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Ta Dictionary T - verb transitive To take.
Taas Dictionary T - noun A heap. See Tas.
Tab Dictionary T - noun The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Tabacco Dictionary T - noun Tobacco.
Tabanus Dictionary T - noun A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.
Tabard Dictionary T - noun A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.
Tabarder Dictionary T - noun One who wears a tabard.
Tabaret Dictionary T - noun A stout silk having satin stripes, - used for furniture.
Tabasheer Dictionary T - noun A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
Tabbinet Dictionary T - noun A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.
Tabbies Dictionary T - pleural of Tabby.
Tabby Dictionary T - noun A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
Tabbied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabby.
Tabbying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabby.
Tabefaction Dictionary T - noun A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.
Tabefied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabefy.
Tabefying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabefy.
Tabefy Dictionary T - verb transitive To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.
Tabellion Dictionary T - noun A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.
Taber Dictionary T - intransitive verb Same as Tabor.
Taberd Dictionary T - noun See Tabard.
Tabernacle Dictionary T - noun A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
Tabernacled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabernacle.
Tabernacling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabernacle.
Tabernacular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
Tabes Dictionary T - noun Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
Tabescent Dictionary T - adjective Withering, or wasting away.
Tabetic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.
Tabid Dictionary T - adjective Affected by tabes; tabetic.
Tabific Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tabifical.
Tabifical Dictionary T - adjective Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
Tabinet Dictionary T - noun See Tabbinet.
Tablature Dictionary T - noun A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.
Table Dictionary T - noun A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
Tableed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Table.
Tableing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Table.
Tableaux Dictionary T - pleural of Tableau.
Tableau Dictionary T - noun A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
Tableaux vivants Dictionary T - pleural of Tableau vivant.
Tableau vivant Dictionary T - Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Tablebook Dictionary T - noun A tablet; a notebook.
Tablecloth Dictionary T - noun A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
Tables d'hote Dictionary T - pleural of Table d'hote.
Table d'hote Dictionary T - A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
Table-land Dictionary T - noun A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
Tablemen Dictionary T - pleural of Tableman.
Tableman Dictionary T - noun A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
Tablement Dictionary T - noun A table.
Tabler Dictionary T - noun One who boards.
Tablespoon Dictionary T - noun A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; - distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Tablespoonfuls Dictionary T - pleural of Tablespoonful.
Tablespoonful Dictionary T - noun As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
Tablet Dictionary T - noun A small table or flat surface.
Tableware Dictionary T - noun Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Tabling Dictionary T - noun A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
Taboo Dictionary T - noun A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
Tabooed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taboo.
Tabooing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taboo.
Tabor Dictionary T - noun A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
Tabored Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabor.
Taboring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabor.
Taborer Dictionary T - noun One who plays on the tabor.
Taboret Dictionary T - noun A small tabor.
Taborine Dictionary T - noun A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Taborite Dictionary T - noun One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; - so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.
Tabour Dictionary T - noun & verb See Tabor.
Tabouret Dictionary T - noun Same as Taboret.
Tabrere Dictionary T - noun A taborer.
Tabret Dictionary T - noun A taboret.
Tabu Dictionary T - noun & verb See Taboo.
Tabulae Dictionary T - pleural of Tabula.
Tabula Dictionary T - noun A table; a tablet.
Tabular Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).
Tabularization Dictionary T - noun The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tabularized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabularize.
Tabularizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabularize.
Tabularize Dictionary T - verb transitive To tabulate.
Tabulata Dictionary T - noun plural An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
Tabulated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tabulate.
Tabulating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tabulate.
Tabulate Dictionary T - verb transitive To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
Tabulation Dictionary T - noun The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Tac Dictionary T - noun A kind of customary payment by a tenant; - a word used in old records.
Tacamahac Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tacamahaca.
Tacamahaca Dictionary T - noun A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
Tacaud Dictionary T - noun The bib, or whiting pout.
Tace Dictionary T - noun The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.
Tacet Dictionary T - v.impers. It is silent; - a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
Tache Dictionary T - noun Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
Tachhydrite Dictionary T - noun A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
Tachinae Dictionary T - pleural of Tachina.
Tachina Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.
Tachometer Dictionary T - noun An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.
Tachydidaxy Dictionary T - noun A short or rapid method of instructing.
Tachyglossa Dictionary T - noun plural A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.
Tachygraphic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tachygraphical.
Tachygraphical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
Tachygraphy Dictionary T - noun The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
Tachylyte Dictionary T - noun A vitreous form of basalt; - so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
Tacit Dictionary T - adjective Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
Taciturn Dictionary T - adjective Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
Taciturnity Dictionary T - noun Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.
Tack Dictionary T - noun A stain; a tache.
Tacked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tack.
Tacking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tack.
Tacker Dictionary T - noun One who tacks.
Tacket Dictionary T - noun A small, broad-headed nail.
Tackey Dictionary T - adjective & noun See Tacky.
Tackle Dictionary T - noun Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
Tackled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tackle.
Tackling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tackle.
Tacksmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tacksman.
Tacksman Dictionary T - noun One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.
Tacky Dictionary T - adjective Sticky; adhesive; raw; - said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
Taconic Dictionary T - adjective Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Tact Dictionary T - noun The sense of touch; feeling.
Tactable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being touched; tangible.
Tactic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tactical.
Tactical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.
Tactician Dictionary T - noun One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
Tactics Dictionary T - noun The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
Tactile Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
Tactility Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Taction Dictionary T - noun The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
Tactless Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of tact.
Tactual Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
Tadpole Dictionary T - noun The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
Taedium Dictionary T - noun See Tedium.
Tael Dictionary T - noun A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
Taen Dictionary T - Alt. of Ta'en.
Ta'en Dictionary T - p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.
Taeniae Dictionary T - pleural of Taenia.
Taenia Dictionary T - noun A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
Taeniada Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Taenioidea.
Taeniata Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
Taenidia Dictionary T - pleural of Taenidium.
Taenidium Dictionary T - noun The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
Taenioglossa Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.
Taenioglossate Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Taenioglossa.
Taenioid Dictionary T - adjective Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
Taenioidea Dictionary T - noun plural The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
Taeniolae Dictionary T - pleural of Taeniola.
Taeniola Dictionary T - noun One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
Taeniosomi Dictionary T - noun plural An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
Tafferer Dictionary T - noun See Taffrail.
Taffeta Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Taffety.
Taffety Dictionary T - noun A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
Taffrail Dictionary T - noun The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
Taffy Dictionary T - noun A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.
Tafia Dictionary T - noun A variety of rum.
Tag Dictionary T - noun Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
Tagged Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tag.
Tagging Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tag.
Tagbelt Dictionary T - noun Same as Tagsore.
Tagger Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
Taglet Dictionary T - noun A little tag.
Taglia Dictionary T - noun A peculiar combination of pulleys.
Tagliacotain Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him.
Taglioni Dictionary T - noun A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; - said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
Taglock Dictionary T - noun An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.
Tagnicate Dictionary T - noun The white-lipped peccary.
Tag-rag Dictionary T - noun & adjective The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
Tagsore Dictionary T - noun Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; - called also tagbelt.
Tagtail Dictionary T - noun A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
Taguan Dictionary T - noun A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
Taguicati Dictionary T - noun The white-lipped peccary.
Taha Dictionary T - noun The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
Tahaleb Dictionary T - noun A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
Tahitian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Tahr Dictionary T - noun Same as Thar.
Tail Dictionary T - noun Limitation; abridgment.
Tailage Dictionary T - noun See Tallage.
Tail-bay Dictionary T - noun One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
Tailblock Dictionary T - noun A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
Tailboard Dictionary T - noun The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
Tailed Dictionary T - adjective Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; - chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Tailing Dictionary T - noun The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Taille Dictionary T - noun A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
Tailless Dictionary T - adjective Having no tail.
Taillie Dictionary T - noun Same as Tailzie.
Tailor Dictionary T - noun One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Tailored Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tailor.
Tailoring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tailor.
Tailoress Dictionary T - noun A female tailor.
Tailpiece Dictionary T - noun A piece at the end; an appendage.
Tailpin Dictionary T - noun The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
Tailrace Dictionary T - noun See Race, n., 6.
Tailstock Dictionary T - noun The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
Tail-water Dictionary T - noun Water in a tailrace.
Tailzie Dictionary T - noun An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
Tain Dictionary T - noun Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
Taint Dictionary T - noun A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
Tainted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taint.
Tainting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taint.
Taintless Dictionary T - adjective Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taintlessly Dictionary T - adverb In a taintless manner.
Tainture Dictionary T - noun Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
Taintworm Dictionary T - noun A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
Taira Dictionary T - noun Same as Tayra.
Tairn Dictionary T - noun See Tarn.
Tait Dictionary T - noun A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
Tajacu Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tajassu.
Tajassu Dictionary T - noun The common, or collared, peccary.
Take Dictionary T - past participle Taken.
Took Dictionary T - imperative of Take.
Takend Dictionary T - past participle of Take.
Taking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Take.
Take-in Dictionary T - noun Imposition; fraud.
Taken Dictionary T - p. p. of Take.
Take-off Dictionary T - noun An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
Taker Dictionary T - noun One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
Take-up Dictionary T - noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
Taking-off Dictionary T - noun Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.
Talapoin Dictionary T - noun A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) #NAME?.
Talaria Dictionary T - noun plural Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, - chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.
Talbot Dictionary T - noun A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.
Talbotype Dictionary T - noun Same as Calotype.
Talc Dictionary T - noun A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
Talcose Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Talcous.
Talcous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
Tale Dictionary T - noun See Tael.
Talebearer Dictionary T - noun One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief.
Talebearing Dictionary T - adjective Telling tales officiously.
Taled Dictionary T - noun A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues.
Taleful Dictionary T - adjective Full of stories.
Talegalla Dictionary T - noun A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.
Talent Dictionary T - verb transitive Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was ?243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Talented Dictionary T - adjective Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted.
Tales Dictionary T - noun Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
Talesmen Dictionary T - pleural of Talesman.
Talesman Dictionary T - noun A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.
Taleteller Dictionary T - noun One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
Talewise Dictionary T - adverb In a way of a tale or story.
Taliacotian Dictionary T - adjective See Tagliacotian.
Taliation Dictionary T - noun Retaliation.
Talion Dictionary T - noun Retaliation.
Talipes Dictionary T - noun The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
Talipot Dictionary T - noun A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
Talismans Dictionary T - pleural of Talisman.
Talisman Dictionary T - noun A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
Talismanic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Talismanical.
Talismanical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
Talked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Talk.
Talking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Talk.
Talk Dictionary T - noun To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
Talkative Dictionary T - adjective Given to much talking.
Talker Dictionary T - noun One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
Tall Dictionary T - superlative High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
Tallage Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Talliage.
Talliage Dictionary T - noun A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
Tallier Dictionary T - noun One who keeps tally.
Tallness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.
Tallow Dictionary T - noun The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
Tallowed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tallow.
Tallowing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tallow.
Tallower Dictionary T - noun An animal which produces tallow.
Tallow-face Dictionary T - noun One who has a sickly, pale complexion.
Tallow-faced Dictionary T - adjective Having a sickly complexion; pale.
Tallowish Dictionary T - adjective Having the qualities of tallow.
Tallowy Dictionary T - adjective Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
Tallwood Dictionary T - noun Firewood cut into billets of a certain length.
Tallies Dictionary T - pleural of Tally.
Tally Dictionary T - noun Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
Tallied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tally.
Tallying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tally.
Tallyho Dictionary T - interjection & noun The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.
Tallymen Dictionary T - pleural of Tallyman.
Tallyman Dictionary T - noun One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
Talmas Dictionary T - pleural of Talma.
Talma Dictionary T - noun A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.
Talmud Dictionary T - noun The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
Talmudic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Talmudical.
Talmudical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases.
Talmudist Dictionary T - noun One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Talmudistic Dictionary T - adjective Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
Talon Dictionary T - noun The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
Talook Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Taluk.
Taluk Dictionary T - noun A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.
Talookdar Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Talukdar.
Talukdar Dictionary T - noun A proprietor of a talook.
Talpa Dictionary T - noun A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
Tali Dictionary T - pleural of Talus.
Talus Dictionary T - noun The astragalus.
Tamability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
Tamable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.
Tamandu Dictionary T - noun A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.
Tamanoir Dictionary T - noun The ant-bear.
Tamarack Dictionary T - noun The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.
Tamaric Dictionary T - noun A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath.
Tamarin Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
Tamarind Dictionary T - noun A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
Tamarisk Dictionary T - noun Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Tambac Dictionary T - noun See Tombac.
Tambour Dictionary T - noun A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
Tamboured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tambour.
Tambouring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tambour.
Tambourin Dictionary T - noun A tambourine.
Tambourine Dictionary T - noun A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Tambreet Dictionary T - noun The duck mole.
Tamburin Dictionary T - noun See Tambourine.
Tame Dictionary T - verb transitive To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
Tamed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tame.
Taming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tame.
Tameable Dictionary T - adjective Tamable.
Tameless Dictionary T - adjective Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.
Tamely Dictionary T - adverb In a tame manner.
Tameness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tame.
Tamer Dictionary T - noun One who tames or subdues.
Tamias Dictionary T - noun A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
Tamil Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
Tamilian Dictionary T - adjective & noun Tamil.
Tamine Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Taminy.
Taminy Dictionary T - noun A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tamis Dictionary T - noun A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
Tamkin Dictionary T - noun A tampion.
Tammies Dictionary T - pleural of Tammy.
Tammy Dictionary T - noun A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, - used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
Tamped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tamp.
Tamping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tamp.
Tamp Dictionary T - verb transitive In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
Tampan Dictionary T - noun A venomous South African tick.
Tampeon Dictionary T - noun See Tampion.
Tamper Dictionary T - noun One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
Tampered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tamper.
Tampering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tamper.
Tamperer Dictionary T - noun One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.
Tampico fiber Dictionary T - Alt. of fibre.
Tampion Dictionary T - noun A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
Tampoe Dictionary T - noun The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Tampon Dictionary T - noun A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
Tampoon Dictionary T - noun The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Tam-tam Dictionary T - noun A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; - called also tom-tom.
Tamul Dictionary T - adjective & noun Tamil.
Tan Dictionary T - noun See Picul.
Tanned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tan.
Tanning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tan.
Tana Dictionary T - noun Same as Banxring.
Tanager Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.
Tanagrine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
Tanagroid Dictionary T - adjective Tanagrine.
Tanate Dictionary T - noun An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.
Tandem Dictionary T - adverb & adjective One after another; - said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
Tang Dictionary T - noun A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Tanged Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tang.
Tanging Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tang.
Tangalung Dictionary T - noun An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).
Tangence Dictionary T - noun Tangency.
Tangency Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Tangent Dictionary T - verb transitive A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
Tangental Dictionary T - adjective Tangential.
Tangential Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Tangentially Dictionary T - adverb In the direction of a tangent.
Tangerine Dictionary T - noun A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
Tangfish Dictionary T - noun The common harbor seal.
Tanghinia Dictionary T - noun The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
Tangibility Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tangible.
Tangible Dictionary T - adjective Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Tangled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tangle.
Tangling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tangle.
Tangle Dictionary T - noun To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
Tanglefish Dictionary T - noun The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
Tanglingly Dictionary T - adverb In a tangling manner.
Tangly Dictionary T - adjective Entangled; intricate.
Tangram Dictionary T - noun A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
Tangue Dictionary T - noun The tenrec.
Tangun Dictionary T - noun A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.
Tangwhaup Dictionary T - noun The whimbrel.
Tanier Dictionary T - noun An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.
Tanist Dictionary T - noun In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
Tanistry Dictionary T - noun In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
Tanite Dictionary T - noun A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Tank Dictionary T - noun A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
Tanka Dictionary T - noun A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.
Tankard Dictionary T - noun A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Tankia Dictionary T - noun See Tanka.
Tankling Dictionary T - noun A tinkling.
Tanling Dictionary T - noun One tanned by the sun.
Tannable Dictionary T - adjective That may be tanned.
Tannage Dictionary T - noun A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning.
Tannate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tannic acid.
Tanner Dictionary T - noun One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Tanneries Dictionary T - pleural of Tannery.
Tannery Dictionary T - noun A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
Tannic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.
Tannier Dictionary T - noun See Tanier.
Tannin Dictionary T - noun Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.
Tanrec Dictionary T - noun Same as Tenrec.
Tansy Dictionary T - noun Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
Tant Dictionary T - noun A small scarlet arachnid.
Tantalate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tantalic acid.
Tantalic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of phosphorus.
Tantalism Dictionary T - noun A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.
Tantalite Dictionary T - noun A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron.
Tantalization Dictionary T - noun The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized.
Tantalized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tantalize.
Tantalizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tantalize.
Tantalize Dictionary T - verb transitive To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment.
Tantalizer Dictionary T - noun One who tantalizes.
Tantalizingly Dictionary T - adverb In a tantalizing or teasing manner.
Tantalum Dictionary T - noun A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.
Tantalus Dictionary T - noun A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.
Tantamount Dictionary T - adjective Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
Tantivy Dictionary T - adverb Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; - a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.
Tantrum Dictionary T - noun A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.
Tanyard Dictionary T - noun An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
Tanystomata Dictionary T - noun plural A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillae. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.
Taoism Dictionary T - noun One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.
Tapped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tap.
Tapping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tap.
Tap Dictionary T - verb transitive To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
Tapa Dictionary T - noun A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; - sometimes called also kapa.
Tapayaxin Dictionary T - noun A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; - called also horned toad.
Tape Dictionary T - noun A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
Tapeline Dictionary T - noun A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, - used for measuring.
Taper Dictionary T - noun A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
Tapered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taper.
Tapering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taper.
Taperness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.
Tapestries Dictionary T - pleural of Tapestry.
Tapestry Dictionary T - noun A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
Tapestried Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tapestry.
Tapestrying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tapestry.
Tapet Dictionary T - noun Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.
Tapetis Dictionary T - pleural of Tapeti.
Tapeti Dictionary T - noun A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
Tapetum Dictionary T - noun An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
Tapeworm Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Taphouse Dictionary T - noun A house where liquors are retailed.
Taphrenchyma Dictionary T - noun Same as Bothrenchyma.
Tapinage Dictionary T - noun A lurking or skulking.
Tapioca Dictionary T - noun A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.
Tapir Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
Tapiroid Dictionary T - adjective Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
Tapis Dictionary T - noun Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
Tapiser Dictionary T - noun A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.
Tapish Dictionary T - intransitive verb To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
Taplash Dictionary T - noun Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.
Taplings Dictionary T - noun plural The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united.
Tapoa tafa Dictionary T - A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; - called also brush-tailed phascogale.
Tappen Dictionary T - noun An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
Tapper Dictionary T - noun The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); - called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
Tappester Dictionary T - noun A female tapster.
Tappet Dictionary T - noun A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.
Tappice Dictionary T - intransitive verb Alt. of Tappis.
Tappis Dictionary T - intransitive verb See Tapish.
Tappit hen Dictionary T - A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.
Taproom Dictionary T - noun A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.
Taproot Dictionary T - noun The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Tapster Dictionary T - noun One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
Taqua-nut Dictionary T - noun A Central American name for the ivory nut.
Tar Dictionary T - noun A sailor; a seaman.
Tarred Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tar.
Tarring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tar.
Taranis Dictionary T - noun A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
Tarantass Dictionary T - noun A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
Tarantella Dictionary T - noun A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; - so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.
Tarantism Dictionary T - noun A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
Tarantulas Dictionary T - pleural of Tarantula.
Tarantulae Dictionary T - pleural of Tarantula.
Tarantula Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.
Tarantulated Dictionary T - adjective Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
Tarbogan Dictionary T - noun & verb See Toboggan.
Tarboosh Dictionary T - noun A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.
Tardation Dictionary T - noun The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation.
Tardigrada Dictionary T - adjective A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
Tardigrade Dictionary T - adjective Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.
Tardigradous Dictionary T - adjective Moving slowly; slow-paced.
Tardily Dictionary T - adverb In a tardy manner; slowly.
Tardiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tardy.
Tarditation Dictionary T - noun Tardiness.
Tardity Dictionary T - noun Slowness; tardiness.
Tardo Dictionary T - adjective Slow; - a direction to perform a passage slowly.
Tardy Dictionary T - superlative Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
Tare Dictionary T - imperative Tore.
Tared Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tare.
Taring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tare.
Tarente Dictionary T - noun A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
Tarentism Dictionary T - noun See Tarantism.
Tarentula Dictionary T - noun See Tarantula.
Targe Dictionary T - noun A shield or target.
Target Dictionary T - noun A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
Targeted Dictionary T - adjective Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.
Targeteer Dictionary T - noun One who is armed with a target or shield.
Targums Dictionary T - pleural of Targum.
Targumim Dictionary T - pleural of Targum.
Targum Dictionary T - noun A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.
Targumist Dictionary T - noun The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.
Tariff Dictionary T - noun A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).
Tariffed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tariff.
Tariffing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tariff.
Tarin Dictionary T - noun The siskin.
Tarlatan Dictionary T - noun A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.
Tarn Dictionary T - noun A mountain lake or pool.
Tarnished Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tarnish.
Tarnishing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tarnish.
Tarnish Dictionary T - adjective To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.
Tarnisher Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tarnishes.
Taro Dictionary T - noun A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.
Tarot Dictionary T - noun A game of cards; - called also taroc.
Tarpan Dictionary T - noun A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.
Tarpaulin Dictionary T - noun A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
Tarpon Dictionary T - noun Same as Tarpum.
Tarpum Dictionary T - noun A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.
Tarquinish Dictionary T - adjective Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.
Tarrace Dictionary T - noun See Trass.
Tarragon Dictionary T - noun A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.
Tarras Dictionary T - noun See Trass.
Tarre Dictionary T - verb To set on, as a dog; to incite.
Tarriance Dictionary T - noun The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.
Tarrier Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tarries.
Tarrock Dictionary T - noun The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.
Tarry Dictionary T - noun Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
Tarried Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tarry.
Tarrying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tarry.
Tarsal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye).
Tarsalia Dictionary T - pleural of Tarsale.
Tarsale Dictionary T - noun One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.
Tarse Dictionary T - noun The male falcon.
Tarsectomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.
Tarsel Dictionary T - noun A male hawk. See Tercel.
Tarsi Dictionary T - noun plural of Tarsus.
Tarsia Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tarsiatura.
Tarsiatura Dictionary T - noun A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.
Tarsier Dictionary T - noun See Tarsius.
Tarsius Dictionary T - noun A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; - called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.
Tarso- Dictionary T - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.
Tarsometatarsal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations.
Tarsometatarsi Dictionary T - pleural of Tarsometatarsus.
Tarsometatarsus Dictionary T - noun The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
Tarsorrhaphy Dictionary T - noun An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.
Tarsotomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.
Tarsus Dictionary T - noun The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
Tart Dictionary T - verb transitive Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
Tartan Dictionary T - noun Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
Tartar Dictionary T - noun A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; - called also argol, wine stone, etc.
Tartarated Dictionary T - adjective Tartrated.
Tartarean Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tartareous.
Tartareous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
Tartarian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tartaric.
Tartaric Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tartarine Dictionary T - noun Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
Tartarized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tartarize.
Tartarizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tartarize.
Tartarize Dictionary T - verb transitive To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.
Tartarous Dictionary T - adjective Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
Tartarum Dictionary T - noun See 1st Tartar.
Tartarus Dictionary T - noun The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.
Tartary Dictionary T - noun Tartarus.
Tartini's tones Dictionary T - See the Note under Tone.
Tartish Dictionary T - adjective Somewhat tart.
Tartlet Dictionary T - noun A small tart.
Tartly Dictionary T - adverb In a tart manner; with acidity.
Tartness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tart.
Tartralic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; - called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid.
Tartramate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tartramic acid.
Tartramic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.
Tartramide Dictionary T - noun An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Tartrate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tartaric acid.
Tartrated Dictionary T - adjective Containing, or derived from, tartar; combined with tartaric acid.
Tartrazine Dictionary T - noun An artificial dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
Tartrelic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride, C4H4O5, of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline deliquescent substance.
Tartro- Dictionary T - A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.
Tartronate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tartronic acid.
Tartronic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid) obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
Tartronyl Dictionary T - noun A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Tartrovinic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.
Tartuffe Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tartufe.
Tartufe Dictionary T - noun A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Tartuffish Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tartufish.
Tartufish Dictionary T - adjective Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.
Tarweed Dictionary T - noun A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.
Tas Dictionary T - noun A heap.
Tasco Dictionary T - noun A kind of clay for making melting pots.
Tasimer Dictionary T - noun An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
Task Dictionary T - verb Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Tasked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Task.
Tasking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Task.
Tasker Dictionary T - noun One who imposes a task.
Taskmaster Dictionary T - noun One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
Taskwork Dictionary T - noun Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.
Taslet Dictionary T - noun A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.
Tasmanian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. - n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.
Tasse Dictionary T - noun A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Tassel Dictionary T - noun A male hawk. See Tercel.
Tasseled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tassel.
Tasselled Dictionary T - of Tassel.
Tasseling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tassel.
Tasselling Dictionary T - of Tassel.
Tasset Dictionary T - noun A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.
Tastable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.
Tasted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taste.
Tasting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taste.
Taste Dictionary T - verb transitive To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
Tasteful Dictionary T - adjective Having a high relish; savory.
Tasteless Dictionary T - adjective Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
Taster Dictionary T - noun One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
Tastily Dictionary T - adverb In a tasty manner.
