(a.) Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.

() Throughout.

(n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

(n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thumb

(a.) Having thumbs.

(a.) Soiled by handling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thump

(n.) One who, or that which, thumps.

(n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

(n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

(n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.

(n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.

(n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.

(n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.

(n.) To utter violent denunciation.

(v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.

(n.) The twaite.

(n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.

(n.) A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.

(n.) A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

(a.) Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tint

(n.) Same as Ferrotype.

(n.) Articles made of tinned iron.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tip

(n.) A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.

(n.) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tipple

(a.) Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk.

(n.) One who keeps a tippling-house.

(n.) One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.

(v. t.) To make tipsy.

(adv.) In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.

(pl. ) of Tiptoe

(imp. & p. p.) of Tissue

(a.) Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tithe

(n.) The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

(n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary.

(n.) 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).

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Title

(n.) The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(n.) Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.

(pl. ) of Titmouse

(n.) To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.

(a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.

(n.) A titulary.

(a.) Like a toad.

(n.) A small toad.

(pl. ) of Toady

(imp. & p. p.) of Toady

(imp. & p. p.) of Toast

(n.) One who toasts.

(n.) A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.

(n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toddle

(n.) One who toddles; especially, a young child.

(n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.

(pl. ) of Toftman

(n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.

(a.) Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.

(n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toil

(a.) Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.

(imp. & p. p.) of Token

(a.) Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toll

(n.) Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.

(pl. ) of Tollman

(n.) A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Toluene.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tomb

(n.) All small tome, or volume.

(pl. ) of Tomentum

(n.) A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

(n.) See Tam-tam.

(n.) A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tongue

(a.) Having a tongue.

(a.) Tonic.

(n.) The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

(n.) The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b).

(n.) A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals.

(n.) The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See Ton.

(a.) In the ton; fashionable; modish.

(a.) Capable of being clipped.

(n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.

(n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.

(n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank.

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tool

(n.) Work performed with a tool.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toot

(imp. & p. p.) of Tooth

(a.) Having teeth; furnished with teeth.

(a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

(n.) The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.

(n.) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tackle

(a.) Made of ropes tacked together.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Hence, any system or method of procedure.

(a.) 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.

(n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The hooded merganser.

(pl. ) of Taenia

(n.) Alt. of Taffety

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tag

(n.) An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.

(n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.

(n.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.

(n.) A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.

(n.) A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.

(n.) See Tallage.

(n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

(n.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).

(n.) Sexual intercourse.

(n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

(n.) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.

(n.) Same as Tailzie.

(n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

(n.) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Taint

(n.) Imposition; fraud.

(n.) 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.

(n. pl.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

(a.) Alt. of Talcous

(a.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.

(a.) Full of stories.

(n.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Talk

(a.) That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.

(a.) Given to talk; loquacious.

(n.) Alt. of Talliage

(v. t.) To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

(n.) One who keeps tally.

(a.) Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

(pl. ) of Tally

(imp. & p. p.) of Tally

(a.) Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.

(n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.

(n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.

(n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

(n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.

(n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).

(n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.

(n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.

(v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.

(pl. ) of Tammy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamp

(n.) The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

(n.) The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.

(n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

(n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.

(n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

(n.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.

(n.) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tan

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tang

(v. t.) 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.

(a.) Touching; touching at a single point

(a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.

(n.) One tanned by the sun.

(n.) A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning.

(n.) A salt of tannic acid.

(n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on.

(n.) The art or process of tanning.

(n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.

(adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.

(n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush.

(v. i.) To go away in haste.

(n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.

(n.) An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tap

(imp. & p. p.) of Taper

(a.) Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.

(pl. ) of Tapeti

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.

(n.) One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tar

(adv.) In a tardy manner; slowly.

(n.) Slowness; tardiness.

(n.) A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

(a.) 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.

(v. i.) To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.

(n.) The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

(n.) A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

(n.) One who, or that which, tarries.

(n.) A kind of dig; a terrier.

(n.) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(n.) The common tern.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tarry

(n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

(n.) See Tarsius.

(a.) Somewhat tart.

(n.) A small tart.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Task

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taste

(adv.) In a tasty manner.

