Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (part 54 of 60)

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (part 54 of 60)

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

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

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

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

Defn: A tendril. [Obs.] Holland.

TENDRY Ten"dry, n.

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

TENE Tene, n. & v.

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

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

Defn: The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

TENEBRICOSE Te*neb"ri*cose`, a. Etym: [L. tenebricosus.]

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

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

Defn: Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

TENEBRIFICOUS Ten`e*brif"ic*ous, a.

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

TENEBRIOUS Te*ne"bri*ous, a.

Defn: Tenebrous. Young.

TENEBROSE Ten"e*brose`, a.

Defn: Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

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

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

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

Defn: Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.

TENEMENT Ten"e*ment, n. Etym: [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement, LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.]

1. (Feud. Law)

Defn: That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

2. (Common Law)

Defn: Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.

3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece Locke. Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families.

Syn. -- House; dwelling; habitation. -- Tenement, House. There may be many houses under one roof, but they are completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family.

TENEMENTAL Ten`e*men"tal, a.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

TENERIFFE Ten`er*iffe", n.

Defn: A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.

TENERITY Te*ner"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.]

Defn: Tenderness. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

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

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

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

Defn: An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

TENET Ten"et, n. Etym: [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]

Defn: Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.

TENFOLD Ten"fold`, a. & adv.

Defn: In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.

TENIA Te"ni*a, n. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: See Tænia.

TENIOID Te"ni*oid, a.

Defn: See Tænoid.

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

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

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

Defn: A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.

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

Defn: A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay. Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. -- Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n. -- Tennis court, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. Shak.

TENNIS Ten"nis, v. t.

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

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

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

TENNU Ten"nu, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The tapir.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. Tenon saw, a saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons. [Corruptly written tenant saw.] Gwilt.

TENON Ten"on, v. t.

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

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

Defn: Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. Tenonian capsule (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat of the orbit; -- called also capsule of Tenon.

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

Defn: Inflammation of a tendon.

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

Defn: Inflammation of the Tenonian capsule.

TENOR Ten"or, n. Etym: [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See Tenable, and cf. Tenor a kind of voice.]

1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. Gray.

2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. Shak. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men Spart.

3. Stamp; character; nature. This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. Dryden.

4. (Law)

Defn: An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. Bouvier.

5. Etym: [F. ténor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called because the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.) (a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it. Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle Tenor, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century.

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

Defn: Suture of a tendon.

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

Defn: Inflammation of a tendon.

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

Defn: Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

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

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

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

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

TENPENNY Ten"pen*ny, a.

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

TENPENNY Ten"pen*ny, a.

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

TENPINS Ten"pins, n.

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

TEN-POUNDER Ten"-pound`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

TENREC Ten"rec, n. Etym: [From the native name: cf. F. tanrac, tanrec, tandrec.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.

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

Defn: One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

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

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

Defn: Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.

TENSIBILITY Ten`si*bil"i*ty, n.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TENSILED Ten"siled, a.

Defn: Made tensile. [R.]

TENSILITY Ten*sil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. Dr. H. Mere.

TENSION Ten"sion, n. Etym: [L. tensio, from tendere, tensum, to stretch: cf. F. tension. See Tense, a.]

1. The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

2. Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

3. The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain. Gwilt.

4. (Mech.)

Defn: The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

6. (Physics)

Defn: Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.

7. (Elec.)

Defn: The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. Tension brace, or Tension member (Engin.), a brace or member designed to resist tension, or subjected to tension, in a structure. -- Tension rod (Engin.), an iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen timber or metal framework, roofs, or the like.

TENSIONED Ten"sioned, a.

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

TENSITY Ten"si*ty, n.

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

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

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

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

1. (Anat.)

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

2. (Geom.)

Defn: The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

TEN-STRIKE Ten"-strike`, n.

1. (Tenpins)

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

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

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

Defn: Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.

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

Defn: A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

TENT Tent, n. Etym: [Cf. Attent, n.]

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

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

TENT Tent, v. t.

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

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

Defn: To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. I'll tent him to the quick. Shak.

TENT Tent, n. Etym: [F. tente. See Tent to probe.] (Surg.) (a) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. (b) A probe for searching a wound. The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Shak.

TENT Tent, n. Etym: [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint.]

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

2. (Her.)

Defn: The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. -- Tent caterpillar (Zoöl.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

TENT Tent, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.]

Defn: To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. Shak. We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. W. Kittredge.

TENTACLE Ten"ta*cle, n. Etym: [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

TENTACLED Ten"ta*cled, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having tentacles.

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

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: Same as Suctoria, 1.

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

Defn: Producing or bearing tentacles.

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

Defn: Shaped like a tentacle.

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

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

TENTACULOCYST Ten*tac"u*lo*cyst, n. Etym: [Tentaculum + cyst.] (Zoöl.)

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

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

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tentacle.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.

TENTAGE Tent"age, n. Etym: [From Tent a pavilion.]

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

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

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

2. (Mech.)

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

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

Defn: Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.

TENTATIVE Ten*ta"tive, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tentative.]

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

TENTED Tent"ed, a.

Defn: Covered with tents.

TENTER Ten"ter, n.

1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

2. (Mach.)

Defn: A kind of governor.

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

Defn: A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.

TENTER Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tentered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tentering.]

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

TENTER Ten"ter, v. t.

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

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

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

TENTH Tenth, a. Etym: [From Ten: cf. OE. tethe, AS. teó. See Ten, and cf. Tithe.]

1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

TENTH Tenth, n.

1. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

3. The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. Shak.

4. (Mus.)

Defn: The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

5. pl. (Eng. Law) (a) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. (b) (Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty. Burrill.

TENTHLY Tenth"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tenth manner.

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

Defn: A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

TENTHREDINIDES Ten`thre*din"i*des, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

TENTIF Ten"tif, a.

Defn: Attentive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TENTIFLY Ten"tif*ly, adv.

Defn: Attentively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TENTIGINOUS Ten*tig"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. tentigo, -inis, a tension, lecherousness, fr. tendere, tentum, to stretch.]

1. Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson.

2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

TENTMAKER Tent"mak`er, n.

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

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

Defn: A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

TENTORY Tent"o*ry, n. Etym: [L. tentorium a tent.]

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

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

Defn: A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

TENUATE Ten"u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenuating.] Etym: [L. tenuatus, p.p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis thin. See Tenuous.]

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

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

Defn: Having thin or narrow leaves.

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

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

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

Defn: One of the Tenuirostres.

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: One of the three surd mutes k, p, t; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

TENUITY Te*nu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité. See Tenuous.]

1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.

3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.

4. Refinement; delicacy.

TENUOUS Ten"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.]

1. Thin; slender; small; minute.

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

Defn: Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

TENURE Ten"ure, n. Etym: [F. tenure, OF. teneure, fr. F. tenir to hold. See Tenable.]

1. The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.

2. (Eng. Law)

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

Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property in the United States, where the title to land is essentially allodial, and almost all lands are held in fee simple, not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner. Tenure, in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by courtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc.

3. The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

4. Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure. All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. Cowper. Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

TEOCALLI Te`o*cal"li, n.; pl. Teocallis. Etym: [Mexican.]

Defn: Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. Longfellow.

TEOSINTE Te`o*sin"te, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A large grass (Euchlæna luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.

TEPAL Tep"al, n. Etym: [F. tépale, fr. pétale, by transposition.] (Bot.)

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

TEPEE Tep*ee", n.

Defn: An Indian wigwam or tent.

TEPEFACTION Tep`e*fac"tion, n.

Defn: Act of tepefying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defn: A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray color.

TEPHROSIA Te*phro"si*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.

Note: The Tephrosia toxicaria is used in the West Indies and in Polynesia for stupefying fish. T. purpurea is used medicinally in the East Indies. T. Virginia is the goat's rue of the United States.

TEPID Tep"id, a. Etym: [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]

Defn: Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.

TEPIDITY Te*pid"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tépidité.]

Defn: The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.

TEPOR Te"por, n. Etym: [L., fr. tepere to be tepid.]

Defn: Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. Arbuthnot.

TEQUILA Te*qui"la, n.

Defn: An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

TER- Ter-.

Defn: A combining form from L. ter signifying three times, thrice. See Tri-, 2.

TERACONIC Ter`a*con"ic, a. Etym: [Terebic + citraconic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.

TERACRYLIC Ter`a*cryl"ic, a. Etym: [Terpene + acrylic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor.

TERAPH Ter"aph, n.; pl. Teraphs (.

Defn: See Teraphim.

TERAPHIM Ter"a*phim, n. pl. Etym: [Heb. teraphim.]

Defn: Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.).

TERAPIN Ter"a*pin, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Terrapin.

TERATICAL Te*rat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Wonderful; ominous; prodigious. [Obs.] Wollaston.

TERATOGENY Ter`a*tog"e*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: The formation of monsters.

TERATOID Ter"a*toid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.]

Defn: Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized. S. D. Gross.

TERATOLOGICAL Ter`a*to*log"ic*al, a. (Biol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

TERATOLOGY Ter`a*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. Gr. tératologie.]

1. That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

2. Affectation of sublimity; bombast. [Obs.] Bailey.

TERATOMA Ter`a*to"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -oma.] (Med.)

Defn: A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

TERBIC Ter"bic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

TERBIUM Ter"bi*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.

TERCE Terce, n.

Defn: See Tierce.

TERCEL Ter"cel, n.

Defn: See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.

TERCELET Terce"let, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet. Chaucer.

TERCELLENE Ter"cel*lene, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TERCENTENARY Ter*cen"te*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. ter thirce + E. centenary.]

Defn: Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. -- n.

Defn: The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

TERCET Ter"cet, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L. tertius. See Tierce, and cf. Terzetto.]

1. (Mus.)

Defn: A triplet. Hiles.

2. (Poetry)

Defn: A triplet; a group of three lines.

TERCINE Ter"cine, n. Etym: [F., from L. tertius the third.] (Bot.)

Defn: A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

TEREBATE Ter"e*bate, n.

Defn: A salt of terebic acid.

TEREBENE Ter"e*bene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

TEREBENTHENE Ter`e*ben"thene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

TEREBIC Te*reb"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.

TEREBILENIC Ter`e*bi*len"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.

TEREBINTH Ter"e*binth, n. Etym: [L. terbinthus, Gr. térébinthe. Cf. Turpentine.] (Bot.)

Defn: The turpentine tree.

TEREBINTHIC Ter`e*bin"thic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

TEREBINTHINATE Ter`e*bin"thi*nate, a.

Defn: Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

TEREBINTHINE Ter`e*bin"thine, a. Etym: [L. terbinthinus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

TEREBRA Ter"e*bra, n.; pl. E. Terebras, L. Terebræ. Etym: [L., a borer.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

TEREBRANT Ter"e*brant, a. Etym: [L. terebrans, -antis, p.pr.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

TEREBRANTIA Ter`e*bran"ti*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

TEREBRATE Ter"e*brate, v. t. Etym: [L. terebratus, p.p. of terebrare, from terebra a borer, terere to rub.]

Defn: To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TEREBRATING Ter"e*bra`ting, a.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

TEREBRATION Ter`e*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. terebratio.]

Defn: The act of terebrating, or boring. [R.] Bacon.

TEREBRATULA Ter`e*brat"u*la, n.; pl. Terebratulæ. Etym: [Nl., dim. fr. terebratus, p.p., perforated.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

TEREBRATULID Ter`e*brat"u*lid, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

TEREBRATULIFORM Ter`e*bra*tu"li*form, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

TEREDINE Ter"e*dine, n. Etym: [F. térédine.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A borer; the teredo.

TEREDO Te*re"do, n.; pl. E. Teredos, L. Teredines. Etym: [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. terere to rub.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

TEREK Ter"ek, n. [Because found on the Terek River in the Caucasus.]

Defn: A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

TEREPHTHALATE Ter*eph"tha*late, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of terephthalic acid.

TEREPHTHALIC Ter`eph*thal"ic, a. Etym: [Terebene + phthalic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.

TERET Ter"et, a.

Defn: Round; terete. [Obs.] Fotherby.

TERETE Te*rete", a. Etym: [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off, fr. terere to rub.]

Defn: Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

TERETIAL Te*re"tial, a. Etym: [See Terete.] (Anat.)

Defn: Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.

TERETOUS Ter"e*tous, a.

Defn: Terete. [Obs.]

TERGAL Ter"gal, a. Etym: [L. tergum the back.] (Anat. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

TERGANT Ter"gant, a. (Her.)

Defn: Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant. [Written also tergiant.]

TERGEMINAL; TERGEMINATE Ter*gem"i*nal, Ter*gem"i*nate, a. Etym: [See Tergeminous.] (Bot.)

Defn: Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

TERGEMINOUS Ter*gem"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. tergeminus; ter thrice + geminus doubled at birth, twin-born. Cf. Trigeminous.]

Defn: Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.

TERGIFEROUS Ter*gif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. tergum the back + -ferous.]

Defn: Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

TERGITE Ter"gite, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

TERGIVERSATE Ter"gi*ver*sate, v. i. Etym: [L. tergiversatus, p.p. of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]

Defn: To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

TERGIVERSATION Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]

1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.

TERGIVERSATOR Ter"gi*ver*sa`tor, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

TERGUM Ter"gum, n.; pl. Terga. Etym: [L., the back.] (Zoöl.) (a) The back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

TERIN Te"rin, n. Etym: [F. tarin, Prov. F. tairin, térin, probably from the Picard tère tender.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

TERM Term, n. Etym: [F. terme, L. termen, -inis, terminus, a boundary limit, end; akin to Gr. Thrum a tuft, and cf. Terminus, Determine, Exterminate.]

1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.

2. The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.

3. In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.

4. (Geom.)

Defn: A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

5. (Law)

Defn: A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration; as: (a) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years. (b) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. (c) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. Bouvier.

Note: In England, there were formerly four terms in the year, during which the superior courts were open: Hilary term, beginning on the 11th and ending on the 31st of January; Easter term, beginning on the 15th of April, and ending on the 8th of May; Trinity term, beginning on the 22d day of May, and ending on the 12th of June; Michaelmas term, beginning on the 2d and ending on the 25th day of November. The rest of the year was called vacation. But this division has been practically abolished by the Judicature Acts of 1873, 1875, which provide for the more convenient arrangement of the terms and vacations. In the United States, the terms to be observed by the tribunals of justice are prescribed by the statutes of Congress and of the several States.

6. (Logic)

Defn: The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes. Sir W. Hamilton.

Note: The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is the most general, and the subject of the conclusion is called the minor term, because it is less general. These are called the extermes; and the third term, introduced as a common measure between them, is called the mean or middle term. Thus in the following syllogism, --Every vegetable is combustible; Every tree is a vegetable; Therefore every tree is combustible, -combustible, the predicate of the conclusion, is the major term; tree is the minor term; vegetable is the middle term.

7. A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term. "Terms quaint of law." Chaucer. In painting, the greatest beauties can not always be expressed for want of terms. Dryden.

8. (Arch.)

Defn: A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.

Note: The pillar part frequently tapers downward, or is narrowest at the base. Terms rudely carved were formerly used for landmarks or boundaries. Gwilt.

9. (Alg.)

Defn: A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.

10. pl. (Med.)

Defn: The menses.

11. pl. (Law)

Defn: Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.

12. (Law)

Defn: In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.

Note: Terms legal and conventional in Scotland correspond to quarter days in England and Ireland. There are two legal terms -- Whitsunday, May 15, and Martinmas, Nov. 11; and two conventional terms -- Candlemas, Feb. 2, and Lammas day, Aug. 1. Mozley & W.

13. (Naut.)

Defn: A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. J. Knowels. In term, in set terms; in formal phrase. [Obs.] I can not speak in term. Chaucer. -- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause for each or any term it is in court. -- Terms of a proportion (Math.), the four members of which it is composed. -- To bring to terms, to compel (one) to agree, assent, or submit; to force (one) to come to terms. -- To make terms, to come to terms; to make an agreement: to agree.

Syn. -- Limit; bound; boundary; condition; stipulation; word; expression. -- Term, Word. These are more frequently interchanged than almost any other vocables that occur of the language. There is, however, a difference between them which is worthy of being kept in mind. Word is generic; it denotes an utterance which represents or expresses our thoughts and feelings. Term originally denoted one of the two essential members of a proposition in logic, and hence signifies a word of specific meaning, and applicable to a definite class of objects. Thus, we may speak of a scientific or a technical term, and of stating things in distinct terms. Thus we say, "the term minister literally denotes servant;" "an exact definition of terms is essential to clearness of thought;" "no term of reproach can sufficiently express my indignation;" "every art has its peculiar and distinctive terms," etc. So also we say, "purity of style depends on the choice of words, and precision of style on a clear understanding of the terms used." Term is chiefly applied to verbs, nouns, and adjectives, these being capable of standing as terms in a logical proposition; while prepositions and conjunctions, which can never be so employed, are rarely spoken of as terms, but simply as words.

TERM Term, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Termed; p. pr. & vb. n. Terming.] Etym: [See Term, n., and cf. Terminate.]

Defn: To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate. Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe "imaginary space." Locke.

TERMA Ter"ma, n. Etym: [NL. See Term, n.] (Anat.)

Defn: The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

TERMAGANCY Ter"ma*gan*cy, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

TERMAGANT Ter"ma*gant, n. Etym: [OE. Trivigant, Termagant, Termagant (in sense 1), OF. Tervagan; cf. It. Trivigante.]

1. An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous. [Obs.] Chaucer. "And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound [Mahomet] swore." Spenser. The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and on Mahound. Fairfax.

2. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women. This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh. Bale (1543). The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant. Macaulay.

TERMAGANT Ter"ma*gant, a.

Defn: Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding. -- Ter"ma*gant*ly, adv. A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench. Arbuthnot.

TERMATARIUM Ter`ma*ta"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Termes.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

TERMATARY Ter"ma*ta*ry, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Termatarium.

TERM DAY Term day.

Defn: A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

TERMER Term"er, n.

1. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. [Obs.] [Written also termor.] B. Jonson.

2. (Law)

Defn: One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

TERMES Ter"mes, n.; pl. Termities. Etym: [L. termes, tarmes, -itis, a woodworm. Cf. Termite.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

TERMINABLE Ter"mi*na*ble, a. Etym: [See Terminate.]

Defn: Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.

TERMINAL Ter"mi*nal, a. Etym: [L. terminals: cf. F. terminal. See Term, n.]

1. Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. (a) The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion. (b) The limit toward which the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling through the air.

TERMINAL Ter"mi*nal, n.

1. That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.

2. (Eccl.)

Defn: Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

TERMINALIA Ter`mi*na"li*a, n. pl. Etym: [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

TERMINANT Ter"mi*nant, n. Etym: [L. terminans, p.pr. of terminare.]

Defn: Termination; ending. [R.] Puttenham.

TERMINATE Ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Terminating.] Etym: [L. terminatus, p.p. of terminare. See Term.]

1. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.

3. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect. During this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art. J. S. Harford.

TERMINATE Ter"mi*nate, v. i.

1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close. The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on zhis side heaven. South.

TERMINATION Ter`mi*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. terminatio a bounding, fixing, determining: cf. F. terminasion, OF. also termination. See Term.]

1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

2. That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.

3. End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.

4. End; conclusion; result. Hallam.

5. Last purpose of design. [R.]

6. A word; a term. [R. & Obs.] Shak.

7. (Gram.)

Defn: The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

TERMINATIONAL Ter`mi*na"tion*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

TERMINATIVE Ter"mi*na*tive, a.

Defn: Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

TERMINATOR Ter"mi*na`tor, n. Etym: [L., he who limits or sets bounds.]

1. One who, or that which, terminates.

2. (Astron.)

Defn: The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

TERMINATORY Ter"mi*na*to*ry, a.

Defn: Terminative.

TERMINE Ter"mine, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. terminer.]

Defn: To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

TERMINER Ter"mi*ner, n. Etym: [F. terminer to bound, limit, end. See Terminate.] (Law)

Defn: A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

TERMINISM Ter"mi*nism, n.

Defn: The doctrine held by the Terminists.

TERMINIST Ter"mi*nist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. terministe.] (Theol.)

Defn: One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace. Murdock.

TERMINOLOGICAL Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to terminology. -- Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

TERMINOLOGY Ter`mi*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. terminus term + -logy: cf. F. terminologie.]

1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

TERM INSURANCE Term insurance.

Defn: Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

TERMINUS Ter"mi*nus, n.; pl. Termini. Etym: [L. See Term.]

1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

2. (Myth.)

Defn: The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

4. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

TERMITE Ter"mite, n.; pl. Termites. Etym: [F. See Termes.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

Note: They are very abundant in tropical countries, and are noted for their destructive habits, their large nests, their remarkable social instincts, and their division of labor among the polymorphic individuals of several kinds. Besides the males and females, each nest has ordinary workers, and large-headed individuals called soldiers.

TERMLESS Term"less, a.

1. Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time. [R.] "Termless joys." Sir W. Raleigh.

2. Inexpressible; indescribable. [R.] Shak.

TERMLY Term"ly, a.

Defn: Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. [R.] Bacon.

TERMLY Term"ly, adv.

Defn: Term by term; every term. [R.] "Fees . . . that are termly given." Bacon.

TERMONOLOGY Ter`mo*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: Terminology. [R.]

TERMOR Term"or, n. (Law)

Defn: Same as Termer, 2.

TERM POLICY Term policy.

Defn: A policy of term insurance.

TERN Tern, n. Etym: [Dan. terne, tærne; akin to Sw. tärna, Icel. ; cf. NL. sterna.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.

Note: Terns differ from gulls chiefly in their graceful form, in their weaker and more slender bills and feet, and their longer and more pointed wings. The tail is usually forked. Most of the species are white with the back and wings pale gray, and often with a dark head. The common European tern (Sterna hirundo) is found also in Asia and America. Among other American species are the arctic tern (S. paradisæa), the roseate tern (S. Dougalli), the least tern (S. Antillarum), the royal tern (S. maxima), and the sooty tern (S. fuliginosa). Hooded tern. See Fairy bird, under Fairy. -- Marsh tern, any tern of the genus Hydrochelidon. They frequent marshes and rivers and feed largely upon insects. -- River tern, any tern belonging to Seëna or allied genera which frequent rivers. -- Sea tern, any tern of the genus Thalasseus. Terns of this genus have very long, pointed wings, and chiefly frequent seas and the mouths of large rivers.

TERN Tern, a. Etym: [L. pl. terni three each, three; akin to tres three. See Three, and cf. Trine.]

Defn: Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three together. -- Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.

TERN Tern, n. Etym: [F. terne. See Tern, a.]

Defn: That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery. Mrs. Browning.

TERNARY Ter"na*ry, a. Etym: [L. ternarius, fr. terni. See Tern, a.]

1. Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.

TERNARY Ter"na*ry, n.; pl. Ternaries (.

Defn: A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad. Some in ternaries, some in pairs, and some single. Holder.

TERNATE Ter"nate, a. Etym: [NL. ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See Tern, a.]

Defn: Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly, adv.

TERNEPLATE Terne"plate`, n. Etym: [See Tern, a., and Plate.]

Defn: Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

TERNION Ter"ni*on, n. Etym: [L. ternio, fr. terni three each. See Tern, a.]

Defn: The number three; three things together; a ternary. Bp. Hall.

TERPENE Ter"pene, n. Etym: [See Turpentine.] (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.

TERPENTIC Ter*pen"tic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Terpenylic.

TERPENYLIC Ter`pe*nyl"ic, a. Etym: [Terpene + -yl + -ic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also terpentic acid), homologous with terebic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid.

TERPILENE Ter"pi*lene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

TERPIN Ter"pin, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

TERPINOL Ter"pin*ol, n. Etym: [Terpin + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)

Defn: Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.

TERPSICHORE Terp*sich"o*re, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gr. Myth.)

Defn: The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

TERPSICHOREAN Terp`sich*o*re"an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

TERRA Ter"ra, n. Etym: [It. & L. See Terrace.]

Defn: The earth; earth. Terra alba Etym: [L., white earth] (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. -- Terra cotta. Etym: [It., fr. terra earth + cotta, fem. of cotto cooked, L. coctus, p.p. of coquere to cook. See Cook, n.] Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like. -- Terræ filius Etym: [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. -- Terra firma Etym: [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to water. -- Terra Japonica. Etym: [NL.] Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan. -- Terra Lemnia Etym: [L., Lemnian earth], Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian. -- Terra ponderosa Etym: [L., ponderous earth] (Min.), barite, or heavy spar. -- Terra di Sienna. See Sienna.

TERRACE Ter"race, n. Etym: [F. terrasse (cf. Sp. terraza, It. terrazza), fr. L. terra the earth, probably for tersa, originally meaning, dry land, and akin to torrere to parch, E. torrid, and thirst. See Thirst, and cf. Fumitory, Inter, v., Patterre, Terrier, Trass, Tureen, Turmeric.]

1. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

2. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

3. A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

4. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

5. (Geol.)

Defn: A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

Note: Many rivers are bordered by a series of terraces at different levels, indicating the flood plains at successive periods in their history. Terrace epoch. (Geol.) See Drift epoch, under Drift, a.

TERRACE Ter"race, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Terracing.]

Defn: To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building. Sir H. Wotton. Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Thomson.

TERRACULTURE Ter"ra*cul`ture, n. Etym: [L. terra the earth + cultura.]

Defn: Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al, a. [R.]

TERRA INCOGNITA Ter"ra in*cog"ni*ta. [L.]

Defn: An unknown land; unexplored country.

The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still almost terræ incognitæ. A. R. Colquhoun.

TERRANE Ter"rane, n. Etym: [F. terrain, from L. terra earth.] (Geol.)

Defn: A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.

TERRAPIN Ter"ra*pin, n. Etym: [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written also terapin, terrapen, terrapene, and turapen.]

Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys acebra) of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa), native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also potter, slider, and redfender), and the diamond-back or salt-marsh terrapin (Malaclemmys palustris), are the most important American species. The diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Alligator terrapin, the snapping turtle. -- Mud terrapin, any one of numerous species of American tortoises of the genus Cinosternon. -- Painted terrapin, the painted turtle. See under Painted. -- Speckled terrapin, a small fresh-water American terrapin (Chelopus guttatus) having the carapace black with round yellow spots; -- called also spotted turtle.

TERRAQUEOUS Ter*ra"que*ous, a. Etym: [L. terra the earth + E. aqueous.]

Defn: Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth. The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled. Wordsworth.

TERRAR Ter"rar, n. Etym: [LL. terrarius liber. See Terrier a collection of acknowledgments.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: See 2d Terrier, 2.

TERRAS Ter"ras, n. (Min.)

Defn: See .

TERREEN Ter*reen", n.

Defn: See Turren.

TERREITY Ter*re"i*ty, n.

Defn: Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

TERREL Ter"rel, n. Etym: [NL. terrella, from L. terra the earth.]

Defn: A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.

TERREMOTE Terre"mote`, n. Etym: [OF. terremote, terremoete, fr. L. terra the earth + movere, motum, to move.]

Defn: An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.

TERRENE Ter*rene", n.

Defn: A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.

TERRENE Ter*rene", a. Etym: [L. terrenus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]

1. Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance. Holland.

2. Earthy; terrestrial. God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene. Sir W. Raleigh. Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor. O. Eng. Oath of Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone. Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience. Hickok.

TERRENE Ter*rene", n. Etym: [L. terrenum land, ground: cf. F. terrain.]

