English Dictionary: Tierschutzbedenken | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Target \Tar"get\, n. 1. A thin cut; a slice; specif., of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints. [Eng.] 2. A tassel or pendent; also, a shred; tatter. [Obs. Scot.] | |
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Target \Tar"get\, n. [OF. targette, dim. of OF. & F. targe, of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. targe, OD. targie, G. zarge a frame, case, border, OHG. zarga, Icel. targa shield.] 1. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. 2. (a) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. (b) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target. 3. (Surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff. 4. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal. | |
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Targeted \Tar"get*ed\, a. Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target. | |
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Targeteer \Tar`get*eer"\, n. One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written also {targetier}.] | |
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Targeteer \Tar`get*eer"\, n. One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written also {targetier}.] | |
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Tarsotomy \Tar*sot"o*my\, n. [Tarsus + Gr. [?] to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages. | |
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Tercet \Ter"cet\, n. [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L. tertius. See {Tierce}, and cf. {Terzetto}.] 1. (Mus.) A triplet. --Hiles. 2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines. | |
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Tergite \Ter"gite\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under {Coleoptera}. | |
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d8Terra \[d8]Ter"ra\, n. [It. & L. See {Terrace}.] The earth; earth. {Terra alba} [L., white earth] (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. {Terra cotta}. [It., fr. terra earth + cotta, fem. of cotto cooked, L. coctus, p. p. of coquere to cook. See {Cook}, n.] Baked clay; a kind of hard pottery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like. {Terr[91] filius} [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. {Terra firma} [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to {water}. {Terra Japonica}. [NL.] Same as {Gambier}. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan. {Terra Lemnia} [L., Lemnian earth], Lemnian earth. See under {Lemnian}. {Terra ponderosa} [L., ponderous earth] (Min.), barite, or heavy spar. {Terra di Sienna}. See {Sienna}. | |
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Terrace \Ter"race\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Terraced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Terracing}.] To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building. --Sir H. Wotton. Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. --Thomson. | |
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Terrestre \Ter*res"tre\, a. [OE., from OF. & F. terrestre.] Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] [bd]His paradise terrestre.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See {Terrace}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. [bd]Bodies terrestrial.[b8] --1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. [bd]The dark terrestrial ball.[b8] --Addison. 3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. --Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. --Young. 4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. --Woodward. 5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ly}, adv. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ness}, n. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, n. An inhabitant of the earth. | |
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Eyepiece \Eye"piece`\, n. (Opt.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. {Collimating eyepiece}. See under {Collimate}. {Negative}, or {Huyghenian}, {eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's eyepiece}. {Positive eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's eyepiece}. {terrestrial}, or {Erecting eyepiece}, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See {Terrace}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. [bd]Bodies terrestrial.[b8] --1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. [bd]The dark terrestrial ball.[b8] --Addison. 3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. --Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. --Young. 4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. --Woodward. 5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ly}, adv. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ness}, n. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, n. An inhabitant of the earth. | |
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Eyepiece \Eye"piece`\, n. (Opt.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. {Collimating eyepiece}. See under {Collimate}. {Negative}, or {Huyghenian}, {eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's eyepiece}. {Positive eyepiece}, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's eyepiece}. {terrestrial}, or {Erecting eyepiece}, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position. | |
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Magnetism \Mag"net*ism\, n. [Cf. F. magn[82]tisme.] The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet. 2. The science which treats of magnetic phenomena. 3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. [bd]By the magnetism of interest our affections are irresistibly attracted.[b8] --Glanvill. {Animal magnetism}, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another with or without actual contact. The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by Mesmer in 1775. His theories and methods were afterwards called mesmerism, a name which has been popularly applied to theories and claims not put forward by Mesmer himself. See {Mesmerism}, {Biology}, {Od}, {Hypnotism}. {Terrestrial magnetism}, the magnetic force exerted by the earth, and recognized by its effect upon magnetized needles and bars. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [L. polus, Gr. [?] a pivot or hinge on which anything turns, an axis, a pole; akin to [?] to move: cf. F. p[93]le.] 1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole. 2. (Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian. 3. (Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle. 4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. --Milton. 5. (Geom.) See {Polarity}, and {Polar}, n. {Magnetic pole}. See under {Magnetic}. {Poles of the earth}, [or] {Terrestrial poles} (Geog.), the two opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes. {Poles of the heavens}, [or] {Celestial poles}, the two opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis produced, and about which the heavens appear to revolve. | |
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Refraction \Re*frac"tion\ (r?*fr?k"sh?n), n. [F. r[82]fraction.] 1. The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted. 2. The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. --Sir I. Newton. 3. (Astron.) (a) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction. (b) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude. {Angle of refraction} (Opt.), the angle which a refracted ray makes with the perpendicular to the surface separating the two media traversed by the ray. {Conical refraction} (Opt.), the refraction of a ray of light into an infinite number of rays, forming a hollow cone. This occurs when a ray of light is passed through crystals of some substances, under certain circumstances. Conical refraction is of two kinds; external conical refraction, in which the ray issues from the crystal in the form of a cone, the vertex of which is at the point of emergence; and internal conical refraction, in which the ray is changed into the form of a cone on entering the crystal, from which it issues in the form of a hollow cylinder. This singular phenomenon was first discovered by Sir W. R. Hamilton by mathematical reasoning alone, unaided by experiment. {Differential refraction} (Astron.), the change of the apparent place of one object relative to a second object near it, due to refraction; also, the correction required to be made to the observed relative places of the two bodies. {Double refraction} (Opt.), the refraction of light in two directions, which produces two distinct images. The power of double refraction is possessed by all crystals except those of the isometric system. A uniaxial crystal is said to be optically positive (like quartz), or optically negative (like calcite), or to have positive, or negative, double refraction, according as the optic axis is the axis of least or greatest elasticity for light; a biaxial crystal is similarly designated when the same relation holds for the acute bisectrix. {Index of refraction}. See under {Index}. {Refraction circle} (Opt.), an instrument provided with a graduated circle for the measurement of refraction. {Refraction of latitude}, {longitude}, {declination}, {right ascension}, etc., the change in the apparent latitude, longitude, etc., of a heavenly body, due to the effect of atmospheric refraction. {Terrestrial refraction}, the change in the apparent altitude of a distant point on or near the earth's surface, as the top of a mountain, arising from the passage of light from it to the eye through atmospheric strata of varying density. | |
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Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] viewing afar, farseeing; [?] far, far off + [?] a watcher, akin to [?] to view: cf. F. t[82]lescope. See {Telegraph}, and {-scope}.] An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. Note: A telescope 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, thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct and or invisible. Its essential parts are the object glass, or concave mirror, which collects the beam of light, and forms an image of the object, and the eyeglass, which is a microscope, by which the image is magnified. {Achromatic telescope}. See under {Achromatic}. {Aplanatic telescope}, a telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece. {Astronomical telescope}, a telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations. {Cassegrainian telescope}, a reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in their natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see Illust. under {Reflecting telescope}, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope. {Dialytic telescope}. See under {Dialytic}. {Equatorial telescope}. See the Note under {Equatorial}. {Galilean telescope}, a refracting telescope in which the eyeglass is a concave instead of a convex lens, as in the common opera glass. This was the construction originally adopted by Galileo, the inventor of the instrument. It exhibits the objects erect, that is, in their natural positions. {Gregorian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See under {Gregorian}. {Herschelian telescope}, a reflecting telescope of the form invented by Sir William Herschel, in which only one speculum is employed, by means of which an image of the object is formed near one side of the open end of the tube, and to this the eyeglass is applied directly. {Newtonian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See under {Newtonian}. {Photographic telescope}, a telescope specially constructed to make photographs of the heavenly bodies. {Prism telescope}. See {Teinoscope}. {Reflecting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See {Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, [and] Newtonian, telescopes}, above. {Refracting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is formed by refraction through an object glass. {Telescope carp} (Zo[94]l.), the telescope fish. {Telescope fish} (Zo[94]l.), a monstrous variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes. {Telescope fly} (Zo[94]l.), any two-winged fly of the genus {Diopsis}, native of Africa and Asia. The telescope flies are remarkable for having the eyes raised on very long stalks. {Telescope shell} (Zo[94]l.), an elongated gastropod ({Cerithium telescopium}) having numerous flattened whorls. {Telescope sight} (Firearms), a slender telescope attached to the barrel, having cross wires in the eyepiece and used as a sight. {Terrestrial telescope}, a telescope whose eyepiece has one or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See {Terrace}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. [bd]Bodies terrestrial.[b8] --1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. [bd]The dark terrestrial ball.[b8] --Addison. 3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. --Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. --Young. 4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. --Woodward. 5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ly}, adv. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ness}, n. | |