Tasto Dictionary T - noun A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
Tasty Dictionary T - superlative Having a good taste; - applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
Tat Dictionary T - noun Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.
Tataupa Dictionary T - noun A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Tatch Dictionary T - noun A spot or stain; also, a trick.
Tath Dictionary T - obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tatou Dictionary T - noun The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
Tatouay Dictionary T - noun An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
Tatouhou Dictionary T - noun The peba.
Tatt Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.
Tatta Dictionary T - noun A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
Tatter Dictionary T - noun One who makes tatting.
Tattered Dictionary T - past participle of Tatter.
Tatterdemalion Dictionary T - noun A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
Tatting Dictionary T - noun A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.
Tattled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tattle.
Tattling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tattle.
Tattle Dictionary T - intransitive verb To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
Tattler Dictionary T - noun One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
Tattlery Dictionary T - noun Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
Tattoo Dictionary T - noun A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
Tattooed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tattoo.
Tattooing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tattoo.
Tattoos Dictionary T - pleural of Tattoo.
Tatu Dictionary T - noun Same as Tatou.
Tatusiid Dictionary T - noun Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidae, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.
Tau Dictionary T - noun The common American toadfish; - so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/).
Taught Dictionary T - adjective See Taut.
Taunt Dictionary T - adjective Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Taunted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taunt.
Taunting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taunt.
Taunter Dictionary T - noun One who taunts.
Tauntingly Dictionary T - adverb In a taunting manner.
Tauntress Dictionary T - noun A woman who taunts.
Taur Dictionary T - noun The constellation Taurus.
Tauricornous Dictionary T - adjective Having horns like those of a bull.
Tauridor Dictionary T - noun A bullfighter; a toreador.
Tauriform Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of a bull.
Taurine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
Taurocholate Dictionary T - noun A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
Taurocholic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.
Taurocol Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Taurocolla.
Taurocolla Dictionary T - noun Glue made from a bull's hide.
Tauromachian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to bullfights.
Tauromachy Dictionary T - noun Bullfighting.
Taurus Dictionary T - noun The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; - marked thus / in almanacs.
Taurylic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.
Taut Dictionary T - adjective Tight; stretched; not slack; - said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
Tautegorical Dictionary T - adjective Expressing the same thing with different words; - opposed to allegorical.
Tautochrone Dictionary T - noun A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
Tautochronous Dictionary T - adjective Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tautog Dictionary T - noun An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
Tautologic Dictionary T - adjective Tautological.
Tautological Dictionary T - adjective Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression.
Tautologist Dictionary T - noun One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tautologized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tautologize.
Tautologizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tautologize.
Tautologize Dictionary T - intransitive verb To repeat the same thing in different words.
Tautologous Dictionary T - adjective Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
Tautology Dictionary T - noun A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.
Tautomeric Dictionary T - adjective Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism.
Tautomerism Dictionary T - noun The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism.
Tautoousian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tautoousious.
Tautoousious Dictionary T - adjective Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.
Tautophonical Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound.
Tautophony Dictionary T - noun Repetition of the same sound.
Tautozonal Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.
Tavern Dictionary T - noun A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.
Taverner Dictionary T - noun One who keeps a tavern.
Taverning Dictionary T - noun A feasting at taverns.
Tavernmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tavernman.
Tavernman Dictionary T - noun The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.
Taw Dictionary T - noun Tow.
Tawed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Taw.
Tawing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Taw.
Tawdrily Dictionary T - adverb In a tawdry manner.
Tawdriness Dictionary T - noun Quality or state of being tawdry.
Tawdry Dictionary T - superlative Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
Tawdries Dictionary T - pleural of Tawdry.
Tawer Dictionary T - noun One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
Tawery Dictionary T - noun A place where skins are tawed.
Tawniness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tawny.
Tawny Dictionary T - noun Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
Taws Dictionary T - noun A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
Tax Dictionary T - noun A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
Taxed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tax.
Taxing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tax.
Taxability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.
Taxable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.
Taxaspidean Dictionary T - adjective Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; - said of certain birds.
Taxation Dictionary T - noun The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
Taxel Dictionary T - noun The American badger.
Taxeopoda Dictionary T - noun plural An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.
Taxer Dictionary T - noun One who taxes.
Taxgatherer Dictionary T - noun One who collects taxes or revenues.
Taxiarch Dictionary T - noun An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
Taxicorn Dictionary T - noun One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.
Taxidermic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
Taxidermist Dictionary T - noun A person skilled in taxidermy.
Taxidermy Dictionary T - verb transitive The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
Taxine Dictionary T - noun A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.
Taxis Dictionary T - noun Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
Taxless Dictionary T - adjective Free from taxation.
Taxology Dictionary T - noun Same as Taxonomy.
Taxonomic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.
Taxonomist Dictionary T - noun One skilled in taxonomy.
Taxonomy Dictionary T - noun That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.
Taxor Dictionary T - noun Same as Taxer, n., 2.
Taxpayer Dictionary T - noun One who is assessed and pays a tax.
Tayra Dictionary T - noun A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet.
Tazel Dictionary T - noun The teasel.
Tazza Dictionary T - noun An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
Tchawytcha Dictionary T - noun The quinnat salmon.
T cart Dictionary T - See under T.
Tea Dictionary T - noun The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, / Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries.
Teaberry Dictionary T - noun The checkerberry.
Teaching Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Teach.
Teach Dictionary T - verb transitive To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.
Teachable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.
Teachableness Dictionary T - noun Willingness to be taught.
Teache Dictionary T - noun One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.
Teacher Dictionary T - noun One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
Teachless Dictionary T - adjective Not teachable.
Teacup Dictionary T - noun A small cup from which to drink tea.
Teacupfuls Dictionary T - pleural of Teacupful.
Teacupful Dictionary T - noun As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
Tead Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Teade.
Teade Dictionary T - noun A torch.
Teagle Dictionary T - noun A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.
Teague Dictionary T - noun An Irishman; - a term used in contempt.
Teak Dictionary T - noun A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
Teakettle Dictionary T - noun A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.
Teal Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.
Team Dictionary T - noun A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
Teamed Dictionary T - adjective Yoked in, or as in, a team.
Teaming Dictionary T - noun The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.
Teamster Dictionary T - noun One who drives a team.
Teamwork Dictionary T - noun Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.
Teapot Dictionary T - noun A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.
Teapoy Dictionary T - noun An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.
Tear Dictionary T - noun A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
Tore Dictionary T - imperative of Tear.
Torn Dictionary T - past participle of Tear.
Tearing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tear.
Tearer Dictionary T - noun One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
Tear-falling Dictionary T - adjective Shedding tears; tender.
Tearful Dictionary T - adjective Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
Tearless Dictionary T - adjective Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.
Tearpit Dictionary T - noun A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
Tear-thumb Dictionary T - noun A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
Teary Dictionary T - adjective Wet with tears; tearful.
Tea-saucer Dictionary T - noun A small saucer in which a teacup is set.
Teased Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tease.
Teasing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tease.
Tease Dictionary T - verb transitive To comb or card, as wool or flax.
Teasel Dictionary T - noun A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
Teaseled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Teasel.
Teaselled Dictionary T - of Teasel.
Teaseling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Teasel.
Teaselling Dictionary T - of Teasel.
Teaseler Dictionary T - noun One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
Teaser Dictionary T - noun One who teases or vexes.
Teasle Dictionary T - noun & transitive verb See Teasel.
Teaspoon Dictionary T - noun A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
Teaspoonfuls Dictionary T - pleural of Teaspoonful.
Teaspoonful Dictionary T - noun As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; - usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Teat Dictionary T - noun The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
Teated Dictionary T - adjective Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.
Teathe Dictionary T - noun & verb See Tath.
Teatish Dictionary T - adjective Peevish; tettish; fretful; - said of a child. See Tettish.
Teaze-hole Dictionary T - noun The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.
Teazel Dictionary T - noun & transitive verb See Teasel.
Teazer Dictionary T - noun The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
Teazle Dictionary T - noun & transitive verb See Teasel.
Tebeth Dictionary T - noun The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.
Techily Dictionary T - adverb In a techy manner.
Techiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being techy.
Technic Dictionary T - adjective Technical.
Technical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
Technicalities Dictionary T - pleural of Technicality.
Technicality Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
Technically Dictionary T - adverb In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
Technicalness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being technical; technicality.
Technicals Dictionary T - noun plural Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
Technicist Dictionary T - noun One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
Technicological Dictionary T - adjective Technological; technical.
Technicology Dictionary T - noun Technology.
Technics Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.
Technique Dictionary T - noun Same as Technic, n.
Technism Dictionary T - noun Technicality.
Technologic Dictionary T - adjective Technological.
Technological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to technology.
Technologist Dictionary T - noun One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.
Technology Dictionary T - noun Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Techy Dictionary T - adjective Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Tectibranch Dictionary T - noun One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
Tectibranchia Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Tectibranchiata.
Tectibranchiata Dictionary T - noun plural An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.
Tectibranchiate Dictionary T - adjective Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.
Tectly Dictionary T - adverb Covertly; privately; secretly.
Tectology Dictionary T - noun A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.
Tectonic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
Tectonics Dictionary T - noun The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.
Tectorial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to covering; - applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.
Tectrices Dictionary T - noun plural The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
Tecum Dictionary T - noun See Tucum.
Tedded Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Ted.
Tedding Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Ted.
Ted Dictionary T - verb transitive To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; - chiefly used in the past participle.
Tedder Dictionary T - noun A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
Teddered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tedder.
Teddering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tedder.
Te Deum Dictionary T - An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; - so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
Tedge Dictionary T - noun The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.
Tediosity Dictionary T - noun Tediousness.
Tedious Dictionary T - adjective Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
Tedium Dictionary T - noun Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
Tee Dictionary T - noun The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
Tee iron Dictionary T - See T iron, under T.
Teek Dictionary T - noun See Teak.
Teel Dictionary T - noun Sesame.
Teelseed Dictionary T - noun The seed of sesame.
Teem Dictionary T - verb transitive To pour; - commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
Teemed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Teem.
Teeming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Teem.
Teemer Dictionary T - noun One who teems, or brings forth.
Teemful Dictionary T - adjective Pregnant; prolific.
Teemless Dictionary T - adjective Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.
Teen Dictionary T - noun Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
Teenage Dictionary T - noun The longer wood for making or mending fences.
Teend Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To kindle; to burn.
Teenful Dictionary T - adjective Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.
Teens Dictionary T - noun plural The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Teeny Dictionary T - adjective Very small; tiny.
Teeong Dictionary T - noun The mino bird.
Teest Dictionary T - noun A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
Teetan Dictionary T - noun A pipit.
Teetee Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.
Teetered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Teeter.
Teetering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Teeter.
Teeter Dictionary T - verb intransitive & transitive To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
Teeter-tail Dictionary T - noun The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.
Teeth Dictionary T - noun plural of Tooth.
Teethed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Teeth.
Teething Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Teeth.
Teetotal Dictionary T - adjective Entire; total.
Teetotaler Dictionary T - noun One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Teetotalism Dictionary T - noun The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Teetotally Dictionary T - adverb Entirely; totally.
Teetotum Dictionary T - noun A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.
Teetuck Dictionary T - noun The rock pipit.
Teeuck Dictionary T - noun The lapwing.
Teewit Dictionary T - noun The pewit.
Teg Dictionary T - noun A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.
Tegmina Dictionary T - pleural of Tegmen.
Tegmen Dictionary T - noun A tegument or covering.
Tegmental Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
Tegmenta Dictionary T - pleural of Tegmentum.
Tegmentum Dictionary T - noun A covering; - applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
Teguexin Dictionary T - noun A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
Tegulae Dictionary T - pleural of Tegula.
Tegula Dictionary T - noun A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Tegular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
Tegulated Dictionary T - adjective Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; - said of a kind of ancient armor.
Tegument Dictionary T - noun A cover or covering; an integument.
Tegumentary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Te-hee Dictionary T - noun & interjection A tittering laugh; a titter.
Teil Dictionary T - noun The lime tree, or linden; - called also teil tree.
Teind Dictionary T - noun A tithe.
Teine Dictionary T - noun See Teyne.
Teinland Dictionary T - noun Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.
Teinoscope Dictionary T - noun An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; - called also prism telescope.
Teint Dictionary T - noun Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.
Teinture Dictionary T - noun Color; tinge; tincture.
Tek Dictionary T - noun A Siberian ibex.
Telamones Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Atlantes.
Telangiectasis Dictionary T - noun Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
Telangiectasy Dictionary T - noun Telangiectasis.
Telarly Dictionary T - adverb In a weblike manner.
Telary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.
Teledu Dictionary T - noun An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard.
Telegram Dictionary T - noun A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Telegrammic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
Telegraph Dictionary T - noun An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
Telegraphed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Telegraph.
Telegraphing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Telegraph.
Telegrapher Dictionary T - noun One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
Telegraphic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
Telegraphical Dictionary T - adjective Telegraphic.
Telegraphist Dictionary T - noun One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Telegraphy Dictionary T - noun The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
Telemeter Dictionary T - noun An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.
Teleocephial Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
Teleological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
Teleologist Dictionary T - noun One versed in teleology.
Teleology Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of the final causes of things.
Teleophore Dictionary T - noun Same as Gonotheca.
Teleorganic Dictionary T - adjective Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
Teleosaur Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
Teleosaurus Dictionary T - noun A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
Teleost Dictionary T - noun One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Teleostean Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
Teleostei Dictionary T - noun plural A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
Teleostomi Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
Teleozoic Dictionary T - adjective Having tissued composed of cells.
Teleozoon Dictionary T - noun A metazoan.
Telepathy Dictionary T - noun The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Telepheme Dictionary T - noun A message by a telephone.
Telephone Dictionary T - noun An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
Telephonic Dictionary T - adjective Conveying sound to a great distance.
Telephonically Dictionary T - adverb By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.
Telephony Dictionary T - noun The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
Telepolariscope Dictionary T - noun A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
Telerythin Dictionary T - noun A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
Telescope Dictionary T - noun An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Telescoped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Telescope.
Telescoping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Telescope.
Telescopic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Telescopical.
Telescopical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.
Telescopically Dictionary T - adverb In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
Telescopist Dictionary T - noun One who uses a telescope.
Telescopy Dictionary T - noun The art or practice of using or making telescopes.
Telesm Dictionary T - noun A kind of amulet or magical charm.
Telesmatic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Telesmatical.
Telesmatical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to telesms; magical.
Telespectroscope Dictionary T - noun A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
Telestereoscope Dictionary T - noun A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
Telestic Dictionary T - adjective Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.
Telestich Dictionary T - noun A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
Telethermometer Dictionary T - noun An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
Teleutospore Dictionary T - noun The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
Telic Dictionary T - adjective Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.
Told Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tell.
Telling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tell.
Tell Dictionary T - verb transitive To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
Tellable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being told.
Tellen Dictionary T - noun Any species of Tellina.
Teller Dictionary T - noun One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
Tellership Dictionary T - noun The office or employment of a teller.
Tellina Dictionary T - noun A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
Telltale Dictionary T - adjective Telling tales; babbling.
Tellural Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the earth.
Tellurate Dictionary T - noun A salt of telluric acid.
Telluret Dictionary T - noun A telluride.
Tellureted Dictionary T - noun Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized.
Tellurhydric Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
Tellurian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the earth.
Telluric Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Telluride Dictionary T - noun A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; - formerly called telluret.
Tellurism Dictionary T - noun An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence.
Tellurite Dictionary T - noun A salt of tellurous acid.
Tellurium Dictionary T - noun A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2.
Tellurize Dictionary T - verb transitive To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; - chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
Tellurous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.
Telodynamic Dictionary T - adjective Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
Teloogoo Dictionary T - noun See Telugu.
Telotrochae Dictionary T - pleural of Telotrocha.
Telotrocha Dictionary T - noun An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.
Telotrochal Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Telotrochous.
Telotrochous Dictionary T - adjective Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; - applied to the larvae of certain annelids.
Telotype Dictionary T - noun An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.
Telpher Dictionary T - noun A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
Telpherage Dictionary T - noun The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
Telsons Dictionary T - pleural of Telson.
Telson Dictionary T - noun The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
Telugu Dictionary T - noun A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali.
Temerarious Dictionary T - adjective Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
Temeration Dictionary T - noun Temerity.
Temerity Dictionary T - noun Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.
Temerous Dictionary T - adjective Temerarious.
Tempean Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.
Tempered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Temper.
Tempering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Temper.
Temper Dictionary T - verb transitive To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Tempera Dictionary T - noun A mode or process of painting; distemper.
Temperable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tempered.
Temperament Dictionary T - verb transitive Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
Temperamental Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
Temperance Dictionary T - verb transitive Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
Temperancy Dictionary T - noun Temperance.
Temperate Dictionary T - verb transitive Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
Temperately Dictionary T - adverb In a temperate manner.
Temperateness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
Temperative Dictionary T - adjective Having power to temper.
Temperature Dictionary T - noun Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
Temperer Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Tempest Dictionary T - noun An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
Tempestive Dictionary T - adjective Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers.
Tempestivily Dictionary T - noun The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.
Tempestuous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Templar Dictionary T - noun One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
Template Dictionary T - noun Same as Templet.
Temple Dictionary T - noun A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Templed Dictionary T - adjective Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.
Templet Dictionary T - noun A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
Tempo Dictionary T - noun The rate or degree of movement in time.
Temporal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
Temporalities Dictionary T - pleural of Temporality.
Temporality Dictionary T - noun The state or quality of being temporary; - opposed to perpetuity.
Temporally Dictionary T - adverb In a temporal manner; secularly.
Temporalness Dictionary T - noun Worldliness.
Temporalty Dictionary T - noun The laity; secular people.
Temporaneous Dictionary T - adjective Temporarity.
Temporarily Dictionary T - adverb In a temporary manner; for a time.
Temporariness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being temporary; - opposed to perpetuity.
Temporary Dictionary T - adjective Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Temporist Dictionary T - noun A temporizer.
Temporization Dictionary T - noun The act of temporizing.
Temporized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Temporize.
Temporizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Temporize.
Temporize Dictionary T - verb transitive To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
Temporizer Dictionary T - noun One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.
Temporizingly Dictionary T - adverb In a temporizing or yielding manner.
Temporo- Dictionary T - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.
Temporo-auricular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
Temporofacial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
Temporomalar Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
Temporomaxillary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
Temps Dictionary T - noun Time.
Tempse Dictionary T - noun See Temse.
Tempted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tempt.
Tempting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tempt.
Tempt Dictionary T - verb transitive To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
Temptability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.
Temptable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
Temptation Dictionary T - noun The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
Temptationless Dictionary T - adjective Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin.
Temptatious Dictionary T - adjective Tempting.
Tempter Dictionary T - noun One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
Temptress Dictionary T - noun A woman who entices.
Temse Dictionary T - noun A sieve.
Temulence Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Temulency.
Temulency Dictionary T - noun Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness.
Temulent Dictionary T - adjective Intoxicated; drunken.
Temulentive Dictionary T - adjective Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink.
Ten Dictionary T - adjective One more than nine; twice five.
Tenability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.
Tenable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Tenableness Dictionary T - noun Same as Tenability.
Tenace Dictionary T - noun The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.
Tenacious Dictionary T - adjective Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Tenacity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
Tenacula Dictionary T - pleural of Tenaculum.
Tenaculums Dictionary T - pleural of Tenaculum.
Tenaculum Dictionary T - noun An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Tenacy Dictionary T - noun Tenaciousness; obstinacy.
Tenaille Dictionary T - noun An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Tenaillon Dictionary T - noun A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
Tenacies Dictionary T - pleural of Tenancy.
Tenancy Dictionary T - noun A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
Tenant Dictionary T - noun One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; - correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
Tenanted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tenant.
Tenanting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tenant.
Tenantable Dictionary T - adjective Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
Tenantless Dictionary T - adjective Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.
Tenantry Dictionary T - noun The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
Tenant saw Dictionary T - See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
Tench Dictionary T - noun A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.
Tend Dictionary T - verb transitive To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
Tended Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tend.
Tending Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tend.
Tendance Dictionary T - noun The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
Tendence Dictionary T - noun Tendency.
Tendencies Dictionary T - pleural of Tendency.
Tendency Dictionary T - noun Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Tender Dictionary T - noun One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tendered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tender.
Tendering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tender.
Tenderfoot Dictionary T - noun A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
Tender-hearted Dictionary T - adjective Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
Tender-hefted Dictionary T - adjective Having great tenderness; easily moved.
Tenderling Dictionary T - noun One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
Tenderloin Dictionary T - noun A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Tenderly Dictionary T - adverb In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
Tenderness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Tendinous Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
Tendment Dictionary T - noun Attendance; care.
Tendon Dictionary T - noun A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
Tendonous Dictionary T - adjective Tendinous.
Tendosynovitis Dictionary T - noun See Tenosynovitis.
Tendrac Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
Tendril Dictionary T - adjective A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Tendriled Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tendrilled.
Tendrilled Dictionary T - adjective Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.
Tendron Dictionary T - noun A tendril.
Tendry Dictionary T - noun A tender; an offer.
Tene Dictionary T - noun & verb See 1st and 2d Teen.
Tenebrae Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
Tenebrific Dictionary T - adjective Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
Tenebrificous Dictionary T - adjective Tenebrific.
Tenebrious Dictionary T - adjective Tenebrous.
Tenebrose Dictionary T - adjective Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Tenebrosity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.
Tenebrous Dictionary T - adjective Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
Tenement Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tenemental Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
Tenementary Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
Tenent Dictionary T - noun A tenet.
Teneral Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; - called also Vidonia.
Tenerity Dictionary T - adjective Tenderness.
Tenesmic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.
Tenesmus Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tenet Dictionary T - noun Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
Tenfold Dictionary T - adjective & adverb In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Tenia Dictionary T - noun See Taenia.
Tenioid Dictionary T - adjective See Taenoid.
Tennantite Dictionary T - noun A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
Tenne Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tennu Dictionary T - noun The tapir.
Ten-o'clock Dictionary T - noun A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
Tenon Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tenonian Dictionary T - adjective Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
Tenor Dictionary T - noun A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Tenosynovitis Dictionary T - noun Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Tenotome Dictionary T - noun A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
Tenotomy Dictionary T - noun The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
Tenpenny Dictionary T - adjective Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
Tenpins Dictionary T - noun A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
Ten-pounder Dictionary T - noun A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
Tenrec Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tensibility Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
Tensible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
Tensile Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Tensiled Dictionary T - adjective Made tensile.
Tensility Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
Tension Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Tensioned Dictionary T - adjective Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.
Tensity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Tensive Dictionary T - adjective Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
Tensor Dictionary T - noun A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
Ten-strike Dictionary T - noun A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Tensure Dictionary T - noun Tension.
Tent Dictionary T - noun A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; - called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tented Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tent.
Tenting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tent.
Tentacle Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tentacled Dictionary T - adjective Having tentacles.
Tentacular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Tentaculata Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
Tentaculate Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tentaculated.
Tentaculated Dictionary T - adjective Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
Tentaculifera Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Suctoria, 1.
Tentaculiferous Dictionary T - adjective Producing or bearing tentacles.
Tentaculiform Dictionary T - adjective Shaped like a tentacle.
Tentaculite Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
Tentaculocyst Dictionary T - noun One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; - called also auditory tentacle.
Tentacula Dictionary T - pleural of Tentaculum.
Tentaculum Dictionary T - noun A tentacle.
Tentage Dictionary T - noun A collection of tents; an encampment.
Tentation Dictionary T - noun Trial; temptation.
Tentative Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Tenter Dictionary T - noun One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
Tentered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tenter.
Tentering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tenter.
Tentfuls Dictionary T - pleural of Tentful.
Tentful Dictionary T - noun As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
Tenth Dictionary T - adjective Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Tenthly Dictionary T - adverb In a tenth manner.
Tenthmeter Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tenthmetre.
Tenthmetre Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun plural A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.
Tentif Dictionary T - adjective Attentive.
Tentifly Dictionary T - adverb Attentively.
Tentiginous Dictionary T - adjective Stiff; stretched; strained.
Tentmaker Dictionary T - noun One whose occupation it is to make tents.
Tentorium Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The awning or covering of a tent.
Tentwort Dictionary T - noun A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.
Tenuated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tenuate.
Tenuating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tenuate.
Tenuate Dictionary T - verb transitive To make thin; to attenuate.
Tenuifolious Dictionary T - adjective Having thin or narrow leaves.
Tenuious Dictionary T - adjective Rare or subtile; tenuous; - opposed to dense.
Tenuirosters Dictionary T - pleural of Tenuiroster.
Tenuiroster Dictionary T - noun One of the Tenuirostres.
Tenuirostral Dictionary T - adjective Thin-billed; - applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.
Tenuirostres Dictionary T - noun plural An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
Tenues Dictionary T - pleural of Tenuis.
Tenuis Dictionary T - noun One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; - so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
Tenuity Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tenuous Dictionary T - adjective Thin; slender; small; minute.
Tenure Dictionary T - noun The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
Teocallis Dictionary T - pleural of Teocalli.
Teocalli Dictionary T - noun Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.
Teosinte Dictionary T - noun A large grass (Euchlaena 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 Dictionary T - noun A division of a perianth.
Tepee Dictionary T - noun An Indian wigwam or tent.
Tepefaction Dictionary T - noun Act of tepefying.
Tepefied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tepefy.
Tepefying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tepefy.
Tepefy Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To make or become tepid, or moderately warm.
Tephramancy Dictionary T - noun Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Tephrite Dictionary T - noun An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.
Tephroite Dictionary T - noun A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray color.
Tephrosia Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tepid Dictionary T - adjective Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.
Tepidity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.
Tepor Dictionary T - noun Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness.
