(imp. & p. p.) of Thrum

(n.) The song thrush.

(n.) The song thrush.

(n.) One who thrusts or stabs.

(n.) The throstle, or song thrust.

(n.) Alt. of Thuggism

(n.) Thuggee.

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

(n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

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

(a.) Heavy; large.

(a.) Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.

(n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thwack

(imp. & p. p.) of Thwart

(n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

(adv.) Transversely; obliquely.

(v. t.) To cut or whittle.

(n.) A small knife; a whittle.

(a.) Alt. of Thyrsoidal

(n.) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.

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

(pl. ) of Tipstaff

(n.) A staff tipped with metal.

(n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

(a.) Untiring.

(a.) Tired; fatigued.

(a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

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

(n.) A salt of titanic acid.

(n.) See Sphene.

(n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

(a.) Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

(a.) Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.

(n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Titrate

(a.) Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titrated solutions.

(imp. & p. p.) of Titter

(n.) The whimbrel.

(v. i.) To stumble.

(v. i.) To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.

(n.) A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

(a.) Consisting in a title; titular.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a title.

(n.) The golden plover.

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

(n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

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

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

(n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.

(v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.

(v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.

(n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.

(n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

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

(prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.

(prep.) In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.

(prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.

(n.) See Toilet, 3.

(a.) Free from toil.

(a.) Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

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

(n.) See Tollbooth.

(a.) Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.

(v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.

(a.) Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.

(n.) A gate where toll is taken.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

(pl. ) of Tomato

(a.) Destitute of a tomb.

(n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

(n.) A sea bird, the puffin.

(n.) A fool; a dunce; a noddy.

(n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.

(a.) Having no tone; unmusical.

(n.) A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.

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

(n.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.

(a.) Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.

(n.) Same as Toon.

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

(a.) Toothsome.

(n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

(n.) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.

(n.) A little tooth, or like projection.

(n.) A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.

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

(n.) Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.

(n.) Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.

(n.) The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.

(pl. ) of Tacksman

(n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.

(a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

(a.) Destitute of tact.

(a.) Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.

(a.) Like or pertaining to Taenia.

(n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

(n.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.

(n.) A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.

(a.) Having no tail.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tailor

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

(n.) Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.

(n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.

(a.) Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted.

(pl. ) of Talesman

(n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.

(adv.) In a way of a tale or story.

(n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

(n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.

(n.) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.

(n.) The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tallow

(n.) An animal which produces tallow.

(n.) Firewood cut into billets of a certain length.

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

(pl. ) of Tallyman

(n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

(n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

(n.) A proprietor of a talook.

(n.) The ant-bear.

(n.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

(n.) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

(n.) A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.

(n.) One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.

(n.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.

(n.) The duck mole.

(a.) Tamable.

(a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.

(n.) The quality or state of being tame.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tamper

(n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.

(n.) Tangency.

(n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.

(n.) The common harbor seal.

(a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

(a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.

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

(n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

(a.) That may be tanned.

(n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.

(n.) A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

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

(a.) Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.

(n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.

(v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A house where liquors are retailed.

(a.) Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.

(n. & v.) See Toboggan.

(n.) A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

(a.) Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tariff

(n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

(n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.

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

(pl. ) of Tarsale

(n.) See 1st Tartar.

(n.) The quality or state of being tart.

(n.) A salt of tartaric acid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tassel

(a.) Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

(a.) Having a high relish; savory.

(a.) Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery.

(p. p.) of Tatter

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

(n.) Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

(a.) Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tattoo

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Taurocolla

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

(adv.) In a tawdry manner.

(pl. ) of Tawdry

(n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.

(n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.

(n.) Tax; sum imposed.

(n.) Charge; accusation.

(n.) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.

(n.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.

(n.) Same as Taxonomy.

(n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

(n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax.

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

(n.) The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

(n.) One who drives a team.

(n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

(a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Teasel

(n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

(n.) The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

(n.) Technicality.

(a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

(a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Teeter

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

(n.) The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

(a.) Entire; total.

