() a. & p. p. from Throw, v.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.

(n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.

(n.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

(n. & v.) Thrist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thrust

(v. t.) To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.

(v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

(v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

(v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

(n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.

(n.) An attack; an assault.

(n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.

(n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

(n.) Oxide of thulium.

(n.) The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.

(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.

(v. t.) To fill to overflow.

(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.

(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.

(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

(prep.) Across; athwart.

(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.

(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.

(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.

(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.

(v. t.) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.

(n.) 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.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.

(n.) A thyrsus.

(pl. ) of Thyrsus

(imp. & p. p.) of Tint

(imp. & p. p.) of Tip

(n.) A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

(n.) A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material.

(n.) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line.

(n.) A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

(v. t.) To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

(n.) Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

(n.) The end, or tip, of the toe.

(a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.

(a.) Noiseless; stealthy.

(v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.

(n.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

(n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

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

(n.) A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

(n.) The lapwing.

(n.) See Ptisan.

(n.) A woven fabric.

(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tithe

(n.) One who collects tithes.

(n.) One who pays tithes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Title

(a.) Having or bearing a title.

(n.) A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.

(n.) A restrained laugh.

(v. i.) To seesaw. See Teeter.

(n.) A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

(n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.

(prep.) On this day; on the present day.

(n.) The present day.

(v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

(n.) A toddling walk.

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

(n.) Alt. of Toffy

(prep.) Alt. of Toforn

(prep.) Before.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toil

(n.) One who toils, or labors painfully.

(n.) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

(n.) A dressing table.

(n.) Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Toll

(n.) See Dolmen.

(n.) A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.

(a.) 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.

(n.) A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) Alt. of Toluole

(n.) Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tomb

(n.) 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.

(n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.

(n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

(n.) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

(n.) An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

(n.) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.

(n.) A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse.

(n.) The wren.

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

(a.) Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker.

(n.) An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

(a.) Abounding in tone or sound.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A barber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tool

(imp. & p. p.) of Toot

(n.) One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.

(a.) Toothed; with teeth.

(n.) The ringdove.

(imp. & p. p.) of Top

(n.) One who tacks.

(n.) A small, broad-headed nail.

(a. & n.) See Tacky.

(n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.

(n.) Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.

(n.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.

(n.) To supply with tackle.

(n.) To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.

(n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.

(n.) To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.

(a.) Alt. of Tactical

(n.) See Tactics.

(n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

(n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

(n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

(n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.

(n.) That which is pointed like a tag.

(n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

(n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

(n.) A little tag.

(n.) A peculiar combination of pulleys.

(n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.

(a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.

(n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

(n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.

(n.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.

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

(a.) Apt to take; alluring; attracting.

(a.) Infectious; contageous.

(n.) The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

(n.) Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.

(n.) Malign influence; infection.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.

(v. t.) Inclination; will; disposition; desire.

(v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).

(n.) Retaliation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Talk

(n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

(n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.

(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.

(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.

(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.

(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.

(pl. ) of Talma

(n.) See Tombac.

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

(adv.) In a tame manner.

(n.) Alt. of Taminy

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tamp

(n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

(n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.

(v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.

(v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.

(v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.

(n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

(n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.

(v. t.) To plug with a tampon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tan

(adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.

(n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tang

(n.) 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.

(n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.

(v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.

(n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

(v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.

(v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.

(a.) Entangled; intricate.

(a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed.

(n.) The tenrec.

(n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.

(n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.

(n.) In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.

(n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.

(n.) Same as Tenrec.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tap

(n.) A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).

(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tar

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

(n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

(n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

(n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.

(n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.

(n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.

(n.) 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).

(n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

(n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.

(v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.

(n.) The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock.

(n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

(n.) Same as Tarpum.

(n.) 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.

(n.) See Trass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye).

(n.) A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale.

(n.) Same as Tercel.

(n.) Alt. of Tarsiatura

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.

(adv.) In a tart manner; with acidity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Task

(n.) A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

(n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.

(n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

(n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.

(n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.

(n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.

(n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.

(v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

(v. t.) To adorn with tassels.

(n.) 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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Taste

(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.

(n.) One who makes tatting.

(n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.

(v. i.) To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

(v. i.) To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.

(n.) Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.

(n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

(a.) See Taut.

() imp. & p. p. of Teach.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

(superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

(superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

(n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

(n.) A place where skins are tawed.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Teach

(n.) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.

(n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

(n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.

(a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team.

(n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

(n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tease

(n.) 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.

(n.) A bur of this plant.