Tequila Dictionary T - noun An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.
Ter- Dictionary T - A combining form from L. ter signifying three times, thrice. See Tri-, 2.
Teraconic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.
Teracrylic Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Teraphs Dictionary T - pleural of Teraph.
Teraph Dictionary T - noun See Teraphim.
Teraphim Dictionary T - noun plural 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.
Terapin Dictionary T - noun See Terrapin.
Teratical Dictionary T - adjective Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.
Teratogeny Dictionary T - noun The formation of monsters.
Teratoid Dictionary T - adjective Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.
Teratological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.
Teratology Dictionary T - noun That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.
Teratoma Dictionary T - noun A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.
Terbic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.
Terbium Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun See Tierce.
Tercel Dictionary T - noun See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.
Tercelet Dictionary T - noun A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.
Tercellene Dictionary T - noun A small male hawk.
Tercentenary Dictionary T - adjective Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.
Tercet Dictionary T - noun A triplet.
Tercine Dictionary T - noun A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.
Terebate Dictionary T - noun A salt of terebic acid.
Terebene Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.
Terebic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.
Terebinth Dictionary T - noun The turpentine tree.
Terebinthic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.
Terebinthinate Dictionary T - adjective Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.
Terebinthine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.
Terebras Dictionary T - pleural of Terebra.
Terebrae Dictionary T - pleural of Terebra.
Terebra Dictionary T - noun A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
Terebrant Dictionary T - adjective Boring, or adapted for boring; - said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.
Terebrantia Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Terebrate Dictionary T - verb transitive To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
Terebrating Dictionary T - adjective Boring; perforating; - applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
Terebration Dictionary T - noun The act of terebrating, or boring.
Terebratulae Dictionary T - pleural of Terebratula.
Terebratula Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.
Terebratuliform Dictionary T - adjective Having the general form of a terebratula shell.
Teredine Dictionary T - noun A borer; the teredo.
Teredos Dictionary T - pleural of Teredo.
Teredines Dictionary T - pleural of Teredo.
Teredo Dictionary T - noun A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; - called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.
Terephthalate Dictionary T - noun A salt of terephthalic acid.
Terephthalic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Round; terete.
Terete Dictionary T - adjective Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
Teretial Dictionary T - adjective Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.
Teretous Dictionary T - adjective Terete.
Tergal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.
Tergant Dictionary T - adjective Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.
Tergeminal Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tergeminate.
Tergeminate Dictionary T - adjective Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Tergeminous Dictionary T - adjective Threefold; thrice-paired.
Tergiferous Dictionary T - adjective Carrying or bearing upon the back.
Tergite Dictionary T - noun The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
Tergiversate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Tergiversation Dictionary T - noun The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Tergiversator Dictionary T - noun One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
Terga Dictionary T - pleural of Tergum.
Tergum Dictionary T - noun The back of an animal.
Terin Dictionary T - noun A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.
Term Dictionary T - noun That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
Termed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Term.
Terming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Term.
Terma Dictionary T - noun The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.
Termagancy Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.
Termagant Dictionary T - noun 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.
Termatarium Dictionary T - noun Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.
Termatary Dictionary T - noun Same as Termatarium.
Termer Dictionary T - noun One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
Termites Dictionary T - pleural of Termes.
Termes Dictionary T - noun A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.
Terminable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.
Terminal Dictionary T - noun Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.
Terminalia Dictionary T - noun plural A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
Terminant Dictionary T - noun Termination; ending.
Terminated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Terminate.
Terminating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Terminate.
Terminate Dictionary T - verb transitive 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.
Termination Dictionary T - noun The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
Terminational Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
Terminative Dictionary T - adjective Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.
Terminator Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, terminates.
Terminatory Dictionary T - adjective Terminative.
Termine Dictionary T - verb transitive To terminate.
Terminer Dictionary T - noun A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.
Terminism Dictionary T - noun The doctrine held by the Terminists.
Terminist Dictionary T - noun 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.
Terminological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to terminology.
Terminology Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
Termini Dictionary T - pleural of Terminus.
Terminus Dictionary T - noun Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
Termite Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; - called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.
Termless Dictionary T - adjective Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time.
Termly Dictionary T - adjective Occurring every term; as, a termly fee.
Termonology Dictionary T - noun Terminology.
Termor Dictionary T - noun Same as Termer, 2.
Tern Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
Ternary Dictionary T - adjective Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.
Ternaries Dictionary T - pleural of Ternary.
Ternate Dictionary T - adjective Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers.
Terneplate Dictionary T - adjective Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; - so called because made up of three metals.
Ternion Dictionary T - adjective The number three; three things together; a ternary.
Terpene Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Terpenylic.
Terpenylic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.
Terpin Dictionary T - noun A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.
Terpinol Dictionary T - noun Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.
Terpsichore Dictionary T - noun The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Terpsichorean Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.
Terra Dictionary T - noun The earth; earth.
Terrace Dictionary T - verb 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.
Terraced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Terrace.
Terracing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Terrace.
Terraculture Dictionary T - noun Cultivation on the earth; agriculture.
Terrane Dictionary T - noun A group of rocks having a common age or origin; - nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively.
Terrapin Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.
Terraqueous Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe.
Terrar Dictionary T - noun See 2d Terrier, 2.
Terras Dictionary T - noun See /rass.
Terreen Dictionary T - noun See Turren.
Terreity Dictionary T - noun Quality of being earthy; earthiness.
Terrel Dictionary T - noun A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth.
Terremote Dictionary T - noun An earthquake.
Terrene Dictionary T - noun A tureen.
Terrenity Dictionary T - noun Earthiness; worldliness.
Terreous Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.
Terreplein Dictionary T - noun The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.
Terrestre Dictionary T - adjective Terrestrial; earthly.
Terrestrial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.
Terrestrify Dictionary T - verb transitive To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy.
Terrestrious Dictionary T - adjective Terrestrial.
Terret Dictionary T - noun One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.
Terre-tenant Dictionary T - noun One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
Terre-verte Dictionary T - noun An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.
Terrible Dictionary T - adjective Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
Terricolae Dictionary T - noun plural A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
Terrienniak Dictionary T - noun The arctic fox.
Terrier Dictionary T - noun An auger or borer.
Terrific Dictionary T - adjective Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
Terrifical Dictionary T - adjective Terrific.
Terrifically Dictionary T - adverb In a terrific manner.
Terrified Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Terrify.
Terrifying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Terrify.
Terrify Dictionary T - verb transitive To make terrible.
Terrigenous Dictionary T - adjective Earthborn; produced by the earth.
Territorial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.
Territorialized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Territorialize.
Territorializing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Territorialize.
Territorialize Dictionary T - verb transitive To enlarge by extension of territory.
Territorially Dictionary T - adverb In regard to territory; by means of territory.
Territoried Dictionary T - adjective Possessed of territory.
Territories Dictionary T - pleural of Territory.
Territory Dictionary T - noun A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
Terror Dictionary T - noun Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
Terrorism Dictionary T - noun The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
Terrorist Dictionary T - noun One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Terrorize Dictionary T - verb transitive To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.
Terrorless Dictionary T - adjective Free from terror.
Terry Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - superlative Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
Tersulphide Dictionary T - noun A trisulphide.
Tersulphuret Dictionary T - noun A trisulphide.
Ter-tenant Dictionary T - noun See Terre-tenant.
Tertial Dictionary T - adjective & noun Same as Tertiary.
Tertian Dictionary T - adjective Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
Tertiary Dictionary T - adjective Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
Tertiaries Dictionary T - pleural of Tertiary.
Tertiate Dictionary T - verb transitive To do or perform for the third time.
Terutero Dictionary T - noun The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.
Terza rima Dictionary T - A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.
Terzetto Dictionary T - noun A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.
Tesselar Dictionary T - adjective Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
Tessellata Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
Tessellated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tessellate.
Tessellating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tessellate.
Tessellate Dictionary T - verb transitive To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Tessellation Dictionary T - noun The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
Tesserae Dictionary T - pleural of Tessera.
Tessera Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tesseraic Dictionary T - adjective Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.
Tesseral Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae.
Tessular Dictionary T - adjective Tesseral.
Test Dictionary T - noun A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Tested Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Test.
Testing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Test.
Tests Dictionary T - pleural of Testa.
Testae Dictionary T - pleural of Testa.
Testa Dictionary T - noun The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
Testable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tested or proved.
Testacea Dictionary T - noun plural Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.
Testacean Dictionary T - noun Onr of the Testacea.
Testaceography Dictionary T - noun The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish.
Testaceology Dictionary T - noun The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology.
Testaceous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell.
Testacy Dictionary T - noun The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.
Testament Dictionary T - noun A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
Testamental Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary.
Testamentary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.
Testamentation Dictionary T - noun The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
Testamentize Dictionary T - intransitive verb To make a will.
Testamur Dictionary T - noun A certificate of merit or proficiency; - so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.
Testate Dictionary T - adjective Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.
Testation Dictionary T - noun A witnessing or witness.
Testator Dictionary T - noun A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
Testatrix Dictionary T - noun A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.
Teste Dictionary T - noun A witness.
Tester Dictionary T - noun A headpiece; a helmet.
Testern Dictionary T - noun A sixpence; a tester.
Testes Dictionary T - noun plural of Teste, or of Testis.
Testicardines Dictionary T - noun plural A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
Testicle Dictionary T - noun One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.
Testicond Dictionary T - adjective Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.
Testicular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the testicle.
Testiculate Dictionary T - adjective Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid.
Testiere Dictionary T - noun A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.
Testif Dictionary T - adjective Testy; headstrong; obstinate.
Testification Dictionary T - noun The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God.
Testificator Dictionary T - noun A testifier.
Testifier Dictionary T - noun One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.
Testified Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Testify.
Testifying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Testify.
Testify Dictionary T - intransitive verb 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.
Testimonial Dictionary T - adjective A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.
Testimonies Dictionary T - pleural of Testimony.
Testimony Dictionary T - noun A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Testiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Testis Dictionary T - noun A testicle.
Teston Dictionary T - noun A tester; a sixpence.
Testone Dictionary T - noun A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.
Testoon Dictionary T - noun An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.
Testudinal Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.
Testudinarious Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.
Testudinata Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Testudinated.
Testudinated Dictionary T - adjective Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Testudineous Dictionary T - adjective Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Testudines Dictionary T - pleural of Testudo.
Testudo Dictionary T - noun 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 Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
Testy Dictionary T - superlative Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Tetanic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
Tetanin Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The production or condition of tetanus.
Tetanize Dictionary T - verb transitive To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.
Tetanoid Dictionary T - adjective Resembling tetanus.
Tetanomotor Dictionary T - noun An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Tetanus Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tetany Dictionary T - noun A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
Tetard Dictionary T - noun A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; - called also sleeper.
Tetartohedral Dictionary T - adjective Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.
Tetartohedrism Dictionary T - noun The property of being tetartohedral.
Tetaug Dictionary T - noun See Tautog.
Tetchiness Dictionary T - noun See Techiness.
Tetchy Dictionary T - adjective See Techy.
Tete Dictionary T - noun A kind of wig; false hair.
Tete-a-tete Dictionary T - noun Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
Tetes-de-pont Dictionary T - pleural of Tete-de-pont.
Tete-de-pont Dictionary T - noun A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
Tetel Dictionary T - noun A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.
Tether Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tethered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tether.
Tethering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tether.
Tethydan Dictionary T - noun A tunicate.
Tethyodea Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.
Tethys Dictionary T - noun 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- Dictionary T - A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.
Tetrabasic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Same as Pyroboric.
Tetrabranchiata Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetracarpel Dictionary T - adjective Composed of four carpels.
Tetrachord Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.
Tetracid Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Having four cocci, or carpels.
Tetracolon Dictionary T - noun A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
Tetracoralla Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Rugosa.
Tetractinellid Dictionary T - noun Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.
Tetractinellida Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.
Tetrad Dictionary T - noun The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
Tetradactyl Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tetradactyle.
Tetradactyle Dictionary T - adjective Tetradactylous.
Tetradactylous Dictionary T - adjective Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
Tetradecane Dictionary T - noun A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; - so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetradecapoda Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Arthrostraca.
Tetradic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.
Tetradite Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tetradon Dictionary T - noun See Tetrodon.
Tetradont Dictionary T - adjective & noun See Tetrodont.
Tetradrachm Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tetradrachma.
Tetradrachma Dictionary T - noun A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms.
Tetradymite Dictionary T - noun A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth.
Tetradynamia Dictionary T - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.
Tetradynamian Dictionary T - noun A plant of the order Tetradynamia.
Tetradynamous Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
Tetragon Dictionary T - noun A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
Tetragonal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
Tetragrammaton Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants having four styles.
Tetragynian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tetragynous.
Tetragynous Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles.
Tetrahedral Dictionary T - adjective Having, or composed of, four sides.
Tetrahedrally Dictionary T - adverb In a tetrahedral manner.
Tetrahedrite Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.
Tetrahexahedral Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to a tetrahexahedron.
Tetrahexahedron Dictionary T - noun A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.
Tetrakishexahedron Dictionary T - noun A tetrahexahedron.
Tetrakosane Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tetramera Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.
Tetramerous Dictionary T - adjective Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.
Tetrameter Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.
Tetramorph Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens.
Tetrandrian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tetrandrous.
Tetrandrous Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to the class Tetrandria.
Tetraonid Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.
Tetrapharmacom Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tetrapharmacum.
Tetrapharmacum Dictionary T - noun A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.
Tetraphenol Dictionary T - noun Furfuran.
Tetraphyllous Dictionary T - adjective Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.
Tetrapla Dictionary T - singular A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.
Tetraneumona Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - noun One of the Tetrapneumona.
Tetrapod Dictionary T - noun An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.
Tetrapody Dictionary T - noun A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.
Tetrapteran Dictionary T - noun An insect having four wings.
Tetrapterous Dictionary T - adjective Having four wings.
Tetraptote Dictionary T - noun A noun that has four cases only.
Tetrarch Dictionary T - adjective A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
Tetrarchate Dictionary T - noun A tetrarchy.
Tetrarchical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.
Tetrarchies Dictionary T - pleural of Tetrarchy.
Tetrarchy Dictionary T - noun The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
Tetraschistic Dictionary T - adjective Characterized by division into four parts.
Tetrasepalous Dictionary T - adjective Having four sepals.
Tetraspaston Dictionary T - noun A machine in which four pulleys act together.
Tetraspermous Dictionary T - adjective Having four seeds.
Tetraspore Dictionary T - noun A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.
Tetrastich Dictionary T - noun A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.
Tetrastyle Dictionary T - adjective Having four columns in front; - said of a temple, portico, or colonnade.
Tetrasyllabic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tetrasyllabical.
Tetrasyllabical Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.
Terrasyllable Dictionary T - noun A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
Tetrathecal Dictionary T - adjective Having four loculaments, or thecae.
Tetrathionate Dictionary T - noun A salt of tetrathionic acid.
Tetrathionic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
Tetratomic Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic.
Tetravalence Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
Tetravalent Dictionary T - adjective Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
Tetraxile Dictionary T - adjective Having four branches diverging at right angles; - said of certain spicules of sponges.
Tetrazo- Dictionary T - adjective A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.
Tetrazone Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tetrical.
Tetrical Dictionary T - adjective Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
Tetricity Dictionary T - noun Crabbedness; perverseness.
Tetricous Dictionary T - adjective Tetric.
Tetrinic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tetrodont Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the tetrodons.
Tetrol Dictionary T - noun A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; - so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetrolic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Tetroxide Dictionary T - noun An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO/.
Tetryl Dictionary T - noun Butyl; - so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetrylene Dictionary T - noun Butylene; - so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetter Dictionary T - noun A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.
Tettered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tetter.
Tettering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tetter.
Tetterous Dictionary T - adjective Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
Tetter-totter Dictionary T - noun A certain game of children; seesaw; - called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
Tetterwort Dictionary T - noun A plant used as a remedy for tetter, - in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
Tettigonian Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.
Tettish Dictionary T - adjective Captious; testy.
Tettix Dictionary T - noun The cicada.
Tetty Dictionary T - adjective Testy; irritable.
Teufit Dictionary T - noun The lapwing; - called also teuchit.
Teuk Dictionary T - noun The redshank.
Teutons Dictionary T - pleural of Teuton.
Teutones Dictionary T - pleural of Teuton.
Teuton Dictionary T - noun 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.
Teutonic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.
Teutonicism Dictionary T - noun A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.
Tewed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tew.
Tewing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tew.
Tew Dictionary T - verb To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
Tewan Dictionary T - noun A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.
Tewel Dictionary T - noun A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.
Tewhit Dictionary T - noun The lapwing; - called also teewheep.
Tewtaw Dictionary T - verb transitive To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.
Texas Dictionary T - noun A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.
Text Dictionary T - noun 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.
Text-book Dictionary T - noun A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
Text-hand Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.
Textmen Dictionary T - pleural of Textman.
Textman Dictionary T - noun One ready in quoting texts.
Textorial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to weaving.
Textrine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.
Textual Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
Textualist Dictionary T - noun A textman; a textuary.
Textually Dictionary T - adverb In a textual manner; in the text or body of a work; in accordance with the text.
Textuarist Dictionary T - noun A textuary.
Textuary Dictionary T - adjective Contained in the text; textual.
Textuel Dictionary T - adjective Textual.
Textuist Dictionary T - noun A textualist; a textman.
Textural Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to texture.
Texture Dictionary T - noun The act or art of weaving.
Textured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Texture.
Texturing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Texture.
Textury Dictionary T - noun The art or process of weaving; texture.
Teyne Dictionary T - noun A thin plate of metal.
Th Dictionary T - 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 Dictionary T - Alt. of Thacker.
Thacker Dictionary T - See Thatch, Thatcher.
Thak Dictionary T - verb transitive To thwack.
Thalamencephalon Dictionary T - noun The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.
Thalamic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.
Thalamifloral Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thalamiflorous.
Thalamiflorous Dictionary T - adjective Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; - said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.
Thalamocoele Dictionary T - noun The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.
Thalamophora Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Foraminifera.
Thalami Dictionary T - pleural of Thalamus.
Thalamus Dictionary T - noun A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; - called also optic thalamus.
Thalassian Dictionary T - noun Any sea tortoise.
Thalassic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the sea; - sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.
Thalassinian Dictionary T - noun Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.
Thalassography Dictionary T - noun The study or science of the life of marine organisms.
Thaler Dictionary T - noun A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
Thalia Dictionary T - noun That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
Thaliacea Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.
Thalian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.
Thallate Dictionary T - noun A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
Thallene Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.
Thallic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of a thallus.
Thallious Dictionary T - adjective See Thallous.
Thallium Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, 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 Dictionary T - adjective Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.
Thallophyte Dictionary T - noun Same as Thallogen.
Thallous Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Thalli Dictionary T - pleural of Thallus.
Thallus Dictionary T - noun A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
Thammuz Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tammuz.
Tammuz Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thamnophile Dictionary T - noun A bush shrike.
Thamyn Dictionary T - noun An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; - called also Eld's deer.
Than Dictionary T - conjecture 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.
Thanage Dictionary T - noun The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
Thanatoid Dictionary T - adjective Deathlike; resembling death.
Thanatology Dictionary T - noun A description, or the doctrine, of death.
Thanatopsis Dictionary T - noun A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.
Thane Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thanedom Dictionary T - noun The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.
Thanehood Dictionary T - noun The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively.
Thaneship Dictionary T - noun The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.
Thanks Dictionary T - pleural of Thank.
Thank Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thanked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thank.
Thanking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thank.
Thankful Dictionary T - adjective Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Thankless Dictionary T - adjective Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful.
Thankly Dictionary T - adverb Thankfully.
Thanksgive Dictionary T - verb transitive To give or dedicate in token of thanks.
Thanksgiver Dictionary T - noun One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness.
Thanksgiving Dictionary T - noun The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
Thankworthiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thankworthy.
Thankworthy Dictionary T - adjective Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.
Thar Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tharms Dictionary T - noun plural Twisted guts.
Tharos Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - [[pron., a., conj., & adverb 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.
Thatch Dictionary T - noun Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
Thatched Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thatch.
Thatching Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thatch.
Thatcher Dictionary T - noun One who thatches.
Thaught Dictionary T - noun See Thwart.
Thaumatolatry Dictionary T - noun Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.
Thaumatrope Dictionary T - noun An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
Thaumaturge Dictionary T - noun A magician; a wonder worker.
Thaumaturgic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thaumaturgical.
Thaumaturgical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful.
Thaumaturgics Dictionary T - noun Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
Thaumaturgist Dictionary T - noun One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker.
Thaumaturgus Dictionary T - noun A miracle worker; - a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.
Thaumaturgy Dictionary T - noun The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.
Thave Dictionary T - noun Same as Theave.
Thawed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thaw.
Thawing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thaw.
Thaw Dictionary T - intransitive verb To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; - said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
Thawy Dictionary T - adjective Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.
The Dictionary T - intransitive verb See Thee.
Thea Dictionary T - noun A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.
Theandric Dictionary T - adjective Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.
Theanthropic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theanthropical.
Theanthropical Dictionary T - adjective Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity.
Theanthropism Dictionary T - noun A state of being God and man.
Theanthropist Dictionary T - noun One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.
Theanthropy Dictionary T - noun Theanthropism.
Thearchic Dictionary T - adjective Divinely sovereign or supreme.
Thearchy Dictionary T - noun Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
Theater Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Theatre.
Theatre Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theatin Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Theatine.
Theatine Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theatral Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.
Theatric Dictionary T - adjective Theatrical.
Theatrical Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Theatricals Dictionary T - noun plural Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.
Theave Dictionary T - noun A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.
Thebaic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.
Thebaine Dictionary T - noun A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.
Theban Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thebes.
Thecae Dictionary T - pleural of Theca.
Theca Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thecal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.
Thecaphore Dictionary T - noun A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecae.
Thecasporous Dictionary T - adjective Having the spores in thecae, or cases.
Thecata Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Thecophora.
Thecla Dictionary T - noun Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; - called also hairstreak, and elfin.
Thecodactyl Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
Thecodontia Dictionary T - noun plural A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.
Thecophora Dictionary T - noun plural A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecae and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.
Thecosomata Dictionary T - noun plural An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda.
Thedom Dictionary T - noun Success; fortune; luck; chance.
Thee Dictionary T - adjective To thrive; to prosper.
Theft Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theftbote Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Thane. See Thane.
Thegnhood Dictionary T - noun Thanehood.
Theiform Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of tea.
Theine Dictionary T - noun See Caffeine. Called also theina.
Their Dictionary T - pronoun & adjective The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.
Theism Dictionary T - noun The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.
Theist Dictionary T - noun One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; - opposed to atheist.
Theistic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theistical.
Theistical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theism, or a theist; according to the doctrine of theists.
Thelphusian Dictionary T - noun One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
Thelytokous Dictionary T - adjective Producing females only; - said of certain female insects.
Them Dictionary T - pronoun The objective case of they. See They.
Thematic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.
Theme Dictionary T - noun A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
Themis Dictionary T - noun The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.
Themselves Dictionary T - pronoun The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
Then Dictionary T - adverb At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future).
Thenadays Dictionary T - adverb At that time; then; in those days; - correlative to nowadays.
Thenal Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thenar.
Thenar Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
Thenardite Dictionary T - noun Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.
Thence Dictionary T - adverb From that place.
Thenceforth Dictionary T - adverb From that time; thereafter.
Thenceforward Dictionary T - adverb From that time onward; thenceforth.
Thencefrom Dictionary T - adverb From that place.
Theobroma Dictionary T - noun A genus of small trees. See Cacao.
Theobromic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogaea), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.
Theobromine Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Anointed by God.
Theocracy Dictionary T - noun Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
Theocrasy Dictionary T - noun A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols.
Theocrat Dictionary T - noun One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.
Theocratic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theocratical.
Theocratical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.
Theodicy Dictionary T - noun A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.
Theodolite Dictionary T - noun An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed.
Theodolitic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.
Theogonic Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to theogony.
Theogonism Dictionary T - noun Theogony.
Theogonist Dictionary T - noun A writer on theogony.
Theogony Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A pretender or quack in theology.
Theologer Dictionary T - noun A theologian.
Theologian Dictionary T - noun A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
Theologic Dictionary T - adjective Theological.
Theological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise.
Theologics Dictionary T - noun Theology.
Theologist Dictionary T - noun A theologian.
Theologized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Theologize.
Theologizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Theologize.
Theologize Dictionary T - verb transitive To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.
Theologizer Dictionary T - noun One who theologizes; a theologian.
Theologue Dictionary T - noun A theologian.
Theologies Dictionary T - pleural of Theology.
Theology Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theomachist Dictionary T - noun One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.
Theomachy Dictionary T - noun A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods.
Theomancy Dictionary T - noun A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.
Theopathetic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theopathic.
Theopathic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theopathy.
Theopathy Dictionary T - noun Capacity for religious affections or worship.
Theophanic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god.
-nies Dictionary T - pleural of Theophany.
Theophany Dictionary T - noun A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.
Theophilanthropic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.
Theophilanthropism Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.
Theophilanthropist Dictionary T - noun A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.
Theophilanthropy Dictionary T - noun Theophilanthropism.
Theophilosophic Dictionary T - adjective Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.
Theopneusted Dictionary T - adjective Divinely inspired; theopneustic.
Theopneustic Dictionary T - adjective Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
Theopneusty Dictionary T - noun Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.
Theorbist Dictionary T - noun One who plays on a theorbo.
Theorbo Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theorem Dictionary T - noun That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.
Theorematic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theorematical.
Theorematical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.
Theorematist Dictionary T - noun One who constructs theorems.
Theoremic Dictionary T - adjective Theorematic.
Theoretic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theoretical.