(n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

(pl. ) of Tegmentum

(n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.

(n.) A cover or covering; an integument.

(n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

(n.) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.

(n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

(n.) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

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

(n.) A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

(n.) A bullfighter.

(a.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.

(n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

(n.) The quality or state of being torose.

(adv.) In a torpid manner.

(a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

(pl. ) of Torteau

(n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

(a.) Injurious; wrongful.

(a.) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.

(n.) Same as Testudo, 2.

(n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.

(n.) a tortoise-shell cat.

(a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.

(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.

(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

(a.) Injurious: tortious.

(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Torture

(n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

(a.) Same as Torose.

(a.) Same as Torose.

(n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

(n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge.

(v. t.) To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.

(n.) The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

(n.) Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.

(n.) One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

(imp. & p. p.) of Totter

(n.) One who totters.

(a.) Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.

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

(adv.) In a touchy manner.

(a.) Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.

(prep.) Concerning; with respect to.

(n.) The sense or act of feeling; touch.

(a.) Tough in a slight degree.

(n.) A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

(n.) Turn; contour; figure.

(n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

(a.) Same as Toward, a., 2.

(n.) Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.

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

(a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.

(a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.

(a.) Having no town.

(n.) The district or territory of a town.

(n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.

(n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

(pl. ) of Townsman

(n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.

(n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

(adv.) Alt. of Townwards

(n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

(n.) A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

(adv.) In a toying manner.

(pl. ) of Trachea

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

(n.) A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.

(n.) An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

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

(n.) The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

(n.) A treatise; a tract; an essay.

(a.) Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.

(n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

(n.) Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.

(n.) Attraction; a drawing toward.

(n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like.

(a.) Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

(n.) A tractrix.

(n.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

(n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.

(a.) Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.

(a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

(n.) The act, practice, or art of catching turtles.

(a.) Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

(n.) The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.

(n.) The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.

(a.) Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

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

(n.) The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

(n.) A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

(n.) Tutorship.

(v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

(n.) One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

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

(n.) One who twattles; a twaddler.

(n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

(a. & n.) See Duodecimo.

(pl. ) of Twenty

(a.) Twofold.

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

(a.) Having no twigs.

(a.) Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy.

(n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

(n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

(a.) Seen or done by twilight.

(a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Twinkle

(n.) One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

(a.) Closely resembling; being a counterpart.

(n.) A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

(n.) The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.

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

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

() a. & n. from Twist.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Twitch

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

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(a.) Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.

(a.) Employing two hands; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.

(v. t. & i.) To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.

(v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.

(v. t.) To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.

(v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

(v. t.) To change; to convert.

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

(pl. ) of Trapezium

(n.) See Trou-de-loup.

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

(n.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.

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

(adv.) In a trashy manner.

(n.) A stammering or stuttering.

(imp. & p. p.) of Travel

(a.) Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced.

(n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.

(n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

(n.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.

(n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

(n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.

(a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.

(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.

(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.

(a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.

(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.

(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.

(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

(a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.

(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

(v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.

(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.

(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.

(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

(pl. ) of Trayful

(n.) A traitor; a cheat.

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

(n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

(n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.

(n.) That which is very much valued.

(v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

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

(n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.

(n.) Story; discourse.

(pl. ) of Treaty

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

(n.) A game at cards for three.

(a.) Destitute of trees.

(n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tremble

(n.) One who trembles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trench

(v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

(v. t.) A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.

(v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.

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

(n.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

(v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

(v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

(v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

(v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

(v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.

(v.) Any injury or offence done to another.

(v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

(v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

(v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.

(a.) Tressy.

(n.) A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

(n.) Three united; state of being three.

(n.) An amide containing three amido groups.

(n.) An amine containing three amido groups.

(n.) Any one of the Triandria.

(n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.

(a.) Occupying the third post or rank.

(a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.

(n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.

(a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.

(n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

(n.) Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tribute

(n.) One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.

(n.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.

(n.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.