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Terrestrial \Ter*res"tri*al\, a. [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See {Terrace}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. [bd]Bodies terrestrial.[b8] --1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. [bd]The dark terrestrial ball.[b8] --Addison. 3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. --Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. --Young. 4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. --Woodward. 5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ly}, adv. -- {Ter*res"tri*al*ness}, n. | |
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Terrestrify \Ter*res"tri*fy\, v. t. [L. terrestris terrestrial + -fy.] To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Terrestrious \Ter*res"tri*ous\, a. [See {Terrestrial}.] Terrestrial. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Restoration \Res`to*ra"tion\ (r?s`t?*r?"sh?n), n. [OE. restauracion, F. restauration, fr. L. restauratio. See {Restore}.] 1. The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; re[89]stablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. --Dryden. 2. The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness. 3. That which is restored or renewed. {The restoration} (Eng. Hist.), the return of King Charles II. in 1660, and the re[89]stablishment of monarchy. {Universal restoration} (Theol.), the final recovery of all men from sin and alienation from God to a state of happiness; universal salvation. Syn: Recovery; replacement; renewal; renovation; redintegration; reinstatement; re[89]stablishment; return; revival; restitution; reparation. | |
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Theorist \The"o*rist\, n. [Cf. F. th[82]oriste.] One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist. --Cowper. The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom. --Addison. | |
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Theorization \The`o*ri*za"tion\, n. The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation. | |
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Theorize \The"o*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Theorized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Theorizing}.] [Cf. F. th[82]oriser.] To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate. | |
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Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. To have a thirst for. [R.] He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood. --Prior. | |
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Thirst \Thirst\, n. [OE. thirst, [thorn]urst, AS. [thorn]urst, [thorn]yrst; akin to D. dorst, OS. thurst, G. durst, Icel. [thorn]orsti, Sw. & Dan. t[94]rst, Goth. [thorn]a[a3]rstei thirst, [thorn]a[a3]rsus dry, withered, [thorn]a[a3]rsie[thorn] mik I thirst, ga[thorn]a[a1]rsan to wither, L. torrere to parch, Gr. te`rsesqai to become dry, tesai`nein to dry up, Skr. t[rsdot]sh to thirst. [fb]54. Cf. {Torrid}.] 1. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst? --Ex. xvii. 3. With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded. --Chaucer. 2. Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold. [bd]Thirst of worldy good.[b8] --Fairfax. [bd]The thirst I had of knowledge.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thirsted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thirsting}.] [AS. [thorn]yrstan. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. --Ex. xvii. 3. 2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. --Ps. xlii. 2. | |
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Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thirsted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thirsting}.] [AS. [thorn]yrstan. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. --Ex. xvii. 3. 2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. --Ps. xlii. 2. | |
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Thirster \Thirst"er\, n. One who thirsts. | |
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Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. {Thirstier}; superl. {Thirstiest}.] [AS. [thorn]urstig. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. --Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison. | |
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Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. {Thirstier}; superl. {Thirstiest}.] [AS. [thorn]urstig. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. --Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison. | |
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Thirstily \Thirst"i*ly\, adv. In a thirsty manner. | |
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Thirstiness \Thirst"i*ness\, n. The state of being thirsty; thirst. | |
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Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thirsted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thirsting}.] [AS. [thorn]yrstan. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. --Ex. xvii. 3. 2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. --Ps. xlii. 2. | |
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Thirstle \Thirs"tle\, n. The throstle. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. {Thirstier}; superl. {Thirstiest}.] [AS. [thorn]urstig. See {Thirst}, n.] 1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. --Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps. lxiii. 1. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison. | |
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Thoracotomy \Tho`ra*cot"o*my\, n. [Gr. [?], [?], thorax + [?] to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision. | |
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Thrackscat \Thrack"scat\, n. Metal still in the mine. [Obs.] | |
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Harpy \Har"py\, n.; pl. {Harpies}. [F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr. [?], from the root of [?] to snatch, to seize. Gf. {Rapacious}.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. --Milton. 2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. --Goldsmith. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier ({Circus [91]ruginosus}). (b) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle ({Thrasa[89]tus harpyia}). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. {Harpy bat} (Zo[94]l.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus {Harpyia} (esp. {H. cerphalotes}), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat ({Harpiocephalus harpia}). {Harpy fly} (Zo[94]l.), the house fly. | |
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Eagle \Ea"gle\, n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. {Aquiline}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera {Aquila} and {Hali[91]etus}. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle ({Aquila chrysa[89]tus}); the imperial eagle of Europe ({A. mogilnik [or] imperialis}); the American bald eagle ({Hali[91]etus leucocephalus}); the European sea eagle ({H. albicilla}); and the great harpy eagle ({Thrasaetus harpyia}). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See {Bald eagle}, {Harpy}, and {Golden eagle}. 2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. 3. (Astron.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See {Aquila}. 4. The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. Though the Roman eagle shadow thee. --Tennyson. Note: Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle. {Bald eagle}. See {Bald eagle}. {Bold eagle}. See under {Bold}. {Double eagle}, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars. {Eagle hawk} (Zo[94]l.), a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus {Morphnus}. {Eagle owl} (Zo[94]l.), any large owl of the genus {Bubo}, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl ({Bubo Virginianus}), and the allied European species ({B. maximus}). See {Horned owl}. {Eagle ray} (Zo[94]l.), any large species of ray of the genus {Myliobatis} (esp. {M. aquila}). {Eagle vulture} (Zo[94]l.), a large West African bid ({Gypohierax Angolensis}), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures. | |
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Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr[94]ska, Dan. t[91]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. {Thresh}.] 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer. 2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub. | |
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Thraste \Thraste\ (thr[aum]st), v. t. [imp. {Thraste}; p. p. {Thrast}.] To thrust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Thraste \Thraste\ (thr[aum]st), v. t. [imp. {Thraste}; p. p. {Thrast}.] To thrust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Wind \Wind\ (w[icr]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd; 277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. v[be]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr. from the verb seen in Skr. v[be] to blow, akin to AS. w[be]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[be]en, w[be]jen, Goth. waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate}, {Window}, {Winnow}.] 1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser. Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow. 2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. 3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. --Dryden. 4. Power of respiration; breath. If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. --Shak. 5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. 6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent. A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift. 7. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. --Ezek. xxxvii. 9. Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind. 8. (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. 9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. --Milton. 10. (Zo[94]l.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.] Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words. {All in the wind}. (Naut.) See under {All}, n. {Before the wind}. (Naut.) See under {Before}. {Between wind and water} (Naut.), in that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything. {Cardinal winds}. See under {Cardinal}, a. {Down the wind}. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] [bd]He went down the wind still.[b8] --L'Estrange. {In the wind's eye} (Naut.), directly toward the point from which the wind blows. {Three sheets in the wind}, unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang] | |