1. The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic] Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.

2. (Surv.)

Defn: The surface of the ground.

TERRENITY Ter*ren"i*ty, n.

Defn: Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

TERREOUS Ter"re*ous, a. Etym: [L. terreus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]

Defn: Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles. [Obs.]

TERREPLEIN Terre"plein`, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. terra earth + planus even, level, plain.] (Fort.)

Defn: The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

TERRESTRE Ter*res"tre, a. Etym: [OE., from OF. & F. terrestre.]

Defn: Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

TERRESTRIAL Ter*res"tri*al, a. Etym: [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See Terrace.]

1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.

2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.

3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young.

4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward.

5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ly, adv. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ness, n.

TERRESTRIAL Ter*res"tri*al, n.

Defn: An inhabitant of the earth.

TERRESTRIFY Ter*res"tri*fy, v. t. Etym: [L. terrestris terrestrial + -fy.]

Defn: To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TERRESTRIOUS Ter*res"tri*ous, a. Etym: [See Terrestrial.]

Defn: Terrestrial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TERRET Ter"ret, n.

Defn: One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

TERRE-TENANT Terre"-ten`ant, n. Etym: [F. terre earth, land + tenant, p.pr. of tenir to hold.] (Law)

Defn: One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. [Written also ter-tenant.]

TERRE-VERTE Terre"-verte`, n. Etym: [F., fr. terre earth + vert, verte, green.]

Defn: An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

TERRIBLE Ter"ri*ble, a. Etym: [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten. See Terror.]

1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21.

2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.] The terrible coldness of the season. Clarendon.

Syn. -- Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful; horrible; shocking; awful. -- Ter"ri*ble*ness, n. -- Ter"ri*bly, adv.

TERRICOLAE Ter*ric"o*læ, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. terra + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.

TERRIENNIAK Ter`ri*en"ni*ak, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The arctic fox.

TERRIER Ter"ri*er, n. Etym: [CF. L. terere to rub, to rub away, terebra a borer.]

Defn: An auger or borer. [Obs.]

TERRIER Ter"ri*er, n.

1. Etym: [F. terrier, chien terrier, from terre the earth, L. terra; cf. F. terrier a burrow, LL. terrarium a hillock (hence the sense, a mound thrown up in making a burrow, a burrow). See Terrace, and cf. Terrier, 2.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.

Note: Most kinds of terriers are noted for their courage, the acuteness of their sense of smell, their propensity to hunt burrowing animals, and their activity in destroying rats, etc. See Fox terrier, under Fox.

2. Etym: [F. terrier, papier terrier, LL. terrarius liber, i.e., a book belonging or pertaining to land or landed estates. See Terrier, 1, and cf. Terrar.] (Law) (a) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like. (b) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like. [Written also terrar.]

TERRIFIC Ter*rif"ic, a. Etym: [L. terrificus; fr. terrere to frighten + facere to make. See Terror, and Fact.]

Defn: Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

TERRIFICAL Ter*rif"ic*al, a.

Defn: Terrific. [R.]

TERRIFICALLY Ter*rif"ic*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a terrific manner.

TERRIFY Ter"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Terrifying.] Etym: [L. terrere to frighten + -fy: cf. F. terrifier, L. terrificare. See Terrific, and -fy.]

1. To make terrible. [Obs.] If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself. Milton.

2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten. When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not terrified. Luke xxi. 9.

TERRIGENOUS Ter*rig"e*nous, a. Etym: [L. terrigena, terrigenus; terra the earth + genere, gignere, to bring forth.]

Defn: Earthborn; produced by the earth.

TERRINE Ter*rine", n. [F. See Tureen.]

1. A dish or pan, originally of earthenware, such as those in which various dishes are cooked and served; esp., an earthenware jar containing some table delicacy and sold with its contents.

2. (Cookery) A kind of ragout formerly cooked and served in the same dish; also, a dish consisting of several meats braised together and served in a terrine.

3. A soup tureen.

TERRITORIAL Ter`ri*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. territorialis: cf. F. territorial.]

1. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

2. Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial.

3. Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as, Territorial governments.

TERRITORIALIZE Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Territorialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Territorializing.]

1. To enlarge by extension of territory.

2. To reduce to the condition of a territory.

TERRITORIALLY Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In regard to territory; by means of territory.

TERRITORIAL WATERS Ter`ri*to"ri*al wa"ters. (Internat. Law)

Defn: The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state; specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea) of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right of innocent passage by the vessels of other states.

Perhaps it may be said without impropriety that a state has theoretically the right to extend its territorial waters from time to time at its will with the increased range of guns. Whether it would in practice be judicious to do so . . . is a widely different matter . . . . In any case the custom of regulating a line three miles from land as defining the boundary of marginal territorial waters is so far fixed that a state must be supposed to accept it in absence of express notice. W. E. Hall.

TERRITORIED Ter"ri*to*ried, a.

Defn: Possessed of territory. [R.]

TERRITORY Ter"ri*to*ry, n.; pl. Territories. Etym: [L. territorium, from terra the earth: cf. F. territoire. See Terrace.]

1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton.

2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.

3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

TERROR Ter"ror, n. Etym: [L. terror, akin to terrere to frighten, for tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf. F. terreur. Cf. Deter.]

1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton.

2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear. Those enormous terrors of the Nile. Prior. Rulers are not a terror to good works. Rom. xiii. 3. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

Note: Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror- smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like. King of terrors, death. Job xviii. 14. -- Reign of Terror. (F. Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Syn. -- Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm.

TERRORISM Ter"ror*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. terrorisme.]

Defn: The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.

Defn: The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

TERRORIST Ter"ror*ist, n. Etym: [F. terroriste.]

Defn: One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

TERRORIZE Ter"ror*ize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. terroriser.]

Defn: To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

TERRORLESS Ter"ror*less, a.

Defn: Free from terror. Poe.

TERRY Ter"ry, n.

Defn: A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

TERSANCTUS Ter*sanc"tus, n. Etym: [L. ter thrice + sanctus holy.] (Eccl.)

Defn: An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.

TERSE Terse, a. [Compar. Terser; superl. Tersest.] Etym: [L. tersus, p.p. of tergere to rub or wipe off.]

1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite and terse gallants." Massinger.

3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow.

Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by Johnson "cleanly written", i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact, with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: - "In eight terse lines has Phædrus told (So frugal were the bards of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space." It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of "grace or elegance." -- Terse"ly, adv. -- Terse"ness, n.

TERSULPHIDE Ter*sul"phide, n. Etym: [Pref. ter- + sulphide.] (Chem.)

Defn: A trisulphide.

TERSULPHURET Ter*sul"phu*ret, n. Etym: [Pref. ter- + sulphuret.] (Chem.)

Defn: A trisulphide. [R.]

TER-TENANT Ter"-ten`ant, n.

Defn: See Terre-tenant.

TERTIAL Ter"tial, a. & n. Etym: [From L. tertius third, the tertial feathers being feathers of the third row. See Tierce.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tertiary.

TERTIAN Ter"tian, a. Etym: [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.] (Med.)

Defn: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

TERTIAN Ter"tian, n. Etym: [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

TERTIARY Ter"ti*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.]

1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Trench.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (CH3)3C.OH.

3. (Geol.)

Defn: Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills. Tertiary age. (Geol.) See under Age, 8. -- Tertiary color, a color produced by the mixture of two secondaries. "The so-called tertiary colors are citrine, russet, and olive." Fairholt. -- Tertiary period. (Geol.) (a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.

TERTIARY Ter"ti*a*ry, n.; pl. Tertiaries (.

1. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. Addis & Arnold.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

TERTIATE Ter"ti*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. tertiatus, p.p. of tertiare to do for the third time, fr. tertius the third.]

1. To do or perform for the third time. [Obs. & R.] Johnson.

2. (Gun.)

Defn: To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

TERTIUM QUID Ter"ti*um quid. [L.]

Defn: A third somewhat; something mediating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

TERUTERO Ter`u*ter"o, n. Etym: [Probably so named from its city.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.

TERZA RIMA Ter"za ri"ma. Etym: [It., a third or triple rhyme.]

Defn: A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

TERZETTO Ter*zet"to, n. Etym: [It., dim. of terzo the third, L. tertius. See Tierce.] (Mus.)

Defn: A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.

TESLA COIL; TESLA TRANSFORMER Tes"la coil, Tes"la trans*form"er. [After N. Tesla, American electrician.] (Elec.)

Defn: A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.

TESSELAR Tes"sel*ar, a. Etym: [L. tessella a small square piece, a little cube, dim. of tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die.]

Defn: Formed of tesseræ, as a mosaic.

TESSELLATA Tes`sel*la"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tessellate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

TESSELLATE Tes"sel*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] Etym: [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.]

Defn: To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. Macaulay.

TESSELLATE Tes"sel*late, a. Etym: [L. tesselatus.]

Defn: Tessellated.

TESSELLATED Tes"sel*la`ted, a.

1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.

TESSELLATION Tes`sel*la"tion, n.

Defn: The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. J. Forsyth.

TESSERA Tes"se*ra, n.; pl. Tesseræ. Etym: [L., a square piece, a die. See Tessellar.]

Defn: A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.

TESSERAIC Tes`se*ra"ic, a.

Defn: Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [Obs.] Sir R. Atkyns (1712).

TESSERAL Tes"se*ral, a.

1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesseræ.

2. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Isometric.

TESSULAR Tes"su*lar, a. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Tesseral.

TEST Test, n. Etym: [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. têt, from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta, and akin to torrere to patch, terra earth (cf. Thirst, and Terrace), but cf. Zend tasta cup. Cf. Test a shell, Testaceous, Tester a covering, a coin, Testy, Tête- à-tête.]

1. (Metal.)

Defn: A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. Our ingots, tests, and many mo. Chaucer.

2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. "Bring me to the test." Shak.

3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love. Each test every light her muse will bear. Dryden.

4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard. Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Pope.

5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. Dryden.

6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination. Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best Dryden.

7. (Chem.)

Defn: A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt. Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England. Blackstone. -- Test object (Optics), an object which tests the power or quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its peculiar texture or markings. -- Test paper. (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc. (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving handwriting. -- Test tube. (Chem.) (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated tube.

Syn. -- Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment; trial. -- Test, Trial. Trial is the wider term; test is a searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or criterion of the most decisive kind. I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation. Shak. Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight. Addison.

TEST Test, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n. Testing.]

1. (Metal.)

Defn: To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument. Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution. Washington.

3. (Chem.)

Defn: To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

TEST Test, n. Etym: [L. testis. Cf. Testament, Testify.]

Defn: A witness. [Obs.] Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed. Ld. Berners.

TEST Test, v. i. Etym: [L. testari. See Testament.]

Defn: To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

TEST; TESTA Test, Tes"ta, n.; pl. E. Tests, L. Testæ. Etym: [L. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of earthenware, a shell. See Test a cupel.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

TESTABLE Test"a*ble, a. Etym: [See Testament.]

1. Capable of being tested or proved.

2. Capable of being devised, or given by will.

TESTACEA Tes*ta"ce*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. testaceum a shelled anumal. See Testaceous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.

TESTACEAN Tes*ta"cean, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Onr of the Testacea.

TESTACEOGRAPHY Tes*ta`ce*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Testacea + -graphy: cf. F. testacéographie.]

Defn: The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]

TESTACEOLOGY Tes*ta`ce*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Testacea + -logy: cf. F. testacéologie.]

Defn: The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]

TESTACEOUS Tes*ta"ceous, a. Etym: [L. testaceus, fr. testa a shell. See Testa.]

1. Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

TESTACY Tes"ta*cy, n. Etym: [See Testate.] (Law)

Defn: The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

TESTAMENT Tes"ta*ment, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. testamentum, fr. testari to be a witness, to make one's last will, akin to testis a witness. Cf. Intestate, Testify.]

1. (Law)

Defn: A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

Note: This is otherwise called a will, and sometimes a last will and testament. A testament, to be valid, must be made by a person of sound mind; and it must be executed and published in due form of law. A man, in certain cases, may make a valid will by word of mouth only. See Nuncupative will, under Nuncupative.

2. One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the testator himself. Bouvier.

TESTAMENTAL Tes`ta*men"tal, a. Etym: [L. testamentalis.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.

TESTAMENTARY Tes`ta*men"ta*ry, a. Etym: [L. testamentarius: cf. F. testamentaire.]

1. Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.

2. Bequeathed by will; given by testament. How many testamentary charities have been defeated by the negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury.

3. Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age.

TESTAMENTATION Tes`ta*men*ta"tion, n.

Defn: The act or power of giving by testament, or will. [R.] Burke.

TESTAMENTIZE Tes"ta*men*tize, v. i.

Defn: To make a will. [Obs.] Fuller.

TESTAMUR Tes*ta"mur, n. Etym: [L., we testify, fr. testari to testify.] (Eng. Universities)

Defn: A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.

TESTATE Tes"tate, a. Etym: [L. testatus, p.p. of testari. See Testament.] (Law)

Defn: Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.

TESTATE Tes"tate, n. (Law)

Defn: One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. [R.]

TESTATION Tes*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. testatio.]

Defn: A witnessing or witness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

TESTATOR Tes*ta"tor, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. testateur.] (Law)

Defn: A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

TESTATRIX Tes*ta"trix, n. Etym: [L.] (Law)

Defn: A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

TESTE Tes"te, n. Etym: [So called fr. L. teste, abl. of testis a witness, because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.] (Law) (a) A witness. (b) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like. Burrill.

TESTER Tes"ter, n. Etym: [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testière.]

1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.

2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.

3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.

TESTER Tes"ter, n. Etym: [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.]

Defn: An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

TESTERN Tes"tern, n.

Defn: A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]

TESTERN Tes"tern, v. t.

Defn: To present with a tester. [Obs.] Shak.

TESTES Tes"tes, n.,

Defn: pl. of Teste, or of Testis.

TESTICARDINES Tes`ti*car"di*nes, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Test a shell, and Cardo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

TESTICLE Tes"ti*cle, n. Etym: [L. testiculus, dim. of testis a testicle, probably the same word as testis a witness, as being a witness to manhood. Cf. Test a witness.] (Anat.)

Defn: One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

TESTICOND Tes"ti*cond, a. Etym: [L. testis testis + condere to hide.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.

TESTICULAR Tes*tic"u*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the testicle.

TESTICULATE Tes*tic"u*late, a. Etym: [NL. testiculatus.] (Bot.) (a) Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid. (b) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis.

TESTIERE Tes`ti*ère", n. Etym: [OF. testiere. See Tester a headpiece.]

Defn: A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

TESTIF Tes"tif, a. Etym: [See Testy.]

Defn: Testy; headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.] Testif they were and lusty for to play. Chaucer.

TESTIFICATION Tes`ti*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. testificatio: cf. OF. testification. See Testify.]

Defn: The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.

TESTIFICATOR Tes"ti*fi*ca`tor, n. Etym: [NL.]

Defn: A testifier.

TESTIFIER Tes"ti*fi`er, n.

Defn: One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.

TESTIFY Tes"ti*fy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Testified; p. pr. & vb. n. Testifying.] Etym: [OF. testifier, L. testificari; testis a witness + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy, and cf. Attest, Contest, Detest, Protest, Testament.]

1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them. Jesus . . . needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John ii. 25.

2. (Law)

Defn: To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal. One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Num. xxxv. 30.

3. To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against. O Israel, . . . I will testify against thee. Ps. l. 7. I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Neh. xiii. 15.

TESTIFY Tes"ti*fy, v. t.

1. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. John iii. 11.

2. (Law)

Defn: To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

TESTIFY Tes"ti*fy, adv.

Defn: In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

TESTIMONIAL Tes`ti*mo"ni*al, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. testimoniale, LL. testimonialis, L. testimoniales (sc. litteræ). See Testimonial, a.]

1. A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.

2. Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered.

TESTIMONIAL Tes`ti*mo"ni*al, a. Etym: [L. testimonialis: cf. F. testimonial.]

Defn: Relating to, or containing, testimony.

TESTIMONY Tes"ti*mo*ny, n.; pl. Testimonies. Etym: [L. testimonium, from testis a witness: cf. OF. testimoine, testemoine, testimonie. See Testify.]

1. A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.

Note: Such declaration, in judicial proceedings, may be verbal or written, but must be under oath or affirmation.

2. Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.

3. Open attestation; profession. [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. Milton.

4. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark vi. 11.

5. (Jewish Antiq.)

Defn: The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16.

6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. 7.

Syn. -- Proof; evidence; attestation; witness; affirmation; confirmation; averment. -- Testimony, Proof, Evidence. Proof is the most familiar, and is used more frequently (though not exclusively) of facts and things which occur in the ordinary concerns of life. Evidence is a word of more dignity, and is more generally applied to that which is moral or intellectual; as, the evidences of Christianity, etc. Testimony is what is deposed to by a witness on oath or affirmation. When used figuratively or in a wider sense, the word testimony has still a reference to some living agent as its author, as when we speak of the testimony of conscience, or of doing a thing in testimony of our affection, etc. Testimony refers rather to the thing declared, evidence to its value or effect. "To conform our language more to common use, we ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities; ba proofs, meaning such arguments from experience as leave no room for doubt or opposition." Hume. "The evidence of sense is the first and highest kind of evidence of which human nature is capable." Bp. Wilkins. "The proof of everything must be by the testimony of such as the parties produce." Spenser.

TESTIMONY Tes"ti*mo*ny, v. t.

Defn: To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. [Obs.] Shak.

TESTINESS Tes"ti*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. Locke.

TESTING Test"ing, n.

1. The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.

2. (Metal.)

Defn: The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

TESTIS Tes"tis, n.; pl. Testes. Etym: [L.] (Anat.)

Defn: A testicle.

TESTON Tes"ton, n.

Defn: A tester; a sixpence. [Obs.]

TESTONE Tes*tone", n. Etym: [Cf. Pg. testao, tostao. See Testoon.]

Defn: A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents. Homans.

TESTOON Tes*toon", n. Etym: [It. testone. See Tester a coin.]

Defn: An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. Homans.

TESTUDINAL Tes*tu"di*nal, a. Etym: [See Testudo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.

TESTUDINARIOUS Tes*tu`di*na"ri*ous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.

TESTUDINATA Tes*tu`di*na"ta, n. pl. Etym: [Nl. See Testudo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.

TESTUDINATE; TESTUDINATED Tes*tu"di*nate, Tes*tu"di*na`ted, a. Etym: [L. testudinatus, fr. testudo, -inis, a tortoise, an arch or vault.]

Defn: Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

TESTUDINEOUS Tes`tu*din"e*ous, a. Etym: [L. testudineus.]

Defn: Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

TESTUDO Tes*tu"do, n.; pl. Testudines. Etym: [L., from testa the shell of shellfish, or of testaceous animals.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Græca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.

2. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.

TESTY Tes"ty, a. [Compar. Testier; superl. Testiest.] Etym: [OF. testu obstinate, headstrong, F. têtu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête. See Test a cupel.]

Defn: Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated. Must I observe you must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak. I was displeased with myself; I was testy. Latimer.

TETANIC Te*tan"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. L. tetanicus suffering from tetanus, Gr. tétanique.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction. This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, or tetanic contraction. Foster.

2. (Physiol. & Med.)

Defn: Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

TETANIC Te*tan"ic, n. (Physiol. & Med.)

Defn: A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

TETANIN Tet"a*nin, n. (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

TETANIZATION Tet`a*ni*za"tion, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: The production or condition of tetanus.

TETANIZE Tet"a*nize, v. t. (Physiol.)

Defn: To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

TETANOID Tet"a*noid, a. Etym: [Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. & Physiol.)

Defn: Resembling tetanus.

TETANOMOTOR Tet`a*no*mo"tor, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

TETANUS Tet"a*nus, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

1. (Med.)

Defn: A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.

TETANY Tet"a*ny, n. (Med.)

Defn: A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

TETARD Te*tard", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.

TETARTOHEDRAL Te*tar`to*he"dral, a. Etym: [Gr. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry. -- Te*tar`to*he"dral*ly, adv.

TETARTOHEDRISM Te*tar`to*he"drism, n. (Crystallog.)

Defn: The property of being tetartohedral.

TETAUG Te*taug", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Tautog. [R.]

TETCHINESS Tetch"i*ness, n.

Defn: See Techiness.

TETCHY Tetch"y, a.

Defn: See Techy. Shak.

TETE Tête, n. Etym: [F., the head. See Tester a covering.]

Defn: A kind of wig; false hair.

TETE-A-TETE Tête`-à-tête", n. Etym: [F., head to head. See Tester a covering, Test a cupel.]

1. Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.

2. A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.

TETE-A-TETE Tête`-à-tête", a.

Defn: Private; confidential; familiar. She avoided tête-à-tête walks with him. C. Kingsley.

TETE-A-TETE Tête`-à-tête", adv.

Defn: Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly. Prior.

TETE-DE-PONT Tête`-de-pont", n.; pl. Têtes-de-pont. Etym: [F., head of a bridge.] (Mil.)

Defn: A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.

TETEL Te*tel", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large African antelope (Alcejaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

TETHER Teth"er, n. Etym: [Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier, Icel. tjo, Dan. töir. *64.]

Defn: A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

TETHER Teth"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tethered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tethering.]

Defn: To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.

TETHER-BALL Teth"er-ball`, n.

Defn: A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

TETHYDAN Te*thy"dan, n. Etym: [See Tethys.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tunicate.

TETHYODEA Te`thy*o"de*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Tethys + Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.

TETHYS Te"thys, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.

TETRA- Tet"ra-. Etym: [Gr. Four.]

1. A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide.

TETRABASIC Tet`ra*bas"ic, a. Etym: [Tetra- + basic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.

TETRABORIC Tet`ra*bor"ic, a. Etym: [Tetra- + boric.] (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Pyroboric.

TETRABRANCHIATA Tet`ra*bran`chi*a"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetra-, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.

TETRABRANCHIATE Tet`ra*bran`chi*ate, a. Etym: [Tetra + branchiate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata. -- n.

Defn: One of the Tetrabranchiata.

TETRACARPEL Tet`ra*car"pel, a. Etym: [Tetra- + carpellary.] (Bot.)

Defn: Composed of four carpels.

TETRACHORD Tet"ra*chord, n. Etym: [L. tetrachordon, Gr. Tetra-) + tétrachorde.] (Anc. Mus.)

Defn: A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

TETRACHOTOMOUS Tet`ra*chot"o*mous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.

TETRACID Tet*rac"id, a. Etym: [Tetra + acid.] (Chem.)

Defn: Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.

TETRACOCCOUS Tet`ra*coc"cous, a. Etym: [See Tetra-, and Coccus.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having four cocci, or carpels.

TETRACOLON Tet`ra*co"lon, n. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + (Pros.)

Defn: A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

TETRACORALLA Te`tra*co*ral"la, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetra-, and Corallum.] (Paleon.)

Defn: Same as Rugosa.

TETRACTINELLID Te*trac`ti*nel"lid, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.

TETRACTINELLIDA Te*trac`ti*nel"li*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Spongiæ in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinæ.

TETRAD Tet"rad, n. Etym: [L. tetras, -adis, Gr. tétrade.]

1. The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.

2. (Chem.)

Defn: A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.

TETRADACTYL; TETRADACTYLE Tet`ra*dac"tyl, Tet`ra*dac"tyle, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tétradactyle.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Tetradactylous.

TETRADACTYLOUS Tet`ra*dac"tyl*ous, a. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.

TETRADECANE Tet`ra*dec"ane, n. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

TETRADECAPODA Tet`ra*de*cap"o*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetra-, and Decapoda.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Arthrostraca.

TETRADIC Tet*rad"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.

TETRADITE Tet"ra*dite, n. Etym: [See Tetrad.]

Defn: A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

TETRADON Tet"ra*don, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Tetrodon.

TETRADONT Tet"ra*dont, a. & n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Tetrodont.

TETRADRACHM; TETRADRACHMA Tet"ra*drachm, Tet`ra*drach"ma, n. Etym: [NL. tetradrachma, fr. Gr. Tetra-) +

Defn: A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.

TETRADYMITE Tet*rad"y*mite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)

Defn: A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.

TETRADYNAMIA Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + (Bot.)

Defn: A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

TETRADYNAMIAN Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant of the order Tetradynamia.

TETRADYNAMIAN; TETRADYNAMOUS Tet`ra*dy*na"mi*an, Tet`ra*dyn"a*mous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

TETRAGON Tet"ra*gon, n. Etym: [L. tetragonum, Gr. Tetra-) + tétragone.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

2. (Astrol.)

Defn: An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.

TETRAGONAL Te*trag"o*nal, a.

1. (Geom.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Having four prominent longitudinal angles.

3. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under Crystallization.

TETRAGRAMMATON Tet`ra*gram"ma*ton, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) +

Defn: The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

TETRAGYNIA Tet`ra*gyn"i*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. te`tra- (see Tetra-) + gynh` a woman, female.] (Bot.)

Defn: A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.

TETRAGYNIAN; TETRAGYNOUS Tet`ra*gyn"i*an, Te*trag"y*nous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles.

TETRAHEDRAL Tet`ra*he"dral, a. Etym: [See Tetrahedron.]

1. Having, or composed of, four sides.

2. (Crystallog.) (a) Having the form of the regular tetrahedron. (b) Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of hemihedral forms to which the tetrahedron belongs. Tetrahedral angle (Geom.), a solid angle bounded or inclosed by four plane angles.

TETRAHEDRALLY Tet`ra*he"dral*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tetrahedral manner.

TETRAHEDRITE Tet`ra*he"drite, n. Etym: [So called because the crystals of the species are commonly tetrahedrons.] (Min.)

Defn: A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

TETRAHEDRON Tet`ra*he"dron, n. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Geom.)

Defn: A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

Note: In crystallography, the regular tetrahedron is regarded as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron. Regular tetrahedron (Geom.), a solid bounded by four equal equilateral triangles; one of the five regular solids.

TETRAHEXAHEDRAL Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dral, a. (Crystallog.)

Defn: Pertaining to a tetrahexahedron.

TETRAHEXAHEDRON Tet`ra*hex`a*he"dron, n. Etym: [Tetra- + hexahedron.] (Crystallog.)

Defn: A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON Tet`ra*kis*hex`a*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. hexahedron.] (Crystallog.)

Defn: A tetrahexahedron.

TETRAKOSANE Tet"ra*ko*sane`, n. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty- four atoms of carbon in the molecule.

TETRALOGY Te*tral"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + tétralogie.] (Gr. Drama)

Defn: A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.

Note: A group or series of three tragedies, exhibited together without a fourth piese, was called a trilogy.

TETRAMERA Te*tram"e*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetramerous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.

TETRAMEROUS Te*tram"er*ous, a. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr.

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.

TETRAMETER Te*tram"e*ter, n. Etym: [L. tetrametrus, Gr. Tetra-) + tétramètre.] (GR. & Latin Pros.)

Defn: A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

TETRAMETHYLENE Tet`ra*meth"yl*ene, n. Etym: [Tetra- + methylene.] (Chem.) (a) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives. (b) Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds which are really related to butylene.

TETRAMORPH Tet"ra*morph, n. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Christian Art)

Defn: The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

TETRANDRIA Te*tran"dri*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. Tetra-) + (Bot.)

