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2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees." Chaucer.
3. Hence, any great nimber or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. Addison.
Syn. -- Multitude; crowd; throng.
SWARM Swarm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming.]
1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. Chaucer.
3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. Every place swarms with soldiers. Spenser.
4. To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury.
5. To breed multitudes. Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. Milton.
SWARM Swarm, v. t.
Defn: To crowd or throng. Fanshawe.
SWARMSPORE Swarm"spore`, n.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoöspore.
SWART Swart, n.
Defn: Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.
SWART Swart, a. Etym: [OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd.]
1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.
2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] Milton. Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] Milton.
SWART Swart, v. t.
Defn: To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne.
SWARTBACK Swart"back`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [Prov. Eng.]
SWARTH Swarth, a.
Defn: Swart; swarthy. "A swarth complexion." Chapman.
SWARTH Swarth, n.
Defn: An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
SWARTH Swarth, n. Etym: [See Sward.]
Defn: Sward; short grass. Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. Cowper.
SWARTH Swarth, n.
Defn: See Swath.
SWARTHILY Swarth"i*ly, adv.
Defn: In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
SWARTHINESS Swarth"i*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
SWARTHNESS Swarth"*ness, n.
Defn: Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.
SWARTHY Swarth"y, a. [Compar. Swarthier; superl. Swarthiest.] Etym: [See Swart, a.]
Defn: Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." Shak. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison.
SWARTHY Swarth"y, v. t.
Defn: To make swarthy. [Obs.] Cowley.
SWARTINESS Swart"i*ness, n.
Defn: Swarthiness. [Obs.]
SWARTISH Swart"ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.
SWARTNESS Swart"ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being swart.
SWARTY Swart"y, a.
Defn: Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.
SWARVE Swarve, v. i. Etym: [See Swerve.]
1. To swerve. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Jamieson.
2. To climb. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
SWASH Swash, n. Etym: [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] (Arch.)
Defn: An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
SWASH Swash, a. Etym: [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.]
Defn: Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
SWASH Swash, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swashing.] Etym: [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.]
1. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] Holinshed.
3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
SWASH Swash, n.
1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
2. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
3. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]
4. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]
5. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
SWASHBUCKLER Swash"buc`kler, n.
Defn: A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.
SWASHER Swash"er, n.
Defn: One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.
SWASHING Swash"ing, a.
1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.
2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
SWASHWAY Swash"way`, n.
Defn: Same as 4th Swash, 2.
SWASHY Swash"y, a.
Defn: Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.]
SWASTIKA; SWASTICA Swas"ti*ka, Swas"ti*ca, n. [Also suastica, svastika, etc.] [Skr. svastika, fr. svasti walfare; su well + asti being.]
Defn: A symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well as rectilinear, while various decorative designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The swastika is found in remains from the Bronze Age in various parts of Europe, esp. at Hissarlik (Troy), and was in frequent use as late as the 10th century. It is found in ancient Persia, in India, where both Jains and Buddhists used (or still use) it as religious symbol, in China and Japan, and among Indian tribes of North, Central, and South America. It is usually thought to be a charm, talisman, or religious token, esp. a sign of good luck or benediction. Max MüLler distinguished from the swastika, with arms prolonged to the right, the suavastika, with arms prolonged to the left, but this distinction is not commonly recognized. Other names for the swastika are fylfot and gammadion.
SWAT Swat, obs.
Defn: imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.
SWATCH Swatch, n.
1. A swath. [Obs.] Tusser.
2. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth. Halliwell. Jamieson.
SWATE Swate, obs.
Defn: imp. of Sweat. Thomson.
SWATH Swath, n. Etym: [AS. swa a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad, zwad, zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe, v. t.]
1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.
3. A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]
SWATHE Swathe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swathed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swathing.] Etym: [OE. swathen, AS. swe. See Swath, n., and cf. Swaddle.]
Defn: To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.
SWATHE Swathe, n.
Defn: A bandage; a band; a swath. Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. Addison. Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. Young. The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. G. Eliot.
SWATHER Swath"er, n. Etym: [See Swath, n.] (Agric.)
Defn: A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
SWATTE Swat"te, obs.
Defn: imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.
SWAY Sway, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaying.] Etym: [OE. sweyen, Icel. sveigja, akin to E. swing; cf. D. zwaaijen to wield, swing. See Swing, and cf. Swag, v. i.]
1. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. Spenser.
2. To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. The will of man is by his reason swayed. Shak. She could not sway her house. Shak. This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue. Dryden.
3. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion. As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed. Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson.
4. (Naut.)
Defn: To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
Syn. -- To bias; rule; govern; direct; influence; swing; move; wave; wield.
SWAY Sway, v. i.
1. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline. The balance sways on our part. Bacon.
2. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
3. To have weight or influence. The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much. Hooker.
4. To bear sway; to rule; to govern. Hadst thou swayed as kings should do. Shak.
SWAY Sway, n.
1. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon. With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft. Milton.
2. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires. A. Tucker.
3. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance. Expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle. Milton.
4. Rule; dominion; control. Cowper. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.
5. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Syn. -- Rule; dominion; power; empire; control; influence; direction; preponderance; ascendency.
SWAY-BACKED Sway"-backed`, a.
Defn: Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
SWAY BAR Sway bar. (Vehicles) (a) A bar attached to the hounds, in the rear of the front axle, so as to slide on the reach as the axle is swung in turning the vehicle. (b) Either of the two bars used in coupling the front and rear sleds of a logging sled; also, the bar used to couple two logging cars.
SWAY-BRACING Sway"-bra`cing, n. (Engin.)
Defn: The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
SWAYED Swayed, a.
Defn: Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse. Shak.
SWAYFUL Sway"ful, a.
Defn: Able to sway. [R.] Rush.
SWAYING Sway"ing, n.
Defn: An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.
SWEAL Sweal, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swealing.] Etym: [OE. swelen to burn, AS. swelan; akin to G. schwelen to burn slowly, schwül sultry, Icel. svæla a thick smoke.]
Defn: To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.
SWEAL Sweal, v. t.
Defn: To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
SWEAR Swear, v. i. [imp. Swore, formerly Sware (; p. p. Sworn; p. pr. & vb. n. Swearing.] Etym: [OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS. swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schwören, Icel. sverja, Sw. svärja, Dan. sværge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm. *177. Cf. Answer.]
1. To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc. Ye shall swear by my name falsely. Lev. xix. 12. I swear by all the Roman gods. Shak.
2. (Law)
Defn: To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse. [I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. Shak. To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam." Miss Edgeworth. -- To swear off, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
SWEAR Swear, v. t.
1. To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath. Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. Gen. xxi. 23. He swore consent to your succession. Shak.
2. (Law)
Defn: To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
3. To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend. Johnson.
4. To appeal to by an oath. Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Shak. To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.
SWEARER Swear"er, n.
1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.
2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
SWEARING Swear"ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.
SWEAT Sweat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat (); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] Etym: [OE. sweten, AS. swætan, fr. swat, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. sveda sweat, svid to sweat. *178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak.
2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
SWEAT Sweat, v. t.
1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. It made her not a drop for sweat. Chaucer. With exercise she sweat ill humors out. Dryden.
3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.] To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. R. Cobden.
SWEAT Sweat, n. Etym: [Cf. OE. swot, AS. swat. See Sweat, v. i.]
1. (Physiol.)
Defn: The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.
2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. Shak.
3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer.
4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] Holinshed.
5. (Man.)
Defn: A short run by a race horse in exercise. Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined. -- Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.
SWEATER Sweat"er, n.
1. One who sweats.
2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: (a) A sudorific. (b) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. (c) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages. [Slang]
SWEATILY Sweat"i*ly, adv.
Defn: In a sweaty manner.
SWEATINESS Sweat"i*ness, n.
Defn: Quality or state of being sweaty.
SWEATING Sweat"ing,
Defn: a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. -- Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.
SWEATY Sweat"y, a. [Compar. Sweatier; superl. Sweatiest.]
1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift.
3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
SWEDE Swede, n. Etym: [Cf. G. Schwede.]
1. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
SWEDENBORGIAN Swe`den*bor"gi*an, n.
Defn: One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
SWEDENBORGIAN Swe`den*bor"gi*an, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
SWEDENBORGIANISM Swe`den*bor"gi*an*ism, n.
Defn: The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
SWEDISH Swed"ish, a. Etym: [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants. Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip.
SWEDISH Swed"ish, n.
Defn: The language of Swedes.
SWEENY Swee"ny, n. (Far.)
Defn: An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses. [Written also swinney.]
SWEEP Sweep, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweeping.] Etym: [OE. swepen; akin to AS. swapan. See Swoop, v. i.]
1. To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23.
2. To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.
3. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along. Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain. Dryden.
4. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion. And like a peacock sweep along his tail. Shak.
5. To strike with a long stroke. Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. Pope.
6. (Naut.)
Defn: To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.
SWEEP Sweep, v. i.
1. To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
2. To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
3. To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
SWEEP Sweep, n.
1. The act of sweeping.
2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line. The road which makes a small sweep. Sir W. Scott.
8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
9. (Founding)
Defn: A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
10. (Naut.) (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle. (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
11. (Refining)
Defn: The almond furnace. [Obs.]
12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.]
13. (Card Playing)
Defn: In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
14. pl.
Defn: The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. Sweep net, a net for drawing over a large compass. -- Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), a circular frame on which the tiller traverses.
SWEEPAGE Sweep"age, n.
Defn: The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]
SWEEPER Sweep"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.
SWEEPING Sweep"ing, a.
Defn: Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.
SWEEPINGS Sweep"ings, n. pl.
Defn: Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
SWEEP-SAW Sweep"-saw`, n.
Defn: A bow-saw.
SWEEPSTAKE Sweep"stake`, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes. Heylin.
2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
SWEEPSTAKES Sweep"stakes`, n.
1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
2. sing. or pl.
Defn: The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.
3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
SWEEPWASHER Sweep"wash`er, n.
Defn: One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
SWEEPY Sweep"y, a.
Defn: Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
SWEET Sweet, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] Etym: [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. *175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. Longfellow.
3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. Hawthorne.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.
5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. Bacon.
6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. M. Arnold.
Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum. -- Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See Sweet- top. -- Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel (laurus nobilis). (b) Swamp sassafras. -- Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora (P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. -- Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. Gray. (b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (M. odorata) growing in England. -- Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet flag, below. -- Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. -- Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot. -- Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur (Petasites sagittata) found in Western North America. -- Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn. -- Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub (Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. -- Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See Calamus, 2. -- Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale. Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. -- Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree (Liquidambar styraciflua). See Liquidambar. -- Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. -- Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. -- Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse. -- Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram. -- Sweet marten (Zoöl.), the pine marten. -- Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea Ageratum) allied to milfoil. -- Sweet oil, olive oil. -- Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea. -- Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato. -- Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag. -- Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit. -- Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant (Centaurea moschata), also, the yellow-flowered (C. odorata); -- called also sultan flower. -- Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] -- Sweet William. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties. (b) (Zoöl.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zoöl.) The European goldfinch; -- called also sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.] -- Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale. -- Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry. -- To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Syn. -- Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
SWEET Sweet, n.
1. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural. Specifically: (a) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc. (b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." Milton.
3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. Locke.
4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment. "Wherefore frowns my sweet" B. Jonson.
SWEET Sweet, adv.
Defn: Sweetly. Shak.
SWEET Sweet, v. t.
Defn: To sweeten. [Obs.] Udall.
SWEETBREAD Sweet"bread`, n.
1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: The pancreas.
SWEET-BREASTED Sweet"-breast`ed, a.
Defn: Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]
SWEETBRIER Sweet"bri`er, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
SWEETEN Sweet"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sweetened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.] Etym: [See Sweet, a.]
1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
4. To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. Dryden. And sweeten every secret tear. Keble.
5. To soften to the eye; to make delicate. Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other. Dryden.
6. To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
7. To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
8. To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
SWEETEN Sweet"en, v. i.
Defn: To become sweet. Bacon.
SWEETENER Sweet"en*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
SWEETENING Sweet"en*ing, n.
1. The act of making sweet.
2. That which sweetens.
SWEETHEART Sweet"heart`, n.
Defn: A lover of mistress.
SWEETHEARTING Sweet"heart`ing, n.
Defn: Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
SWEETING Sweet"ing, n.
1. A sweet apple. Ascham.
2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
SWEETISH Sweet"ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
SWEETLY Sweet"ly, adv. Etym: [AS. swetlice.]
Defn: In a sweet manner.
SWEETMEAT Sweet"meat`, n.
1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
2. The paint used in making patent leather.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. [Local, U.S.]
SWEETNESS Sweet"ness, n. Etym: [AS. swetness.]
Defn: The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
SWEETROOT Sweet"root`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Licorice.
SWEET-SCENTED Sweet"-scent`ed, a.
Defn: Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub (Bot.), a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.
SWEET-SOP Sweet"-sop`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
SWEETWATER Sweet"wa`ter, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
SWEETWEED Sweet"weed`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
SWEETWOOD Sweet"wood`, n. (Bot.) (a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
SWEETWORT Sweet"wort`, n.
Defn: Any plant of a sweet taste.
SWEIGH Sweigh, n.
Defn: Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWEINMOTE Swein"mote`, n.
Defn: See Swainmote. [Obs.]
SWELL Swell, v. i. [imp. Swelled; p. p. Swelled or Swollen (; p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling.] Etym: [AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. svälla.]
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet. Sir W. Scott.
5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly. Your equal mind yet swells not into state. Dryden.
9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" Shak.
10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. Shak.
SWELL Swell, v. t.
1. To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. [The Church] swells her high, heart-cheering tone. Keble.
2. To aggravate; to heighten. It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge. Atterbury.
3. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
4. (Mus.)
Defn: To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
SWELL Swell, n.
1. The act of swelling.
2. Gradual increase. Specifically: (a) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance. (b) Increase in height; elevation; rise. Little River affords navigation during a swell to within three miles of the Miami. Jefferson.
(c) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound. Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Byron.
(d) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. The swell and subsidence of his periods. Landor.
3. A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
4. A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. The swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay. Tennyson. The gigantic swells and billows of the snow. Hawthorne.
5. (Mus.)
Defn: A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
6. A showy, dashing person; a dandy. [Slang] Ground swell. See under Ground. -- Organ swell (Mus.), a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, the uncovering of which by means of a pedal produces increased sound. -- Swell shark (Zoöl.), a small shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and swells up like a swellfish.
SWELL Swell, a.
Defn: Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. [Slang] Swell mob. See under Mob. [Slang]
SWELLDOM Swell"dom, n.
Defn: People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. [Jocose]
SWELLFISH Swell"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
SWELLING Swell"ing, n.
1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea. Coleridge.
2. A protuberance; a prominence; especially (Med.),
Defn: an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton.
SWELLISH Swell"ish, a.
Defn: Dandified; stylish. [Slang]
SWELLTOAD Swell"toad`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A swellfish.
SWELT Swelt, obs.
Defn: imp. of Swell.
SWELT Swelt, v. i. Etym: [OE. swelten to die, to swoon or faint, AS. sweltan to die; akin to OD. swelten to hunger, to fail, OS. sweltan to die, Icel. svelta to die, to hunger, Sw. svälta to hunger, Dan. sulte, Goth. sviltan to die. Cf. Swelter, Sweltry.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs.]
2. To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer. Night she swelt for passing joy. Spenser.
SWELT Swelt, v. t.
Defn: To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.
SWELTER Swel"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering.] Etym: [From Swelt, v. i.]
1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.
2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.
SWELTER Swel"ter, v. t.
1. To oppress with heat. Bentley.
2. To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.
SWELTRY Swel"try, a. Etym: [See Swelter, Swelt, v. i., and cf. Sultry.]
Defn: Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.] Evelyn.
SWELVE Swel"ve, v. t.
Defn: To swallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWEPT Swept,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Sweep.
SWERD Swerd, n. & v.
Defn: See Sward, n. & v. [Obs.]
SWERD Swerd, n.
Defn: Sword. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWERVE Swerve, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swerved; p. pr. & vb. n. Swerving.] Etym: [OE. swerven, AS. sweorfan to wipe off, to file, to polish; akin to OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban (in comp.) to wipe, and perhaps to E. swarm. Cf. Swarm.]
1. To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.] A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve. Sir P. Sidney.
2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect. "The point [of the sword] swerved." Sir P. Sidney.
3. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. I swerve not from thy commandments. Bk. of Com. Prayer. They swerve from the strict letter of the law. Clarendon. Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion. Atterbury.
4. To bend; to incline. "The battle swerved." Milton.
5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning. The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved. Dryden.
SWERVE Swerve, v. t.
Defn: To turn aside. Gauden.
SWEVEN Swe"ven, n. Etym: [AS. swefen sleep, dream; akin to swebban, swefian, to put to sleep, to kill. *176. See Somnolent.]
Defn: A vision seen in sleep; a dream. [Obs.] Wycliff (Acts ii. 17). I defy both sweven and dream. Chaucer.
SWICH Swich, a. Etym: [See Such.]
Defn: Such. [Obs.] Swich things as that I know I will declare. Chaucer.
SWIETENIA Swie*te"ni*a, n. Etym: [NL. Named after Gerard Van Sweiten, physician to Maria Theresa of Austria.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
SWIFT Swift, a. [Compar. Swifter; superl. Swiftest.] Etym: [AS. swift; akin to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to revolve. See Swoop, v. i., and cf. Swivel, Squib.]
1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James i. 19. Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Dryden. And bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Pet. ii. 1.
2. Of short continuance; passing away quickly. Shak.
Note: Swift is often used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining; as, swift-darting, swift-footed, swift- winged, etc.
Syn. -- Quick; fleet; speedy; rapid; expeditious.
SWIFT Swift, adv.
Defn: Swiftly. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Ply swift and strong the oar. Southey.
SWIFT Swift, n.