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Three-coat \Three"-coat`\, a. (Arch.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat. | |
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Three-sided \Three"-sid`ed\, a. Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. | |
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Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Threshed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Threshing}.] Same as {Thrash}. He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer. | |
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Threste \Threste\, v. t. [imp. {Threste}; p. p. & {Threst}.] To thrust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Threste \Threste\, v. t. [imp. {Threste}; p. p. & {Threst}.] To thrust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Thrist \Thrist\, n. Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Song \Song\ (?; 115), n. [AS. song, sang, fr. singan to sing; akin to D. zang, G. sang, Icel. s[94]ngr, Goeth. sagws. See {Sing}.] 1. That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. [bd]That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.[b8] --Hawthorne. 2. A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad. 3. More generally, any poetical strain; a poem. The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song. --Dryden. 4. Poetical composition; poetry; verse. This subject for heroic song. --Milton. 5. An object of derision; a laughingstock. And now am I their song. yea, I am their byword. --Job xxx. 9. 6. A trifle. [bd]The soldier's pay is a song.[b8] --Silliman. {Old song}, a trifle; nothing of value. [bd]I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.[b8] --Dr. H. More. {Song bird} (Zo[94]l.), any singing bird; one of the Oscines. {Song sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a very common North American sparrow ({Melospiza fasciata}, or {M. melodia}) noted for the sweetness of its song in early spring. Its breast is covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in the center. {Song thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a common European thrush ({Turdus musicus}), noted for its melodius song; -- called also {mavis}, {throsite}, and {thrasher}. Syn: Sonnet; ballad; canticle; carol; canzonet; ditty; hymn; descant; lay; strain; poesy; verse. | |
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Throstle \Thros"tle\, n. [OE. throsel, AS. [thorn]rostle, [thorn]rosle; akin to MHG. trostel, G. drossel, Icel. [thorn]r[94]str, Sw. trast, Lith. strazdas, L. turdus. [fb]238. Cf. {Thrush} the bird.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The song thrush. See under {Song}. 2. 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. {Throstle cock}, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Throstle \Thros"tle\, n. [OE. throsel, AS. [thorn]rostle, [thorn]rosle; akin to MHG. trostel, G. drossel, Icel. [thorn]r[94]str, Sw. trast, Lith. strazdas, L. turdus. [fb]238. Cf. {Thrush} the bird.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The song thrush. See under {Song}. 2. 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. {Throstle cock}, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Throstling \Thros"tling\, n. [Cf. {Throttle}.] A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation. | |
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Thick \Thick\, n. 1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. --Knolles. 2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] --Drayton. Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. --Spenser. He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. --Dryden. {Thick-and-thin block} (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under {Fiddle}. {Through thick and thin}, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small. Through thick and thin she followed him. --Hudibras. He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. --Coleridge. | |
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Through \Through\, a. Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. {Through bolt}, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. {Through bridge}, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them. Cf. {Deck bridge}, under {Deck}. {Through cold}, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] --Holland. {Through stone}, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also {through stane}.] --Sir W. Scott. {Through ticket}, a ticket for the whole journey. {Through train}, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long route. | |
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Through \Through\, a. Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. {Through bolt}, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. {Through bridge}, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them. Cf. {Deck bridge}, under {Deck}. {Through cold}, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] --Holland. {Through stone}, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also {through stane}.] --Sir W. Scott. {Through ticket}, a ticket for the whole journey. {Through train}, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a long route. | |
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Throughout \Through*out"\, prep. Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. --Milton. | |
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Throughout \Through*out"\, adv. In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout. | |
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Throw \Throw\, v. i. {To throw back}, to revert to an ancestral type or character. [bd]A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their Darwinian ancestry.[b8] --The Century. Throwing stick \Throw"ing stick`\ (Anthropol.) An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also {throw stick} and {spear thrower}. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the effect being to bring the place of support nearer the center of the spear, and practically lengthen the arm in the act of throwing. | |
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Throwster \Throw"ster\, n. [Throw + -ster.] One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. | |
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Thrush \Thrush\, n. [OE. [thorn]rusche, AS. [thorn]rysce; akin to OHG. drosca, droscea, droscela, and E. throstle. Cf. {Throstle}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to {Turdus} and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs. Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle ({Turdus musicus}), the missel thrush (see under {Missel}), the European redwing, and the blackbird. The most important American species are the wood thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}), Wilson's thrush ({T. fuscescens}), the hermit thrush (see under {Hermit}), Swainson's thrush ({T. Alici[91]}), and the migratory thrush, or American robin (see {Robin}). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See {Brown thrush}. {Ant thrush}. See {Ant thrush}, {Breve}, and {Pitta}. {Babbling thrush}, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- called also {babbler}. {Fruit thrush}, any species of bulbul. {Shrike thrush}. See under {Shrike}. {Stone thrush}, the missel thrush; -- said to be so called from its marbled breast. {Thrush nightingale}. See {Nightingale}, 2. {Thrush tit}, any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus {Cochoa}. They are beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling thrushes in size and habits. {Water thrush}. (a) The European dipper. (b) An American warbler ({Seiurus Noveboracensis}). | |
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Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a {normal}, [or] {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. --Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. [bd]Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.[b8] --Chapman. {To thrust to}, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. --Spenser. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel. [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. | |
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Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a {normal}, [or] {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. --Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. [bd]Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.[b8] --Chapman. {To thrust to}, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. --Spenser. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel. [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. --Dryden. 2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. --Dr. H. More. 3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. 4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. {Thrust bearing} (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. {Thrust plane} (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. Syn: Push; shove; assault; attack. Usage: {Thrust}, {Push}, {Shove}. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. | |
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Thruster \Thrust"er\, n. One who thrusts or stabs. | |
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Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel. [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. | |
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Thrusting \Thrust"ing\, n. 1. The act of pushing with force. 2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl. The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [Written also {thrutchthings}.] [Prov. Eng.] {Thrusting screw}, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [R.] | |
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Thrusting \Thrust"ing\, n. 1. The act of pushing with force. 2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl. The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [Written also {thrutchthings}.] [Prov. Eng.] {Thrusting screw}, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [R.] | |
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Thrustle \Thrus"tle\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The throstle, or song thrust. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] When he heard the thrustel sing. --Chaucer. | |
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Thursday \Thurs"day\, n. [OE. [thorn]ursdei, [thorn]orsday, from the Scand. name Thor + E. day. Icel. [thorn][d3]rr Thor, the god of thunder, is akin to AS. [thorn]unor thunder; D. Donderdag Thursday, G. Donnerstag, Icel. [thorn][d3]rsdagr, Sw. & Dan. Torsdag. [fb]52. See {Thor}, {Thunder}, and {Day}.] The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday. {Holy Thursday}. See under {Holy}. | |
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Thurst \Thurst\, n. (Coal Mining) The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls. --Raymond. | |
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Barracuda \Bar`ra*cu"da\, Barracouata \Bar`ra*cou"ata\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus {Sphyr[91]na}, sometimes used as food. Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is {Sphyr[91]na spet} (or {S. vulgaris}); a southern species is {S. picuda}; the Californian is {S. argentea}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand ({Thyrsites atun}). | |
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Thyrsoid \Thyr"soid\ (th[etil]r"soid), Thyrsoidal \Thyr*soid"al\ (th[etil]r*soid"[ait]l), a. [Gr. [?]; [?] thyrsus + [?] form, shape: cf. F. thyrso[8b]de.] Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus. | |
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Thyrsoid \Thyr"soid\ (th[etil]r"soid), Thyrsoidal \Thyr*soid"al\ (th[etil]r*soid"[ait]l), a. [Gr. [?]; [?] thyrsus + [?] form, shape: cf. F. thyrso[8b]de.] Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus. | |