Defn: A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens.

TETRANDRIAN; TETRANDROUS Te*tran"dri*an, Te*tran"drous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Belonging to the class Tetrandria.

TETRAONID Te*tra"o*nid, n. Etym: [L. tetrao a heath cock, grouse, Gr. tétraonide.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.

TETRAPETALOUS Tet`ra*pet"al*ous, a. Etym: [Tetra- + petal.] (Bot.)

Defn: Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

TETRAPHARMACOM; TETRAPHARMACUM Tet`ra*phar"ma*com, Tet`ra*phar"ma*cum, n. Etym: [NL. tetrapharmacon, L. tetrapharmacum, Gr. Tetra-) + (Med.)

Defn: A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

TETRAPHENOL Tet`ra*phe"nol, n. Etym: [Tetra- + phenol.] (Chem.)

Defn: Furfuran. [Obs.]

TETRAPHYLLOUS Te*traph"yl*lous, a. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

TETRAPLA Tet"ra*pla, n.;

Note: etymologically pl., but syntactically sing. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. tetraplo`os, tetraploy^s, fourfold.]

Defn: A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

TETRAPNEUMONA Tet`ra*pneu"mo*na, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Tetra-, and Pneumo-.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.

TETRAPNUEMONIAN Tet`rap*nue*mo"ni*an, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Tetrapneumona.

TETRAPOD Tet"ra*pod, n. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zoöl.)

Defn: An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

TETRAPODY Te*trap"o*dy, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.

TETRAPTERAN Te*trap"ter*an, n. Etym: [See Tetrapterous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An insect having four wings.

TETRAPTEROUS Te*trap"ter*ous, a. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having four wings.

TETRAPTOTE Tet"rap*tote, n. Etym: [L. tetraptotum, Gr. (Gram.)

Defn: A noun that has four cases only. Andrews.

TETRARCH Te"trarch, n. Etym: [L. tetrarches, Gr. Tetra-) + tétrarque. See Arch, a.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

TETRARCH Te"trarch, a.

Defn: Four. [Obs.] Fuller.

TETRARCHATE Te*trarch"ate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tétrarchat.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A tetrarchy.

TETRARCHICAL Te*trarch"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.

TETRARCHY Tet"rarch*y, n.; pl. Tetrarchies. Etym: [L. tetrarchia, Gr. tétrarchie.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

TETRASCHISTIC Tet`ra*schis"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)

Defn: Characterized by division into four parts.

TETRASEPALOUS Tet`ra*sep"al*ous, a. Etym: [Tetra- + sepal.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having four sepals.

TETRASPASTON Tet`ra*spas"ton, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Tetra-) + (Mach.)

Defn: A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

TETRASPERMOUS Tet`ra*sper"mous, a. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Having four seeds. Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces four seeds in each flower.

TETRASPORE Tet"ra*spore, n. Etym: [Tetra- + spore.] (Bot.)

Defn: A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.

TETRASTICH Te*tras"tich, n. Etym: [L. tetrastichon, Gr. Tetra-) +

Defn: A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.

TETRASTYLE Tet"ra*style, a. Etym: [L. tetrastylon, Gr. Tetra-) + (Arch.)

Defn: Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. -- n.

Defn: A tetrastyle building.

TETRASYLLABIC; TETRASYLLABICAL Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic, Tet`ra*syl*lab"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tétrasyllabique.]

Defn: Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.

TETRASYLLABLE Tet"ra*syl`la*ble, n. Etym: [Tetra- + syllable: cf. Gr.

Defn: A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

TETRATHECAL Tet`ra*the"cal, a. Etym: [Tetra- + thecal.] (Bot.)

Defn: Having four loculaments, or thecæ.

TETRATHIONATE Tet`ra*thi"on*ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of tetrathionic acid.

TETRATHIONIC Tet`ra*thi*on"ic, a. Etym: [Tetra- + thionic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H

TETRATOMIC Tet`ra*tom"ic, a. Etym: [Tetra- + atomic.] (Chem.) (a) Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic. (b) Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.

TETRAVALENCE Te*trav"a*lence, n. (Chem.)

Defn: The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.

TETRAVALENT Te*trav"a*lent, a. Etym: [Tetra- + L. valens, -entis, p.pr.] (Chem.)

Defn: Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.

TETRAXILE Te*trax"ile, a. Etym: [Tetra- + axile.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.

TETRAZINE; TETRAZIN Tet*raz"ine, n. Also -in. [Tetrazo- + -ine.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hypothetical compound, C2H2N4 which may be regarded as benzene with four CH groups replaced by nitrogen atoms; also, any of various derivatives of the same. There are three isomeric varieties.

TETRAZO- Tet*raz"o-, a. Etym: [Tetra- + azo-.] (Chem.)

Defn: A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.

TETRAZOLE Tet*raz"ole, n. [Tetrazo- + -ole.] (Org. Chem.)

Defn: A crystalline acid substance, CH2N4, which may be regarded as pyrrol in which nitrogen atoms replace three CH groups; also, any of various derivatives of the same.

TETRAZONE Tet"ra*zone, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

TETRIC; TETRICAL Tet"ric, Tet"ri*cal, a. Etym: [L. tetricus, taetricus, from teter, taeter, offensive, foul.]

Defn: Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged. [Obs.] -- Tet"ric*al*ness, n.

TETRICITY Te*tric"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. tetricitas, taetricitas.]

Defn: Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]

TETRICOUS Tet"ric*ous, a.

Defn: Tetric. [Obs.]

TETRINIC Te*trin"ic, a. Etym: [See Tetra-.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.

TETRODON Tet"ro*don, n. Etym: [Tetra- + Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. [Written also tetradon.]

Note: The skin is usually spinous, and the belly is capable of being greatly distended by air or water. It includes the swellfish, puffer (a), and similar species.

TETRODONT Tet"ro*dont, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the tetrodons. -- n.

Defn: A tetrodon. [Written also tetradont, and tetraodont.]

TETROL Tet"rol, n. Etym: [Tetra- + benzol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule. Tetrol phenol, furfuran. [Obs.]

TETROLIC Tet*rol"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

TETROSE Tet"rose, n. [Tetra- + -ose.] (Chem.)

Defn: A monosaccharide derived from a certain alcohol.

TETROXIDE Tet*rox"ide, n. Etym: [Tetra- + oxide.] (Chem.)

Defn: An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.

TETRYL Tet"ryl, n. Etym: [Tetra- + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

TETRYLENE Tet"ryl*ene, n. Etym: [Tetra- + ethylene.] (Chem.)

Defn: Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

TETTER Tet"ter, n. Etym: [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter, zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin disease. *63, 240.] (Med.)

Defn: A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus. -- Moist tetter (Med.), eczema. -- Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.

TETTER Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.]

Defn: To affect with tetter. Shak.

TETTEROUS Tet"ter*ous, a.

Defn: Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.

TETTER-TOTTER Tet"ter-tot`ter, n. Etym: [See Teeter.]

Defn: A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.

TETTERWORT Tet"ter*wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

TETTIGONIAN Tet`ti*go"ni*an, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

TETTISH Tet"tish, a. Etym: [Cf. Testy.]

Defn: Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.] [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

TETTIX Tet"tix, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The cicada. [Obs. or R.]

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of small grasshoppers.

TETTY Tet"ty, a.

Defn: Testy; irritable. [Obs.] Burton.

TEUFIT Teu"fit, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lapwing; -- called also teuchit. [Prov. Eng.]

TEUK Teuk, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The redshank. [Prov. Eng.]

TEUTON Teu"ton, n.; pl. E. Teutons, L. Teutones. Etym: [L. Teutones, Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin to E. Dutch. Cf. Dutch.]

1. One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.

2. A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

TEUTONIC Teu*ton"ic, a. Etym: [L. Teutonicus, from Teutoni, or Teutones. See Teuton.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.

TEUTONIC Teu*ton"ic, n.

Defn: The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

TEUTONICISM Teu*ton"i*cism, n.

Defn: A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.

TEW Tew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tewing.] Etym: [OE. tewen, tawen. *64. See Taw, v.]

1. To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

2. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

TEW Tew, v. i.

Defn: To work hard; to strive; to fuse. [Local]

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

Defn: To tow along, as a vessel. [Obs.] Drayton.

TEW Tew, n.

Defn: A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

TEWAN Te"wan, n. (Ethnol.)

Defn: A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

TEWED Tewed, a.

Defn: Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

TEWEL Tew"el, n. Etym: [OE. tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F. tuyau; of Teutonic origin; cf. Dan. tud, D. tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf. Tuyère.]

1. A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

2. The tuyère of a furnace.

TEWHIT Te"whit, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]

TEWTAW Tew"taw, v. t. Etym: [See Tew, v. t.]

Defn: To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

TEXAS Tex"as, n.

Defn: A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc. [Western U.S.] Knight.

TEXAS LEAGUER Tex"as Leagu"er. [From the Texas (baseball) League.] (Baseball)

Defn: A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

TEXT Text, n. Etym: [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle, n., Pretext, Tissue, Toil a snare.]

1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary. Chaucer.

2. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.]

3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! Cowper.

4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text. Text blindness. (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word. -- Text letter, a large or capital letter. [Obs.] -- Text pen, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.

TEXT Text, v. t.

Defn: To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

TEXT-BOOK Text"-book`, n.

1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

TEXT-HAND Text"-hand`, n.

Defn: A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

TEXT HAND Text hand.

Defn: A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

TEXTILE Tex"tile, a. Etym: [L. textilis, fr. texere to weave: cf. F. textile. See Text.]

Defn: Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics. Textile cone (Zoöl.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

TEXTILE Tex"tile, n.

Defn: That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving. Bacon.

TEXTMAN Text"man, n.; pl. Textmen (.

Defn: One ready in quoting texts. [R.] Bp. Sanderston.

TEXTORIAL Tex*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. textorius, fr. textor a weaver, fr. texere, textum, to weave.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to weaving. T. Warton.

TEXTRINE Tex"trine, a. Etym: [L. textrinus, for textorinus, fr. textor a weaver.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art. Denham.

TEXTUAL Tex"tu*al, a. Etym: [OE. textuel, F. textuel.]

1. Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading. Milton.

2. Serving for, or depending on, texts. Bp. Hall.

3. Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately. "I am not textuel." Chaucer.

TEXTUALIST Tex"tu*al*ist, n.

Defn: A textman; a textuary. Lightfoot.

TEXTUALLY Tex"tu*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a textual manner; in the text or body of a work; in accordance with the text.

TEXTUARIST Tex"tu*a*rist, n.

Defn: A textuary. [R.]

TEXTUARY Tex"tu*a*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. textuaire.]

1. Contained in the text; textual. Sir T. Browne.

2. Serving as a text; authoritative. Glanvill.

TEXTUARY Tex"tu*a*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. F. textuaire.]

1. One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman. Bp. Bull.

2. One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.

TEXTUEL Tex"tu*el, a.

Defn: Textual. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TEXTUIST Tex"tu*ist, n.

Defn: A textualist; a textman. [Obs.] The crabbed textualists of his time. Milton.

TEXTURAL Tex"tur*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to texture.

TEXTURE Tex"ture, n. Etym: [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text.]

1. The act or art of weaving. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson.

3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

5. (Biol.)

Defn: A tissue. See Tissue.

TEXTURE Tex"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Textured; p. pr. & vb. n. Texturing.]

Defn: To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]

TEXTURY Tex"tur*y, n.

Defn: The art or process of weaving; texture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TEYNE Teyne, n. Etym: [See Tain.]

Defn: A thin plate of metal. [Obs.] "A teyne of silver." Chaucer.

TH Th.

Defn: In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

THACK; THACKER Thack, Thack"er.

Defn: See Thatch, Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

THAK Thak, v. t.

Defn: To thwack. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THALAMENCEPHALON Thal`a*men*ceph"a*lon, n. Etym: [NL. See Thalamus, and Encephalon.] (Anat.)

Defn: The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.

THALAMIC Tha*lam"ic, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.

THALAMIFLORAL; THALAMIFLOROUS Thal`a*mi*flo"ral, Thal`a*mi*flo"rous, a. Etym: [See Thalamus, and Floral.] (Bot.)

Defn: Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

THALAMOCOELE Thal"a*mo*coele`, n. Etym: [Thalamic + Cg. (Anat.)

Defn: The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.

THALAMOPHORA Thal`a*moph"o*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Foraminifera.

THALAMUS Thal"a*mus, n.; pl. Thalami. Etym: [L. thalamus chamber, Gr.

1. (Anat.)

Defn: A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

2. (Bot.) (a) Same as Thallus. (b) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

THALASSIAN Tha*las"si*an, n. Etym: [From Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any sea tortoise.

THALASSIC Tha*las"sic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Geol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

THALASSINIAN Thal`as*sin"i*an, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Thalaassinidæ, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.

THALASSOGRAPHY Thal`as*sog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]

Defn: The study or science of the life of marine organisms. Agassiz.

THALER Tha"ler, n. Etym: [G. See Dollar.]

Defn: A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.

THALIA Tha*li"a, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.) (a) That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy. (b) One of the three Graces. (c) One of the Nereids.

THALIACEA Tha`li*a"ce*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Thalia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

THALIAN Tha*li"an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.

THALLATE Thal"late, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.

THALLENE Thal"lene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

THALLIC Thal"lic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous compounds; as, thallic oxide.

THALLINE Thal"line, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Consisting of a thallus.

THALLINE Thal"line, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

THALLIOUS Thal"li*ous, a. (Chem.)

Defn: See Thallous.

THALLIUM Thal"li*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. green line in its spectrum.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.

THALLOGEN Thal"lo*gen, n. Etym: [Gr. -gen.] (Bot.)

Defn: One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algæ, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf.

THALLOID Thal"loid, a. Etym: [Thallus + -oid.] (Bot.)

Defn: Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.

THALLOPHYTA Thal*loph"y*ta, n. pl. [NL. See Thallophyte.] (Bot.)

Defn: A phylum of plants of very diverse habit and structure, including the algæ, fungi, and lichens. The simpler forms, as many blue-green algæ, yeasts, etc., are unicellular and reproduce vegetatively or by means of asexual spores; in the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algæ, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of the above-named organs. Both asexual and sexual reproduction, often of a complex type, occur in these forms. The Thallophyta exist almost exclusively as gametophytes, the sporophyte being absent or rudimentary. By those who do not separate the Myxophyta from the Tallophyta as a distinct phylum the latter is treated as the lowermost group in the vegetable kingdom.

THALLOPHYTE Thal"lo*phyte, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Thallogen.

THALLOUS Thal"lous, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds. [Written also thallious.]

THALLUS Thal"lus, n.; pl. Thalli. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

THALWEG Thal"weg`, n. [G., fr. thal valley + weg way. See Dale; Way.] (Physiography) (a) A line following the lowest part of a valley, whether under water or not. (b) The line of continuous maximum descent from any point on a land surface, or that cutting all contours and angles.

THAMMUZ; TAMMUZ Tham"muz, Tam"muz, n. Etym: [Heb. thammuz.]

1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. Milton.

2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

THAMNOPHILE Tham"no*phile, n. Etym: [Gr. qa`mnos a bush + fi`los loving.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A bush shrike.

THAMYN Tha"myn, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.

THAN Than, conj. Etym: [OE. than, thon, then, thanne, thonne, thenne, than, then, AS. thanne, thonne, th\'91nne; akin to D. dan, OHG. danne, G. dann then, denn than, for, Goth. Þan then, and to E. the, there, that. See That, and cf. Then.]

Defn: A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want. Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Matt. xii. 42. Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none higher sat. Milton. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.

THAN Than, adv.

Defn: Then. See Then. [Obs.] Gower. Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. Chaucer.

THANA Tha"na (tä"nä), n. [Written also tana, tanna.] [Hind. thana.]

Defn: A police station. [India] Kipling.

THANAGE Than"age, n.

Defn: The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

THANATOID Than"a*toid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.]

Defn: Deathlike; resembling death. Dunglison.

THANATOLOGY Than`a*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

THANATOPSIS Than`a*top"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.

Defn: A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant.

THANE Thane, n. Etym: [OE. thein, Þein, AS. Þegen, Þegn; akin to OHG. degan a follower, warrior, boy, MHG. degen a hero, G. degen hero, soldier, Icel. Þegn a thane, a freeman; probably akin to Gr. Þius servant, AS. Þeón, G. dienen to serve.]

Defn: A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

Note: Among the ancient Scots, thane was a title of honor, which seems gradually to have declined in its significance. Jamieson.

THANEDOM Thane"dom, n.

Defn: The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.

THANEHOOD Thane"hood, n.

Defn: The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.

THANESHIP Thane"ship, n.

Defn: The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.

THANK Thank, n.; pl. Thanks. Etym: [AS. Þanc, Þonc, thanks, favor, thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank thanks, Icel. Þ\'94kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. Þagks thanks; -- originally, a thought, a thinking. See Think.]

Defn: A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. "This ceremonial thanks." Massinger. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye for sinners also do even the same. Luke vi. 33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin Milton. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught. Longfellow. His thanks, Her thanks, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [Obs.] Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship. Chaucer. -- In thank, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.] -- Thank offering, an offering made as an expression of thanks.

THANK Thank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Thanking.] Etym: [AS. Þancian. See Thank, n.]

Defn: To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame. "Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you," quod she. Chaucer. I thank thee for thine honest care. Shak. Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss. Dryden.

THANKFUL Thank"ful, a. Etym: [AS. Þancfull.]

1. Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. [R.] Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert.

2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. c. 4. -- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n.

THANKLESS Thank"less, a.

1. Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful. That she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! Shak.

2. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task. To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the night allowed. Chapman. -- Thank"less*ly, adv. -- Thank"less*ness, n.

THANKLY Thank"ly, adv.

Defn: Thankfully. [Obs.] Sylvester (Du Bartas).

THANKSGIVE Thanks"give, v. t.

Defn: To give or dedicate in token of thanks. [Obs. or R.] Mede.

THANKSGIVER Thanks"giv`er, n.

Defn: One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.

THANKSGIVING Thanks"giv`ing, n.

1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still. Keble.

2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.

Note: In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor.

THANKWORTHINESS Thank"wor`thi*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being thankworthy.

THANKWORTHY Thank"wor`thy, a.

Defn: Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious. For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. ii. 19.

THAR Thar, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo. [Written also thaar, and tahr.]

THAR Thar, v. impersonal, pres. Etym: [OE. thar, Þarf, AS. Þearf, infin. Þurfan to need; akin to OHG. durfan, G. dürfen to be allowed, Icel. Þurfa to need, Goth. Þaúrban.]

Defn: It needs; need. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. What thar thee reck or care Chaucer.

THARMS Tharms, n. pl. Etym: [AS. Þearm a gut; akin to D. & G. darm, Icel. Þarmr, Sw. & Dan. tarm. *53.]

Defn: Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

THAROS Tha"ros, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent.

THAT That, pron., a., conj., & adv. Etym: [AS. th\'91t, neuter nom. & acc. sing. of the article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom. masc. se, and the nom. fem. seó are from a different root. AS. th\'91t is akin to D. dat, G. das, OHG. daz, Sw. & Dan. det, Icel. Þat (masc. sa, fem. so), Goth. Þata (masc. sa, fem. so), Gr. tat (for tad, masc. sas, fem. sa); cf. L. istud that. *184. Cf. The, Their, They, Them, This, Than, Since.]

1. As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples. The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the most celebrated princes. Gibbon.

Note: That may refer to an entire sentence or paragraph, and not merely to a word. It usually follows, but sometimes precedes, the sentence referred to. That be far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Gen. xviii. 25. And when Moses heard that, he was content. Lev. x. 20. I will know your business, Harry, that I will. Shak.

Note: That is often used in opposition to this, or by way of distinction, and in such cases this, like the Latin hic and French ceci, generally refers to that which is nearer, and that, like Latin ille and French cela, to that which is more remote. When they refer to foreign words or phrases, this generally refers to the latter, and that to the former. Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call. Pope. If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. James iv. 16.

2. As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Matt. x. 15. The woman was made whole from that hour. Matt. ix. 22.

Note: That was formerly sometimes used with the force of the article the, especially in the phrases that one, that other, which were subsequently corrupted into th'tone, th'tother (now written t'other). Upon a day out riden knightes two . . . That one of them came home, that other not. Chaucer.

3. As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame. Prov. ix. 7. A judgment that is equal and impartial must incline to the greater probabilities. Bp. Wilkins.

Note: If the relative clause simply conveys an additional idea, and is not properly explanatory or restrictive, who or which (rarely that) is employed; as, the king that (or who) rules well is generally popular; Victoria, who (not that) rules well, enjoys the confidence of her subjects. Ambiguity may in some cases be avoided in the use of that (which is restrictive) instead of who or which, likely to be understood in a coördinating sense. Bain. That was formerly used for that which, as what is now; but such use is now archaic. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John iii. 11. That I have done it is thyself to wite [blame]. Chaucer. That, as a relative pronoun, cannot be governed by a preposition preceding it, but may be governed by one at the end of the sentence which it commences. The ship that somebody was sailing in. Sir W. Scott. In Old English, that was often used with the demonstratives he, his, him, etc., and the two together had the force of a relative pronoun; thus, that he = who; that his = whose; that him = whom. I saw to-day a corpse yborn to church That now on Monday last I saw him wirche [work]. Chaucer. Formerly, that was used, where we now commonly use which, as a relative pronoun with the demonstrative pronoun that as its antecedent. That that dieth, let it die; and that that is to cut off, let it be cut off. Zech. xi. 9.

4. As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun. It is used, specifically: -- (a) To introduce a clause employed as the object of the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of a verb. She tells them 't is a causeless fantasy, And childish error, that they are afraid. Shak. I have shewed before, that a mere possibility to the contrary, can by no means hinder a thing from being highly credible. Bp. Wilkins.

(b) To introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because. He does hear me; And that he does, I weep. Shak.

(c) To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc. These things I say, that ye might be saved. John v. 34. To the end that he may prolong his days. Deut. xvii. 20.

(d) To introduce a consequence, result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that. The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings. Milton. He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled. Tennyson. (e) To introduce a clause denoting time; -- equivalent to in which time, at which time, when. So wept Duessa until eventide, That shining lamps in Jove's high course were lit. Spenser. Is not this the day That Hermia should give answer of her choice Shak.

(f) In an elliptical sentence to introduce a dependent sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise, indignation, or the like. Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I have seen! Shak. O God, that right should thus overcome might! Shak.

Note: That was formerly added to other conjunctions or to adverbs to make them emphatic. To try if that our own be ours or no. Shak. That is sometimes used to connect a clause with a preceding conjunction on which it depends. When he had carried Rome and that we looked For no less spoil than glory. Shak.

5. As adverb: To such a degree; so; as, he was that frightened he could say nothing. [Archaic or in illiteral use.] All that, everything of that kind; all that sort. With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope. The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd [gold] for a'that. Burns. -- For that. See under For, prep. -- In that. See under In, prep.

THATCH Thatch, n. Etym: [OE. thak, AS. Þ\'91c a roof; akin to Þeccean to cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G. dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. Þak a roof, Sw. tak, Dan. tag, Lith. stogas, Ir. teagh a house, Gael. teach, tigh, W. ty, L. tegere to cover, toga a toga, Gr. sthag. Cf. Deck, Integument, Tile, Toga.]

1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

THATCH Thatch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thatched; p. pr. & vb. n. Thatching.] Etym: [From Thatch, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS. to cover.]

Defn: To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

THATCHER Thatch"er, n.

Defn: One who thatches.

THATCHING Thatch"ing, n.

1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch.

THAUGHT Thaught, n. (Naut.)

Defn: See Thwart.

THAUMATOLATRY Thau`ma*tol"a*try, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. [R.] The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century. Hare.

THAUMATROPE Thau"ma*trope, n. Etym: [Gr. (Opt.)

Defn: An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

Note: It consists of a card having on its opposite faces figures of two different objects, or halves of the same object, as a bird and a cage, which, when the card is whirled rapidlz round a diameter by the strings that hold it, appear to the eye combined in a single picture, as of a bird in its cage.

THAUMATURGE Thau"ma*turge, n. Etym: [See Thaumaturgus.]

Defn: A magician; a wonder worker. Lowell.

THAUMATURGIC; THAUMATURGICAL Thau`ma*tur"gic, Thau`ma*tur"gic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. Burton.

THAUMATURGICS Thau`ma*tur"gics, n.

Defn: Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.

THAUMATURGIST Thau`ma*tur"gist, n.

Defn: One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. Carlyle.

THAUMATURGUS Thau`ma*tur"gus, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr.

Defn: A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

THAUMATURGY Thau"ma*tur`gy, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.

THAVE Thave, n.

Defn: Same as Theave. [Prov. Eng.]

THAW Thaw, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thawing.] Etym: [AS. Þ\'bewian, Þ\'bewan; akin to D. dovijen, G. tauen, thauen (cf. also verdauen 8digest, OHG. douwen, firdouwen), Icel. Þeyja, Sw. töa, Dan. töe, and perhaps to Gr.

1. To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

3. Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.

THAW Thaw, v. t.

Defn: To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

THAW Thaw, n.

Defn: The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. Dryden.

THAWY Thaw"y, a.

Defn: Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

THE The, v. i.

Defn: See Thee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.

THE The (the, when emphatic or alone; the, obscure before a vowel; the, obscure before a consonant; 37), definite article. Etym: [AS. the, a later form for earlier nom. sing. masc. se, formed under the influence of the oblique cases. See That, pron.]

Defn: A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

Note: The was originally a demonstrative pronoun, being a weakened form of that. When placed before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful. Burke. The is used regularly before many proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as, the Nile, the Atlantic, the Great Eastern, the West Indies, The Hague. The with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a proper name; as, Alexander the Great; Napoleon the Third. The may be employed to individualize a particular kind or species; as, the grasshopper shall be a burden. Eccl. xii. 5.

THE The, adv. Etym: [AS. th\'c7, th\'df, instrumental case of se, seó, th\'91t, the definite article. See 2d The.]

Defn: By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. "Yet not the more cease I." Milton. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate. Milton.

THEA The"a, n. Etym: [NL. See Tea.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.

Note: It is now commonly referred to the genus camellia.

THEANDRIC The*an"dric, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

THEANTHROPIC; THEANTHROPICAL The`an*throp"ic, The`an*throp"ic*al, a.

Defn: Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.

THEANTHROPISM The*an"thro*pism, n. Etym: [Gr.

1. A state of being God and man. [R.] Coleridge.

2. The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism. Gladstone.

THEANTHROPIST The*an"thro*pist, n.

Defn: One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.

THEANTHROPY The*an"thro*py, n.

Defn: Theanthropism.

THEARCHIC The*ar"chic, a. Etym: [Gr. Thearchy.]

Defn: Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

THEARCHY The"ar*chy, n. Etym: [Gr. -archy: cf. Gr.

Defn: Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

THEATER; THEATRE The"a*ter, The"a*tre, n. Etym: [F. thé\'83tre, L. theatrum, Gr. dhya to meditate, think. Cf. Theory.]

1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

3. That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton.

4. A sphere or scheme of operation. [Obs.] For if a man can be partaker of God's theater, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest. Bacon.

5. A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

THEATIN; THEATINE The"a*tin, The"a*tine, n. Etym: [F. théatin, It. theatino.] (R. C. Ch.)

