAMENT
Tes"ta*ment, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: 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: This 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.

TESTAMENTAL
Tes`ta*men"tal, a. Etym: [L. testamentalis.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.

Defn: The act or power of giving by testament, or will. [R.] Burke.

TESTAMENTIZE
Tes"ta*men*tize, v. i.

Defn: To make a will. [Obs.] Fuller.

TESTAMUR
Tes*ta"mur, n. Etym: [L., we testify, fr. testari to testify.] (Eng.
Universities)

Defn: A certificate of merit or proficiency; — so called from the
Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.

TESTATE
Tes"tate, a. Etym: [L. testatus, p.p. of testari. See Testament.]
(Law)

Defn: Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.

TESTATE
Tes"tate, n. (Law)

Defn: One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. [R.]

TESTATION
Tes*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. testatio.]

Defn: A witnessing or witness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

TESTATOR
Tes*ta"tor, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. testateur.] (Law)

Defn: A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

TESTATRIX
Tes*ta"trix, n. Etym: [L.] (Law)

Defn: A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

TESTE Tes"te, n. Etym: [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. Etym: [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testière.]

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. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

Defn: A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]

TESTERN
Tes"tern, v. t.

Defn: To present with a tester. [Obs.] Shak.

TESTES
Tes"tes, n.,

Defn: pl. of Teste, or of Testis.

TESTICARDINES
Tes`ti*car"di*nes, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Test a shell, and Cardo.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)

Defn: One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

TESTICOND
Tes"ti*cond, a. Etym: [L. testis testis + condere to hide.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.

TESTICULAR
Tes*tic"u*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the testicle.

TESTICULATE Tes*tic"u*late, a. Etym: [NL. testiculatus.] (Bot.) (a) Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid. (b) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis.

TESTIERE
Tes`ti*ère", n. Etym: [OF. testiere. See Tester a headpiece.]

Defn: A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

TESTIF
Tes"tif, a. Etym: [See Testy.]

Defn: Testy; headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.]
Testif they were and lusty for to play. Chaucer.

TESTIFICATION
Tes`ti*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. testificatio: cf. OF. testification.
See Testify.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: A testifier.

TESTIFIER
Tes"ti*fi`er, n.

Defn: 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.] Etym: [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)

Defn: 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)

Defn: To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

TESTIFY
Tes"ti*fy, adv.

Defn: In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

TESTIMONIAL
Tes`ti*mo"ni*al, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. testimoniale, LL. testimonialis,
L. testimoniales (sc. litteræ). 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. Etym: [L. testimonialis: cf. F. testimonial.]

Defn: Relating to, or containing, testimony.

TESTIMONY Tes"ti*mo*ny, n.; pl. Testimonies. Etym: [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: Such declaration, in judicial proceedings, 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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. [Obs.] Shak.

TESTINESS
Tes"ti*ness, n.

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L.] (Anat.)

Defn: A testicle.

TESTON
Tes"ton, n.

Defn: A tester; a sixpence. [Obs.]

TESTONE
Tes*tone", n. Etym: [Cf. Pg. testao, tostao. See Testoon.]

Defn: A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents. Homans.

TESTOON
Tes*toon", n. Etym: [It. testone. See Tester a coin.]

Defn: An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. Homans.

TESTUDINAL
Tes*tu"di*nal, a. Etym: [See Testudo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.

TESTUDINARIOUS
Tes*tu`di*na"ri*ous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Nl. See Testudo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [L. testudinatus, fr. testudo, -inis, a tortoise, an arch or vault.]

Defn: Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

TESTUDINEOUS
Tes`tu*din"e*ous, a. Etym: [L. testudineus.]

Defn: Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

TESTUDO Tes*tu"do, n.; pl. Testudines. Etym: [L., from testa the shell of shellfish, or of testaceous animals.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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 Græca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.

2. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.] Etym: [OF. testu
obstinate, headstrong, F. têtu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête. See
Test a cupel.]

Defn: 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. Etym: [Cf. L. tetanicus suffering from tetanus, Gr. tétanique.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

TETANIC
Te*tan"ic, n. (Physiol. & Med.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.

TETANIZATION
Tet`a*ni*za"tion, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: The production or condition of tetanus.

TETANIZE
Tet"a*nize, v. t. (Physiol.)

Defn: To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

TETANOID
Tet"a*noid, a. Etym: [Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. & Physiol.)

Defn: Resembling tetanus.

TETANOMOTOR
Tet`a*no*mo"tor, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

TETANUS
Tet"a*nus, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

1. (Med.)

Defn: 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.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

TETARD
Te*tard", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United
States; — called also sleeper.

TETARTOHEDRAL
Te*tar`to*he"dral, a. Etym: [Gr. (Crystallog.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: The property of being tetartohedral.

TETAUG
Te*taug", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Tautog. [R.]

TETCHINESS
Tetch"i*ness, n.

Defn: See Techiness.

TETCHY
Tetch"y, a.

Defn: See Techy. Shak.

TETE
Tête, n. Etym: [F., the head. See Tester a covering.]

Defn: A kind of wig; false hair.

TETE-A-TETE
Tête`-à-tête", n. Etym: [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.

TETE-A-TETE
Tête`-à-tête", a.

Defn: Private; confidential; familiar.
She avoided tête-à-tête walks with him. C. Kingsley.

TETE-A-TETE
Tête`-à-tête", adv.

Defn: Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly. Prior.

TETE-DE-PONT
Tête`-de-pont", n.; pl. Têtes-de-pont. Etym: [F., head of a bridge.]
(Mil.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large African antelope (Alcejaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

TETHER Teth"er, n. Etym: [Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier, Icel. tjo, Dan. töir. *64.]

Defn: 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.]

Defn: 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.

TETHER-BALL
Teth"er-ball`, n.

Defn: A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

TETHYDAN
Te*thy"dan, n. Etym: [See Tethys.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tunicate.

TETHYODEA
Te`thy*o"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Tethys + Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.

TETHYS
Te"thys, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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-. Etym: [Gr. Four.]

1. A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tetra- + basic.] (Chem.)

Defn: 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. Etym: [Tetra- + boric.] (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Pyroboric.

TETRABRANCHIATA
Tet`ra*bran`chi*a"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetra-, and Branchia.]
(Zoöl.)