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Tiercet \Tier"cet\, n. [F. tercet. See {Tercet}.] (Pros.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together. | |
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{To raise a siege}, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. {To raise steam}, to produce steam of a required pressure. {To raise the wind}, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] {To raise Cain}, [or] {To raise the devil}, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. | |
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{To be in the wind}, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.] {To carry the wind} (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse. {To raise the wind}, to procure money. [Colloq.] {To} {take, [or] have}, {the wind}, to gain or have the advantage. --Bacon. {To take the wind out of one's sails}, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. [Colloq.] {To take wind}, or {To get wind}, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind. {Wind band} (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra. {Wind chest} (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ. {Wind dropsy}. (Med.) (a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue. {Wind egg}, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg. {Wind furnace}. See the Note under {Furnace}. {Wind gauge}. See under {Gauge}. {Wind gun}. Same as {Air gun}. {Wind hatch} (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth. {Wind instrument} (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc. {Wind pump}, a pump moved by a windmill. {Wind rose}, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions. {Wind sail}. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill. {Wind shake}, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing. {Wind shock}, a wind shake. {Wind side}, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] --Mrs. Browning. {Wind rush} (Zo[94]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] {Wind wheel}, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind. {Wood wind} (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively. | |
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{To raise a siege}, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. {To raise steam}, to produce steam of a required pressure. {To raise the wind}, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] {To raise Cain}, [or] {To raise the devil}, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. | |
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Rake \Rake\, v. i. 1. [Icel. reika. Cf. {Rake} a debauchee.] To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.] 2. [See {Rake} a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. --Shenstone. {To rake out} (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. --Encyc. Brit. | |
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{To rectify a globe}, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. Syn: To amend; emend; correct; better; mend; reform; redress; adjust; regulate; improve. See {Amend}. | |
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Rest \Rest\ (r[ecr]st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Resting}.] [AS. restan. See {Rest}, n.] 1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. --Ex. xxiii. 12. 2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. There rest, if any rest can harbor there. --Milton. 3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch. 4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal. 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead. Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests. --Milton. 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise. On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed [?][?] fate. --Dryden. 7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. To rest in Heaven's determination. --Addison. {To rest with}, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide. | |
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Capstan \Cap"stan\, n. [F. cabestan, fr. Sp. cabestrante, cabrestante, fr. cabestrar to bind with a halter, fr. cabestrohalter, fr. L. capistrum halter, fr. capere to hold (see {Capacious}); or perh. the Spanish is fr. L. caper goat + stans, p. pr. of stare to stand; cf. F. ch[8a]vre she-goat, also a machine for raising heavy weights.] A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt {Capstern}, but improperly.] {Capstan bar}, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. {To pawl the capstan}, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the capstan from turning back. {To rig the capstan}, to prepare the for use, by putting the bars in the sockets. {To surge the capstan}, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound around it. | |
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Rig \Rig\, v. t. To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer. [Obs. or Prov.] --Tusser. {To rig the market} (Stock Exchange), to raise or lower market prices, as by some fraud or trick. [Cant] | |
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Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Righted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Righting}.] [AS. rihtan. See {Right}, a.] 1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct. 2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate. So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak. All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. --Jefferson. {To right a vessel} (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. {To right the helm} (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel. | |
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Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Righted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Righting}.] [AS. rihtan. See {Right}, a.] 1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct. 2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate. So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak. All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. --Jefferson. {To right a vessel} (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. {To right the helm} (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel. | |
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Helm \Helm\, n. [OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G. helm, Icel. hj[be]lm, and perh. to E. helve.] 1. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone. 2. The place or office of direction or administration. [bd]The helm of the Commonwealth.[b8] --Melmoth. 3. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. --Shak. 4. [Cf. {Helve}.] A helve. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] {Helm amidships}, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in the same plane. {Helm aport}, when the tiller is borne over to the port side of the ship. {Helm astarboard}, when the tiller is borne to the starboard side. {Helm alee}, {Helm aweather}, when the tiller is borne over to the lee or to the weather side. {Helm hard alee} [or] {hard aport}, {hard astarboard}, etc., when the tiller is borne over to the extreme limit. {Helm port}, the round hole in a vessel's counter through which the rudderstock passes. {Helm down}, helm alee. {Helm up}, helm aweather. {To ease the helm}, to let the tiller come more amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder. {To feel the helm}, to obey it. {To right the helm}, to put it amidships. {To shift the helm}, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Right \Right\, n. [AS. right. See {Right}, a.] 1. That which is right or correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact. Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right. --Prior. (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity. Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. --Dryden. 2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact. There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties. --Coleridge. (b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal. (c) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership. Born free, he sought his right. --Dryden. Hast thou not right to all created things? --Milton. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. --Burke. (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority. 3. The right side; the side opposite to the left. Led her to the Souldan's right. --Spenser. 4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See {Center}, 5. 5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. {At all right}, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Bill of rights}, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under {Bill}. {By right}, {By rights}, [or] {By good rights}, rightly; properly; correctly. He should himself use it by right. --Chaucer. I should have been a woman by right. --Shak. {Divine right}, [or] {Divine right of kings}, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience of the people. {To rights}. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] --Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Swift. {To set to rights}, {To put to rights}, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order. {Writ of right} (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. --Blackstone. | |
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Rough \Rough\, v. t. 1. To render rough; to roughen. 2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. 3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. {Roughing rolls}, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars. {To rough it}, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts. | |
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{To work at}, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in. {To work to windward} (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict. | |
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Arm \Arm\, n. [AS. arm, earm; akin to OHG. aram, G., D., Dan., & Sw. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms, L. armus arm, shoulder, and prob. to Gr. [?] joining, joint, shoulder, fr. the root [?] to join, to fit together; cf. Slav. rame. [?]. See {Art}, {Article}.] 1. The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey. 2. Anything resembling an arm; as, (a) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. (b) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. (c) A branch of a tree. (d) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. (e) (Naut) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. (f) An inlet of water from the sea. (g) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc. 3. Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? --Isa. lii. 1. {Arm's end}, the end of the arm; a good distance off. --Dryden. {Arm's length}, the length of the arm. {Arm's reach}, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach. {To go} (or {walk}) {arm in arm}, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. [bd]When arm in armwe went along.[b8] --Tennyson. {To keep at arm's length}, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. {To work at arm's length}, to work disadvantageously. | |