(n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

(v. t.) To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

(n.) One who teases or vexes.

(n.) A jager gull.

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

(a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

(n. & v.) See Tath.

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

(n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Ted

(n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Teem

(n.) One who teems, or brings forth.

(n.) A pipit.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).

(n.) A tegument or covering.

(n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

(n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.

(n.) Same as Tectrices.

(n.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

(n. & interj.) A tittering laugh; a titter.

(v. i.) To titter; to laugh derisively.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.

(n.) 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.

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

(a.) Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Calcareous tufa.

(n.) See Topsman, 2.

(n.) A man stationed in the top.

(v. i.) To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

(v. t.) To throw down; to overturn.

(n.) See Toque, 1.

(a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

(a.) Torose.

(a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

(a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.

(n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

(n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

(n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

(n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.

(n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

(a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.

(a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

(n.) A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.

(pl. ) of Torso

(n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Toss

(n.) Ohe who tosser.

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

(v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.

(v. i.) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

(n.) Alt. of Toupet

(n.) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.

(n.) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tour

(imp. & p. p.) of Touze

(v. t.) Same as Tousle.

(n.) One who touses.

(v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

(n.) One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.

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

(v.) The act of towing.

(v.) The price paid for towing.

(prep.) Alt. of Towards

(adv.) Alt. of Towards

(prep.) Approaching; coming near.

(prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

(prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

(a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

(n.) The chewink.

(a.) Having towns; containing many towns.

(n.) A familiar name for a dog.

(n.) A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.

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

(a.) Full of trifling play.

(a.) Sportive; trifling; wanton.

(a.) Resembling a toy.

(n.) One who deals in toys.

(n.) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trace

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Trade

(n.) A certain tool used by coopers.

(n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

(n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

(n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

(n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

() pl. of Turf.

(a.) Furnished with tusks.

(n.) An elephant having large tusks.

(v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.

(n.) A struggle; a scuffle.

(n.) Tutelage.

(n.) Tutorage.

(n.) A female guardian; a tutoress.

(n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

(n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

(n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.

(n.) A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.

(n.) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

(n.) Alt. of Tweeze

(n.) A surgeon's case of instruments.

(a.) One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

(a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.

(n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

(n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.

(n.) A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.

(n.) A tool for making mortises.

(n.) A reaping hook.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.

(n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Twine

(n.) Any plant which twines about a support.

(v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

(v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

(v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

(n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

(n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

(v. t.) To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.

(n.) The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

(n.) A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

(n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

(n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

(v. t.) To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

(n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

(v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

(a.) Same as Trappous.

(superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

(v. i.) To labor; to travail.

(v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

(v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

(v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.

(v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

(v. t.) To force to journey.

(n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

(n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

(n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

(n.) Labor; parturition; travail.

(n.) The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.

(n.) An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.

(n.) A proposal tending to an agreement.

(n.) A treatise; a tract.

(a.) Threefold; triple.

(a.) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.

(a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.

(adv.) Trebly; triply.

(n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

(v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.

(v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

(v. i.) To become threefold.

(adv.) In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.

(n.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.

(a.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

(n.) Guile; trickery.

(n.) 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.

(v.) A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.

(v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

(v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

(v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.

(v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.

(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

(v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

(v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

(n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

(n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

(v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.

(n.) A snare; a trapan.

(n.) a deceiver; a cheat.

(v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

(a.) Trembling; quaking.

(a.) Abounding in tresses.

(n.) Alt. of Tretys

(a.) Alt. of Tretys

(n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.

(pl. ) of Trica

(a.) Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

(n.) A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work.

(n.) A Roman copper coin, equal to one third of the as. See 3d As, 2.

(a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft.

(n.) A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

(n.) A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

(n.) To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

(v. t.) To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

(v. t.) To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.

(n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle.

(n.) A division consisting of three signs.

(n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.

(n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp.

(n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.

(n.) Any one of the Trigynia.

(n.) A trill or shake. See Trill.

(adv.) In a trim manner; nicely.

(a.) Threefold.

(n.) Same as Triplet.

(n.) Same as Tripoli.

(a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

(a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

(a.) One of three; third.

(a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

(adv.) In a triple manner.

(n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

(n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.

(n.) A tripod.

(n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.

(imp.) of Trist

(n.) A cattle fair.

(n.) Propyl.

(n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

(n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat.

(n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.

(n.) A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

(pl. ) of Trochus

(n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.

(n.) A wooden trough, forming a drain.

(n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.

(n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.

(n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

(n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

(n.) A trumpet; a trump.