Theoretical Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.
Theoretics Dictionary T - noun The speculative part of a science; speculation.
Theoric Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the theorica.
Theorica Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - adjective Theoretic.
Theorically Dictionary T - adverb In a theoretic manner.
Theorist Dictionary T - noun One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.
Theorization Dictionary T - noun The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.
Theorized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Theorize.
Theorizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Theorize.
Theorize Dictionary T - intransitive verb To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
Theorizer Dictionary T - noun One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.
Theories Dictionary T - pleural of Theory.
Theory Dictionary T - noun A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
Theosoph Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Theosopher.
Theosopher Dictionary T - noun A theosophist.
Theosophic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theosophical.
Theosophical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theosophy.
Theosophism Dictionary T - noun Belief in theosophy.
Theosophist Dictionary T - noun One addicted to theosophy.
Theosophistical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
Theosophized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Theosophize.
Theosophizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Theosophize.
Theosophize Dictionary T - intransitive verb To practice theosophy.
Theosophy Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Therapeutical.
Therapeutical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.
Therapeutics Dictionary T - noun That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.
Therapeutist Dictionary T - noun One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.
Therapy Dictionary T - noun Therapeutics.
There Dictionary T - pronoun In or at that place.
Thereabout Dictionary T - adverb Alt. of Thereabouts.
Thereabouts Dictionary T - adverb Near that place.
Thereafter Dictionary T - adverb After that; afterward.
Thereagain Dictionary T - adverb In opposition; against one's course.
There-anent Dictionary T - adverb Concerning that.
Thereat Dictionary T - adverb At that place; there.
Therebefore Dictionary T - adverb Alt. of Therebiforn.
Therebiforn Dictionary T - adverb Before that time; beforehand.
Thereby Dictionary T - adverb By that; by that means; in consequence of that.
Therefor Dictionary T - adverb For that, or this; for it.
Therefore Dictionary T - adverb For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
Therefrom Dictionary T - adverb From this or that.
Therein Dictionary T - adverb In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.
Thereinto Dictionary T - adverb Into that or this, or into that place.
Thereof Dictionary T - adverb Of that or this.
Thereology Dictionary T - noun Therapeutios.
Thereon Dictionary T - adverb On that or this.
Thereout Dictionary T - adverb Out of that or this.
Thereto Dictionary T - adverb To that or this.
Theretofore Dictionary T - adverb Up to that time; before then; - correlative with heretofore.
Thereunder Dictionary T - adverb Under that or this.
Thereunto Dictionary T - adverb Unto that or this; thereto; besides.
Thereupon Dictionary T - adverb Upon that or this; thereon.
Therewhile Dictionary T - adverb At that time; at the same time.
Therewith Dictionary T - adverb With that or this.
Therewithal Dictionary T - adverb Over and above; besides; moreover.
Therf Dictionary T - adjective Not fermented; unleavened; - said of bread, loaves, etc.
Theriac Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Theriaca.
Theriaca Dictionary T - noun 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.
Theriacal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theriac; medicinal.
Therial Dictionary T - adjective Theriac.
Theriodont Dictionary T - noun One of the Theriodontia. Used also adjectively.
Theriodonta Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Theriodontia.
Theriodontia Dictionary T - noun plural 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.
Theriotomy Dictionary T - noun Zootomy.
Thermae Dictionary T - noun plural Springs or baths of warm or hot water.
Thermal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.
Thermally Dictionary T - adverb In a thermal manner.
Thermetograph Dictionary T - noun A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.
Thermic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.
Thermidor Dictionary T - noun The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, - commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendemiaire.
Thermifugine Dictionary T - noun An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, - whence its name.
Thermo- Dictionary T - A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.
Thermobarometer Dictionary T - noun An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.
Thermobattery Dictionary T - noun A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
Thermocautery Dictionary T - noun Cautery by the application of heat.
Thermochemic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thermochemical.
Thermochemical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry.
Thermochemistry Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thermochrosy Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thermocurrent Dictionary T - noun A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
Thermodynamic Dictionary T - adjective Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat.
Thermodynamics Dictionary T - noun The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.
Thermoelectric Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
Thermoelectricity Dictionary T - noun Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
Thermoelectrometer Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.
Thermogenic Dictionary T - adjective Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.
Thermogenous Dictionary T - adjective Producing heat; thermogenic.
Thermograph Dictionary T - noun An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.
Thermology Dictionary T - noun A discourse on, or an account of, heat.
Thermolysis Dictionary T - noun The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.
Thermolyze Dictionary T - verb transitive To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.
Thermomagnetism Dictionary T - noun Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.
Thermometer Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thermometric Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thermometrical.
Thermometrical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a thermometer; as, the thermometrical scale or tube.
Thermometrically Dictionary T - adverb In a thermometrical manner; by means of a thermometer.
Thermometrograph Dictionary T - noun An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.
Thermometry Dictionary T - noun The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
Thermomultiplier Dictionary T - noun Same as Thermopile.
Thermopile Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thermoscope Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.
Thermostat Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thermostat; made or effected by means of the thermostat.
Thermosystaltic Dictionary T - adjective Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; - said of a muscle.
Thermotaxic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.
Thermotension Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thermotic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thermotical.
Thermotical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat; as, thermotical phenomena.
Thermotics Dictionary T - noun The science of heat.
Thermotropic Dictionary T - adjective Manifesting thermotropism.
Thermotropism Dictionary T - noun The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
Thermotype Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The art or process of obtaining thermotypes.
Thermovoltaic Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action.
Theromorpha Dictionary T - noun plural See Theriodonta.
Theropoda Dictionary T - noun plural 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 rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.
Thesauri Dictionary T - pleural of Thesaurus.
Thesaurus Dictionary T - noun A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; - often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
These Dictionary T - pronoun The plural of this. See This.
Thesicle Dictionary T - noun A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.
Theses Dictionary T - pleural of Thesis.
Thesis Dictionary T - noun A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
Thesmothete Dictionary T - noun A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.
Thespian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.
Thessalian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thessaly in Greece.
Thessalonian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia.
Theta Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thetical Dictionary T - adjective Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law.
Thetine Dictionary T - noun Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.
Theurgic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Theurgical.
Theurgical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to theurgy; magical.
Theurgist Dictionary T - noun One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy.
Theurgy Dictionary T - noun A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.
Thew Dictionary T - noun Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.
Thewed Dictionary T - adjective Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.
Thewy Dictionary T - adjective Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.
They Dictionary T - obj. 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.
Thialdine Dictionary T - noun A weak nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2.
Thialol Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thibet.
Thibet cloth Dictionary T - A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
Thibetian Dictionary T - adjective & noun Same as Thibetan.
Thible Dictionary T - noun A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.
Thick Dictionary T - superlative 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.
Thickbill Dictionary T - noun The bullfinch.
Thickened Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thicken.
Thickening Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thicken.
Thicken Dictionary T - verb transitive To make thick (in any sense of the word).
Thicket Dictionary T - adjective A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Thickhead Dictionary T - noun A thick-headed or stupid person.
Thick-headed Dictionary T - adjective Having a thick skull; stupid.
Thickish Dictionary T - adjective Somewhat thick.
Thick-knee Dictionary T - noun A stone curlew. See under Stone.
Thickly Dictionary T - adverb In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
Thickness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Thickset Dictionary T - adjective Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
Thickskin Dictionary T - noun A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
Thick-skinned Dictionary T - adjective Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
Thickskull Dictionary T - noun A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.
Thick-skulled Dictionary T - adjective Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
Thick wind Dictionary T - A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
Thick-winded Dictionary T - adjective Affected with thick wind.
Thider Dictionary T - adverb Thither.
Thiderward Dictionary T - adverb Thitherward.
Thieves Dictionary T - pleural of Thief.
Thief Dictionary T - noun One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
Thiefly Dictionary T - adjective & adverb Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.
Thienone Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.
Thieved Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thieve.
Thieving Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thieve.
Thieve Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To practice theft; to steal.
Thievery Dictionary T - noun The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Thievish Dictionary T - adjective Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.
Thigh Dictionary T - noun The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Thilk Dictionary T - pronoun That same; this; that.
Thill Dictionary T - noun One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
Thiller Dictionary T - noun The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; - called also thill horse.
Thimble Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thimbleberry Dictionary T - noun A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
Thimbleeye Dictionary T - noun The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
Thimblefuls Dictionary T - pleural of Thimbleful.
Thimbleful Dictionary T - noun As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
Thimblerig Dictionary T - noun A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Thimblerigged Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thimblerig.
Thimblerigging Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thimblerig.
Thimblerigger Dictionary T - noun One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Thimbleweed Dictionary T - noun Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; - so called from their conical receptacles.
Thin Dictionary T - superlative 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.
Thinned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thin.
Thinning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thin.
Thine Dictionary T - pronoun & adjective 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.
Thing Dictionary T - noun Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
Thought Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Think.
Thinking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Think.
Think Dictionary T - verb transitive To seem or appear; - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
Thinkable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Thinker Dictionary T - noun One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
Thinly Dictionary T - adjective In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.
Thinner Dictionary T - noun One who thins, or makes thinner.
Thinness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
Thinnish Dictionary T - adjective Somewhat thin.
Thinolite Dictionary T - noun A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.
Thin-skinned Dictionary T - adjective Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
Thio- Dictionary T - A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sulphur. See Sulpho-.
Thiocarbonate Dictionary T - noun A sulphocarbonate.
Thiocarbonic Dictionary T - adjective Same as Sulphocarbonic.
Thiocyanate Dictionary T - noun Same as Sulphocyanate.
Thiocyanic Dictionary T - adjective Same as Sulphocyanic.
Thionaphthene Dictionary T - noun A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives.
Thionic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.
Thionyl Dictionary T - noun The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.
Thiophene Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid.
Thiophenol Dictionary T - noun A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; - called also phenyl sulphydrate.
Thiophthene Dictionary T - noun A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.
Thiosulphate Dictionary T - noun A salt of thiosulphuric acid; - formerly called hyposulphite.
Thiosulphuric Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous acid.
Thiotolene Dictionary T - noun A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; - called also methyl thiophene.
Thioxene Dictionary T - noun Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.
Third Dictionary T - adjective Next after the second; coming after two others; - the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
Third-borough Dictionary T - noun An under constable.
Thirdings Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - adverb In the third place.
Third-penny Dictionary T - noun A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
Thirled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thirl.
Thirling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thirl.
Thirl Dictionary T - verb transitive To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
Thirlage Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thirst Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thirsted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thirst.
Thirsting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thirst.
Thirster Dictionary T - noun One who thirsts.
Thirstily Dictionary T - adverb In a thirsty manner.
Thirstiness Dictionary T - noun The state of being thirsty; thirst.
Thirstle Dictionary T - noun The throstle.
Thirsty Dictionary T - noun Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
Thirteen Dictionary T - adjective One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
Thirteenth Dictionary T - adjective Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; - the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
Thirtieth Dictionary T - adjective Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; - the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.
Thirty Dictionary T - adjective Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.
Thirties Dictionary T - pleural of Thirty.
Thirty-second Dictionary T - adjective Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.
This Dictionary T - pronoun & adjective 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.
Thistle Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thistly Dictionary T - adjective Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
Thither Dictionary T - adverb To that place; - opposed to hither.
Thitherto Dictionary T - adverb To that point; so far.
Thitherward Dictionary T - adverb To ward that place; in that direction.
Thitsee Dictionary T - noun The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).
Thlipsis Dictionary T - noun Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.
Tho Dictionary T - def. art. The.
Thole Dictionary T - noun A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
Tholed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thole.
Tholing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thole.
Thomaean Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thomean.
Thomean Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thomism Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thomaism.
Thomaism Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.
Thomist Dictionary T - noun A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.
Thomite Dictionary T - noun A Thomaean.
Thomsenolite Dictionary T - noun A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland.
Thomsen's disease Dictionary T - An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.
Thomsonian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.
Thomsonianism Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thong Dictionary T - noun A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Thooid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.
Thor Dictionary T - noun The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
Thoracentesis Dictionary T - noun The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
Thoracic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.
Thoracica Dictionary T - noun plural A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.
Thoracometer Dictionary T - noun Same as Stethometer.
Thoracoplasty Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
Thoracotomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
Thoral Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a bed.
Thorax Dictionary T - noun 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 vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
Thoria Dictionary T - noun A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; - formerly called also thorina.
Thoric Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.
Thorite Dictionary T - noun A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.
Thorium Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
Thornback Dictionary T - noun A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.
Thornbill Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The turbot.
Thorn-headed Dictionary T - adjective Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
Thornless Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of, or free from, thorns.
Thornset Dictionary T - adjective Set with thorns.
Thorntail Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - superlative Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
Thoro Dictionary T - adjective Thorough.
Thorough Dictionary T - preposition Through.
Thorough bass Dictionary T - The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; - sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
Thorough-brace Dictionary T - noun A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.
Thoroughbred Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Thoroughfare Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thoroughgoing Dictionary T - adjective Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
Thorough-lighted Dictionary T - adjective Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building.
Thoroughly Dictionary T - adverb In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
Thoroughness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
Thoroughpaced Dictionary T - adjective Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.
Thoroughpin Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced.
Thoroughstitch Dictionary T - adverb So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely.
Thoroughwax Dictionary T - noun An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.
Thoroughwort Dictionary T - noun Same as Boneset.
Thorow Dictionary T - preposition Through.
Thorp Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thorpe.
Thorpe Dictionary T - noun 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.
Those Dictionary T - pronoun The plural of that. See That.
Thoth Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thou Dictionary T - obj. 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.
Though Dictionary T - conjecture Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
Thoughtful Dictionary T - adjective Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.
Thoughtless Dictionary T - adverb Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.
Thousand Dictionary T - noun The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.
Thousandfold Dictionary T - adjective Multiplied by a thousand.
Thousand legs Dictionary T - A millepid, or galleyworm; - called also thousand-legged worm.
Thousandth Dictionary T - adjective 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.
Thowel Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thowl.
Thowl Dictionary T - noun A thole pin.
Thracian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
Thrack Dictionary T - verb transitive To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property.
Thrackscat Dictionary T - noun Metal still in the mine.
Thraldom Dictionary T - noun The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.
Thrall Dictionary T - noun A slave; a bondman.
Thralldom Dictionary T - noun Thraldom.
Thrall-less Dictionary T - adjective Having no thralls.
Thrall-like Dictionary T - adjective Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.
Thranite Dictionary T - noun One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
Thrapple Dictionary T - noun Windpipe; throttle.
Thrashed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thresh.
Thrashing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thresh.
Thrash Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Thresh.
Thresh Dictionary T - verb transitive 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.
Thrashel Dictionary T - noun An instrument to thrash with; a flail.
Thrasher Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thresher.
Thresher Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
Thrasonical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
Thraste Dictionary T - imperative of Thraste.
Thrast Dictionary T - past participle of Thraste.
Thrave Dictionary T - noun Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
Thraw Dictionary T - noun & verb See Throse.
Thread Dictionary T - noun 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.
Threaded Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thread.
Threading Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thread.
Threadbare Dictionary T - adjective Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Threadbareness Dictionary T - noun The state of being threadbare.
Threaden Dictionary T - adjective Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
Threader Dictionary T - noun A device for assisting in threading a needle.
Threadfin Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
Threadfish Dictionary T - noun The cutlass fish.
Threadiness Dictionary T - noun Quality of being thready.
Thread-shaped Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of a thread; filiform.
Threadworm Dictionary T - noun Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
Thready Dictionary T - adjective Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
Threaped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Threap.
Threaping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Threap.
Threap Dictionary T - verb transitive To call; to name.
Threat Dictionary T - noun The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
Threatened Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Threaten.
Threatening Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Threaten.
Threaten Dictionary T - verb transitive 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.
Threatener Dictionary T - noun One who threatens.
Threatful Dictionary T - adjective Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.
Threave Dictionary T - noun Same as Thrave.
Three Dictionary T - adjective One more than two; two and one.
Three-coat Dictionary T - adjective 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-cornered Dictionary T - adjective Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
Three-decker Dictionary T - noun A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
Three-flowered Dictionary T - adjective Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
Threefold Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
Three-handed Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Three-leaved.
Three-leaved Dictionary T - adjective Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
Three-lobed Dictionary T - adjective Having three lobes.
Three-nerved Dictionary T - adjective Having three nerves.
Three-parted Dictionary T - adjective Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
Threepence Dictionary T - noun A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
Threepenny Dictionary T - adjective Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
Three-pile Dictionary T - noun An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
Three-piled Dictionary T - adjective Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
Three-ply Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
Three-pointed Dictionary T - adjective Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
Three-quarter Dictionary T - adjective Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; - said of portraitures.
Three-score Dictionary T - adjective Thrice twenty; sixty.
Three-sided Dictionary T - adjective Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Three-square Dictionary T - adjective Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; - said especially of a kind of file.
Three-valved Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
Three-way Dictionary T - adjective Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
Threne Dictionary T - noun Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Threnetic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Threnetical.
Threnetical Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.
Threnode Dictionary T - noun A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Threnodist Dictionary T - noun One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
Threnody Dictionary T - noun A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Threpe Dictionary T - verb transitive To call; to term.
Threpsology Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
Threshed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thresh.
Threshing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thresh.
Thresh-fold Dictionary T - noun Threshold.
Threshold Dictionary T - noun 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.
Threshwold Dictionary T - noun Threshold.
Threste Dictionary T - imperative of Threste.
Threst Dictionary T - past particle &]] of Threste.
Thretteen Dictionary T - adjective Thirteen.
Thretty Dictionary T - adjective Thirty.
Threw Dictionary T - imp. of Throw.
Thribble Dictionary T - adjective Triple; treble; threefold.
Thrice Dictionary T - adverb Three times.
Thricecock Dictionary T - noun The missel thrush.
Thrid Dictionary T - adjective Third.
Thridded Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thrid.
Thridding Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thrid.
Thrifallow Dictionary T - verb transitive See Thryfallow, and Trifallow.
Thrift Dictionary T - noun A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
Thriftily Dictionary T - adverb In a thrifty manner.
Thriftiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
Thriftless Dictionary T - adjective Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.
Thrifty Dictionary T - superlative Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.
Thrill Dictionary T - noun A warbling; a trill.
Thrilled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thrill.
Thrilling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thrill.
Thrillant Dictionary T - adjective Piercing; sharp; thrilling.
Throng Dictionary T - imperative of Thring.
Thring Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To press, crowd, or throng.
Thrips Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
Thrist Dictionary T - noun Thrist.
Thrittene Dictionary T - adjective Thirteen.
Throve Dictionary T - imperative of Thrive.
Thrived Dictionary T - of Thrive.
Thriven Dictionary T - of Thrive.
Thriving Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thrive.
Thrive Dictionary T - intransitive verb To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
Thriver Dictionary T - noun One who thrives, or prospers.
Thrivingly Dictionary T - adverb In a thriving manner.
Thrivingness Dictionary T - noun The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.
Thro' Dictionary T - A contraction of Through.
Throat Dictionary T - noun The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
Throatband Dictionary T - noun Same as Throatlatch.
Throatboll Dictionary T - noun The Adam's apple in the neck.
Throating Dictionary T - noun A drip, or drip molding.
Throatlatch Dictionary T - noun A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
Throatwort Dictionary T - noun A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
Throaty Dictionary T - adjective Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.
Throbbed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Throb.
Throbbing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Throb.
Throb Dictionary T - intransitive verb 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.
Throdden Dictionary T - intransitive verb To grow; to thrive.
Throe Dictionary T - noun Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
Thrombosis Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thrombi Dictionary T - pleural of Thrombus.
Thrombus Dictionary T - noun A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.
Throne Dictionary T - noun A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.
Throned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Throne.
Throning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Throne.
Throneless Dictionary T - adjective Having no throne.
Thronged Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Throng.
Thronging Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Throng.
Throngly Dictionary T - adverb In throngs or crowds.
Throp Dictionary T - noun A thorp.
Thropple Dictionary T - noun The windpipe.
Throstle Dictionary T - noun The song thrush. See under Song.
Throstling Dictionary T - noun A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.
Throttle Dictionary T - noun The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
Throttled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Throttle.
Throttling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Throttle.
Throttler Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.
Through Dictionary T - preposition 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.
Throughly Dictionary T - adverb Thoroughly.
Throughout Dictionary T - preposition Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house.
Throw Dictionary T - noun Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
Thrown Dictionary T - past participle of Throw.
Throwing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Throw.
Throw-crook Dictionary T - noun An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Throwe Dictionary T - noun A turning lathe.
Thrower Dictionary T - noun One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
Throw-off Dictionary T - noun A start in a hunt or a race.
Throwster Dictionary T - noun One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
Thru Dictionary T - preposition, adverb & adjective Through.
Thrum Dictionary T - noun One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
Thrummed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thrum.
Thrumming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thrum.
Thrum-eyed Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - adjective Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.
Thrumwort Dictionary T - noun A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus).
Thruout Dictionary T - Throughout.
Thrush Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
Thrushel Dictionary T - noun The song thrush.
Thrusher Dictionary T - noun The song thrush.
Thrust Dictionary T - noun & verb Thrist.
Thrusting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thrust.
Thruster Dictionary T - noun One who thrusts or stabs.
Thrustle Dictionary T - noun The throstle, or song thrust.
Thryes Dictionary T - adjective Thrice.
Thryfallow Dictionary T - verb transitive To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
Thud Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thug Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Thuggery Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Thuggism.
Thuggism Dictionary T - noun Thuggee.
Thuja Dictionary T - noun A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
Thule Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Oxide of thulium.
Thulium Dictionary T - noun A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
Thumb Dictionary T - noun The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
Thumbed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thumb.
Thumbing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thumb.
Thumbbird Dictionary T - noun The goldcrest.
Thumbkin Dictionary T - noun An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
Thumbless Dictionary T - adjective Without a thumb.
Thumbscrew Dictionary T - noun A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
Thummie Dictionary T - noun The chiff-chaff.
Thummim Dictionary T - noun plural A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.
Thump Dictionary T - noun The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
Thumped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thump.
Thumping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thump.
Thumper Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, thumps.
Thunder Dictionary T - noun The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Thundered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thunder.
Thundering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thunder.
Thunderbird Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thunderburst Dictionary T - noun A burst of thunder.
Thunderclap Dictionary T - noun A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
Thundercloud Dictionary T - noun A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.
Thunderer Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thunderfish Dictionary T - noun A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).
Thunderhead Dictionary T - noun A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - often appearing before a thunderstorm.
Thunderless Dictionary T - adjective Without thunder or noise.
Thunderous Dictionary T - adjective Producing thunder.
Thunderproof Dictionary T - adjective Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.
Thundershower Dictionary T - noun A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Thunderstone Dictionary T - noun A thunderbolt, - formerly believed to be a stone.
Thunderstorm Dictionary T - noun A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Thunderstruck Dictionary T - imperative of Thunderstrike.
-strucken Dictionary T - of Thunderstrike.
Thunderstriking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thunderstrike.
Thunderstrike Dictionary T - verb transitive To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning.
Thunderworm Dictionary T - noun A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; - so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.
Thundery Dictionary T - adjective Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.
Thundrous Dictionary T - adjective Thunderous; sonorous.
Thunny Dictionary T - noun The tunny.
Thurgh Dictionary T - preposition Through.
Thurghfare Dictionary T - noun Thoroughfare.
Thurible Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thuriferous Dictionary T - adjective Producing or bearing frankincense.
Thurification Dictionary T - noun The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense.
Thuringian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people.
Thuringite Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun A hole; an aperture.
Thurling Dictionary T - noun Same as Thurl, n., 2 (a).
Thurrok Dictionary T - noun The hold of a ship; a sink.
Thursday Dictionary T - noun The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.
Thurst Dictionary T - noun The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
Thus Dictionary T - noun The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
Thussock Dictionary T - noun See Tussock.
Thuya Dictionary T - noun Same as Thuja.
Thuyin Dictionary T - noun A substance extracted from trees of the genus Thuja, or Thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin.
Thwacked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thwack.
Thwacking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thwack.
Thwack Dictionary T - verb transitive To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.
Thwaite Dictionary T - noun The twaite.
Thwart Dictionary T - adjective Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Thwarted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Thwart.
Thwarting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Thwart.
Thwarter Dictionary T - noun A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.
Thwartingly Dictionary T - adverb In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.
Thwartly Dictionary T - adverb Transversely; obliquely.
Thwartness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.
Thwite Dictionary T - verb transitive To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
Thwittle Dictionary T - verb transitive To cut or whittle.
Thy Dictionary T - pronoun 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.
Thyine wood Dictionary T - 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.
Thylacine Dictionary T - noun The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.
Thymate Dictionary T - noun A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.
Thyme Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thymene Dictionary T - noun A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.
Thymiatechny Dictionary T - noun The art of employing perfumes in medicine.
Thymic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.
Thymol Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.
Thymy Dictionary T - adjective Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale.
Thyro- Dictionary T - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.
Thyroarytenoid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
Thyrohyal Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
Thyroid Dictionary T - adjective Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.
Thyroideal Dictionary T - adjective Thyroid.
Thyrotomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.
Thyrse Dictionary T - noun A thyrsus.
Thyrsoid Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Thyrsoidal.
Thyrsoidal Dictionary T - adjective Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
Thyrsi Dictionary T - pleural of Thyrsus.
Thyrsus Dictionary T - noun 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.
Thysanopter Dictionary T - noun One of the Thysanoptera.
Thysanoptera Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - noun One of the Thysanoptera.
Thysanopterous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.
Thysanura Dictionary T - noun plural 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 Dictionary T - noun One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.
Thysanurous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.
Thysbe Dictionary T - noun A common clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe).
Thyself Dictionary T - pronoun 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.
Tiar Dictionary T - noun A tiara.
Tiara Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tiaraed Dictionary T - adjective Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.