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Work \Work\, v. t. 1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth. Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. --Harte. 3. To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. [bd]Sidelong he works his way.[b8] --Milton. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. --Addison. 4. To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. [bd]Work your royal father to his ruin.[b8] --Philips. 5. To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin. 6. To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine. Knowledge in building and working ships. --Arbuthnot. Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. --Addison. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. --Coleridge. 7. To cause to ferment, as liquor. {To work a passage} (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. {To work double tides} (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. {To work in}, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. {To work into}, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. {To work off}, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting. {To work out}. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. [bd]Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.[b8] --Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.] Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. --Dryden. (c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working. {To work up}. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. --Addison. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. --R. H. Dana, Jr. | |
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Tide \Tide\, n. [AS. t[c6]d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t[c6]d, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z[c6]t, Icel. t[c6][?], Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a- is a negative prefix. [fb]58. Cf. {Tidings}, {Tidy}, {Till}, prep., {Time}.] 1. Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] [bd]This lusty summer's tide.[b8] --Chaucer. And rest their weary limbs a tide. --Spenser. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. --Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. --Fuller. 2. The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the {spring tide}, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the {neap tide}. Note: The flow or rising of the water is called flood tide, and the reflux, ebb tide. 3. A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. [bd]Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.[b8] --Shak. 4. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. 5. Violent confluence. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. (Mining) The period of twelve hours. {Atmospheric tides}, tidal movements of the atmosphere similar to those of the ocean, and produced in the same manner by the attractive forces of the sun and moon. {Inferior tide}. See under {Inferior}, a. {To work double tides}. See under {Work}, v. t. {Tide day}, the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See {Lag of the tide}, under 2d {Lag}. {Tide dial}, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time. {Tide gate}. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction. (b) (Naut.) A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate. {Tide gauge}, a gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. --Brande & C. {Tide lock}, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; -- called also {guard lock}. {Tide mill}. (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water. {Tide rip}, a body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents. {Tide table}, a table giving the time of the rise and fall of the tide at any place. {Tide water}, water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard. {Tide wave}, [or] {Tidal wave}, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. --Whewell. {Tide wheel}, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide. | |
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Work \Work\, v. t. 1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth. Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. --Harte. 3. To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. [bd]Sidelong he works his way.[b8] --Milton. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. --Addison. 4. To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. [bd]Work your royal father to his ruin.[b8] --Philips. 5. To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin. 6. To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine. Knowledge in building and working ships. --Arbuthnot. Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. --Addison. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. --Coleridge. 7. To cause to ferment, as liquor. {To work a passage} (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. {To work double tides} (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. {To work in}, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. {To work into}, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. {To work off}, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting. {To work out}. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. [bd]Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.[b8] --Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.] Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. --Dryden. (c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working. {To work up}. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. --Addison. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. --R. H. Dana, Jr. | |
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Goaf \Goaf\; n.; pl. {Goafs}or {Goaves}. [Cf. lst {Gob}.] (Mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also {gob} . {To work the goaf} [or] {gob}, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. --Ure. | |
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{To work at}, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in. {To work to windward} (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict. | |
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Thistle \This"tle\, n. [OE. thistil, AS. [thorn]istel; akin to D. & G. distel, OHG. distila, distil, Icel. [thorn]istill, Sw. tistel, Dan. tidsel; of uncertain origin.] (Bot.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera {Cnicus}, {Craduus}, and {Onopordon}. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. {Blessed thistle}, {Carduus benedictus}, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. {Bull thistle}, {Cnicus lanceolatus}, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. {Canada thistle}, {Cnicus arvensis}, a native of Europe, but introduced into the United States from Canada. {Cotton thistle}, {Onopordon Acanthium}. {Fuller's thistle}, the teasel. {Globe thistle}, {Melon thistle}, etc. See under {Globe}, {Melon}, etc. {Pine thistle}, {Atractylis gummifera}, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. {Scotch thistle}, either the cotton thistle, or the musk thistle, or the spear thistle; -- all used national emblems of Scotland. {Sow thistle}, {Sonchus oleraceus}. {Spear thistle}. Same as {Bull thistle}. {Star thistle}, a species of {Centaurea}. See {Centaurea}. {Torch thistle}, a candelabra-shaped plant of the genus Cereus. See {Cereus}. {Yellow thistle}, {Cincus horridulus}. {Thistle bird} (Zo[94]l.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird ({Spinus tristis}); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under {Goldfinch}. {Thistle butterfly} (Zo[94]l.), a handsomely colored American butterfly ({Vanessa cardui}) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- called also {painted lady}. {Thistle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the corn bunting ({Emberiza militaria}). [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle crown}, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. {Thistle finch} (Zo[94]l.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] {Thistle funnel}, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth. | |
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{Torch thistle}. (Bot.) See under {Thistle}. | |
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Torchwood \Torch"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The inflammable wood of certain trees ({Amyris balsamifera}, {A. Floridana}, etc.); also, the trees themselves. | |
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Torosity \To*ros"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being torose. | |
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Torquate \Tor"quate\, a. [L. torquatus wearing a collar.] (Zo[94]l.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck. | |
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torquated \tor"qua*ted\, a. [L. Torqyatus.] Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain. | |
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Torqued \Torqued\, a. [L. torquere to twist, to turn, to wind.] 1. Wreathed; twisted. [R.] 2. (Her.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S. | |
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Torsade \Tor*sade"\, n. [F.] A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form. The crown decked with torsades of pearls. --Harper's Mag. | |
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Tourist \Tour"ist\, n. One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit. | |
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Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {traced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tracing}.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. {Abstract}, {Attract}, {Contract}, {Portratt}, {Tract}, {Trail}, {Train}, {Treat}. ] 1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. --Hawthorne. 2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. --Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. --Milton. 3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of. How all the way the prince on footpace traced. --Spenser. 4. To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. --Denham. 5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. We do tracethis alley up and down. --Shak. | |
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Tracheate \Tra"che*ate\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Breathing by means of trache[91]; of or pertaining to the Tracheata. | |
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Tracheate \Tra"che*ate\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any arthropod having trache[91]; one of the Tracheata. | |
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Tracheid \Tra"che*id\, n. (Bot.) A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood. | |
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Tracheotomy \Tra`che*ot"o*my\, n. [Trachea + Gr. [?] to cut: cf.F. tracheotomie.] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe. | |
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Stump-tailed \Stump"-tailed`\, a. Having a short, thick tail. {Stump-tailed lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a singular Australian scincoid lizard ({Trachydosaurus rugosus}) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also {sleeping lizard}. | |
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Trachyte \Tra"chyte\, n. [Gr. [?] rough, rugged: cg. F. trachyte.] (Geol.) 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. | |
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Trachytic \Tra*chyt"ic\, a. [Cf. F. trachytique.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte. | |
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Trachytoid \Trach"y*toid\, a. [Trachyte + -oid.] (Min.) Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks. | |
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Track \Track\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tracked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tracking}.] To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow. It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses. --Macaulay. 2. (Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow. | |
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Trackscout \Track"scout\, n. See {Trackschuyt}. | |
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Tract \Tract\, v. t. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson. | |