(n.) The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

(n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).

(n.) 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.

(n.) A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tattle

(n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.

(n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

(pl. ) of Tattoo

(imp. & p. p.) of Taunt

(n.) One who taunts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

(n.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.

(a.) Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.

(a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs.

(a.) Free from taxation.

(n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

(n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.

(n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

(n.) Contract work.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tear

(a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tease

(adv.) In a techy manner.

(a.) Technical.

(a.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

(a.) Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ted

(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teem

(a.) Pregnant; prolific.

(a.) Brimful.

(a.) Prolific; productive.

(n.) The longer wood for making or mending fences.

(a.) Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Teeth

(pl. ) of Tegmen

(pl. ) of Tegula

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.

(adv.) In a weblike manner.

(n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

(n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

(n.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.

(n.) Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A small Europen flounder (Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

(a.) Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled.

(n.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.

(a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

(imp. & p. p.) of Topple

(n.) 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.

(pl. ) of Topsman

(n.) The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.

(n.) The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.

(n.) The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

(n.) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.

(v. t.) To rend in pieces.

(n.) The saibling.

(n.) An engine for casting stones.

(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.

(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.

(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.

(v. t.) To put into great agitation.

(n. pl.) acute, colicky pains; gripes.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.

(n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.

(n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

(n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.

(n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.

(n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.

(n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.

(v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.

(a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

(v. t.) To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

(a.) Wreathed; twisted.

(a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S.

(n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

(v. t.) To dry by a fire.

(v. t.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

(v. t.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.

(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.

(n.) A roundel of a red color.

(a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

(a.) Twisted; wreathed.

(n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

(n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

(n.) The act or process of torturing.

(v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

(v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

(v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

(v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

(pl. ) of Torula

(a.) Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.

(a.) Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toss

(adv.) In a tossy manner.

(n.) The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

(n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.

(n.) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

(n.) A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.

(adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

() A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2.

(a.) Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.

(imp. & p. p.) of Touch

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make tough, or tougher.

(adv.) In a tough manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tour

(n.) Same as Turacou.

(n.) One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

(v. t.) A tournament.

(n.) To perform in tournaments; to tilt.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touze

(prep.) In the direction of; to.

(prep.) With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.

(prep.) Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.

(prep.) Near; about; approaching to.

(adv.) Near; at hand; in state of preparation.

(prep. & adv.) See Toward.

(n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.

(n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tower

(a.) Adorned or defended by towers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.

(n.) A small town.

(a.) Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

(a.) Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.

(pl. ) of Trabea

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trace

(n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

(n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.

(n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.

(n.) The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

(n.) A regular path or track; a course.

(imp. & p. p.) of Track

(n.) One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

(n.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

(n.) That which draws, or is used for drawing.

(n.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trade

(n.) The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

(n.) A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.

(n.) One who catches turtles or tortoises.

(n.) A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

(n.) Same as Tussock grass, below.

(n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

(n.) See Tussock.

(a.) Alt. of Tutelary

(n.) Crude zinc.

(n.) Packfong.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tutor

(n.) Tutoress.

(n. & interj.) Alt. of Tu-whoo

(n. & interj.) Words imitative of the notes of the owl.

(v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

(n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

(n.) A lamb.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twang

(v. i. & t.) To twang.

(n.) See Note under Tea, n., 1.

(v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.

(v. t.) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.

(n.) Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

(a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

(a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

(n.) The next in order after the eleventh.

(n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

(v. t.) To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.

(v. i.) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.

(n.) A slight twist with the fingers.

(n.) A pimple.

(a.) Twofold; double.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twig

(a.) Made of twigs; wicker.

(n.) A fornicator.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twill

(imp. & p. p.) of Twin

(imp. & p. p.) of Twinge

(v. i.) To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

(v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

(n.) A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

(n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.

(n.) The time of a wink; a twinkling.

(a.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

(n.) One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

(n.) A domestic animal two winters old.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twirl

(imp. & p. p.) of Twist

(a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.

(n.) One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

(n.) The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

(n.) A girder.

(n.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twit

(n.) One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.

(v. i.) To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.

(v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

(v. i.) To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.