(n.) A steelyard.

(n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.

(n. pl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

(n.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.

(n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

(n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.

(n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

(n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

(n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.

(n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

(n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

(n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

(n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

(n.) Trousers.

(n.) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

(n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.

(n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

(n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

(n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.

(n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

(a.) Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

(v. i.) To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

(v. t.) To idle away; to waste.

(v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

(n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.

(n.) A stake; a small post.

(superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tag

(n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

(adv.) In a tidy manner.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

(a.) Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.

(n.) Same as Tidbit.

(pl. ) of Tibia

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tibia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.

(n.) A tibial bone; a tibiale.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tick

(n.) See Ticking.

(n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

(v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

(v.) A little note or notice.

(v.) A tradesman's bill or account.

(v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

(v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.

(v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

(v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

(v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

(v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To please; to gratify; to make joyous.

(v. i.) To feel titillation.

(v. i.) To excite the sensation of titillation.

(a.) Ticklish; easily tickled.

(a.) Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.

(a.) Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.

(n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

(v. t.) Alt. of Tiddle

(v. t.) To use with tenderness; to fondle.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(n.) Tidings.

(n.) The wren.

(n.) The goldcrest.

(pl. ) of Tidy

(imp. & p. p.) of Tidy

(n.) 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.

(n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

(n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

(n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

(n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

(n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

(a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

(n.) A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tiff

(n. pl.) Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

(a.) 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.

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

(n.) A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

(n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.

(n.) Tiles, collectively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Till

(n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm.

(n.) Any species of Tellina.

(n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.

(v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

(v. t.) To govern; to manage.

(v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

(v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

(n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.

(n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

(n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.

(n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.

(n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.

(n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.

(n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium.

(n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

(v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.

(v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Tenaciousness; obstinacy.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tend

(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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

(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

(v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

(n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

(n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.

(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

(superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.

(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.

(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

(n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

(n.) A tender; an offer.

(n.) A tenet.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Tent

(a.) Covered with tents.

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

(n.) A kind of governor.

(n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.

(v. i.) To admit extension.

(v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

(pl. ) of Tenuis

(n.) 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.

(n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

(n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

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

(n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become tepid, or moderately warm.

(n.) See Teraphim.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

(n.) See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.

(n.) A triplet.

(n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

(n.) The back of an animal.

(n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

(n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

(imp. & p. p.) of Term

(n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.

(n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

(a.) Occurring every term; as, a termly fee.

(adv.) Term by term; every term.

(n.) Same as Termer, 2.

(n.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

(n.) See 2d Terrier, 2.

(n.) See /rass.

(n.) One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

(n.) Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.

(n.) That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.

(imp. & p. p.) of Test

(pl. ) of Testa

(n.) A headpiece; a helmet.

(n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.

(n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.

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

(n.) pl. of Teste, or of Testis.

(pl. ) of Testis

(n.) A testicle.

(n.) A tester; a sixpence.

(n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

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

(a.) See Techy.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

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

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

(n.) The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.

(n.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.

(a.) Alt. of Tetrical

(n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

(n.) Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

(n.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.

(v. t.) To affect with tetter.

(n.) The cicada.

(n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.

(n.) The lapwing; -- called also teuchit.

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

(n.) The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.

(v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.

(n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.

(pl. ) of Thallus

(pl. ) of Thank

(n. pl.) Twisted guts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thaw

(n.) A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

(pl. ) of Theca

(a.) Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

(n.) See Caffeine. Called also theina.

(n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.

(a.) Alt. of Thenar

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.

(n.) The palm of the hand.

(n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

(adv.) From that place.

(adv.) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.

(adv.) For that reason; therefore.

(adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.

() Alt. of Tilley seed

(n.) A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.

(n.) Floccillation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tilt

(n.) One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

(n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.

(n.) A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(v. t.) To surmount as a timber does.

(n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

(n.) The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

(n.) Fig.: Material for any structure.

(n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

(n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.

(n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

(v. t.) To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

(v. i.) To light on a tree.

(v. i.) To make a nest.

(n.) See 1st Timber.

(n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

(n.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

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

(superl.) Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.

(superl.) Keeping time or measure.

(adv.) Early; soon; in good season.

(n.) A performer who keeps good time.

(n.) A timeserver.

(n.) Same as 1st Timber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tin

(n.) Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

(n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Tinean.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tinge

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

(v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.

(v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.

(v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.

(n.) A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

(n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

(n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

(n.) A young mackerel about two years old.

(n.) The chub mackerel.

(n.) The silversides.