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Tract \Tract\, n. [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due to confusion with track. See {Trace},v., and cf. {Tratt}.] 1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. [bd]The deep tract of hell.[b8] --Milton. 2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth. --Addison. 3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.] The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. --Bacon. 4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] --Dryden. 5. Track; trace. [Obs.] Efface all tract of its traduction. --Sir T. Browne. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. --Shak. 6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] --Shak. 7. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. [Obs.] --Older. 8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. [bd]Improved by tract of time.[b8] --Milton. 9. (R. C. Ch.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons. Syn: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation. | |
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Tract \Tract\, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.] A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. --Swift. {Tracts for the Times}. See {Tractarian}. | |
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Tractability \Tract`a*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. tractabilitas: cf.F. tractabilite.] The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness. | |
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Tractable \Tract"a*ble\, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See {Treat}, v. t.] 1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. --Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder. --{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly}, adv. | |
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Tractable \Tract"a*ble\, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See {Treat}, v. t.] 1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. --Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder. --{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly}, adv. | |
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Tractable \Tract"a*ble\, a. [L. tractabilis, fr, tractare to draw violently, to handle, treat. See {Treat}, v. t.] 1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. --Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder. --{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly}, adv. | |
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Tractarian \Trac*ta"ri*an\, n. (Ch. of England) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called [bd]Tracts for the Times,[b8] issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite. | |
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Tractarian \Trac*ta"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles. | |
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Tractarianism \Trac*ta"ri*an*ism\, n. (Ch. of England) The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the [bd]Tracts for the Times.[b8] | |
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Tractate \Tract"ate\, n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and {Tract} a treatise, {Treaty}.] A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. --Hare. | |
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Tractation \Trac*ta"tion\, n. [L. tractatio.] Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [Obs.] A full tractation of the points controverted. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Tractator \Trac*ta"tor\, n. [L., a handler.] One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [R.] --C. Kingsley. | |
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Tractile \Tract"ile\, a. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw.] Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. --Bacon. | |
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Tractility \Trac*til"i*ty\, n. The quality of being tractile; ductility. --Derham. | |
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Traction \Trac"tion\, n. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. F. traction.] 1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. 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. 3. Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.] 4. The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. --Knight. {Angle of traction} (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. {Traction engine}, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields. | |
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Traction \Trac"tion\, n. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. F. traction.] 1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. 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. 3. Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.] 4. The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. --Knight. {Angle of traction} (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. {Traction engine}, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields. | |
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Traction wheel \Traction wheel\ (Mach.) (a) A locomotive driving wheel which acts by friction adhesion to a smooth track. (b) A smooth-rimmed friction wheel for giving motion to an endless link belt or the like. | |
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Tractional \Trac"tion*al\, a. Of or relating to traction. | |
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Tractite \Tract"ite\, n. A Tractarian. | |
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Tractitious \Trac*ti"tious\, a. [See {Tractate}.] Treating of; handling. [R.] | |
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Tractive \Tract"ive\, a. Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power. | |
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Tractor \Tract"or\, n. An a[89]roplane flying machine having one or more tractor screws. | |
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Tractor \Tract"or\, n. [NL., from L. trahere, tractum, to draw.] 1. That which draws, or is used for drawing. 2. pl. (Med.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism. | |
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Tractor screw \Tractor screw\ [or] propeller \propeller\ (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an a[89]roplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, {Tractor monoplane}, {Tractor biplane}, etc. | |
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Tractor screw \Tractor screw\ [or] propeller \propeller\ (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an a[89]roplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, {Tractor monoplane}, {Tractor biplane}, etc. | |
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Tractor screw \Tractor screw\ [or] propeller \propeller\ (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an a[89]roplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, {Tractor monoplane}, {Tractor biplane}, etc. | |
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Tractoration \Trac`to*ra"tion\, n. See {Perkinism}. | |
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Tractory \Tract"o*ry\, n. [L. tractorius of drawing, fr. trahere, tractum, to draw.] (Geom.) A tractrix. | |
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Tractrix \Tract"rix\, n. [NL. See {Tractor}.] (Geom.) 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. | |
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Tract \Tract\, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.] A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. --Swift. {Tracts for the Times}. See {Tractarian}. | |
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Tragedian \Tra*ge"di*an\, n. [Cf. F. trag[82]dien.] 1. A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. --Milton. 2. An actor or player in tragedy. --Shak. | |
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Tragedy \Trag"e*dy\, n.; pl. {Tragedies}. [OE. tragedie, OF. tragedie, F. trag[82]die, L. tragoedia, Gr. [?], fr. [?] a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; [?] a goat (perhaps akin to [?] to gnaw, nibble, eat, and E. trout) + [?] to sing; from the oldest tragedies being exhibited when a goat was sacrificed, or because a goat was the prize, or because the actors were clothed in goatskins. See {Ode}.] 1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. --Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. --Jer. Taylor. tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. --Coleridge. 2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. | |
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Tragedious \Tra*ge"di*ous\, a. Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] [bd]Tragedious history.[b8] --Fabyan. | |
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Tragedy \Trag"e*dy\, n.; pl. {Tragedies}. [OE. tragedie, OF. tragedie, F. trag[82]die, L. tragoedia, Gr. [?], fr. [?] a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; [?] a goat (perhaps akin to [?] to gnaw, nibble, eat, and E. trout) + [?] to sing; from the oldest tragedies being exhibited when a goat was sacrificed, or because a goat was the prize, or because the actors were clothed in goatskins. See {Ode}.] 1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. --Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. --Jer. Taylor. tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. --Coleridge. 2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. | |
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Drama \Dra"ma\ (?; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. --Milton. 2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. [bd]The drama of war.[b8] --Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. --Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. --Sharp. 3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. Note: The principal species of the drama are {tragedy} and {comedy}; inferior species are {tragi-comedy}, {melodrama}, {operas}, {burlettas}, and {farces}. {The romantic drama}, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. --J. A. Symonds. | |
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Tragedy \Trag"e*dy\, n.; pl. {Tragedies}. [OE. tragedie, OF. tragedie, F. trag[82]die, L. tragoedia, Gr. [?], fr. [?] a tragic poet and singer, originally, a goat singer; [?] a goat (perhaps akin to [?] to gnaw, nibble, eat, and E. trout) + [?] to sing; from the oldest tragedies being exhibited when a goat was sacrificed, or because a goat was the prize, or because the actors were clothed in goatskins. See {Ode}.] 1. A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. --Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. --Jer. Taylor. tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. --Coleridge. 2. A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. | |
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Drama \Dra"ma\ (?; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. --Milton. 2. A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. [bd]The drama of war.[b8] --Thackeray. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. --Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. --Sharp. 3. Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature. Note: The principal species of the drama are {tragedy} and {comedy}; inferior species are {tragi-comedy}, {melodrama}, {operas}, {burlettas}, and {farces}. {The romantic drama}, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. --J. A. Symonds. | |
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Trajet \Tra"jet\, Trajetour \Tra"jet*our\, Trajetry \Tra"jet*ry\, n. See {Treget}, {Tregetour}, and {Tregetry}. [Obs.] | |
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Trajet \Tra"jet\, Trajetour \Tra"jet*our\, Trajetry \Tra"jet*ry\, n. See {Treget}, {Tregetour}, and {Tregetry}. [Obs.] | |