1. The current of a stream. [R.] Walton.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidæ. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
Note: The common European swift (Cypselus, or Micropus, apus) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams. It is called also black martin, black swift, hawk swallow, devil bird, swingdevil, screech martin, and shreik owl. The common American, or chimney, swift (Chætura pelagica) has sharp rigid tips to the tail feathers. It attaches its nest to the inner walls of chimneys, and is called also chimney swallow. The Australian swift (Chætura caudacuta) also has sharp naked tips to the tail quills. The European Alpine swift (Cypselus melba) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast. The common Indian swift is Cypselus affinis. See also Palm swift, under Palm, and Tree swift, under Tree.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
5. Etym: [Cf. Swivel.]
Defn: A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
6. The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
SWIFTER Swift"er, n. Etym: [Cf. Swivel.] (Naut.) (a) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. (b) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. (c) The forward shroud of a lower mast.
SWIFTER Swift"er, v. t. (Naut.)
Defn: To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
SWIFTFOOT Swift"foot`, a.
Defn: Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
SWIFTFOOT Swift"foot`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The courser.
SWIFTLET Swift"let, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
SWIFTLY Swift"ly, adv.
Defn: In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
SWIFTNESS Swift"ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
SWIG Swig, v. t. Etym: [Cf. D. zwelgen to swallow, E. swallow, v.t.]
1. To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider. [Colloq.]
2. To suck. [Obs. or Archaic] The lambkins swig the teat. Creech.
SWIG Swig, n.
1. A long draught. [Colloq.] Marryat.
2. (Naut.)
Defn: A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
3. A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
SWIG Swig, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. swig to leak out, AS. swijian to be silent, swican to evade, escape.]
1. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Naut.)
Defn: To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
SWILL Swill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.] Etym: [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]
1. To wash; to drench. [Obs.] As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.
2. Etym: [Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n.]
Defn: To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.
3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.
SWILL Swill, v. i.
Defn: To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.
SWILL Swill, n.
1. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
2. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
SWILLER Swill"er, n.
Defn: One who swills.
SWILLINGS Swill"ings, n. pl.
Defn: See Swill, n., 1.
SWIM Swim, v. i. [imp. Swam or Swum (; p. p. Swum; p. pr. & vb. n. Swimming.] Etym: [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG. swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. swömme, Sw. simma. Cf. Sound an air bladder, a strait.]
1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. Shak.
3. To be overflowed or drenched. Ps. vi. 6. Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson.
4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. [They] now swim in joy. Milton.
5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.
SWIM Swim, v. t.
1. To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream. Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main. Dryden.
2. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
3. To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
SWIM Swim, n.
1. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming. B. Jonson.
2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.] Swim bladder, an air bladder of a fish. -- To be in the swim, to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]
SWIM Swim, v. i. Etym: [OE. swime dizziness, vertigo, AS. swima; akin to D. zwijm, Icel. svimi dizziness, svina to subside, svia to abate, G. schwindel dizziness, schwinden to disappear, to dwindle, OHG. swinan to dwindle. Cf. Squemish, Swindler.]
Defn: To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
SWIMBEL Swim"bel, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Defn: A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWIMMER Swim"mer, n.
1. One who swims.
2. (Far.)
Defn: A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A swimming bird; one of the natatores. Little swimmer (Zoöl.), a phalarope.
SWIMMERET Swim"mer*et, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
SWIMMING Swim"ming, a.
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
SWIMMING Swim"ming, n.
Defn: The act of one who swims.
SWIMMING Swim"ming, a. Etym: [From Swim to be dizzy.]
Defn: Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
SWIMMING Swim"ming, n.
Defn: Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. Dryden.
SWIMMINGLY Swim"ming*ly, adv.
Defn: In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
SWIMMINGNESS Swim"ming*ness, n.
Defn: Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.
SWINCK Swinck, v. & n.
Defn: See Swink.
SWINDLE Swin"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling.] Etym: [See Swindler.]
Defn: To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.
SWINDLE Swin"dle, n.
Defn: The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
SWINDLER Swin"dler, n. Etym: [G. schwindler, fr. schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, fr. schwindel dizziness, fr. schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. See Swim to be dizzy.]
Defn: One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. A swindler is one who obtains money or goods under false pretenses. A sharper is one who cheats by sharp practice, as in playing at cards or staking what he can not pay. Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity of the British merchant is sunk in the scandalous appellation of a swindler. V. Knox. Perhaps you 'll think I act the same As a sly sharper plays his game. Cotton.
SWINDLERY Swin"dler*y, n.
Defn: Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
SWINE Swine, n.sing. & pl. Etym: [OE. swin, AS. swin; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. swin, Icel. svin, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See Sow, n.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine. -- Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. -- Swine's cress (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus). -- Swine's head, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Swine thistle (Bot.), the sow thistle.
SWINEBREAD Swine"bread`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The truffle.
SWINECASE Swine"case`, n.
Defn: A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINECOTE Swine"cote`, n.
Defn: A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINECRUE Swine"crue`, n. Etym: [Swine + Prov. E. crue a coop.]
Defn: A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINEFISH Swine"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The wolf fish.
SWINEHERD Swine"herd`, n.
Defn: A keeper of swine.
SWINEPIPE Swine"pipe`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINE-POX Swine"-pox`, n. (Med.)
Defn: A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
SWINERY Swin"er*y, n.
Defn: Same as Piggery. [R.]
SWINESTONE Swine"stone`, n. (Min.)
Defn: See Stinkstone.
SWINESTY Swine"sty`, n.
Defn: A sty, or pen, for swine.
SWING Swing, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swung; Archaic imp. Swang; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinging.] Etym: [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. Swagger, Sway, Swinge, Swink.]
1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.
2. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
3. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
4. (Naut.)
Defn: To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
5. To be hanged. [Colloq.] D. Webster. To swing round the circle, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. A. V. G. Allen.
SWING Swing, v. t.
1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator.
2. To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter. To swing a door, gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
SWING Swing, n.
1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
4. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. Shak.
5. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
6. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. "Take thy swing." Dryden. To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. Burke. Full swing. See under Full. -- Swing beam (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion. -- Swing bridge, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot. -- Swing plow, or Swing plough. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow. -- Swing wheel. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum. (b) The balance of a watch.
SWINGDEVIL Swing"dev`il, n. (Zoöl.) Etym: [So named from its swift flight and dark color, which give it an uncanny appearance.]
Defn: The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINGE Swinge (swînj), v. & n.
Defn: See Singe. [Obs.] Spenser.
SWINGE Swinge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swinged (swînjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Swingeing (swînj"îng).] Etym: [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing.]
1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.
2. To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.] Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.
SWINGE Swinge, n.
1. The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [Obs.] Waller.
2. Power; sway; influence. [Obs.]
SWINGEBUCKLER Swinge"buc`kler, n.
Defn: A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. [Obs.] Shak.
SWINGEING Swinge"ing, a.
Defn: Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.
SWINGEL Swin"gel, n. Etym: [AS. swingele whip, scourge. See Swing.]
Defn: The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
SWINGER Swing"er, n.
Defn: One who swings or whirls.
SWINGER Swin"ger, n.
1. One who swinges.
2. Anything very large, forcible; or astonishing. [Obs. or Colloq.] Herrick.
Defn: A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos. 4. A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
SWINGLE Swin"gle, v. i. Etym: [Freq. of swing.]
1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
SWINGLE Swin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swingling.] Etym: [See Swingel.]
1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.
SWINGLE Swin"gle, n.
Defn: A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; - - called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
SWINGLEBAR Swin"gle*bar`, n.
Defn: A swingletree. De Quincey.
SWINGLETAIL Swin"gle*tail`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
SWINGLETREE Swin"gle*tree`, n. Etym: [So named in allusion to its swinging. See Swingle, v. i., and cf. Swingtree.]
Defn: A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
SWINGLING Swin"gling, a. & n.
Defn: from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.
SWINGTREE Swing"tree`, n.
Defn: The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
SWINISH Swin"ish, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. -- Swin"ish*ness, n.
SWINK Swink, v. i. [imp. Swank, Swonk (; p. p. Swonken; p. pr. & vb. n. Swinking.] Etym: [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See Swing.]
Defn: To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.
SWINK Swink, v. t.
1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. Milton.
2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. To devour all that others swink. Chaucer.
SWINK Swink, n. Etym: [As. swinc, geswinc.]
Defn: Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
SWINKER Swink"er, n.
Defn: A laborer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWINNEY Swin"ney, n. (Far.)
Defn: See Sweeny.
SWIPE Swipe, n. Etym: [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]
1. A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. R. A. Proctor.
3. pl.
Defn: Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written also swypes.] Craig.
SWIPE Swipe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swiped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swiping.]
1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball. Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. R. A. Proctor.
2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]
SWIPLE Swi"ple, n. Etym: [See Swipe.]
Defn: That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel. [Written also swipel, and swipple.]
SWIPPER Swip"per, a. Etym: [From AS. swipian to whip, shake, whirl; akin to swapan to sweep. See Swoop.]
Defn: Nimble; quick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Slang]
SWIRL Swirl, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Swirled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swirling.] Etym: [Akin to Norw. svirla to whirl, freq. of sverra to whirl, Dan. svirre, G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz. *177. See Swarm, n.]
Defn: To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy. "The river swirled along." C. Kingsley.
SWIRL Swirl, n.
Defn: A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl. "The silent swirl of bats." Mrs. Browning.
SWISH Swish, v. t. Etym: [From the sound. Cf. Swash.]
1. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge.
2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] Thackeray.
SWISH Swish, v. i.
Defn: To dash; to swash.
SWISH Swish, n.
1. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [Colloq.]
2. (Naut.)
Defn: Light driven spray. [Eng.]
SWISS Swiss, n.sing. & pl. Etym: [F. Suisse, of German origin. Cf. Switzer.]
Defn: A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
SWISS Swiss, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
SWITCH Switch, n. Etym: [Cf. OD. swick a scourage, a whip. Cf. Swink, Swing.]
1. A small, flexible twig or rod. Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch. Addison.
2. (Railways)
Defn: A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
3. A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
4. (Eccl.)
Defn: A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit. Safety switch (Railways), a form of switch contrived to prevent or lessen the danger of derailment of trains. -- Switch back (Railways), an arrangement of tracks whereby elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached. -- Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected or combined in any desired manner. -- Switch grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.
SWITCH Switch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Switched; p. pr. & vb. n. Switching.]
1. To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip. Chapman.
2. To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
3. To trim, as, a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
5. (Eccl.)
Defn: To shift to another circuit.
SWITCH Switch, v. i.
Defn: To walk with a jerk. [Prov. Eng.]
SWITCHEL Switch"el, n. Etym: [See Sweet.]
Defn: A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]
SWITCHING Switch"ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Switch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called also switch engine. [U.S.]
SWITCHMAN Switch"man, n.; pl. Switchmen (.
Defn: One who tends a switch on a railway.
SWITCHY Switch"y, a.
Defn: Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.
SWITHE Swithe, adv. Etym: [AS. swi strongly, violently.]
Defn: Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [Obs.] That thou doest, do thou swithe. Wyclif (John xiii. 27).
SWITZER Switz"er, n. Etym: [Cf. G. schweizer. Cf. Swiss.]
Defn: A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.
SWIVE Swive, v. t. Etym: [OE. swiven, fr. AS. swifan. See Swivel.]
Defn: To copulate with (a woman). [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWIVEL Swiv"el, n. Etym: [AS. swifan to move quickly, to remove; akin to Icel. sveifla to whirl, shake, svifa to ramble, to turn. See Swoop, and cf. Swift a reel, Swift, a.]
1. (Mech.)
Defn: A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. Wilhelm. Swivel bridge, a kind of drawbridge that turns round on a vertical axis; a swing bridge. -- Swivel hook, a hook connected with the iron strap of a pulley block by a swivel joint, for readily taking the turns out of a tackle. -- Swivel joint, a joint, the two pieces composing which turn round, with respect to each other, on a longitudinal pin or axis, as in a chain, to prevent twisting.
SWIVEL Swiv"el, v. i.
Defn: To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
SWIVEL-EYED Swiv"el-eyed`, a.
Defn: Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]
SWIZZLE Swiz"zle, v. t.
Defn: To drink; to swill. Halliwell.
SWIZZLE Swiz"zle, n.
Defn: Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]
SWOB Swob, n. & v.
Defn: See Swab.
SWOBBER Swob"ber, n.
1. See Swabber.
2. pl.
Defn: Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist. [Written also swabber.] Swift.
SWOLLEN Swoll"en,
Defn: p. p. of Swell.
SWOLLEN Swoll"en, a.
Defn: Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
SWOLN Swoln.
Defn: Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton.
SWOM Swom, obs.
Defn: imp. of Swim. Shak.
SWOON Swoon, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooning.] Etym: [OE. swounen, swoghenen, for swo, fr. swo to sigh deeply, to droop, AS. swogan to sough, sigh; cf. geswogen senseless, swooned, geswowung a swooning. Cf. Sough.]
Defn: To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away. The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lam. ii. 11. The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain. Dryden. He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. Tatler.
SWOON Swoon, n.
Defn: A fainting fit; syncope.
SWOONING Swoon"ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Swoon, v. -- Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
SWOOP Swoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooping.] Etym: [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. swapan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. swifan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.]
1. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
2. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. And now at last you came to swoop it all. Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.
SWOOP Swoop, v. i.
1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
2. To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] Drayton.
SWOOP Swoop, n.
Defn: A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. L'Estrange.
SWOOPSTAKE Swoop"stake`, n.
Defn: See Sweepstake. [Obs.]
SWOOPSTAKE Swoop"stake`, adv.
Defn: Altogether; indiscriminately. [R.] Shak.
SWOP Swop, v. & n.
Defn: Same as Swap. Dryden.
SWORD Sword, n. Etym: [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. svärd, Dan. sværd; of uncertain origin.]
1. An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp
2. Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power. He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain. Rom. xiii. 4. She quits the balance, and resigns the sword. Dryden.
3. Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension. I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matt. x. 34.
4. The military power of a country. He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law. Milton.
5. (Weaving)
Defn: One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad. -- Sword belt, a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. -- Sword blade, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. -- Sword cane, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. -- Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. Sir W. Scott. (b) A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them. -- Sword fight, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. -- Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen. -- Sword knot, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword. -- Sword law, government by the sword, or by force; violence. Milton. -- Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus. -- Sword mat (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture. -- Sword shrimp (Zoöl.), a European shrimp (Pasiphæa sivado) having a very thin, compressed body. -- Sword stick, a sword cane. -- To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t. -- To put to the sword. See under Put.
SWORDBILL Sword"bill`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
SWORDED Sword"ed, a. Etym: [Cf. AS. geswurdod.]
Defn: Girded with a sword. Milton.
SWORDER Sword"er, n.
Defn: One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.] Shak.
SWORDFISH Sword"fish`, n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. (b) The ger pike. (c) The cutlass fish.
2. (Astron.)
Defn: A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker (Zoöl.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.
SWORDICK Sword"ick, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The spotted gunnel (Murænoides gunnellus). [Prov. Eng.]
SWORDING Sword"ing, n.
Defn: Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
SWORDLESS Sword"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of a sword.
SWORDMAN Sword"man, n.; pl. Swordmen (.
Defn: A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.
SWORDPLAY Sword"play`, n.
Defn: Fencing; a sword fight.
SWORDPLAYER Sword"play`er, n.
Defn: A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
SWORD-SHAPED Sword"-shaped`, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
SWORDSMAN Swords"man, n.; pl. Swordsmen (.
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
SWORDSMANSHIP Swords"man*ship, n.
Defn: The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
SWORDTAIL Sword"tail`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The limulus. (b) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
SWORE Swore,
Defn: imp. of Swear.
SWORN Sworn,
Defn: p. p. of Swear. Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.
SWOUGH Swough, n. Etym: [See Swoon.]
1. A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough. [Obs.] He sigheth with full many a sorry swough. Chaucer.
2. A swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWOUND Swound, v. & n.
Defn: See Swoon, v. & n. [Prov. Eng. or Archaic] Shak. Dryden. The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound. Longfellow.
'SWOUNDS 'Swounds, interj. Etym: [Cf. Zounds.]
Defn: An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.
SWOWN Swown, v. & n.
Defn: Swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SWUM Swum,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Swim.
SWUNG Swung,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Swing.
SWYTHE Swythe, adv.
Defn: Quickly. See Swithe. [Obs.]
SY Sy, obs. imp. of See.
Defn: Saw. Chaucer.
SYB Syb, a.
Defn: See Sib. [Obs. or Scot.]
SYBARITE Syb"a*rite, n. Etym: [L. Sybarita, Gr. Sybarite.]
Defn: A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
SYBARITIC; SYBARITICAL Syb`a*rit"ic, Syb`a*rit"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. Sybariticus, Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." Bp. Hall.
SYBARITISM Syb"a*rit*ism, n.
Defn: Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
SYCAMINE Syc"a*mine, n. Etym: [L. sycaminus, Gr.
Defn: See Sycamore.
SYCAMORE Syc"a*more, n. Etym: [L. sycomorus, Gr. sycomore. Cf. Mulberry.] (Bot.) (a) A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. (b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood. (c) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus). [Written sometimes sycomore.]
SYCE Syce, n. Etym: [Ar. sa\'8bs.]
Defn: A groom. [India]
SYCEE Sy*cee", n. Etym: [Said to be from a Chinese word, se-tze or se-sze, meaning, fine silk, and to be so called because if pure it may be drawn out into fine threads.]
Defn: Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] McElrath.
SYCHNOCARPOUS Sych`no*car"pous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
SYCITE Sy"cite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig. [Obs.]
SYCOCERIC Syc`o*cer"ic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
SYCOCERYL Syc`o*ce"ryl, n. Etym: [Gr. -yl.] (Chem.)
Defn: A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.
SYCOCK Sy"cock, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
SYCONES Sy*co"nes, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of calcareous sponges.
Note: They usually resemble a fig, being vase-shaped with a fringed opening at the summit. The feeding cells are in ampullæ connected with radial tubes in the thickened walls of the body.
SYCONIUM; SYCONUS Sy*co"ni*um, Sy*co"nus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
SYCOPHANCY Syc"o*phan*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. L. sycophantia deceit, Gr.
