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Tastelessness

TASTELESSNESS, noun Want of taste or relish; insipidness; as the tastelessness of fruit.

1. Want of perception of taste. [Not in use.]

2. Want of intellectual relish. [Not in use.]

Taster

TASTER, noun One who tastes.

1. One who first tastes food or liquor.

Thy tutor be thy taster e'er thou eat.

2. A dram cup.

Tastily

TASTILY, adverb With good taste.

Tasting

TASTING, participle present tense Perceiving by the tongue.

1. Trying; experiencing; enjoying or suffering.

TASTING, noun The art of perceiving by the tongue.

1. The sense by which we perceive of distinguish savors; or the perception of external objects through the instrumentality of the tongue or organs of taste.

Tasty

TASTY, adjective Having a good taste, or nice perception of excellence; applied to persons; as a tasty lady.

1. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

Tatter

TAT'TER, verb transitive To rend or tear into rags. [Not used except in the participle.]

TAT'TER, noun A rag, or a part torn and hanging to the thing; chiefly used in the plural, tatters.

Tatterdemalion

TATTERDEMA'LION, noun A ragged fellow.

Tattered

TAT'TERED, participle passive or adjective Rent; torn; hanging in rags; as a tattered garment.

Where wav'd the tatter'd ensigns of Rag-fair.

Tattle

TAT'TLE, verb intransitive

1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning.

Excuse it by the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.

2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; as a tattling girl.

TAT'TLE, noun Prate, idle talk or chat; trifling talk.

They told the tattle of the day.

Tattler

TAT'TLER, noun One who tattles; an idle talker; one that tells tales.

Tattling

TAT'TLING, participle present tense Talking idly; telling tales.

1. adjective Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.

Tattoo

TATTOO', noun [Eng. tap.] A beat of drum at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.

TATTOO', verb transitive [In the South Sea isles.] To prick the skin, and stain the punctured spots with a black substance, forming lines and figures upon the body. In some isles, the inhabitants tattoo the face, in others only the body. The same practice exists among other rude nations.

TATTOO', noun Figures on the body made by punctures and stains in lines and figures.

Tattooed

TATTOO'ED, participle passive Marked by stained lines and figures on the body.

Tattooing

TATTOO'ING, participle present tense Marking with various figures by stained lines.

Tau

TAU, noun The toad fish of Carolina, a species of Gadus.(G.tau.)

1. A species of beetle; also, a species of moth, (Phalena; ) also, a kind of fly, (Musca.)

Taught

TAUGHT, adjective taut. [from the root of tight.] Stretched; not slack.

TAUGHT, preterit tense and participle passive of teach. pronoun taut. [Latin doctus.]

Experience taught him wisdom. He has been taught in the school of experience.

Taunt

T'AUNT, verb transitive

1. To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid.

When I had at my pleasure taunted her--

2. To exprobrate; to censure.

Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults.

T'AUNT, noun Upbraiding words; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.

Taunted

T'AUNTED, participle passive Upbraided with sarcastic or severe words.

Taunter

T'AUNTER, noun One who taunts, reproaches or upbraids with sarcastic or censorious reflections.

Taunting

T'AUNTING, participle present tense Treating with severe reflections; upbraiding.

Tauntingly

T'AUNTINGLY, adverb With bitter and sarcastic words; insultingly; scoffingly.

Tauricornous

TAUR'ICORNOUS, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and cornu, horn.]

Having horns like a bull.

Tauriform

TAUR'IFORM, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and form.]

Having the form of a bull.

Taurus

TAUR'US, noun [Latin] The bull; one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the second in order, or that next to Aries. This constellation, according to the British catalogue, contains 141 stars.

Tautologic

TAUTOLOG'IC

TAUTOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.

Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

Tautological

TAUTOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.

Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

Tautologist

TAUTOL'OGIST, noun One who uses different words or phrases in succession to express the same sense.

Tautologize

TAUTOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To repeat the same thing in different words.

Tautology

TAUTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the same, and word or expression.]

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of a thing in different words or phrases; or a representation of any thing as the cause, condition of consequence of itself, as in the following lines.

The dawn in overcast, the morning low'rs,

And heavily in clouds brings on the day.

Tavern

TAV'ERN, noun [Latin taberna; tab, the root of table, a board.]