1. One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Note: Their name is derived from Theate, or Chieti, a city of Naples, the archbishop of which was a principal founder of the order; but they bore various names; as, Regular Clerks of the Community, Pauline Monks, Apostolic Clerks, and Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence. The order never flourished much out of Italy.

2. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.

THEATRAL The"a*tral, a. Etym: [L. theatralis: cf. F. théatral.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical. [Obs.]

THEATRIC The*at"ric, a.

Defn: Theatrical. Woods over woods in gay, theatric pride. Goldsmith.

THEATRICAL The*at"ric*al, a. Etym: [L. theatricus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No meretricious aid whatever has been called in -- no trick, no illusion of the eye, nothing theatrical. R. Jefferies.

THEATRICALS The*at"ric*als, n. pl.

Defn: Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.

THEAVE Theave, n. Etym: [Cf. W. dafad a sheep, ewe.]

Defn: A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. [Written also thave.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

THEBAIC The*ba"ic, a. Etym: [L. thebaicus, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

THEBAID The"ba*id, n. Etym: [L. Thebais, -idis.]

Defn: A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.

THEBAINE The*ba"ine, n. Etym: [So called from a kind of Egyptian opium produced at Thebes.] (Chem.)

Defn: A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

THEBAN The"ban, a. Etym: [L. Thebanus.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thebes. Theban year (Anc. Chron.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours. J. Bryant.

THEBAN The"ban, n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. Shak.

THECA The"ca, n.; pl. Thecæ. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Tick a cover.]

1. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids. (b) The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral. (c) The wall forming a calicle of a coral.

THECAL The"cal, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

THECAPHORE The"ca*phore, n. Etym: [Theca + Gr. thécaphore.] (Bot.) (a) A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ. (b) See Basigynium.

THECASPOROUS The*cas"po*rous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.

THECATA The*ca"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Thecophora.

THECLA Thec"la, n.

Defn: Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin.

THECODACTYL The`co*dac"tyl, n. [ (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

THECODONT The"co*dont, a. Etym: [Gr.

1. (Anat.)

Defn: Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.

2. (Paleon.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thecodonts.

THECODONT The"co*dont, n. (Paleon.)

Defn: One of the Thecodontia.

THECODONTIA The`co*don"ti*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebræ and the teeth implanted in sockets.

THECOPHORA The*coph"o*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

THECOSOMATA The`co*so"ma*ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Theca, and Soma.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda. -- The`co*so"ma*tous, a.

THEDOM The"dom, n. Etym: [Thee to prosper + -dom.]

Defn: Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.] Evil thedom on his monk's snout. Chaucer.

THEE Thee, v. i. Etym: [AS. ; akin to OS. thihan, D. gedijen, G. gedeihen, OHG. gidihan, Goth. , Lith. tekti to fall to the lot of. Cf. Tight, a.]

Defn: To thrive; to prosper. [Obs.] "He shall never thee." Chaucer. Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought. Spenser.

THEE Thee, pron. Etym: [AS. th\'c7, acc. & dat. of th\'d4 thou. See Thou.]

Defn: The objective case of thou. See Thou.

Note: Thee is poetically used for thyself, as him for himself, etc. This sword hath ended him; so shall it thee, Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner. Shak.

THEFT Theft, n. Etym: [OE. thefte, AS. Þiéfthe, Þ\'dffthe, Þeófthe. See Thief.]

1. (Law)

Defn: The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.

2. The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.

THEFTBOTE Theft"bote`, n. Etym: [Theft + bote compensation.] (Law)

Defn: The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.

THEGN Thegn, n.

Defn: Thane. See Thane. E. A. Freeman.

THEGNHOOD Thegn"hood, n.

Defn: Thanehood. E. A. Freeman.

THEIFORM The"i*form, a. Etym: [NL. thea tea, the tea plant + -form: cf. F. théiforme.]

Defn: Having the form of tea.

THEINE The"ine, n. Etym: [F. théine, fr. NL. thea. See Theiform.] (Chem.)

Defn: See Caffeine. Called also theina.

THEIR Their, pron. & a. Etym: [OE. thair, fr. Icel. Þeirra, Þeira, of them, but properly gen. pl. of the definite article; akin to AS. th\'bera, th\'d6ra, gen. pl. of the definite article, or fr. AS. th\'d6ra, influenced by the Scandinavian use. See That.]

Defn: The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.

Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.

THEISM The"ism, n. Etym: [From Gr. théisme. Cf. Enthusiasm, Pantheon, Theology.]

Defn: The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

THEIST The"ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théiste. See Theism.]

Defn: One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.

THEISTIC; THEISTICAL The*is"tic, The*is"tic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to theism, or a theist; according to the doctrine of theists.

THELPHUSIAN Thel*phu"si*an, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.

THELYTOKOUS The*lyt"o*kous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.

THEM Them, pron. Etym: [AS. th\'d6m, dat. pl. of the article, but influenced by the Scand. use of the corresponding form Þeim as a personal pronoun. See They.]

Defn: The objective case of they. See They. Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. Matt. xxv. 9. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father. Matt. xxv. 34.

Note: Them is poetically used for themselves, as him for himself, etc. Little stars may hide them when they list. Shak.

THEMATIC The*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. thématique.]

1. (Gram.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject. Thematic catalogue (Mus.), a catalogue of musical works which, besides the title and other particulars, gives in notes the theme, or first few measures, of the whole work or of its several movements.

THEME Theme, n. Etym: [OE. teme, OF. teme, F. thème, L. thema, Gr. Do, and cf. Thesis.]

1. A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. Shak.

2. Discourse on a certain subject. Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme. Piers Plowman. It was the subject of my theme. Shak.

3. A composition or essay required of a pupil. Locke.

4. (Gram.)

Defn: A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.

5. That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. [Obs.] Swift.

6. (Mus.)

Defn: The leading subject of a composition or a movement.

THEMIS The"mis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gr. Myth.)

Defn: The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

THEMSELVES Them*selves", pron.

Defn: The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.

THEN Then, adv. Etym: [Originally the same word as than. See Than.]

1. At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future). And the Canaanite was then in the land. Gen. xii. 6. Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

2. Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Matt. v. 24.

3. At another time; later; again. One while the master is not aware of what is done, and then in other cases it may fall out to be own act. L'Estrange. By then. (a) By that time. (b) By the time that. [Obs.] But that opinion, I trust, by then this following argument hath been well read, will be left for one of the mysteries of an indulgent Antichrist. Milton. Now and then. See under Now, adv. -- Till then, until that time; until the time mentioned. Milton.

Note: Then is often used elliptically, like an adjective, for then existing; as, the then administration.

THEN Then, conj.

1. Than. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. In that case; in consequence; as a consequence; therefore; for this reason. If all this be so, then man has a natural freedom. Locke. Now, then, be all thy weighty cares away. Dryden.

Syn. -- Therefore. Then, Therefore. Both these words are used in reasoning; but therefore takes the lead, while then is rather subordinate or incidental. Therefore states reasons and draws inferences in form; then, to a great extent, takes the point as proved, and passes on to the general conclusion. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God." Rom. v. 1. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Rom. x. 17.

THENADAYS Then"a*days, adv.

Defn: At that time; then; in those days; -- correlative to nowadays. [R.]

THENAL; THENAR The"nal, The"nar, a. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.

THENAR The"nar, n. (Anat.) (a) The palm of the hand. (b) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

THENARDITE The*nard"ite, n. Etym: [Named after the French chemist, L.J.Thénard.] (Min.)

Defn: Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.

THENCE Thence, adv. Etym: [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the adverbal -s; see -wards) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now written thence), AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. von dannen, E. that, there. See That.]

1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark vi. 11.

Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from before thence. Cf. Hence, Whence. Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence. Gen. xxvii. 45.

2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter. There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Isa. lxv. 20.

3. For that reason; therefore. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. Milton.

4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] Shak.

THENCEFORTH Thence`forth", adv.

Defn: From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13.

Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.

THENCEFORWARD Thence`for"ward, adv.

Defn: From that time onward; thenceforth.

THENCEFROM Thence`from", adv.

Defn: From that place. [Obs.]

THEOBROMA The`o*bro"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. théobrome.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of small trees. See Cacao.

THEOBROMIC The`o*bro"mic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogæa), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.

THEOBROMINE The`o*bro"mine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine.

THEOCHRISTIC The`o*chris"tic, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Anointed by God.

THEOCRACY The*oc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Gr. théocratie. See Theism, and cf. Democracy.]

1. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

2. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

THEOCRASY The*oc"ra*sy, n. Etym: [Gr.

1. A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols. This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in him [Solomon] the proper service of idols. J. Murphy.

2. (Philos.)

Defn: An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.

THEOCRAT The"o*crat, n.

Defn: One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

THEOCRATIC; THEOCRATICAL The`o*crat"ic, The`o*crat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. théocratique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.

THEODICY The*od"i*cy, n. Etym: [NL. theodicæa, fr. Gr. théodicée.]

1. A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

2. That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul. Krauth-Fleming.

THEODOLITE The*od"o*lite, n. Etym: [Probably a corruption of the alidade. See Alidade.]

Defn: An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed.

Note: The theodolite consists principally of a telescope, with cross wires in the focus of its object glass, clamped in Y's attached to a frame that is mounted so as to turn both on vertical and horizontal axes, the former carrying a vernier plate on a horizontal graduated plate or circle for azimuthal angles, and the latter a vertical graduated arc or semicircle for altitudes. The whole is furnished with levels and adjusting screws and mounted on a tripod.

THEODOLITIC The*od`o*lit"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.

THEOGONIC The`o*gon"ic, a.

Defn: Of or relating to theogony.

THEOGONISM The*og"o*nism, n.

Defn: Theogony. [R.]

THEOGONIST The*og"o*nist, n.

Defn: A writer on theogony.

THEOGONY The*og"o*ny, n. Etym: [L. theogonia, Gr. Theism, and Genus.]

Defn: The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

THEOLOGASTER The*ol"o*gas`ter, n. Etym: [Formed like poetaster: cf. F. théologastre.]

Defn: A pretender or quack in theology. [R.] Burton.

THEOLOGER The*ol"o*ger, n.

Defn: A theologian. Cudworth.

THEOLOGIAN The`o*lo"gi*an, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théologien, L. theologus, Gr. Theology.]

Defn: A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

THEOLOGIC The`o*log"ic, a.

Defn: Theological.

THEOLOGICAL The`o*log"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. theologicus, Gr. théologique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. -- The`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

THEOLOGICS The`o*log"ics, n.

Defn: Theology. Young.

THEOLOGIST The*ol"o*gist, n.

Defn: A theologian.

THEOLOGIZE The*ol"o*gize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Theologized; p. pr. & vb. n. Theologizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. théologiser.]

Defn: To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology. School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized. Glanvill.

THEOLOGIZE The*ol"o*gize, v. i.

Defn: To frame a system of theology; to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.

THEOLOGIZER The*ol"o*gi`zer, n.

Defn: One who theologizes; a theologian. [R.] Boyle.

THEOLOGUE The"o*logue, n. Etym: [Cf. L. theologus, Gr. philologue.]

1. A theologian. Dryden. Ye gentle theologues of calmer kind. Young. He [Jerome] was the theologue -- and the word is designation enough. I. Taylor.

2. A student in a theological seminary. [Written also theolog.] [Colloq. U.S.]

THEOLOGY The*ol"o*gy, n.; pl. Theologies. Etym: [L. theologia, Gr. théologie. See Theism, and Logic.]

Defn: The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life." Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of "science of God"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.). Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man. Gladstone. Ascetic theology, Natural theology. See Ascetic, Natural. -- Moral theology, that phase of theology which is concerned with moral character and conduct. -- Revealed theology, theology which is to be learned only from revelation. -- Scholastic theology, theology as taught by the scholastics, or as prosecuted after their principles and methods. -- Speculative theology, theology as founded upon, or influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy. -- Systematic theology, that branch of theology of which the aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of statements that together shall constitute an organized whole. E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).

THEOMACHIST The*om"a*chist, n. Etym: [Cf. Gr.

Defn: One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

THEOMACHY The*om"a*chy, n. Etym: [Gr.

1. A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods.

2. A battle or strife among the gods. Gladstone.

3. Opposition to God or the divine will. Bacon.

THEOMANCY The"o*man`cy, n. Etym: [Gr. -mancy: cf. F. théomancie, Gr.

Defn: A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

THEOPATHETIC; THEOPATHIC The`o*pa*thet"ic, The`o*path"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theopathy.

THEOPATHY The*op"a*thy, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Capacity for religious affections or worship.

THEOPHANIC The`o*phan"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god.

THEOPHANY The*oph"a*ny, n.; pl. -nies. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.

THEOPHILANTHROPIC The`o*phil`an*throp"ic, a.

Defn: Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.

THEOPHILANTHROPISM The`o*phi*lan"thro*pism, n.

Defn: The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.

THEOPHILANTHROPIST The`o*phi*lan"thro*pist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théophilanthrope.] (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.

THEOPHILANTHROPY The`o*phi*lan"thro*py, n. Etym: [Gr. philanthropy.]

Defn: Theophilanthropism. Macaulay.

THEOPHILOSOPHIC The`o*phil`o*soph"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. philosophic.]

Defn: Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.

THEOPNEUSTED The`op*neus"ted, a.

Defn: Divinely inspired; theopneustic. [R.]

THEOPNEUSTIC The`op*neus"tic, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.

THEOPNEUSTY The"op*neus`ty, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

THEORBIST The*or"bist, n. (Mus.)

Defn: One who plays on a theorbo.

THEORBO The*or"bo, n. Etym: [F. théorbe, téorbe, formerly tuorbe, tiorbe, It. tiorba.] (Mus.)

Defn: An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.

Note: A larger form of theorbo was also called the archlute, and was used chiefly, if not only, as an accompaniment to the voice. Both have long fallen into disuse.

THEOREM The"o*rem, n. Etym: [L. theorema, Gr. théorème. See Theory.]

1. That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule. Not theories, but theorems (Coleridge. By the theorems, Which your polite and terser gallants practice, I re-refine the court, and civilize Their barbarous natures. Massinger.

2. (Math.)

Defn: A statement of a principle to be demonstrated.

Note: A theorem is something to be proved, and is thus distinguished from a problem, which is something to be solved. In analysis, the term is sometimes applied to a rule, especially a rule or statement of relations expressed in a formula or by symbols; as, the binomial theorem; Taylor's theorem. See the Note under Proposition, n., 5. Binomial theorem. (Math.) See under Binomial. -- Negative theorem, a theorem which expresses the impossibility of any assertion. -- Particular theorem (Math.), a theorem which extends only to a particular quantity. -- Theorem of Pappus. (Math.) See Centrobaric method, under Centrobaric. -- Universal theorem (Math.), a theorem which extends to any quantity without restriction.

THEOREM The"o*rem, v. t.

Defn: To formulate into a theorem.

THEOREMATIC; THEOREMATICAL The`o*re*mat"ic, The`o*re*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.

THEOREMATIST The`o*rem"a*tist, n.

Defn: One who constructs theorems.

THEOREMIC The`o*rem"ic, a.

Defn: Theorematic. Grew.

THEORETIC; THEORETICAL The`o*ret"ic, The`o*ret"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. theoreticus, F. théorétique.]

Defn: Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences. -- The`o*ret"ic*al*ly, adv.

THEORETICS The`o*ret"ics, n.

Defn: The speculative part of a science; speculation. At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

THEORIC The*or"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. théorique. See Theory.]

1. Of or pertaining to the theorica.

2. (pron.

Defn: Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled. [Obs.] A man but young, Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic In all humanity. Massinger.

THEORIC The"o*ric, n. Etym: [OF. theorique; cf. L. theorice.]

Defn: Speculation; theory. [Obs.] Shak.

THEORICA The*or"i*ca, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Theory.] (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund.

THEORICAL The*or"ic*al, a.

Defn: Theoretic. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

THEORICALLY The*or"ic*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a theoretic manner. [Obs.]

THEORIST The"o*rist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théoriste.]

Defn: One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist. Cowper. The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom. Addison.

THEORIZATION The`o*ri*za"tion, n.

Defn: The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.

THEORIZE The"o*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Theorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Theorizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. théoriser.]

Defn: To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

THEORIZER The"o*ri`zer, n.

Defn: One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.

THEORY The"o*ry, n.; pl. Theories. Etym: [F. théorie, L. theoria, Gr. Theater.]

1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

Note: "This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually convertible into hypothesis, and hypothesis is commonly used as another term for conjecture. The terms theory and theoretical are properly used in opposition to the terms practice and practical. In this sense, they were exclusively employed by the ancients; and in this sense, they are almost exclusively employed by the Continental philosophers." Sir W. Hamilton.

2. An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.

3. The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.

4. The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments. Atomic theory, Binary theory, etc. See under Atomic, Binary, etc.

Syn. -- Hypothesis, speculation. -- Theory, Hypothesis. A theory is a scheme of the relations subsisting between the parts of a systematic whole; an hypothesis is a tentative conjecture respecting a cause of phenomena.

THEOSOPH; THEOSOPHER The"o*soph, The*os"o*pher, n.

Defn: A theosophist.

THEOSOPHIC; THEOSOPHICAL The`o*soph"ic, The`o*soph"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. théosophique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to theosophy. -- The`o*soph"ic*al*ly, adv.

THEOSOPHISM The*os"o*phism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théosophisme.]

Defn: Belief in theosophy. Murdock.

THEOSOPHIST The*os"o*phist, n.

Defn: One addicted to theosophy. The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an inspiration of his own, for its basis. R. A. Vaughan.

THEOSOPHISTICAL The*os`o*phis"tic*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.

THEOSOPHIZE The*os"o*phize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Theosophized; p. pr. & vb. n. Theosophizing.]

Defn: To practice theosophy. [R.]

THEOSOPHY The*os"o*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. théosophie.]

Defn: Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

THERAPEUTAE Ther`a*peu"tæ, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Therapeutic.] (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL Ther`a*peu"tic, Ther`a*peu"tic*al, a. Etym: [F. thérapeutique, Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

THERAPEUTIC Ther`a*peu"tic, n.

Defn: One of the Therapeutæ.

THERAPEUTICS Ther`a*peu"tics, n. Etym: [Cf. F. thérapeutique.]

Defn: That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

THERAPEUTIST Ther`a*peu"tist, n.

Defn: One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.

THERAPY Ther"a*py, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Therapeutics.

THERE There, adv. Etym: [OE. ther, AS. th\'d6r; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. dar, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. Þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. *184. See That, pron.]

1. In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man, both bound together." Shak. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Ge. ii. 8.

Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." Milton.

2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. Shak.

3. To or into that place; thither. The rarest that e'er came there. Shak.

Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. A knight there was, and that a worthy man. Chaucer. There is a path which no fowl knoweth. Job xxviii. 7. Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced. Locke. There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue. Suckling.

Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.

Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where. Spend their good there it is reasonable. Chaucer. Here and there, in one place and another.

Syn. -- See Thither.

THEREABOUT; THEREABOUTS There"a*bout`, There"a*bouts`, adv. Etym: [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]

1. Near that place.

2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

3. Concerning that; about that. [R.] What will ye dine I will go thereabout. Chaucer. They were much perplexed thereabout. Luke xxiv. 4.

THEREAFTER There*af"ter, adv. Etym: [AS. th\'d6ræfter after that. See There, and After.]

1. After that; afterward.

2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

3. Of that sort. [Obs.] "My audience is not thereafter." Latimer.

THEREAGAIN There"a*gain`, adv.

Defn: In opposition; against one's course. [Obs.] If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.

THERE-ANENT There"-a*nent`, adv.

Defn: Concerning that. [Scot.]

THEREAT There*at", adv.

1. At that place; there. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Matt. vii. 13.

2. At that occurrence or event; on that account. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat. Hooker.

THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN There`be*fore", There`bi*forn", adv.

Defn: Before that time; beforehand. [Obs.] Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.

THEREBY There*by", adv.

1. By that; by that means; in consequence of that. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee. Job xxii. 21.

2. Annexed to that. "Thereby hangs a tale." Shak.

3. Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc. Chaucer.

THEREFOR There*for", adv. Etym: [There + for. Cf. Therefore.]

Defn: For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.

THEREFORE There"fore, conj. & adv. Etym: [OE. therfore. See There, and Fore, adv., For, and cf. Therefor.]

1. For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that. I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come. Luke xiv. 20. Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore Matt. xix. 27.

2. Consequently; by consequence. He blushes; therefore he is guilty. Spectator.

Syn. -- See Then.

THEREFROM There*from", adv.

Defn: From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.

THEREIN There*in", adv.

Defn: In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect. Wyclif. He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast. Chaucer. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gen. ix. 7. Therein our letters do not well agree. Shak.

THEREINTO There`in*to", adv.

Defn: Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.

THEREOF There*of", adv.

Defn: Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17.

THEREOLOGY The`re*ol"o*gy, n.

Defn: Therapeutios.

THEREON There*on", adv. Etym: [AS. . See There, and On.]

Defn: On that or this. Chaucer. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. Esther vii. 9.

THEREOUT There*out", adv.

1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2.

2. On the outside; out of doors. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THERETO There*to", adv.

1. To that or this. Chaucer.

2. Besides; moreover. [Obs.] Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.

THERETOFORE There`to*fore", adv.

Defn: Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

THEREUNDER There*un"der, adv.

Defn: Under that or this.

THEREUNTO There`un*to", adv.

Defn: Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.

THEREUPON There`up*on", adv.

1. Upon that or this; thereon. "They shall feed thereupon." Zeph. ii. 7.

2. On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore. [He] hopes to find you forward, . . . And thereupon he sends you this good news. Shak.

3. Immediately; at once; without delay.

THEREWHILE There*while", adv.

Defn: At that time; at the same time. [Obs.] Laud.

THEREWITH There*with", adv.

1. With that or this. "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Phil. iv. 11.

2. In addition; besides; moreover. To speak of strength and therewith hardiness. Chaucer.

3. At the same time; forthwith. [Obs.] Johnson.

THEREWITHAL There`with*al", adv.

1. Over and above; besides; moreover. [Obs.] Daniel. And therewithal it was full poor and bad. Chaucer.

2. With that or this; therewith; at the same time. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. And therewithal one came and seized on her, And Enid started waking. Tennyson.

THERF Therf, a. Etym: [AS. ; akin to OHG. derb, Icel. .]

Defn: Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc. [Obs.] Pask and the feast of therf loaves. Wyclif.

THERIAC; THERIACA The"ri*ac, The*ri"a*ca, n. Etym: [L. theriaca an antidote against the bite of serpents, Gr. thériaque. See Treacle.]

1. (Old Med.)

Defn: An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

2. Treacle; molasses. British Pharm.

THERIAC; THERIACAL The"ri*ac, The*ri"a*cal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. thériacal.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal. "Theriacal herbs." Bacon.

THERIAL The"ri*al, a.

Defn: Theriac. [R.] Holland.

THERIODONT The"ri*o*dont, n. (Paleon.)

Defn: One of the Theriodontia. Used also adjectively.

THERIODONTA The`ri*o*don"ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Paleon.)

Defn: Same as Theriodontia.

THERIODONTIA The`ri*o*don"ti*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha.

Note: They had biconcave vertebræ, ambulatory limbs, and a well- developed pelvis and shoulder girdle. Some of the species had large maxillary teeth. The head somewhat resembled that of a turtle. The Dicynodont is one of the best-known examples. See Dicynodont.

THERIOTOMY The`ri*ot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Zoötomy.

THERMAE Ther"mæ, n. pl. Etym: [L. See Thermal.]

Defn: Springs or baths of warm or hot water.

THERMAL Ther"mal, a. Etym: [L. thermae hot springs, fr. Gr. formus warm, and E. forceps.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters. The thermal condition of the earth. J. D. Forbes. Thermal conductivity, Thermal spectrum. See under Conductivity, and Spectrum. -- Thermal unit (Physics), a unit chosen for the comparison or calculation of quantities of heat. The unit most commonly employed is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram or one pound of water from zero to one degree Centigrade. See Calorie, and under Unit.

THERMALLY Ther"mal*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thermal manner.

THERMANTIDOTE Ther*man"ti*dote, n. [Gr. heat + E. antidote.]

Defn: A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [India]

Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes play Kipling.

THERMETOGRAPH Ther*met"o*graph, n. Etym: [Gr. -graph.]

Defn: A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.

THERMIC Ther"mic, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines. Thermic balance. See Bolometer. -- Thermic fever (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sunstroke. See Sunstroke. -- Thermic weight. (Mech.) Same as Heat weight, under Heat.

THERMIDOR Ther`mi`dor", n. Etym: [F., fr. Gr.

Defn: The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

THERMIFUGINE Ther*mif"u*gine, n. Etym: [Gr. fugere to flee.] (Chem.)

Defn: An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.

THERMO- Ther"mo-.

Defn: A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.

THERMOANAESTHESIA; THERMOANESTHESIA Ther`mo*an`æs*the"si*a or -an`es*the"si*a, n. [NL.] (Med.)

Defn: Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

THERMOBAROGRAPH Ther`mo*bar"o*graph, n. (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for recording simultaneously the pressure and temperature of a gas; a combined thermograph and barograph.

THERMOBAROMETER Ther`mo*ba*rom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Thermo- + barometer.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

THERMOBATTERY Ther`mo*bat"ter*y, n. Etym: [Thermo- + battery.]

Defn: A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

THERMOCAUTERY Ther`mo*cau"ter*y, n. Etym: [Thermo- + cautery.] (Surg.)

Defn: Cautery by the application of heat. Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.

THERMOCHEMIC; THERMOCHEMICAL Ther`mo*chem"ic, Ther`mo*chem"ic*al, a. (Chem. Physics)

Defn: Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry.

THERMOCHEMISTRY Ther`mo*chem"is*try, n. Etym: [Thermo- + chemistry.]

Defn: That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

THERMOCHROIC Ther`mo*chro"ic, a. [Thermo-+ Gr. , , color.]

Defn: Pert. to or designating heat rays that have undergone selective absorption and are therefore analogous to colored light rays.

THERMOCHROSY Ther*moch"ro*sy, n. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. (Physics)

Defn: The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

THERMOCOUPLE Ther"mo*cou`ple, n.

Defn: A thermoelectric couple.

THERMOCURRENT Ther"mo*cur`rent, n. Etym: [Thermo- + current.] (Physics)

Defn: A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

THERMODIN Ther"mo*din, n. [G., fr. Gr. heat.] (Pharm.)

Defn: A white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.

THERMODYNAMIC Ther`mo*dy*nam"ic, a. Etym: [Thermo- + dynamic.] (Physics)

Defn: Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat. Thermodynamic function. See Heat weight, under Heat.

THERMODYNAMICS Ther`mo*dy*nam"ics, n.

Defn: The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.

THERMOELECTRIC Ther`mo*e*lec"tric, a. (Physics)

Defn: Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.

THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR Ther`mo*e*lec"tric couple or pair. (Elec.)

Defn: A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

THERMOELECTRICITY Ther`mo*e`lec*tric"i*ty, n. Etym: [Thermo- + electricity: cf. F. thermoélectricité.] (Physics)

Defn: Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

THERMOELECTROMETER Ther`mo*e`lec*trom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Thermo- + electrometer.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.

THERMOGEN Ther"mo*gen, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -gen.] (Old Chem.)