Tib-cat Dictionary T - noun A female cat.
Tibiae Dictionary T - pleural of Tibia.
Tibia Dictionary T - noun The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
Tibial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tibia.
Tibialia Dictionary T - pleural of Tibiale.
Tibiale Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - intransitive verb To play on a tibia, or pipe.
Tibio- Dictionary T - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.
Tibiotarsal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.
Tibiotarsi Dictionary T - pleural of Tibiotarsus.
Tibiotarsus Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun The pollack.
Tic Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tical Dictionary T - noun A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
Tice Dictionary T - verb transitive To entice.
Ticement Dictionary T - noun Enticement.
Tichorrhine Dictionary T - noun A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
Tick Dictionary T - noun Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
Ticked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tick.
Ticking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tick.
Ticken Dictionary T - noun See Ticking.
Ticker Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
Ticket Dictionary T - verb A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
Ticketed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Ticket.
Ticketing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Ticket.
Tickled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tickle.
Tickling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tickle.
Tickle Dictionary T - verb transitive 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.
Tickle-footed Dictionary T - adjective Uncertain; inconstant; slippery.
Ticklenburg Dictionary T - noun A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
Tickleness Dictionary T - noun Unsteadiness.
Tickler Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tickles.
Ticklish Dictionary T - adjective Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
Tickseed Dictionary T - noun A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.
Ticktack Dictionary T - noun A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
Ticpolonga Dictionary T - noun A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; - called also cobra monil.
Tid Dictionary T - adjective Tender; soft; nice; - now only used in tidbit.
Tidal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.
Tidbit Dictionary T - noun A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
Tidde Dictionary T - obs. imp. of Tide, v. i.
Tidder Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Tiddle.
Tiddle Dictionary T - verb transitive To use with tenderness; to fondle.
Tide Dictionary T - preposition Time; period; season.
Tided Dictionary T - adjective Affected by the tide; having a tide.
Tideless Dictionary T - adjective Having no tide.
Tide-rode Dictionary T - adjective Swung by the tide when at anchor; - opposed to wind-rode.
Tidesmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tidesman.
Tidesman Dictionary T - noun A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
Tidewaiter Dictionary T - noun A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.
Tideway Dictionary T - noun Channel in which the tide sets.
Tidife Dictionary T - noun The blue titmouse.
Tidily Dictionary T - adverb In a tidy manner.
Tidiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tidy.
Tiding Dictionary T - noun Tidings.
Tidings Dictionary T - noun Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.
Tidley Dictionary T - noun The wren.
Tidology Dictionary T - noun A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.
Tidy Dictionary T - noun The wren; - called also tiddy.
Tidies Dictionary T - pleural of Tidy.
Tidied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tidy.
Tidying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tidy.
Tidytips Dictionary T - noun A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.
Tie Dictionary T - verb transitive A knot; a fastening.
Tied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tie.
Tight Dictionary T - of Tie.
Tying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tie.
Tiebar Dictionary T - noun A flat bar used as a tie.
Tiebeam Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tier Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, ties.
Tierce Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tiercel Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tiercelet.
Tiercelet Dictionary T - noun The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.
Tierce-major Dictionary T - noun See Tierce, 4.
Tiercet Dictionary T - noun A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.
Tie-rod Dictionary T - noun A rod used as a tie. See Tie.
Tiers etat Dictionary T - 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.
Tietick Dictionary T - noun The meadow pipit.
Tiewig Dictionary T - noun A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.
Tiff Dictionary T - noun Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
Tiffed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tiff.
Tiffing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tiff.
Tiffany Dictionary T - noun A species of gause, or very silk.
Tiffin Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
Tift Dictionary T - noun A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
Tig Dictionary T - noun A game among children. See Tag.
Tigella Dictionary T - noun That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
Tigelle Dictionary T - noun Same as Tigella.
Tiger Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tiger-eye Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - noun Same as Tiger's-foot.
Tiger-footed Dictionary T - adjective Hastening to devour; furious.
Tigerine Dictionary T - adjective Tigerish; tigrine.
Tigerish Dictionary T - adjective Like a tiger; tigrish.
Tiger's-foot Dictionary T - noun A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
Tigh Dictionary T - noun A close, or inclosure; a croft.
Tightened Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tighten.
Tightening Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tighten.
Tighten Dictionary T - verb transitive To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Tightener Dictionary T - noun That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.
Tighter Dictionary T - noun A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
Tightly Dictionary T - adverb In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
Tightness Dictionary T - noun The quality or condition of being tight.
Tights Dictionary T - noun plural Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Tiglic Dictionary T - adjective 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 Dictionary T - noun The female of the tiger.
Tigrine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
Tigrish Dictionary T - adjective Resembling a tiger; tigerish.
Tike Dictionary T - noun A tick. See 2d Tick.
Tikus Dictionary T - noun The bulau.
Til Dictionary T - preparticle & conjecture See Till.
Tilburies Dictionary T - pleural of Tilbury.
Tilbury Dictionary T - noun A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
Tilde Dictionary T - noun The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words thus, ?, /, indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Tile Dictionary T - verb transitive To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
Tiled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tile.
Tiling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tile.
Tile-drain Dictionary T - verb transitive To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
Tilefish Dictionary T - noun A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.
Tiler Dictionary T - noun A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Tileries Dictionary T - pleural of Tilery.
Tilery Dictionary T - noun A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.
Tilestone Dictionary T - noun A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
Tiliaceous Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.
Till Dictionary T - noun A vetch; a tare.
Tilled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Till.
Tilling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Till.
Tillable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
Tillage Dictionary T - noun 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.
Tillandsia Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - verb transitive One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
Tillered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tiller.
Tillering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tiller.
Tilley Dictionary T - Alt. of Tilley seed.
Tilley seed Dictionary T - The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium.
Tillmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tillman.
Tillman Dictionary T - noun A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
Tillodont Dictionary T - noun One of the Tillodontia.
Tillodontia Dictionary T - noun plural An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.
Tillet Dictionary T - noun A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.
Tillow Dictionary T - intransitive verb See 3d Tiller.
Tilly-vally Dictionary T - interjection, adverb, or adjective A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.
Tilmus Dictionary T - noun Floccillation.
Tilt Dictionary T - noun A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
Tilted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tilt.
Tilting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tilt.
Tilter Dictionary T - noun One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
Tilth Dictionary T - noun The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.
Tilt hammer Dictionary T - 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.
Tilt-mill Dictionary T - noun A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.
Til tree Dictionary T - See Teil.
Tilt-up Dictionary T - noun Same as Tip-up.
Tilt-yard Dictionary T - noun A yard or place for tilting.
Timal Dictionary T - noun The blue titmouse.
Timaline Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.
Timbal Dictionary T - noun A kettledrum. See Tymbal.
Timber Dictionary T - noun 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.
Timbered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Timber.
Timbering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Timber.
Timberhead Dictionary T - noun The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; - called also kevel head.
Timberling Dictionary T - noun A small tree.
Timbermen Dictionary T - pleural of Timberman.
Timberman Dictionary T - noun A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.
Timberwork Dictionary T - noun Work made of timbers.
Timbre Dictionary T - noun See 1st Timber.
Timbrel Dictionary T - noun A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
Timbreled Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Timbrelled.
Timbrelled Dictionary T - adjective Sung to the sound of the timbrel.
Timburine Dictionary T - noun A tambourine.
Times Dictionary T - pleural of Time.
Time Dictionary T - noun Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
Timed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Time.
Timing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Time.
Timeful Dictionary T - adjective Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.
Time-honored Dictionary T - adjective Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
Timekeeper Dictionary T - noun A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
Timeless Dictionary T - adjective Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
Timelessly Dictionary T - adverb In a timeless manner; unseasonably.
Timeliness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
Timeling Dictionary T - noun A timeserver.
Timely Dictionary T - superlative Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.
Timenoguy Dictionary T - noun A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
Timeous Dictionary T - adjective Timely; seasonable.
Timepiece Dictionary T - noun A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Timepleaser Dictionary T - noun One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.
Timer Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
Timeserver Dictionary T - noun 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 Dictionary T - adjective Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
Time-table Dictionary T - noun 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.
Timid Dictionary T - adjective Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
Timidity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
Timidous Dictionary T - adjective Timid.
Timist Dictionary T - noun A performer who keeps good time.
Timmer Dictionary T - noun Same as 1st Timber.
Timocracy Dictionary T - noun A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.
Timocratic Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.
Timoneer Dictionary T - noun A helmsman.
Timorous Dictionary T - adjective Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
Timorsome Dictionary T - adjective Easily frightened; timorous.
Timothy Dictionary T - Alt. of Timothy grass.
Timothy grass Dictionary T - A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; - called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.
Timous Dictionary T - adjective Timely; seasonable.
Timpani Dictionary T - pleural of Timpano.
Timpano Dictionary T - noun See Tympano.
Tim-whiskey Dictionary T - noun A kind of carriage. See Whiskey.
Tin Dictionary T - noun An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
Tinned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tin.
Tinning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tin.
Tinamides Dictionary T - noun plural A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.
Tinamou Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.
Tincal Dictionary T - noun Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.
Tinchel Dictionary T - noun A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
Tinct Dictionary T - adjective Tined; tinged.
Tinctorial Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter.
Tincture Dictionary T - noun A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
Tinctured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tincture.
Tincturing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tincture.
Tind Dictionary T - verb transitive To kindle.
Tindal Dictionary T - noun A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
Tinder Dictionary T - noun Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
Tine Dictionary T - noun Trouble; distress; teen.
Tinea Dictionary T - noun A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
Tinean Dictionary T - noun Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.
Tined Dictionary T - adjective Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.
Tineid Dictionary T - noun Same as Tinean.
Tinemen Dictionary T - pleural of Tineman.
Tineman Dictionary T - noun An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
Tinet Dictionary T - noun Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
Ting Dictionary T - noun A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
Tinged Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tinge.
Tingeing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tinge.
Tinge Dictionary T - verb transitive To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.
Tingent Dictionary T - adjective Having the power to tinge.
Tinger Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tinges.
Tingid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.
Tingis Dictionary T - noun A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.
Tingled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tingle.
Tingling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tingle.
Tingle Dictionary T - intransitive verb To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
Tink Dictionary T - intransitive verb To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.
Tinker Dictionary T - noun A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
Tinkered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tinker.
Tinkering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tinker.
Tinkerly Dictionary T - adjective After the manner of a tinker.
Tinkershire Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tinkle.
Tinkle Dictionary T - noun The common guillemot.
Tinkled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tinkle.
Tinkling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tinkle.
Tinkler Dictionary T - noun A tinker.
Tinmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tinman.
Tinman Dictionary T - noun A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.
Tinmouth Dictionary T - noun The crappie.
Tinnen Dictionary T - adjective Made or consisting of tin.
Tinner Dictionary T - noun One who works in a tin mine.
Tinnient Dictionary T - adjective Emitting a clear sound.
Tinnitus Dictionary T - noun A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; - called also tinnitus aurium.
Tinnock Dictionary T - noun The blue titmouse.
Tinny Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.
Tinsel Dictionary T - noun A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
Tinseled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tinsel.
Tinselled Dictionary T - of Tinsel.
Tinseling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tinsel.
Tinselling Dictionary T - of Tinsel.
Tinselly Dictionary T - adjective Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
Tinsmith Dictionary T - noun One who works in tin; a tinner.
Tinstone Dictionary T - noun Cassiterite.
Tint Dictionary T - noun A slight coloring.
Tinted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tint.
Tinting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tint.
Tintamar Dictionary T - noun A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.
Tinternell Dictionary T - noun A certain old dance.
Tintle Dictionary T - noun The wren.
Tintinnabular Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tintinnabulary.
Tintinnabulary Dictionary T - adjective Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.
Tintinnabulation Dictionary T - noun A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
Tintinnabulous Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.
Tinto Dictionary T - noun A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.
Tintype Dictionary T - noun Same as Ferrotype.
Tinware Dictionary T - noun Articles made of tinned iron.
Tiny Dictionary T - superlative Very small; little; puny.
Tip Dictionary T - noun The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.
Tipped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tip.
Tipping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tip.
Tipcart Dictionary T - noun A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
Tipcat Dictionary T - noun A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.
Tipper Dictionary T - noun A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; - so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
Tippet Dictionary T - noun A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, - usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material.
Tippled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tipple.
Tippling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tipple.
Tipple Dictionary T - intransitive verb To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.
Tippler Dictionary T - noun One who keeps a tippling-house.
Tippling-house Dictionary T - noun A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.
Tipsify Dictionary T - verb transitive To make tipsy.
Tipsily Dictionary T - adverb In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.
Tipsiness Dictionary T - noun The state of being tipsy.
Tipstaff Dictionary T - pleural of Tipstaff.
Tipsy Dictionary T - superlative Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
Tiptoes Dictionary T - pleural of Tiptoe.
Tiptoe Dictionary T - noun The end, or tip, of the toe.
Tiptop Dictionary T - noun The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
Tipulae Dictionary T - pleural of Tipula.
Tipulas Dictionary T - pleural of Tipula.
Tipula Dictionary T - noun Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.
Tipulary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the tipulas.
Tip-up Dictionary T - noun The spotted sandpiper; - called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.
Tirade Dictionary T - noun A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Tirailleur Dictionary T - noun Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
Tire Dictionary T - noun A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
Tired Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tire.
Tiring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tire.
Tiredness Dictionary T - noun The state of being tired, or weary.
Tireless Dictionary T - adjective Untiring.
Tireling Dictionary T - adjective Tired; fatigued.
Tiresome Dictionary T - adjective Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
Tire-women Dictionary T - pleural of Tire-woman.
Tire-woman Dictionary T - noun A lady's maid.
Tiring-house Dictionary T - noun A tiring-room.
Tiring-room Dictionary T - noun The room or place where players dress for the stage.
Tirma Dictionary T - noun The oyster catcher.
Tiro Dictionary T - noun Same as Tyro.
T iron Dictionary T - See under T.
Tironian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
Tirralirra Dictionary T - noun A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.
Tirrit Dictionary T - noun A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
Tirwit Dictionary T - noun The lapwing.
'T is Dictionary T - A common contraction of it is.
Tisane Dictionary T - noun See Ptisan.
Tisar Dictionary T - noun The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.
Tisic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tisical.
Tisical Dictionary T - adjective Consumptive, phthisical.
Tisicky Dictionary T - adjective Consumptive, phthisical.
Tisri Dictionary T - noun The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.
Tissue Dictionary T - noun A woven fabric.
Tissued Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tissue.
Tissuing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tissue.
Tit Dictionary T - noun A small horse.
Titan Dictionary T - adjective Titanic.
Titanate Dictionary T - noun A salt of titanic acid.
Titanic Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.
Titaniferous Dictionary T - adjective Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.
Titanite Dictionary T - noun See Sphene.
Titanitic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.
Titanium Dictionary T - noun An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.
Titano- Dictionary T - A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.
Titanotherium Dictionary T - noun A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
Titanous Dictionary T - adjective Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.
Titbit Dictionary T - noun Same as Tidbit.
Tith Dictionary T - adjective Tight; nimble.
Tithable Dictionary T - adjective Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
Tithe Dictionary T - noun A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
Tithed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tithe.
Tithing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tithe.
Tither Dictionary T - noun One who collects tithes.
Tithingmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tithingman.
Tithingman Dictionary T - noun The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
Tithly Dictionary T - adjective Tightly; nimbly.
Tithonic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.
Tithonicity Dictionary T - noun The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.
Tithonographic Dictionary T - adjective Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.
Tithonometer Dictionary T - noun An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer.
Tithymal Dictionary T - noun Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.
Titi Dictionary T - noun Same as Teetee.
Titillated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Titillate.
Titillating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Titillate.
Titillate Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.
Titillation Dictionary T - noun The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
Titillative Dictionary T - adjective Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.
Titlark Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
Title Dictionary T - noun An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
Titled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Title.
Titling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Title.
Titleless Dictionary T - adjective Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.
Title-page Dictionary T - noun The page of a book which contains it title.
Titler Dictionary T - noun A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
Titmal Dictionary T - noun The blue titmouse.
Titmice Dictionary T - pleural of Titmouse.
Titmouse Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; - called also tit, and tomtit.
Titrated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Titrate.
Titrating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Titrate.
Titrate Dictionary T - noun To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.
Titration Dictionary T - noun The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.
Tittered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Titter.
Tittering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Titter.
Titter Dictionary T - verb transitive To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.
Titterel Dictionary T - noun The whimbrel.
Titter-totter Dictionary T - intransitive verb See Teeter.
Tittimouse Dictionary T - noun Titmouse.
Tittle Dictionary T - noun A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
Tittlebat Dictionary T - noun The three-spined stickleback.
Tittle-tattle Dictionary T - noun Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.
Tittle-tattling Dictionary T - noun The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.
Titty Dictionary T - noun A little teat; a nipple.
Titubate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To stumble.
Titubation Dictionary T - noun The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.
Titular Dictionary T - adjective Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.
Titularity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being titular.
Titularly Dictionary T - adverb In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.
Titularies Dictionary T - pleural of Titulary.
Titulary Dictionary T - noun A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.
Tituled Dictionary T - adjective Having a title.
Tiver Dictionary T - noun A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.
Tivy Dictionary T - adverb With great speed; - a huntsman's word or sound.
Tiza Dictionary T - noun See Ulexite.
Tmesis Dictionary T - noun The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.
To- Dictionary T - preposition An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.
To Dictionary T - preposition The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; - opposed to from.
Toad Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.
Toadeater Dictionary T - noun A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.
Toadfish Dictionary T - noun Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.
Toadflax Dictionary T - noun An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; - called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
Toadhead Dictionary T - noun The golden plover.
Toadish Dictionary T - adjective Like a toad.
Toadlet Dictionary T - noun A small toad.
Toadstone Dictionary T - noun A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; - said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.
Toadstool Dictionary T - noun A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
Toadies Dictionary T - pleural of Toady.
Toady Dictionary T - noun A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Toadied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toady.
Toadying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toady.
Toadyism Dictionary T - noun The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Toasted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toast.
Toasting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toast.
Toast Dictionary T - verb transitive To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
Toaster Dictionary T - noun One who toasts.
Toastmaster Dictionary T - noun A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
Toat Dictionary T - noun The handle of a joiner's plane.
Tobacco Dictionary T - noun An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
Tobacconing Dictionary T - noun Smoking tobacco.
Tobacconist Dictionary T - noun A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
To-beat Dictionary T - verb transitive To beat thoroughly or severely.
Tobias fish Dictionary T - The lant, or sand eel.
Tobine Dictionary T - noun A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
Tobit Dictionary T - noun A book of the Apocrypha.
Toboggan Dictionary T - noun A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
Tobogganed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toboggan.
Tobogganing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toboggan.
Tobogganer Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tobogganist.
Tobogganist Dictionary T - noun One who practices tobogganing.
To-break Dictionary T - verb transitive To break completely; to break in pieces.
To-brest Dictionary T - verb transitive To burst or break in pieces.
Toccata Dictionary T - noun An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
Tocher Dictionary T - noun Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
Tockay Dictionary T - noun A spotted lizard native of India.
Toco Dictionary T - noun A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
Tocology Dictionary T - noun The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.
Tocororo Dictionary T - noun A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
Tocsin Dictionary T - noun An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
Tod Dictionary T - noun A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
To-day Dictionary T - preposition On this day; on the present day.
Toddled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toddle.
Toddling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toddle.
Toddle Dictionary T - intransitive verb To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
Toddler Dictionary T - noun One who toddles; especially, a young child.
Toddy Dictionary T - noun A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.
To-do Dictionary T - noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
Tody Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Toe Dictionary T - noun One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
Toed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toe.
Toeing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toe.
To-fall Dictionary T - noun A lean-to. See Lean-to.
Toffee Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Toffy.
Toffy Dictionary T - noun Taffy.
Tofore Dictionary T - preposition Alt. of Toforn.
Toforn Dictionary T - preposition Before.
Toft Dictionary T - noun A knoll or hill.
Toftmen Dictionary T - pleural of Toftman.
Toftman Dictionary T - noun The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
Tofus Dictionary T - noun Tophus.
Togas Dictionary T - pleural of Toga.
Togae Dictionary T - pleural of Toga.
Toga Dictionary T - noun The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.
Togated Dictionary T - adjective Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Toged Dictionary T - adjective Togated.
Together Dictionary T - preposition In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.
Toggery Dictionary T - noun Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.
Toggle Dictionary T - noun A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
Toght Dictionary T - adjective Taut.
Togider Dictionary T - adverb Alt. of Togidres.
Togidres Dictionary T - adverb Together.
Togue Dictionary T - noun The namaycush.
Tohew Dictionary T - verb transitive To hew in pieces.
Toil Dictionary T - noun A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; - usually in the plural.
Toiled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toil.
Toiling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toil.
Toiler Dictionary T - noun One who toils, or labors painfully.
Toilet Dictionary T - noun A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
Toilette Dictionary T - noun See Toilet, 3.
Toilful Dictionary T - adjective Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.
Toilinette Dictionary T - noun A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, - used for waistcoats.
Toilless Dictionary T - adjective Free from toil.
Toilsome Dictionary T - adjective Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
Toise Dictionary T - adjective An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.
Tokay Dictionary T - noun A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.
Token Dictionary T - noun Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.
Tokened Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Token.
Tokening Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Token.
Tokenless Dictionary T - adjective Without a token.
Tokin Dictionary T - noun A tocsin.
Tol Dictionary T - verb transitive To take away. See Toll.
Tola Dictionary T - noun A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.
Tolane Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; - called also diphenyl acetylene.
Tolbooth Dictionary T - noun See Tollbooth.
Toled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tole.
Toling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tole.
Tole Dictionary T - verb transitive To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.
Toledo Dictionary T - noun A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
Tolerabolity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tolerable.
Tolerable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
Tolerance Dictionary T - noun The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
Tolerant Dictionary T - adjective Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
Tolerated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tolerate.
Tolerating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tolerate.
Tolerate Dictionary T - verb transitive To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
Toleration Dictionary T - noun The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
Toll Dictionary T - verb transitive To take away; to vacate; to annul.
Tolled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toll.
Tolling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toll.
Tollable Dictionary T - adjective Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.
Tollage Dictionary T - noun Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.
Tollbooth Dictionary T - noun A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
Toller Dictionary T - noun A toll gatherer.
Tolletane Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo.
Tollgate Dictionary T - noun A gate where toll is taken.
Tollhouses Dictionary T - pleural of Tollhouse.
Tollhouse Dictionary T - noun A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
Tollmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tollman.
Tollman Dictionary T - noun One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.
Tolmen Dictionary T - noun See Dolmen.
Tolsester Dictionary T - noun A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale.
Tolsey Dictionary T - noun A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.
Tolt Dictionary T - noun A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.
Toltec Dictionary T - noun One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.
Tolu Dictionary T - noun A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam.
Toluate Dictionary T - noun A salt of any one of the toluic acids.
Toluene Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; - called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.
Toluenyl Dictionary T - noun Tolyl.
Toluic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.
Toluid Dictionary T - noun A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Toluidine Dictionary T - noun Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Toluol Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Toluole.
Toluole Dictionary T - noun Same as Toluene.
Toluric Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.
Tolutation Dictionary T - noun A pacing or ambling.
Toluyl Dictionary T - noun Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.
Toluylene Dictionary T - noun Same as Stilbene.
Tolyl Dictionary T - noun The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.
Tolylene Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.
Tolypeutine Dictionary T - noun The apar.
Tom Dictionary T - noun The knave of trumps at gleek.
Tomahawk Dictionary T - noun A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.
Tomahawked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tomahawk.
Tomahawking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tomahawk.
Tomaley Dictionary T - noun The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; - called also tomalline.
Toman Dictionary T - noun A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.
Tomatoes Dictionary T - pleural of Tomato.
Tomato Dictionary T - noun The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
Tomb Dictionary T - noun A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
Tombed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tomb.
Tombing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tomb.
Tombac Dictionary T - noun An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; - called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.
Tombester Dictionary T - noun A female dancer.
Tombless Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of a tomb.
Tomboy Dictionary T - noun A romping girl; a hoiden.
Tombstone Dictionary T - noun A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Tomcat Dictionary T - noun A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.
Tomcod Dictionary T - noun A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; - called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.
Tome Dictionary T - noun As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; - usually applied to a ponderous volume.
Tomelet Dictionary T - noun All small tome, or volume.
Tomentose Dictionary T - adjective Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.
Tometous Dictionary T - adjective Tomentose.
Tomenta Dictionary T - pleural of Tomentum.
Tomentum Dictionary T - noun The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.
Tomfool Dictionary T - noun A great fool; a trifler.
Tomfoolery Dictionary T - noun Folly; trifling.
Tomia Dictionary T - pleural of Tomium.
Tomium Dictionary T - noun The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.
Tomjohn Dictionary T - noun A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.
Tommy Dictionary T - noun Bread, - generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
Tomnoddy Dictionary T - noun A sea bird, the puffin.
Tomopteris Dictionary T - noun A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.
Tomorn Dictionary T - adverb To-morrow.
Tomorrow Dictionary T - adverb On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow.
Tompion Dictionary T - noun A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.
Tompon Dictionary T - noun An inking pad used in lithographic printing.
Tomrig Dictionary T - noun A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.
Tomtit Dictionary T - noun A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse.
Tom-tom Dictionary T - noun See Tam-tam.
Ton Dictionary T - pl. of Toe.
Tonality Dictionary T - noun The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
To-name Dictionary T - noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
Tonca bean Dictionary T - See Tonka bean.
Tone Dictionary T - noun Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
Toned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tone.