(n.) A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.

(n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

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

(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

(a.) Given to tricks; tricky.

(n.) Dress; ornament.

(a.) Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trickle

(n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

(n.) Hence, any three-colored flag.

(n.) A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

(n.) The jacksnipe.

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

(a.) Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.

(n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.

(n.) The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

(a.) Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

(n.) Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

(a.) Occurring once in every three hours.

(n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.

(n.) A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.

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

(n.) One of tree children born at the same birth.

(n.) A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals.

(n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

(a.) Same as Trilobate.

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

(a.) Consisting of three poetical measures.

(n.) A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.

() a. from Trim, v.

(n.) The act of one who trims.

(n.) That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings. --.

(n.) The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming.

(n.) The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.

(n.) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.

(a.) Alt. of Trinerved

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.

(a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

(a.) Having three nodal points.

(n.) See Olein.

(n.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.

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

(a.) Having three feet.

(n.) A man who prepares or sells tripe.

(n.) Spodumene.

(n.) A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.

(pl. ) of Tripos

(a.) See Tripping, a., 2.

(a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

(a.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

(n.) Act of one who, or that which, trips.

(n.) A light dance.

(n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

(n.) A noun having three cases only.

(n.) Anything in three parts or leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

(n.) A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.

(n.) Alt. of Trispaston

(n.) One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.

(a.) Trite.

(n.) A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.

(n.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.

(n.) Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

(n.) One of the small branches of a stag's antler.

(n.) See Trochiscus.

(n.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.

(n.) A pulley.

(n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.

(n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.

(a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

(a.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.

(n.) Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

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

(n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

(n.) The common European bittern.

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

(n.) Same as Troupial.

(n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

(a.) Adorned with trophies.

(pl. ) of Trophy

(n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

(n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

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

(n.) Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trouble

(n.) One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trounce

(n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.

(n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

(n.) A little trout; a troutling.

(n.) Alt. of Trouveur

(n.) One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

() Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.

(n. pl.) Same as Trousers.

(adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.

(n.) An interpreter. See Dragoman.

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

(n.) The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.

(n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.

(n.) The business of conveying goods on trucks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Truckle

(n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

(pl. ) of Truckman

(n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

(n.) One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

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

(n.) The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

(a.) Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.

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

(n.) Deceit; fraud.

(n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.

(a.) Worthless or deceptive in character.

(n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.

(v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim.

(a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

(imp. & p. p.) of Trundle

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

(n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

(n.) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.

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

(n.) The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.

(n.) The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.

(n.) The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.

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

(a.) Full of trust; trusting.

(a.) Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.

(adv.) In a trusty manner.

(a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.

(n.) See Race, n., 6.

(n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.

(n.) An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

(n.) Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

(n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

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

(n.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

(n.) Cassiterite.

(pl. ) of Tibiale

(n.) Enticement.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ticket

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

(a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

(a.) Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

(a.) Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

(n.) A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

(n.) Same as Coreopsis.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.

(n.) A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

(n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

(adv.) With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

(a.) Having no tide.

(n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

(n.) The quality or state of being tidy.

(n.) A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.

(n.) A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

(a.) Like a tiger; tigrish.

(pl. ) of Tilery

(a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.

(a.) Capable of being told.

(a.) Telling tales; babbling.

(n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

(n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

(n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

(n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

(n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

(n.) The tattler. See Tattler.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth.

(n.) A telluride.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.

(n.) An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.

(n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

(a.) Temerarious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Temper

(a.) Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.

(n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.

(n.) Same as Templet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

(n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

(n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

(n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.

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

(a.) Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.

(a.) Intoxicated; drunken.

(n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

(n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

(n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.

(n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

(pl. ) of Tenaculum

(n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tenant

(n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

(n.) Tenancy.

(n.) The act of attending or waiting; attendance.

(n.) Persons in attendance; attendants.

(n.) Tendency.

(n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tender

(adv.) In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

(n.) Attendance; care.

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

(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.