Defn: The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: - (a) False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. (b) Obsequious flattery; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.
SYCOPHANT Syc"o*phant, n. Etym: [L. sycophanta a slanderer, deceiver, parasite, Gr. sycophante. The reason for the name is not certainly known. See Phenomenon.]
1. An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.
2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. Dryden.
SYCOPHANT Syc"o*phant, v. t. Etym: [CF. L. sycophantari to deceive, to trick, Gr.
1. To inform against; hence, to calumniate. [Obs.] Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. Milton.
2. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
SYCOPHANT Syc"o*phant, v. i.
Defn: To play the sycophant.
SYCOPHANTCY Syc"o*phant*cy, n.
Defn: Sycophancy. [Obs.]
SYCOPHANTIC; SYCOPHANTICAL Syc`o*phan"tic, Syc`o*phan"tic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.
SYCOPHANTISH Syc"o*phant`ish, a.
Defn: Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.
SYCOPHANTISM Syc"o*phant*ism, n.
Defn: Sycophancy.
SYCOPHANTIZE Syc"o*phant*ize, v. i.
Defn: To play the sycophant.
SYCOPHANTRY Syc"o*phant*ry, n.
Defn: Sycophancy. [Obs.]
SYCOSIS Sy*co"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.
SYDEROLITE Syd"er*o*lite, n.
Defn: A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.
SYE Sye, obs. imp. of See.
Defn: Saw. Chaucer.
SYENITE Sy"e*nite, n. Etym: [L. Syenites (sc. lapis), from Syene, Gr. (Min.) (a) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. (b) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elæolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elæolite) syenite or leucite syenite.
SYENITIC Sy`e*nit"ic, a. Etym: [Written also sienitic.]
1. Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.
2. Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.
SYKE Syke, n. & v.
Defn: See Sike. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SYKER Syk"er, a. & adv.
Defn: See Sicker. [Obs.]
SYLE Syle, n. Etym: [See Sile a young herring.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A young herring (Clupea harengus). [Also written sile.] But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're grown, why then we call them herring. J. Ingelow.
SYLLABARIUM Syl`la*ba"ri*um, n.; pl. Syllabaria. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: A syllabary.
SYLLABARY Syl"la*ba*ry, n.
Defn: A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.
SYLLABE Syl"labe, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Syllable. [R.] B. Jonson.
SYLLABIC; SYLLABICAL Syl*lab"ic, Syl*lab"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. syllabique.]
1. Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.
2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. "The syllabic stage of writing." Earle.
SYLLABICALLY Syl*lab"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a syllabic manner.
SYLLABICATE Syl*lab"i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syllabicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Syllabicating.]
Defn: To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.
SYLLABICATION Syl*lab`i*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275.
SYLLABIFICATION Syl*lab`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [See Syllabify.]
Defn: Same as Syllabication. Rush. Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force. H. Sweet.
SYLLABIFY Syl*lab"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syllabified; p. pr. & vb. n. Syllabifying.] Etym: [L. syllaba syllable + -fy.]
Defn: To form or divide into syllables.
SYLLABISM Syl"la*bism, n.
Defn: The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
SYLLABIST Syl"la*bist, n.
Defn: One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.
SYLLABIZE Syl"la*bize, v. t.
Defn: To syllabify. Howell.
SYLLABLE Syl"la*ble, n. Etym: [OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba, Gr. labh, rabh. Cf. Lemma, Dilemma.]
1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.
2. In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter. Chaucer.
3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. Before any syllable of the law of God was written. Hooker. Who dare speak One syllable against him Shak.
SYLLABLE Syl"la*ble, v. t.
Defn: To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. Milton.
SYLLABUB Syl"la*bub, n.
Defn: Same as Syllabub.
SYLLABUS Syl"la*bus, n.; pl. E. Syllabuses, L. Syllabi. Etym: [L., fr. the same source as E. syllable.]
Defn: A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
SYLLEPSIS Syl*lep"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. sy`llhpsis a taking together, from syllable, n.]
1. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
SYLLEPTIC; SYLLEPTICAL Syl*lep"tic, Syl*lep"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis. -- Syl*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.
SYLLIDIAN Syl*lid"i*an, n. Etym: [From NL. Syllis, the typical genus.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidæ.
Note: Many of the species are phosphorescent; others are remarkable for undergoing strobilation or fission and for their polymorphism. The egg, in such species, develops into an asexual individual. When mature, a number of its posterior segments gradually develop into one or more sexual individuals which finally break away and swim free in the sea. The males, females, and neuters usually differ greatly in form and structure.
SYLLOGISM Syl"lo*gism, n. Etym: [OE. silogisme, OF. silogime, sillogisme, F. syllogisme, L. syllogismus, Gr. syllogismo`s a reckoning all together, a reasoning, syllogism, fr. syllogi`zesqai to reckon all together, to bring at once before the mind, to infer, conclude; sy`n with, together + logi`zesqai to reckon, to conclude by reasoning. See Syn-, and Logistic, Logic.] (Logic)
Defn: The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration;
Note: as in the following example: Every virtue is laudable; Kindness is a virtue; Therefore kindness is laudable. These propositions are denominated respectively the major premise, the minor premise, and the conclusion.
Note: If the premises are not true and the syllogism is regular, the reasoning is valid, and the conclusion, whether true or false, is correctly derived.
SYLLOGISTIC; SYLLOGISTICAL Syl`lo*gis"tic, Syl`lo*gis"tic*al, a. Etym: [L. syllogisticus, Gr. syllogistique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
SYLLOGISTICALLY Syl`lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a syllogistic manner.
SYLLOGIZATION Syl`lo*gi*za"tion, n.
Defn: A reasoning by syllogisms. [Obs. or R.] Harris.
SYLLOGIZE Syl"lo*gize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Syllogized; p. pr. & vb. n. Syllogizing.] Etym: [Gr. syllogiser.]
Defn: To reason by means of syllogisms. Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.
SYLLOGIZER Syl"lo*gi`zer, n.
Defn: One who syllogizes.
SYLPH Sylph, n. Etym: [F. sylphe, m., fr. Gr.
1. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
2. Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).
SYLPHID Sylph"id, n. Etym: [F. sylphide, fem. See Sylph.]
Defn: A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope.
SYLPHINE Sylph"ine, a.
Defn: Like a sylph.
SYLPHISH Sylph"ish, a.
Defn: Sylphlike. Carlyle.
SYLPHLIKE Sylph"like`, a.
Defn: Like a sylph; airy; graceful. Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze. Byron.
SYLVA Syl"va, n.; pl. Sylvæ. Etym: [L. sylva, better silva, a wood. See Silva.] (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Silva.
SYLVAN Syl"van, a. Etym: [See Silvan, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.
2. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
SYLVAN Syl"van, n. Etym: [L. Sylvanus, better Silvanus. See Silvan, a.]
Defn: A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope.
SYLVAN Syl"van, n. Etym: [Sylva + furfuran.] (Chem.)
Defn: A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
SYLVANITE Syl"van*ite, n. Etym: [So called from Transylvania, where it was first found.] (Min.)
Defn: A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]
SYLVANIUM Syl*va"ni*um, n. Etym: [NL., so called from Transylvania, where it was first found.] (Chem.)
Defn: An old name for tellurium. [Written also silvanium.]
SYLVATE Syl"vate, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A salt of sylvic acid.
SYLVATIC Syl*vat"ic, a. Etym: [L. sylvaticus, better silvaticus. See Silvan, a.]
Defn: Sylvan. [R.]
SYLVESTRIAN Syl*ves"tri*an, a. Etym: [L. sylvestris, better silvestris.]
Defn: Sylvan. [R.]
SYLVIC Syl"vic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pine or its products; specifically, designating an acid called also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from Pinus sylvestris, and other species).
SYLVICOLINE Syl*vic"o*line, a. Etym: [L. sylva, silva, forest + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.
SYLVICULTURE Syl"vi*cul`ture, n. Etym: [L. sylva, silva, forest + E. culture.]
Defn: The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.
SYLVICULTURIST Syl`vi*cul"tur*ist, n.
Defn: One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.
SYLVINE; SYLVITE Syl"vine, Syl"vite, n. Etym: [So called from NL. sal digestivus sylvii potassium chloride.] (Min.)
Defn: Native potassium chloride.
SYM- Sym-.
Defn: See Syn-.
SYMAR; SYMARR Sy*mar", Sy"marr, n.
Defn: See Simar.
SYMBAL Sym"bal, n.
Defn: See Cimbal. [Obs.]
SYMBIOSIS Sym`bi*o"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a living together, to live together; with + to live.] (Biol.)
Defn: The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algæ and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algæ in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.
SYMBIOTIC Sym`bi*ot"ic, a. [Gr. .] (Biol.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis. -- Sym`bi*ot"ic*al (#), a. -- Sym`bi*ot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.
SYMBOL Sym"bol, n. Etym: [L. symbolus, symbolum, Gr. symbole. Cf. Emblem, Parable.]
1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it represents, e.g., an actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representative of a higher in the same kind. Coleridge.
2. (Math.)
Defn: Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
Note: In crystallography, the symbol of a plane is the numerical expression which defines its position relatively to the assumed axes.
3. (Theol.)
Defn: An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
4. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty. [Obs.] They do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague. Jer. Taylor.
5. Share; allotment. [Obs.] The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all appear to receive their symbol. Jer. Taylor.
6. (Chem.)
Defn: An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
Note: In pure and organic chemistry there are symbols not only for the elements, but also for their grouping in formulas, radicals, or residues, as evidenced by their composition, reactions, synthesis, etc. See the diagram of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene.
Syn. -- Emblem; figure; type. See Emblem.
SYMBOL Sym"bol, v. t.
Defn: To symbolize. [R.] Tennyson.
SYMBOLIC Sym*bol"ic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. symbolique. See Symbolic, a.] (Theol.)
Defn: See Symbolics.
SYMBOLIC; SYMBOLICAL Sym*bol"ic, Sym*bol"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. symbolicus, Gr. symbolique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*bol"ic*al*ness, n. The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed. Jer. Taylor. Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.
SYMBOLICS Sym*bol"ics, n.
Defn: The study of ancient symbols; esp. (Theol.),
Defn: that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.
SYMBOLISM Sym"bol*ism, n.
1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.
2. A system of symbols or representations.
3. (Chem.) (a) The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby. (b) A combining together of parts or ingredients. [Obs.]
4. (Theol.)
Defn: The science of creeds; symbolics.
SYMBOLIST Sym"bol*ist, n.
Defn: One who employs symbols.
SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL Sym`bol*is"tic, Sym`bol*is"tic*al, a.
Defn: Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
SYMBOLIZATION Sym`bol*i*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. symbolisation.]
Defn: The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation. Sir T. Browne.
SYMBOLIZE Sym"bol*ize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Symbolized; p. pr. & vb. n. Symbolizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. symboliser.]
1. To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize. The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony. Bacon. They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses. Howell.
2. To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.] The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them. G. S. Faber.
3. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
SYMBOLIZE Sym"bol*ize, v. t.
1. To make to agree in properties or qualities.
2. To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic. "Some symbolize the same from the mystery of its colors." Sir T. Browne.
3. To represent by a symbol or symbols.
SYMBOLIZER Sym"bol*i`zer, n.
Defn: One who symbolizes.
SYMBOLOGICAL Sym`bo*log"i*cal, a.
Defn: Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.
SYMBOLOGIST Sym*bol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.
SYMBOLOGY Sym*bol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Symbol + -logy.]
Defn: The art of expressing by symbols.
SYMBRANCHII Sym*bran"chi*i, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.
SYMMETRAL Sym"me*tral, a.
Defn: Commensurable; symmetrical. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
SYMMETRIAN Sym*me"tri*an, n.
Defn: One eminently studious of symmetry of parts. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.
SYMMETRIC Sym*met"ric, a.
Defn: Symmetrical.
SYMMETRICAL Sym*met"ric*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. symétrique. See Symmetry.]
1. Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: Having the organs or parts of one side correspponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.See Symmetry, 2.
3. (Bot.) (a) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers. (b) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
4. (Math.)
Defn: Having a common measure; commensurable. (b) Having corresponding parts or relations.
Note: A curve or a plane figure is symmetrical with respect to a given line, and a line, surface, or solid with respect to a plane, when for each point on one side of the line or plane there is a corresponding point on the other side, so situated that the line joining the two corresponding points is perpendicular to the line or plane and is bisectad by it. Two solids are symmetrical when they are so situate dwith the respect to an intervening plane that the several points of their surfaces thus correspond to each other in position and distance. In analysis, an expression is symmetrical with respect to several letters when any two of them may change places without affecting the expression; as, the expression a2b + ab2 + a2c + ac2 + b2c + bc2, is symmetrical with respect to the letters a, b, c. -- Sym*met"ric*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*met"ric*al*ness, n.
SYMMETRICIAN Sym`me*tri"cian, n.
Defn: Same as Symmetrian. [R.] Holinshed.
SYMMETRIST Sym"me*trist, n.
Defn: One eminently studious of symmetry of parts. Sir H. Wotton.
SYMMETRIZE Sym"me*trize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Symmetrized; p. pr. & vb. n. Symmetrizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. symétriser.]
Defn: To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry. Burke.
SYMMETRY Sym"me*try, n. Etym: [L. symmetria, Gr. symétrie. See Syn-, and Meter rhythm.]
1. A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
Note: Bilateral symmetry, or two-sidedness, in vertebrates, etc., is that in which the body can be divided into symmetrical halves by a vertical plane passing through the middle; radial symmetry, as in echinoderms, is that in which the individual parts are arranged symmetrically around a central axis; serial symmetry, or zonal symmetry, as in earthworms, is that in which the segments or metameres of the body are disposed in a zonal manner one after the other in a longitudinal axis. This last is sometimes called metamerism.
3. (Bot.) (a) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower. (b) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity. Axis of symmetry. (Geom.) See under Axis. -- Respective symmetry, that disposition of parts in which only the opposite sides are equal to each other.
SYMPATHETIC Sym`pa*thet"ic, a. Etym: [See Sympathy, and cf. Pathetic.]
1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith.
2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray.
3. (Physiol.) (a) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy. (b) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber. Sympathetic ink. (Chem.) See under Ink. -- Sympathetic nerve (Anat.), any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. -- Sympathetic powder (Alchemy), a kind of powder long supposed to be able to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or even to a portion of the bloody clothes. Dunglison. -- Sympathetic sounds (Physics), sounds produced from solid bodies by means of vibrations which have been communicated to them from some other sounding body, by means of the air or an intervening solid. -- Sympathetic system (Anat.), a system of nerves and nerve ganglions connected with the alimentary canal, the vascular system, and the glandular organs of most vertebrates, and controlling more or less their actions. The axial part of the system and its principal ganglions and nerves are situated in the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve plexuses.
SYMPATHETICAL Sym`pa*thet"ic*al, a.
Defn: Sympathetic.
SYMPATHETICALLY Sym`pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a sympathetic manner.
SYMPATHIST Sym"pa*thist, n.
Defn: One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] Coleridge.
SYMPATHIZE Sym"pa*thize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sympathizing.] Etym: [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.]
1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.
2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. Addison.
3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. Dryden.
SYMPATHIZE Sym"pa*thize, v. t.
1. To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." Shak.
2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] Shak.
SYMPATHIZER Sym"pa*thi`zer, n.
Defn: One who sympathizes.
SYMPATHY Sym"pa*thy, n.; pl. Sympathies. Etym: [F. sympathie, L. sympathia, Gr. Syn-, and Pathos.]
1. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.
2. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion. I value myself upon sympathy, I hate and despise myself for envy. Kames.
4. (Physiol.) (a) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain. (b) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
5. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. [R.]
6. Similarity of function, use office, or the like. The adverb has most sympathy with the verb. Earle.
Syn. -- Pity; fellow-feeling; compassion; commiseration; tenderness; condolence; agreement. -- Sympathy, Commiseration. Sympathy is literally a fellow-feeling with others in their varied conditions of joy or of grief. This term, however, is now more commonly applied to a fellow-feeling with others under affliction, and then coincides very nearly with commiseration. In this case it is commonly followed by for; as, to feel sympathy for a friend when we see him distressed. The verb sympathize is followed by with; as, to sympathize with a friend in his distresses or enjoyments. "Every man would be a distinct species to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals." South. See Pity. Fault, Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration. Milton.
SYMPETALOUS Sym*pet"al*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. sym- + petal.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
SYMPHONIC Sym*phon"ic, a.
1. Symphonious.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
SYMPHONIOUS Sym*pho"ni*ous, a. Etym: [From Symphony.]
1. Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious. Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps. Milton.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: Symphonic.
SYMPHONIST Sym"pho*nist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. symphoniste.]
Defn: A composer of symphonies.
SYMPHONIZE Sym"pho*nize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Symphonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Symphonizing.]
Defn: To agree; to be in harmony. [R.] Boyle.
SYMPHONY Sym"pho*ny, n.; pl. Symphonies. Etym: [F. symphonie (cf. It. sinfonia), L. symphonia, Gr. Phonetic.]
1. A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both. The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony in heard around. Dryden.
2. A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal. With harp and pipe and symphony. Chaucer.
3. (Mus.) (a) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental. (b) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
SYMPHYLA Sym*phy"la, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
SYMPHYSEAL Sym*phys"e*al, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
SYMPHYSEOTOMY Sym`phy*se*ot"o*my, n. Etym: [NL. symphysis pubis + Gr. (Surg.)
Defn: The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.
SYMPHYSIS Sym"phy*sis, n.; pl. Symphyses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.) (a) An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis. (b) The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.
SYMPHYSOTOMY Sym`phy*sot"o*my, n.
Defn: Symphyseotomy.
SYMPHYTISM Sym"phy*tism, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Coalescence; a growing into one with another word. [R.] Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other. Earle.
SYMPIESOMETER Sym`pi*e*som"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.]
