Terraced – Thawing

Terraced

TER'RACED, participle passive Formed into a terrace; having a terrace.

Terracing

TER'RACING, participle present tense Forming into a terrace; opening to the air.

Terrapin

TER'RAPIN, noun A name given to a species of tide-water tortoise.

Terraqueous

TERRA'QUEOUS, adjective [Latin terra, earth, and aqua, water.] Consisting of land and water, as the globe or earth. This epithet is given to the earth in regard to the surface, of which more than three fifths consist of water, and the remainder of earth or solid materials.

Terrar

TER'RAR, noun A register of lands. [Not in use.]

Terrass

TER'RASS

TERRE-BLUE, noun A kind of earth.

Terre-Blue

TERRE-BLUE, n. A kind of earth.

Terre-Mote

TERRE-MOTE, noun [Latin terra, earth, and motus, motion.]

An earthquake. [Not in use.]

Terre-Plain

TERRE-PLAIN, noun In fortification, the top, platform or horizontal surface of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed.

Terre-Plein

TERRE-PLEIN

TERRE-TEN'ANT

TERRE-VERTE, noun A species of green earth, used by painters. It is an indurated clay, found in the earth in large flat masses, imbedded in strata of other species of earth. It is of a fine regular structure, and of a smooth glossy surface. It is found in Cyprus, France and Italy.

Terre-Tenant

TERRE-TEN'ANT

Terrel

TER'REL, noun [from terra.] Little earth, a magnet of a just spherical figure, and so placed that its poles, equator, etc. correspond exactly to those of the world.

Terrene

TERRE'NE, adjective [Latin terrenus, form terra.

1. Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as terrene substance.

2. Earthly; terrestrial.

God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene

Terreous

TER'REOUS, adjective [Latin terreus, from terra, earth.] Earthy; consisting of earth; as terreous substances; terreous particles.

Terrestrial

TERRES'TRIAL, adjective [Latin terrestris, from terra, the earth.]

1. Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial 1 Corinthians 15:40.

2. Consisting of earth; as the terrestrial globe.

3. Pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary. Death puts and end to all terrestrial scenes.

Terrestrially

TERRES'TRIALLY, adverb After an earthly manner.

Terrestrious

TERRES'TRIOUS, adjective Earthy. [Little used.]

1. Pertaining to the earth; being or living on the earth; terrestrial.

Terrible

TER'RIBLE, adjective [Latin terribilis, from terreo, to frighten.]

1. Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.

Prudent in peace, and terrible in war.

The form of the image was terrible Daniel 2:31.

2. Adapted to impress dread, terror or solemn awe and reverence.

The Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible Deuteronomy 7:21.

Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy. Psalms 99:3.

He hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10:17.

3. adverb Severely; very; so as to give pain; as terrible cold; a colloquial phrase.

Terribleness

TER'RIBLENESS, noun Dreadfulness; formidableness; the quality or state of being terrible; as the terribleness of a sight.

Terribly

TER'RIBLY, adverb Dreadfully; in a manner to excite terror or fright.

When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Isaiah 2:19.

1. Violently; very greatly.

The poor man squalled terribly

Terrier

TER'RIER, noun A dog or little hound, that creeps into the ground after animals that burrow.

1. A lodge or hole where certain animals, as foxes, rabbits, badgers and the like, secure themselves.

2. Originally, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, etc.; at present, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, etc.

3. A wimble, auger or borer. [Latin tero.]

Terrific

TERRIF'IC, adjective [Latin terrifieus, from terreo, terror, and facio.]

Dreadful; causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; as a terrific form; terrific sight.

Terrified

TER'RIFIED, participle passive Frightened; affrighted.

Terrify

TER'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin terror and facio, to make.]

To frighten; to alarm or shock with fear.

They were terrified and affrighted. Luke 24:37.

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified. Luke 21:9. Job 7:14.

Terrifying

TER'RIFYING, participle present tense Frightening; affrighting.

Terrigenous

TERRIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin terrigena, one born of the earth; terra and gigno.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.

Territorial

TERRITO'RIAL, adjective [from territory.] Pertaining to territory or land; as territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

1. Limited to a certain district. Rights may be personal or territorial

Territorially

TERRITO'RIALLY, adverb In regard to territory; by means of territory.