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

(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

(a.) Tenderness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

(n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

(n.) A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

(n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

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

(a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

(a.) Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.

(n.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tenter

(n.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

(a.) Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.

(n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Tepefy

(n.) An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.

(n.) The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.

(n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.

(a.) Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.

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

(n.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

(n.) A salt of terebic acid.

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

(pl. ) of Terebra

(pl. ) of Terebra

(a.) Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.

(pl. ) of Termes

(n.) Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

(n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.

(n.) That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.

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

(n.) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

(pl. ) of Termite

(a.) Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time.

(a.) Inexpressible; indescribable.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Terrace

(n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.

(n.) Quality of being earthy; earthiness.

(a.) Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.

(a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

(a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.

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

(v. t.) To do or perform for the third time.

(v. t.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

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

(pl. ) of Tessera

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae.

(a.) Isometric.

(a.) Tesseral.

(a.) Capable of being tested or proved.

(a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will.

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

(n.) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

(n.) One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

(n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

(v. t.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

(a.) Resembling tetanus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tether

(n.) A tunicate.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.

(n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

(n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.

(sing.) A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

(n.) An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

(a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

(a.) Four.

(a.) Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tetter

(a.) Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.

(a.) Contained in the text; textual.

(a.) Serving as a text; authoritative.

(n.) One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman.

(n.) One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.

(n.) A textualist; a textman.

(a.) Of or pertaining to texture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Texture

(a.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.

(n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

(n.) Same as Thallus.

(n.) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

(a.) Consisting of a thallus.

(n.) An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.

(a.) Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.

(n.) The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.

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

(a.) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.

(a.) Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thatch

(n.) Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.

(a.) Theatrical.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

(a.) Having the form of tea.

(a.) Alt. of Theistical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject.

(n.) One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

(n.) A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

(n.) That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul.

(n.) The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

(n.) The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."

(a.) Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tiller

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Timber

(a.) Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.

(a.) Built; formed; contrived.

(a.) Massive, like timber.

(a.) Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.

(a.) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.

(a.) Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave.

(a.) Having no end; interminable; unending.

(n.) A timeserver.

(n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

(a.) Timid.

(n.) A helmsman.

(a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.

(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.

(n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

(n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

(n.) The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

(n.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

(n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.

(n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.

(v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

(v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Tinker

(a.) After the manner of a tinker.

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

(n.) A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.

(n.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.

(a.) Emitting a clear sound.

(n.) A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tinsel

(a.) Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

(adv.) In a showy and cheap manner.

(n.) One who works in tin; a tinner.

(a.) Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial.

(n.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.

(imp. & p. p.) of Traduce

(n.) One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.

(n.) One who derives or deduces.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

(a.) Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

(a.) Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

(n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.

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

() a. & vb. n. from Trail.

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

(n.) The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.

(n.) The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.

(n.) Treachery.

(a.) Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

(n.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

(n.) An appointment; a tryst.

(a.) In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

(n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

(n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.

(n.) A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.

(a.) Tuberous.

(a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.

(a.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.

(n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

(a.) Having the form of a tube; tubeform.

(n.) Any species of the genus Tubipora.

(a.) Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.

(a.) Alt. of Tubulous

(a.) Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.

(n.) A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.

(n.) See Tuck, n., 2.

(n.) A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.

(n.) A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.

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

() a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tumefy

(n.) The quality or state of being tumid.

(a.) Swelling; protuberant.

(a.) Inflated; bombastic.

(v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury.

(v. i.) To swell.

(a.) Tumulous.

(a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

(n.) A maker of tumults.

(n.) A tunnel.

(a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.

(a.) Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.

(a.) Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.

(n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.

(n.) Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.

(n.) One of the Tunicata.

(a.) Alt. of Tunicated

(n.) One of the Tunicata.

(imp. & p. p.) of Tunnel

(a.) Wearing a turban.

(adv.) In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

(adv.) Proudly; haughtily.

(a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

(n.) A turbinal bone or cartilage.

(a.) Destitute of turf.