(v. t.) To utter with a twitter.

(n.) The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.

(n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.

(n.) A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.

(n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

(n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

(n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

(n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trap

(n.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

(n.) A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.

(n.) One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.

(n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trash

(n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

(n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

(n.) To labor with pain; to toil.

(n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

(v. t.) To harass; to tire.

(n.) One who, or that which, trawls.

(n.) A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.

(n.) As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

(n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

(n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.

(n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.

(n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.

(a.) Like, or composed of, treacle.

(p. p.) of Tread

(n.) One who treads.

(n.) The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.

(n.) A truce.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Treat

(n.) One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

(imp. & p. p.) of Treble

(n.) Same as Triblet.

(n.) See Treadle.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(n.) The dung of sheep or hares.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tree

(n.) The quantity or number which fills a tree.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.

(n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

(v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

(v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.

(v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

(n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.

(n.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

(n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.

(n.) Same as Treenail.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trend

(v. i.) A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.

(n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

(n.) Hence, a dirge; an elegy.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Having tresses.

(a.) Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.

(n.) A trestle.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The frame of a table.

(a.) Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.

(a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.

(a.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.

(n.) A frame on which paper is dried.

(n.) Alt. of Tribolet

(a.) Alt. of Tribular

(n.) 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.

(n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved; as, a tribute of affection.

(n.) A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.

(v. i.) To pay as tribute.

(n.) A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trick

(n.) One who tricks; a trickster.

(n.) A trigger.

(v. t.) To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

(a.) Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.

(n.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.

(n.) A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.

(n.) A three-pronged fish spear.

(n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.

(a.) Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

(a.) Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trifle

(n.) One who trifles.

(n.) Sweet trefoil.

(a.) Having a triple form or character.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

(n.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.

(n.) A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

(n.) Same as Trigraph.

(n.) Same as Trilithon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trill

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trim

(v. t. & n.) See Trundle.

(n.) A curtain rod for a bedstead.

(n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.

(v. t.) A knife; a cutting tool.

(v. t.) A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.

(v. t.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.

(v. i.) To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue.

(v. i.) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trip

(n.) A place where tripe is prepared or sold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Triple

(n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

(n.) Three verses rhyming together.

(n.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.

(n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.

(n.) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

(n.) One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.

(n.) An excursionist.

(n.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.

(n.) Trituration.

(n.) Shampoo.

(n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into three parts.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into three equal parts.

(n.) The lockjaw.

(n.) A superfluous or augmented fourth.

(n.) A rubbing or grinding; trituration.

(n.) A truant.

(a.) Found anywhere; common.

(a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.

(a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.

(n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

(n.) The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

(n.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

(a.) Resembling a wheel.

(n.) See Trocar.

(n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

(n.) The crocodile bird.

() p. p. of Tread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Troll

(n.) One who trolls.

(n.) Alt. of Trolly

(n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

(n.) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.

(n.) An aperture in a tromp.

(n.) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Troop

(n.) A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

(a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

(n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

(n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trot

(v. t.) To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

(v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

(v. t.) To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

(a.) Troubled; dark; gloomy.

(v. t.) The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.

(v. t.) That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.

(v. t.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.

(v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

(n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Truck

(n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.

(n.) A small wheel or caster.

(v. i.) To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.

(v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trudge

(n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trump

(n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

(n.) A trumpeter.

(n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

(n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

(v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

(v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

(n.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

(n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.

(v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.

(v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.

(v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

(v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

(v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.

(v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

(v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.

(v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

(v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.

(a.) Having (such) a trunk.

(n.) A trundle.

(n.) See Treenail.

(n.) The act of pushing or thrusting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Truss

(imp. & p. p.) of Trust

(n.) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

(v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

(v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.

(n.) One who trusts, or credits.

(n.) One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee.

(interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.

(interj. & n.) A tallyho coach.

(n.) Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.

(n.) A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.

(n.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

(n.) A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.

(prep.) 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.

(prep.) Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.

(prep.) By means of; by the agency of.

(prep.) Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.

(prep.) Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

(prep.) From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.

(adv.) From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

(adv.) From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.

(adv.) To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.