Defn: A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
Note: The column of oil of a lower part BC of a glass tube compresses hydrogen gas in the upper part AB, and is thus measured on the scale pq by the position of a surface of the oil in the tube. The scale pq is adjustable, and its index must be set to the division on the scale rs corresponding to the temperature indicated by the termometer t, in order to correct for the effects of temperature on the gas. It is sensitive, and convenient for use at sea, but inferior in accuracy to the mercurial barometer.
SYMPLECTIC Sym*plec"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. -- n.
Defn: The symplectic bone.
SYMPLOCE Sym"plo*ce, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
SYMPODE Sym"pode, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A sympodium.
SYMPODIAL Sym*po"di*al, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
SYMPODIUM Sym*po"di*um, n.; pl. Sympodia. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
SYMPOSIAC Sym*po"si*ac, a. Etym: [L. symposiacus, Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings. Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.
SYMPOSIAC Sym*po"si*ac, n.
Defn: A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
SYMPOSIARCH Sym*po"si*arch, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)
Defn: The master of a feast.
SYMPOSIAST Sym*po"si*ast, n.
Defn: One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking. Sydney Smith.
SYMPOSION Sym*po"si*on, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: A drinking together; a symposium. "Our symposion last night." Sir W. Scott.
SYMPOSIUM Sym*po"si*um, n.; pl. Symposia. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. sympo`sion a drinking party, feast; sy`n with + po`sis a drinking. See Syn-, and cf. Potable.]
1. A drinking together; a merry feast. T. Warton.
2. A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
SYMPTOM Symp"tom, n. Etym: [F. symptôme, Gr. pat to fly, to fall. See Syn-, and cf. Asymptote, Feather.]
1. (Med.)
Defn: Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift.
2. A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.
Syn. -- Mark; note; sign; token; indication.
SYMPTOMATIC; SYMPTOMATICAL Symp`tom*at"ic, Symp`tom*at"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. symptomatique, Gr.
1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay.
2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases. -- Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
SYMPTOMATOLOGY Symp`tom*a*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. symptomatologie.] (Med.)
Defn: The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Note: It includes diagnosis, or the determination of the disease from its symptoms; and prognosis, or the determination of its probable course and event.
SYN- Syn-. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l.
SYNACME; SYNACMY Syn*ac"me, Syn*ac"my, n. Etym: [NL. synacme. See Syn-, and Acme.] (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Synanthesis.
SYNAERESIS; SYNERESIS Syn*ær"e*sis, Syn*er"e*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Syn-, and Heresy.] (Gram.)
Defn: The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diæresis.
SYNAGOGICAL Syn`a*gog"ic*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a synagogue.
SYNAGOGUE Syn"a*gogue, n. Etym: [F., from L. synagoga, Gr. Syn-, and Agent.]
1. A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
2. The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
3. The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.
4. A congregation in the early Christian church. My brethren, . . . if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring. James ii. 1,2 (Rev. Ver.).
5. Any assembly of men. [Obs. or R.] Milton.
SYNALEPHA Syn`a*le"pha, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. synaloepha, Gr. (Gram.)
Defn: A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]
SYNALLAGMATIC Syn`al*lag*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Law)
Defn: Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract. Bouvier.
SYNALLAXINE Syn`al*lax"ine, a. Etym: [From Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
SYNALOEPHA Syn`a*loe"pha, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: Same as Synalepha.
SYNANGIUM Syn*an"gi*um, n.; pl. Synangia. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart. -- Syn*an"gi*al, a.
SYNANTHEROUS Syn*an"ther*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + anther.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.
SYNANTHESIS Syn`an*the"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom. Gray.
SYNANTHOUS Syn*an"thous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.
SYNANTHROSE Syn*an"throse", n. Etym: [From NL. Synantheræ the Compositæ; Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositæ.
SYNAPTA Syn*ap"ta, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.
SYNAPTASE Syn*ap"tase, n. Etym: [Gr. tase.] (Chem.)
Defn: A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.
SYNAPTICULA Syn`ap*tic"u*la, n.; pl. Synapticulæ. Etym: [NL., dim. from Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
SYNARCHY Syn"ar*chy, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Joint rule or sovereignity. [R.] Stackhouse.
SYNARTESIS Syn`ar*te"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Defn: A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union. [R.] Coleridge.
SYNARTHRODIA Syn`ar*thro"di*a, n. Etym: [NL.] (Anat.)
Defn: Synarthrosis. -- Syn`ar*thro"di*al, a. Dunglison.
SYNARTHROSIS Syn`ar*thro"sis, n.; pl. Synarthroses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.
SYNASTRY Syn"as*try, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr.
Defn: Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation. [R.] Motley.
SYNAXIS Syn*ax"is, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Synagogue.]
Defn: A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper. Jer. Taylor.
SYNCARP Syn"carp, n. Etym: [NL. syncarpium. See Syncarpous.] (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
SYNCARPIUM Syn*car"pi*um, n.; pl. Syncarpia. Etym: [NL.] (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Syncarp.
SYNCARPOUS Syn*car"pous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.
SYNCATEGOREMATIC Syn*cat`e*gor`e*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. Syn-, and Categorematic.] (Logic)
Defn: Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.
SYNCHONDROSIS Syn`chon*dro"sis, n.; pl. Synchondroses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.
SYNCHONDROTOMY Syn`chon*drot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Surg.)
Defn: Symphyseotomy.
SYNCHORESIS Syn`cho*re"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.
SYNCHRONAL Syn"chro*nal, a. Etym: [See Synchronous.]
Defn: Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. Dr. H. More.
SYNCHRONAL Syn"chro*nal, n.
Defn: A synchronal thing or event.
SYNCHRONICAL Syn*chron"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. synchronique.]
Defn: Happening at the same time; synchronous. Boyle. -- Syn*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.
SYNCHRONISM Syn"chro*nism, n. Etym: [Gr. Synchronous.]
1. The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.
2. The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.
3. (Paint.)
Defn: A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.
SYNCHRONISTIC Syn`chro*nis"tic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.
SYNCHRONIZATION Syn`chro*ni*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.
SYNCHRONIZE Syn"chro*nize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Synchronized; p. pr. & vb. n. Synchronizing.] Etym: [Gr.
Defn: To agree in time; to be simultaneous. The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. De Quincey.
SYNCHRONIZE Syn"chro*nize, v. t.
1. To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history. "Josephus synchronizes Nisan with the Egyptian Pharmus." W. L. Bevan.
2. To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.
SYNCHRONOLOGY Syn`chro*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. -logy.]
Defn: Contemporaneous chronology.
SYNCHRONOUS Syn"chro*nous, a. Etym: [Gr. Chronicle.]
Defn: Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.
SYNCHRONY Syn"chro*ny, n.
Defn: The concurrence of events in time; synchronism. [R.] Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony. Huxley.
SYNCHYSIS Syn"chy*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Defn: A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye. Sparkling synchysis (Med.), a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.
SYNCLASTIC Syn*clas"tic, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.] (Math. Physics)
Defn: Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic. Sir W. Thomson.
SYNCLINAL Syn*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Gr.
1. Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
2. (Geol.)
Defn: Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.
Note: A downward flexure in the case of folded rocks makes a synclinal axis, and the alternating upward flexure an anticlinal axis.
SYNCLINAL Syn*cli"nal, n. (Geol.)
Defn: A synclinal fold.
SYNCLINE Syn*cline", n. (Geol.)
Defn: A synclinal fold.
SYNCLINICAL Syn*clin"ic*al, a.
Defn: Synclinal. [R.]
SYNCLINORIUM Syn`cli*no"ri*um, n.; pl. Synclinoria. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Geol.)
Defn: A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.
SYNCOPAL Syn"co*pal, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.
SYNCOPATE Syn"co*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syncopated; p. pr. & vb. n. Syncopating.] Etym: [LL. syncopatus, p.p. of syncopare to syncopate, to swoon. See Syncope.]
1. (Gram.)
Defn: To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
2. (Mus.)
Defn: To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
SYNCOPATION Syn`co*pa"tion, n.
1. (Gram.)
Defn: The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
SYNCOPE Syn"co*pe, n. Etym: [L. syncope, syncopa, Gr.
1. (Gram.)
Defn: An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: Same as Syncopation.
3. (Med.)
Defn: A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
4. A pause or cessation; suspension. [R.] Revely, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope and solemn pause. Cowper.
SYNCOPIST Syn"co*pist, n.
Defn: One who syncopates. Addison.
SYNCOPIZE Syn"co*pize, v. t.
Defn: To syncopate.
SYNCOTYLEDONOUS Syn*cot`y*led"on*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + cotyledonous.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having united cotyledonous.
SYNCRETIC Syn*cret"ic, a.
Defn: Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.
SYNCRETISM Syn"cre*tism, n. Etym: [Gr. syncrétisme.]
Defn: Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other. He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial. Baxter. Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy. Krauth-Fleming.
SYNCRETIST Syn"cre*tist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. syncrétiste.]
Defn: One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; specifically (Eccl. Hist.),
Defn: an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
SYNCRETISTIC Syn`cre*tis"tic, a.
1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.
2. Of or pertaining to Syncretists.
SYNCRISIS Syn"cri*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.
SYNCYTIUM Syn*cy"ti*um, n.; pl. Syncitia. Etym: [NL., from Gr.
1. (Biol.)
Defn: Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The ectoderm of a sponge.
SYNDACTYL; SYNDACTYLE Syn*dac"tyl, Syn*dac"tyle, a. [Syn- + Gr. finger, toe.] (Zoöl. & Med.)
Defn: Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.
SYNDACTYLE Syn*dac"tyle, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. syndactyle.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any bird having syndactilous feet.
SYNDACTYLIC Syn*dac*tyl"ic, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Syndactilous.
SYNDACTYLOUS Syn*dac"tyl*ous, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.
SYNDESMOGRAPHY Syn`des*mog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]
Defn: A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.
SYNDESMOLOGY Syn`des*mol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.
SYNDESMOSIS Syn`des*mo"sis, n.; pl. Syndesmoses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: An articulation formed by means of ligaments.
SYNDETIC; SYNDETICAL Syn*det"ic, Syn*det"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Asyndetic.]
Defn: Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary. -- Syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv. With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated. C. J. Grece (Trans. Maetzner's Gram.).
SYNDIC Syn"dic, n. Etym: [L. syndictus, Gr. syndic. See Teach.]
1. An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.
2. (Law)
Defn: An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.
Note: In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property. Almost all the companies in Paris, the university, and the like, have their syndics. The university of Cambridge, Eng., has its syndics, who are chosen from the senate to transact special business, such as the regulation of fees, the framing of laws, etc.
SYNDICAL Syn"dic*al, a.
1. Consisting of, or pert. to, a syndic.
2. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, syndicalism.
SYNDICALISM Syn"dic*al*ism, n. [F. syndicalisme.]
Defn: The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Confédération Générale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.
SYNDICALIST Syn"dic*al*ist, n.
Defn: One who advocates or practices syndicalism. --Syn`dic*al*is"tic (#), a.
SYNDICATE Syn"di*cate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.]
1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.
2. An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.
SYNDICATE Syn"di*cate, v. t. Etym: [LL. syndicatus, p.p. of syndicare to censure.]
Defn: To judge; to censure. [Obs.]
SYNDICATION Syn`di*ca"tion, n.
Defn: Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.
SYNDROME Syn"dro*me, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr.
Defn: Concurrence. [R.] Glanvill.
Defn: A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
SYNDYASMIAN Syn`dy*as"mi*an, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring. Morgan.
SYNE Syne, adv. Etym: [See Since.]
1. Afterwards; since; ago. [Obs. or Scot.] R. of Brunne.
2. Late, -- as opposed to soon. [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne. W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace).
SYNE Syne, conj.
Defn: Since; seeing. [Scot.]
SYNECDOCHE Syn*ec"do*che, n. Etym: [L. synecdoche, Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain.
SYNECDOCHICAL Syn`ec*doch"ic*al, a.
Defn: Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.
SYNECDOCHICALLY Syn`ec*doch"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: By synecdoche.
SYNECHIA Syn*e"chi*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
SYNECPHONESIS Syn*ec`pho*ne"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Gram.)
Defn: A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.
SYNEDRAL Syn*e"dral, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.
SYNENTOGNATHI Syn`en*tog"na*thi, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.
SYNEPY Syn"e*py, n. Etym: [Gr. (Rhet.)
Defn: The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.
SYNERESIS Syn*er"e*sis, n.
Defn: Same as Synæresis.
SYNERGETIC Syn`er*get"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.
SYNERGISM Syn"er*gism, n. Etym: [See Synergetic.] (Theol.)
Defn: The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.
SYNERGIST Syn"er*gist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. synergiste.]
1. One who holds the doctrine of synergism.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.
SYNERGISTIC Syn`er*gis"tic, a.
1. Of or pertaining to synergism. "A synergistic view of regeneration." Shedd.
2. Coöperating; synergetic.
SYNERGY Syn"er*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. Synergetic.]
Defn: Combined action; especially (Med.),
Defn: the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
Defn: An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.
SYNESIS Syn"e*sis, n. [Gr. intelligence.] (Gram.)
Defn: A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."
SYNGENESIA Syn`ge*ne"si*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A Linnæan class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.
SYNGENESIAN; SYNGENESIOUS Syn`ge*ne"sian, Syn`ge*ne"sious, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.
SYNGENESIS Syn*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + genesis.] (Biol.)
Defn: A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
SYNGNATHI Syng"na*thi, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.
SYNGRAPH Syn"graph, n. Etym: [L. syngrapha, Gr. (Law)
Defn: A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.
SYNIZESIS Syn`i*ze"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Med.)
Defn: An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.
SYNNEOROSIS Syn`neo*ro"sis, n.; pl. Synneuroses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Syndesmosis.
SYNOCHA Syn"o*cha, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Synechia.] (Med.)
Defn: See Synochus. [Obs.]
SYNOCHAL Syn"o*chal, a. (Med.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha. [Obs.]
SYNOCHUS Syn"o*chus, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Med.)
Defn: A continuous fever. [Obs.]
Note: Synocha and synochus were used as epithets of two distinct types of fever, but in different senses at different periods. The same disease is placed under synocha by one author, under synochus by another. Quain.
SYNOCIL Syn"o*cil, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + cilium.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.
SYNOD Syn"od, n. Etym: [L. synodus, Gr. sino, seno, F. synode, both from the Latin.]
1. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
Note: Synods are of four kinds: 1. General, or ecumenical, which are compopsed of bishops from different nations; -- commonly called general council. 2. National, composed of bishops of one nation only. 3. Provincial, in which the bishops of only one province meet; -- called also convocations. 4. Diocesan, a synod in which the bishop of the diocese or his representative presides. Among Presbyterians, a synod is composed of several adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers and a ruling elder from each parish.
2. An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. It hath in solemn synods been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. Shak. Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above. Dryden.
3. (Astron.)
Defn: A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies. [R.] Milton.
SYNODAL Syn"od*al, a. Etym: [L. synodalis: cf. F. synodal.]
Defn: Synodical. Milton.
SYNODAL Syn"od*al, n.
1. (Ch. of Eng.)
Defn: A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration. Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only. Gibson.
2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
SYNODIC; SYNODICAL Syn*od"ic, Syn*od"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. synodicus, Gr. synodique.]
1. (Eccl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. (Astron.)
Defn: Pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.
SYNODICALLY Syn*od"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod. "Synodically agreed upon." R. Nelson.
SYNODIST Syn"od*ist, n.
Defn: An adherent to a synod. These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. Fuller.
SYNOECIOUS Syn*oe"cious, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
SYNOMOCY Syn*om"o*cy, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient Greece nearly resembling a modern political club.
SYNONYM Syn"o*nym, n.; pl. Synonyms (). Etym: [F. synonyme, L. synonyma, pl. of synonymum, Gr. Synonymous.]
Defn: One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. [Written also synonyme.] All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society. De Quincey. His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. Macaulay. In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished. G. P. Marsh.
SYNONYMA Syn*on"y*ma, n. pl. Etym: [L.]
Defn: Synonyms. [Obs.] Fuller.
SYNONYMAL Syn*on"y*mal, a.
Defn: Synonymous. [Obs.]
SYNONYMALLY Syn*on"y*mal*ly, adv.
Defn: Synonymously. [Obs.]
SYNONYME Syn"o*nyme, n.
Defn: Same as Synonym.
SYNONYMIC Syn`o*nym"ic, n. Etym: [Cf. G. synonymik. See Synonymous.] (Gram.)
Defn: The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.
SYNONYMIC; SYNONYMICAL Syn`o*nym"ic, Syn`o*nym"ic*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.
SYNONYMICON Syn`o*nym"i*con, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: A dictionary of synonyms. C. J. Smith.
SYNONYMIST Syn*on"y*mist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. synonymiste.]
Defn: One who collects or explains synonyms.
SYNONYMIZE Syn*on"y*mize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Synonymized; p. pr. & vb. n. Synonymizing.]
Defn: To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to. This word "fortis" we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid. Camden.
SYNONYMOUS Syn*on"y*mous, a. Etym: [Gr. Syn-, and Name.]
Defn: Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea. -- Syn*on"y*mous*ly, adv. These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here. Tillotson.
Syn. -- Identical; interchangeable. -- Synonymous, Identical. If no words are synonymous except those which are identical in use and meaning, so that the one can in all cases be substituted for the other, we have scarcely ten such words in our language. But the term more properly denotes that the words in question approach so near to each other, that, in many or most cases, they can be used interchangeably. 1. Words may thus coincide in certain connections, and so be interchanged, when they can not be interchanged in other connections; thus we may speak either strength of mind or of force of mind, but we say the force (not strength) of gravitation. 2. Two words may differ slightly, but this difference may be unimportant to the speaker's object, so that he may freely interchange them; thus it makes but little difference, in most cases, whether we speak of a man's having secured his object or having attained his object. For these and other causes we have numerous words which may, in many cases or connections, be used interchangeably, and these are properly called synonyms. Synonymous words "are words which, with great and essential resemblances of meaning, have, at the same time, small, subordinate, and partial differences, -- these differences being such as either originally and on the ground of their etymology inhered in them; or differences which they have by usage acquired in the eyes of all; or such as, though nearly latent now, they are capable of receiving at the hands of wise and discreet masters of the tongue. Synonyms are words of like significance in the main, but with a certain unlikeness as well." Trench.