A house licensed to see liquors in small quantities, to be drank on the spot. In some of the United States, tavern is synonymous with inn or hotel, and denotes a house for the entertainment of travelers, as well as for the sale of liquors, licensed for that purpose.

Tavern-Haunter

TAV'ERN-H'AUNTER, noun [tavern and haunt.] One who frequents taverns; one who spends his time and substance in tippling in taverns.

Tavern-Keeper

TAV'ERN-KEEPER, noun One who keeps a tavern. In the United States, one who is licensed to sell liquors to be drank in his house, and to entertain travelers and lodgers, together with the horses or oxen composing their teams. Taverners are by law to be provided with suitable beds for their guests, and with fodder for horses and cattle.

Tavern-Man

TAV'ERN-MAN, noun [tavern and man.] The keeper of a tavern. [Not in use.]

1. A tippler.

Taverner

TAV'ERNER

TAV'ERNING, noun A feasting at taverns.

Taverning

TAV'ERNING, n. A feasting at taverns.

Taw

TAW, verb transitive To dress white leather or alum leather; to dress and prepare skins in white, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, for gloves and the like.

TAW, noun A marble to be played with.

Tawdrily

TAW'DRILY, adverb In a tawdry manner.

Tawdriness

TAW'DRINESS, noun [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.

A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.

Tawdry

TAW'DRY, adjective Very fine and showy in colors without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; as a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.

TAW'DRY, noun A slight ornament.

Tawed

TAW'ED, participle passive Dressed and made white, as leather.

Tawer

TAW'ER, noun A dresser of white leather.

Tawing

TAW'ING, participle present tense Dressing, as white leather.

TAW'ING, noun The art and operation of preparing skins and forming them into white leather.

Tawny

TAW'NY, adjective Of a yellowish dark color, like things tanned, or persons who are sun-burnt; as a tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny sons of Numidia; the tawny lion.

Tax

TAX, noun [Latin taxo, to tax ]

1. A rate or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government, for the use of the nation or state. Taxes, in free governments, are usually laid upon the property of citizens according to their income, or the value of their estates. tax is a term of general import, including almost every species of imposition on persons or property for supplying the public treasury, as tolls, tribute, subsidy, excise, impost, or customs. But more generally, tax is limited to the sum laid upon polls, lands, houses, horses, cattle, professions and occupations. So we speak of a land tax a window tax a tax on carriages, etc. Taxes are annual or perpetual.

2. A sum imposed on the persons and property of citizens to defray the expenses of a corporation, society, parish or company; as a city tax a county tax a parish tax and the like. So a private association may lay a tax on its members for the use of the association.

3. That which is imposed; a burden. The attention that he gives to public business is a heavy tax on his time.

4. Charge; censure.

5. Task.

TAX, verb transitive [Latin taxo.]

1. To law, impose or assess upon citizens a certain sum of money or amount of property, to be paid to the public treasury, or to the treasury of a corporation or company, to defray the expenses of the government or corporation, etc.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly, than we are taxed by government.

2. To load with a burden or burdens.

The narrator--never taxes our faith beyond the obvious bounds of probability.

3. To assess, fix or determine judicially, as the amount of cost on actions in court; as, the court taxes bills of cost.

4. To charge; to censure; to accuse; usually followed by with; as, to tax a man with pride. He was taxed with presumption.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

[To tax of a crime, is not in use, nor to tax for. Both are now improper.]

Taxable

TAX'ABLE, adjective That may be taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as taxable estate. By the laws of some states, polls are taxable after the age of seventy.

1. That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff or defendant in a suit; as taxable costs.

Taxation

TAXA'TION, noun [Latin taxatio.] A taxing; the act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes on the subjects of a state by government, or on the members of a corporation or company by the proper authority. taxation is probably the most difficult subject of legislation.

1. Tax; sum imposed. [Little used.]

He daily such taxations did exact--

2. Charge; accusation. [Little us

3. The act of taxing or assessing a bill of cost.

Taxed

TAX'ED, participle passive Rated; assessed; accused.

Taxer

TAX'ER, noun One who taxes.

1. In Cambridge, two officers chosen yearly to see the true gauge of weights and measures observed.

Taxiarch

TAX'IARCH, noun [Gr. order, and chief.] An Athenian military officer commanding a taxis or battalion.

Taxidermy

TAX'IDERMY, noun [Gr. order, and skin.] The art of preparing and preserving specimens of animals.