Territory

TER'RITORY, noun [Latin territorium, from terra, earth.]

1. The extent or compass of land within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdiction of any state, city or other body.

Linger not in my territories.

They erected a house within their own territory

Arts and sciences took their rise and flourished only in those small territories where the people were free.

2. A tract of land belonging to and under the dominion of a prince or state, lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as the territories of the East India Company; the territories of the United States; the territory of Michigan; Northwest territory These districts of country, when received into the union and acknowledged to be states, lose the appellation of territory

Terror

TER'ROR, noun [Latin terror from terreo, to frighten.]

1. Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind.

The sword without, and terror within. Deuteronomy 32:25.

The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Job 6:4.

2. That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear.

Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Romans 13:3.

Those enormous terrors of the Nile.

3. In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors.Psalms 73:19.

4. The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14.

5. Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11.

6. Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.

Terse

TERSE, adjective ters. [Latin tersus, from tergo, to wipe.]

Cleanly written; neat; elegant without pompousness; as terse language; a terse style.

Diffus'd, yet terse poetical, though plain.

Tersely

TERSELY, adverb ters'ly. Neatly.

Terseness

TERSENESS, noun ters'ness. Neatness of style; smoothness of language.

TER-TEN'ANT, noun The occupant of land.

Tertials

TER'TIALS, noun In ornithology, feathers near the junction of the wing with the body.

Tertian

TER'TIAN, adjective [Latin tertianus, from tertius, third.]

Occurring every other day; as a tertian fever.

TER'TIAN, noun A disease or fever whose paroxysms return every other day; an intermittent occurring after intervals of about forty eight hours.

1. A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.

Tertiary

TER'TIARY, adjective Third; of the third formation. tertiary mountains are such as result from the ruins of other mountains promiscuously heaped together.

Tertiary formation, in geology, a series of horizontal strata, more recent than chalk beds, consisting chiefly of sand and clay, and frequently embracing vast quantities of organic remains of the larger animals. It comprehends the alluvial formation, which embraces those deposits only which have resulted from causes still in operation; and the diluvial formation, which is constituted of such deposits as are supposed to have been produced by the deluge.

Tertiate

TER'TIATE, verb transitive [Latin tertius, third; tertio, to do every third day.]

1. To do any thing the third time.

2. To examine the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or in general, to examine the thickness to ascertain the strength of ordnance.

Tessaraic

TESSARA'IC, adjective [Latin tessera, a square thing.]

Diversified by squares; tesselated.

Tesselate

TES'SELATE, verb transitive [Latin tessela, a little square stone.]

To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.

Tesselated

TES'SELATED, participle passive Checkered; formed in little squares or mosaic work; as a tesselated pavement.

1. In botany, spotted or checkered like a chess board; as a tesselated leaf.

Tesselation

TESSELA'TION, noun Mosaic work, or the operation of making it.

Test

TEST, noun [Latin testa, an earthen pot.]

1. In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.

2. Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.

Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune.

Like purest gold--

3. Means of trial.

Each test and every light her muse will bear.

4. That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.

--Life, force and beauty must of all impart,

At once the source, the end and test of art.

5. Discriminative characteristic; standard.

Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.

6. Judgment; distinction.

Who would excel, when few can make a test

Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

7. In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property. Thus ammonia is a test of copper, because it strikes a blue color with that metal, by which a minute quantity of it can be discovered when in combination with other substances.

TEST, noun [Latin testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]

In England, an oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, are obliged to take within six months after their admission. They were formerly obliged also to receive the sacrament, according to the usage of the church of England. These requisitions are made by Stat. 25 Charles II. which is called the test act. The test of 7 Jac.1. was removed in 1753.

TEST, verb transitive To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

The true way of testing its character, is to suppose it [the system] will be persevered in.

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

To test this position--

In order to test the correctness of this system--

This expedient has been already tested.

1. To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.

2. In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.

Testable

TEST'ABLE, adjective [Latin testor. See Testament.]

That may be devised or given by will.

Testaceography

TESTACEOG'RAPHY, noun [See Testaceology.]