SYNONYMY Syn*on"y*my, n. Etym: [L. synonymia, Gr. synonymie.]
1. The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
2. A system of synonyms.
3. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
SYNOPSIS Syn*op"sis, n.; pl. Synopses. Etym: [L., from Gr. optic.]
Defn: A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus. That the reader may see in one view the exactness of the method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. Bp. Warburton.
Syn. -- Abridgment; compendium; epitome; abstract; summary; syllabus; conspectus. See Abridgment.
SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL Syn*op"tic, Syn*op"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. synoptique. See Synopsis.]
Defn: Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
SYNOPTIC Syn*op"tic, n.
Defn: One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.
SYNOPTIST Syn*op"tist, n.
Defn: Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.
SYNOSTEOLOGY Syn*os`te*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. -logy.]
Defn: That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.
SYNOSTEOSIS Syn*os`te*o"sis, n.; pl. Synosteoses. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.
SYNOSTOSIS Syn`os*to"sis, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: Same as Synosteosis.
SYNOVIA Syn*o"vi*a, n. Etym: [NL., perhaps fr. Gr. ovum egg: cf. F. synovie.] (Anat.)
Defn: A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.
SYNOVIAL Syn*o"vi*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. synovial.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia. Synovial capsule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities.
SYNOVITIS Syn`o*vi"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Synovia, -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the synovial membrane.
SYNPELMOUS Syn*pel"mous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.
SYNSEPALOUS Syn*sep"al*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + sepal.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having united sepals; gamosepalous.
SYNTACTIC; SYNTACTICAL Syn*tac"tic, Syn*tac"tic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. G. Syntax.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
SYNTAX Syn"tax, n. Etym: [L. syntaxis, Gr. syntaxe. See Syn-, and Tactics.]
1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.
2. That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
SYNTAXIS Syn*tax"is, n.
Defn: Syntax. [R.] B. Jonson.
SYNTERESIS Syn`te*re"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
1. (Med.)
Defn: Prophylaxis. [Obs.]
2. (Metaph.)
Defn: Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty. Whewell.
SYNTERETIC Syn`te*ret"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]
SYNTERETICS Syn`te*ret"ics, n. (Med.)
Defn: That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]
SYNTHERMAL Syn*ther"mal, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + thermal.]
Defn: Having the same degree of heat.
SYNTHESIS Syn"the*sis, n.; pl. Syntheses. Etym: [L., a mixture, properly, a putting together, Gr. Thesis.]
1. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: The art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.
3. (Logic)
Defn: The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of Ant: analysis. Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Sir W. Hamilton.
SYNTHESIST Syn"the*sist, n.
Defn: One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.
SYNTHESIZE Syn"the*size, v. t.
1. To combine by synthesis; to unite.
2. To produce by synthesis; as, to synthesize albumin.
SYNTHETIC; SYNTHETICAL Syn*thet"ic, Syn*thet"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. synthétique.]
1. Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: Artificial. Cf. Synthesis, 2.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive, 3. Synthetic, or Synthetical language, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to analytic language. R. Morris.
SYNTHETICALLY Syn*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a synthetic manner.
SYNTHETIZE Syn"the*tize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Gr.
Defn: To combine; to unite in regular structure. [R.]
SYNTOMY Syn"to*my, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Brevity; conciseness. [R.]
SYNTONIC Syn*ton"ic, a. (Physics)
Defn: Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al (#), a. --Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv.
SYNTONIN Syn"to*nin, n. Etym: [Cf. Gr. (Physiol. Chem.)
Defn: A proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. See Acid albumin, under Albumin.
SYNTONIZE Syn"to*nize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -nized; p. pr. & vb. n. -nizing.] [See Syntony.] (Physics)
Defn: To adjust or devise so as to emit or respond to electric oscillations of a certain wave length; to tune; specif., to put (two or more instruments or systems of wireless telegraphy) in syntony with each other. -- Syn`to*ni*za"tion (#), n.
SYNTONIZER Syn"to*niz`er, n. (Physics)
Defn: One that syntonizes; specif., a device consisting essentially of a variable inductance coil and condenser with a pair of adjustable spark balls, for attuning the time periods of antennæ in wireless telegraphy (called also syntonizing coil).
SYNTONY Syn"to*ny, n. [Cf. Gr. agreement. See Syn-; Tone.] (Physics)
Defn: State of being adjusted to a certain wave length; agreement or tuning between the time period of an apparatus emitting electric oscillations and that of a receiving apparatus, esp. in wireless telegraphy.
SYPHERING Sy"pher*ing, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Carp.)
Defn: The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
SYPHILIDE Syph"i*lide, n. Etym: [F.] (Med.)
Defn: A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.
SYPHILIS Syph"i*lis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Syphilus, the name of a shepherd in the Latin poem of Fracastoro, "Syphilus, sive Morbus Gallicus," which was published in 1530; Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.
SYPHILITIC Syph`i*lit"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. syphilitique.] (Med.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis. -- n.
Defn: A syphilitic patient.
SYPHILITICALLY Syph`i*lit"ic*al*ly, adv. (Med.)
Defn: In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
SYPHILIZATION Syph`i*li*za"tion, n. (Med.)
Defn: Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.
SYPHILIZE Syph"i*lize, v. t. (Med.)
Defn: To inoculate with syphilis.
SYPHILODERM Syph"i*lo*derm, n. Etym: [See Syphilis, and Derm.] (Med.)
Defn: A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.
SYPHILODERMATOUS Syph`i*lo*der"ma*tous, a. (Med.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.
SYPHILOID Syph"i*loid, a. Etym: [Syphilis + -oid.] (Med.)
Defn: Resembling syphilis.
SYPHILOLOGIST Syph`i*lol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One skilled in syphilology.
SYPHILOLOGY Syph`i*lol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Syphilis + -logy.]
Defn: That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.
SYPHON Sy"phon, n.
Defn: See Syphon.
SYRACUSE Syr"a*cuse, n.
Defn: A red wine of Italy.
SYREN Sy"ren, n.
Defn: See Siren. [R.]
SYRIAC Syr"i*ac, a. Etym: [L. Syriacus, from Syria: cf. F. syriaque.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. -- n.
Defn: The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
SYRIACISM Syr"i*a*cism, n.
Defn: A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
SYRIAN Syr"i*an, a. Etym: [L. Syrius: cf. F. Syrien.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n.
Defn: A native of Syria.
SYRIANISM Syr"i*an*ism, n.
Defn: A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. Paley.
SYRIASM Syr"i*asm, n.
Defn: A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.
SYRINGA Sy*rin"ga, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Syringe.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
SYRINGE Syr"inge, n. Etym: [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. Syringa.]
Defn: A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. Garden syringe. See Garden.
SYRINGE Syr"inge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Syringing.]
1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
SYRINGEAL Sy*rin"ge*al, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
SYRINGIN Sy*rin"gin, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.
SYRINGOCOELE Sy*rin"go*coele, n. Etym: [Syrinx + Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
SYRINGOTOME Sy*rin"go*tome, n. Etym: [Cf. F. syringotome. See Syringotomy.] (Surg. & Anat.)
Defn: A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
SYRINGOTOMY Syr`in*got"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. syringotomie.] (Surg.)
Defn: The operation of cutting for anal fistula.
SYRINX Syr"inx, n.; pl. Syringes. Etym: [NL., from Gr.
1. (Mus.)
Defn: A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: The lower larynx in birds.
Note: In birds there are two laringes, an upper or true, but voiceless, larynx in the usual position behind the tongue, and a lower one, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi, which is the true organ of the voice.
SYRMA Syr"ma, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Antiq.)
Defn: A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.
SYRPHIAN Syr"phi*an, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies. -- n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A syrphus fly.
SYRPHUS FLY Syr"phus fly`. Etym: [NL. Syrphus, the generic name, fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Syrphus and allied genera. They are usually bright-colored, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. The larvæ feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.
SYRT Syrt, n. Etym: [L. syrtis a sand bank in the sea, Gr. syrte.]
Defn: A quicksand; a bog. [R.] Young.
SYRTIC Syr"tic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand. [R.] Ed. Rev.
SYRTIS Syr"tis, n.; pl. Syrtes. Etym: [See Syrt.]
Defn: A quicksand. Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land. Milton.
SYRUP; SYRUPY Syr"up, n., Syr"up*y, a. Etym: [See Sirup.]
Defn: Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
SYSSARCOSIS Sys`sar*co"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: The junction of bones by intervening muscles.
SYSTALTIC Sys*tal"tic, a. Etym: [L. systalticus drawing together, Gr. Sustaltic, Systole.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.
SYSTASIS Sys"ta*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. System.]
Defn: A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.
SYSTEM Sys"tem, n. Etym: [L. systema, Gr. système. See Stand.]
1. An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass. I. Watts.
2. Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. "The great system of the world." Boyle.
3. Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
4. (Mus.)
Defn: The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
5. (Biol.)
Defn: An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
6. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. Block system, Conservative system, etc. See under Block, Conservative, etc.
SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL Sys`tem*at"ic, Sys`tem*at"ic*al, a. [Gr. systématique.]
1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study. Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.
2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.
3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle.
4. (Med.)
Defn: Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology.
SYSTEMATICALLY Sys`tem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a systematic manner; methodically.
SYSTEMATISM Sys"tem*a*tism, n.
Defn: The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
SYSTEMATIST Sys"tem*a*tist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. systématiste.]
1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system.
2. One who adheres to a system.
SYSTEMATIZATION Sys`tem*a*ti*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. systématization.]
Defn: The act or operation of systematizing.
SYSTEMATIZE Sys"tem*a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Systematized; p. pr. & vb. n. Systematizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. systématiser. Cf. Systemize.]
Defn: To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts. Harris.
SYSTEMATIZER Sys"tem*a*ti`zer, n.
Defn: One who systematizes. Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines. Harris.
SYSTEMATOLOGY Sys`tem*a*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.
SYSTEMIC Sys*tem"ic, a.
1. Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.
2. (Anat. & Physiol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.
SYSTEMIZATION Sys`tem*i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
SYSTEMIZE Sys"tem*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Systemized; p. pr. & vb. n. Systemizing.] Etym: [Cf. Systematize.]
Defn: To reduce to system; to systematize.
SYSTEMIZER Sys"tem*i`zer, n.
Defn: One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.
SYSTEMLESS Sys"tem*less, a.
1. Being without system.
2. (Nat. Hist.)
Defn: Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification.
3. (Biol.)
Defn: Not having any of the distinct systems or types of structure, as the radiate, articulate, etc., characteristic of organic nature; as, all unicellular organisms are systemless.
SYSTOLE Sys"to*le, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
1. (Gram.)
Defn: The shortening of the long syllable.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.
SYSTOLIC Sys*tol"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., ralating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur. Dunglison.
SYSTYLE Sys"tyle, a. Etym: [L. systylos, Gr. systyle.] (Arch.)
Defn: Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation. -- n.
Defn: A systyle temple or other edifice.
SYTH; SYTHE Syth, Sythe, prep., adv., conj. & n.
Defn: See Sith, Sithe. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.
SYTHE Sythe, n.
Defn: Scythe. [Obs. or R.]
SYZYGIAL Sy*zyg"i*al, a.
Defn: Pertaining to a syzygy.
SYZYGY Syz"y*gy, n.; pl. Syzygies. Etym: [L. syzygia a joining together, conjunction, Gr. syzygie. See Yoke, n.]
1. (Astron.)
Defn: The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
2. (Gr. & L. Pros.)
Defn: The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side. (b) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. Line of syzygies (Astron.), the straight line connecting the earth, the sun, and the moon or a planet, when the latter is in conjunction or opposition; -- used chiefly of the moon.
TA Ta, v. t.
Defn: To take. [Obs. or Scot.] Cursor Mundi.
Used by Chaucer to represent a peculiarity of the Northern dialect.
TAAS Taas, n.
Defn: A heap. See Tas. [Obs.] Chaucer.
TAB Tab, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
2. A tag. See Tag, 2.
3. A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
TABACCO Ta*bac"co, n.
Defn: Tobacco. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
TABANUS Ta*ba"nus, n. [L., horsefly.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.
TABARD Tab"ard, n. [OE. tabard, tabart; cf. Sp. & Pg. tabardo, It. tabarro, W. tabar, LGr. , LL. tabardum.]
Defn: A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]
In a tabard he [the Plowman] rode upon a mare. Chaucer.
TABARDER Tab"ard*er, n.
1. One who wears a tabard.
2. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares.
TABARET Tab"a*ret, n. [Cf. Tabby.]
Defn: A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.
TABASCO SAUCE Ta*bas"co sauce. [So named after Tabasco, a river and state of Mexico.]
Defn: A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.
TABASHEER Tab`a*sheer", n. [Per. tabashir: cf. Skr. tvakkshira, tvakshira.]
Defn: A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
TABBINET Tab"bi*net, n. [Cf. Tabby.]
Defn: A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface. [Written also tabinet.]
TABEFACTION Tab`e*fac"tion, n. [See Tabefy.]
Defn: A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.
TABEFY Tab"e*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabefying.] [L. tabere to waste away + -fy: cf. L. tabefacere to melt.]
Defn: To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate. [R.] Harvey.
TABELLION Ta*bel"lion, n. [L. tabellio, fr. tabella a tablet, a writing, document, dim. of tabula a board: cf. F. tabellion. See Table.]
Defn: A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.
TABER Ta"ber, v. i.
Defn: Same as Tabor. Nahum ii. 7.
TABERD Tab"erd, n.
Defn: See Tabard.
TABERNACLE Tab"er*na*cle, n. [F., fr. L. tabernaculum, dim. of taberna nut. See Tabern.]
1. A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob. Heb. xi. 9.
Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden tabernacle and stoves. Evelyn.
2. (Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. Ex. xxvi.
3. Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. Acts xv. 16.
4. Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. 2 Pet. i. 14.
5. Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. Specifically: --
(a) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(b) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
(c) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
(d) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(e) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
6. (Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
Feast of Tabernacles (Jewish Antiq.), one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the wilderness. -- Tabernacle work, rich canopy work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over sepulchral monuments. Oxf. Gloss.
TABERNACLE Tab"er*na*cle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabernacled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabernacling.]
Defn: To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
He assumed our nature, and tabernacled among us in the flesh. Dr. J. Scott.
TABERNACULAR Tab`er*nac"u*lar, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
2. Formed in latticework; latticed. T. Warton.
3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly tabernacular." De Quincey.
TABES Ta"bes (ta"bez), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.)
Defn: Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
Tabes dorsalis (dôr*sa"lis) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. -- Tabes mesenterica [NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.
TABESCENT Ta*bes"cent, a. [L. tabescens wasting, p. pr. of tabescere.]
Defn: Withering, or wasting away.
TABETIC Ta*bet"ic, a. (Med.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. -- n.
Defn: One affected with tabes.
TABID Tab"id, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See Tabes.] (Med.)
Defn: Affected by tabes; tabetic.
In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot.
-- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
TABIFIC; TABIFICAL Ta*bif"ic, Ta*bif"ic*al, a. [Tabes + L. facere to make.] (Med.)
Defn: Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
TABINET Tab"inet, n.
Defn: See Tabbinet. Thackeray.
TABLATURE Tab"la*ture, n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation. See Table.]
1. (Paint.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general. Shaftesbury.
2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ. Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.
TABLE Ta"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing.]
1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
4. (Carp.)
Defn: To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
8. (Naut.)
Defn: To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
TABLE Ta"ble, v. i.
Defn: To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.
TABLEAU Ta`bleau", n.; pl. Tableaux. Etym: [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a painting. See Table.]
1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
TABLEAU VIVANT Ta`bleau" vi`vant"; pl. Tableaux vivants. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Same as Tableau, n., 2.
TABLEBOOK Ta"ble*book`, n.
Defn: A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.
TABLECLOTH Ta"ble*cloth`, n.
Defn: A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
TABLE D'HOTE Ta"ble d'hôte"; pl. Tables d'hôte. Etym: [F., literally, table of the landlord.]
Defn: A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
TABLE-LAND Ta"ble-land`, n.
Defn: A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau. The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table- lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.
TABLEMAN Ta"ble*man, n.; pl. Tablemen (.
Defn: A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.
TABLEMENT Ta"ble*ment, n. (Arch.)
Defn: A table. [Obs.] Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.
TABLER Ta"bler, n.
1. One who boards. [Obs.]
2. One who boards others for hire. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
TABLESPOON Ta"ble*spoon`, n.
Defn: A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
TABLESPOONFUL Ta"ble*spoon`ful, n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls (.
Defn: As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
TABLET Ta"blet, n. Etym: [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
1. A small table or flat surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
4. pl.
Defn: A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
6. (Pharm.)
Defn: A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
TABLEWARE Ta"ble*ware`, n.
Defn: Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
TABLE WORK Table work. (Print.)
Defn: Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.
TABLING Ta"bling, n.
1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (Carp.)
Defn: The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.
4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).
5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.
TABLOID Tab"loid, n. [A table-mark.]
Defn: A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
TABLOID Tab"loid, a.
Defn: Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
TABOO Ta*boo", n.
Defn: A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]
TABOO Ta*boo", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabooing.]
Defn: To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]
TABOR Ta"bor, n. Etym: [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabir a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.] (Mus.)
Defn: A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]
TABOR Ta"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored; p. pr. & vb. n. Taboring.] Etym: [Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.]
1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.
TABOR Ta"bor, v. t.
Defn: To make (a sound) with a tabor.
TABORER Ta"bor*er, n.
Defn: One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
TABORET Tab"o*ret, n. Etym: [Dim. of tabor. Cf. Tabret.] (Mus.)
Defn: A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]
TABORINE Tab"o*rine, n. Etym: [OF. tabourin, F. tambourin. See Tabor, and cf. Tambourine.] (Mus.)
Defn: A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
TABORITE Ta"bor*ite, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.