Taxing

TAX'ING, participle present tense Imposing a tax; assessing, as a bill of cost; accusing.

TAX'ING, noun The act of laying a tax; taxation. Luke 2:2.

Taxonomy

TAXON'OMY, noun [Gr. order, and law.] Classification; a term used by a French author to denote the classification of plants.

Tea

TEA, noun

1. The leaves of the tea-tree as dried and imported. There are several kinds of tea as imperial tea hyson and young hyson, called green teas; souchong and bohea, called black teas, etc.

3. Any infusion or decoction of vegetables; as sage tea; camomile tea etc.

Tea-Board

TE'A-BOARD, noun [tea and board.] A board to put tea furniture on.

Tea-Canister

TE'A-CANISTER, noun [tea and canister.] A canister or box in which tea is kept.

Tea-Cup

TE'A-CUP, noun [tea and cup.] A small cup in which tea is drank.

Tea-Drinker

TE'A-DRINKER, noun [tea and drinker.] One who drinks much tea.

Tea-Plant

TE'A-PLANT, noun The tea-tree.

Tea-Pot

TE'A-POT, noun [tea and pot.] A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into tea-cups.

Tea-Saucer

TE'A-SAUCER, noun [tea and saucer.] A small saucer in which a tea-cup is set.

Tea-Spoon

TE'A-SPOON, noun [tea and spoon.] A small spoon used in drinking tea and coffee.

Tea-Table

TE'A-TABLE, noun [tea and table.] A table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drank.

Tea-Tree

TE'A-TREE, noun [tea and tree.] The tree or plant that produces the leaves which are imported and called tea. The generic name given to it by Linne, is thea. It is a native of China, Japan and Tonquin, but has recently been introduced into S. America.

Teach

TEACH, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive taught. [Latin doceo; dico, dicto, and both these and the Gr. to show, may be of one family; all implying sending, passing, communicating, or rather leading, drawing.

1. To instruct; to inform; to communicate to another the knowledge of that of which he was before ignorant.

He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. Isaiah 2:3.

Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. Luke 11:1.

2. To deliver any doctrine, art, principles or words for instruction. One sect of ancient philosophers taught the doctrines of stoicism, another those of epicureanism.

In vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:1.

3. To tell; to give intelligence.

4. To instruct, or to practice the business of an instructor; to use or follow the employment of a preceptor; as, a man teaches school for a livelihood.

5. To show; to exhibit so as to impress on the mind.

If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others may practice them.

6. To accustom; to make familiar.

They have taught their tongue to speak lies. Jeremiah 9:20.

7. To inform or admonish; to give previous notice to.

For he taught his disciples, and said--Mark 9:1.

8. To suggest to the mind.

For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that same hour what ye ought to say. Luke 12:12.

9. To signify or give notice.

He teacheth with his fingers. Proverbs 6:13.

10. To counsel and direct. Habakkuk 2:19.

TEACH, verb intransitive To practice giving instruction; to perform the business of a preceptor.

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire. Micah 3:11.

TEACH, noun In sugar works, the last boiler.

Teachable

TE'ACHABLE, adjective That may be taught; apt to learn; also, readily receiving instruction; docile.

We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased and teachable to learn our religion from the word of God.

Teachableness

TE'ACHABLENESS, noun The quality of being capable of receiving instruction; more generally, a willingness or readiness to be informed and instructed; docility; aptness to learn.

Teacher

TE'ACHER, noun One who teaches or instructs.

1. An instructor; a preceptor; a tutor; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others.

2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel.

The teachers in all the churches assembled themselves.

3. One who preaches without regular ordination.

Teaching

TE'ACHING, participle present tense Instructing; informing.

TE'ACHING, noun The act or business of instructing.

1. Instruction.

Tead

TEAD

TEAGUE, noun teeg. An Irishman; in contempt.

Teague

TEAGUE, n. teeg. An Irishman; in contempt.

Teak

TEAK

TEAL, noun An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the smallest of the duck kind.

Teal

TEAL, n. An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the smallest of the duck kind.

Team

TEAM, noun

1. Two or more horses, oxen or other beasts harnessed together to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, chariot, wagon, cart, sled, sleigh and the like. It has been a great question whether teams of horses or oxen are most advantageously employed in agriculture. In land free from stones and stumps and of easy tillage, it is generally agreed that horses are preferable for teams.