Defn: Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.

THERMOGENIC Ther`mo*gen"ic, a. (Physiol.)

Defn: Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.

THERMOGENOUS Ther*mog"e*nous, a. Etym: [Thermo- + -genous.] (Physiol.)

Defn: Producing heat; thermogenic.

THERMOGRAM Ther"mo*gram, n. (Physics)

Defn: The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.

THERMOGRAPH Ther"mo*graph, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -graph.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.

THERMOGRAPHY Ther*mog"ra*phy, n. [Thermo-+ -graphy.]

Defn: Any process of writing involving the use of heat.

THERMOJUNCTION Ther`mo*junc"tion, n. (Elec.)

Defn: A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.

THERMOLOGY Ther*mol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -logy.]

Defn: A discourse on, or an account of, heat. Whewell.

THERMOLUMINESCENCE Ther`mo*lu`mi*nes"cence, n. (Physics)

Defn: Luminescence exhibited by a substance on being moderately heated. It is shown esp. by certain substances that have been exposed to the action of light or to the cathode rays. ---lu`mi*nes"cent (#), a.

THERMOLYSIS Ther*mol"y*sis, n. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.

THERMOLYTIC Ther`mo*lyt"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to thermolysis.

THERMOLYZE Ther"mo*lyze, v. t. (Chem.)

Defn: To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.

THERMOMAGNETISM Ther`mo*mag"net*ism, n. Etym: [Thermo- + magnetism.]

Defn: Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.

THERMOMETER Ther*mom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -meter: cf. F. thermomètre. See Thermal.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.

Note: The thermometer usually consists of a glass tube of capillary bore, terminating in a bulb, and containing mercury or alcohol, which expanding or contracting according to the temperature to which it is exposed, indicates the degree of heat or cold by the amount of space occupied, as shown by the position of the top of the liquid column on a graduated scale. See Centigrade, Fahrenheit, and Réaumur. To reduce degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Centigrade, substract 32° and multiply by Air thermometer, Balance thermometer, etc. See under Air, Balance, etc. -- Metallic thermometer, a form of thermometer indicating changes of temperature by the expansion or contraction of rods or strips of metal. -- Register thermometer, or Self-registering thermometer, a thermometer that registers the maximum and minimum of temperature occurring in the interval of time between two consecutive settings of the instrument. A common form contains a bit of steel wire to be pushed before the column and left at the point of maximum temperature, or a slide of enamel, which is drawn back by the liquid, and left within it at the point of minimum temperature.

THERMOMETRIC; THERMOMETRICAL Ther`mo*met"ric, Ther`mo*met"ric*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. thermométrique.]

1. Of or pertaining to a thermometer; as, the thermometrical scale or tube.

2. Made, or ascertained, by means of a thermometer; as, thermometrical observations.

THERMOMETRICALLY Ther`mo*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.

THERMOMETROGRAPH Ther`mo*met"ro*graph, n. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. -graph.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.

THERMOMETRY Ther*mom"e*try, n.

Defn: The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.

THERMOMOTOR Ther`mo*mo"tor, n.

Defn: A heat engine; a hot-air engine.

THERMOMULTIPLIER Ther`mo*mul"ti*pli`er, n. Etym: [Thermo- + multiplier.]

Defn: Same as Thermopile.

THERMONEUROSIS Ther`mo*neu*ro"sis, n. [NL.] (Med.) (a) A neurosis caused by exposure to heat. (b) A neurosis causing rise or fall of a body's temperature.

THERMONEUTRALITY Ther`mo*neu*tral"i*ty, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Neutrality as regards heat effects.

THERMOPHILIC Ther`mo*phil"ic, a. [Thermo-+ Gr. loving + -ic.]

Defn: Heat-loving; -- applied esp. to certain bacteria.

THERMOPHONE Ther"mo*phone, n. [Thermo- + phone.]

1. A portable form of telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.

2. A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature (hence in length) due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with the receiver diaphragm.

THERMOPHORE Ther"mo*phore, n. [Thermo- + Gr. -bearing, fr. to bear.]

Defn: An apparatus for conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.

THERMOPILE Ther"mo*pile, n. Etym: [Thermo- + pile a heap.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat.

THERMOREGULATOR Ther`mo*reg"u*la`tor, n. (Physics)

Defn: A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.

THERMOSCOPE Ther"mo*scope, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -scope.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

THERMOSCOPIC Ther`mo*scop"ic, a. (Physics)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.

THERMOSIPHON Ther`mo*si"phon, n.

Defn: An arrangement of siphon tubes for assisting circulation in a liquid.

THERMOSTABLE Ther`mo*sta"ble, a. [Thermo-+ stable fixed.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.

THERMOSTAT Ther"mo*stat, n. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. (Physics)

Defn: A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.

THERMOSTATIC Ther`mo*stat"ic, a. (Physics)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thermostat; made or effected by means of the thermostat.

THERMOSYSTALTIC Ther`mo*sys*tal"tic, a. Etym: [Thermo- + systalic.] (Physiol.)

Defn: Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; -- said of a muscle.

THERMOTACTIC Ther`mo*tac"tic, a. (Physiol.)

Defn: Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

THERMOTANK Ther"mo*tank, n. [Thermo- + ank.]

Defn: A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

THERMOTAXIC Ther`mo*tax"ic, a. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. (Physiol.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.

THERMOTAXIS Ther`mo*tax"is, n. [NL.; thermo-+ Gr. an arranging.] (Physiol.) (a) The property possessed by protoplasm of moving under the influence of heat. (b) Determination of the direction of locomotion by heat.

THERMOTENSILE Ther`mo*ten"sile, a.

Defn: Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

THERMOTENSION Ther`mo*ten"sion, n. Etym: [Thermo- + tension.]

Defn: A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.

THERMOTHERAPY Ther`mo*ther"a*py, n. [Thermo-+ therapy.] (Med.)

Defn: Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

THERMOTIC; THERMOTICAL Ther*mot"ic, Ther*mot"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat; as, thermotical phenomena. Whewell.

THERMOTICS Ther*mot"ics, n.

Defn: The science of heat. Whewell.

THERMOTONUS Ther*mot"o*nus, n. [NL.; thermo-+ tonus.] (Plant Physiol.)

Defn: A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature.

THERMOTROPIC Ther`mo*trop"ic, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Manifesting thermotropism.

THERMOTROPISM Ther*mot"ro*pism, n. Etym: [Thermo- + Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.

THERMOTYPE Ther"mo*type, n. Etym: [Thermo- + -type.]

Defn: A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression.

THERMOTYPY Ther*mot"y*py, n.

Defn: The art or process of obtaining thermotypes.

THERMOVOLTAIC Ther`mo*vol*ta"ic, a. Etym: [Thermo- + voltaic.] (Physics)

Defn: Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.

THEROID The"roid, a. [Gr. qh`r, qhro`s, wild beast + -oid.] (Med.)

Defn: Resembling a beast in nature or habit; marked by animal characteristics; as, theroid idiocy.

THEROMORPHA The`ro*mor"pha, n. pl. Etym: [NL.: Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: See Theriodonta.

THEROPODA The*rop"o*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the repacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.

THESAURUS The*sau"rus, n.; pl. Thesauri. Etym: [L. See Treasure.]

Defn: A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

THESE These, pron. Etym: [OE. , , a variant of , pl. of , thes, this. See This, and cf. Those.]

Defn: The plural of this. See This.

THESICLE Thes"i*cle, n. Etym: [Dim. of thesis.]

Defn: A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

THESIS The"sis, n.; pl. Theses. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Do, and cf. Anathema, Apothecary, Epithet, Hypothesis, Parenthesis, Theme, Tick a cover.]

1. A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.

2. Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree. I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them. Goldsmith.

3. (Logic)

Defn: An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.

4. (Mus.)

Defn: The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.

5. (Pros.) (a) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word. (b) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

THESMOTHETE Thes"mo*thete, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.

THESPIAN Thes"pi*an, a. Etym: [From L. Thespis, Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art. -- n.

Defn: An actor.

THESSALIAN Thes*sa"li*an, a. Etym: [Cf. L. Thessalius.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thessaly in Greece. Shak. -- n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.

THESSALONIAN Thes`sa*lo"ni*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia. -- n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica.

THETA The"ta, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. qh a, the Greek letter th,

Defn: A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. Theta function (Math.), one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.

THETICAL Thet"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Thesis.]

Defn: Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law. Dr. H. More.

THETINE The"tine, n. Etym: [Thio + ether + sulphine.] (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.

THEURGIC; THEURGICAL The*ur"gic, The*ur"gic*al, a. Etym: [L. theurgicus, Gr. théurgique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to theurgy; magical. Theurgic hymns, songs of incantation.

THEURGIST The"ur*gist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. théurgiste.]

Defn: One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy. Hallywell.

THEURGY The"ur*gy, n. Etym: [L. theurgia, Gr. théurgie. See Theism, and Work.]

1. A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

2. A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

3. In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.

THEW Thew, n.

Note: [Chiefly used in the plural Thews (.] Etym: [OE. thew, , manner, habit, strength, AS. manner, habit (cf. to drive); akin to OS. thau custom, habit, OHG. dou. *56.]

1. Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues. [Obs.] For her great light Of sapience, and for her thews clear. Chaucer. Evil speeches destroy good thews. Wyclif (1 Cor. xv. 33). To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might. Spenser.

2. Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew. Shak. And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart. Tennyson.

THEWED Thewed, a.

1. Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.

2. Accustomed; mannered. [Obs.] John Skelton. Yet would not seem so rude and thewed ill. Spenser.

THEWY Thew"y, a.

Defn: Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.

THEY They, pron. pl.; poss. Theirs; obj. Them. Etym: [Icel. þeir they, properly nom. pl. masc. of sa, su, þat, a demonstrative pronoun, akin to the English definite article, AS. se, seó, edhæt, nom. pl. edha. See That.]

Defn: The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed. Jolif and glad they went unto here [their] rest And casten hem [them] full early for to sail. Chaucer. They of Italy salute you. Heb. xiii. 24. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt. v. 6.

Note: They is used indefinitely, as our ancestors used man, and as the French use on; as, they say (French on dit), that is, it is said by persons not specified.

THIALDINE Thi*al"dine, n. Etym: [Thio- + aldehyde + -ine.] (Chem.)

Defn: A weak nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2.

THIALOL Thi"al*ol, n. Etym: [Thio- + alcohol + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless oily liquid, (C2H5)2S2, having a strong garlic odor; -- called also ethyl disulphide. By extension, any one of the series of related compounds.

THIBETAN Thib"e*tan, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thibet. -- n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Thibet.

THIBET CLOTH Thib"et cloth`. (a) A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet. (b) A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.

THIBETIAN Thi*be"tian, a. & n.

Defn: Same as Thibetan.

THIBLE Thi"ble, n.

Defn: A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.

THICK Thick, a. [Compar. Thicker; superl. Thickest.] Etym: [OE. thicke, AS. ; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. , , and probably to Gael. & Ir. tiugh. Cf. Tight.]

1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. Were it as thick as is a branched oak. Chaucer. My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings xii. 10.

2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness. Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak.

4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. "In a thick, misty day." Sir W. Scott.

5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring. The people were gathered thick together. Luke xi. 29. Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. Dryden.

6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.] Shak.

8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. Shak. His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. Shak.

9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.] We have been thick ever since. T. Hughes.

Note: Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick- coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick- lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like. Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7. -- Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. J. Knowles.

Syn. -- Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.

THICK Thick, n.

1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.

2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton. Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser. He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small. Through thick and thin she followed him. Hudibras. He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. Coleridge.

THICK Thick, adv. Etym: [AS. þicce.]

1. Frequently; fast; quick.

2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

THICK Thick, v. t. & i. Etym: [Cf. AS. .]

Defn: To thicken. [R.] The nightmare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Coleridge.

THICKBILL Thick"bill`, n.

Defn: The bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

THICKEN Thick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening.]

Defn: To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: -- (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] And this may to thicken other proofs. Shak.

(d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.

THICKEN Thick"en, v. i.

Defn: To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.

THICKENING Thick"en*ing, n.

Defn: Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.

THICKET Thick"et, n. Etym: [AS. . See Thick, a.]

Defn: A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

THICKHEAD Thick"head`, n.

1. A thick-headed or stupid person. [Colloq.]

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright- colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.

THICK-HEADED Thick"-head`ed, a.

Defn: Having a thick skull; stupid.

THICKISH Thick"ish, a.

Defn: Somewhat thick.

THICK-KNEE Thick"-knee`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A stone curlew. See under Stone.

THICKLY Thick"ly, adv.

Defn: In a thick manner; deeply; closely.

THICKNESS Thick"ness, n. Etym: [AS. .]

Defn: The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

THICKSET Thick"set`, a.

1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden.

2. Having a short, thick body; stout.

THICKSET Thick"set`, n.

1. A close or thick hedge.

2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.

THICKSKIN Thick"skin`, n.

Defn: A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

THICK-SKINNED Thick"-skinned`, a.

Defn: Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.

THICKSKULL Thick"skull`, n.

Defn: A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.

THICK-SKULLED Thick"-skulled`, a.

Defn: Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

THICK WIND Thick" wind`. (Far.)

Defn: A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.

THICK-WINDED Thick"-wind`ed, a. (Far.)

Defn: Affected with thick wind.

THIDER Thid"er, adv.

Defn: Thither. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THIDERWARD Thid"er*ward, adv.

Defn: Thitherward. [Obs.]

THIEF Thief, n.; pl. Thieves. Etym: [OE. thef, theef, AS. ; akin to OFries. thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf. Theft.]

1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer. Where thieves break through and steal. Matt. vi. 19.

2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Bp. Hall. Thief catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

Syn. -- Robber; pilferer. -- Thief, Robber. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force. Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night. Shak. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

THIEFLY Thief"ly, a. & adv.

Defn: Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THIENONE Thi"ë*none, n. Etym: [Thiënyl + ketone.] (Chem.)

Defn: A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.

THIENYL Thi"ë*nyl, n. Etym: [Thiophene + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.

THIEVE Thieve, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Thieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Thieving.] Etym: [AS. ge.]

Defn: To practice theft; to steal.

THIEVERY Thiev"er*y, n.

1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South.

2. That which is stolen. [Obs.] Shak.

THIEVISH Thiev"ish, a.

1. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret. Time's thievish progress to eternity. Shak.

3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice. Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road. Shak. -- Thiev"ish*ly, adv. -- Thiev"ish*ness, n.

THIGH Thigh, n. Etym: [OE. thi, , , AS. ; akin to OFries. thiach, D. dij, dije, OHG. dioh, thioh, Icel. thigh, rump, and probably to Lith. taukas fat of animals, tuk to become fat, Russ. tuke fat of animals. *56.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The coxa, or femur, of an insect. Thigh bone (Anat.), the femur.

THIGMOTACTIC Thig`mo*tac"tic, a. (Physiol.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

THIGMOTAXIS Thig`mo*tax"is, n. [NL., fr. Gr. touch + an arranging.] (Physiol.)

Defn: The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance.

When the movement is away from the touching body, it is negative thigmotaxis; when towards it, positive thigmotaxis.

THILK Thilk, pron. Etym: [Cf. Ilk same.]

Defn: That same; this; that. [Obs.] "I love thilk lass." Spenser. Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death. Chaucer.

THILL Thill, n. Etym: [OE. thille, AS. a board, plank, beam, thill; akin to a plank, D. deel a plank, floor, G. diele, OHG. dili, dilla, Icel. a plank, planking, a thwart, a wainscot, plank; cf. Skr. tala a level surface. *236. Cf. Fill a thill, Deal a plank.]

1. One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

2. (Mining)

Defn: The floor of a coal mine. Raymond. Thill coupling, a device for connecting the thill of a vehicle to the axle.

THILLER Thill"er, n.

Defn: The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.

THIMBLE Thim"ble, n. Etym: [OE. thimbil, AS. , fr. a thumb. *56. See Thumb.]

1. A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.

2. (Mech.)

Defn: Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: -- (a) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. (b) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. (c) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.

THIMBLEBERRY Thim"ble*ber`ry, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

THIMBLEEYE Thim"ble*eye`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

THIMBLEFUL Thim"ble*ful, n.; pl. Thimblefuls (.

Defn: As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

THIMBLERIG Thim"ble*rig`, n.

Defn: A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

THIMBLERIG Thim"ble*rig`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thimblerigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Thimblerigging.]

Defn: To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.

THIMBLERIGGER Thim"ble*rig`ger, n.

Defn: One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

THIMBLEWEED Thim"ble*weed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

THIN Thin, a. [Compar. Thiner; superl. Thinest.] Etym: [OE. thinne, thenne, thunne, AS. þynne; akin to D. dun, G. dünn, OHG. dunni, Icel. þunnr, Sw. tunn, Dan. tynd, Gael. & Ir. tana, W. teneu, L. tenuis, Gr. tanu thin, slender; also to AS. to extend, G. dehnen, Icel. , Goth. (in comp.), L. tendere to stretch, tenere to hold, Gr. tan. *51 & 237. Cf. Attenuate, Dance, Tempt, Tenable, Tend to move, Tenous, Thunder, Tone.]

1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

2. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. Shak. In the day, when the air is more thin. Bacon. Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused. Milton.

3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. Addison.

4. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind. Gen. xli. 6.

5. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

6. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. Dryden.

7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. My tale is done, for my wit is but thin. Chaucer.

Note: Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin- shelled, and the like. Thin section. See under Section.

THIN Thin, adv.

Defn: Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. Spain is thin sown of people. Bacon.

THIN Thin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning.] Etym: [Cf. AS. geþynnian.]

Defn: To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

THIN Thin, v. i.

Defn: To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

THINE Thine, pron. & a. Etym: [OE. thin, AS. edhin, originally gen. of edhu, edhu, thou; akin to G. dein thine, Icel. þinn, possessive pron., þin, gen. of þu thou, Goth. þeins, possessive pron., þeina, gen. of þu thou. See Thou, and cf. Thy.]

Defn: A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

Note: In the old style, thine was commonly shortened to thi (thy) when used attributively before words beginning with a consonant; now, thy is used also before vowels. Thine is often used absolutely, the thing possessed being understood.

THING Thing, n. Etym: [AS. þing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly; akin to þingan to negotiate, þingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. þing a thing, assembly, court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before a court, negotiate, Goth. þeihs time, perhaps akin to L. tempus time. Cf. Hustings, and Temporal of time.]

1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.

2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. Ye meads and groves, unsonscious things! Cowper.

3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. [And Jacob said] All these things are against me. Gen. xlii. 36. Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matt. xxi. 24.

4. A portion or part; something. Wieked men who understand any thing of wisdom. Tillotson.

5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. See, sons, what things you are! Shak. The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.

6. pl.

Defn: Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. And them she gave her moebles and her thing. Chaucer.

Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition. In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously. Chaucer. Hearkening his minstrels their things play. Chaucer.

7. (Law)

Defn: Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person.

8. [In this sense pronounced tîng.]

Defn: In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly. Longfellow. Things personal. (Law) Same as Personal property, under Personal. -- Things real. Same as Real property, under Real.

THINK Think, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thought; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinking.] Etym: [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. þyncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean (imp. þohte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem, OL. tongere to know. Cf. Thank, Thought.]

1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Note: These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.

2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. For that I am I know, because I think. Dryden.

3. Specifically: -- (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. Well thought upon; I have it here. Shak.

(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. And when he thought thereon, he wept. Mark xiv. 72. He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits Luke xii. 17.

(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. Let them marry to whom they think best. Num. xxxvi. 6.

(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. I thought to promote thee unto great honor. Num. xxiv. 11. Thou thought'st to help me. Shak.

(e) To presume; to venture. Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father. Matt. iii. 9.

Note: To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preëminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought. To think better of. See under Better. -- To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.

Syn. -- To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.

THINK Think, v. t.

1. To conceive; to imagine. Charity . . . thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 4,5.

2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. Beau. & Fl.

3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous other's aid. Milton. To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

THINKABLE Think"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.

THINKER Think"er, n.

Defn: One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

THINKING Think"ing, a.

Defn: Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

THINKING Think"ing, n.

Defn: The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment. I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Shak.

THINLY Thin"ly, a.

Defn: In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

THINNER Thin"ner, n.

Defn: One who thins, or makes thinner.

THINNESS Thin"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

THINNISH Thin"nish, a.

Defn: Somewhat thin.

THINOLITE Thin"o*lite, n. Etym: [Gr. -lite.] (Min.)

Defn: A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

THIN-SKINNED Thin"-skinned`, a.

Defn: Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

THIO- Thi"o-. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sulphur. See Sulpho-.

THIOCARBONATE Thi`o*car"bon*ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A sulphocarbonate.

THIOCARBONIC Thi`o*car*bon"ic, a. Etym: [Thio- + carbonic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Sulphocarbonic.

THIOCYANATE Thi`o*cy"a*nate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Sulphocyanate.

THIOCYANIC Thi`o*cy*an"ic, a. Etym: [Thio- + cyanic.] (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Sulphocyanic.

THIONAPHTHENE Thi`o*naph"thene, n. Etym: [Thiophene + naphthalene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives. [Written also thionaphtene.]

THIONIC Thi*on"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling sulphur; specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as, the thionic acids. Cf. Dithionic, Trithionic, Tetrathionic, etc.

THIONINE Thi"on*ine, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.

THIONOL Thi"on*ol, n. Etym: [Thionine + -ol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.

THIONOLINE Thi*on"o*line, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.

THIONYL Thi"on*yl, n. Etym: [Thionic + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.

THIOPHENE Thi"o*phene, n. Etym: [Thio- + phenyl + -ene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.

THIOPHENIC Thi`o*phen"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid.

THIOPHENOL Thi`o*phe"nol, n. Etym: [Thio- + phenol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.

THIOPHTHENE Thi*oph"thene, n. Etym: [Abbreviated from thionaphthene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds. [Written also thiophtene.]

THIOSULPHATE Thi`o*sul"phate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.

Note: The sodium salt called in photography by the name sodium hyposulphite, being used as a solvent for the excess of unchanged silver chloride, bromide, and iodide on the sensitive plate.

THIOSULPHURIC Thi`o*sul*phur"ic, a. Etym: [Thio- + sulphuric.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous acid.

THIOTOLENE Thi`o*to"lene, n. Etym: [Thio- + toluene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.

THIOXENE Thi*ox"ene, n. Etym: [Thiophene + xylene.] (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.

THIRD Third, a. Etym: [OE. thirde, AS. , fr. , , three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction, Tierce.]

1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer.

2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. Third estate. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers état. See Tiers état. Third order (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, n., 1. -- Third person (Gram.), the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7. -- Third sound. (Mus.) See Third, n., 3.

THIRD Third, n.

1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

4. pl. (Law)

Defn: The third part of the estate of a deseased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. Major third (Mus.), an interval of two tones. -- Minor third (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half.

THIRD-BOROUGH Third"-bor`ough, n. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: An under constable. Shak. Johnson.

THIRDINGS Third"ings, n. pl. (Eng. Law)

Defn: The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.

THIRDLY Third"ly, adv.

Defn: In the third place. Bacon.

THIRD-PENNY Third"-pen`ny, n. (A.S. Law)

Defn: A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.

THIRD RAIL Third rail. (Electric Railways) (a) The third rail used in the third-rail system. (b) An electric railway using such a rail. [Colloq.]

THIRD-RAIL SYSTEM Third-rail system. (Electric Railways)

Defn: A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

THIRL Thirl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thirled; p. pr. & vb. n. Thirling.] Etym: [See Thrill.]

Defn: To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill. [Obs. or Prov.] That with a spear was thirled his breast bone. Chaucer.

THIRLAGE Thirl"age, n. Etym: [Cf. Thrall.] (Scots Law)

Defn: The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Erskine.

THIRST Thirst, n. Etym: [OE. thirst, þurst, AS. þurst, þyrst; akin to D. dorst, OS. thurst, G. durst, Icel. þorsti, Sw. & Dan. törst, Goth. þaúrstei thirst, þaúrsus dry, withered, þaúrsieþ mik I thirst, gaþaírsan to wither, L. torrere to parch, Gr. te`rsesqai to become dry, tesai`nein to dry up, Skr. trssh to thirst. *54. Cf. Torrid.]

1. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst Ex. xvii. 3. With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded. Chaucer.

2. Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. "Thirst of worldy good." Fairfax. "The thirst I had of knowledge." Milton.

THIRST Thirst, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thirsted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thirsting.] Etym: [AS. . See Thirst, n.]

1. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. Ex. xvii. 3.

2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. Ps. xlii. 2.

THIRST Thirst, v. t.

Defn: To have a thirst for. [R.] He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood. Prior.

THIRSTER Thirst"er, n.

Defn: One who thirsts.

THIRSTILY Thirst"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thirsty manner.

THIRSTINESS Thirst"i*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being thirsty; thirst.

THIRSTLE Thirs"tle, n.

Defn: The throstle. [Prov. Eng.]

THIRSTY Thirst"y, a. [Compar. Thirstier; superl. Thirstiest.] Etym: [AS. . See Thirst, n.]

1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19.

2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. Addison.

THIRTEEN Thir"teen`, a. Etym: [OE. threttene, AS. , . See Three, and Ten, and cf. Thirty.]

Defn: One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

THIRTEEN Thir"teen`, n.

1. The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.

2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

THIRTEENTH Thir"teenth`, a. Etym: [From Thirteen: cf. AS. .]

1. Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

2. Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

THIRTEENTH Thir"teenth`, n.

1. The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

2. The next in order after the twelfth.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

THIRTIETH Thir"ti*eth, a. Etym: [From Thirty: cf. AS. þritigoedha.]

1. Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

2. Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.

THIRTIETH Thir"ti*eth, n.

Defn: The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.

THIRTY Thir"ty, a. Etym: [OE. thritty, AS. Þritig, Þrittig; akin to D. dertig, G. dreissig, Icel. Þrjatiu, Þrjatigi, Þrir teger, Goth. Þreis tigjus, i.e., three tens. See Three, and Ten, and cf. Thirteen.]

Defn: Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

THIRTY Thir"ty, n.; pl. Thirties (.

1. The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.

2. A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

THIRTY-SECOND Thir"ty-sec`ond, a.

Defn: Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

THIS This, pron. & a.; pl. These. Etym: [OE. this, thes, AS. th\'c7s, masc., theós, fem., this, neut.; akin to OS. these, D. deze, G. dieser, OHG. diser, deser, Icel. Þessi; originally from the definite article + a particle -se, -si; cf. Goth. sai behold. See The, That, and cf. These, Those.]

1. As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched. Matt. xxiv. 43.

2. As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town.

Note: This may be used as opposed or correlative to that, and sometimes as opposed to other or to a second this. See the Note under That, 1. This way and that wavering sails they bend. Pope. A body of this or that denomination is produced. Boyle. Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow. Hooker. Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him. Dryden. Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this will end. Addison.

Note: This, like a, every, that, etc., may refer to a number, as of years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a whole. This twenty years have I been with thee.. Gen. xxxi. 38. I have not wept this years; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes. Dryden.

THISTLE This"tle, n. Etym: [OE. thistil, AS. þistel; akin to D. & G. distel, OHG. distila, distil, Icel. þistill, Sw. tistel, Dan. tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.)