TABOUR Ta"bour, n. & v.
Defn: See Tabor.
TABOURET Tab"ou*ret, n. Etym: [F., dim. of OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See Tabor.]
1. Same as Taboret.
2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.
3. An embroidery frame. Knight. Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.
TABRERE Tab"rere, n.
Defn: A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
TABRET Tab"ret, n.
Defn: A taboret. Young.
TABU Ta*bu", n. & v.
Defn: See Taboo.
TABULA Tab"u*la, n.; pl. Tabulæ. Etym: [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa ( Etym: [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
TABULAR Tab"u*lar, a. Etym: [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.]
Defn: Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: -- (a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. (b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.
(c) Set in squares. [R.] (d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. (e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. -- Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.
TABULARIZATION Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
TABULARIZE Tab"u*lar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing.]
Defn: To tabulate.
TABULATA Tab`u*la"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
TABULATE Tab"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating.] Etym: [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.]
1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
TABULATION Tab`u*la"tion, n.
Defn: The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
TAC Tac, n. Etym: [Cf. Tack, n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
TACAMAHAC; TACAMAHACA Tac"a*ma*hac`, Tac`a*ma*ha"ca, n.
1. A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
TACAUD Ta*caud", n. Etym: [Cf. F. tacaud. See Tomcod.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The bib, or whiting pout. [Prov. Eng.]
TAC-AU-TAC Tac`-au-tac", n. [F., fr. riposter du tac au tac to parry (where tac imitates the sound made by the steel).] (Fencing)
Defn: The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
TACE Tace, n.
Defn: The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n. Mollett.
TACE Tace, n.
Defn: See Tasse. Fairholt.
TACET Ta"cet, v.impers. Etym: [L., it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of tacere to be silent.] (Mus.)
Defn: It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
TACHE Tache, n. Etym: [See Tack a kind of nail.]
Defn: Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [Obs.] Ex. xxvi. 6.
TACHE Tache, n. Etym: [F. tache spot. See Techy.]
Defn: A spot, stain, or blemish. [Obs.] Warner.
TACHHYDRITE Tach*hy"drite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
TACHINA Tach"i*na, n.; pl. Tachinæ. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvæ are external parasites of other insects.
TACHISTOSCOPE Ta*chis"to*scope, n. [Gr. , superl. of swift + -scope.] (Physiol.)
Defn: An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
TACHOGRAPH Tach"o*graph, n. [Gr. speed + -graph.]
Defn: A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.
TACHOMETER Ta*chom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter: cf. F. tachomètre.]
Defn: An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. Specifically: -- (a) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork. (b) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial. (c) (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a hæmatachometer.
TACHOMETRY Ta*chom"e*try, n.
Defn: Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.
TACHYDIDAXY Tach"y*di*dax`y, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: A short or rapid method of instructing. [R.]
TACHYGLOSSA Tach`y*glos"sa, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.
TACHYGRAPH Tach"y*graph, n.
Defn: An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
TACHYGRAPHER Ta*chyg"ra*pher, n. [Gr. a fast writer.]
Defn: One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.
TACHYGRAPHIC; TACHYGRAPHICAL Tach`y*graph"ic, Tach`y*graph"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tachygraphique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
TACHYGRAPHY Ta*chyg"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy: cf. F. tachygraphie.]
Defn: The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
TACHYLYTE Tach"y*lyte, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decompposable by acids and readily fusible.
TACHYMETER Ta*chym"e*ter, n. [Tachy- + -meter.]
1. (Surveying) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.
2. A speed indicator; a tachometer.
TACHYMETRY Ta*chym"e*try, n.
Defn: The science or use of the tachymeter. -- Ta`chy*met"ric (#), a.
TACHYSCOPE Tach"y*scope, n. [Gr. quick + -scope.]
Defn: An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
TACIT Tac"it, a. Etym: [L. tacitus, p.p. of tacere to be silent, to pass over in silence; akin to Goth. to be silent, Icel. , OHG. dagen: cf. F. tacite. Cf. Reticent.]
Defn: Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection. -- Tac"it*ly, adv. The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts. Jer. Taylor.
TACITURN Tac"i*turn, a. Etym: [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See Tacit.]
Defn: Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- Tac"i*turn*ly, adv.
Syn. -- Silent; reserved. Taciturn, Silent. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn may now and then make an effort at conversation.
TACITURNITY Tac`i*tur"ni*ty, n. Etym: [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnité.]
Defn: Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.
TACK Tack, n. Etym: [From an old or dialectal form of F. tache. See Techy.]
1. A stain; a tache. [Obs.]
2. Etym: [Cf. L. tactus.]
Defn: A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.
TACK Tack, n. Etym: [OE. tak, takke, a fastening; akin to D. tak a branch, twig, G. zacke a twig, prong, spike, Dan. takke a tack, spike; cf. also Sw. tagg prickle, point, Icel. tag a willow twig, Ir. taca a peg, nail, fastening, Gael. tacaid, Armor. & Corn. tach; perhaps akin to E. take. Cf. Attach, Attack, Detach, Tag an end, Zigzag.]
1. A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
2. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3. Macaulay. Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp. Burnet.
3. (Naut.) (a) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom. (b) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail). (c) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
4. (Scots Law)
Defn: A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease. Burrill.
5. Confidence; reliance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Tack of a flag (Naut.), a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards. -- Tack pins (Naut.), belaying pins; -- also called jack pins. -- To haul the tacks aboard (Naut.), to set the courses. -- To hold tack, to last or hold out. Milton.
TACK Tack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking.] Etym: [Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. take. See Tack a small nail.]
1. To fasten or attach. "In hopes of getting some commendam tacked to their sees." Swift. And tacks the center to the sphere. Herbert.
2. Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
3. In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to. Macaulay.
4. (Naut.)
Defn: To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
Note: In tacking, a vessel is brought to point at first directly to windward, and then so that the wind will blow against the other side.
TACK Tack, v. i. (Naut.)
Defn: To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4. Monk, . . . when he wanted his ship to tack to larboard, moved the mirth of his crew by calling out, "Wheel to the left." Macaulay.
TACKER Tack"er, n.
Defn: One who tacks.
TACKET Tack"et, n. Etym: [Dim. of tack a small nail.]
Defn: A small, broad-headed nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.
TACKEY Tack"ey, a. & n.
Defn: See Tacky.
TACKING Tack"ing, n. (Law)
Defn: A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.
Note: The doctrine of tacking is not recognized in American law. Kent.
TACKLE Tac"kle (; sometimes improperly pronounced , especially by seamen), n. Etym: [OE. takel, akin to LG. & D. takel, Dan. takkel, Sw. tackel; perhaps akin to E. taw, v.t., or to take.]
1. Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
2. Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.
Note: In Chaucer, it denotes usually an arrow or arrows.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle (Naut.), anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun tackle, the apparatus or appliances for hauling cannon in or out. -- Tackle fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is applied. -- Tack tackle (Naut.), a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails. -- Tackle board, Tackle post (Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.
TACKLE Tac"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tackled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tackling.] Etym: [Cf. LG. takeln to equip. See Tackle, n.]
1. To supply with tackle. Beau. & Fl.
2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]
3. To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game. The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and strength in tackling windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her defeat. Dublin Univ. Mag.
Defn: To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
TACKLED Tac"kled, a.
Defn: Made of ropes tacked together. My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair. Shak.
TACKLING Tac"kling, n. (Naut.)
1. Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.
2. Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling. Walton.
3. The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.
TACKSMAN Tacks"man, n.; pl. Tacksmen (. (Scots Law)
Defn: One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. Sir W. Scott. The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the "peerage" of the little community, must be the captains. Macaulay.
TACKY Tack"y, a. Etym: [Cf. Techy, Tack a spot.]
Defn: Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]
TACONIC Ta*con"ic, a. (Geol.)
Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
TACT Tact, n. Etym: [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.]
1. The sense of touch; feeling. Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight Southey. Now, sight is a very refined tact. J. Le Conte.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: The stroke in beating time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay. A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours. Macaulay.
TACTABLE Tac"ta*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.
TACTFUL Tact"ful, a.
Defn: Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.
TACTIC; TACTICAL Tac"tic, Tac"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. tactics.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
TACTIC Tac"tic, n.
Defn: See Tactics.
TACTICIAN Tac*ti"cian, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tacticien.]
Defn: One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
TACTICS Tac"tics, n. Etym: [Gr. tactique.]
1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
2. Hence, any system or method of procedure.
TACTILE Tac"tile, a. Etym: [L. tactilis, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F. tactile.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.
TACTILITY Tac*til"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tactilité.]
Defn: The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
TACTION Tac"tion, n. Etym: [L. tactio, from tangere, tactum, to touch.]
Defn: The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction." Chesterfield.
TACTLESS Tact"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of tact.
TACTUAL Tac"tu*al, a. Etym: [See Tact.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.
TADPOLE Tad"pole`, n. Etym: [OE. tadde toad (AS. tadie, tadige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.] Tadpole fish. (Zoöl.) See Forkbeard (a).
TAEDIUM Tæ"di*um, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: See Tedium.
TAEL Tael, n. Etym: [Malay ta, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. tola, Skr. tula a balance, weight, tul to weigh.]
Defn: A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]
TAEN; TA'EN Taen, or Ta'en,
Defn: p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.
TAENIA Tæ"ni*a, n.; pl. Tæniæ. Etym: [L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
TAENIACIDE; TENIACIDE Tæ"ni*a*cide`, n. Also Te"ni*a*cide` . [Tænia + -cide.] (Med.)
Defn: A remedy to destroy tapeworms.
TAENIADA Tæ*ni"a*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Tænioidea.
TAENIAFUGE; TENIAFUGE Tæ"ni*a*fuge`, n. Also Te"ni*a*fuge`. [Tænia + L. fugare to drive away.] (Med.)
Defn: A remedy to expel tapeworms.
TAENIASIS; TENIASIS Tæ*ni"a*sis, n. Also Te*ni"a*sis. [NL. See Tænia.] (Med.)
Defn: Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.
TAENIATA Tæ`ni*a"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. taenia a ribbon.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
TAENIDIUM Tæ*nid"i*um, n.; pl. Tænidia. Etym: [NL., dim. fr. L. taenia a ribbon.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheæ of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
TAENIOGLOSSA Tæ`ni*o*glos"sa, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh- water.
TAENIOGLOSSATE Tæ`ni*o*glos"sate, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Tænioglossa.
TAENIOID Tæ"ni*oid, a. Etym: [Tænia + -oid.]
1. Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Like or pertaining to Tænia.
TAENIOIDEA Tæ`ni*oi"de*a, n. pl. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
TAENIOLA Tæ*ni"o*la, n.; pl. Tæniolæ. Etym: [L., dim. of taenia a ribbon.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusæ.
TAENIOSOMI Tæ`ni*o*so"mi, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
TAFFERER Taf"fer*er, n. (Naut.)
Defn: See Taffrail.
TAFFETA; TAFFETY Taf"fe*ta, Taf"fe*ty, n. Etym: [F. taffetas, It. taffetà, from Per. taftah, originally, twisted, woven, from taftan to twist, to spin.]
Defn: A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.
TAFFRAIL Taff"rail, n. Etym: [D. tafereel a panel, picture, fr. tafel table, fr. L. tabula. See Table.] (Naut.)
Defn: The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]
TAFFY Taf"fy, n. Etym: [Prov. E. taffy toffy.]
1. A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]
2. Flattery; soft phrases. [Slang]
TAFIA Taf"i*a, n. Etym: [Cf. F. & Sp. tafia, It. taffia; fr. Malay tafia a spirit distilled from molasses. Cf. Ratafia.]
Defn: A variety of rum. [West Indies]
TAG Tag, n. Etym: [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]
1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Defn: A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
Note: Frequently it is held in the private home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the seller. Similar to a yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea market, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.
TAG Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging.]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
TAG Tag, v. i.
Defn: To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
TAG Tag, n. Etym: [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]
Defn: A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
TAGAL Ta*gal", n.
1. One of a Malayan race, mainly of central Luzon, next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.
2. The language of the Tagals; Tagalog.
TAGALOG Ta*ga"log, n.
1. (Ethnol.) Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.
2. The language of the Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family.
TAGBELT Tag"belt`, n. (Far.)
Defn: Same as Tagsore. [Obs.]
TAG DAY Tag day.
Defn: A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.
TAGGER Tag"ger, n.
1. One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
2. That which is pointed like a tag. Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.
3. pl.
Defn: Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. Knight.
4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep. Knight.
TAGLET Tag"let, n.
Defn: A little tag.
TAGLIA Tagl"ia, n. Etym: [It., a cutting, a pulley, from tagliare to cut. See Tailor.] (Mech.)
Defn: A peculiar combination of pulleys. Brande & C.
TAGLIACOTAIN Tagl`ia*co"tain, a. (Surg.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]
TAGLIONI Tagl*io"ni, n.
Defn: A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers. He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel. Sir W. Scott.
TAGLOCK Tag"lock`, n.
Defn: An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.
TAGNICATE Tag"ni*cate, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The white-lipped peccary.
TAG-RAG Tag"-rag`, n. & a. Etym: [See Tag an end, and Rag.]
Defn: The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. Shak.
TAGSORE Tag"sore`, n. (Far.)
Defn: Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt. [Obs.]
TAGTAIL Tag"tail`, n.
1. A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
2. A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.
TAGUAN Tag"u*an, n. Etym: [From the native name in the East Indies.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
TAGUICATI Ta`gui*ca"ti, n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The white-lipped peccary.
TAHA Ta"ha, n.
Defn: The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
TAHALEB Ta*ha"leb, n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
TAHITIAN Ta*hi"ti*an, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. -- n.
Defn: A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
TAHR Tahr, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Thar.
TAI Tai, a.
Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.
TAI Tai, n.
Defn: A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.
The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number. Census of India, 1901.
TAIL Tail, n. Etym: [F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law)
Defn: Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.
TAIL Tail, a. (Law)
Defn: Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
TAIL Tail, n. Etym: [AS. tægel, tægl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. *59.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebræ, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin. Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees. Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the Ant: head, or the superior part. The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut. xxviii. 13.
4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue. "Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on." Sir W. Scott.
5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
6. (Anat.)
Defn: The distal tendon of a muscle.
7. (Bot.)
Defn: A downy or feathery appendage to certain achens. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
8. (Surg.) (a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing. (b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
9. (Naut.)
Defn: A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.)
Defn: The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
11. pl.
Defn: Same as Tailing, 4.
12. (Arch.)
Defn: The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
13. pl. (Mining)
Defn: See Tailing, n., 5. Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail coverts (Zoöl.), the feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under tail coverts. -- Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated. Totten. -- Tail of a lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. -- Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach. -- Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- To turn tail, to run away; to flee. Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.
TAIL Tail, v. t.
1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.] Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fuller.
2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras. To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a timber.
TAIL Tail, v. i.
1. (Arch.)
Defn: To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
2. (Naut.)
Defn: To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream. Tail on. (Naut.) See Tally on, under Tally.
TAILAGE Tail"age, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: See Tallage.
TAIL-BAY Tail"-bay`, n.
1. (Arch.)
Defn: One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
TAILBLOCK Tail"block`, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
TAILBOARD Tail"board`, n.
Defn: The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
TAILED Tailed, a.
Defn: Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
TAILING Tail"ing, n.
1. (Arch.)
Defn: The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. pl.
Defn: The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
5. pl. (Mining)
Defn: The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.
TAILLE Taille, n. Etym: [F. See Tally, Tailor.]
1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.] Whether that he paid or took by taille. Chaucer.
2. (O. F. Law)
Defn: Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.
3. (Mus.)
Defn: The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
TAILLESS Tail"less, a.
Defn: Having no tail. H. Spencer.
TAILLIE Tail"lie, n. (Scots Law)
Defn: Same as Tailzie.
TAILOR Tai"lor, n. Etym: [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.]
1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor. Shak.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b) The silversides.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.] Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. -- Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O. coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.
TAILOR Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored; p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.]
Defn: To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.
TAILORESS Tai"lor*ess, n.
Defn: A female tailor.
TAILORING Tai"lor*ing, adv.
Defn: The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
TAILOR-MADE Tai"lor-made`, a.
Defn: Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
TAILPIECE Tail"piece`, n.
1. A piece at the end; an appendage.
2. (Arch.)
Defn: One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
3. (Print.)
Defn: An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.
4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
TAILPIN Tail"pin", n. (Mach.)
Defn: The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
TAILRACE Tail"race`, n.
1. See Race, n., 6.
2. (Mining)
Defn: The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
TAILSTOCK Tail"stock`, n.
Defn: The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
TAIL-WATER Tail"-wa`ter, n.
Defn: Water in a tailrace.
TAILZIE Tail"zie (-zî or -yî), n. Etym: [F. tailler to cut. See Tail a limitation.] (Scots Law)
Defn: An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. [Written also tailzee.]
TAIN Tain, n. Etym: [OE. tein, teyne; cf. Icel. teinn a twig, akin to AS. tan, Goth. tains.]
Defn: Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. Knight.
TAINT Taint, n. Etym: [Cf. F. atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See Attaint.]
1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.] This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
TAINT Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tainting.]
Defn: To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
TAINT Taint, v. t.
1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. [Obs.] Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely. Massinger.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. [Obs.] They tainted each other on the helms and passed by. Ld. Berners.
TAINT Taint, v. t. Etym: [F. teint, p.p. of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere, tinctum. See Tinge, and cf. Tint.]
1. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
2. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. Shak.
Syn. -- To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease; vitiate; poison.
TAINT Taint, v. i.
1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting. I can not taint with fear. Shak.
2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
TAINT Taint, n.
1. Tincture; hue; color; tinge. [Obs.]
2. Infection; corruption; deprivation. He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. Macaulay.
3. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
TAINTLESS Taint"less, a.
Defn: Free from taint or infection; pure.
TAINTLESSLY Taint"less*ly, adv.
Defn: In a taintless manner.
TAINTURE Tain"ture, n. Etym: [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.]
Defn: Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.] Shak.