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Trajet \Tra"jet\, Trajetour \Tra"jet*our\, Trajetry \Tra"jet*ry\, n. See {Treget}, {Tregetour}, and {Tregetry}. [Obs.] | |
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Trash \Trash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trashing}.] 1. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. --B. Edwards. 2. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.] 3. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Treachetour \Treach"e*tour\, Treachour \Treach"our\, n. [See {Treacher}.] A traitor. [Obs.] [bd]Treachour full of false despite.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Tree \Tree\ (tr[emac]), n. [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. tre[a2], tre[a2]w, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr[emac], OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr[emac], Dan. tr[91], Sw. tr[84], tr[84]d, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree, oak, do`ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, d[be]ru wood. [root]63, 241. Cf. {Dryad}, {Germander}, {Tar}, n., {Trough}.] 1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. Note: The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc. 2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. 3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. 4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. --Acts x. 39. 5. Wood; timber. [Obs.] --Chaucer. In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth. --Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20). 6. (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See {Lead tree}, under {Lead}. {Tree bear} (Zo[94]l.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] {Tree beetle} (Zo[94]l.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. {Tree bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to {Arma}, {Pentatoma}, {Rhaphigaster}, and allied genera. {Tree cat} (Zool.), the common paradoxure ({Paradoxurus musang}). {Tree clover} (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot ({Melilotus alba}). See {Melilot}. {Tree crab} (Zo[94]l.), the purse crab. See under {Purse}. {Tree creeper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to {Certhia}, {Climacteris}, and allied genera. See {Creeper}, 3. {Tree cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket ({Ecanthus niv[oe]us}) which is noted for its loud stridulation; -- called also {white cricket}. {Tree crow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to {Crypsirhina} and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. {Tree dove} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to {Macropygia} and allied genera. They have long and broad tails, are chiefly arboreal in their habits, and feed mainly on fruit. {Tree duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of ducks belonging to {Dendrocygna} and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. {Tree fern} (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. {Tree fish} (Zo[94]l.), a California market fish ({Sebastichthys serriceps}). {Tree frog}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Same as {Tree toad}. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to {Chiromantis}, {Rhacophorus}, and allied genera of the family {Ranid[91]}. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under {Flying}) is an example. {Tree goose} (Zo[94]l.), the bernicle goose. {Tree hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. {Tree jobber} (Zo[94]l.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] {Tree kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}. {Tree lark} (Zo[94]l.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] {Tree lizard} (Zo[94]l.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards ({Dendrosauria}) comprising the chameleons. {Tree lobster}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tree crab}, above. {Tree louse} (Zo[94]l.), any aphid; a plant louse. {Tree moss}. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. {Tree mouse} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily {Dendromyin[91]}. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. {Tree nymph}, a wood nymph. See {Dryad}. {Tree of a saddle}, a saddle frame. {Tree of heaven} (Bot.), an ornamental tree ({Ailantus glandulosus}) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. {Tree of life} (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vit[91]. {Tree onion} (Bot.), a species of garlic ({Allium proliferum}) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. {Tree oyster} (Zo[94]l.), a small American oyster ({Ostrea folium}) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; -- called also {raccoon oyster}. {Tree pie} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus {Dendrocitta}. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. {Tree pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to {Megaloprepia}, {Carpophaga}, and allied genera. {Tree pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Pipit}. {Tree porcupine} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera {Ch[91]tomys} and {Sphingurus}. They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species ({S. villosus}) is called also {couiy}; another ({S. prehensilis}) is called also {c[oe]ndou}. {Tree rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera {Capromys} and {Plagiodon}. They are allied to the porcupines. {Tree serpent} (Zo[94]l.), a tree snake. {Tree shrike} (Zo[94]l.), a bush shrike. {Tree snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of snakes of the genus {Dendrophis}. They live chiefly among the branches of trees, and are not venomous. {Tree sorrel} (Bot.), a kind of sorrel ({Rumex Lunaria}) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Teneriffe. {Tree sparrow} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species of small arboreal sparrows, especially the American tree sparrow ({Spizella monticola}), and the common European species ({Passer montanus}). {Tree swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus {Hylochelidon} which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also {martin} in Australia. {Tree swift} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus {Dendrochelidon} which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. {Tree tiger} (Zo[94]l.), a leopard. {Tree toad} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to {Hyla} and allied genera of the family {Hylid[91]}. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species ({Hyla arborea}) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States ({H. versicolor}) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also {tree frog}. See also {Piping frog}, under {Piping}, and {Cricket frog}, under {Cricket}. {Tree warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of arboreal warblers belonging to {Phylloscopus} and allied genera. {Tree wool} (Bot.), a fine fiber obtained from the leaves of pine trees. | |
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Tree \Tree\ (tr[emac]), n. [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. tre[a2], tre[a2]w, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr[emac], OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr[emac], Dan. tr[91], Sw. tr[84], tr[84]d, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree, oak, do`ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, d[be]ru wood. [root]63, 241. Cf. {Dryad}, {Germander}, {Tar}, n., {Trough}.] 1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. Note: The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc. 2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. 3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. 4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. --Acts x. 39. 5. Wood; timber. [Obs.] --Chaucer. In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth. --Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20). 6. (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See {Lead tree}, under {Lead}. {Tree bear} (Zo[94]l.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] {Tree beetle} (Zo[94]l.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. {Tree bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to {Arma}, {Pentatoma}, {Rhaphigaster}, and allied genera. {Tree cat} (Zool.), the common paradoxure ({Paradoxurus musang}). {Tree clover} (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot ({Melilotus alba}). See {Melilot}. {Tree crab} (Zo[94]l.), the purse crab. See under {Purse}. {Tree creeper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to {Certhia}, {Climacteris}, and allied genera. See {Creeper}, 3. {Tree cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket ({Ecanthus niv[oe]us}) which is noted for its loud stridulation; -- called also {white cricket}. {Tree crow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to {Crypsirhina} and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. {Tree dove} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to {Macropygia} and allied genera. They have long and broad tails, are chiefly arboreal in their habits, and feed mainly on fruit. {Tree duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of ducks belonging to {Dendrocygna} and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. {Tree fern} (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. {Tree fish} (Zo[94]l.), a California market fish ({Sebastichthys serriceps}). {Tree frog}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Same as {Tree toad}. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to {Chiromantis}, {Rhacophorus}, and allied genera of the family {Ranid[91]}. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under {Flying}) is an example. {Tree goose} (Zo[94]l.), the bernicle goose. {Tree hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. {Tree jobber} (Zo[94]l.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] {Tree kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}. {Tree lark} (Zo[94]l.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] {Tree lizard} (Zo[94]l.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards ({Dendrosauria}) comprising the chameleons. {Tree lobster}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tree crab}, above. {Tree louse} (Zo[94]l.), any aphid; a plant louse. {Tree moss}. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. {Tree mouse} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily {Dendromyin[91]}. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. {Tree nymph}, a wood nymph. See {Dryad}. {Tree of a saddle}, a saddle frame. {Tree of heaven} (Bot.), an ornamental tree ({Ailantus glandulosus}) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. {Tree of life} (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vit[91]. {Tree onion} (Bot.), a species of garlic ({Allium proliferum}) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. {Tree oyster} (Zo[94]l.), a small American oyster ({Ostrea folium}) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; -- called also {raccoon oyster}. {Tree pie} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus {Dendrocitta}. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. {Tree pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to {Megaloprepia}, {Carpophaga}, and allied genera. {Tree pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Pipit}. {Tree porcupine} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera {Ch[91]tomys} and {Sphingurus}. They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species ({S. villosus}) is called also {couiy}; another ({S. prehensilis}) is called also {c[oe]ndou}. {Tree rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera {Capromys} and {Plagiodon}. They are allied to the porcupines. {Tree serpent} (Zo[94]l.), a tree snake. {Tree shrike} (Zo[94]l.), a bush shrike. {Tree snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of snakes of the genus {Dendrophis}. They live chiefly among the branches of trees, and are not venomous. {Tree sorrel} (Bot.), a kind of sorrel ({Rumex Lunaria}) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Teneriffe. {Tree sparrow} (Zo[94]l.) any one of several species of small arboreal sparrows, especially the American tree sparrow ({Spizella monticola}), and the common European species ({Passer montanus}). {Tree swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus {Hylochelidon} which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also {martin} in Australia. {Tree swift} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus {Dendrochelidon} which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. {Tree tiger} (Zo[94]l.), a leopard. {Tree toad} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to {Hyla} and allied genera of the family {Hylid[91]}. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species ({Hyla arborea}) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States ({H. versicolor}) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also {tree frog}. See also {Piping frog}, under {Piping}, and {Cricket frog}, under {Cricket}. {Tree warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of arboreal warblers belonging to {Phylloscopus} and allied genera. {Tree wool} (Bot.), a fine fiber obtained from the leaves of pine trees. | |