Defn: Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. -- Canada thistle, Cnicus arvensis, a native of Europe, but introduced into the United States from Canada. -- Cotton thistle, Onopordon Acanthium. -- Fuller's thistle, the teasel. -- Globe thistle, Melon thistle, etc. See under Globe, Melon, etc. -- Pine thistle, Atractylis gummifera, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. -- Scotch thistle, either the cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all used national emblems of Scotland. -- Sow thistle, Sonchus oleraceus. -- Spear thistle. Same as Bull thistle. -- Star thistle, a species of Centaurea. See Centaurea. -- Torch thistle, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus. See Cereus. -- Yellow thistle, Cincus horridulus. Thistle bird (Zoöl.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird (Spinus tristis); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under Goldfinch. -- Thistle butterfly (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored American butterfly (Vanessa cardui) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also painted lady. -- Thistle cock (Zoöl.), the corn bunting (Emberiza militaria). [Prov. Eng.] -- Thistle crown, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. -- Thistle finch (Zoöl.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] -- Thistle funnel, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth.

THISTLY This"tly, a.

1. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side. Cowper.

THITHER Thith"er, adv. Etym: [OE. thider, AS. edhider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaedhra there, Goth. þaþro thence. See That, and The.]

1. To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.

2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.

Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.

THITHER Thith"er, a.

1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells.

2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.

THITHERTO Thith"er*to`, adv.

Defn: To that point; so far. [Obs.]

THITHERWARD Thith"er*ward, adv.

Defn: To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.

THITSEE Thit"see, n. Etym: [Written also theesee, and thietsie.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).

2. A black varnish obtained from the tree.

THLIPSIS Thlip"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.

THO Tho (tho), def. art.

Defn: The. [Obs.] Spenser.

THO Tho, pron. pl.

Defn: Those. [Obs.] This knowen tho that be to wives bound. Chaucer.

THO Tho, adv. Etym: [AS. þa.]

Defn: Then. [Obs.] Spenser. To do obsequies as was tho the guise. Chaucer.

THO Tho, conj.

Defn: Though. [Reformed spelling.]

THOLE Thole, n. [Written also thowel, and thowl.] Etym: [OE. thol, AS. þol; akin to D. dol, Icel. þollr a fir tree, a young fir, a tree, a thole.]

1. A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. Longfellow.

2. The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath. Thole pin. Same as Thole.

THOLE Thole, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tholed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tholing.] Etym: [OE. þolen, þolien, AS. þolian; akin to OS. tholon, OHG. dolen, G. geduld patience, dulden to endure, Icel. þola, Sw. tåla, Dan. taale, Goth. þulan, L. tolerate, tulisse, to endure, bear, tollere to lift, bear, Gr. tul to lift. *55. Cf. Tolerate.]

Defn: To bear; to endure; to undergo. [Obs. or Scot.] Gower. So much woe as I have with you tholed. Chaucer. To thole the winter's steely dribble. Burns.

THOLE Thole, v. i.

Defn: To wait. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

THOMAEAN; THOMEAN Tho*mæ"an, Tho*me"an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.

THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG Thom"as phos"phate or slag .

Defn: Same as Basic slag, above.

THOMAS PROCESS Thom"as proc"ess. (Iron Metal.)

Defn: Same as Basic process, above.

THOMISM; THOMAISM Tho"mism, Tho"ma*ism, n. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.

THOMIST Tho"mist, n. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.

THOMITE Tho"mite, n. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A Thomæan.

THOMSENOLITE Thom"sen*o*lite, n. Etym: [Named after Dr. J.Thomsen of Copenhagen. See -lite.] (Min.)

Defn: A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland.

THOMSEN'S DISEASE Thom"sen's dis*ease". Etym: [From Thomsen, a physician of Sleswick.] (Med.)

Defn: An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

THOMSONIAN Thom*so"ni*an, a. (Med.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.

Defn: A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.

THOMSONIANISM Thom*so"ni*an*ism, n. (Med.)

Defn: An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.

THOMSONITE Thom"son*ite, n. Etym: [From R.D.Thomson, of Glasgow.] (Min.)

Defn: A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.

THOMSON PROCESS Thomson process. [After Elihu Thomson, American inventor.]

Defn: A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.

THONG Thong, n. Etym: [OE. thong, þwong, thwang, AS. þwang; akin to Icel. þvengr a thong, latchet. *57. Cf. Twinge.]

Defn: A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything. And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for shields, provide. Dryden. Thong seal (Zoöl.), the bearded seal. See the Note under Seal.

THOOID Tho"oid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.

THOR Thor, n. Etym: [Icel. þors. Cf. Thursday.] (Scand. Myth.)

Defn: The god of thunder, and son of Odin.

THORACENTESIS Tho`ra*cen*te"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

THORACIC Tho*rac"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. thoracique.] (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. Thoracic duct (Anat.), the great trunk of the lymphatic vessels, situated on the ventral side of the vertebral column in the thorax and abdomen. See Illust. of Lacteal.

THORACIC Tho*rac"ic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. thoracique.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.

THORACICA Tho*rac"i*ca, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.

THORACOMETER Tho`ra*com"e*ter, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: Same as Stethometer.

THORACOPLASTY Tho`ra*co*plas"ty, n. Etym: [Thorax + plasty.] (Med.)

Defn: A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

THORACOSTRACA Tho`ra*cos"tra*ca, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Thorax, and Ostracoid, a.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec

THORACOTOMY Tho`ra*cot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

THORAL Tho"ral, a. Etym: [L. torus a couch, bed.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a bed. [R.]

THORAX Tho"rax, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.

Note: In mammals the thoracic cavity is completely separated from the abdominal by the diaphragm, but in birds and many reptiles the separation is incomplete, while in other reptiles, and in amphibians and fishes, there is no marked separation and no true thorax.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera. (b) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

3. (Antiq.)

Defn: A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.

THORIA Tho"ri*a, n. Etym: [NL. See Thorite.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.

THORIC Thor"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.

THORITE Tho"rite, n. Etym: [So called by Berzelius from the Scandinavian god Thor. See Thor.] (Min.)

Defn: A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

THORIUM Tho"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Thorite.] (Chem.)

Defn: A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.

THORN Thorn, n. Etym: [AS. þorn; akin to OS. & OFries. thorn, D. doorn, G. dorn, Dan. torn, Sw. törne, Icel. þorn, Goth. þaúrnus; cf. Pol. tarn, Russ. tern' the blackthorn, ternie thorns, Skr. trsnsa grass, blade of grass. *53.]

1. A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

3. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Cor. xii. 7. The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, Be only mine. Southern.

4. The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.

THORN Thorn, v. t.

Defn: To prick, as with a thorn. [Poetic] I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him. Tennyson.

THORNBACK Thorn"back`, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).

THORNBILL Thorn"bill`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

THORNBIRD Thorn"bird`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.

THORNBUT Thorn"but, n. Etym: [Thorn + -but as in halibut; cf. G. dornbutt.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The turbot.

THORN-HEADED Thorn"-head`ed, a.

Defn: Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm (Zoöl.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.

THORNLESS Thorn"less, a.

Defn: Destitute of, or free from, thorns.

THORNSET Thorn"set`, a.

Defn: Set with thorns. Dyer.

THORNTAIL Thorn"tail`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.

THORNY Thorn"y, a. [Compar. Thornier; superl. Thorniest.] Etym: [Cf. AS. þorniht.]

1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.).

THORO Thor"o, a.

Defn: Thorough. [Reformed spelling.]

THOROUGH Thor"ough, prep. Etym: [See Through.]

Defn: Through. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

THOROUGH Thor"ough, a.

1. Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. [Obs.]

2. Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

THOROUGH Thor"ough, adv.

1. Thoroughly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chaucer.

2. Through. [Obs.] Shak.

THOROUGH Thor"ough, n.

Defn: A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

THOROUGH BASS Thor"ough bass`. (Mus.)

Defn: The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

THOROUGH-BRACE Thor"ough-brace`, n.

Defn: A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

THOROUGHBRED Thor"ough*bred`, a.

Defn: Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n.

Defn: A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.

THOROUGHFARE Thor"ough*fare`, n. Etym: [AS. þurhfaru.]

1. A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley.

2. A passing or going through; passage. [R.] [Made] Hell and this world -- one realm, one continent Of easy thoroughfare. Milton.

THOROUGHGOING Thor"ough*go`ing, a.

1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

THOROUGH-LIGHTED Thor"ough-light`ed, a. (Arch.)

Defn: Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.

THOROUGHLY Thor"ough*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.

THOROUGHNESS Thor"ough*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

THOROUGHPACED Thor"ough*paced`, a.

Defn: Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.

THOROUGHPIN Thor"ough*pin`, n. (Far.)

Defn: A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.

THOROUGHSPED Thor"ough*sped`, a.

Defn: Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.

THOROUGHSTITCH Thor"ough*stitch`, adv.

Defn: So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

THOROUGHWAX Thor"ough*wax`, n. (Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. (b) Thoroughwort.

THOROUGHWORT Thor"ough*wort`, n.

Defn: Same as Boneset.

THOROW Thor"ow, prep.

Defn: Through. [Obs.] "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods." Beau. & Fl.

THOROW Thor"ow, a.

Defn: Thorough. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

THORP; THORPE Thorp, Thorpe (thôrp), n. Etym: [AS. þorp; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. þorp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. þaúrp a field, and probably to Lith. troba a building, a house, W. tref a hamlet, Ir. treabh a farmed village, a tribe, clan, Gael. treabhair houses, and perhaps to L. turba a crowd, mult. Cf. Dorp.]

Defn: A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

THOSE Those, pron. Etym: [OE. þos, þas, AS. edhas, nom. and acc. pl. of edhes this. See This, and cf. These.]

Defn: The plural of that. See That.

THOTH Thoth, n.

1. (Myth.)

Defn: The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The Egyptian sacred baboon.

THOU Thou, pron. [Sing.: nom. Thou; poss. Thy or Thine (; obj. Thee. Pl.: nom. You (; poss. Your or Yours (; obj. You.] Etym: [OE. thou, þu, AS. edhu, edhu; akin to OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. & Sw. du, Icel. þu, Goth. þu, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr. sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. *185. Cf. Thee, Thine, Te Deum.]

Defn: The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come Matt. xi. 3.

Note: "In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty." Skeat.

Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.

THOU Thou, v. t.

Defn: To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt. If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. Shak.

THOU Thou, v. i.

Defn: To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends. [R.]

THOUGH Though (tho), conj. Etym: [OE. thogh, þah, AS. edheáh, edhæh, edheh; akin to OS. thoh, OFries. thach, D. & G. doch but, yet, OHG. doh but, yet though, Icel. þo yet, nevertheless, Sw. dock, Dan. dog, Goth. þáuh, þáu, than, or, yet; of uncertain origin. *184.]

Defn: Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.

Note: It is compounded with all in although. See Although. As though, as if. In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. xl. 10.

THOUGH Though, adv.

Defn: However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence. I would not be as sick though for his place. Shak. A good cause would do well, though. Dryden.

THOUGHT Thought,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Think.

THOUGHT Thought, n. Etym: [OE. þoght, þouht, AS. þoht, geþoht, fr. þencean to think; akin to D. gedachte thought, MHG. daht, gedaht, Icel. þottr, þotti. See Think.]

1. The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.

2. Meditation; serious consideration. Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. Roscommon.

3. That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. Pope. Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on Shak. Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. Dryden. All their thoughts are against me for evil. Ps. lvi. 5.

4. Solicitude; anxious care; concern. Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. Bacon. Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. Matt. vi. 25.

5. A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.] If the hair were a thought browner. Shak.

Note: Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment. This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the "elaborative faculty," -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

Syn. -- Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.

THOUGHTFUL Thought"ful, a.

1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope.

2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. Glanvill.

3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned. Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear, And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. Prior.

Syn. -- Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet. -- Thoughtful, Considerate. He who is habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect and guard himself against error. One who is not thoughtful by nature, if he can be made considerate, will usually be guarded against serious mistakes. "He who is thoughtful does not forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and considers properly what is his duty. It is a recommendation to a subordinate person to be thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the recommendation of a confidential person to be considerate, as he has often Crabb. -- Thought"ful*ly, adv. -- hought"ful*ness, n.

THOUGHTLESS Thought"less, adv.

1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] Johnson.

3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, adv. -- Thought"less*ness, n.

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE Thought transference.

Defn: Telepathy.

THOUSAND Thou"sand, n. Etym: [OE. þousend, þusend, AS. þusend; akin to OS. thusundig, thusind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. t, d, Icel. þusund, þushund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þusundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ. tuisiacha; of uncertain origin.]

1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7.

Note: The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred.

3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI.

THOUSAND Thou"sand, a.

1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares." Shak.

THOUSANDFOLD Thou"sand*fold`, a.

Defn: Multiplied by a thousand.

THOUSAND LEGS Thou"sand legs`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.

THOUSANDTH Thou"sandth, a.

1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.

THOUSANDTH Thou"sandth, n.

Defn: The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

THOWEL; THOWL Thow"el, Thowl, n. Etym: [See Thole.] (Naut.) (a) A thole pin. (b) A rowlock. I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.

THRACIAN Thra"cian, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. -- n.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

THRACK Thrack, v. t.

Defn: To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. [Obs.] South.

THRACKSCAT Thrack"scat, n.

Defn: Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]

THRALDOM Thral"dom, n. Etym: [Icel. . See Thrall, and -dom.]

Defn: The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

THRALL Thrall, n. Etym: [OE. thral, , Icel. , perhaps through AS. ; akin to Sw. träl, Dan. træl, and probably to AS. to run, Goth. , Gr. dregil, drigil, a servant.]

1. A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

2. Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson. He still in thrall Of all-subdoing sleep. Chapman.

3. A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

THRALL Thrall, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. [Obs.] Spenser. The fiend that would make you thrall and bond. Chaucer.

THRALL Thrall, v. t.

Defn: To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

THRALLDOM Thrall"dom, n.

Defn: Thraldom.

THRALL-LESS Thrall"-less, a. (a) Having no thralls. (b) Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

THRALL-LIKE Thrall"-like`, a.

Defn: Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

THRANITE Thra"nite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

Defn: One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

THRAPPLE Thrap"ple, n. Etym: [Also thropple, corrupted fr. throttle.]

Defn: Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

THRASH; THRESH Thrash, Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] Etym: [OE. , , to beat, AS. , ; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]

1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

THRASH; THRESH Thrash, Thresh, v. t.

1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.

THRASHEL Thrash"el, n.

Defn: An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

THRASHER; THRESHER Thrash"er, Thresh"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

THRASHING Thrash"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.

THRASONICAL Thra*son"ic*al, a. Etym: [From Thrso, the name of a braggart soldier in Terence's "Eunuch:" cf. L. Thrasonianus.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious. -- Thra*son"ic*al*ly, adv. Cæsar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.' Shak.

THRASTE Thraste, v. t. [imp. Thraste; p. p. Thrast.]

Defn: To thrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRAVE Thrave, n. Etym: [OE. , , Icel. ; akin to Dan. trave; cf. Icel. to grasp.]

1. Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. [Prov. Eng.]

2. The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng. "The worst of a thrave." [Obs.] Landsdowne MS. He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. Bp. Hall.

THRAW Thraw, n. & v.

Defn: See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.

THREAD Thread, n. Etym: [OE. threed, , AS. ; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and AS. to twist. See Throw, and cf. Third.]

1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.

5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.] A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. B. Jonson. Air thread, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer. -- Thread and thrum, the good and bad together. [Obs.] Shak. -- Thread cell (Zoöl.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso. -- Thread herring (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard. -- Thread lace, lace made of linen thread. -- Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also thread the needle.

THREAD Thread, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Threading.]

1. To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.

3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

THREADBARE Thread"bare`, a.

1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.

THREADBARENESS Thread"bare`ness, n.

Defn: The state of being threadbare.

THREADEN Thread"en, a.

Defn: Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

THREADER Thread"er, n.

1. A device for assisting in threading a needle.

2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

THREADFIN Thread"fin`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

THREADFISH Thread"fish`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The cutlass fish. (b) A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

THREADINESS Thread"i*ness, n.

Defn: Quality of being thready.

THREAD-SHAPED Thread"-shaped`, a.

Defn: Having the form of a thread; filiform.

THREADWORM Thread"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

THREADY Thread"y, a.

1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.

THREAP Threap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping.] Etym: [AS. to reprove.] [Written also threpe, and threip.]

1. To call; to name. [Obs.]

2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

THREAP Threap, v. i.

Defn: To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's Reliques.

THREAP Threap, n.

Defn: An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done. Carlyle.

THREAT Threat, n. Etym: [AS. , akin to a to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. to fail, want, lack, Goth. us to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse, Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.]

Defn: The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

THREAT Threat, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. , AS. . See Threat, n.]

Defn: To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.

THREATEN Threat"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threatened; p. pr. & vb. n. Threatening.] Etym: [OE. . See Threat, v. t.]

1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. Acts iv. 17.

2. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak.

Syn. -- To menace. -- Threaten, Menace. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the country is menaced with war. By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. Prior. Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o'er his devoted head Hangs menacing. Somerville.

THREATEN Threat"en, v. i.

Defn: To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. Shak.

THREATENER Threat"en*er, n.

Defn: One who threatens. Shak.

THREATENING Threat"en*ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters (Law), letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.

THREATFUL Threat"ful, a.

Defn: Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.

THREAVE Threave, n.

Defn: Same as Thrave. [Obs.]

THREE Three, a. Etym: [OE. þre, þreo, þri, AS. þri, masc., þreó, fem. and neut.; akin to OFries. thre, OS. thria, threa, D. drie, G. drei, OHG. dri, Icel. þrir, Dan. & Sw. tre, Goth. þreis, Lith. trys, Ir., Gael. & W. tri, Russ. tri, L. tres, Gr. trei^s, Skr. tri. *301. Cf. 3d Drilling, Tern, a., Third, Thirteen, Thirty, Tierce, Trey, Tri-, Triad, Trinity, Tripod.]

Defn: One more than two; two and one. "I offer thee three things." 2 Sam. xxiv. 12. Three solemn aisles approach the shrine. Keble.

Note: Three is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, composed of, or containing, three parts, portions, organs, or the like; as, three-branched, three-capsuled, three-celled, three-cleft, three-edged, three-foot, three-footed, three-forked, three-grained, three-headed, three-legged, three- mouthed, three-nooked, three-petaled, three-pronged, three-ribbed, three-seeded, three-stringed, three-toed, and the like.

THREE Three, n.

1. The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.

2. A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii. Rule of three. (Arith.) See under Rule, n.

THREE-COAT Three"-coat`, a. (Arch.)

Defn: Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.

THREE-COLOR Three"-col`or, a.

Defn: Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.

THREE-CORNERED Three"-cor`nered, a.

1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.

THREE-DECKER Three"-deck`er, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.

THREE-FLOWERED Three"-flow`ered, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

THREEFOLD Three"fold`, a. Etym: [OE. þreofald; cf. AS. þrifeald.]

Defn: Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.

THREE-HANDED Three"-hand`ed, a.

Defn: Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.

THREE-LEAFED; THREE-LEAVED Three"-leafed`, Three"-leaved`, a. (Bot.) (a) Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade. (b) Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

THREE-LOBED Three"-lobed`, a.

Defn: Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.

THREE-MILE Three"-mile`, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt or zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.

THREE-NERVED Three"-nerved`, a.

Defn: Having three nerves. Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), a leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.

THREE-PARTED Three"-part`ed, a.

Defn: Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.

THREEPENCE Three"pence, n.

Defn: A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]

THREEPENNY Three"pen*ny, a.

Defn: Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.

THREE-PILE Three"-pile`, n.

Defn: An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.

THREE-PILED Three"-piled`, a.

1. Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. [R.] Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece. Shak.

2. Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." Shak.

3. Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.

THREE-PLY Three"-ply`, a.

Defn: Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.

THREE-POINTED Three"-point`ed, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.

THREE-PORT Three"-port`, a.

Defn: Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

THREE-QUARTER Three"-quar`ter, a. (Paint.)

Defn: Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.

THREE-SCORE Three"-score`, a.

Defn: Thrice twenty; sixty.

THREE-SIDED Three"-sid`ed, a.

Defn: Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

THREE-SQUARE Three"-square`, a.

Defn: Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL Three"-torque` system of control. (Aëronautics)

Defn: Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

THREE-VALVED Three"-valved`, a.

Defn: Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

THREE-WAY Three"-way`, a.

Defn: Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

THRENE Threne, n. Etym: [L. threnus, Gr. Drone.]

Defn: Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak. The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.

THRENETIC; THRENETICAL Thre*net"ic, Thre*net"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. Threne.]

Defn: Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.

THRENODE Thren"ode, n.

Defn: A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.

THRENODIST Thren"o*dist, n.

Defn: One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.

THRENODY Thren"o*dy, n. Etym: [Gr. Threne, and Ode.]

Defn: A song of lamentation; a threnode. Sir T. Herbert.

THREPE Threpe, v. t. Etym: [See Threap.]

Defn: To call; to term. [Obs.] "Luna silver we threpe." Chaucer.

THREPSOLOGY Threp*sol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.] (Med.)

Defn: The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.

THRESH Thresh, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed; p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.]

Defn: Same as Thrash. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.

THRESHER Thresh"er, n.

Defn: Same as Thrasher.

THRESH-FOLD Thresh"-fold`, n.

Defn: Threshold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRESHOLD Thresh"old, n. Etym: [OE. threswold, þreshwold, AS. þrescwald, þerscwald, þerscold, þrescold, fr. þrescan, þerscan, to thresh; akin to Icel. þreskjöde, þröskuldr, Sw. tröskel, Dan. tærskel. See Thrash.]

1. The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.

2. Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

THRESHWOLD Thresh"wold`, n.

Defn: Threshold. [Obs.]

THRESTE Threste, v. t. [imp. Threste; p. p. & Threst.]

Defn: To thrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRETTEEN Thret"teen`, a.

Defn: Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

THRETTY Thret"ty, a.

Defn: Thirty. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns.

THREW Threw,

Defn: imp. of Throw.

THRIBBLE Thrib"ble, a.

Defn: Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] Halliwell.

THRICE Thrice, adv. Etym: [OE. thries; thrie thrice (AS. , ) + -s, the adverbal suffix. See Three, and -wards.]

1. Three times. "Thrice in vain." Spenser. Verily I say unto thee. That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Matt. xxvi. 34.

2. In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very. Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you To pardon me. Shak. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. Shak.

Note: Thrice is often used, generally with an intensive force, to form compounds which are usually of obvious meaning; as, in thrice- blessed, thrice-favored, thrice-hallowed, thrice-happy, thrice-told, and the like.

THRICECOCK Thrice"cock`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

THRID Thrid, a.

Defn: Third. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRID Thrid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thridded; p. pr. & vb. n. Thridding.] Etym: [A variant of thread.]

1. To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. Pope. And now he thrids the bramble bush. J. R. Drake. I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes. Tennyson.

2. To make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood.

THRID Thrid, n.

Defn: Thread; continuous line. [Archaic] I resume the thrid of my discourse. Dryden.

THRIFALLOW Thri"fal`low, v. t.

Defn: See Thryfallow, and Trifallow. [R.] Tusser.

THRIFT Thrift, n. Etym: [Icel. . See Thrive.]

1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. Spenser.

2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." Chaucer. I have a mind presages me such thrift. Shak.

3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

4. (Bot.)

Defn: One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria. Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.

Syn. -- Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.

THRIFTILY Thrift"i*ly, adv.

1. In a thrifty manner.

2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.

THRIFTINESS Thrift"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.

THRIFTLESS Thrift"less, a.

Defn: Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs. -- Thrift"less*ly, adv. -- Thrift"less*ness, n.

THRIFTY Thrift"y, a. [Compar. Thriftier; superl. Thriftiest.]

1. Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

2. Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

3. Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.

4. Secured by thrift; well husbanded. [R.] I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I saved under your father. Shak.

5. Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. [Obs.] I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.

THRILL Thrill, n. Etym: [See Trill.]

Defn: A warbling; a trill.

THRILL Thrill, n. Etym: [AS. an aperture. See Thrill, v. t.]

Defn: A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

THRILL Thrill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrilling.] Etym: [OE. thrillen, , , to pierce; all probably fr. AS. , , Fr. pierced; as a noun, a hole, fr. through; probably akin to D. drillen to drill, to bore. *53. See Through, and cf. Drill to bore, Nostril, Trill to trickle.]

1. To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

2. Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate. To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick- ribbed ice. Shak. Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the M. Arnold. The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein. Spenser.

3. To hurl; to throw; to cast. [Obs.] I'll thrill my javelin. Heywood.

THRILL Thrill, v. i.

1. To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins. Shak.

2. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body. To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake. Shak.

THRILL Thrill, n.

1. A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

2. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.

THRILLANT Thrill"ant, a.

Defn: Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] "His thrillant spear." Spenser.

THRILLING Thrill"ing, a.

Defn: Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.

THRING Thring, v. t. & i. [imp. Throng.] Etym: [AS. . See Throng.]

Defn: To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRIPS Thrips, n. Etym: [L., a woodworm, Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

Note: The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious insects.

THRIST Thrist, n.

Defn: Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.

THRITTENE Thrit"tene`, a.

Defn: Thirteen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRIVE Thrive, v. i. [imp. Throve or Thrived (; p. p. Thrived or Thriven (; p. pr. & vb. n. Thriving.] Etym: [OE. , Icel. ; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. Thrift.]

1. To posper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive." Sandys. O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives Milton. And so she throve and prospered. Tennyson.

3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

THRIVEN Thriv"en,

Defn: p. p. of Thrive.

THRIVER Thriv"er, n.

Defn: One who thrives, or prospers.

THRIVINGLY Thriv"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thriving manner.

THRIVINGNESS Thriv"ing*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.

THRO' Thro'.

Defn: A contraction of Through.

THROAT Throat, n. Etym: [OE. throte, AS. , ; akin to OHG. drozza, G. drossel; cf. OFries. & D. stort. Cf. Throttle.]

1. (Anat.) (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column. (b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. I can vent clamor from my throat. Shak.

2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

3. (Arch.)

Defn: The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.

4. (Naut.) (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (c) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. Totten.

5. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: The inside of a timber knee.

6. (Bot.)

Defn: The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. Throat brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.

THROAT Throat, v. t.

1. To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [Obs.] Chapman.

2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [Prov. Eng.]

THROATBAND Throat"band`, n.

Defn: Same as Throatlatch.

THROATBOLL Throat"boll`, n. Etym: [Throat + boll a ball.]

Defn: The Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.] By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

THROATING Throat"ing, n. (Arch.)

Defn: A drip, or drip molding.

THROATLATCH Throat"latch`, n.

Defn: A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

THROATWORT Throat"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

THROATY Throat"y, a.

Defn: Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

THROB Throb, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Throbbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Throbbing.] Etym: [OE. ; of uncertain origin; cf. Russ. trepete a trembling, and E. trepidation.]

Defn: To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.

THROB Throb, n.

Defn: A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

THRODDEN Throd"den, v. i. Etym: [Prov. E. throdden, throddle, fat, thriving; cf. Icel. throask to grow.]

Defn: To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

THROE Throe, n. Etym: [OE. , , AS. a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. to suffer.]

1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton.

2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

THROE Throe, v. i.

Defn: To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

THROE Throe, v. t.

Defn: To put in agony. [R.] Shak.