(a.) Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

(pron.) 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.

(a.) Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

(n.) A female cat.

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tick

(n.) A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tickle

(n.) One who, or that which, tickles.

(n.) Something puzzling or difficult.

(n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.

(n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.

(n.) Channel in which the tide sets.

(n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tidy

(n.) Alt. of Tiercelet

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tiff

(a.) Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

(n.) That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

(n.) Same as Tigella.

(v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

(n.) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.

(adv.) In a tight manner; closely; nearly.

(n.) The female of the tiger.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

(a.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

(a.) Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Till

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell

(a.) Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

(n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

(pl. ) of Telson

(n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

(a.) Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tempt

(a.) 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.

(n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

(n.) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tend

(n.) 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.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

(n.) A tendril.

(a.) 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.

(a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.

(a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

(a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.

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

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

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

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

(a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.

(n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

(a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.

(n.) Tension.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tent

(n.) A collection of tents; an encampment.

(n.) As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

(adv.) In a tenth manner.

(n.) The awning or covering of a tent.

(v. t.) To make thin; to attenuate.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

(n.) Poverty; indigence.

(n.) Refinement; delicacy.

(a.) Thin; slender; small; minute.

(a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.

(a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

(n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

(a.) 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.

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

(n.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

(pl. ) of Teredo

(a.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.

(n.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Term

(v. t.) To terminate.

(pl. ) of Terminus

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

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

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

(n.) A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.

(a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary.

(n.) 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.

(v.) 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.

(v.) A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

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

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

(v.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

(v. t.) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.

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

(n.) See Turren.

(v. t.) To make terrible.

(v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.

(a. & n.) Same as Tertiary.

(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

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

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

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Test

(n.) The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

(a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.

(n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.

(v. i.) To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.

(v. t.) To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.

(v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

(adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

(n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.

(n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.

(n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.

(n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.

(n.) 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.

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

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.

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

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

(n.) 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.

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

(a.) Captious; testy.

(pl. ) of Teuton

(a.) Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

(n.) That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.

(n.) One ready in quoting texts.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.

(a.) Serving for, or depending on, texts.

(a.) Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.

(n.) The act or art of weaving.

(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.

(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.

(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

(pl. ) of Thalamus

(a.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thank

(n.) See Thwart.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thaw

(n.) Alt. of Theatre

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.

(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.

(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tilt

(n.) The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

(n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

(n.) Same as Tip-up.

(n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.

(a.) Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.

(a.) Timely; seasonable.

(pl. ) of Timpano

(n.) See Tympano.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tin

(n.) Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.

(n.) 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.

(pl. ) of Tineman

(n.) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

(a.) Having the power to tinge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tingle

(imp. & p. p.) of Tinkle

(n.) A tinker.

(n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

(n.) The covering or lining of tin thus put on.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(a.) Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

(a.) Frequented by traders.

(a.) Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

(v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.

(v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.

(v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation.

(v. t.) To draw away; to seduce.

(v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.

(v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

(v. t.) To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer.

(n.) That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

(v.) Commodities of the market.

(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trail

(n.) One who, or that which, trails.

(n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Train

(n.) A dragnet.

(v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.

(a.) Traitorous.

(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

(v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.

(v. t.) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.

(v. t.) The act of trajecting; trajection.

(v. t.) A trajectory.

(n.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

(a.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

(n.) One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

(n.) Alt. of Tsaritsa

(n.) See Hatteria.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub

(n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

(n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

(n.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

(pl. ) of Tubful

(a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tuck

(n.) See Typhoon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tuft

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tug

(n.) See Tug, n., 3.

(n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

(n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

(n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tumble

(n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

(n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

(n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.

(n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

(n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

(n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.

(n.) Alt. of Tumbril

(n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

(n.) A rough cart.

(n.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.

(n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

(n.) A great quantity or heap.

(a.) Distended; swelled.

(n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

(a.) Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.

(n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tun

(a.) Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.

(a.) Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.

(n.) Ground ivy; alehoof.

(n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.

(n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.

(n.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.

(n.) See Tonnage.

(pl. ) of Tunny

(n.) Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidae, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed.