Testaceology

TESTACEOL'OGY

TESTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin testaceus, from testa, a shell. The primary sense of testa, testis, testor, etc. is to thrust or drive; hence the sense of hardness, compactness, in testa and testis; and hence the sense of attest, context, detest, testator, testament, all implying a sending, driving, etc.]

Pertaining to shells; consisting of a hard shell, or having a hard continuous shell.

Testaceous animals are such as have a strong thick entire shell, as oysters and clams; and are thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several pieces jointed, as lobsters.

Testaceous medicines, are all preparations of shells and like substances, as the powders of crabs' claws, pearl, etc.

Testalogy

TESTAL'OGY, noun [Latin testacea, or testa.] The science of testaceous vermes, or of those soft and simple animals which have a testaceous covering; a branch of vermeology. [Words thus formed of two languages are rather anomalous, and the first for its length is very objectionable.]

Testament

TEST'AMENT, noun [Latin testamentum, from testor, to make a will.]

1. A solemn authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to the disposal of his estate and effects after his death. This is otherwise called a will. A testament to be valid, must be made when the testator is of sound mind, and it must be subscribed, witnessed and published in such manner as the law prescribes.

A man in certain cases may make a valid will by words only, and such will is called nuncupative.

2. The name of each general division of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures; as the Old Testament; the New testament The name is equivalent to covenant, and in our use of it, we apply it to the books which contain the old and new dispensations; that of Moses, and that of Jesus Christ.

Testamentary

TESTAMENT'ARY, adjective Pertaining to a will or to wills; as testamentary causes in law.

1. Bequeathed by will; given by testament; as testamentary charities.

2. Done by testament or will.

Testamentary guardian of a minor, is one appointed by the deed or will of a father, until the child becomes of age.

Testamentation

TESTAMENTA'TION, noun The act or power of giving by will. [Little used.]

Testate

TEST'ATE, adjective [Latin testatus.] Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate

Testation

TESTA'TION, noun [Latin testatio.] A witnessing or witness.

Testator

TESTA'TOR, noun [Latin] A man who makes and leaves a will or testament at death.

Testatrix

TESTA'TRIX, noun A woman who makes and leaves a will at death.

Tested

TEST'ED, participle passive Tried or approved by a test.

Tester

TEST'ER, noun The top covering of a bed, consisting of some species of cloth, supported by the bedstead.

TEST'ER

Testicle

TEST'ICLE, noun [Latin testiculus; literally a hard mass, like testa, shell.] The testicles are male organs of generation, consisting of glandular substances, whose office is to secrete the fecundating fluid.

Testiculate

TESTIC'ULATE, adjective In botany, shaped like a testicle.

Testification

TESTIFICA'TION, noun [Latin testificatio. See Testify.]

The act of testifying or giving testimony or evidence; as a direct testification of our homage to God.

Testificator

TESTIFICA'TOR, noun One who gives witness or evidence.

Testified

TEST'IFIED, participle passive [from testify.] Given in evidence; witnessed; published; made known.

Testifier

TEST'IFIER, noun [from testify.] One who testifies; one who gives testimony or bears witness to prove any thing.

Testify

TEST'IFY, verb intransitive [Latin testificor; testis and facio.]

1. To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

Jesus needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John 2:25.

2. In judicial proceedings, to make a solemn declaration under oath, for the purpose of establishing or making proof of some act to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.

One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Numbers 35:30.

3. To declare a charge against one.

O Israel, I will testify against thee. Psalms 1:1.

4. To protest; to declare against.

I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Nehemiah 13:1.

TEST'IFY, verb transitive To affirm or declare solemnly for the purpose of establishing a fact.

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John 3:11.

1. In law, to affirm or declare under oath before tribunal, for the purpose of proving some fact.

2. To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony.

To testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24.

3. To publish and declare freely.

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:24.

Testifying

TEST'IFYING, participle present tense Affirming solemnly or under oath, for the purpose of establishing a fact; giving testimony; bearing witness; declaring.

Testily

TEST'ILY, adverb [from testy.] Fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

Testimonial

TESTIMO'NIAL, noun [Latin testimonium.] A writing or certificate in favor of one's character or good conduct. Testimonials are required on many occasions. A person must have testimonials of his learning and good conduct, before he can obtain license to preach. Testimonials are to be signed by persons of known respectability of character.