THROMBIN Throm"bin, n. [See Thrombus.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

THROMBOSIS Throm*bo"sis, n. Etym: [NL. See Thrombus.] (Med.)

Defn: The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance. -- Throm*bot"ic, a.

THROMBUS Throm"bus, n.; pl. Thrombi. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.) (a) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation. (b) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

THRONE Throne, n. Etym: [OE. trone, F. trône, L. thronus, Gr. dharansa supporting, dhrs to hold fast, carry, and E. firm, a.]

1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary. The noble king is set up in his throne. Chaucer. High on a throne of royal state. Milton.

2. Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage. Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Gen. xli. 40. To mold a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Tennyson.

3. pl.

Defn: A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young.

THRONE Throne, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Throned; p. pr. & vb. n. Throning.]

1. To place on a royal seat; to enthrone. Shak.

2. To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt. True image of the Father, whether throned In the bosom of bliss, and light of light. Milton.

THRONE Throne, v. i.

Defn: To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne. Shak.

THRONELESS Throne"less, a.

Defn: Having no throne.

THRONG Throng, n. Etym: [OE. þrong, þrang, AS. geþrang, fr. þringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þröngva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þröng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.]

1. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed. So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude. Daniel. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng. Milton. I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp, From crowds that hide a monarch from himself. Johnson.

THRONG Throng, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged; p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging.]

Defn: To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. I have seen the dumb men throng to see him. Shak.

THRONG Throng, v. t.

1. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark v. 24.

2. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak.

THRONG Throng, a.

Defn: Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Sanderson. To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).

THRONGLY Throng"ly, adv.

Defn: In throngs or crowds. [Obs.]

THROP Throp, n.

Defn: A thorp. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THROPPLE Throp"ple, n. Etym: [Cf. Thrapple, and see Throttle.]

Defn: The windpipe. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

THROPPLE Throp"ple, v. t.

Defn: To throttle. [Prov. Eng.]

THROSTLE Thros"tle, n. Etym: [OE. throsel, AS. , ; akin to MHG. trostel, G. drossel, Icel. , Sw. trast, Lith. strazdas, L. turdus. *238. Cf. Thrush the bird.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The song thrush. See under Song.

2. A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

THROSTLING Thros"tling, n. Etym: [Cf. Throttle.]

Defn: A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

THROTTLE Throt"tle, n. Etym: [Dim. of throat. See Throat.]

1. The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Steam Engine)

Defn: The throttle valve. Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

THROTTLE Throt"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Throttled; p. pr. & vb. n. Throttling.]

1. To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle. Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck. Milton.

2. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. [R.] Throttle their practiced accent in their fears. Shak.

3. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

THROTTLE Throt"tle, v. i.

1. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

2. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

THROTTLER Throt"tler, n.

1. One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Flasher, 3 (b). [Prov. Eng.]

THROUGH Through, prep. Etym: [OE. thurgh, , , , AS. ; akin to OS. thurh, thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; cf. Ir. tri, tre, W. trwy. *53. Cf. Nostril, Thorough, Thrill.]

1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.

2. Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue. Through the gate of ivory he dismissed His valiant offspring. Dryden.

3. By means of; by the agency of. Through these hands this science has passed with great applause. Sir W. Temple. Material things are presented only through their senses. Cheyne.

4. Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.

5. Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

6. From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.

THROUGH Through, adv.

1. From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

2. From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.

3. To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.

Note: Through was formerly used to form compound adjectives where we now use thorough; as, through-bred; through-lighted; through-placed, etc. To drop through, to fall through; to come to naught; to fail. -- To fall through. See under Fall, v. i.

THROUGH Through, a.

Defn: Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. -- Through bridge, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them. Cf. Deck bridge, under Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also through stane.] Sir W. Scott. -- Through ticket, a ticket for the whole journey. -- Through train, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long route.

THROUGHLY Through"ly, adv.

Defn: Thoroughly. [Obs.] Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.

THROUGHOUT Through*out", prep.

Defn: Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. Milton.

THROUGHOUT Through*out", adv.

Defn: In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.

THROVE Throve,

Defn: imp. of Thrive.

THROW Throw, n. Etym: [See Throe.]

Defn: Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [Obs.] Spenser. Dryden.

THROW Throw, n. Etym: [AS. , .]

Defn: Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. [Obs.] Shak. I will with Thomas speak a little throw. Chaucer.

THROW Throw, v. t. [imp. Threw; p. p. Thrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Throwing.] Etym: [OE. , , to throw, to twist, AS. to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen, G. drehen, OHG. drajan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr. Thread, Trite, Turn, v. t.]

1. To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

2. To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

3. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

4. (Mil.)

Defn: To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. Set less than thou throwest. Shak.

7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. Pope.

8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. There the snake throws her enameled skin. Shak.

9. (Pottery)

Defn: To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. Shak.

11. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.

12. To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. Tomlinson. To throw away. (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money. (b) To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer. -- To throw back. (a) To retort; to cast back, as a reply. (b) To reject; to refuse. (c) To reflect, as light. -- To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment. -- To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall. -- To throw in. (a) To inject, as a fluid. (b) To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment. (c) To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain. -- To throw off. (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.](e) To disconcert or confuse. Same as to throw out (f). -- To throw on, to cast on; to load. -- To throw one's self down, to lie down neglectively or suddenly. -- To throw one's self on or upon. (a) To fall upon. (b) To resign one's self to the favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose upon. -- To throw out. (a) To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel. "The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile." Swift. "The bill was thrown out." Swift. (b) To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks." Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind. Addison. (d) To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment. (e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. (f) To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator. -- To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties. -- To throw up. (a) To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. "Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand." Addison. (b) To reject from the stomach; to vomit. (c) To construct hastily; as, to throw up a breastwork of earth.

THROW Throw, v. i.

Defn: To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. [R.]

THROW Throw, n.

1. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. Addison.

2. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser.

3. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.

4. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.

5. An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison.

6. (Mach.)

Defn: The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.

7. (Pottery)

Defn: A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).

8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov. Eng.]

9. (Mining)

Defn: The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

THROW-CROOK Throw"-crook`, n. (Agric.)

Defn: An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

THROWE Throwe, n.

Defn: A turning lathe. [Prov. Eng.]

THROWER Throw"er, n.

Defn: One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

THROWING Throw"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.

THROWING STICK Throw"ing stick`. (Anthropol.)

Defn: An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the effect being to bring the place of support nearer the center of the spear, and practically lengthen the arm in the act of throwing.

THROWN Thrown,

Defn: a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles.

THROW-OFF Throw"-off`, n.

Defn: A start in a hunt or a race. [Eng.]

THROWSTER Throw"ster, n. Etym: [Throw + -ster.]

Defn: One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.

THRU Thru, prep., adv. & a.

Defn: Through. [Ref. spelling.]

THRUM Thrum, n. Etym: [OE. thrum, throm; akin to OD. drom, D. dreum, G. trumm, lump, end, fragment, OHG. drum end, Icel. edge, brim, and L. terminus a limit, term. Cf. Term.] [Written also thrumb.]

1. One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

2. Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

4. (Mining)

Defn: A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

5. (Naut.)

Defn: A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. Thrum cap, a knitted cap. Halliwell. -- Thrum hat, a hat made of coarse woolen cloth. Minsheu.

THRUM Thrum, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrumming.]

1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw Quarles.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. Totten.

THRUM Thrum, v. i. Etym: [CF. Icel. to rattle, to thunder, and E. drum.]

1. To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.

2. Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.

THRUM Thrum, v. t.

1. To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.

2. Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.

THRUM-EYED Thrum"-eyed`, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

THRUMMY Thrum"my, a.

Defn: Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums. Dampier. On her head thrummy cap she had. Chalkhill.

THRUMWORT Thrum"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus). Dr. Prior.

THRUOUT Thru*out".

Defn: Throughout. [Ref. spelling.]

THRUSH Thrush, n. Etym: [OE. þrusche, AS. þrysce; akin to OHG. drosca, droscea, droscela, and E. throstle. Cf. Throstle.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle (Turdus musicus), the missel thrush (see under Missel), the European redwing, and the blackbird. The most important American species are the wood thrush (Turdus mustelinus), Wilson's thrush (T. fuscescens), the hermit thrush (see under Hermit), Swainson's thrush (T. Aliciæ), and the migratory thrush, or American robin (see Robin).

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush. Ant thrush. See Ant thrush, Breve, and Pitta. -- Babbling thrush, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- called also babbler. -- Fruit thrush, any species of bulbul. -- Shrike thrush. See under Shrike. -- Stone thrush, the missel thrush; -- said to be so called from its marbled breast. -- Thrush nightingale. See Nightingale, 2. -- Thrush tit, any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus Cochoa. They are beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling thrushes in size and habits. -- Water thrush. (a) The European dipper. (b) An American warbler (Seiurus Noveboracensis).

THRUSH Thrush, n. Etym: [Akin to Dan. tröske, Sw. trosk; cf. Dan. tör dry, Sw. torr, Icel. , AS. , OE. thrust thrist, E. thrist.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthæ. See Aphthæ.

2. (Far.)

Defn: An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

THRUSHEL Thrush"el, n.

Defn: The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

THRUSHER Thrush"er, n.

Defn: The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

THRUST Thrust, n. & v.

Defn: Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.

THRUST Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] Etym: [OE. , , , Icel. to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]

1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in, to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to push away. -- To thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- To thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. "I am eight times thrust through the doublet." Shak. -- To thrust together, to compress.

THRUST Thrust, v. i.

1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden.

3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse." Chapman. To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.

THRUST Thrust, n.

1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden.

2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More.

3. (Mech.)

Defn: The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.

4. (Mining)

Defn: The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.

THRUSTER Thrust"er, n.

Defn: One who thrusts or stabs.

THRUSTING Thrust"ing, n.

1. The act of pushing with force.

2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl.

Defn: The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [Written also thrutchthings.] [Prov. Eng.] Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [R.]

THRUSTLE Thrus"tle, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The throstle, or song thrust. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] When he heard the thrustel sing. Chaucer.

THRYES Thryes, a.

Defn: Thrice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THRYFALLOW Thry"fal`low, v. t. Etym: [Perhaps fr. thrice + fallow. Cf. Trifallow.]

Defn: To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also thrifallow.] Tusser.

THUD Thud, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. a whirlwind, violent wind, or E. thump.]

Defn: A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose. Jeffrey. At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer. C. Mackay.

THUG Thug, n. Etym: [Hind. thag a deceiver, robber.]

Defn: One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

THUGGEE Thug*gee", n. Etym: [Hind. .]

Defn: The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

THUGGERY; THUGGISM Thug"ger*y, Thug"gism, n.

Defn: Thuggee.

THUJA Thu"ja, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also thuya.] See Thyine wood.

Note: Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitæ of the Eastern and Northern United States. T. gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.

THULE Thu"le, n. Etym: [L. Thule, Thyle, Gr.

Defn: The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

THULIA Thu"li*a, n. Etym: [NL.] (Chem.)

Defn: Oxide of thulium.

THULIUM Thu"li*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Thule.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

THUMB Thumb, n. Etym: [OE. thombe, thoumbe, , AS. ; akin to OFries. th, D. duim, G. daumen, OHG. d, Icel. , Dan. tommelfinger, Sw. tunne, and perhaps to L. tumere to swell. *56. Cf. Thimble, Tumid.]

Defn: The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. -- Thumb latch, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. -- Thumb mark. (a) The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. Longfellow. (b) The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers. -- Thumb nut, a nut for a screw, having wings to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same perpose. -- Thumb ring, a ring worn on the thumb. Shak. -- Thumb stall. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work. (b) (Mil.) A buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded. -- Under one's thumb, completely under one's power or influence; in a condition of subservience. [Colloq.]

THUMB Thumb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thumbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thumbing.]

1. To handle awkwardly. Johnson.

2. To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.

3. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon. He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. Macaulay.

THUMB Thumb, v. i.

Defn: To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

THUMBBIRD Thumb"bird`, n.

Defn: The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]

THUMBED Thumbed, a.

1. Having thumbs.

2. Soiled by handling.

THUMBKIN Thumb"kin, n.

Defn: An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

THUMBLESS Thumb"less, a.

Defn: Without a thumb. Darwin.

THUMBSCREW Thumb"screw`, n.

1. A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.

2. An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

THUMMIE Thum"mie, n.

Defn: The chiff-chaff. [Prov. Eng.]

THUMMIM Thum"mim, n. pl. Etym: [Heb., pl. of thom perfection.]

Defn: A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

THUMP Thump, n. Etym: [Probably of imitative origin; perhaps influenced by dump, v.t.]

1. The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

2. A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall. The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock. Tatler.

THUMP Thump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Thumping.]

Defn: To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound. These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped. Shak.

THUMP Thump, v. i.

Defn: To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound. A watchman at midnight thumps with his pole. Swift.

THUMPER Thump"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, thumps.

THUMPING Thump"ing, a.

Defn: Heavy; large. [Colloq.]

THUNDER Thun"der, n. Etym: [OE. , , , AS. ; akin to to stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG. donar, Icel. Thor, L. tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr. tan to stretch. *52. See Thin, and cf. Astonish, Detonate, Intone, Thursday, Tone.]

1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.] The revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend. Shak.

3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.

4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. Prescott. Thunder pumper. (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis, or Celuta, amoena) native to the Eastern United States; -- called also worm snake. -- Thunder tube, a fulgurite. See Fulgurite.

THUNDER Thun"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering.] Etym: [AS. . See Thunder, n.]

1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously. Canst thou thunder with a voice like him Job xl. 9.

2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance. His dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears. Milton.

3. To utter violent denunciation.

THUNDER Thun"der, v. t.

Defn: To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear. Dryden. An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure. Ayliffe.

THUNDERBIRD Thun"der*bird`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

THUNDERBOLT Thun"der*bolt`, n.

1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war. Dryden.

3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. Hakewill.

4. (Paleon.)

Defn: A belemnite, or thunderstone. Thunderbolt beetle (Zoöl.), a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.

THUNDERBURST Thun"der*burst`, n.

Defn: A burst of thunder.

THUNDERCLAP Thun"der*clap`, n.

Defn: A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.

THUNDERCLOUD Thun"der*cloud`, n.

Defn: A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

THUNDERER Thun"der*er, n.

Defn: One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.

THUNDERFISH Thun"der*fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

THUNDERHEAD Thun"der*head`, n.

Defn: A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.

THUNDERING Thun"der*ing, a.

1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull.

2. Very great; -- often adverbially. [Slang] -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.

THUNDERING Thun"der*ing, n.

Defn: Thunder. Rev. iv. 5.

THUNDERLESS Thun"der*less, a.

Defn: Without thunder or noise.

THUNDEROUS Thun"der*ous, a. Etym: [Written also thundrous.]

1. Producing thunder. [R.] How he before the thunderous throne doth lie. Milton.

2. Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous. -- Thun"der*ous*ly, adv.

THUNDERPROOF Thun"der*proof`, a.

Defn: Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.

THUNDERSHOWER Thun"der*show`er, n.

Defn: A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

THUNDERSTONE Thun"der*stone`, n.

1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.

2. (Paleon.)

Defn: A belemnite. See Belemnite.

THUNDERSTORM Thun"der*storm`, n.

Defn: A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

THUNDERSTRIKE Thun"der*strike`, v. t. [imp. Thunderstruck; p. p. Thunderstruck, - strucken (; p. pr. & vb. n. Thunderstriking.]

1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.

THUNDERWORM Thun"der*worm`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.

THUNDERY Thun"der*y, a.

Defn: Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [R.] "Thundery weather." Pennant.

THUNDROUS Thun"drous, a.

Defn: Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.

THUNNY Thun"ny, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The tunny. [R.]

THURGH Thurgh, prep.

Defn: Through. [Obs.] Chaucer.

THURGHFARE Thurgh"fare`, n.

Defn: Thoroughfare. [Obs.] This world is but a thurghfare full of woe. Chaucer.

THURIBLE Thu"ri*ble, n. Etym: [L. thuribulum, turibulum, from thus, thuris, or better tus, turis, frankincense, fr. Gr. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Fairholt.

THURIFEROUS Thu*rif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. thurifer, turifer; thus frankincense + - ferre to bear.]

Defn: Producing or bearing frankincense.

THURIFICATION Thu`ri*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. thus incense + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]

Defn: The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense.

THURINGIAN Thu*rin"gi*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people. -- n.

Defn: A native, or inhabitant of Thuringia.

THURINGITE Thu*rin"gite, n. Etym: [From Thuringia, where it is found.] (Min.)

Defn: A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.

THURL Thurl, n. Etym: [AS. a hole. *53. See Thirl, Thrill.]

1. A hole; an aperture. [Obs.]

2. (Mining) (a) A short communication between adits in a mine. (b) A long adit in a coalpit.

THURL Thurl, v. t. Etym: [See Thrill.]

1. To cut through; to pierce. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2. (Mining)

Defn: To cut through, as a partition between one working and another.

THURLING Thurl"ing, n. (Mining)

Defn: Same as Thurl, n., 2 (a).

THURROK Thur"rok, n. Etym: [AS. a boat.]

Defn: The hold of a ship; a sink. [Obs.] Small drops of water that enter through a little crevice into the thurrok and into the bottom of a ship. Chaucer.

THURSDAY Thurs"day, n. Etym: [OE. , , from the Scand. name Thor + E. day. Icel. Thor, the god of thunder, is akin to AS. thunder; D. Donderdag Thursday, G. Donnerstag, Icel. , Sw. & Dan. Torsdag. *52. See Thor, Thunder, and Day.]

Defn: The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday. Holy Thursday. See under Holy.

THURST Thurst, n. (Coal Mining)

Defn: The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls. Raymond.

THUS Thus, n. Etym: [L. thus, better tus, frankincense. See Thurible.]

Defn: The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

THUS Thus, adv. Etym: [OE. thus, AS. ; akin to OFries. & OS. thus, D. dus, and E. that; cf. OHG. sus. See That.]

1. In this or that manner; on this wise. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Gen. vi. 22. Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth. Milton.

2. To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold. Shak. Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds. Milton.

THUSSOCK Thus"sock, n.

Defn: See Tussock. [Obs.]

THUYA Thu"ya, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Thuja.

THUYIN Thu"yin, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A substance extracted from trees of the genus Thuja, or Thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin. [Written also thujin.]

THWACK Thwack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwacking.] Etym: [Cf. OE. thakken to stroke, AS. , E. whack.]

1. To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound." W. Irving.

2. To fill to overflow. [Obs.] Stanyhurst.

THWACK Thwack, n.

Defn: A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump. With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab tree and old iron rang. Hudibras.

THWAITE Thwaite, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The twaite.

THWAITE Thwaite, n. Etym: [CF. Icel. a piece of land, fr. to cut. See Thwite, and cf. Doit, and Twaite land cleared of woods.]

Defn: Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Note: Thwaite occurs in composition as the last element in many names of places in the north of England; as, in Rosthwaite, Stonethwaite.

THWART Thwart, a. Etym: [OE. , , a. and adv., Icel. , neut. of athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tvär cross, unfriendly, Goth. angry. Cf. Queer.]

1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton.

2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] Shak.

THWART Thwart, adv. Etym: [See Thwart, a.]

Defn: Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] Milton.

THWART Thwart, prep.

Defn: Across; athwart. Spenser. Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.

THWART Thwart, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

THWART Thwart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwarting.]

1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. Milton.

2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.

THWART Thwart, v. i.

1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]

2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.] Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles. Locke.

THWARTER Thwart"er, n. (Far.)

Defn: A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

THWARTINGLY Thwart"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.

THWARTLY Thwart"ly, adv.

Defn: Transversely; obliquely.

THWARTNESS Thwart"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

THWITE Thwite, v. t. Etym: [AS. . See Whittle, and cf. Thwaite a piece of land.]

Defn: To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

THWITTLE Thwit"tle, v. t. Etym: [See Thwite, and Whittle.]

Defn: To cut or whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Palsgrave.

THWITTLE Thwit"tle, n.

Defn: A small knife; a whittle. [Written also thwitel.] [Obs.] "A Sheffield thwittle." Chaucer.

THY Thy, pron. Etym: [OE. thi, shortened from thin. See Thine, Thou.]

Defn: Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine. Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Matt. vi. 9,10. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. Milton.

THYINE WOOD Thy"ine wood`. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)

Defn: The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. Rev. xviii. 12.

THYLACINE Thy"la*cine, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.

THYMATE Thym"ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.

THYME Thyme, n. Etym: [OE. tyme, L. thymum, Gr. thym; -- perhaps so named because of its sweet smell. Cf. Fume, n.] (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. Ankle deep in moss and flowery thyme. Cowper. Cat thyme, a labiate plant (Teucrium Marum) of the Mediterranean religion. Cats are said to be fond of rolling on it. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). -- Wild thyme, Thymus Serpyllum, common on banks and hillsides in Europe. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. Shak.

THYMENE Thym"ene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

THYMIATECHNY Thym"i*a*tech`ny, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)

Defn: The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.

THYMIC Thym"ic, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

THYMIC Thy"mic, a. (Med. Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.

THYMOL Thym"ol, n. Etym: [Thyme + -ol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.

THYMUS Thy"mus, a. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Anat.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland. -- n.

Defn: The thymus gland. Thymus gland, or Thymus body, a ductless gland in the throat, or in the neighboring region, of nearly all vertebrates. In man and other mammals it is the throat, or neck, sweetbread, which lies in the upper part of the thorax and lower part of the throat. It is largest in fetal and early life, and disappears or becomes rudimentary in the adult.

THYMY Thym"y, a.

Defn: Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale. Akenside. Where'er a thymy bank he found, He rolled upon the fragrant ground. Gay.

THYRO- Thy"ro-.

Defn: A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.

THYROARYTENOID Thy`ro*a*ryt"e*noid, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.

THYROHYAL Thy`ro*hy"al, n. (Anat.)

Defn: One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.

THYROHYOID Thy`ro*hy"oid, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.

THYROID Thy"roid, a. Etym: [Gr. thyroïde, thyréoïde.]

1. Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal. Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx. -- Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland (Anat.), a glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown function, in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

THYROIDEAL Thy*roid"e*al, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Thyroid.

THYROTOMY Thy*rot"o*my, n. Etym: [Thyro- + Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

THYRSE Thyrse, n. Etym: [Cf. F. thyrse.]

Defn: A thyrsus.

THYRSOID; THYRSOIDAL Thyr"soid, Thyr*soid"al, a. Etym: [Gr. thyrsoïde.]

Defn: Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.

THYRSUS Thyr"sus, n.; pl. Thyrsi. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Torso.]

1. A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites. A good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus. Mrs. Browning. In my hand I bear The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine. Longfellow.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

THYSANOPTER Thy`sa*nop"ter, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Thysanoptera.

THYSANOPTERA Thy`sa*nop"te*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.

THYSANOPTERAN Thy`sa*nop"ter*an, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Thysanoptera.

THYSANOPTEROUS Thy`sa*nop"ter*ous, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.

THYSANURA Thys`a*nu"ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.

THYSANURAN Thys`a*nu"ran, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.

THYSANUROUS Thys`a*nu"rous, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.

THYSBE Thys"be, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. Thisbe maiden beloved by Pyramus, Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A common clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe).

THYSELF Thy*self", pron.

Defn: An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case. Thyself shalt see the act. Shak. Ere I do thee, thou to thyself wast cruel. Milton.

TIAR Ti"ar, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tiare. See Tiara.]

Defn: A tiara. [Poetic] Milton. Tennyson.

TIARA Ti*a"ra, n. Etym: [L., from Gr.

1. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.

2. The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

TIARAED Ti*a"raed, a.

Defn: Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

TIB-CAT Tib"-cat`, n.

Defn: A female cat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TIBIA Tib"i*a, n.; pl. Tibiæ. Etym: [L.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.

3. (Antiq.)

Defn: A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

TIBIAL Tib"i*al, a. Etym: [L. tibialis, fr. tibia the shin bone; also, a pipe or flute, originally made of a bone: cf. F. tibial.]

1. Of or pertaining to a tibia.

2. Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute. Tibial spur (Zoöl.), a spine frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

TIBIAL Tib"i*al, n. (Anat.)

Defn: A tibial bone; a tibiale.

TIBIALE Tib`i*a"le, n.; pl. Tibialia. Etym: [NL.] (Anat.)

Defn: The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.

TIBICINATE Ti*bic"i*nate, v. i. Etym: [L. tibicinare.]

Defn: To play on a tibia, or pipe. [R.]

TIBIO- Tib"i*o-.

Defn: A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.

TIBIOTARSAL Tib`i*o*tar"sal, a. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation. (b) Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.

TIBIOTARSUS Tib`i*o*tar"sus, n.; pl. Tibiotarsi (. (Anat.)

Defn: The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.

TIBRIE Tib"rie, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The pollack. [Prov. Eng.]

TIC Tic, n. Etym: [F.] (Med.)

Defn: A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. Dunglison. Tic douloureux (. Etym: [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

TICAL Ti*cal", n.

1. A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy. Malcom.

2. A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.

TICE Tice, v. t. Etym: [Aphetic form of entice.]

Defn: To entice. [Obs.] The Coronation.

TICE Tice, n. (Cricket)

Defn: A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

TICEMENT Tice"ment, n.

Defn: Enticement. [Obs.]

TICHORRHINE Tich"or*rhine, n. Etym: [Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

TICK Tick, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from ticket.]

Defn: Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

TICK Tick, v. i.

1. To go on trust, or credit.

2. To give tick; to trust.

TICK Tick, n. Etym: [OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke. Cf. Tike a tick.] (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs. (b) Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep). Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals. -- Tick trefoil (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

TICK Tick, n. Etym: [LL. techa, teca, L. theca case, Gr. Thesis.]

1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

2. Ticking. See Ticking, n.

TICK Tick, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ticked; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticking.] Etym: [Probably of imitative origin; cf. D. tikken, LG. ticken.]

1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

2. To strike gently; to pat. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches. Latimer.

TICK Tick, n.

1. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

2. Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check. Dickens.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Death tick. (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.

TICK Tick, v. t.

Defn: To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score. When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off. Dickens.

TICKEN Tick"en, n.

Defn: See Ticking. [R.] R. Browning.

TICKER Tick"er, n. Etym: [See Tick.]

Defn: One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc. Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long. -- Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers. By 1980 largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices. ticker tape parade A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete.

TICKET Tick"et, n. Etym: [F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.]

Defn: A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]

Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave.

(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U.S.] The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. -- Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. -- Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. -- Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]

TICKET Tick"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.]

1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U.S.]

TICKETING Tick"et*ing, n.

Defn: A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

TICKING Tick"ing, n. Etym: [From Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken.]

Defn: A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

TICKLE Tic"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling.] Etym: [Perhaps freq. of tick to beat; pat; but cf. also AS. citelian to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. kitla. Cf. Kittle, v. t.]

1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.

2. To please; to gratify; to make joyous. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope. Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon. Shak.

TICKLE Tic"kle, v. i.

1. To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. Spenser.

2. To excite the sensation of titillation. Shak.

TICKLE Tic"kle, a.

1. Ticklish; easily tickled. [Obs.]

2. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. [Obs.] The world is now full tickle, sikerly. Chaucer. So tickle is the state of earthy things. Spenser.

3. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.] Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Shak.