(n.) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

(n.) Any one of several species of plantain eaters of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers.

(n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.

(n.) See Turpeth.

(n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

(n.) See Turpeth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Turf

(n.) The act or process of providing or covering with turf.

(n.) A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.

(pl. ) of Turfman

(n.) A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.

(a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

(a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.

(n. & a.) Turquoise.

(n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.

(v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

(v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Turn

(n.) The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

(n.) Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.

(n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.

(n.) Deviation from the way or proper course.

(n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

(n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

(n.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

(n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

(n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

(n.) Tobacco.

(n.) A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

(pl. ) of Tabby

(imp. & p. p.) of Tabby

(a.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.

(n.) One affected with tabes.

(a.) Alt. of Tabifical

(n.) See Tabbinet.

(n.) A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

(n.) A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.

(n.) A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

(n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

(n.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

(n.) Board; support.

(n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.

(imp. & p. p.) of Taboo

(imp. & p. p.) of Tabor

(n.) One who plays on the tabor.

(n.) A small tabor.

(pl. ) of Tabula

(a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).

(a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

(a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

(a.) Set in squares.

(a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.

(a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tack

(imp. & p. p.) of Tramp

(n.) One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.

(v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

(v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

(v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

(v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

(n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

(n.) Same as Tramroad.

(n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trance

(v. t.) A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

(n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

(n.) A rope used in towing vessels.

(n.) A shop where toys are sold.

(n.) A great fool; a trifler.

(adv.) On this present or coming night.

(adv.) On the last night past.

(n.) The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.

(n.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule.

(n.) A statement of a principle to be demonstrated.

(v. t.) To formulate into a theorem.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the theorica.

(a.) Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled.

(n.) Speculation; theory.

(n.) Therapeutics.

(adv.) At that place; there.

(adv.) At that occurrence or event; on that account.

(adv.) By that; by that means; in consequence of that.

(adv.) Annexed to that.

(adv.) Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc.

(adv.) In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.

(adv.) Of that or this.

(adv.) On that or this.

(adv.) To that or this.

(adv.) Besides; moreover.

(n.) Alt. of Theriaca

(a.) Alt. of Theriacal

(a.) Theriac.

(n. pl.) Springs or baths of warm or hot water.

(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters.

(a.) Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.

() A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.

(n.) Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines.

(n.) A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

(n.) A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.

(n.) In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.

(v. t.) To make thick (in any sense of the word).

(v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.

(v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

(v. t.) To strengthen; to confirm.

(v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.

(v. i.) To become thick.

(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

(adv.) In a thick manner; deeply; closely.

(pl. ) of Thief

(a. & adv.) Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.

(n.) The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thieve

(n.) The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.

(n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.

(n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.

(n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.

(n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thin

(imp. & p. p.) of Think

(n.) One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

(n.) One who thins, or makes thinner.

(a.) 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.

(n.) The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.

(adv.) In the third place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thirl

(n.) Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.

(n.) Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.

(a.) Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

(a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

(adv.) To that place; -- opposed to hither.

(adv.) To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.

(a.) Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.

(a.) Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thole

(n.) A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

(n.) 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.

() imp. & p. p. of Think.

(n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.

(n.) Meditation; serious consideration.

(n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.

(n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.

(n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.

(a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.

(n.) Same as Thrave.

(superl.) Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.

(superl.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

(superl.) Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.

(superl.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.

(superl.) Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming.

() of Thrive

(p. p.) of Thrive

() of Thrive

(pl. ) of Turkey

(a.) Turkish.

() p. p. of Thrive.

(n.) One who thrives, or prospers.

(a.) Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.

(pl. ) of Thrombus

(imp. & p. p.) of Throne

(n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

(n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

(n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

(n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

(n.) See Tithing.

(n.) Alt. of Tzaritza

(n.) One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.

(pl. ) of Tylosis

(n.) An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.

(pl. ) of Tympano

(pl. ) of Tympanum

(n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.

(n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.

(n.) A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.

(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.

(a.) Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

(a.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.

(a.) Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double.

(a.) Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.

(v. t.) To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

(v. t.) To twist.

(a.) Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.

(adv.) In a double degree; doubly.