(v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

(n.) An East Indian plant of the genus Curcuma, of the Ginger family.

(n.) The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.

(a.) Of or pertaining to turmeric; resembling, or obtained from, turmeric; specif., designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of turmerol.

(n.) Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

(n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

(pl. ) of Turnkey

(n.) The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

(n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.

(n.) That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.

(n.) The aggregate number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose.

(n.) Net quantity of produce yielded.

(n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.

(n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.

(n.) A turnpike road.

(n.) A winding stairway.

(n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.

(v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.

(a.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

(a.) The sunflower.

(a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).

(a.) The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.

(a.) Litmus.

(a.) A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).

(n.) One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.

(n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

(n.) A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.

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

(pl. ) of Tableau

(n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.

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

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

(n.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

(n.) Same as Taboret.

(n.) A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.

(n.) An embroidery frame.

(v. t.) To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

(v. t.) To shape with a flat surface.

(a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

(n.) The act or process of forming trams. See 2d Tram.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Trample

(n.) One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law.

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

(a.) Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.

(v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

(v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

(v. i.) To run or rove to and fro.

(n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

(v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

(v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

(v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

(n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

(n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

(n.) That which is transferred.

(n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

(n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

(n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

(n.) A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

(v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

(v. t.) Same as Transship.

(n.) A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

(n.) A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

(n.) A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.

(n.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.

(n.) The angler.

(n.) A swellfish.

(n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.

(adv.) On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow.

(n.) The day after the present; the morrow.

(n. pl.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund.

(n.) One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.

(v. i.) To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

(pl. ) of Theory

(n.) Alt. of Theosopher

(adv.) For that, or this; for it.

(adv.) Out of that or this.

(adv.) On the outside; out of doors.

(n.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

(n.) Treacle; molasses.

(pl. ) of Thesaurus

(n.) A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

(a.) Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law.

(a.) Alt. of Theurgical

(a.) Somewhat thick.

(a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.

(a.) Having a short, thick body; stout.

(n.) A close or thick hedge.

(n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

(n.) A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.

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

(n.) The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.

(n.) That which is stolen.

(a.) Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

(a.) Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.

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

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

(a.) Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.

(n.) The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.

(n.) The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

(a.) Somewhat thin.

(n.) An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.

(n.) Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.

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

(n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thirst

(n.) One who thirsts.

(n.) The throstle.

(a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

(n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

(pl. ) of Thirty

(n.) Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.

(n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.

(n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

(n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number.

(n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.

(a.) Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

(a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.

(n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.

(n.) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

(n.) Windpipe; throttle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thresh

(n.) An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

(n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

(n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

(n.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thread

(a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.

(n.) A device for assisting in threading a needle.

(n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

(imp. & p. p.) of Threap

(v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.

(v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.

(v. i.) To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.

(n.) A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.

(n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thresh

(n.) Same as Thrasher.

(a.) Triple; treble; threefold.

(n.) An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

(n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

(n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.

(n.) Same as Trawl, n., 2.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Thrill

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

(n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.

(imp. & p. p.) of Throb

(v. i.) To grow; to thrive.

(n.) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

(n.) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

(n.) The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.

(n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Throng

(n.) The windpipe.

(v. t.) To throttle.

(n.) The song thrush. See under Song.

(n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.

(n.) The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

(n.) The throttle valve.

(v. t.) To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.

(v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

(v. t.) To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

(v. i.) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

(v. i.) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

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

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

(n.) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

(a.) Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

(n.) A discourse or treatise on types.

(n.) The doctrine of types.

(a.) Alt. of Tyrannical

(n.) A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

(n.) The empress of Russia. See Czarina.

(n.) See Twayblade.

(n.) Tympanic.

(a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

(n.) The tympanic bone.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.

(n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

(n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

(n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.

(n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.

(n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

(n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Typify

(n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

(n.) The state of being a tyro, or beginner.

(n.) A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

(a.) Of the value of twopence.

(a.) Born at the same birth.

(n.) See Jeffersonia.