Toning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tone.
Toneless Dictionary T - adjective Having no tone; unmusical.
Tong Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tonge.
Tonge Dictionary T - noun Tongue.
Tonga Dictionary T - noun A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Tongkang Dictionary T - noun A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.
Tongo Dictionary T - noun The mangrove; - so called in the Pacific Islands.
Tongs Dictionary T - noun plural An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; - often called a pair of tongs.
Tongue Dictionary T - noun an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
Tongued Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tongue.
Tonguing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tongue.
Tonguebird Dictionary T - noun The wryneck.
Tonguefish Dictionary T - noun A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.
Tongueless Dictionary T - adjective Having no tongue.
Tonguelet Dictionary T - noun A little tongue.
Tongue-pad Dictionary T - noun A great talker.
Tongue-shaped Dictionary T - adjective Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
Tongue-shell Dictionary T - noun Any species of Lingula.
Tonguester Dictionary T - noun One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
Tongue-tie Dictionary T - noun Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
Tongue-tied Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.
Tongueworm Dictionary T - noun Any species of Linguatulina.
Tonguy Dictionary T - adjective Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker.
Tonic Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush -1833 from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation.
Tonical Dictionary T - adjective Tonic.
Tonicity Dictionary T - noun The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
Tonight Dictionary T - adverb On this present or coming night.
Tonite Dictionary T - noun An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.
Tonka bean Dictionary T - The seed of a leguminous tree (Dipteryx odorata), native of Guiana. It has a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tonquin bean.
Tonnage Dictionary T - noun The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.
Tonne Dictionary T - noun A tun.
Tonnihood Dictionary T - noun The female of the bullfinch; - called also tonyhoop.
Tonnish Dictionary T - adjective In the ton; fashionable; modish.
Tonometer Dictionary T - noun An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones.
Tonometry Dictionary T - noun The act of measuring with a tonometer;.
Tonophant Dictionary T - noun A modification of the kaleidophon, for showing composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket.
Tonous Dictionary T - adjective Abounding in tone or sound.
Tonquin bean Dictionary T - See Tonka bean.
Tonsil Dictionary T - noun One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.
Tonsilar Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.
Tonsile Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being clipped.
Tonsilitic Dictionary T - adjective Tonsilar.
Tonsilitis Dictionary T - noun Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy.
Tonsilotome Dictionary T - noun An instrument for removing the tonsils.
Tonsilotomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.
Tonsor Dictionary T - noun A barber.
Tonsorial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.
Tonsure Dictionary T - noun The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.
Tonsured Dictionary T - adjective Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.
Tontine Dictionary T - noun An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance.
Tonus Dictionary T - noun Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
Tonies Dictionary T - pleural of Tony.
Tony Dictionary T - noun A simpleton.
Too Dictionary T - adverb Over; more than enough; - noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.
Tool Dictionary T - noun An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
tooled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tool.
tooling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tool.
Tool-post Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tool-stock.
Tool-stock Dictionary T - noun The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.
Tool-rest Dictionary T - noun the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.
Toom Dictionary T - adjective Empty.
Toon Dictionary T - pl. of Toe.
Toonwood Dictionary T - noun Same as Toon.
Toot Dictionary T - intransitive verb To stand out, or be prominent.
Tooted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toot.
Tooting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toot.
Tooter Dictionary T - noun One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.
Tooth Dictionary T - noun One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
Toothed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tooth.
Toothing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tooth.
Toothache Dictionary T - noun Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Toothback Dictionary T - noun Any notodontian.
Toothbill Dictionary T - noun A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.
Toothbrush Dictionary T - noun A brush for cleaning the teeth.
Toothdrawer Dictionary T - noun One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
Toothful Dictionary T - adjective Toothsome.
Toothless Dictionary T - adjective Having no teeth.
Toothlet Dictionary T - noun A little tooth, or like projection.
Toothleted Dictionary T - adjective Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf.
Toothpick Dictionary T - noun A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
Toothpicker Dictionary T - noun A toothpick.
Toothshell Dictionary T - noun Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium.
Toothsome Dictionary T - adjective Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Toothwort Dictionary T - noun A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathraea, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.
Toothy Dictionary T - adjective Toothed; with teeth.
Toozoo Dictionary T - noun The ringdove.
Top Dictionary T - noun A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Topped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Top.
Topping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Top.
Toparch Dictionary T - noun The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.
Toparchies Dictionary T - pleural of Toparchy.
Toparchy Dictionary T - noun A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
Top-armor Dictionary T - noun A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
Topau Dictionary T - noun The rhinocerous bird (a).
Topaz Dictionary T - noun A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
Topazolite Dictionary T - noun A topaz-yellow variety of garnet.
Top-block Dictionary T - noun A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, - used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
Top-boots Dictionary T - noun plural High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
Top-chain Dictionary T - noun A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
Top-cloth Dictionary T - noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
Topcoat Dictionary T - noun An outer coat; an overcoat.
Top-drain Dictionary T - verb transitive To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
Top-draining Dictionary T - noun The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
Top-dressed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Top-dress.
Top-dressing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Top-dress.
Top-dress Dictionary T - verb transitive To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.
Tope Dictionary T - noun A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
Toped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tope.
Toping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tope.
Toper Dictionary T - noun One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
Topet Dictionary T - noun The European crested titmouse.
Topful Dictionary T - adjective Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.
Topgallant Dictionary T - adjective Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.
Toph Dictionary T - noun kind of sandstone.
Tophaceous Dictionary T - adjective Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
Top-hamper Dictionary T - noun The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.
Top-heavy Dictionary T - adjective Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part.
Tophet Dictionary T - noun A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom.
Tophin Dictionary T - noun Same as Toph.
Tophi Dictionary T - pleural of Tophus.
Tophus Dictionary T - noun One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.
Topiarian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
Topiary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.
Topic Dictionary T - noun One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, - denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.
Topical Dictionary T - noun Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
Topically Dictionary T - adverb In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.
Topknot Dictionary T - noun A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.
Topless Dictionary T - adjective Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled.
Top-light Dictionary T - noun A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
Topmem Dictionary T - pleural of Topman.
Topman Dictionary T - noun See Topsman, 2.
Topmast Dictionary T - noun The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.
Topmost Dictionary T - adjective Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
Topographer Dictionary T - noun One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land.
Topographic Dictionary T - Alt. of Topographical.
Topographical Dictionary T - Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.
Topographist Dictionary T - noun A topographer.
Topography Dictionary T - noun The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Topology Dictionary T - noun The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
Toponomy Dictionary T - noun The designation of position and direction.
Toppiece Dictionary T - noun A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.
Toppingly Dictionary T - adverb In a topping or proud manner.
Toppled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Topple.
Toppling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Topple.
Topple Dictionary T - intransitive verb To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Top-proud Dictionary T - adjective Proud to the highest degree.
Top-rope Dictionary T - noun A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
Topsail Dictionary T - noun In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
Tops-and-bottoms Dictionary T - noun plural Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, - used as food for infants.
Top-shaped Dictionary T - adjective Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.
Top-shell Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochidae.
Topsmen Dictionary T - pleural of Topsman.
Topsman Dictionary T - noun The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
Topsoil Dictionary T - noun The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
Topsoiling Dictionary T - noun The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.
Topstone Dictionary T - noun A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.
Topsy-turvy Dictionary T - adverb In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.
Top-tackle Dictionary T - noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
Top-timbers Dictionary T - noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks.
Top-tool Dictionary T - noun A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.
Toque Dictionary T - noun A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; - called also toquet.
Toquet Dictionary T - noun See Toque, 1.
Tor Dictionary T - noun A tower; a turret.
Torace Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Torase.
Torase Dictionary T - verb transitive To scratch to pieces.
Torbernite Dictionary T - noun A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.
Torc Dictionary T - noun Same as Torque, 1.
Torch Dictionary T - noun A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
Torchbearer Dictionary T - noun One whose office it is to carry a torch.
Torcher Dictionary T - noun One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
Torchlight Dictionary T - noun The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
Torchon lace Dictionary T - a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
Torchwood Dictionary T - noun The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Torchwort Dictionary T - noun The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
Toreador Dictionary T - noun A bullfighter.
To-rent Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of To-rend.
To-rend Dictionary T - verb transitive To rend in pieces.
Toret Dictionary T - noun A Turret.
Toreumatography Dictionary T - noun A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.
Toreumatology Dictionary T - noun The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.
Toreutic Dictionary T - adjective In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.
Torgoch Dictionary T - noun The saibling.
Torilto Dictionary T - noun A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa.
Torinese Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Turin.
Torment Dictionary T - noun An engine for casting stones.
tormented Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Torment.
tormenting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Torment.
Tormenter Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.
Tormentful Dictionary T - adjective Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating.
Tormentil Dictionary T - noun A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
Tormentise Dictionary T - noun Torture; torment.
Tormentor Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
Tormentress Dictionary T - noun A woman who torments.
Tormentry Dictionary T - noun Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
Tormina Dictionary T - noun plural acute, colicky pains; gripes.
Torminous Dictionary T - adjective Affected with tormina; griping.
Tornadoes Dictionary T - pleural of Tornado.
Tornado Dictionary T - noun A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
Tornariae Dictionary T - pleural of Tornaria.
Tornaria Dictionary T - noun The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.
Torose Dictionary T - adjective Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Torosity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being torose.
Torous Dictionary T - adjective Torose.
Torpedinous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
Torpedoes Dictionary T - pleural of Torpedo.
Torpedo Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
Torpent Dictionary T - adjective Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.
Torpescence Dictionary T - noun The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.
Toppescent Dictionary T - adjective Becoming torpid or numb.
Torpid Dictionary T - adjective Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
Torpidity Dictionary T - noun Same as Torpidness.
Torpidly Dictionary T - adverb In a torpid manner.
Torpidness Dictionary T - noun The qualityy or state of being torpid.
Torpified Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Torpify.
Torpifying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Torpify.
Torpify Dictionary T - verb transitive To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.
Torpitude Dictionary T - noun Torpidness.
Torpor Dictionary T - noun Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
Torporific Dictionary T - adjective Tending to produce torpor.
Torquate Dictionary T - adjective Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.
torquated Dictionary T - adjective Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.
Torque Dictionary T - noun A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
Torqued Dictionary T - adjective Wreathed; twisted.
Torques Dictionary T - noun A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.
Torrefaction Dictionary T - noun The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.
Torrefied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Torrefy.
Torrefying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Torrefy.
Torrefy Dictionary T - verb transitive To dry by a fire.
Torrent Dictionary T - noun A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
Torrential Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Torrentine.
Torrentine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent.
Torricellian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.
Torrid Dictionary T - adjective Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
Torridity Dictionary T - noun Torridness.
Torridness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being torrid or parched.
Torril Dictionary T - noun A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.
Torrock Dictionary T - noun A gull.
Torsal Dictionary T - noun A torsel.
Torse Dictionary T - noun A wreath.
Torsel Dictionary T - noun A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
Torsibillty Dictionary T - noun The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.
Torsion Dictionary T - noun The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
Torsional Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.
Torsk Dictionary T - noun The cusk. See Cusk.
Torsos Dictionary T - pleural of Torso.
Torsi Dictionary T - pleural of Torso.
Torso Dictionary T - noun The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.
Tort Dictionary T - noun Mischief; injury; calamity.
Torta Dictionary T - noun a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
Torteaus Dictionary T - pleural of Torteau.
Torteau Dictionary T - noun A roundel of a red color.
Torticollis Dictionary T - noun See Wryneck.
Tortile Dictionary T - adjective Twisted; wreathed; coiled.
Tortility Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.
Tortilla Dictionary T - noun An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.
Tortion Dictionary T - noun Torment; pain.
Tortious Dictionary T - adjective Injurious; wrongful.
Tortiously Dictionary T - adverb In a tortous manner.
Tortive Dictionary T - adjective Twisted; wreathed.
Tortoise Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
Tortricid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.
Tortrix Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; - also called leaf roller.
Tortulous Dictionary T - adjective Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Tortuose Dictionary T - adjective Wreathed; twisted; winding.
Tortuoslty Dictionary T - noun the quality or state of being tortuous.
Tortuous Dictionary T - adjective Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
Torturable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being tortured.
Torture Dictionary T - noun Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
Tortured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Torture.
Torturing. Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Torture.
Torturer Dictionary T - noun One who tortures; a tormentor.
Torturingly Dictionary T - adverb So as to torture.
Torturous Dictionary T - adjective Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
Torulae Dictionary T - pleural of Torula.
Torula Dictionary T - noun A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
Torulaform Dictionary T - adjective Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
Torulose Dictionary T - adjective Same as Torose.
Torulous Dictionary T - adjective Same as Torose.
Tori Dictionary T - pleural of Torus.
Torus Dictionary T - noun A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
Torved Dictionary T - adjective Stern; grim. See Torvous.
Torvity Dictionary T - adjective Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.
Torvous Dictionary T - adjective Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.
Tories Dictionary T - pleural of Tory.
Tory Dictionary T - noun A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
Toryism Dictionary T - noun The principles of the Tories.
Toscatter Dictionary T - verb transitive To scatter in pieces; to divide.
Tose Dictionary T - verb transitive To tease, or comb, as wool.
Tosh Dictionary T - adjective Neat; trim.
Toshred Dictionary T - verb transitive To cut into shreads or pieces.
Tossed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toss.
Tost Dictionary T - of Toss.
Tossing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toss.
Toss Dictionary T - verb transitive To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
Tossel Dictionary T - noun See Tassel.
Tosser Dictionary T - noun Ohe who tosser.
Tossily Dictionary T - adverb In a tossy manner.
Tosspot Dictionary T - noun A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.
Tossy Dictionary T - adjective Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.
Tosto Dictionary T - adjective Quick; rapid.
Toswink Dictionary T - intransitive verb To labor excessively.
Tot Dictionary T - noun Anything small; - frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
Tota Dictionary T - noun The grivet.
Total Dictionary T - adjective Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.
Totality Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.
Totalize Dictionary T - verb transitive To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.
Totally Dictionary T - adverb In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
Totalness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.
Toted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tote.
Toting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tote.
Tote Dictionary T - verb transitive To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; - a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
Totear Dictionary T - verb transitive To tear or rend in pieces.
Totem Dictionary T - noun A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.
Totemic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.
Totemism Dictionary T - noun The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.
Totemist Dictionary T - noun One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.
Toter Dictionary T - noun The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.
T'other Dictionary T - A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2.
Totipalmate Dictionary T - adjective Having all four toes united by a web; - said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.
Totipalmi Dictionary T - noun plural A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.
Totipresence Dictionary T - noun Omnipresence.
Totipresent Dictionary T - adjective Omnipresence.
Tottered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Totter.
Tottering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Totter.
Totter Dictionary T - intransitive verb To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
Totterer Dictionary T - noun One who totters.
Totteringly Dictionary T - adverb In a tottering manner.
Tottery Dictionary T - adjective Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.
Tottled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Totly.
Tottling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Totly.
Totly Dictionary T - intransitive verb To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple.
Tottlish Dictionary T - adjective Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.
Totty Dictionary T - adjective Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.
Toty Dictionary T - adjective Totty.
Toucan Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
Toncanet Dictionary T - noun A small toucan.
Touched Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Touch.
Touching Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Touch.
Touch Dictionary T - verb transitive To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Touchable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being touched; tangible.
Touchback Dictionary T - noun The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; - distinguished from safety touchdown.
Touch-box Dictionary T - noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
Touchdown Dictionary T - noun The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal.
Touchhole Dictionary T - noun The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
Touchily Dictionary T - adverb In a touchy manner.
Touchiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
Touch-me-not Dictionary T - noun See Impatiens.
Touch-needle Dictionary T - noun A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
Touch-paper Dictionary T - noun Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
Touchstone Dictionary T - noun Lydian stone; basanite; - so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
Touchwood Dictionary T - noun Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
Touchy Dictionary T - adjective Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Tough Dictionary T - superlative Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
Tough-cake Dictionary T - noun See Tough-pitch (b).
Toughened Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toughen.
Toughening Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toughen.
Toughen Dictionary T - verb intransitive & transitive To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Tough-head Dictionary T - noun The ruddy duck.
Toughish Dictionary T - adjective Tough in a slight degree.
Toughly Dictionary T - adverb In a tough manner.
Toughness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tough.
Tough-pitch Dictionary T - noun The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
Touite Dictionary T - noun The wood warbler.
Toupee Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Toupet.
Toupet Dictionary T - noun A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Toupettit Dictionary T - noun The crested titmouse.
Tour Dictionary T - noun A tower.
Toured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tour.
Touring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tour.
Touraco Dictionary T - noun Same as Turacou.
Tourbillion Dictionary T - noun An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
Tourist Dictionary T - noun One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
Tourmaline Dictionary T - noun A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
Tourn Dictionary T - noun A spinning wheel.
Tournament Dictionary T - noun A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
Tournery Dictionary T - noun Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Tourney Dictionary T - verb transitive A tournament.
Tourniquet Dictionary T - noun An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Tournois Dictionary T - noun A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
Tournure Dictionary T - noun Turn; contour; figure.
Toused Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Touze.
Tousing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Touze.
Touse Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive Alt. of Touze.
Touze Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Tousel Dictionary T - verb transitive Same as Tousle.
Touser Dictionary T - noun One who touses.
Tousle Dictionary T - verb transitive To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tous-les-mois Dictionary T - noun A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
Tout Dictionary T - intransitive verb To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Tout-ensemble Dictionary T - noun All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
Touter Dictionary T - noun One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Tow Dictionary T - noun The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Towed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tow.
Towing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tow.
Towage Dictionary T - verb The act of towing.
Towall Dictionary T - noun A towel.
Toward Dictionary T - preposition Alt. of Towards.
Towards Dictionary T - preposition In the direction of; to.
Towardliness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.
Towardly Dictionary T - adjective Same as Toward, a., 2.
Towardness Dictionary T - noun Quality or state of being toward.
Towboat Dictionary T - noun A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
Towel Dictionary T - noun A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
Toweling Dictionary T - noun Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
Tower Dictionary T - noun A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
towered Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tower.
towering Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tower.
Towery Dictionary T - adjective Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Tow-head Dictionary T - noun An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
Towhee Dictionary T - noun The chewink.
Towilly Dictionary T - noun The sanderling; - so called from its cry.
Towline Dictionary T - verb transitive A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
Town Dictionary T - adverb & preposition Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. Obs. (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. Obs. (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Town-crier Dictionary T - noun A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Towned Dictionary T - adjective Having towns; containing many towns.
Townhall Dictionary T - noun A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
Townhouse Dictionary T - noun A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Townish Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
Townless Dictionary T - adjective Having no town.
Townlet Dictionary T - noun A small town.
Townsfolk Dictionary T - noun The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township Dictionary T - noun The district or territory of a town.
Townsmen Dictionary T - pleural of Townsman.
Townsman Dictionary T - noun An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
Townpeople Dictionary T - noun The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
Townward Dictionary T - adverb Alt. of Townwards.
Townwards Dictionary T - adverb Toward a town.
Towpath Dictionary T - noun A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; - called also towing path.
Towrope Dictionary T - noun A rope used in towing vessels.
Towser Dictionary T - noun A familiar name for a dog.
Towy Dictionary T - adjective Composed of, or like, tow.
Tox/mia Dictionary T - adjective Blood poisoning. See under Blood.
Toxic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Toxical.
Toxical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.
Toxicant Dictionary T - noun A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.
Toxicological Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to toxicology.
Toxicologist Dictionary T - noun One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.
Toxicology Dictionary T - noun The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.
Toxicomania Dictionary T - noun Toxiphobia.
Toxifera Dictionary T - noun plural Same as Toxoglossa.
Toxin Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Toxine.
Toxine Dictionary T - noun A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
Toxiphobia Dictionary T - noun An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.
Toxodon Dictionary T - noun A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
Toxodonta Dictionary T - noun plural An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.
Toxoglossa Dictionary T - noun plural A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.
Toxophilite Dictionary T - noun A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
Toxotes Dictionary T - noun A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.
Toy Dictionary T - verb transitive A plaything for children; a bawble.
toyed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Toy.
toying Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Toy.
Toyear Dictionary T - adverb This year.
Toyer Dictionary T - noun One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
Toyful Dictionary T - adjective Full of trifling play.
Toyhouse Dictionary T - noun A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
Toyingly Dictionary T - adverb In a toying manner.
Toyish Dictionary T - adjective Sportive; trifling; wanton.
Toyman Dictionary T - noun One who deals in toys.
Toyshop Dictionary T - noun A shop where toys are sold.
Toysome Dictionary T - adjective Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.
Toze Dictionary T - verb transitive To pull violently; to touse.
Tozy Dictionary T - adjective Soft, like wool that has been teased.
Trabeae Dictionary T - pleural of Trabea.
Trabea Dictionary T - noun A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. - worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
Trabeated Dictionary T - adjective Furnished with an entablature.
Trabeation Dictionary T - noun Same as Entablature.
Trabeculae Dictionary T - pleural of Trabecula.
Trabecula Dictionary T - noun A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.
Trabecular Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.
Trabeculate Dictionary T - adjective Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
Trabu Dictionary T - noun Same as Trubu.
Trace Dictionary T - noun One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
traced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trace.
tracing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trace.
Traceable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being traced.
Tracer Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, traces.
Traceries Dictionary T - pleural of Tracer/y.
Tracer/y Dictionary T - noun Ornamental work with rambled lines.
Tracheae Dictionary T - pleural of Trachea.
Trachea Dictionary T - noun The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
Tracheal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
Trachearia Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
Tracheary Dictionary T - adjective Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.
Tracheata Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae.
Tracheate Dictionary T - adjective Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
Tracheid Dictionary T - noun A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.
Tracheitis Dictionary T - noun Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
Trachelidan Dictionary T - noun Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
Trachelipod Dictionary T - noun One of the Trachelipoda.
Trachelipoda Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
Trachelipodous Dictionary T - adjective Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the Trachelipoda.
Trachelobranchiate Dictionary T - adjective Having the gills situated upon the neck; - said of certain mollusks.
Trachelorrhaphy Dictionary T - noun The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
Trachenchyma Dictionary T - noun A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae.
Tracheobranchlae Dictionary T - pleural of Tracheobranchia.
Tracheobranchia Dictionary T - noun One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
Tracheobronchial Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; - said of the syrinx of certain birds.
Tracheocele Dictionary T - noun Goiter.
Tracheophonae Dictionary T - noun plural A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
Tracheoscopy Dictionary T - noun Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.
Tracheotomy Dictionary T - noun The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Trachinoid Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. See Weever.
Trachitis Dictionary T - noun Tracheitis.
Trachycarpous Dictionary T - adjective Rough-fruited.
Trachymedusae Dictionary T - noun plural A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
Trachyspermous Dictionary T - adjective Rough-seeded.
Trachystomata Dictionary T - noun plural An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.
Trachyte Dictionary T - noun An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.
Trachytic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
Trachytoid Dictionary T - adjective Resembling trachyte; - used to define the structure of certain rocks.
Track Dictionary T - noun A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
tracked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Track.
tracking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Track.
Trackage Dictionary T - noun The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
Tracker Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
Trackless Dictionary T - adjective Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.
Trackmaster Dictionary T - noun One who has charge of the track; - called also roadmaster.
Track-road Dictionary T - noun A towing path.
Trackscout Dictionary T - noun See Trackschuyt.
Tract Dictionary T - noun A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
Tractability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
Tractable Dictionary T - verb transitive Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
Tractarian Dictionary T - noun One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite.
Tractarianism Dictionary T - noun The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times.".
Tractate Dictionary T - noun A treatise; a tract; an essay.
Tractation Dictionary T - noun Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion.
Tractator Dictionary T - noun One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian.
Tractile Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
Tractility Dictionary T - noun The quality of being tractile; ductility.
Traction Dictionary T - noun The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.
Tractite Dictionary T - noun A Tractarian.
Tractitious Dictionary T - adjective Treating of; handling.
Tractive Dictionary T - adjective Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.
Tractor Dictionary T - noun That which draws, or is used for drawing.
Tractoration Dictionary T - noun See Perkinism.
Tractory Dictionary T - noun A tractrix.
Tractrix Dictionary T - noun A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; - so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Trad Dictionary T - imp. of Tread.
Trade Dictionary T - verb A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
Traded Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trade.
Trading Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trade.
Tradeful Dictionary T - adjective Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial.
Tradeless Dictionary T - adjective Having no trade or traffic.
Trade-mark Dictionary T - noun A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
Trader Dictionary T - noun One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
Tradescantia Dictionary T - noun A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
Tradesfolk Dictionary T - noun People employed in trade; tradesmen.
Tradesmen Dictionary T - pleural of Tradesman.
Tradesman Dictionary T - noun One who trades; a shopkeeper.
Tradespeople Dictionary T - noun People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
trades union Dictionary T - Alt. of Trade union.
Trade union Dictionary T - An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
Trades-unionist Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Trade-unionist.
Trade-unionist Dictionary T - noun A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
Tradeswomen Dictionary T - pleural of Tradeswoman.
Tradeswoman Dictionary T - noun A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
Tradition Dictionary T - noun The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Traditional Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Traditionlism Dictionary T - noun A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.
Traditionalist Dictionary T - noun An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
Traditionally Dictionary T - adverb In a traditional manner.
Traditionarily Dictionary T - adverb By tradition.
Traditionary Dictionary T - adjective Traditional.
Traditionaries Dictionary T - pleural of Traditionary.
Traditioner Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Traditionist.
Traditionist Dictionary T - noun One who adheres to tradition.
Traditive Dictionary T - adjective Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional.
Traditor Dictionary T - noun A deliverer; - a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
Traduced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Traduce.