TAINTWORM Taint"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
TAIPING; TAEPING Tai"ping", or Tae"ping", a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.)
Defn: Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu- Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.
TAIRA Tai"ra, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Tayra.
TAIRN Tairn, n.
Defn: See Tarn. Coleridge.
TAIT Tait, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
TAJACU; TAJASSU Ta*jaç"u, Ta*jas"su, n. Etym: [Pg. tajaç\'a3, from Braz. tayaç\'a3 a hog or swine.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common, or collared, peccary.
TAJ MAHAL Taj Ma*hal" (täj ma*häl"). [Corruption of Per. Mumtaz-i-Mahsal, lit., the distinguished one of the palace, fr. Ar.]
Defn: A marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, in memory of his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture.
TAKE Take, obs. p. p. of Take.
Defn: Taken. Chaucer.
TAKE Take, v. t. [imp. Took; p. p. Takend; p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.] Etym: [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. tekan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically: -- (a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. 1 Sam. xiv. 42. The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. Hammond.
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. I. Watts.
(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden.
(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say. (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery. He took me certain gold, I wot it well. Chaucer.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: -- (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim. v. 10.
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. (d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man. (e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. You take me right. Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. Wake. [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape. I take thee at thy word. Rowe. Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. Dryden. To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc. -- To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. -- To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. -- To take arms, to commence war or hostilities. -- To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." Dryden. -- To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self. -- To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen" 1 Cor. ix. 9. -- To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. -- To take down. (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left. -- To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. -- To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." Dryden. -- To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. -- To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. -- To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. -- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman. (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions." I. Watts. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.] -- To take in hand. See under Hand. -- To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Ex. xx. 7. -- To take issue. See under Issue. -- To take leave. See Leave, n., 2. -- To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. -- To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. -- To take notice of. See under Notice. -- To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. -- To take off. (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb. (c) To destroy; as, to take off life. (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument. (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. Locke. (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine. (g) To purchase; to take in trade. "The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off." Locke. (h) To copy; to reproduce. "Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take off. [R.] Bacon. -- To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. -- To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice. -- To take order for. See under Order. -- To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take orders. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. -- To take out. (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth. (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent. (d) To put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a man. (e) To escort; as, to take out to dinner. -- To take over, to undertake; to take the management of. [Eng.] Cross (Life of G. Eliot). -- To take part, to share; as, they take part in our rejoicing. -- To take part with, to unite with; to join with. -- To take place, root, sides, stock, etc. See under Place, Root, Side, etc. -- To take the air. (a) (Falconry) To seek to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon; -- said of a bird. (b) See under Air. -- To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. -- To take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27. -- To take to heart. See under Heart. -- To take to task, to reprove; to censure. -- to take to the air, to take off. To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.] The ancients took up experiments upon credit. Bacon. (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange. (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Addison. (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take up our old trade of conquering." Dryden. (m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our bills." Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. [Obs.] Shak. -- To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. -- To take upon one's self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. -- To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
TAKE Take, v. i.
1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon.
2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed. Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. Addison.
3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well. To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father. -- To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. -- To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world." Addison. -- To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] Locke. -- To take up with. (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." I. Watts. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] L'Estrange. -- To take with, to please. Bacon.
TAKE Take, n.
1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
2. (Print.)
Defn: The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
TAKE-IN Take"-in`, n.
Defn: Imposition; fraud. [Colloq.]
TAKEN Tak"en,
Defn: p. p. of Take.
TAKE-OFF Take"-off`, n.
Defn: An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
TAKER Tak"er, n.
Defn: One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
TAKE-UP Take"-up`, n. (Mach.)
Defn: That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
TAKING Tak"ing, a.
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller.
2. Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
TAKING Tak"ing, n.
1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.] What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket! Shak.
3. Malign influence; infection. [Obs.] Shak.
TAKING-OFF Tak"ing-off`, n.
Defn: Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
TALAPOIN Tal"a*poin, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, or Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.
TALARIA Ta*la"ri*a, n. pl. Etym: [L., from talaris pertaining to the ankles, fr. talus ankle.] (Class. Myth.)
Defn: Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.
TALBOT Tal"bot, n.
Defn: A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game. [Obs.] Wase (1654).
Note: The figure of a dog is borne in the arms of the Talbot family, whence, perhaps, the name.
TALBOTYPE Tal"bo*type, n. (Photog.)
Defn: Same as Calotype.
TALC Talc, n. Etym: [F. talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL. talcus; all fr. Ar. talq.] (Min.)
Defn: A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate.
TALCOSE; TALCOUS Tal*cose", Talc"ous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. talqueux.] (Min.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
TALCUM Tal"cum, n. [NL.] (Min.)
Defn: Same as Talc.
TALE Tale, n.
Defn: See Tael.
TALE Tale, n. Etym: [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D. taal speech, language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal, tala, number, speech, Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech, Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf. Tell, v. t., Toll a tax, also Talk, v. i.]
1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. "The tale of Troy divine." Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's tale." Chaucer. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated. The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.
3. (Law)
Defn: A count or declaration. [Obs.] To tell tale of, to make account of. [Obs.] Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart. Chaucer.
Syn. -- Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; legend; narrative.
TALE Tale, v. i.
Defn: To tell stories. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
TALEBEARER Tale"bear`er, n.
Defn: One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.
TALEBEARING Tale"bear`ing, a.
Defn: Telling tales officiously.
TALEBEARING Tale"bear`ing, n.
Defn: The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.
TALED Ta"led, n. (Jewish Antiq.)
Defn: A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.
TALEFUL Tale"ful, a.
Defn: Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.
TALEGALLA Tal`e*gal"la, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.
TALENT Tal"ent, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. talentum a talent (in sense 1), Gr. tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., Tolerate.]
1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (Thucid.).
2. Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93
3. Inclination; will; disposition; desire. [Obs.] They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit. Chaucer.
4. Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes. Dryden. His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him generally popular. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Ability; faculty; gift; endowment. See Genius.
TALENTED Tal"ent*ed, a.
Defn: Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).
Note: This word has been strongly objected to by Coleridge and some other critics, but, as it would seem, upon not very good grounds, as the use of talent or talents to signify mental ability, although at first merely metaphorical, is now fully established, and talented, as a formative, is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted, bigoted, moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and numerous other adjectives having a participal form, but derived directly from nouns and not from verbs.
TALES Ta"les, n. Etym: [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl.
Defn: Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.
Defn: The writ by which such persons are summoned. Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. Blount. Craig. -- Tales de circumstantibus Etym: [L.], such, or the like, from those standing about.
TALESMAN Tales"man, n.; pl. Talesmen (. (Law)
Defn: A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.
TALETELLER Tale"tell`er, n.
Defn: One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
TALEWISE Tale"wise`, adv.
Defn: In a way of a tale or story.
TALIACOTIAN Tal"ia*co`tian, a.
Defn: See Tagliacotian.
TALIATION Tal`i*a"tion, n.
Defn: Retaliation. [Obs.] Just heav'n this taliation did decree. Beaumont.
TALION Ta"li*on, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. talio, perh. fr. talis such. Cf. Retaliation.]
Defn: Retaliation. [R.] Holinshed.
TALIPES Tal"i*pes, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis, a foot; cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet, properly, to walk on the ankles.] (Surg.)
Defn: The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
Note: Several varieties are distinguished; as, Talipes varus, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and T. calcaneus (called also talus), in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel.
TALIPOT Tal"i*pot, n. Etym: [Hind. talpat the leaf of the tree.] (Bot.)
Defn: A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
TALISMAN Tal"is*man, n.; pl. Talismans. Etym: [Sp., from Ar. tilism, tilsam, a magical image, pl. tilsaman, fr. Gr.
1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
2. Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. Swift.
TALISMANIC; TALISMANICAL Tal`is*man"ic, Tal`is*man"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. talismanique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
TALK Talk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked; p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.] Etym: [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).]
1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.
2. To confer; to reason; to consult. Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1.
3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.] To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done." Addison. -- To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
TALK Talk, v. t.
1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves mad." Shak. To talk over. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.
TALK Talk, n.
1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope. Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See Conversation.
TALKATIVE Talk"a*tive, a.
Defn: Given to much talking.
Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous. -- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
TALKER Talk"er, n.
1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.
TALKING Talk"ing, a.
1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
2. Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
TALL Tall, a. [Compar. Taller; superl. Tallest.] Etym: [OE. tal seemly, elegant, docile; of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale, bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn. tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.]
1. High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton.
2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.] As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification. Massinger. His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. Grafton.
3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] B. Jonson.
Syn. -- High; lofty. -- Tall, High, Lofty. High is the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.
TALLAGE; TALLIAGE Tal"lage, Tal"li*age, n. Etym: [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. Blackstone.
TALLAGE Tal"lage, v. t.
Defn: To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
TALLBOY Tall"boy`, n.
1. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
2. A piece of household furniture common in the eighteenth century, usually in two separate parts, with larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy.
3. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
TALLIER Tal"li*er, n.
Defn: One who keeps tally.
TALLIS Tal"lis, n.
Defn: Same as Tallith.
TALLITH Tal"lith, n. [NHeb. tallith.] (Jewish Costume) (a) An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews, covering the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners. (b) A tasseled shawl or scarf worn over the head or thrown round the shoulders while at prayer.
TALLNESS Tall"ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.
TALLOW Tal"low, n. Etym: [OE. taluh, talugh; akin to OD. talgh, D. talk, G., Dan. and Sw. talg, Icel. tolgr, tolg, tolk; and perhaps to Goth. tulgus firm.]
1. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
Note: The solid consistency of tallow is due to the large amount of stearin it contains. See Fat.
2. The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds. Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. -- Tallow catch, a keech. See Keech. [Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. -- Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on. -- Tallow tree (Bot.), a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is applied to the same purposes.
TALLOW Tal"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tallowing.]
1. To grease or smear with tallow.
2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
TALLOWER Tal"low*er, n.
Defn: An animal which produces tallow.
TALLOW-FACE Tal"low-face`, n.
Defn: One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.
TALLOW-FACED Tal"low-faced`, a.
Defn: Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
TALLOWING Tal"low*ing, n.
Defn: The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.
TALLOWISH Tal"low*ish, a.
Defn: Having the qualities of tallow.
TALLOWY Tal"low*y, a.
Defn: Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
TALLWOOD Tall"wood`, n. Etym: [Cf. Tally.]
Defn: Firewood cut into billets of a certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]
TALLY Tal"ly, n.; pl. Tallies. Etym: [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taillé, p.p. of tailler. See Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation, Taille, Tallage.]
1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
Note: In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score or notch, on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered, -- the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use of writing, this, or something like it, was the only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.
2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. They were framed the tallies for each other. Dryden.
4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
5. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below. Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. -- To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.
TALLY Tal"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tallying.] Etym: [Cf. F. tialler to cut. See Tally, n.]
1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit. They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. Pope.
2. (Naut.)
Defn: To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. W. C. Russell. Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.
TALLY Tal"ly, v. i.
1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. Addison. Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. Walpole.
2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game. Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.
TALLY Tal"ly, adv. Etym: [See Tall, a.]
Defn: Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
TALLYHO Tal"ly*ho`, interj. & n.
1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.
2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
TALLYMAN Tal"ly*man, n.; pl. Tallymen (.
1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
TALMA Tal"ma, n.; pl. Talmas. Etym: [Prob. so called from Talma, a French actor.] (a) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.
TALMUD Tal"mud, n. Etym: [Chald. talmud instruction, doctrine, fr. lamad to learn, limmad to teach.]
Defn: The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
Note: The Talmud consists of two parts, the Mishna, or text, and the Gemara, or commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud is restricted, especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There are two Talmuds, the Palestinian, commonly, but incorrectly, called the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the Babylonian Talmud. They contain the same Mishna, but different Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is about three times as large as the other, and is more highly esteemed by the Jews.
TALMUDIC; TALMUDICAL Tal*mud"ic, Tal*mud"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. talmudique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.
TALMUDISM Tal"mud*ism, n. , n.
Defn: The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.
TALMUDIST Tal"mud*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. talmudiste.]
Defn: One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
TALMUDISTIC Tal`mud*is"tic, a.
Defn: Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
TALON Tal"on, n. Etym: [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle, heel.]
1. The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. Bacon.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
Note: When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. Knight.
TALOOK; TALUK Ta*look", Ta*luk", n. Etym: [Ar. ta'lluq.]
Defn: A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it. [India]
TALOOKDAR; TALUKDAR Ta*look"dar, Ta*luk"dar, n. Etym: [Hind., fr. Per. ta'lluqdar.]
Defn: A proprietor of a talook. [India]
TALPA Tal"pa, n. Etym: [L., mole.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
TALUS Ta"lus, n.; pl. Tali. Etym: [L., the ankle, the ankle bone.]
1. (Anat.)
Defn: The astragalus.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.
TALUS Ta"lus, n. Etym: [F.]
1. (Fort.)
Defn: A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
2. (Geol.)
Defn: A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
TAMABILITY Tam`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
TAMABLE Tam"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness, n.
TAMALE Ta*ma"le, n. [Written also tamal, tomale.] [Amer. Sp. tamal, of Mex. origin.]
Defn: A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.
TAMANDU Ta*man"du, n. Etym: [Sp., from the native name: cf. F. tamandua.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.
Note: It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout, small ears, and short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end. Called also tamandua, little ant-bear, fourmilier, and cagouare. The collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety.
TAMANOIR Ta`ma*noir", n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The ant-bear.
TAMARACK Tam"a*rack, n. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch. (b) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
TAMARIC Tam"a*ric, n. Etym: [L. tamarice. See Tamarisk.]
Defn: A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.] He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
TAMARIN Tam"a*rin, n. Etym: [From the native name in Cayenne.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
TAMARIND Tam"a*rind, n. Etym: [It. tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg. tamarindo, tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhindi, literally, Indian date; tamar a dried date + Hind India: cf. F. tamarin. Cf. Hindoo.] (Bot.)
1. A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide- spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
2. One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink. Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. -- Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. -- Wild tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.
TAMARISK Tam"a*risk, n. Etym: [L. tamariscus, also tamarix, tamarice, Skr. tamala, tamalaka, a tree with a very dark bark; cf. tamas darkness: cf. F. tamarisc, tamarix, tamaris.] (Bot.)
Defn: Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.
TAMBAC Tam"bac, n. (Metal.)
Defn: See Tombac. [Obs.]
TAMBOUR Tam"bour, n.
1. (Mus.)
Defn: A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
4. (Fort.)
Defn: A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
5. (Physiol.)
Defn: A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
TAMBOUR Tam"bour, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamboured; p. pr. & vb. n. Tambouring.]
Defn: To embroider on a tambour.
TAMBOURIN Tam`bou`rin", n. Etym: [F. See Tambourine.]
1. A tambourine. [Obs.]
2. (Mus.)
Defn: An old Provençal dance of a lively character, common on the stage.
TAMBOURINE Tam`bour*ine", n. Etym: [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour, and cf. Tamborine.]
Defn: A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
TAMBREET Tam"breet, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The duck mole.
TAMBURIN Tam`bu*rin", n.
Defn: See Tambourine. Spenser.
TAME Tame, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.]
Defn: To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.
TAME Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer; superl. Tamest.] Etym: [AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. *61. Cf. Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.]
1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon.
3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn. -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
TAME Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] Etym: [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. zähmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]
1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
TAMEABLE Tame"a*ble, a.
Defn: Tamable. Bp. Wilkins.
TAMELESS Tame"less, a.
Defn: Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.
TAMELY Tame"ly, adv.
Defn: In a tame manner.
TAMENESS Tame"ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tame.
TAMER Tam"er, n.
Defn: One who tames or subdues.
TAMIAS Ta"mi*as, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
TAMIL Ta"mil, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. [Written also Tamul.]
TAMIL Ta"mil, n. Etym: [Written also Tamul.]
1. (Ethnol.)
Defn: One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
TAMILIAN Ta*mil"i*an, a. & n.
Defn: Tamil.
TAMINE; TAMINY Tam"ine, Tam"i*ny, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tamis a sort of sieve. Cf. Stamin, Temse.]
Defn: A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
TAMIS Tam"is, n. Etym: [F., a kind of sieve.]
1. A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
2. The cloth itself; tammy. Tamis bird (Zoöl.), a Guinea fowl.
TAMKIN Tam"kin, n.
Defn: A tampion. Johnson (Dict.).
TAMMY Tam"my, n.; pl. Tammies (.
1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
TAMP Tamp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.] Etym: [Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See Tampion.]
1. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
TAMPAN Tam"pan, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.
TAMPEON Tam"pe*on, n.
Defn: See Tampion. Farrow.
TAMPER Tamp"er, n.
1. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
TAMPER Tam"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tampering.] Etym: [A corruption of temper.]
1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon.
2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.
TAMPERER Tam"per*er, n.
Defn: One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.
TAMPICO FIBER; TAMPICO FIBRE Tam*pi"co fi"ber or; Tam*pi"co fi"bre.
Defn: A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
TAMPING Tamp"ing, n.
1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.
TAMPION Tam"pi*on, n. Etym: [F. tampon, tapon, tape, of Dutch or German origin. See Tap a pipe or plug, and cf. Tamp, Tampop, Tompion.] [Written also tampeon, and tompion.]
1. A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
TAMPOE Tam"poe, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
TAMPON Tam"pon, n. Etym: [F. See Tampion.] (Surg.)
Defn: A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
TAMPON Tam"pon, v. t. (Surg.)
Defn: To plug with a tampon.
TAMPOON Tam"poon, n. Etym: [See Tampion.]
Defn: The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
TAM-'-SHANTER Tam`-o'-shan"ter, n. [So named after Tam o'Shanter, a character in Burns's poem of the same name.]
Defn: A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.
TAM-TAM Tam"-tam`, n. Etym: [Hind.; of imitative origin.] (Mus.) (a) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom. (b) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.
TAMUL Ta"mul, a. & n.
Defn: Tamil.
TAMWORTH Tam"worth, n. [From Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.]
Defn: One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers.
TAN Tan, n. Etym: [Chin.]
Defn: See Picul.