Testimony

TEST'IMONY, noun [Latin testimonium.] A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact. Such affirmation in judicial proceedings, may be verbal or written, but must be under oath. testimony differs from evidence; testimony is the declaration of a witness, and evidence is the effect of that declaration on the mind, or the degree of light which it affords.

1. Affirmation; declaration. These doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers. The belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony or the testimony of historians.

2. Open attestation; profession.

Thou for the testimony of truth hast borne

Universal reproach.

3. Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.

Shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Mark 6:11.

4. In Scripture, the two tables of the law.

Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Exodus 25:16.

5. The book of the law.

He brought forth the king's son--and gave him the testimony 2 Kings 11:12.

6. The gospel, which testifies of Christ and declares the will of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1. 2 Timothy 1:8.

7. The ark. Exodus 16:34.

8. The word of God; the Scriptures.

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple Psalms 19:7.

9. The laws or precepts of God. 'I love thy testimonies.' 'I have kept thy testimonies.'

10. That which is equivalent to a declaration; manifestation.

Sacrifices were appointed by God for a testimony of his hatred of sin.

11. Evidence suggested to the mind; as the testimony of conscience. 2 Corinthians 1:12.

12. Attestation; confirmation.

TEST'IMONY, verb transitive To witness. [Not in use.]

Testiness

TEST'INESS, noun [from testy.] Fretfulness; peevishness; petulance.

Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry.

Testing

TEST'ING, participle present tense [from test.] Trying for proof; proving by a standard or by experiment.

A plan for testing alkalies--

TEST'ING, noun The act of trying for proof.

1. In metallurgy, the operation of refining large quantities of gold or silver by means of lead, in the vessel called a test. In this process, the extraneous matter is vitrified, scarified or destroyed, and the metal left pure. This operation is performed in the manner of cupellation.

Teston

TEST'ON, noun A French coin, of the value of about six pence sterling.

Testoon

TESTOON', noun A silver coin in Italy and Portugal. In Florence, the testoon is worth two lire or three paoli, about seventeen pence sterling, or thirty two cents. At Lisbon, the testoon as a money of account, is valued at 100 rees, about seven pence sterling, or twelve and a half cents.

TEST'-PAPER, noun A paper impregnated with a chimical re-agent, as litmus, etc.

Testudinal

TESTU'DINAL, adjective Pertaining to the tortoise, or resembling it.

Testudinated

TESTU'DINATED, adjective [Latin testudo, a tortoise.] Roofed; arched.

Testudineous

TESTUDIN'EOUS, adjective Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

Testudo

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

1. In medicine, a broad soft tumor between the skull and the skin, called also talpa or mole, as resembling the subterraneous windings of the tortoise or mole.

Testy

TEST'Y, adjective Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

Pyrrbus cured his testy courtiers with a kick.

Must I stand and crouch under your testy humor?

Tetanus

TET'ANUS, noun [Gr. stretched.] A spasmodic contraction of the muscles of voluntary motion, particularly of those which shut the lower jaw; the locked jaw.

Tetaug

TETAUG', noun The name of a fish on the coast of New England; called also black fish.

Tetchiness

TETCH'INESS

TETCH'Y See Techiness, Techy. [corrupted from touchy, touchiness.] [Not in use.]

Tetchy

TETCH'Y See Techiness, Techy. [corrupted from touchy, touchiness.] [Not in use.]

Tete

TETE, noun False hair; a kind of wig or cap of false hair.

TETE-a-tete, head to head; cheek by jowl; in private.

Tether

TETH'ER, noun [See Tedder.] A rope or chain by which a beast is confined for feeding within certain limits.

TETH'ER, verb transitive To confine, as a beast, with a rope or chain for feeding within certain limits. [It would be well to write this word uniformly tedder.]

Tetrachord

TET'RACHORD, noun [Gr. four, and a chord.] In ancient music, a diatessaron; a series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

Tetrad

TET'RAD, noun [Gr. the number four.] The number four; a collection of four things.

Tetradactylous

TETRADAC'TYLOUS, adjective [Gr.] Having four toes.