Traducing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Traduce.
Traduce Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.
Traducement Dictionary T - noun The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.
Traducent Dictionary T - adjective Slanderous.
Traducer Dictionary T - noun One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.
Traducian Dictionary T - noun A believer in traducianism.
Traducianism Dictionary T - noun The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; - opposed to creationism, and infusionism.
Traducible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being derived or propagated.
Traducingly Dictionary T - adverb In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.
Traduct Dictionary T - verb transitive To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer.
Traduction Dictionary T - noun Transmission from one to another.
Traductive Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being deduced; derivable.
Trafficked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Traffic.
Trafficking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Traffic.
Traffic Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
Trafficable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable.
Trafficker Dictionary T - noun One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
Trafficless Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of traffic, or trade.
Tragacanth Dictionary T - noun A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
Tragedian Dictionary T - noun A writer of tragedy.
Tragedienne Dictionary T - noun A woman who plays in tragedy.
Tragedious Dictionary T - adjective Like tragedy; tragical.
Tragedies Dictionary T - pleural of Tragedy.
Tragedy Dictionary T - noun A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
Tragic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tragical.
Tragical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
Tragi-comedy Dictionary T - noun A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
Tragi-comic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tragi-comical.
Tragi-comical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.
Tragi-comi-pastoral Dictionary T - adjective Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.
Tragopan Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.
Tragus Dictionary T - noun The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.
T rail Dictionary T - See under T.
Trailed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trail.
Trailing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trail.
Trail Dictionary T - verb transitive To hunt by the track; to track.
Trailer Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, trails.
Trained Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Train.
Training Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Train.
Train Dictionary T - verb transitive To draw along; to trail; to drag.
Trainable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
Trainbands Dictionary T - pleural of Trainband.
Trainband Dictionary T - noun A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; - afterwards applied to the London militia.
Trainbearer Dictionary T - noun One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
Trainel Dictionary T - noun A dragnet.
Trainer Dictionary T - noun One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.
Train oil Dictionary T - Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
Trainy Dictionary T - adjective Belonging to train oil.
Traipse Dictionary T - intransitive verb To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
Trais Dictionary T - noun plural Alt. of Trays.
Trays Dictionary T - noun plural Traces.
Trait Dictionary T - verb A stroke; a touch.
Traiteur Dictionary T - noun The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
Traitor Dictionary T - noun One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
Traitoress Dictionary T - noun A traitress.
Traitorly Dictionary T - adjective Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous.
Traitorous Dictionary T - adjective Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject.
Traitory Dictionary T - noun Treachery.
Traitress Dictionary T - noun A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress.
Trajected Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Traject.
Trajecting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Traject.
Traject Dictionary T - verb transitive To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.
Trajection Dictionary T - noun The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission.
Trajectories Dictionary T - pleural of Trajectory.
Trajectory Dictionary T - noun The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.
Trajet Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Trajetry.
Trajetour Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Trajetry.
Trajetry Dictionary T - noun See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry.
Tralation Dictionary T - noun The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
Tralatition Dictionary T - noun A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
Tralatitious Dictionary T - adjective Passed along; handed down; transmitted.
Tralatitiously Dictionary T - adverb In a tralatitious manner; metephorically.
Tralineate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To deviate; to stray; to wander.
Tralucency Dictionary T - noun Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem.
Tralucent Dictionary T - adjective Translucent.
Tram Dictionary T - noun A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
Tramble Dictionary T - verb transitive To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
Trammel Dictionary T - noun A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
Trammeled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trammel.
Trammelled Dictionary T - of Trammel.
Trammeling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trammel.
Trammelling Dictionary T - of Trammel.
Trammeler Dictionary T - noun One who uses a trammel net.
Tramming Dictionary T - noun The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.
Tramontane Dictionary T - adjective Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.
Tramped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tramp.
Tramping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tramp.
Tramp Dictionary T - intransitive verb To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
Tramper Dictionary T - noun One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.
Trampled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trample.
Trampling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trample.
Trample Dictionary T - verb transitive To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
Trampler Dictionary T - noun One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.
Trampoose Dictionary T - intransitive verb To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp.
Tramroad Dictionary T - noun A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.
Tramway Dictionary T - noun Same as Tramroad.
Tranation Dictionary T - noun The act of swimming over.
Trance Dictionary T - noun A tedious journey.
Tranced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trance.
Trancing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trance.
Tranect Dictionary T - noun A ferry.
Trangram Dictionary T - noun Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.
Trannel Dictionary T - noun A treenail.
Tranquil Dictionary T - adjective Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.
Tranquilization Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tranquillization.
Tranquillization Dictionary T - noun The act of tranquilizing, or the state of being tranquilized.
Tranquilized Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tranquillize.
Tranquilliized Dictionary T - of Tranquillize.
Tranquilizing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tranquillize.
Tranquillizing Dictionary T - of Tranquillize.
Tranquilize Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Tranquillize.
Tranquillize Dictionary T - verb transitive To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.
Tranquilizer Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tranquillizer.
Tranquillizer Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
Tranquillity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; composure.
Tranquilly Dictionary T - adverb In a tranquil manner; calmly.
Tranquilness Dictionary T - noun Quality or state of being tranquil.
Trans- Dictionary T - A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.
Transacted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transact.
Transacting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transact.
Transact Dictionary T - verb transitive To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
Transaction Dictionary T - noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
Transactor Dictionary T - noun One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business.
Transalpine Dictionary T - adjective Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; - opposed to cisalpine.
Transanimated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transanimate.
Transanimating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transanimate.
Transanimate Dictionary T - verb transitive To animate with a soul conveyed from another body.
Transanimation Dictionary T - noun The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.
Transatlantic Dictionary T - adjective Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean.
Transaudient Dictionary T - adjective Permitting the passage of sound.
Transcalency Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transcalent.
Transcalent Dictionary T - adjective Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.
Transcended Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transcend.
Transcending Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transcend.
Transcend Dictionary T - verb transitive To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
Transcendence Dictionary T - Alt. of Transcendency.
Transcendency Dictionary T - The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.
Transcendent Dictionary T - adjective Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Trancscendent Dictionary T - noun That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
Trancscendental Dictionary T - adjective Supereminent; surpassing others; as, transcendental being or qualities.
Transcendental Dictionary T - noun A transcendentalist.
Transcendentalism Dictionary T - noun The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Transcendentalist Dictionary T - noun One who believes in transcendentalism.
Transcendentality Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transcendental.
Transcendentally Dictionary T - adverb In a transcendental manner.
Transcendently Dictionary T - adverb In a transcendent manner.
Transcendentness Dictionary T - noun Same as Transcendence.
Transcension Dictionary T - noun The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.
Transcolated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transcolate.
Transcolating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transcolate.
Transcolate Dictionary T - verb transitive To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve.
Transcolation Dictionary T - noun Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.
Transcontinental Dictionary T - adjective Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.
Transcorporate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To transmigrate.
Transcribbler Dictionary T - noun A transcriber; - used in contempt.
Transcribed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transcribe.
Transcribing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transcribe.
Transcribe Dictionary T - verb transitive To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.
Transcriber Dictionary T - noun One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Transcript Dictionary T - noun That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
Transcription Dictionary T - noun The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
Transcriptive Dictionary T - adjective Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription.
Transcur Dictionary T - intransitive verb To run or rove to and fro.
Transcurrence Dictionary T - noun A roving hither and thither.
Transcursion Dictionary T - noun A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.
Transdialect Dictionary T - verb transitive To change or translate from one dialect into another.
Transduction Dictionary T - noun The act of conveying over.
Transe Dictionary T - noun See Trance.
Transelement Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Transelementate.
Transelementate Dictionary T - verb transitive To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate.
Transelementation Dictionary T - noun Transubstantiation.
Transenne Dictionary T - noun A transom.
Transept Dictionary T - noun The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
Transexion Dictionary T - noun Change of sex.
Transfeminate Dictionary T - verb transitive To change into a woman, as a man.
Transferred Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transfer.
Transferring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transfer.
Transfer Dictionary T - verb transitive To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
Transferability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transferable.
Transferable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.
Transferee Dictionary T - noun The person to whom a transfer in made.
Transference Dictionary T - noun The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
Transferography Dictionary T - noun The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.
Transferrence Dictionary T - noun See Transference.
Transferrer Dictionary T - noun One who makes a transfer or conveyance.
Transferrible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transferred; transferable.
Transfigurate Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfigure; to transform.
Transfiguratien Dictionary T - noun A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.
Transfigured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transfigure.
Transfiguring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transfigure.
Transfigure Dictionary T - verb transitive To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
Transfixed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transfix.
Transfixing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transfix.
Transfix Dictionary T - verb transitive To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
Transfixion Dictionary T - noun The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
Transfluent Dictionary T - adjective Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.
Transflux Dictionary T - noun A flowing through, across, or beyond.
Transforate Dictionary T - verb transitive To bore through; to perforate.
Transformed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transform.
Transforming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transform.
Transform Dictionary T - verb transitive To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
Transformable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transformed or changed.
Transformation Dictionary T - noun The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.
Transformative Dictionary T - adjective Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
Transformer Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
Transformism Dictionary T - noun The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; - opposed to abiogenesis.
Transfreight Dictionary T - intransitive verb To transfrete.
Transfretation Dictionary T - noun The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
Transfrete Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
Transfuge Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Transfugitive.
Transfugitive Dictionary T - noun One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.
Transfund Dictionary T - verb transitive To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse.
Transfused Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transfuse.
Transfusing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transfuse.
Transfuse Dictionary T - verb transitive To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
Transfusible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.
Transfusion Dictionary T - noun The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
Transfusive Dictionary T - adjective Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.
Transgressed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transgress.
Transgressing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transgress.
Transgress Dictionary T - verb transitive To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
Transgression Dictionary T - noun The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.
Transgressional Dictionary T - adjective Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.
Transgressive Dictionary T - adjective Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -.
Transgressor Dictionary T - noun One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.
Transhape Dictionary T - verb transitive To transshape.
Tranship Dictionary T - verb transitive Same as Transship.
Transhipment Dictionary T - noun Same as Transshipment.
Transhuman Dictionary T - adjective More than human; superhuman.
Transhumanize Dictionary T - verb transitive To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity.
Transience Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Transiency.
Transiency Dictionary T - noun The quality of being transient; transientness.
Transient Dictionary T - adjective Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.
Transilience Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Transiliency.
Transiliency Dictionary T - noun A leap across or from one thing to another.
Transire Dictionary T - noun A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.
Transit Dictionary T - noun The act of passing; passage through or over.
Transition Dictionary T - noun Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
Transitional Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Transitionary Dictionary T - adjective Transitional.
Transitive Dictionary T - adjective Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
Transitorily Dictionary T - adverb In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
Transitoriness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.
Transitory Dictionary T - adjective Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
Translatable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
Translated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Translate.
Translating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Translate.
Translate Dictionary T - verb transitive To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
Translation Dictionary T - noun The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.
Translatitious Dictionary T - adjective Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic.
Translative Dictionary T - adjective tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense.
Translator Dictionary T - noun One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
Translatorship Dictionary T - noun The office or dignity of a translator.
Translatory Dictionary T - adjective Serving to translate; transferring.
Translatress Dictionary T - noun A woman who translates.
Translavation Dictionary T - noun A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
Transliterate Dictionary T - verb transitive To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters.
Transliteration Dictionary T - noun The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
Translocation Dictionary T - noun removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.
Translucence Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Translucency.
Translucency Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency.
Translucent Dictionary T - adjective Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
Translucently Dictionary T - adverb In a translucent manner.
Translucid Dictionary T - adjective Translucent.
Translunary Dictionary T - adjective Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; - opposed to sublunary.
Transmarine Dictionary T - adjective Lying or being beyond the sea.
Transmeable Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Transmeatable.
Transmeatable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable.
Transmeate Dictionary T - verb transitive To pass over or beyond.
Transmeation Dictionary T - noun The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond.
Transmew Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.
Transmigrant Dictionary T - adjective Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another.
Transmigrated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transmigrate.
Transmigrating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transmigrate.
Transmigrate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
Transmigration Dictionary T - noun The act of passing from one country to another; migration.
Transmigrator Dictionary T - noun One who transmigrates.
Transmigratory Dictionary T - adjective Passing from one body or state to another.
Transmissibility Dictionary T - noun The quality of being transmissible.
Transmissible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
Transmission Dictionary T - noun The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.
Transmissive Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another.
Transmitted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transmit.
Transmitting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transmit.
Transmit Dictionary T - verb transitive To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.
Transmittal Dictionary T - noun Transmission.
Transmittance Dictionary T - noun Transmission.
Transmitter Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; - opposed to receiver.
Transmittible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.
Transmogrification Dictionary T - noun The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.
Transmogrify Dictionary T - verb transitive To change into a different shape; to transform.
Transmove Dictionary T - verb transitive To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
Transmutability Dictionary T - noun The quality of being transmutable.
Transmutable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.
Transmutation Dictionary T - noun The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
Transmutationist Dictionary T - noun One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
Transmuted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transmute.
Transmuting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transmute.
Transmute Dictionary T - verb transitive To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.
Transmuter Dictionary T - noun One who transmutes.
Transmutual Dictionary T - adjective Reciprocal; commutual.
Transnatation Dictionary T - noun The act of swimming across, as a river.
Transnature Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfer or transform the nature of.
Transom Dictionary T - noun A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.
Transpadane Dictionary T - adjective Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; - opposed to cispadane.
Transpalatine Dictionary T - adjective Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; - said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.
Transpare Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.
Transparence Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
Transparencies Dictionary T - pleural of Transparency.
Transparency Dictionary T - noun The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.
Transparent Dictionary T - adjective Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; - opposed to opaque.
Transpass Dictionary T - verb transitive To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river.
Transpassable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over.
Transpatronize Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfer the patronage of.
Transpeciate Dictionary T - verb transitive To change from one species to another; to transform.
Transpicuous Dictionary T - adjective Transparent; pervious to the sight.
Transpierced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transpierce.
Transpiercing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transpierce.
Transpierce Dictionary T - verb transitive To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.
Transpirable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.
Transpiration Dictionary T - noun The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.
Transpiratory Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to transpiration.
Transpired Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transpire.
Transpiring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transpire.
Transpire Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
Transplaced Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transplace.
Transplacing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transplace.
Transplace Dictionary T - verb transitive To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.
Transplanted Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transplant.
Transplanting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transplant.
Transplant Dictionary T - verb transitive To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
Transplantation Dictionary T - noun The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.
Transplanter Dictionary T - noun One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.
Transplendency Dictionary T - noun Quality or state of being transplendent.
Transplendent Dictionary T - adjective Resplendent in the highest degree.
Transported Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transport.
Transporting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transport.
Transport Dictionary T - verb transitive To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
Transportability Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being transportable.
Transportable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transported.
Transportal Dictionary T - noun Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.
Transportance Dictionary T - noun Transportation.
Transportant Dictionary T - adjective Transporting; /avishing; as, transportant love.
Transportation Dictionary T - noun The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.
Transporter Dictionary T - noun One who transports.
Transportingly Dictionary T - adverb So as to transport.
Transportment Dictionary T - noun The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.
Transposable Dictionary T - adjective That may transposed; as, a transposable phrase.
Transposal Dictionary T - noun The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.
Transposed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transpose.
Transposing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transpose.
Transpose Dictionary T - verb transitive To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
Transposer Dictionary T - noun One who transposes.
Transposition Dictionary T - noun The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
Transpositional Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition.
Transpositive Dictionary T - adjective Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
Transprint Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.
Transprose Dictionary T - verb transitive To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose.
Transregionate Dictionary T - adjective Foreign.
Transshaped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transshape.
Transshaping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transshape.
Transshape Dictionary T - verb transitive To change into another shape or form; to transform.
Transship Dictionary T - verb transitive To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.
Transshipment Dictionary T - noun The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.
Transubstantiate Dictionary T - verb transitive To change into another substance.
Transubstantiation Dictionary T - noun A change into another substance.
Transubstantiator Dictionary T - noun One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Transudation Dictionary T - noun The act or process of transuding.
Transudatory Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.
Transuded Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transude.
Transuding Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transude.
Transude Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Transume Dictionary T - verb transitive To change; to convert.
Transsummer Dictionary T - noun See Transom, 2.
Transumpt Dictionary T - noun A copy or exemplification of a record.
Transumption Dictionary T - noun Act of taking from one place to another.
Transumptive Dictionary T - adjective Taking from one to another; metaphorical.
Transvasate Dictionary T - verb transitive To pour out of one vessel into another.
Transvasation Dictionary T - noun The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
Transvection Dictionary T - noun The act of conveying or carrying over.
Transverberate Dictionary T - verb transitive To beat or strike through.
Transversal Dictionary T - adjective Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
Transverse Dictionary T - adjective Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; - often opposed to longitudinal.
Transversed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Transverse.
Transversing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Transverse.
Transversely Dictionary T - adverb In a transverse manner.
Transversion Dictionary T - noun The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Transvert Dictionary T - verb transitive To cause to turn across; to transverse.
Transvertible Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being transverted.
Transvolation Dictionary T - noun The act of flying beyond or across.
Trant Dictionary T - intransitive verb To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.
Tranter Dictionary T - noun One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Trapped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trap.
Trapping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trap.
Trap Dictionary T - verb transitive To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.
Trapan Dictionary T - noun A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
Trapanned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trapan.
Trapanning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trapan.
Trapanner Dictionary T - noun One who trapans, or insnares.
Trapball Dictionary T - noun An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.
Trapdoor Dictionary T - noun A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
Trape Dictionary T - intransitive verb To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.
Trapes Dictionary T - noun A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
Trapezate Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.
Trapeze Dictionary T - noun A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.
Trapeziform Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.
Trapeziums Dictionary T - pleural of Trapezium.
Trapezia Dictionary T - pleural of Trapezium.
Trapezium Dictionary T - noun A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
Trapezohedral Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.
Trapezohedron Dictionary T - noun A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.
Trapezoid Dictionary T - noun A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
Trapezoidal Dictionary T - adjective Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.
Traphole Dictionary T - noun See Trou-de-loup.
Trappean Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
Trapper Dictionary T - noun One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
Trappings Dictionary T - noun plural That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Trappist Dictionary T - noun A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
Trappous Dictionary T - noun Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
Trappures Dictionary T - noun plural Trappings for a horse.
Trappy Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trappous.
Traps Dictionary T - noun plural Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Trapstick Dictionary T - noun A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.
Trash Dictionary T - noun That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Trashed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trash.
Trashing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trash.
Trashily Dictionary T - adverb In a trashy manner.
Trashiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being trashy.
Trashy Dictionary T - superlative Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Trass Dictionary T - noun A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; - sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.
Traulism Dictionary T - noun A stammering or stuttering.
Traumatic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.
Traumatism Dictionary T - noun A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
Traunce Dictionary T - noun & verb See Trance.
Traunt Dictionary T - intransitive verb Same as Trant.
Traunter Dictionary T - noun Same as Tranter.
Travail Dictionary T - noun Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
Travailed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Travail.
Travailing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Travail.
Travailous Dictionary T - adjective Causing travail; laborious.
Trave Dictionary T - noun A crossbeam; a lay of joists.
Traveled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Travel.
Travelled Dictionary T - of Travel.
Traveling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Travel.
Travelling Dictionary T - of Travel.
Travel Dictionary T - intransitive verb To labor; to travail.
Traveler Dictionary T - noun One who travels; one who has traveled much.
Travel-tainted Dictionary T - adjective Harassed; fatigued with travel.
Travers Dictionary T - adjective Across; athwart.
Traversable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
Traverse Dictionary T - adjective Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Traversed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Traverse.
Traversing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Traverse.
Traverser Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.
Travertine Dictionary T - noun A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.
Travesty Dictionary T - adjective Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; - applied to a book or shorter composition.
Travesties Dictionary T - pleural of Travesty.
Travestied Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Travesty.
Travesting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Travesty.
Trawl Dictionary T - verb transitive To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
Trawlboat Dictionary T - noun A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
Trawler Dictionary T - noun One who, or that which, trawls.
Trawlermen Dictionary T - pleural of Trawlerman.
Trawlerman Dictionary T - noun A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
Trawlnet Dictionary T - noun Same as Trawl, n., 2.
Trawlwarp Dictionary T - noun A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.
Tray Dictionary T - verb transitive To betray; to deceive.
Trayfuls Dictionary T - pleural of Trayful.
Trayful Dictionary T - noun As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.
Tray-trip Dictionary T - noun An old game played with dice.
Treacher Dictionary T - noun A traitor; a cheat.
Treacherous Dictionary T - adjective Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Treachery Dictionary T - noun Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
Treachetour Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Treachour.
Treachour Dictionary T - noun A traitor.
Treacle Dictionary T - noun A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
Treacly Dictionary T - adjective Like, or composed of, treacle.
Trod Dictionary T - imperative of Tread.
Trodden Dictionary T - past participle of Tread.
Treading Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tread.
Tread Dictionary T - intransitive verb To set the foot; to step.
Treadboard Dictionary T - noun See Tread, n., 5.
Treader Dictionary T - noun One who treads.
Treadfowl Dictionary T - noun A cock.
Treadle Dictionary T - noun The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
Treadmill Dictionary T - noun A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
Tread-softly Dictionary T - noun Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Treadwheel Dictionary T - noun A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.
Treague Dictionary T - noun A truce.
Treason Dictionary T - noun The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
Treasonable Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.
Treasonous Dictionary T - adjective Treasonable.
Treasure Dictionary T - noun Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
Treasured Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Treasure.
Treasuring Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Treasure.
Treasure-house Dictionary T - noun A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
Treasurer Dictionary T - noun One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation.
Treasurership Dictionary T - noun The office of treasurer.
Treasuress Dictionary T - noun A woman who is a treasurer.
Treasure-trove Dictionary T - noun Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.
Treasuries Dictionary T - pleural of Treasury.
Treasury Dictionary T - noun A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
Treated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Treat.
Treating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Treat.
Treat Dictionary T - verb transitive To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
Treatable Dictionary T - adjective Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent.
Treatably Dictionary T - adverb In a treatable manner.
Treater Dictionary T - noun One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
Treatise Dictionary T - noun A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
Treatiser Dictionary T - noun One who writes a treatise.
Treatment Dictionary T - noun The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
Treature Dictionary T - noun Treatment.
Treaties Dictionary T - pleural of Treaty.
Treaty Dictionary T - noun The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.
Treble Dictionary T - adjective Threefold; triple.
Trebled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Treble.
Trebling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Treble.
Trebleness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.
Treblet Dictionary T - noun Same as Triblet.
Trebly Dictionary T - adverb In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.
Trebuchet Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Trebucket.
Trebucket Dictionary T - noun A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
Trechometer Dictionary T - noun An odometer for vehicles.
Treckschuyt Dictionary T - noun A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
Treddle Dictionary T - noun See Treadle.
Tredille Dictionary T - noun A game at cards for three.
Tree Dictionary T - noun Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
Treed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tree.
Treeing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tree.
Treebeard Dictionary T - noun A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); - so called from its resemblance to hair.
Treefuls Dictionary T - pleural of Treeful.
Treeful Dictionary T - noun The quantity or number which fills a tree.
Treeless Dictionary T - adjective Destitute of trees.
Treen Dictionary T - adjective Made of wood; wooden.
Treenail Dictionary T - noun A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.
Trefle Dictionary T - noun A species of time; - so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.
Trefoil Dictionary T - noun Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; - less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
Trefoiled Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trefle.
Treget Dictionary T - noun Guile; trickery.
Tregetour Dictionary T - noun A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.
Tregetry Dictionary T - noun Trickery; also, a trick.
Trehala Dictionary T - noun An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.
Trehalose Dictionary T - noun Mycose; - so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.
Treillage Dictionary T - noun Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
Trellis Dictionary T - noun A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
Trellised Dictionary T - adjective Having a trellis or trellises.
Tremando Dictionary T - adjective Trembling; - used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.
Trematode Dictionary T - noun One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.
Trematodea Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
Trematoid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Trematodea. See Illustration in Appendix.
Trembled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tremble.
Trembling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tremble.
Tremble Dictionary T - intransitive verb To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; - said of a person or an animal.
Trembler Dictionary T - noun One who trembles.
Tremella Dictionary T - noun A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.
Tremendous Dictionary T - adjective Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
Tremex Dictionary T - noun A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.
Tremolando Dictionary T - adjective Same as Tremando.
Tremolite Dictionary T - noun A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.
Tremolo Dictionary T - noun The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
Tremor Dictionary T - verb A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
Tremulant Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tremulent.
Tremulent Dictionary T - adjective Tremulous; trembling; shaking.
Tremulous Dictionary T - adjective Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
Tren Dictionary T - noun A fish spear.
Trenail Dictionary T - noun Same as Treenail.
Trenched Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trench.
Trenching Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trench.
Trench Dictionary T - verb transitive To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
Trenchand Dictionary T - adjective Trenchant.
Trenchant Dictionary T - verb transitive Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
Trenchantly Dictionary T - adverb In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
Trencher Dictionary T - verb transitive One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
Trencher-men Dictionary T - pleural of Trencher-man.
Trencher-man Dictionary T - noun A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
Trenchmore Dictionary T - noun A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
Trench-plow Dictionary T - verb transitive Alt. of Trench-plough.
Trench-plough Dictionary T - verb transitive To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
Trended Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trend.
Trending Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trend.
Trend Dictionary T - intransitive verb To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Trender Dictionary T - noun One whose business is to free wool from its filth.
Trendle Dictionary T - intransitive verb A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
Trental Dictionary T - noun An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
Trenton period Dictionary T - A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; - so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
Trepan Dictionary T - noun A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
Trepanned Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trepan.