2. Any number passing in a line; a long line.

Like a long team of snowy swans on high.

[This is the primary sense, but is rarely used.]

Team-Work

TE'AM-WORK, noun [team and work.] Work done by a team, as distinguished from personal labor.

Teamster

TE'AMSTER, noun [team and ster.] One who drives a team.

Tear

TEAR, noun

1. Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them. A tear in the singular, is a drop or a small quantity of that fluid. Tears are excited by passions, particularly by grief. This fluid is also called forth by any injury done to the eye. It serves to moisten the cornea and preserve its transparency, and to remove any dust or fine substance that enters the eye and gives pain.

2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.

TEAR, verb transitive [Latin tero.]

1. To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh. We use tear and rip in different senses. To tear is to rend or separate the texture of cloth; to rip is to open a seam, to separate parts sewed together.

2. To wound; to lacerate.

The women beat their breasts, their cheeks they tear

3. To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.

4. To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.

5. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

6. To remove by violence; to break up.

Or on rough seas from their foundation torn.

7. To make a violent rent.

In the midst, a tearing groan did break

The name of Antony.

To tear from, to separate and take away by force; as an isle torn from its possessor.

The hand of fate

Has torn thee from me.

To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes.

To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundations of government or order.

TEAR, verb intransitive To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.

TEAR, noun A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]

Tear-Falling

TE'AR-FALLING, adjective [tear and fall.] Shedding tears; tender; as tear-falling pity.

Tearer

TEARER, noun One who tears or rends any thing.

1. One that rages or raves with violence.

Tearful

TE'ARFUL, adjective [tear and full.] Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as tearful eyes.

Tearing

TEARING, participle present tense [from tear, to rend.] Rending; pulling apart; lacerating; violent; raging.

Tearless

TE'ARLESS, adjective Shedding no tears; without tears; unfeeling.

Tease

TEASE, verb transitive s as z.

1. To comb or card, as wool or flax.

2. To scratch, as cloth in dressing, for the purpose of raising a nap.

3. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery. Parents are often teased by their children into unreasonable compliances.

My friends tease me about him, because he has no estate.

Teased

TE'ASED, participle passive Carded.

1. Vexed; irritated or annoyed.

Teasel

TE'ASEL, noun tee'zl. A plant of the genus Dipsacus, one kind of which bears a large burr which is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Hence,

1. The burr of the plant.

Teaseler

TE'ASELER, noun One who uses the teasel for raising a nap on cloth.

Teaser

TE'ASER, noun One that teases or vexes.

Teasing

TE'ASING, participle present tense Combing; carding; scratching for the purpose of raising a nap; vexing with importunity.

Teat

TEAT

TEATHE, noun The soil or fertility left on lands by feeding them. [Local.]

TEATHE, verb transitive To feed and enrich by live stock. [Local.]

Teathe

TEATHE, n. The soil or fertility left on lands by feeding them. [Local.]

TEATHE, v.t. To feed and enrich by live stock. [Local.]

Techily

TECH'ILY, adverb [from techy, so written for touchy.]

Peevishly; fretfully; forwardly.

Techiness

TECH'INESS, noun Peevishness; fretfulness.

Technical

TECH'NICAL, adjective [Latin technicus; Gr. art, artifice; to fabricate, make or prepare.]

1. Pertaining to art or the arts. A technical word is a word that belongs properly or exclusively to an art; as the verb to smelt, belongs to metallurgy. So we say, technical phrases, technical language. Every artificer has his technical terms.

2. Belonging to a particular profession; as, the words of an indictment must be technical

It is of the utmost importance clearly to understand the technical terms used by the eastern theologians.

Technicality

TECHNICAL'ITY, noun The quality or state of being technical or peculiar to the arts.

Technically

TECH'NICALLY, adverb In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms of art or the professions.

Technicalness

TECH'NICALNESS

TECH'NICS, noun The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Technological

TECHNOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Technology.]

1. Pertaining to technology.

2. Pertaining to the arts; as technological institutes.

Technologist

TECHNOL'OGIST, noun One who discourses or treats of arts, or of the terms of art.

Technology

TECHNOL'OGY, noun [Gr. art, and word or discourse.]

1. A description of arts; or a treatise on the arts.

2. An explanation of the terms of the arts.

Techy

TECH'Y, adjective [so written for touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable. [More correctly touchy.]