Tetradiapason

TETRADIAP'ASON, noun [Gr. four, and diapason.] Quadruple diapason or octave; a musical chord, otherwise called a quadruple eighth or twenty ninth.

Tetradrachma

TETRADRACH'MA, noun [Gr.] In ancient coinage, a silver coin worth four drachmas, 3s.sterling, or 66 2/3 cents; the drachma being estimated at 9d. sterling, or 16 2/3 cents.

Tetradynamian

TETRADYNAM'IAN, noun [Gr. power, strength.] In botany, a plant having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

TETRADYNAM'IAN, adjective Having six stamens, four or which are uniformly longer than the others.

Tetragon

TET'RAGON, noun [Gr. four, and an angle.]

1. In geometry, a figure having four angles; a quadrangle; as a square, a rhombus, etc.

2. In astrology, 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.

Tetragonal

TETRAG'ONAL, adjective Pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides. Thus a square, a parallelogram, a rhombus, and a trapezium, are tetragonal figures.

1. In botany, having four prominent longitudinal angles, as a stem.

Tetragonism

TET'RAGONISM, noun The quadrature of the circle.

Tetragyn

TET'RAGYN, noun [Gr. four, and a female.] In botany, a plant having four pistils.

Tetragynian

TETRAGYN'IAN, adjective Having four pistils.

Tetrahedral

TETRAHE'DRAL, adjective [See Tetrahedron.]

1. Having four equal triangles.

2. In botany, having four sides, as a pod or silique.

Tetrahedron

TETRAHE'DRON, noun [Gr. four, and side.] In geometry, a figure comprehended under four equilateral and equal triangles; or one of the five regular Platonic bodies of that figure.

Tetrahexahedral

TETRAHEXAHE'DRAL, adjective [Gr. four, and hexahedral.] In crystallography, exhibiting four ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing six faces.

Tetrameter

TETRAM'ETER, noun [Gr. four, and measure.] In ancient poetry, an iambic verse consisting of four feet, found in the comic poets.

A verse consisting of four measures or eight feet.

Tetrander

TETRAN'DER, noun [Gr. four and a male.] In botany, a plant having four stamens.

Tetrandrian

TETRAN'DRIAN, adjective Having four stamens.

Tetrapetalous

TETRAPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. four, and leaf.] In botany, containing four distinct petals or flower leaves; as a tetrapetalous corol.

Tetraphyllous

TETRAPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Gr. four and leaf.] In botany, having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets; as a tetraphyllous calyx.

Tetraptote

TET'RAPTOTE, noun [Gr. four, and case.] In grammar, a noun that has four cases only. As Latin astus, etc.

Tetrarch

TE'TRARCH, noun [Gr. four, and rule.] A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; a subordinate prince. In time, this word came to denote any petty king or sovereign.

Tetrarchate

TETR'ARCHATE, noun The fourth part of a province under a Roman tetrarch; or the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch.

Tetrarchical

TETR'ARCHICAL, adjective Pertaining to a tetrarchy.

Tetrarchy

TET'RARCHY, noun The same as tetrarchate.

Tetraspermous

TETRASPERM'OUS, noun [Gr. four, and seed.] In botany, containing four seeds.

A tetraspermous plant, is one which produces four seeds in each flower, as the rough-leaved or verticillate plants.

Tetrastich

TETRAS'TICH, noun [Gr. four, and verse.] A stanza, epigram or poem consisting of four verses.

Tetrastyle

TET'RASTYLE, noun [Gr. four, and column.] In ancient architecture, a building with four columns in front.

Tetrasyllabic

TETRASYLLAB'IC

TETRASYLLAB'ICAL, adjective Consisting of four syllables.

Tetrasyllabical

TETRASYLLAB'ICAL, a. Consisting of four syllables.

Tetrasyllable

TETRASYL'LABLE, noun [Gr. four, and syllable.] A word consisting of four syllables.

Tetric

TET'RIC

TET'RICAL

TETRIC'ITY, noun Crabbedness; perverseness. [Not in use.]

Tetricity

TETRIC'ITY, n. Crabbedness; perverseness. [Not in use.]