TICKLE-FOOTED Tic"kle-foot`ed, a.

Defn: Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. [Obs. & R.] Beau. & Fl.

TICKLENBURG Tick"len*burg, n.

Defn: A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

TICKLENESS Tic"kle*ness, n.

Defn: Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.

TICKLER Tic"kler, n.

1. One who, or that which, tickles.

2. Something puzzling or difficult.

3. A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U.S.] Bartlett.

4. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

TICKLISH Tic"klish, a.

1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. Bacon.

2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish Barrow.

3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. Bacon. -- Tic"klish*ly, adv. -- Tic"klish*ness, n.

TICKSEED Tick"seed`, n. Etym: [Tick the insect + seed; cf. G. wanzensamen, literally, bug seed.]

1. A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

2. (Bot.) (a) Same as Coreopsis. (b) Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.

TICKTACK Tick"tack`, n. Etym: [See Tick to beat, to pat, and (for sense 2) cf. Tricktrack.]

1. A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

2. A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack. A game at ticktack with words. Milton.

TICKTACK Tick"tack`, adv.

Defn: With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

TICPOLONGA Tic`po*lon"ga, n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.

TID Tid, a. Etym: [Cf. AS. tedre, tydere, weak, tender.]

Defn: Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.

TIDAL Tid"al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches. -- Tidal basin, a dock that is filled at the rising of the tide. -- Tidal wave. (a) See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.

TIDBIT Tid"bit`, n. Etym: [Tid + bit.]

Defn: A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel. [Written also titbit.]

TIDDE Tid"de, obs.

Defn: imp. of Tide, v. i. Chaucer.

TIDDER; TIDDLE Tid"der, Tid"dle, v. t. Etym: [Cf. AS. tyderian to grow tender. See Tid.]

Defn: To use with tenderness; to fondle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

TIDDLEDYWINKS Tid"dle*dy*winks`, n.

Defn: A game in which the object is to snap small disks of bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]

TIDDLYWINKS Tid"dly*winks`, n.

Defn: Same as Tiddledywinks. Kipling.

TIDE Tide, n. Etym: [AS. tid time; akin to OS. & OFries. tid, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. zit, Icel. ti, Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a- is a negative prefix. *58. Cf. Tidings, Tidy, Till, prep., Time.]

1. Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] "This lusty summer's tide." Chaucer. And rest their weary limbs a tide. Spenser. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. Fuller.

2. The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty- four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.

Note: The flow or rising of the water is called flood tide, and the reflux, ebb tide.

3. A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. "Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide." Shak.

4. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.

5. Violent confluence. [Obs.] Bacon.

6. (Mining)

Defn: The period of twelve hours. Atmospheric tides, tidal movements of the atmosphere similar to those of the ocean, and produced in the same manner by the attractive forces of the sun and moon. -- Inferior tide. See under Inferior, a. -- To work double tides. See under Work, v. t. -- Tide day, the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Tide dial, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time. -- Tide gate. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction. (b) (Naut.) A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate. -- Tide gauge, a gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande & C. -- Tide lock, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; - - called also guard lock. -- Tide mill. (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water. -- Tide rip, a body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents. -- Tide table, a table giving the time of the rise and fall of the tide at any place. -- Tide water, water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard. -- Tide wave, or Tidal wave, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. Whewell. -- Tide wheel, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.

TIDE Tide, v. t.

Defn: To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. They are tided down the stream. Feltham.

TIDE Tide, v. i. Etym: [AS. tidan to happen. See Tide, n.]

1. To betide; to happen. [Obs.] What should us tide of this new law Chaucer.

2. To pour a tide or flood.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

TIDED Tid"ed, a.

Defn: Affected by the tide; having a tide. "The tided Thames." Bp. Hall.

TIDELAND Tide"land, n.

Defn: Land that is overflowed by tide water; hence, land near the sea.

TIDELESS Tide"less, a.

Defn: Having no tide.

TIDE-RODE Tide"-rode`, a. (Naut.)

Defn: Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

TIDESMAN Tides"man, n.; pl. Tidesmen (.

Defn: A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

TIDEWAITER Tide"wait`er, n.

Defn: A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

TIDEWAY Tide"way`, n.

Defn: Channel in which the tide sets.

TIDIFE Tid"ife, n.

Defn: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Note: The "tidif" mentioned in Chaucer is by some supposed to be the titmouse, by others the wren.

TIDILY Ti"di*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tidy manner.

TIDINESS Ti"di*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tidy.

TIDING Ti"ding, n.

Defn: Tidings. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TIDINGS Ti"dings, n. pl. Etym: [OE. tidinge, ti, tidinde, from or influenced by Icel. ti; akin to Dan. tidende, Sw. tidning, G. zeung, AS. tidan to happen, E. betide, tide. See Tide, v. i. & n.]

Defn: Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.

Note: Although tidings is plural in form, it has been used also as a singular. By Shakespeare it was used indiscriminately as a singular or plural. Now near the tidings of our comfort is. Shak. Tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes. Shak.

Syn. -- News; advice; information; intelligence. -- Tidings, News. The term news denotes recent intelligence from any quarter; the term tidings denotes intelligence expected from a particular quarter, showing what has there betided. We may be indifferent as to news, but are always more or less interested in tidings. We read the news daily; we wait for tidings respecting an absent friend or an impending battle. We may be curious to hear the news; we are always anxious for tidings. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. What tidings dost thou bring Addison.

TIDLEY Tid"ley, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The wren. (b) The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]

TIDOLOGY Tid*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Tide + -logy.]

Defn: A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. J. S. Mill.

TIDY Ti"dy, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wren; -- called also tiddy. [Prov. Eng.] The tidy for her notes as delicate as they. Drayton.

Note: This name is probably applied also to other small singing birds, as the goldcrest.

TIDY Ti"dy, a. [Compar. Tidier; superl. Tidiest.] Etym: [From Tide time, season; cf. D. tijdig timely, G. zeitig, Dan. & Sw. tidig.]

1. Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather. [Obs.] If weather be fair and tidy. Tusser.

2. Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.

TIDY Ti"dy, n.; pl. Tidies (.

1. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

2. A child's pinafore. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

TIDY Ti"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tidied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tidying.]

Defn: To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

TIDY Ti"dy, v. i.

Defn: To make things tidy. [Colloq.] I have tidied and tidied over and over again. Dickens.

TIDYTIPS Ti"dy*tips`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

TIE Tie, n.; pl. Ties. Etym: [AS. tege, t, tige. *64. See Tie, v. t.]

1. A knot; a fastening.

2. A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance. No distance breaks the tie of blood. Young.

3. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. Young.

4. An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

5. (Arch. & Engin.)

Defn: A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

6. (Mus.)

Defn: A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

7. pl.

Defn: Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

TIE Tie, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tied (Obs. Tight (); p. pr. & vb. n. Tying.] Etym: [OE. ti, teyen, AS. tigan, tiégan, fr. teág, teáh, a rope; akin to Icel. taug, and AS. teón to draw, to pull. See Tug, v. t., and cf. Tow to drag.]

1. To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." 1 Sam. vi. 7. My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Prov. vi. 20,21.

2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument." Bp. Burnet.

3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. In bond of virtuous love together tied. Fairfax.

4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

5. (Mus.)

Defn: To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. To ride and tie. See under Ride. -- To tie down. (a) To fasten so as to prevent from rising. (b) To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action. -- To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.

TIE Tie, v. i.

Defn: To make a tie; to make an equal score.

TIEBAR Tie"bar`, n.

Defn: A flat bar used as a tie.

TIEBEAM Tie"beam`, n. (Arch.)

Defn: A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. Gwilt.

TIENDA Ti*en"da, n. [Sp., prop., tent, awning.]

Defn: In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.

TIER Ti"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, ties.

TIER Ti"er, n. Etym: [See Tire a headdress.]

Defn: A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. [Written also tire.]

TIER Tier, n. Etym: [Perhaps fr. OF. tire, F. tire; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. ziari ornament, G. zier, AS. tir glory, tiér row, rank. But cf. also F. tirer to draw, pull; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Attire, v. t., Tire a headdress, but also Tirade.]

Defn: A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater. Tiers of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.

TIERCE Tierce, n. Etym: [F. tierce a third, from tiers, tierce, third, fr. L. tertius the third; akin to tres three. See Third, Three, and cf. Terce, Tercet, Tertiary.]

1. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty- five imperial, gallons.

2. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

5. (Fencing)

Defn: A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

6. (R. C. Ch.)

Defn: The third hour of the day, or nine a.m.; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

TIERCE Tier*cé", a. Etym: [F.] (Her.)

Defn: Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

TIERCEL; TIERCELET Tier"cel, Tierce"let, n. Etym: [OE. tercel, tercelet, F. tiercelet, a dim. of (assumed) tiercel, or LL. tertiolus, dim. fr. L. tertius the third; -- so called, according to some, because every third bird in the nest is a male, or, according to others, because the male is the third part less than female. Cf. Tercel.] (Falconry)

Defn: The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.

TIERCE-MAJOR Tierce"-ma`jor, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tierce majeure.] (Card Playing)

Defn: See Tierce, 4.

TIERCET Tier"cet, n. Etym: [F. tercet. See Tercet.] (Pros.)

Defn: A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

TIE-ROD Tie"-rod, n.

Defn: A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

TIERS ETAT Tiers` é`tat". Etym: [F.]

Defn: The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.

Note: The refusal of the clergy and nobility to give the tiers état a representation in the States-general proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the term has been purely historical.

TIETICK Tie"tick, n.

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

TIEWIG Tie"wig`, n.

Defn: A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head. Wright. V. Knox.

TIFF Tiff, n. Etym: [Originally, a sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. a smell, to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of the breath, teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw. tüv smell, scent, taste.]

1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." Sir W. Scott.

2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.

TIFF Tiff, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiffing.]

Defn: To be in a pet. She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. Landor.

TIFF Tiff, v. t. Etym: [OE. tiffen, OF. tiffer, tifer, to bedizen; cf. D. tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E. tip, n.]

Defn: To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

TIFFANY Tif"fa*ny, n. Etym: [OE. tiffenay; cf. OF. tiffe ornament, tiffer to adjust, adorn. See Tiff to dress.]

Defn: A species of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

TIFFIN Tif"fin, n. Etym: [Properly, tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See Tiff, n.]

Defn: A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

TIFFISH Tiff"ish, a.

Defn: Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

TIFT Tift, n. Etym: [Cf. Norw. teft a scent. See Tiff, n.]

Defn: A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. Blackwood's Mag.

TIG Tig, n.

1. A game among children. See Tag.

2. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

TIGELLA Ti*gel"la, n. Etym: [NL., from F. tige stem or stock.] (Bot.)

Defn: That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

TIGELLE Ti*gelle", n. Etym: [F.] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Tigella.

TIGER Ti"ger, n. Etym: [OE. tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr. ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; -- probably so named from its quickness.]

1. A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

2. Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person. As for heinous tiger, Tamora. Shak.

3. A servant in livery, who rids with his master or mistress. Dickens.

4. A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U.S.]

5. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar. American tiger. (Zoöl.) (a) The puma. (b) The jaguar. -- Clouded tiger (Zoöl.), a handsome striped and spotted carnivore (Felis macrocelis or F. marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also tortoise-shell tiger. -- Mexican tiger (Zoöl.), the jaguar. -- Tiger beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidæ. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly. -- Tiger bittern. (Zoöl.) See Sun bittern, under Sun. -- Tiger cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the tiger. -- Tiger flower (Bot.), an iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as T. conchiflora, T. grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger. -- Tiger grass (Bot.), a low East Indian fan palm (Chamærops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by the natives. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). -- Tiger lily. (Bot.) See under Lily. -- Tiger moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of moths of the family Arctiadæ which are striped or barred with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The larvæ are called woolly bears. -- Tiger shark (Zoöl.), a voracious shark (Galeocerdo maculatus or tigrinus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark. -- Tiger shell (Zoöl.), a large and conspicuously spotted cowrie (Cypræa tigris); -- so called from its fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie. -- Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena (Hyæna crocuta). -- Tiger wood, the variegated heartwood of a tree (Machærium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

TIGER-EYE Ti"ger-eye`, n. (Min.)

Defn: A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

TIGER-FOOT Ti"ger-foot`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Tiger's-foot.

TIGER-FOOTED Ti"ger-foot`ed, a.

Defn: Hastening to devour; furious.

TIGERINE Ti"ger*ine, a.

Defn: Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

TIGERISH Ti"ger*ish, a.

Defn: Like a tiger; tigrish.

TIGER'S-FOOT Ti"ger's-foot`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

TIGH Tigh, n. Etym: [Perhaps akin to tight.]

Defn: A close, or inclosure; a croft. [Obs.] Cowell.

TIGHT Tight, obs.

Defn: p. p. of Tie. Spenser.

TIGHT Tight, a. [Compar. Tighter; superl. Tightest.] Etym: [OE. tight, thiht; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. , Dan. tæt, Sw. tät: akin to D. & G. dicht thick, tight, and perhaps to E. thee to thrive, or to thick. Cf. Taut.]

1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

2. Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water- tight; air-tight.

3. Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

4. Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. Clad very plain, but clean and tight. Evelyn. I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. Gay.

5. Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings. [Colloq.]

6. Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.

7. Handy; adroit; brisk. [Obs.] Shak.

8. Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. [Slang]

9. (Com.)

Defn: Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

TIGHT Tight, v. t.

Defn: To tighten. [Obs.]

TIGHTEN Tight"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Tightening.]

Defn: To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

TIGHTENER Tight"en*er, n.

Defn: That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.

TIGHTER Tight"er, n.

Defn: A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]

TIGHTLY Tight"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tight manner; closely; nearly.

TIGHTNESS Tight"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or condition of being tight.

TIGHTS Tights, n. pl.

Defn: Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

TIGLIC Tig"lic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.

TIGRESS Ti"gress, n. Etym: [From Tiger: cf. F. tigresse.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The female of the tiger. Holland.

TIGRINE Ti"grine, a. Etym: [L. tigrinus, fr. tigris a tiger.]

1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

TIGRISH Ti"grish, a.

Defn: Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

TIKE Tike, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]

TIKE Tike, n. Etym: [Icel. tik a bitch; akin to Sw. tik.]

1. A dog; a cur. "Bobtail tike or trundle-tail." Shak.

2. A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

TIKOR Tik"or, n. [Hind. tikhur.]

Defn: A starch or arrow-root made from the tubes of an East Indian zinziberaceous plant (Curcuma angustifolia); also, the plant itself.

TIKUR; TIKOOR Ti*kur", Ti*koor", n. [Hind. tikr.]

Defn: An East Indian tree (Garcinia pedunculata) having a large yellow fleshy fruit with a pleasant acid flavor.

TIKUS Ti"kus, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The bulau.

TIL Til, prep. & conj.

Defn: See Till. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TILBURY Til"bu*ry, n.; pl. Tilburies. Etym: [Probably from Tilburyfort, in the Country of Essex, in England.]

Defn: A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover. [Written also tilburgh.]

TILDE Til"de, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title, token, sign. See Title, n.]

Defn: The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

TILE Tile, v. t. Etym: [See 2d Tiler.]

Defn: To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

TILE Tile, n. Etym: [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L. tegula, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf. Tegular.]

1. A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

2. (Arch.) (a) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring. (b) A plate of metal used for roofing.

3. (Metal.)

Defn: A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

4. A draintile.

5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.] Dickens. Tile drain, a drain made of tiles. -- Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery. -- Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite. -- Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks. -- Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under Brick.

TILE Tile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiling.]

1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. Donne.

TILE-DRAIN Tile"-drain`, v. t.

Defn: To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

TILEFISH Tile"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

Note: It was discovered off the Eastern coast of the United States in 1880, and was abundant in 1881, but is believed to have become extinct in 1882.

TILER Til"er, n.

Defn: A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles. Bancroft.

TILER Til"er, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin, but probably from E. tile, n.]

Defn: A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also tyler.]

TILERY Til"er*y, n.; pl. Tileries. Etym: [From Tile; cf. F. tuilerie, fr. tuile a tile, L. tegula.]

Defn: A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

TILESEED Tile"seed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

TILESTONE Tile"stone`, n.

1. (Geol.)

Defn: A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

2. A tile of stone.

TILIA Til"i*a, n. [L., linden. Cf. Teil.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliaceæ, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus.

TILIACEOUS Til`i*a"ceous, a. Etym: [OE. tilia the linden tree.] (Bot.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceæ) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.

TILING Til"ing, n.

1. A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19.

2. Tiles, collectively.

TILL Till, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from lentil.]

Defn: A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]

TILL Till, n. Etym: [Properly, a drawer, from OE. tillen to draw. See Tiller the lever of a rudder.]

Defn: A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

TILL Till, n.

1. (Geol.)

Defn: A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.

2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. Loudon.

TILL Till, prep. Etym: [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.]

Defn: To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week. He . . . came till an house. Chaucer. Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson. Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson. Till now, to the present time. -- Till then, to that time.

TILL Till, conj.

Defn: As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until. And said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13. Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. Jer. Taylor. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.

Note: This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.

TILL Till, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling.] Etym: [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim, strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Cf. Teal, Till, prep..]

1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm. No field nolde [would not] tilye. P. Plowman. the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.

2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] W. Browne.

TILL Till, v. i.

Defn: To cultivate land. Piers Plowman.

TILLABLE Till"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

TILLAGE Till"age, n.

1. The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.

Syn. -- Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; agriculture.

TILLANDSIA Til*land"si*a, n. Etym: [NL. So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in Finland.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.

TILLER Till"er, n. Etym: [From Till, v. t.]

Defn: One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

TILLER Till"er, n. Etym: [AS. telgor a small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.]

1. (Bot.) (a) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker. (b) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

2. A young timber tree. [Prov. Eng.] Evelyn.

TILLER Till"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tillered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tillering.]

Defn: To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering. [Sometimes written tillow.]

TILLER Till"er, n. Etym: [From OE. tillen, tullen, to draw, pull; probably fr. AS. tyllan in fortyllan to lead astray; or cf. D. tillen to lift up. Cf. Till a drawer.]

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.

2. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself. [Obs.] You can shoot in a tiller. Beau. & Fl.

3. The handle of anything. [Prov. Eng.]

4. A small drawer; a till. Dryden. Tiller rope (Naut.), a rope for turning a tiller. In a large vessel it forms the connection between the fore end of the tiller and the steering wheel.

TILLEY; TILLEY SEED Til"ley, n., or Til"ley seed`. (Bot.)

Defn: The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium. [Written also tilly.]

TILLMAN Till"man, n.; pl. Tillmen (.

Defn: A man who tills the earth; a husbandman. [Obs.] Tusser.

TILLODONT Til"lo*dont, n.

Defn: One of the Tillodontia.

TILLODONTIA Til`lo*don"ti*a, n. pl. (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.

TILLOT Til"lot, n.

Defn: A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

TILLOW Til"low, v. i.

Defn: See 3d Tiller.

TILLY-VALLY Til"ly-val`ly, interj., adv., or a.

Defn: A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.

TILMUS Til"mus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Floccillation.

TIL SEED Til seed (til; tel). (a) The seed of sesame. (b) The seed of an African asteraceous plant (Guizotia abyssinica), yielding a bland fixed oil used in medicine.

TILT Tilt, n. Etym: [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]

1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.

2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. -- Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

TILT Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.]

Defn: To cover with a tilt, or awning.

TILT Tilt, v. t. Etym: [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter.]

1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

2. To point or thrust, as a lance. Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips.

3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

TILT Tilt, v. i.

1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.

2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.

TILT Tilt, n.

1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison.

2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Full tilt, with full force. Dampier.

TILTER Tilt"er, n.

1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville.

2. One who operates a tilt hammer.

TILTH Tilth, n. Etym: [AS. til, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.]

1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.

2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.] And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. Tennyson.

TILT HAMMER Tilt" ham`mer.

Defn: A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

TILTING Tilt"ing, n.

1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.

TILT-MILL Tilt"-mill`, n.

Defn: A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

TIL TREE Til" tree`. (Bot.)

Defn: See Teil.

TILT-UP Tilt"-up`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tip-up.

TILT-YARD Tilt"-yard`, n.

Defn: A yard or place for tilting. "The tilt-yard of Templestowe." Sir W. Scott.

TIMAL Ti"mal, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TIMALINE Tim"a*line, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidæ, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

TIMBAL Tim"bal, n.

Defn: A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

TIMBALE Tim`bale", n. [F., prop., a kettledrum; -- so named from the form of the mold used. Cf. Timbal.] (Cookery)

Defn: A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

TIMBER Tim"ber, n. Etym: [Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; cf. Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL. timbrium. Cf. Timmer.] (Com.)

Defn: A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer. [Written also timbre.]

TIMBER Tim"ber, n. Etym: [F. timbre. See Timbre.] (Her.)

Defn: The crest on a coat of arms. [Written also timbre.]

TIMBER Tim"ber, v. t.

Defn: To surmount as a timber does. [Obs.]

TIMBER Tim"ber, n. Etym: [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. tömmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus a house, Gr. dama a house. *62. Cf. Dome, Domestic.]

1. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3. And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber! Tennyson.

2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

3. Fig.: Material for any structure. Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of. Bacon.

4. A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timbers were decayed. W. Coxe.

5. Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U.S.]

6. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united. Timber and room. (Shipbuilding) Same as Room and space. See under Room. -- Timber beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles the larvæ of which bore in timber; as, the silky timber beetle (Lymexylon sericeum). -- Timber doodle (Zoöl.), the American woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Timber grouse (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; -- distinguished from prairie grouse. -- Timber hitch (Naut.), a kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch. -- Timber mare, a kind of instrument upon which soldiers were formerly compelled to ride for punishment. Johnson. -- Timber scribe, a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking timber. Simmonds. -- Timber sow. (Zoöl.) Same as Timber worm, below. Bacon. -- Timber tree, a tree suitable for timber. -- Timber worm (Zoöl.), any larval insect which burrows in timber. -- Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.

TIMBER Tim"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Timbering.]

Defn: To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle. His bark is stoutly timbered. Shak.

TIMBER Tim"ber, v. i.

1. To light on a tree. [Obs.]

2. (Falconry)

Defn: To make a nest.

TIMBERED Tim"bered, a.

1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

2. Built; formed; contrived. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

3. Massive, like timber. [Obs.] His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser.

4. Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.

TIMBERHEAD Tim"ber*head`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

TIMBERING Tim"ber*ing, n.

Defn: The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

TIMBERLING Tim"ber*ling, n. Etym: [Timber + -ling.]

Defn: A small tree. [Eng.]

TIMBERMAN Tim"ber*man, n.; pl. Timbermen (. (Mining)

Defn: A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.

TIMBERWORK Tim"ber*work`, n.

Defn: Work made of timbers.

TIMBRE Tim"bre, n.

Defn: See 1st Timber.

TIMBRE Tim"bre, n. Etym: [F., a bell to be struck with a hammer, sound, tone, stamp, crest, in OF., a timbrel. Cf. Timbrel.]

1. (Her.)

Defn: The crest on a coat of arms.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

TIMBREL Tim"brel, n. Etym: [Dim. of OE. timbre, OF. timbre; probably fr. L. typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal a drum. See Tympanum, and cf. 2d Timbre, Tymbal.] (Mus.)

Defn: A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.

TIMBRELED; TIMBRELLED Tim"breled, Tim"brelled, a.

Defn: Sung to the sound of the timbrel. "In vain with timbreled anthems dark." Milton.

TIMBURINE Tim`bu*rine", n.

Defn: A tambourine. [Obs.]

TIME Time, n.; pl. Times. Etym: [OE. time, AS. tima, akin to tid time, and to Icel. timi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. *58. See Tide, n.]

1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.

2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1.

3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.

4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster.

5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. Mark xi. 13.

6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. Milton.

8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.

9. (Gram.)

Defn: Tense.

10. (Mus.)

Defn: The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. Beau. & Fl.

Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self- explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time- scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. Absolute time, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time. -- Apparent time, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. -- Astronomical time, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next. -- At times, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides. -- Civil time, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight. -- Common time (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute. -- Equation of time. See under Equation, n. -- In time. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength. -- Mean time. See under 4th Mean. -- Quick time (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute. -- Sidereal time. See under Sidereal. -- Standard time, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time. -- Time ball, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. Nichol. -- Time bargain (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future. -- Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.] -- Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. -- Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. -- Time enough, in season; early enough. "Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life." Bacon. -- Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. -- Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See under Immemorial. -- Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. -- Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like; greeting. -- To kill time. See under Kill, v. t. -- To make time. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. -- To move, run, or go, against time, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. -- True time. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.

TIME Time, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed; p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.]

1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. Bacon.

2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. Addison. He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.

3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

4. To measure, as in music or harmony.

TIME Time, v. i.

1. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. With oar strokes timing to their song. Whittier.

2. To pass time; to delay. [Obs.]

TIMEFUL Time"ful, a.

Defn: Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

TIME-HONORED Time"-hon`ored, a.

Defn: Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

TIMEKEEPER Time"keep`er, n.

1. A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

2. A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time. Specifically: -- (a) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work. (b) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances. (c) One who marks the time in musical performances. (d) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.

TIMELESS Time"less, a.

1. Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

2. Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.] Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death Shak.

3. Having no end; interminable; unending. "Timeless night and chaos." Young.

TIMELESSLY Time"less*ly, adv.

Defn: In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] Milton.

TIMELINESS Time"li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

TIMELING Time"ling, n.

Defn: A timeserver. [Obs.]

TIMELY Time"ly, a. [Compar. Timelier; superl. Timeliest.]

1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton.

2. Keeping time or measure. Spenser.

TIMELY Time"ly, adv.

Defn: Early; soon; in good season. Timely advised, the coming evil shun. Prior. Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it. Shak.

TIMENOGUY Ti*men"o*guy, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

TIMEOUS Time"ous, a.

Defn: Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] -- Time"ous*ly, adv. [R. or Scot.]

TIMEPIECE Time"piece`, n.

Defn: A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

TIMEPLEASER Time"pleas`er, n.

Defn: One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.

TIME POLICY Time policy. (Insurance)

Defn: A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.

TIMER Tim"er, n.

Defn: A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

TIMESAVING Time"sav`ing, a.

Defn: Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.

TIMESERVER Time"serv`er, n.

Defn: One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

TIMESERVING Time"serv`ing, a.

Defn: Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.

TIMESERVING Time"serv`ing, n.

Defn: An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Syn. -- Temporizing. -- Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible. Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. South. [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. Shak.

TIME SIGNATURE Time signature. (Music)

Defn: A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

TIME-TABLE Time"-ta`ble, n.

1. A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

2. (Railroad)

Defn: A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.

TIMID Tim"id, a. Etym: [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.]

Defn: Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly, adv. -- Tim"id*ness, n.

TIMIDITY Ti*mid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidité.]

Defn: The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

TIMIDOUS Tim"id*ous, a.

Defn: Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.

TIMIST Tim"ist, n. Etym: [Written also timeist.]

1. (Mus.)

Defn: A performer who keeps good time.

2. A timeserver. [Obs.] Overbury.

TIMMER Tim"mer, n.

Defn: Same as 1st Timber. [Scot.]

TIMOCRACY Ti*moc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Gr. timocratie.] (Gr. Antiq.) (a) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive. (b) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.

TIMOCRATIC Ti`mo*crat"ic, a.