Tecnnic

TECN'NIC

TECTON'IC, adjective [Gr. to fabricate.] Pertaining to building.

Ted

TED, verb transitive A spread; tedu, to distend. Among farmers, to spread; to turn new mowed grass from the swath, and scatter it for drying. [Local.]

Tedded

TED'DED, participle passive Spread from the swath; as tedded grass.

Tedder

TED'DER, noun

1. A rope or chain by which an animal is tied that he may feed on the ground to the extent of the rope and no further. Hence the popular saying, a person has gone to the length of his tedder

2. That by which one is restrained.

TED'DER, verb transitive To tie with a tedder; to permit to feed to the length of a rope or chain.

1. To restrain to certain limits.

Te deum, a hymn to be sung in churches or on occasions of joy; so called from the first words.

Te deum was sung at St. Paul's after the victory.

Tede

TEDE, noun [Latin toeda.] A torch; a flambeau. [Not in use.]

Tedious

TE'DIOUS, adjective [Latin toedium.]

1. Wearisome; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, or slowness which causes prolixity. We say, a man is tedious in relating a story; a minister is tedious in his sermon. We say also, a discourse is tedious when it wearies by its length or dullness.

2. Slow; as a tedious course.

Tediously

TE'DIOUSLY, adverb In such a manner as to weary.

Tediousnes

TE'DIOUSNES, noun Wearisomeness by length of continuance or by prolixity; as the tediousness of an oration or argument.

1. Prolixity; length.

2. Tiresomeness; quality of wearying; as the tediousness of delay.

3. Slowness that wearies.

Tedium

TE'DIUM, noun [Latin toedium.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness.

Teek

TEEK, noun A tree of the East Indies, which furnishes an abundance of ship timber. The generic name given to it by Linne, is Tectona.

Teem

TEEM, verb intransitive

1. To bring forth, as young.

If she must teem

Create her child of spleen--

2. To be pregnant; to conceive; to engender young.

TEEMing buds and cheerful greens appear.

3. To be full; to be charged; as a breeding animal; to be prolific. Every head teems with politics.

4. To bring forth; to produce, particularly in abundance. The earth teems with fruits; the sea teems with fishes.

TEEM, verb transitive To produce; to bring forth.

What's the newest grief?

Each minute teems a new one.

[This transitive sense is not common.]

1. To pour. [Not in use.]

Teemer

TEE'MER, noun One that brings forth young.

Teemful

TEE'MFUL, adjective Pregnant; prolific.

1. Brimful.

Teeming

TEE'MING, participle present tense Producing young.

Teemless

TEE'MLESS, adjective Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as the teemless earth.

Teen

TEEN, noun [infra.] Grief; sorrow. [Not in use.]

TEEN, verb transitive To excite; to provoke., [Not in use.]

Teens

TEENS, noun [from teen, ten.] The years of one's age reckoned by the termination teen. These years begin with thirteen, and end with nineteen. Miss is in her teens

Teeth

TEETH, plural of tooth, which see.

In the teeth directly; in direct opposition; in front.

Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth

TEETH, verb intransitive [from the noun.] To breed teeth

Teething

TEE'THING, participle present tense Breeding teeth; undergoing dentition.

TEE'THING, noun The operation or process of the first growth of teeth, or the process by which they make their way through the gums, called dentition.

Tegular

TEG'ULAR, adjective [Latin tegula, a tile, from tego, to cover or make close.] Pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile; consisting of tiles.

Tegularly

TEG'ULARLY, adverb In the manner of tiles on a roof.

Tegument

TEG'UMENT, noun [Latin tegumentum, from tego, to cover.]

A cover or covering; seldom used except in reference to the covering of a living body. [See Integument.]

Teh-Hee

TEH-HEE, verb intransitive To laugh. [A cant word.]

Tehhee

TEH'HEE, a sound made in laughing.

Teil

TEIL

TEIL-TREE, noun [Latin tilia.] The lime tree, otherwise called the linden.

Teil-Tree

TEIL-TREE, n. [L. tilia.] The lime tree, otherwise called the linden.

Teint

TEINT, noun [Latin tingo, to dye.] Color; tinge. [See Tint.]

Telary

TEL'ARY, adjective [Latin tela, a web.] Pertaining to a web.