Trepanning Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trepan.
Trepang Dictionary T - noun Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; - called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
Trepanize Dictionary T - verb transitive To trepan.
Trepanner Dictionary T - noun One who trepans.
Trepeget Dictionary T - noun A trebuchet.
Trephine Dictionary T - noun An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
Trephined Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trephine.
Trephining Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trephine.
Trepid Dictionary T - adjective Trembling; quaking.
Trepidation Dictionary T - noun An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Trepidity Dictionary T - noun Trepidation.
Tresayle Dictionary T - noun A grandfather's grandfather.
Tresor Dictionary T - noun Treasure.
Trespassed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trespass.
Trespassing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trespass.
Trespass Dictionary T - intransitive verb To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
Trespasser Dictionary T - noun One who commits a trespass.
Tress Dictionary T - noun A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Tressed Dictionary T - adjective Having tresses.
Tressel Dictionary T - noun A trestle.
Tressful Dictionary T - adjective Tressy.
Tressure Dictionary T - noun A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
Tressured Dictionary T - adjective Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
Tressy Dictionary T - adjective Abounding in tresses.
Trestle Dictionary T - noun A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
Trestletree Dictionary T - noun One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; - generally used in the plural.
Trestlework Dictionary T - noun A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
Tres-tyne Dictionary T - noun In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.
Tret Dictionary T - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
Tretable Dictionary T - adjective Tractable; moderate.
Trething Dictionary T - noun A tax; an impost.
Tretis Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tretys.
Tretys Dictionary T - noun A treatise; also, a treaty.
Trevat Dictionary T - noun A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
Trevet Dictionary T - noun A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.
Trew Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trewe.
Trewe Dictionary T - adjective True.
Trews Dictionary T - noun plural Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.
Trewth Dictionary T - noun Truth.
Trey Dictionary T - noun Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
Tri- Dictionary T - A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.
Triable Dictionary T - adjective Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.
Triableness Dictionary T - noun Quality or state of being triable.
Triacid Dictionary T - adjective Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; - said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
Triacle Dictionary T - noun See Treacle.
Triacontahedral Dictionary T - adjective Having thirty sides.
Triaconter Dictionary T - noun A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
Triad Dictionary T - noun A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
Triadelphous Dictionary T - adjective Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
Triadic Dictionary T - adjective Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
Triakisoctahedron Dictionary T - noun A trigonal trisoctahedron.
Trial Dictionary T - noun The act of trying or testing in any manner.
Triality Dictionary T - noun Three united; state of being three.
Trialogue Dictionary T - noun A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
Triamide Dictionary T - noun An amide containing three amido groups.
Triamine Dictionary T - noun An amine containing three amido groups.
Triander Dictionary T - noun Any one of the Triandria.
Triandria Dictionary T - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens.
Triandrian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triandrous.
Triandrous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
Triangle Dictionary T - noun A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
Triangled Dictionary T - adjective Having three angles; triangular.
Triangular Dictionary T - adjective Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
Triangulares Dictionary T - noun plural The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
Triangularity Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being triangular.
Triangularly Dictionary T - adverb In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle.
Triangulated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Triangulate.
Triangulating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Triangulate.
Triangulate Dictionary T - verb transitive To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
Triangulation Dictionary T - noun The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
Triarchies Dictionary T - pleural of Triarchy.
Triarchy Dictionary T - noun Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.
Triarian Dictionary T - adjective Occupying the third post or rank.
Triarticulate Dictionary T - adjective Having three joints.
Trias Dictionary T - noun The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
Triassic Dictionary T - adjective Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
Triatic Dictionary T - adjective A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
Triatomic Dictionary T - adjective Having three atoms; - said of certain elements or radicals.
Tribal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
Tribalism Dictionary T - noun The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
Tribasic Dictionary T - adjective Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; - said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
Tribble Dictionary T - noun A frame on which paper is dried.
Tribe Dictionary T - noun A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
Triblet Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Tribolet.
Tribolet Dictionary T - noun A goldsmith's tool used in making rings.
Tribometer Dictionary T - noun An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces.
Tribrach Dictionary T - noun A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
Tribracteate Dictionary T - adjective Having three bracts.
Tribual Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tribular.
Tribular Dictionary T - adjective Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
Tribulation Dictionary T - noun That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
Tribunal Dictionary T - noun The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
Tribunary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
Tribunate Dictionary T - noun The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.
Tribune Dictionary T - noun An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
Tribuneship Dictionary T - noun The office or power of a tribune.
Tribunician Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tribunitian.
Tribunitial Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tribunitian.
Tribunitian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority.
Tribunitious Dictionary T - adjective Tribunician; tribunitial.
Trubutarily Dictionary T - adverb In a tributary manner.
Tributariness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tributary.
Tributary Dictionary T - adjective Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
Tributaries Dictionary T - pleural of Tributary.
Tribute Dictionary T - noun An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.
Tributed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Tribute.
Tributing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Tribute.
Tributer Dictionary T - noun One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.
Tricae Dictionary T - pleural of Trica.
Trica Dictionary T - noun An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Tricarballylic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.
Tricarbimide Dictionary T - noun See under Cyanuric.
Trice Dictionary T - verb transitive To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
Tricennarious Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to thirty years; tricennial.
Tricennial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.
Tricentenary Dictionary T - adjective Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
Triceps Dictionary T - noun A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
Trichiasis Dictionary T - noun A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.
Trichinae Dictionary T - pleural of Trichina.
Trichina Dictionary T - noun A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
Trichiniasis Dictionary T - noun Trichinosis.
Trichinize Dictionary T - verb transitive To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; - chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.
Trichinoscope Dictionary T - noun An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
Trichinosis Dictionary T - noun The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
Trichinous Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.
Trichite Dictionary T - noun A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
Trichiuriform Dictionary T - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.
Trichiuroid Dictionary T - adjective Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.
Trichiurus Dictionary T - noun A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.
Trichloride Dictionary T - noun A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.
Trichobranchia Dictionary T - noun The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
Trichocyst Dictionary T - noun A lasso cell.
Trichogyne Dictionary T - noun The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.
Trichomanes Dictionary T - noun Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.
Trichomatose Dictionary T - adjective Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; - said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.
Trichome Dictionary T - noun A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
Trichophore Dictionary T - noun The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.
Trichopter Dictionary T - noun One of the Trichoptera.
Trichoptera Dictionary T - noun plural A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.
Trichopteran Dictionary T - One of the Trichoptera.
Trichopterous Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.
Trichord Dictionary T - noun An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
Trichoscolices Dictionary T - noun plural An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
Trichotomous Dictionary T - adjective Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem.
Trichotomy Dictionary T - noun Division into three parts.
Trichroic Dictionary T - adjective Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.
Trichroism Dictionary T - noun The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.
Trichromatic Dictionary T - adjective Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; - said of certain birds and insects.
Trichromatism Dictionary T - noun The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.
Trichromic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.
Tricipital Dictionary T - adjective Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle.
Trick Dictionary T - adjective An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
Tricked Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trick.
Tricking Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trick.
Tricker Dictionary T - noun One who tricks; a trickster.
Trickery Dictionary T - noun The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Trickiness Dictionary T - noun The quality of being tricky.
Trickish Dictionary T - adjective Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
Trickled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trickle.
Trickling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trickle.
Trickle Dictionary T - verb transitive To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
Trickment Dictionary T - noun Decoration.
Tricksiness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness.
Trickster Dictionary T - noun One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Tricksy Dictionary T - adjective Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.
Tricktrack Dictionary T - noun An old game resembling backgammon.
Tricky Dictionary T - adjective Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Triclinate Dictionary T - adjective Triclinic.
Tricliniary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.
Triclinic Dictionary T - adjective Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.
Triclinia Dictionary T - pleural of Triclinium.
Triclinium Dictionary T - noun A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
Tricoccous Dictionary T - adjective Having three cocci, or roundish carpels.
Tricolor Dictionary T - noun The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
Tricolored Dictionary T - adjective Having three colors.
Tricornigerous Dictionary T - adjective Having three horns.
Tricorporal Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tricorporate.
Tricorporate Dictionary T - adjective Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
Tricostate Dictionary T - adjective Three-ribbed; having three ribs from the base.
Tricot Dictionary T - noun A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.
Tricrotic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.
Tricrotism Dictionary T - noun That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
Tricrotous Dictionary T - adjective Tricrotic.
Tricurvate Dictionary T - adjective Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
Tricuspid Dictionary T - adjective Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.
Tricuspidate Dictionary T - adjective Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.
Tricycle Dictionary T - noun A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.
Tridacna Dictionary T - noun A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.
Tridactyl Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tridactyle.
Tridactyle Dictionary T - adjective Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.
Tridactylous Dictionary T - adjective Tridactyl.
Triddler Dictionary T - noun The jacksnipe.
Tride Dictionary T - adjective Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; - a term used by sportsmen.
Tridecane Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.
Tridecatoic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, that acid of the fatty acids heterologous with tridecane. It is a white crystalline substance.
Tridecatylene Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon, C13H26, of the ethylene series, corresponding to tridecane, and obtained from Burmah petroleum as a light colorless liquid; - called also tridecylene, and tridecene.
Trident Dictionary T - noun A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, - the common attribute of Neptune.
Tridentate Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tridentated.
Tridentated Dictionary T - adjective Having three teeth; three-toothed.
Tridented Dictionary T - adjective Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace.
Tridentiferous Dictionary T - adjective Bearing a trident.
Tridentine Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.
Tridiapason Dictionary T - noun A triple octave, or twenty-second.
Tridimensional Dictionary T - adjective Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.
Triding Dictionary T - noun A riding. See Trithing.
Triduan Dictionary T - adjective Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.
Tridymite Dictionary T - noun Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.
Tried Dictionary T - imp. & p. p. of Try.
Triedral Dictionary T - adjective See Trihedral.
Triennial Dictionary T - adjective Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
Triennially Dictionary T - adverb Once in three years.
Triens Dictionary T - noun A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.
Trier Dictionary T - noun One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
Trierarch Dictionary T - noun The commander of a trireme.
Trierarchises Dictionary T - pleural of Trierarchy.
Trierarchy Dictionary T - noun The office duty of a trierarch.
Trieterical Dictionary T - adjective Kept or occurring once in three years; triennial.
Trieterics Dictionary T - noun plural Festival games celebrated once in three years.
Triethylamine Dictionary T - noun A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine.
Trifacial Dictionary T - adjective See Trigeminal.
Trifallowed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trifallow.
Trifallowing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trifallow.
Trifallow Dictionary T - verb transitive To plow the third time before sowing, as land.
Trifarious Dictionary T - adjective Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.
Trifasciated Dictionary T - adjective Having, or surrounded by, three fasciae, or bands.
Trifid Dictionary T - adjective Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.
Trifistulary Dictionary T - adjective Having three pipes.
Trifle Dictionary T - noun A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
Trifled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trifle.
Trifling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trifle.
Trifler Dictionary T - noun One who trifles.
Trifloral Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triflorous.
Triflorous Dictionary T - adjective Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
Trifluctuation Dictionary T - noun A concurrence of three waves.
Trifoliate Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trifoliated.
Trifoliated Dictionary T - adjective Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.
Trifoliolate Dictionary T - adjective Having three leaflets.
Trifolium Dictionary T - noun A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover.
Trifoly Dictionary T - noun Sweet trefoil.
Triforium Dictionary T - noun The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.
Triform Dictionary T - adjective Having a triple form or character.
Triformity Dictionary T - noun The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.
Trifurcate Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trifurcated.
Trifurcated Dictionary T - adjective Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
Trig Dictionary T - verb transitive To fill; to stuff; to cram.
Trigamist Dictionary T - noun One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.
Trigamous Dictionary T - adjective Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, - male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.
Trigamy Dictionary T - noun The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.
Trigastric Dictionary T - adjective Having three bellies; - said of a muscle.
Trigeminal Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.
Trigeminous Dictionary T - adjective Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold.
Trigenic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; - called also ethidene- / ethylidene-biuret.
Trigesimo-secundo Dictionary T - adjective Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Trigger Dictionary T - noun A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
Trigintal Dictionary T - noun A trental.
Triglyceride Dictionary T - noun A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.
Triglyph Dictionary T - noun An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.
Triglyphic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triglyphical.
Triglyphical Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.
Trigness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.
Trigon Dictionary T - noun A figure having three angles; a triangle.
Trigonal Dictionary T - adjective Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.
Trigone Dictionary T - noun A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.
Trigonia Dictionary T - noun A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.
Trigonocerous Dictionary T - adjective Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats.
Trigonometric Dictionary T - Alt. of Trigonometrical.
Trigonometrical Dictionary T - Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry.
Trigonometry Dictionary T - noun That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles.
Trigonous Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trigonal.
Trigram Dictionary T - noun Same as Trigraph.
Trigrammatic Dictionary T - adjective Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.
Trigrammic Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trigrammatic.
Trigraph Dictionary T - noun Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.
Trigyn Dictionary T - noun Any one of the Trigynia.
Trigynia Dictionary T - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles.
Trigynian Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trigynous.
Trigynous Dictionary T - adjective Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.
Trihedral Dictionary T - adjective Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles.
Trihedron Dictionary T - noun A figure having three sides.
Trihoral Dictionary T - adjective Occurring once in every three hours.
Trijugate Dictionary T - adjective In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.
Trijugous Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trijugate.
Trikosane Dictionary T - noun A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling paraffin; - so called because it has twenty-three atoms of carbon in the molecule.
Trilateral Dictionary T - adjective Having three sides; being three-sided; as, a trilateral triangle.
Trilemma Dictionary T - noun A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.
Trilinear Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.
Trilingual Dictionary T - adjective Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.
Trilinguar Dictionary T - adjective See Trilingual.
Triliteral Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word.
Triliteralism Dictionary T - noun Same as Triliterality.
Triliterality Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Triliteralness.
Triliteralness Dictionary T - noun The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots.
Trilith Dictionary T - noun Same as Trilithon.
Trilithic Dictionary T - adjective Pertaining to a trilith.
Trilithons Dictionary T - pleural of Trilithon.
Trilithon Dictionary T - noun A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.
Trill Dictionary T - intransitive verb To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
Trilled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trill.
Trilling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trill.
Trillachan Dictionary T - noun The oyster catcher.
Trillion Dictionary T - noun According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Trillium Dictionary T - noun A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; - so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.
Trillo Dictionary T - noun A trill or shake. See Trill.
Trilobate Dictionary T - adjective Having three lobes.
Trilobation Dictionary T - noun The state of being trilobate.
Trilobed Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trilobate.
Trilobita Dictionary T - noun plural An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.
Trilobite Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.
Trilobitic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.
Trilocular Dictionary T - adjective Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.
Trilogy Dictionary T - noun A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an example.
Triluminar Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triluminous.
Triluminous Dictionary T - adjective Having three lights.
Trimmed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trim.
Trimming Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trim.
Trim Dictionary T - verb transitive To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
Trimaculated Dictionary T - adjective Marked with three spots, or maculae.
Trimellic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.
Trimembral Dictionary T - adjective Having, or consisting of, three members.
Trimera Dictionary T - noun plural A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
Trimeran Dictionary T - noun One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.
Trimerous Dictionary T - adjective Having the parts in threes.
Trimesitic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a tribasic acid, C6H3.(CO2)3, of the aromatic series, obtained, by the oxidation of mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance.
Trimester Dictionary T - noun A term or period of three months.
Trimestral Dictionary T - adjective Trimestrial.
Trimestrial Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.
Trimeter Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three poetical measures.
Trimethyl Dictionary T - A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.
Trimethylamine Dictionary T - noun A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
Trimethylene Dictionary T - noun A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.
Trimetric Dictionary T - adjective Same as Orthorhombic.
Trimetrical Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trimeter.
Trimly Dictionary T - adverb In a trim manner; nicely.
Trimmer Dictionary T - noun One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
Trimmingly Dictionary T - adverb In a trimming manner.
Trimness Dictionary T - noun The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.
Trimorph Dictionary T - noun A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.
Trimorphic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trimorphous.
Trimorphous Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; - contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.
Trimorphism Dictionary T - noun The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.
Trimurti Dictionary T - noun The triad, or trinity, of Hindu gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
Trimyarian Dictionary T - noun A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
Trinal Dictionary T - adjective Threefold.
Trindle Dictionary T - verb transitive & noun See Trundle.
Trine Dictionary T - adjective Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.
Trinervate Dictionary T - adjective Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; - said of a leaf.
Trinerve Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trinerved.
Trinerved Dictionary T - adjective Same as Trinervate.
Tringa Dictionary T - noun A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.
Tringle Dictionary T - noun A curtain rod for a bedstead.
Tringoid Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.
Trinitarian Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
Trinitarianism Dictionary T - noun The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.
Trinitrocellulose Dictionary T - noun Gun cotton; - so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.
Trinitrophenol Dictionary T - noun Picric acid.
Trinity Dictionary T - noun The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
Triniunity Dictionary T - noun Triunity; trinity.
Trink Dictionary T - noun A kind of fishing net.
Trinket Dictionary T - noun A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
Trinketer Dictionary T - noun One who trinkets.
Trinketry Dictionary T - noun Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.
Trinkle Dictionary T - intransitive verb To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.
Trinoctial Dictionary T - adjective Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
Trinodal Dictionary T - adjective Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.
Trinomial Dictionary T - noun A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -; as, x + y + z, or ax + 2b - c2.
Trinominal Dictionary T - noun & adjective Trinomial.
Trinucleus Dictionary T - noun A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.
Trio Dictionary T - noun Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
Triobolar Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triobolary.
Triobolary Dictionary T - adjective Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless.
Trioctile Dictionary T - noun An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.
Tri/cia Dictionary T - noun plural The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.
Tri/cious Dictionary T - adjective Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Tri/cia.
Triole Dictionary T - noun Same as Triplet.
Triolein Dictionary T - noun See Olein.
Triolet Dictionary T - noun A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Trionychoidea Dictionary T - noun plural A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; - called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.
Trionyx Dictionary T - noun A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
Trior Dictionary T - noun Same as Trier, 2 and 3.
Trioxide Dictionary T - noun An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; - formerly called tritoxide.
Tripped Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trip.
Tripping Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trip.
Trip Dictionary T - noun intransitive To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; - sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
Tripalmitate Dictionary T - noun A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.
Tripalmitin Dictionary T - noun See Palmitin.
Tripang Dictionary T - noun See Trepang.
Triparted Dictionary T - adjective Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; - said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.
Tripartible Dictionary T - adjective Divisible into three parts.
Tripartient Dictionary T - adjective Dividing into three parts; - said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.
Tripartite Dictionary T - intransitive verb Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.
Tripartitely Dictionary T - adverb In a tripartite manner.
Tripartition Dictionary T - noun A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
Tripaschal Dictionary T - adjective Including three passovers.
Tripe Dictionary T - noun The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
Tripedal Dictionary T - adjective Having three feet.
Tripe-de-roche Dictionary T - noun Same as Rock tripe, under Rock.
Tripel Dictionary T - noun Same as Tripoli.
Tripeman Dictionary T - noun A man who prepares or sells tripe.
Tripennate Dictionary T - adjective Same as Tripinnate.
Tripersonal Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three persons.
Tripersonalist Dictionary T - noun A Trinitarian.
Tripersonality Dictionary T - noun The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
Tripery Dictionary T - noun A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
Tripestone Dictionary T - noun A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.
Tripetaloid Dictionary T - adjective Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.
Tripetalous Dictionary T - adjective Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Trip hammer Dictionary T - A tilt hammer.
Triphane Dictionary T - noun Spodumene.
Triphthong Dictionary T - noun A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
Triphthongal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Triphyline Dictionary T - noun Triphylite.
Triphylite Dictionary T - noun A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.
Triphyllous Dictionary T - adjective Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Tripinnate Dictionary T - adjective Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
Tripinnatifid Dictionary T - adjective Thrice pinnately cleft; - said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
Triplasian Dictionary T - adjective Three-fold; triple; treble.
Triple Dictionary T - adjective Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Tripled Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Triple.
Tripling Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Triple.
Triple-crowned Dictionary T - adjective Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
Triple-headed Dictionary T - adjective Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
Triplet Dictionary T - noun A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
Triple-tail Dictionary T - noun An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
Triplicate Dictionary T - verb transitive Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Triplicate-ternate Dictionary T - adjective Triternate.
Triplication Dictionary T - noun The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
Triplicity Dictionary T - adjective The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
Triplicostate Dictionary T - adjective Three-ribbed.
Triplite Dictionary T - noun A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Triploblastic Dictionary T - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.
Triploidite Dictionary T - noun A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.
Triply Dictionary T - adverb In a triple manner.
Tripmadam Dictionary T - noun Same as Prickmadam.
Tripod Dictionary T - noun Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
Tripodian Dictionary T - noun An ancient stringed instrument; - so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
Tripody Dictionary T - noun Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Tripoli Dictionary T - noun An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Tripoline Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.
Tripolitan Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
Triposes Dictionary T - pleural of Tripos.
Tripos Dictionary T - noun A tripod.
Trippant Dictionary T - adjective See Tripping, a., 2.
Tripper Dictionary T - noun One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
Trippet Dictionary T - noun A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
Trippingly Dictionary T - adverb In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
Tripsis Dictionary T - noun Trituration.
Triptote Dictionary T - noun A noun having three cases only.
Triptych Dictionary T - noun Anything in three parts or leaves.
Tripudiary Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing.
Tripudiate Dictionary T - intransitive verb To dance.
Tripudiation Dictionary T - noun The act of dancing.
Triquadrantal Dictionary T - adjective Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.
Triquetral Dictionary T - adjective Triquetrous.
Triquetrous Dictionary T - adjective Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.
Triquetra Dictionary T - pleural of Triquetrum.
Triquetrum Dictionary T - noun One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).
Triradiate Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triradiated.
Triradiated Dictionary T - adjective Having three rays.
Trirectangular Dictionary T - adjective Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.
Trireme Dictionary T - noun An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
Trirhomboidal Dictionary T - adjective Having three rhombic faces or sides.
Trisacramentarian Dictionary T - noun One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; - namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
Trisagion Dictionary T - noun An ancient anthem, - usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.
Trisected Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Trisect.
Trisecting Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Trisect.
Trisect Dictionary T - verb transitive To cut or divide into three parts.
Trisection Dictionary T - noun The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts.
Triseralous Dictionary T - adjective Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.
Triserial Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Triseriate.
Triseriate Dictionary T - adjective Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.
Trismus Dictionary T - noun The lockjaw.
Trisnitrate Dictionary T - noun A nitrate formed from three molecules of nitric acid; also, less properly, applied to certain basic nitrates; as, trisnitrate of bismuth.
Trisoctahedron Dictionary T - noun A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Trispast Dictionary T - noun Alt. of Trispaston.
Trispaston Dictionary T - noun A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
Trispermous Dictionary T - adjective Containing three seeds; three-seeded; as, a trispermous capsule.
Trisplanchnic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; - applied to the sympathetic nervous system.
Triste Dictionary T - imperative of Trist.
Trist Dictionary T - verb transitive & intransitive To trust.
Tristearate Dictionary T - noun Tristearin.
Tristearin Dictionary T - noun See Stearin.
Tristtul Dictionary T - adjective Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
Tristfully Dictionary T - adverb In a tristful manner; sadly.
Tristichous Dictionary T - adjective Arranged in three vertical rows.
Tristigmatic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tristigmatose.
Tristigmatose Dictionary T - adjective Having, or consisting of, three stigmas.
Tristitiate Dictionary T - verb transitive To make sad.
Tristoma Dictionary T - noun Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.
Tristy Dictionary T - adjective See Trist, a.
Trisuls Dictionary T - noun Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.
Trisulcate Dictionary T - adjective Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.
Trisulphide Dictionary T - noun A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.
Trisyllabic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Trisyllabical.
Trisyllabical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word.
Trisyllable Dictionary T - noun A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
Trite Dictionary T - adjective Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Triternate Dictionary T - adjective Three times ternate; - applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
Tritheism Dictionary T - noun The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.
Tritheist Dictionary T - noun One who believes in tritheism.
Tritheistic Dictionary T - adjective Alt. of Tritheistical.
Tritheistical Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to tritheism.
Tritheite Dictionary T - noun A tritheist.
Trithing Dictionary T - noun One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; - now called riding.
Trithionate Dictionary T - noun A salt of trithionic acid.
Trithionic Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
Tritical Dictionary T - adjective Trite.
Triticin Dictionary T - noun A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.
Triticum Dictionary T - noun A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
Triton Dictionary T - noun A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.
Tritone Dictionary T - noun A superfluous or augmented fourth.
Tritorium Dictionary T - noun Same as Triturium.
Tritova Dictionary T - pleural of Tritovum.
Tritovum Dictionary T - noun An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.
Tritozooid Dictionary T - noun A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
Triturable Dictionary T - adjective Capable of being triturated.
Triturated Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Triturate.
Triturating Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Triturate.
Triturate Dictionary T - verb transitive To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.
Trituration Dictionary T - noun The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.
Triture Dictionary T - noun A rubbing or grinding; trituration.
Triturium Dictionary T - noun A vessel for separating liquids of different densities.
Trityl Dictionary T - noun Propyl.
Tritylene Dictionary T - noun Propylene.
Triumph Dictionary T - noun A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.
Triumphed Dictionary T - imperative & past particle of Triumph.
Triumphing Dictionary T - past particle & verb noun of Triumph.
Triumphal Dictionary T - adjective Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.
Triumplant Dictionary T - intransitive verb Rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.
Triumphantly Dictionary T - adverb In a triumphant manner.
Triumpher Dictionary T - noun One who was honored with a triumph; a victor.
Triumviri Dictionary T - pleural of T