Tetricous

TET'RICOUS, adjective [Latin tetricus.] Froward; perverse; harsh, sour; rugged. [Not in use.]

Tetter

TET'TER, noun [Latin titillo.]

1. In medicine, a common name of several cutaneous diseases, consisting of an eruption of vesicles or pustules, in distinct or confluent clusters, spreading over the body in various directions and hardening into scabs or crusts. It includes the shingles, ring-worm, milky scale (crusta lactea.) scald head, etc.

2. In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, of the ring-worm kind, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching.

TET'TER, verb transitive To affect with the disease called tetters.

Tettish

TET'TISH, adjective Captious; testy. [Not in use.]

Teutonic

TEUTON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Teutons, a people of Germany, or to their language; as a noun, the language of the Teutons, the parent of the German Dutch, and Anglo Saxon or native English.

Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitallers. It was composed chiefly of Teutons or Germans, who marched to the Holy Land in the crusades, and was established in that country for charitable purposes. It increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia and Pomerania.

Tew

TEW, verb transitive To work; to soften. [Not in use.] [See Taw.]

1. To work; to pull or tease; among seamen.

TEW, noun [probably tow.] Materials for any thing. [Not in use.]

1. An iron chain. [Not in use.]

Tewel

TEW'EL, noun An iron pipe in a forge to receive the pipe of a bellows.

Tewtaw

TEW'TAW, verb transitive To beat; to break. [Not in use.] [See Tew.]

Text

TEXT, noun [Latin textus, woven. See Texture.]

1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written. Thus we speak of the text or original of the Scripture, in relation to the comments upon it. Infinite pains have been taken to ascertain and establish the genuine original text

2. A verse or passage of Scripture which a preacher selects as the subject of a discourse.

How oft, when Paul has serv'd us with a text

Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully preach'd.

3. Any particular passage of Scripture, used an authority in argument for proof of a doctrine. In modern sermons, texts of Scripture are not as frequently cited as they were formerly.

4. In ancient law authors, the four Gospels, by way of eminence.

TEXT, verb transitive To write, as a text [Not much used.]

TEXT'-BOOK, noun In universities and colleges, a classic author written with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for the observations or interpretation dictated by the master or regent.

1. A book containing the leading principles or most important points of a science or branch of learning, arranged in order for the use of students.

Text-Hand

TEXT-HAND, noun A large hand in writing; so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand, and the notes in a smaller hand.

Textile

TEXT'ILE, adjective [Latin textilis.] Woven, or capable of being woven.

TEXT'ILE, noun That which is or may be woven.

TEXT'-MAN, noun A man ready in the quotation of texts.

Textorial

TEXTO'RIAL, adjective [Latin textor.] Pertaining to weaving.

Textrine

TEXT'RINE, adjective Pertaining to weaving; as the textrine art.

Textual

TEXT'UAL, adjective Contained in the text.

1. Serving for texts.

Textualist

TEXT'UALIST

TEXT'UARY , noun One who is well versed in the Scriptures, and can readily quote texts.

1. One who adheres to the text.

TEXT'UARY, adjective Textual; contained in the text.

1. Serving as a text; authoritative.

Textuary

TEXT'UARY , n. One who is well versed in the Scriptures, and can readily quote texts. 1. One who adheres to the text. TEXT'UARY, a. Textual; contained in the text. 1. Serving as a text; authoritative.

Textuist

TEXT'UIST, noun One ready in the quotation of texts.

Texture

TEX'TURE, noun [Latin textura, textus, from texo, to weave.]

1. The act of weaving.

2. A web; that which is woven.

Others, far in the grassy dale,

Their humble texture weave.

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

4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other; or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; as the texture of earthy substances of fossils; the texture of a plant; the texture of paper, of a hat or skin; a loose texture; or a close compact texture

5. In anatomy. [See Tissue.]

Thack

THACK, for thatch, is local. [See Thatch.]

Thallite

THAL'LITE, noun [Gr. a green twig.] In mineralogy, a substance variously denominated by different authors. It is the epidote of Hauy, the delphinite of Saussure, and the pistacite of Werner. It occurs both crystallized and in masses.

Thammuz

THAM'MUZ, noun The tenth month of the Jewish civil year, containing 29 days, and answering to a part of June and a part of July.