1. Spinning webs; as a telary spider. [Little used.]

Telegraph

TEL'EGRAPH, noun [Gr. at a distance, and to write.] A machine for communicating intelligence from a distance by various signals or movements previously agreed on; which signals represent letters, words or ideas which can be transmitted form one station to another, as far as the signals can be seen. This machine was invented by the French about the year 1793 or 1794, and is now adopted by other nations.

Telegraphic

TELEGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the telegraph; made by a telegraph; as telegraphic movements or signals; telegraphic art.

1. Communicated by a telegraph; as telegraphic intelligence.

Teleology

TELEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. end, and discourse.] The science of the final causes of things.

Telescope

TEL'ESCOPE, noun [Gr. end, or at a distance, probably the latter, and to see.] An optical instrument employed in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. It assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and secondly, by collecting and conveying to the eye a larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ, and thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct or invisible. Its essential parts are the object glass, which collects the beam of light and forms an image of the object, and the eye glass, which is a microscope by which the image is magnified.

Telescope-Shell

TEL'ESCOPE-SHELL, noun In conchology, a species of turbo with place, striated and numerous spires.

Telescopic

TELESCOP'IC

TELESCOP'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope; as a telescopic view.

1. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as telescopic stars.

Telescopical

TELESCOP'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope; as a telescopic view. 1. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as telescopic stars.

Telesia

TELE'SIA, noun Sapphire.

Telesm

TEL'ESM, noun A kind of amulet or magical charm.

Telesmatic

TELESMAT'IC

TELESMAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to telesms; magical.

Telesmatical

TELESMAT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to telesms; magical.

Telestic

TELES'TIC, noun [Gr. end, and a verse.] A poem in which the final letters of the lines make a name.

Tell

TELL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive told. [Latin telum; Latin appello and peal, Latin pello.]

1. To utter; to express in words; to communicate to others.

I will not eat till I have told my errand. Genesis 24:23.

2. To relate; to narrate; to rehearse particulars; as, to tell a story. Genesis 37:16.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

3. To teach; to inform; to make known; to show by words. tell us the way.

Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen 12.

4. To discover; to disclose; to betray.

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. Numbers 14:14.

5. To count; to number.

Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars. Gen 15.

6. To relate in confession; to confess or acknowledge.

TELL me now what thou hast done. Joshua 7:19.

7. To publish.

TELL it not in Gath. 2 Samuel 1:4.

8. To unfold; to interpret; to explain. Ezekiel 24:19.

9. To make excuses.

Tush, never tell me. [Not elegant.]

10. To make known.

Our feelings tell us how long they ought to have submitted.

11. To discover; to find; to discern. The colors are so blended that I cannot tell where one ends and the other begins.

TELL, though equivalent in some respects to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell this, that or what, to tell a story, to tell a word, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands. tell me the whole story; tell me all you know, or all that was said. tell has frequently the sense of narrate; which speak and say have not.

TELL, verb intransitive To give an account; to make report.

--That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psalms 36:1.

To tell of

To tell on - to inform. You must not disobey; I will tell of you if you do. This is a common popular use of the word. To tell on, is quite vulgar as well as improper.

Tell-Tale

TELL'-TALE, adjective Telling tales; babbling.

TELL'-TALE, noun [tell and tale.] One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of individuals; one who tells that which prudence should suppress, and which if told, often does mischief among neighbors.

1. A movable piece of ivory or lead on a chamber organ, that gives notice when the wind is exhausted.

2. In seamanship, a small piece of wood, traversing in a groove across the front of the poop deck, and which, by communicating with a small barrel on the axis of the steering wheel, indicates the situation of the helm.

Teller

TELL'ER, noun One that tells, relates or communicates the knowledge of something.

1. One who numbers.

2. In the exchequer of England, there are four officers called tellers, whose business is to receive all moneys due to the crown, and throw down a bill through a pipe into the tally-court, where it is received by the auditor's clerks, who write the words of the bill on a tally, and deliver it to be entered by the clerk of the pell. The tally is then split by the two deputy chamberlains, who have their seals, and while the senior deputy reads the one part, the junior examines the other with the other two clerks. [This word is supposed to be from tally, being in ancient records written tallier.]

Tellinite

TEL'LINITE, noun [from tellina, a genus of testaceous animals.]

Petrified or fossil shells of the genus Tellina.

Tellurate

TEL'LURATE, noun A compound of tellurium and a base.

Tellureted

TEL'LURETED, adjective tellureted hydrogen is hydrogen combined with tellurium in a gaseous form.