TAN Tan, n. Etym: [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a forest. Cf. Tawny.]
1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
TAN Tan, a.
Defn: Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. Black and tan. See under Black, a.
TAN Tan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] Etym: [F. tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.]
1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
Note: The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning.
2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
TAN Tan, v. i.
Defn: To get or become tanned.
TANA Ta"na, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Banxring.
TANAGER Tan"a*ger, n. Etym: [NL. tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian tangara.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.
TANAGRINE Tan"a*grine, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
TANAGROID Tan"a*groid, a. Etym: [Tanager + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Tanagrine.
TANATE Ta*na"te, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.
TANDEM Tan"dem, adv. & a. Etym: [L. tandem at length (of time only), punningly taken as meaning, lengthwise.]
Defn: One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
TANDEM Tan"dem, n.
Defn: A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems." Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.
TANDEM CART Tan"dem cart.
Defn: A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.
TANDEM ENGINE Tandem engine.
Defn: A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
TANDEM SYSTEM Tandem system. (Elec.)
Defn: = Cascade system.
TANG Tang, n. Etym: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. tang seaweed, Sw. tång, Icel. þang. Cf. Tangle.] (Bot.)
Defn: A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). Dr. Prior. Tang sparrow (Zoöl.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
TANG Tang, n. Etym: [Probably fr. OD. tanger sharp, tart, literally, pinching; akin to E. tongs. *59. See Tong.]
1. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang. Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny. Fuller. A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics. Jeffrey.
3. Etym: [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. tangi a projecting point; akin to E. tongs. See Tongs.]
Defn: A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: -- (a) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. (b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. (c) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. (d) The tongue of a buckle. [Prov. Eng.]
TANG Tang, n. Etym: [Of imitative origin. Cf. Twang. This word has become confused with tang tatse, flavor.]
Defn: A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
TANG Tang, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanging.]
Defn: To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak. To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.
TANG Tang, v. i.
Defn: To make a ringing sound; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. Shak.
TANGALUNG Tan"ga*lung, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).
TANGELO Tan"ge*lo (tan"je*lo), n. [Tangerine + pomelo.]
Defn: A hybrid between the tangerine orange and the grapefruit, or pomelo; also, the fruit.
TANGENCE Tan"gence, n.
Defn: Tangency. [R.]
TANGENCY Tan"gen*cy, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
TANGENT Tan"gent, n. Etym: [L. tangens, -entis, p.pr. of tangere to touch; akin to Gr. tangente. Cf. Attain, Contaminate, Contingent, Entire, Tact, Taste, Tax, v. t.] (Geom.)
Defn: A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc. -- Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length of the tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity. -- Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the strength of the current. -- Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle. -- Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from the center through the other extremity o.
TANGENT Tan"gent, a. Etym: [L. tangens, -entis, p.pr.]
Defn: Touching; touching at a single point; specifically (Geom.)
Defn: meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces. Tangent plane (Geom.), a plane which touches a surface in a point or line. -- Tangent scale (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon. -- Tangent screw (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm.
TANGENTAL Tan*gen"tal, a. (Geom.)
Defn: Tangential.
TANGENTIAL Tan*gen"tial, a. (Geom.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity. -- Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
TANGENTIALLY Tan*gen"tial*ly, adv.
Defn: In the direction of a tangent.
TANGENT SPOKE Tangent spoke.
Defn: A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel, secured tangentially to the hub.
TANGENT WHEEL Tangent wheel. (a) A worm or worm wheel; a tangent screw. (b) A wheel with tangent spokes.
TANGERINE Tan"ger*ine`, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written also tangierine.]
TANGFISH Tang"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common harbor seal. [Prov. Eng.]
TANGHINIA Tan*ghin"i*a, n. Etym: [NL.] (Bot.)
Defn: The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
TANGIBILITY Tan`gi*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tanggibilité.]
Defn: The quality or state of being tangible.
TANGIBLE Tan"gi*ble, a. Etym: [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F. tangible. See Tangent.]
1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron. Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others. Southey. -- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.
TANGLE Tan"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling.] Etym: [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.
TANGLE Tan"gle, v. i.
Defn: To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
TANGLE Tan"gle, n.
1. Etym: [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.)
Defn: Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. C. Kingsley.
2. Etym: [From Tangle, v.]
Defn: A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
3. pl.
Defn: An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. -- Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
TANGLEFISH Tan"gle*fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
TANGLINGLY Tan"gling*ly, adv.
Defn: In a tangling manner.
TANGLY Tan"gly, a.
1. Entangled; intricate.
2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed. Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.
TANGO Tan"go, n.; pl. Tangos (#). [Sp., a certain dance.] (a) A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango. (b) Any of various popular forms derived from this.
TANGRAM Tan"gram, n. Etym: [Cf. Trangram.]
Defn: A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
TANGUE Tangue, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The tenrec.
TANGUN Tan"gun, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.
TANGWHAUP Tang"whaup, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
TANIER Tan"i*er, n. (Bot.)
Defn: An aroid plant (Caladium sagittæfolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also tannier.]
TANIST Tan"ist, n. Etym: [Ir. tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second person in rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to a prince.]
Defn: In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry. This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower.
TANISTRY Tan"ist*ry, n. Etym: [See Tanist.]
Defn: In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
Note: The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should descend to the oldest or most worthy of the blood and name of the deceased. This was, in reality, giving it to the strongest; and the practice often occasioned bloody feuds in families, for which reason it was abolished under James I.
TANITE Ta"nite, n.
Defn: A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
TANK Tank, n.
Defn: A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.
TANK Tank, n. Etym: [Pg. tanque, L. stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian origin. Cf. Stank, n.]
Defn: A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender. -- Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.
TANKA Tan"ka, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. S. W. Williams.
TANKAGE Tank"age, n.
1. The act or process of putting or storing in tanks.
2. Fees charged for storage in tanks.
3. The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks.
4. (Agric.) Waste matter from tanks; esp., the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.
TANKARD Tank"ard, n. Etym: [OF. tanquart; cf. OD. tanckaert; of uncertain origin.]
Defn: A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover. Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus. Arbuthnot.
TANKIA Tan"ki*a, n. (Naut.)
Defn: See Tanka.
TANKLING Tank"ling, n.
Defn: A tinkling. [Obs.]
TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL Tank ship, Tank vessel . (Naut.)
Defn: A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.
TANLING Tan"ling, n.
Defn: One tanned by the sun. [R.] Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter. Shak.
TANNABLE Tan"na*ble, a.
Defn: That may be tanned.
TANNAGE Tan"nage, n.
Defn: A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.] They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.
TANNATE Tan"nate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tannate.] (Chem.)
Defn: A salt of tannic acid.
TANNER Tan"ner, n.
Defn: One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
TANNERY Tan"ner*y, n.; pl. Tanneries. Etym: [Cf. F. tannerie.]
1. A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
2. The art or process of tanning. [R.] Carlyle.
TANNIC Tan"nic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid. (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.
TANNIER Tan"ni*er, n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Tanier.
TANNIGEN Tan"ni*gen, n. [Tannin + -gen.] (Pharm.)
Defn: A compound obtained as a yellowish gray powder by the action of acetyl chloride or acetic anhydride or ordinary tannic acid. It is used as an intestinal astringent, and locally in rhinitis and pharyngitis.
TANNIN Tan"nin, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tannin.] (Chem.)
Defn: Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.
TANNING Tan"ning, n.
Defn: The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
TANREC Tan"rec, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Tenrec.
TANSY Tan"sy, n. Etym: [OE. tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp. tanaceto, NL. tanacetum, Pg. atanasia, athanasia, Gr. 'aqanasi`a immortality, fr. 'aqa`natos immortal; 'a priv. + qa`natos death.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] Pepys. Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.
TANT Tant, n. Etym: [Cf. Taint tincture.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small scarlet arachnid.
TANTALATE Tan"ta*late, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A salt of tantalic acid.
TANTALIC Tan*tal"ic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of phosphorus.
TANTALISM Tan"ta*lism, n. Etym: [See Tantalize.]
Defn: A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization. Addison. Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people Josiah Quincy.
TANTALITE Tan"ta*lite, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tantalite.] (Min.)
Defn: A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron.
TANTALIZATION Tan`ta*li*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. Gayton.
TANTALIZE Tan"ta*lize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tantalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tantalizing.] Etym: [From Tantalus: cf. F. tantaliser.]
Defn: To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment. Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy life. Dryden.
Syn. -- To tease; vex; irritate; provoke. -- Tantalize, Disappoint. To disappoint is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to be) appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the ground. To tantalize, a much stronger term, describes a most distressing form of disappointment, as in the case of Tantalus, the Phrygian king. To tantalize is to visit with the bitterest disappointment -- to torment by exciting hopes or expectations which can never be realized.
TANTALIZER Tan"ta*li`zer, n.
Defn: One who tantalizes.
TANTALIZINGLY Tan"ta*li`zing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a tantalizing or teasing manner.
TANTALUM Tan"ta*lum, n. Etym: [NL. So named on account of the perplexity and difficulty encounterd by its discoverer (Ekeberg) in isolating it. See Tantalus.] (Chem.)
Defn: A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.
TANTALUS Tan"ta*lus, n. Etym: [L., from Gr. Ta`ntalos.] (Gr. Myth.)
1. A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises. Tantalus's cup (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup, within which is the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of the mouth of the figure in the cup.
TANTAMOUNT Tan"ta*mount`, a. Etym: [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E. amount.]
Defn: Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.
TANTAMOUNT Tan"ta*mount`, v. i.
Defn: To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
TANTIVY Tan*tiv"y, adv. Etym: [Said to be from the note of a hunting horn.]
Defn: Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.
TANTIVY Tan*tiv"y, n.
Defn: A rapid, violent gallop; an impetulous rush. Cleverland.
TANTIVY Tan*tiv"y, v. i.
Defn: To go away in haste. [Colloq.]
TANTRA Tan"tra (tan"tra; tun"-), n. [Skr.] (Hinduism)
Defn: A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. -- Tan"tric (-trik), a.
TANTRISM Tan"trism, n.
Defn: The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist (#), n.
TANTRUM Tan"trum, n.
Defn: A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
TANYARD Tan"yard`, n.
Defn: An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
TANYSTOMATA Tan`y*stom"a*ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.
TAOISM Ta"o*ism, n.
Defn: One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state. -- Ta"o*ist, a. & n.
TAOTAI Tao`tai", n. [Chin. tao circuit + t'ai, a title of respect.]
Defn: In China, an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; --called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.
TAP Tap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapping.] Etym: [F. taper to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp, tapps, a blow, tappe a paw, fist, G. tappen to grope.]
1. To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
2. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
TAP Tap, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tape. See Tap to strike.]
1. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. Addison.
2. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
3. pl. (Mil.)
Defn: A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo. Wilhelm.
TAP Tap, v. i.
Defn: To strike a gentle blow.
TAP Tap, n. Etym: [AS. tæppa, akin to D. tap, G. zapfen, OHG. zapfo, Dan. tap, Sw. tapp, Icel. tappi. Cf. Tampion, Tip.]
1. A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
2. A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. [Colloq.]
4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar. [Colloq.]
5. (Mech.)
Defn: A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges. On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. -- Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.
TAP Tap, v. t.
1. To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
2. Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
3. To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing. Shak. He has been tapping his liquors. Addison.
4. (Mech.)
Defn: To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
TAPA Ta"pa, n.
Defn: A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
TAPADERA; TAPADERO Tap`a*de"ra, Tap`a*de"ro, n. [Also tapidero.] [Sp. tapadera lid, cover.]
Defn: One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle.
TAPAYAXIN Ta`pa*yax"in, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.
TAPE Tape, n. Etym: [AS. tæppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]
1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape. Red tape. See under Red. -- Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery. -- Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
TAPELINE Tape"line`, n.
Defn: A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
TAPER Ta"per, n. Etym: [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.]
1. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
TAPER Ta"per, a. Etym: [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its form.]
Defn: Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
TAPER Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.]
Defn: To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
TAPER Ta"per, v. t.
Defn: To make or cause to taper.
TAPERED Ta"pered, a.
Defn: Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. [R.] T. Warton.
TAPERING Ta"per*ing, a.
Defn: Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
TAPERNESS Ta"per*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. Shenstone.
TAPESTRY Tap"es*try, n.; pl. Tapestries. Etym: [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting, LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. Tapis, Tippet.]
Defn: A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.
TAPESTRY Tap"es*try, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapestried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapestrying.]
Defn: To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry. The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.
TAPESTRY BEETLE Tap"es*try bee"tle.
Defn: A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.
TAPET Tap"et, n. Etym: [L. tapete. See Tapestry.]
Defn: Worked or figured stuff; tapestry. [R.] Spenser.
TAPETI Tap"e*ti, n.; pl. Tapetis. Etym: [Braz.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
TAPETUM Ta*pe"tum, n. Etym: [NL., from L. tapete a carpet, a tapestry.] (Anat.)
Defn: An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
TAPEWORM Tape"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Tænia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvæ (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Note: Three species are common parasites of man: the pork tapeworm (Tænia solium), the larva of which is found in pork; the beef tapeworm (T. mediocanellata), the larva of which lives in the flesh of young cattle; and the broad tapeworm (Bothriocephalus latus) which is found chiefly in the inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. See also Echinococcus, Cysticercus, Proglottis, and 2d Measles, 4.
TAPHOUSE Tap"house`, n.
Defn: A house where liquors are retailed.
TAPHRENCHYMA Taph*ren"chy*ma, n. Etym: [Gr. enchyma, as in parenchyma.] (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Bothrenchyma.
TAPINAGE Tap"i*nage, n. Etym: [See Tapish.]
Defn: A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] Gower.
TAPIOCA Tap`i*o"ca, n. Etym: [Braz. tapioka: cf. Pg., Sp. & F. tapioca.]
Defn: A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.
TAPIR Ta"pir, n. Etym: [Braz. tapy'ra: cf. F. tapir.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
Note: The best-known species are the Indian tapir (Tapirus Indicus), native of the East Indies and Malacca, which is black with a broad band of white around the middle, and the common American tapir (T. Americanus), which, when adult, is dull brown. Several others species inhabit the Andes and Central America. Tapir tiger (Zoöl.), the wallah.
TAPIROID Ta"pir*oid, a. Etym: [Tapir + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
TAPIS Ta"pis, n. Etym: [F. See Tapestry.]
Defn: Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table. On, or Upon, the tapis, on the table, or under consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis.
TAPIS Tap"is, v. t.
Defn: To cover or work with figures like tapestry. [R.] Holland.
TAPISER Tap"is*er, n. Etym: [F. tapissier.]
Defn: A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. [R.] Chaucer.
TAPISH Tap"ish, v. i. Etym: [F. se tapir to squat.]
Defn: To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self. [Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.
TAPLASH Tap"lash`, n.
Defn: Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).
TAPLINGS Tap"lings, n. pl.
Defn: The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united. Halliwell.
TAPOA TAFA Ta*po"a ta"fa. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed phascogale.
TAPPEN Tap"pen, n.
Defn: An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
TAPPER Tap"per, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]
TAPPESTER Tap"pes*ter, n. Etym: [See Tapster.]
Defn: A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.
TAPPET Tap"pet, n. (Mach.)
Defn: A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion. G. Francis. Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam, -- used in steam pumps, etc.
TAPPET ROD Tap"pet rod. (Mech.)
Defn: A rod carrying a tappet or tappets, as one for closing the valves in a Cornish pumping engine.
TAPPICE; TAPPIS Tap"pice, Tap"pis, v. i.
Defn: See Tapish.
TAPPIT HEN Tap"pit hen`.
1. A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.] Jamieson.
2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, though to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.] Jamieson.
TAPPOON Tap*poon", n. [Sp. tampón a stopper.] (Irrigation)
Defn: A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field. [U. S.]
TAPROOM Tap"room`, n.
Defn: A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of soldiers smoking. Macaulay.
TAPROOT Tap"root`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
TAPSTER Tap"ster, n. Etym: [AS. tæppestre a female tapster. See Tap a plug, pipe, and -ster.]
Defn: One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
TAQUA-NUT Ta"qua-nut`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A Central American name for the ivory nut.
TAR Tar, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.]
Defn: A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.
TAR Tar, n. Etym: [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tjära, Dan. tiære, and to E. tree. *63. See Tree.]
Defn: A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. -- Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen. -- Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. Knight. -- Tar water. (a) A cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas works. -- Wood tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.
TAR Tar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarring.]
Defn: To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.
TARANIS Tar"a*nis, n. Etym: [L. taranis, from the Celtic; cf. W. & Corn. taran thunder.] (Myth.)
Defn: A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
TARANTASS Tar`an*tass", n. Etym: [Russ. tarantas'.]
Defn: A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
TARANTELLA Tar`an*tel"la, n. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) (a) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia. (b) Music suited to such a dance.
TARANTISM Tar"ant*ism, n. Etym: [It. tarantismo: cf. F. tarentisme. See Tarantula.] (Med.)
Defn: A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]
TARANTULA Ta*ran"tu*la, n.; pl. E. Tarantulas, L. Tarantulæ. Etym: [NL., fr. It. tarantola, fr. L. Tarentum, now Taranto, in the south of Italy.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliæ). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.] Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which captures the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) and places it in its nest as food for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.
TARANTULATED Ta*ran"tu*la`ted, a.
Defn: Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
TARBOGAN Tar*bog"an, n. & v.
Defn: See Toboggan.
TARBOOSH Tar*boosh", n. Etym: [Ar. tarb; perhaps from Per. sar-posh headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.]
Defn: A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.
TARDATION Tar*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. tardatio, fr. tardare, tardatum, to retard, delay, fr. tardus slow.]
Defn: The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation. [Obs.]
TARDIGRADA Tar`di*gra"da, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tardigrade, a.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
TARDIGRADE Tar"di*grade, a. Etym: [L. tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi to step: cf. F. tardigrade.]
1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] G. Eliot.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
TARDIGRADE Tar"di*grade, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the Tardigrada.
TARDIGRADOUS Tar"di*gra`dous, a.
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.