1. The name of a deity among the Phenicians.

Than

THAN, adverb This word is placed after some comparative adjective or adverb, to express comparison between what precedes and what follows. Thus Elijah said, I am not better than my fathers. Wisdom is better than strength. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. All nations are counted less than nothing. I who am less than the least of all saints. The last error shall be worse than the first. He that denies the faith is worse than an infidel.

After more, or an equivalent termination, the following word implies less, or worse; after less, or an equivalent termination, it implies more or better.

Thane

THANE, noun The thanes in England were formerly persons of some dignity; of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the Saxon and Danish kings in their courts, and held lands immediately of them; and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors, and who had a particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

Thane-Lands

THA'NE-LANDS, noun Lands granted to thanes.

Thaneship

THA'NESHIP, noun The state or dignity of a thane; or his seignory.

Thank

THANK, verb transitive

1. To express gratitude for a favor; to make acknowledgments to one for kindness bestowed.

We are bound to thank God always for you. 2 Thessalonians 1:3.

Joab bowed himself and thanked the king. 2 Samuel 14:22.

2. It is used ironically.

Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss,

And thank yourself, if aught should fall amiss.

THANK

Thanked

THANK'ED, participle passive Having received expression of gratitude.

Thankful

THANK'FUL, adjective Grateful; impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it. The Lord's supper is to be celebrated with a thankful remembrance of his sufferings and death.

Be thankful to him, and bless his name. Psalms 100:4.

Thankfully

THANK'FULLY, adverb With a grateful sense of favor or kindness received.

If you have liv'd, take thankfully the past'.

Thankfulness

THANK'FULNESS, noun Expression of gratitude; acknowledgment of a favor.

1. Gratitude; a lively sense of good received.

The celebration of these holy mysteries being ended, retire with all thankfulness of heart for having been admitted to that heavenly feast.

Thanking

THANK'ING, participle present tense Expressing gratitude for good received.

Thankless

THANK'LESS, adjective Unthankful; ungrateful; not acknowledging favors.

That she may feel

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

To have a thankless child.

1. Not deserving thanks, or not likely to gain thanks; as a thankless office.

Thanklessness

THANK'LESSNESS, noun Ingratitude; failure to acknowledge a kindness.

THANK'-OFFERING, noun [thank and offering.]

An offering made in acknowledgment of mercy.

Thanks

THANKS, noun generally in the plural. Expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment made to express a sense of favor or kindness received. Gratitude is the feeling or sentiment excited by kindness; thanks are the expression of that sentiment. Luke 6:1.

THANKS be to God, who giveth us the victory. 1 Corinthians 15:57.

THANKS be to God for his unspeakable gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15.

He took bread and gave thanks to God. Acts 27:35.

Thanksgive

THANKSGIVE, verb transitive thanksgiv.' [thanks and give.]

To celebrate or distinguish by solemn rites. [Not in use.]

Thanksgiver

THANKSGIV'ER, noun One who gives thanks or acknowledges a kindness.

Thanksgiving

THANKSGIV'ING, participle present tense Rendering thanks for good received.

THANKSGIV'ING, noun The act of rendering thanks or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.

Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving 1 Timothy 4:3.

1. A public celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. The practice of appointing an annual thanksgiving originated in New England.

THANK'-WORTHY, adjective [thank and worthy.] Deserving thanks; meritorious. 1 Peter 2:1.

Tharm

TH'ARM, noun Intestines twisted into a cord.

That

THAT, an adjective, pronoun or substitute.

1. that is a word used as a definitive adjective, pointing to a certain person or thing before mentioned, or supposed to be understood. 'Here is that book we have been seeking this hour.' 'Here goes that man we were talking of.'

It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Matthew 10:14.

2. that is used definitively, to designate a specific thing or person emphatically.

The woman was made whole from that hour. Matthew 9:6.

In these cases, that is an adjective. In the two first examples, the may be substituted for it. 'Here is the book we have been seeking.' 'Here goes the man we were talking of.' But in other cases, the cannot supply its place, and that may be considered as more emphatically definite than the.