Tellurium

TELLU'RIUM, noun A metal recently discovered by Klaproth, combined with gold and silver in the ores, and received from the bannat of Temeswar. The ores are denominated native, graphic, yellow, and black. The native tellurium is of a color between tin and silver, and sometimes inclines to a steel gray. The graphic tellurium is stell gray; but sometimes white, yellow or lead gray. These ores are found massive or crystallized.

Temachis

TEM'ACHIS, noun [Gr. a piece.] A genus of fossils of the class of gypsums, softer than others, and of a bright glittering hue.

Temerarious

TEMERA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin temerarius; from the root of time, tempest, which see. The sense is rushing or advancing forward.]

1. Rash; headstrong; unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; as temerarious folly.

2. Careless; heedless; done at random; as the temerarious dash of an unguided pen.

[This word is not much used.]

Temerariously

TEMERA'RIOUSLY, adverb Rashly; with excess of boldness.

Temerity

TEMER'ITY, noun [Latin temeritas; properly a rushing forward.]

1. Rashness; unreasonable contempt of danger; as the temerity of a commander in war.

2. Extreme boldness.

The figures are bold even to temerity

Temin

TEM'IN, noun A money of account in Algiers, equivalent to 2 carubes, or 29 aspers, about 34 cents, or 17d sterling.

Temper

TEM'PER, verb transitive [Latin tempero, to mix or moderate]

1. To mix so that one part qualifies the other; to bring to a moderate state; as, to temper justice with mercy.

2. To compound; to form by mixture; to qualify, as by an ingredient; or in general, to mix, unite or combine two or more things so as to reduce the excess of the qualities of either, and bring the whole to the desired consistence or state.

Thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy. Exodus 30:35.

3. To unite in due proportion; to render symmetrical; to adjust, as parts to each other.

God hath tempered the body together. 1 Corinthians 12:24.

4. To accommodate; to modify.

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

5. To soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm; to reduce any violence or excess.

Solon--labored to temper the warlike courages of the Athenians with sweet delights of learning.

Woman! nature made thee

To temper man; we had been brutes without you.

6. To form to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

The temper'd metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

7. To govern; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

8. In music, to modify or amend a false or imperfect concord by transferring to it a part of the beauty of a perfect one, that is, by dividing the tones.

TEM'PER, noun Due mixture of different qualities; or the state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; as the temper of mortar.

1. Constitution of body. [In this sense we more generally use temperament.]

2. 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 This is applicable to beasts as well as to man.

Remember with what mild

And gracious temper he both heard and judg'd.

3. Calmness of mind; moderation.

Restore yourselves unto your tempers, fathers.

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

4. Heat of mind or passion; irritation. The boy showed a great deal of temper when I reproved him.

So we say, a man of violent temper when we speak of his irritability. [This use of the word is common, though a deviation from its original and genuine meaning.]

5. The state of a metal, particularly as to its hardness; as the temper of iron or steel.

6. Middle course; mean or medium.

7. In sugar works, white lime or other substance stirred into a clarifier filled with cane-juice, to neutralize the super abundant acid.

Temperament

TEM'PERAMENT, noun [Latin temperamentum.]

1. Constitution; state with respect to the predominance of any quality; as the temperament of the body.

Bodies are denominated hot and cold, in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied.

2. Medium; due mixture of different qualities.

The common law--has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament

3. In music, temperament is an operation which, by means of a slight alteration in the intervals, causes the difference between two contiguous sounds to disappear, and makes each of them appear identical with the other.

Temperament is the accommodation or adjustment of the imperfect sounds, by transferring a part of their defects to the more perfect ones, to remedy in part the false intervals of instruments of fixed sounds, as the organ, harpsichord, forte piano, etc.

The harshness of a given concord increases with the temperament

Temperamental

TEMPERAMENT'AL, adjective Constitutional. [Not much used.]

Temperance

TEM'PERANCE, noun [Latin temperantia, from tempero.]

1. Moderation; particularly, habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; as temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth. temperance in eating and drinking is opposed to gluttony and drunkenness, and in other indulgences, to excess.

2. Patience; calmness; sedateness; moderation of passion.

He calm'd his wrath with goodly temperance [Unusual.]

Temperate

TEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin temperatus.] Moderate; not excessive; as temperate heat; a temperate climate; temperate air.