(n.) A skate.

(n.) The razor-billed auk.

(v. t.) To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

(v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

(n.) The common guillemot.

(v. i.) To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.

(v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

(v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

(n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

(pl. ) of Tinman

(n.) A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

(a.) Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.

(a.) Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats.

(a.) Made or consisting of tin.

(n.) One who works in a tin mine.

(n.) One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.

(a.) Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.

(v. t.) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

(a.) Professional; practiced.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

(a.) Alt. of Tragical

(n.) A writer of tragedy.

(n.) A tragedy; a tragic drama.

(n.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear.

(a.) Belonging to train oil.

(n.) Alt. of Trajetry

(superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.

(superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.

(pl. ) of Truth

(a.) Truthful; likely; probable.

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

(a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

(n.) A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tub

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

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

(n.) The act of making tubes.

(n.) A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

(pl. ) of Tubman

(n.) A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

(n.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tuck

(n.) A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.

(n.) A steak; a collop.

(n.) A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tuft

(a.) Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

(a.) Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tug

(n.) One who tugs.

(v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

(v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

(v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

(v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

(v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

(n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

(v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

(v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.

(n.) The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.

(n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.

(n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.

(v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

(pl. ) of Tumulus

(imp. & p. p.) of Tun

(n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

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

() a. & n. from Tune, v.

(n. .) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.

(n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.

(n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.

(n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.

(v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

(v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net.

(v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.

(pl. ) of Tupman

(n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

(n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.

(n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

(a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.

(a.) Disturbed; confused; disordered.

(n.) The turbot.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.

(n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.

(n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.

(n.) The trigger fish.

(n.) A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

(pl. ) of Turf

(imp. & p. p.) of Turf

(a.) Made of turf; covered with turf.

(a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.

(a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

(n.) Same as Turio.

(n.) Turquois.

(n.) A turtle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Turn

(v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.

(n.) One who boards.

(n.) One who boards others for hire.

(n.) A small table or flat surface.

(n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

(n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

(n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.

(n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

(n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

(n. & v.) See Tabor.

(n.) A taboret.

(n.) A table; a tablet.

(n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tack

(n.) A tedious journey.

(n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.

(n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.

(v. t.) To entrance.

(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.

(v. i.) To pass; to travel.

(n.) See Trance.

() 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a).

(n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).

(adv.) To-morrow.

(n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

(n.) An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.

(n.) The science, as distinguished from the art; as, the theory and practice of medicine.

(n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments.

(pl. ) of Thesis

(n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.

(n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.

(n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.

(n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.

(n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

(n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

(a.) Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.

(a.) Accustomed; mannered.

(n.) A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.

(v. t. & i.) To practice theft; to steal.

(a.) In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.

(n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.

(n.) To have a vehement desire.

(v. t.) To have a thirst for.

(a.) Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

(n.) The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.

(n.) A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thole

(a.) Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bed.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.

(n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.

(n.) A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.

(a.) Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.

(conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

(adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

(n.) Alt. of Thowl

(v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property.

(n.) A slave; a bondman.

(n.) Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.

(n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.

(v. t.) To enslave.

(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

(p. p.) of Thraste

(n.) Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.

(n.) The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.

(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

(v. t.) To call; to name.

(v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.

(v. t.) To beat, or thrash.

(v. t.) To cozen, or cheat.

(v. i.) To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.

(n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To threaten.

(n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.

(v. t.) To call; to term.

(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.

(adv.) Three times.

(adv.) In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very.

(n.) A warbling; a trill.

(v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

(v. t.) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.

(v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.

(v. t.) To hurl; to throw; to cast.

(v. i.) To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.

(v. i.) To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.

(n.) A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

(n.) A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.

(imp.) of Thring

(v. t. & i.) To press, crowd, or throng.

(n.) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

(n.) Thrist.

(imp.) of Thrive

(v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

(v. i.) To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.

(v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

(n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

(n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.

(n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

(n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

(n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.

(n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

(n.) The inside of a timber knee.

(n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

(v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.

(v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.

(n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.

(n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.

(n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.

(v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.

(v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.

(v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.

(n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

(n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

(v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.

(v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

(v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.

(a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

() imp. of Thrive.

(p. p.) of Throw

(v. t.) To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

(n.) An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.

(n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.

(n.) The black guillemot.

(n.) Same as Tsetse. U () the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y.

(n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

(pl. ) of Tylarus

(n.) A kind of kettledrum.

(n.) A drum.

(n.) A panel; a tympanum.

(n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.

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

(n.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.

(v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.