3. that is used as the representative of a noun, either a person or a thing. In this use, it is often a pronoun and a relative. When it refers to persons, it is equivalent to who, and when it refers to a thing, it is equivalent to which. In this use, it represents either the singular number or the plural.

He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame. Proverbs 9:4.

They that hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of my head. Psalms 63:9.

A judgment that is equal and impartial, must incline to the greater probabilities.

They shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend. Mat 13.

4. that is also the representative of a sentence or part of a sentence, and often of a series of sentences. In this case, that is not strictly a pronoun, a word standing for a noun; but is, so to speak, a pro-sentence, the substitute for a sentence, to save the repetition of it.

And when Moses heard that he was content. Leviticus 10:3.

THAT here stands for the whole of what Aaron had said, or the whole of the preceding verse.

I will know your business, that I will.

Ye defraud, and that your brethren. 1 Corinthians 6:2.

THAT sometimes in this use, precedes the sentence or clause to which it refers.

THAT be far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Genesis 18:5.

THAT here represents the clause in italics.

5. that sometimes is the substitute for an adjective. You allege that the man is innocent; that he is not.

6. that in the following use, has been called a conjunction. 'I heard that the Greeks had defeated the Turks.' But in this case, that has the same character as in No.4. It is the representative of the part of the sentence which follows, as may be seen by inverting the order of the clauses. 'The Greeks had defeated the Turks; I heard that ' 'It is not that I love you less.' that here refers to the latter clause of the sentence, as a kind of demonstrative.

7. that was formerly used for that which, like what.

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John 3:2. [This use is no longer held legitimate.]

8. that is used in opposition to this, or by way of distinction.

9. When this and that refer to foregoing words, this, like the Latin hie, and French ceci, refers to the latter, and that to the former. It is the same with these and those.

Self-love and reason to one end aspire,

Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire,

But greedy that its object would devour,

This taste the honey, and not wound the flow'r.

10. that sometimes introduces an explanation of something going before. 'Religion consists in living up to those principles; that is, in acting in conformity to them.' Here that refers to the whole first clause of the sentence.

11. 'Things are preached, not in that they are taught, but in that they are published.' Here that refers to the words which follow it.

So when that begins a sentence, 'That we may fully understand the subject, let us consider the following propositions.' that denotes purpose, or rather introduces the clause expressing purposes, as will appear by restoring the sentence to its natural order. 'Let us consider the following propositions, that [for the purpose expressed in the following clause, ] we may fully understand the subject.' 'Attend that you may receive instruction; ' that referring to the last member.

In that a phrase denoting consequence, cause or reason; that referring to the following sentence.

Thatch

THATCH, noun [Latin tego; Eng. deck.] Straw or other substance used to cover the roofs of buildings, or stacks of hay or grain, for securing them from rain, etc.

THATCH, verb transitive To cover with straw, reeds or some similar substance; as, to thatch a house or a stable, or a stack of grain.

Thatched

THATCH'ED, participle passive Covered with straw or thatch.

Thatcher

THATCH'ER, noun One whose occupation is to thatch houses.

Thatching

THATCH'ING, participle present tense Covering with straw or thatch.

THATCH'ING, noun The act or art of covering buildings with thatch, so as to keep out water.

Thaumaturgic

THAUMATUR'GIC

THAU'MATURGY, noun [Gr. a wonder, and work.]

The act of performing something wonderful.

Thaumaturgy

THAU'MATURGY, n. [Gr. a wonder, and work.]

The act of performing something wonderful.

Thaumturgical

THAUMTUR'GICAL, adjective [See Thaumaturgy.] Exciting wonder.

Thave

THAVE, noun An ewe of the first year. [Local.]

Thaw

THAW, verb intransitive

1. To melt, dissolve or become fluid, as ice or snow. [It is remarkable that this word is used only of things that congeal by frost. We never say, to thaw metal of any kind.]

2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; used of weather.

THAW, verb transitive To melt; to dissolve; as ice, snow, hail or frozen earth.

THAW, noun The melting of ice or snow; the resolution of ice into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat, of any thing congealed by frost.

Thawed

THAW'ED, participle passive Melted, as ice or snow.

Thawing

THAW'ING, participle present tense Dissolving; resolving into a fluid; liquefying; as any thing frozen.