1. Moderate in the indulgence of the appetites and passions; as temperate in eating and drinking; temperate in pleasures; temperate in speech.

Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy.

2. Cool; calm; not marked with passion; not violent; as a temperate discourse or address; temperate language.

3. Proceeding from temperance; as temperate sleep.

4. Free from ardent passion.

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

Temperate zone, the space on the earth between the tropics and the polar circles, where the heat is less than in the tropics, and the cold less than in the polar circles.

Temperately

TEM'PERATELY, adverb Moderately; without excess or extravagance.

1. Calmly; without violence of passion; as, to reprove one temperately

2. With moderate force.

Winds that temperately blow.

Temperateness

TEM'PERATENESS, noun Moderation; freedom from excess; as the temperateness of the weather or of a climate.

1. Calmness; coolness of mind.

Temperative

TEM'PERATIVE, adjective Having the power or quality of tempering.

Temperature

TEM'PERATURE, noun [Latin temperature ]

1. In physics, the state of a body with regard to heat or cold, as indicated by the thermometer; or the degree of free caloric which a body possesses, when compared with other bodies. When a body applied to another, either excites the sensation of heat, or expands that body, we say it is of a higher temperature; that is, it possesses more free caloric. When it excites the sensation of cold, or contracts another body, it is said to be of a lower temperature Thus we speak of the temperature of air, of water, of a climate, etc.; two countries of the same temperature

2. Constitution; state; degree of any quality.

Memory depends upon the consistence and temperature of the brain.

3. Moderation; freedom from immoderate passions.

In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,

Most goodly temperature you may descry.

[Not in use.]

Tempered

TEM'PERED, participle passive Duly mixed or modified; reduced to a proper state; softened; allayed; hardened.

1. Adjusted by musical temperament.

2. adjective Disposed; as a well tempered good tempered or bad tempered man.

Tempering

TEM'PERING, participle present tense Mixing and qualifying; qualifying by mixture; softening; mollifying; reducing to a state of moderation; hardening.

Tempest

TEM'PEST, noun [Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to fall or come suddenly, or rather to drive, to rush. Time is properly a coming, a season, that which presents itself, or is present. The sense of tempest is from the sense of rushing or driving. See Temerity and Temerarious.

1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence; a storm of extreme violence. We usually apply the word to a steady wind of long continuance; but we say also of a tornado, it blew a tempest The currents of wind are named, according to their respective degrees of force or rapidity, a breeze, a gale, a storm, a tempest; but gale is also used as synonymous with storm, and storm with tempest Gust is usually applied to a sudden blast of short duration. A tempest may or may not be attended with rain, snow or hail.

We, caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd

Each on his rock transfix'd--

2. A violent tumult or commotion; as a popular or political tempest; the tempest of war.

3. Perturbation; violent agitation; as a tempest of the

passions.

TEM'PEST, verb transitive To disturb as by a tempest of the passions. [Little used.]

Tempest-Beaten

TEM'PEST-BEATEN, adjective [tempest and beat.]

Beaten or shattered with storms.

Tempest-Tost

TEM'PEST-TOST, adjective [tempest and tost.] Tossed or driven about by tempests.

Tempestivity

TEMPESTIV'ITY, noun [Latin tempestivus.] Seasonableness. [Not in use.]

Tempestuous

TEMPEST'UOUS, adjective

1. Very story; turbulent; rough with wind; as tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night.

2. Blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind.

Tempestuously

TEMPEST'UOUSLY, adverb With great violence of wind or great commotion; turbulently.

Tempestuousness

TEMPEST'UOUSNESS, noun Storminess; the state of being tempestuous or disturbed by violent winds; as the tempestuousness of the winter or of weather.

Templar

TEM'PLAR, noun [from the Temple, a house near the Thames, which originally belonged to the knights Templars. The latter took their denomination from an apartment of the palace of Baldwin II. in Jerusalem, near the temple.]

1. A student of the law.

2. Templars, knights of the Temple, a religious military order, first established at Jerusalem in favor of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. The order originated with some persons who, in 1118, devoted themselves to the service of God, promising to live in perpetual chastity, obedience and poverty, after the manner of canons. In 1228, this order was confirmed in the council of Troyes, and subjected to a rule of discipline. It flourished, became immensely rich, and its members became so insolent and vicious, that the order was suppressed by the council of Vienne, in 1312.