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Treget \Treg"et\, n. [See {Tregetour}.] Guile; trickery. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Tregetour \Treg"et*our\, n. [OE. tresgeteor. See {Trans-}, and {Jet} a shooting forth.] A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. --Chaucer. | |
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Tregetry \Treg"et*ry\, n. Trickery; also, a trick. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Trek \Trek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trekked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trekking}.] [Written also {treck}.] [D. trekken. See {Track}, n.] [South Africa] 1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen. 2. To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa] One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony. --James Bryce. | |
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Tressed \Tressed\, a. 1. Having tresses. 2. Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. --Spenser. Drayton. | |
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Tres-tine \Tres"-tine`\, n. [Cf. L. tris, tres, three, and E. tyne, tine, a prong.] The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royal antler. | |
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Trestle \Tres"tle\, n. [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tr[82]teau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. {Transom}.] [Written also {tressel}.] 1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like. 2. The frame of a table. {Trestle board}, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. {Trestle bridge}. See under {Bridge}, n. | |
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Trestle \Tres"tle\, n. [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tr[82]teau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. {Transom}.] [Written also {tressel}.] 1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like. 2. The frame of a table. {Trestle board}, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. {Trestle bridge}. See under {Bridge}, n. | |
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Trestle \Tres"tle\, n. [OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tr[82]teau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. {Transom}.] [Written also {tressel}.] 1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like. 2. The frame of a table. {Trestle board}, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. {Trestle bridge}. See under {Bridge}, n. | |
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Bridge \Bridge\, n. [OE. brig, brigge, brug, brugge, AS. brycg, bricg; akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. brucca, G. br[81]cke, Icel. bryggja pier, bridge, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and prob. Icel. br[umac] bridge, Sw. & Dan. bro bridge, pavement, and possibly to E. brow.] 1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. 2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed. 3. (Mus.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. 4. (Elec.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. 5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a {bridge wall}. {Aqueduct bridge}. See {Aqueduct}. {Asses' bridge}, {Bascule bridge}, {Bateau bridge}. See under {Ass}, {Bascule}, {Bateau}. {Bridge of a steamer} (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. {Bridge of the nose}, the upper, bony part of the nose. {Cantalever bridge}. See under {Cantalever}. {Draw bridge}. See {Drawbridge}. {Flying bridge}, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means. {Girder bridge} or {Truss bridge}, a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers. {Lattice bridge}, a bridge formed by lattice girders. {Pontoon bridge}, {Ponton bridge}. See under {Pontoon}. {Skew bridge}, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. {Suspension bridge}. See under {Suspension}. {Trestle bridge}, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. {Tubular bridge}, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. {Wheatstone's bridge} (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone. | |
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Trestletree \Tres"tle*tree`\, n. (Naut.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. --Totten. | |
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Trestlework \Tres"tle*work`\, n. A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together. | |
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Tres-tyne \Tres"-tyne`\, n. [L. tris, tres, three + E. tyne.] (Zo[94]l.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under {Rucervine}, and under {Rusine}. | |
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Triacid \Tri*ac"id\, a. [Pref. tri- + acid.] (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base. | |
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Trichite \Trich"ite\, n. [Gr. [?], [?], hair.] 1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of {Crystallite}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. {Trichite sheaf} (Zo[94]l.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender set[91] characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under {Spicule}. | |
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Trichite \Trich"ite\, n. [Gr. [?], [?], hair.] 1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of {Crystallite}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. {Trichite sheaf} (Zo[94]l.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender set[91] characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under {Spicule}. | |
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Crystallite \Crys"tal*lite\ (kr?s"tal-l?t), n. [See {Crystal}.] (Min.) A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called {trichites}, {belonites}, {globulites}, etc. | |
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Dog \Dog\ (d[ocr]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Canis}, esp. the domestic dog ({C. familiaris}). Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz dog, terrier, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.) 2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. ) 3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.] 4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius). 5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron. 6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool. Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin. {A dead dog}, a thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14. {A dog in the manger}, an ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him. {Dog ape} (Zo[94]l.), a male ape. {Dog cabbage}, [or] {Dog's cabbage} (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe}). {Dog cheap}, very cheap. See under {Cheap}. {Dog ear} (Arch.), an acroterium. [Colloq.] {Dog flea} (Zo[94]l.), a species of flea ({Pulex canis}) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See {Flea}, and {Aphaniptera}. {Dog grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Triticum caninum}) of the same genus as wheat. {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy. {Dog lichen} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina}) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath. {Dog louse} (Zo[94]l.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. {H[91]matopinus piliferus}; another species is {Trichodectes latus}. {Dog power}, a machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning. {Dog salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the {gorbuscha}; -- called also {holia}, and {hone}. {Dog shark}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dogfish}. {Dog's meat}, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal. {Dog Star}. See in the Vocabulary. {Dog wheat} (Bot.), Dog grass. {Dog whelk} (Zo[94]l.), any species of univalve shells of the family {Nassid[91]}, esp. the {Nassa reticulata} of England. {To give, [or] throw}, {to the dogs}, to throw away as useless. [bd]Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.[b8] --Shak. {To go to the dogs}, to go to ruin; to be ruined. | |
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Cattle \Cat"tle\ (k[acr]t"t'l), n. pl. [OE. calet, chatel, goods, property, OF. catel, chatel, LL. captale, capitale, goods, property, esp. cattle, fr. L. capitals relating to the head, chief; because in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a man's property. See {Capital}, and cf. {Chattel}.] Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. {Belted cattle}, {Black cattle}. See under {Belted}, {Black}. {Cattle guard}, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. {cattle louse} (Zo[94]l.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The {H[91]matatopinus eurysternus} and {H. vituli} are common species which suck blood; {Trichodectes scalaris} eats the hair. {Cattle plague}, the rinderpest; called also {Russian cattle plague}. {Cattle range}, or {Cattle run}, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] --Bartlett. {Cattle show}, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements. | |
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Bee \Bee\ (b[emac]), n. [AS. be[a2]; akin to D. bij and bije, Icel. b[?], Sw. & Dan. bi, OHG. pini, G. biene, and perh. Ir. beach, Lith. bitis, Skr. bha. [root]97.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) An insect of the order {Hymenoptera}, and family {Apid[91]} (the honeybees), or family {Andrenid[91]} (the solitary bees.) See {Honeybee}. Note: There are many genera and species. The common honeybee ({Apis mellifica}) lives in swarms, each of which has its own queen, its males or drones, and its very numerous workers, which are barren females. Besides the {A. mellifica} there are other species and varieties of honeybees, as the {A. ligustica} of Spain and Italy; the {A. Indica} of India; the {A. fasciata} of Egypt. The {bumblebee} is a species of {Bombus}. The tropical honeybees belong mostly to {Melipoma} and {Trigona}. 2. A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. --S. G. Goodrich. 3. pl. [Prob. fr. AS. be[a0]h ring, fr. b[?]gan to bend. See 1st {Bow}.] (Naut.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also {bee blocks}. {Bee beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a beetle ({Trichodes apiarius}) parasitic in beehives. {Bee bird} (Zo[94]l.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. {Bee flower} (Bot.), an orchidaceous plant of the genus {Ophrys} ({O. apifera}), whose flowers have some resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects. {Bee fly} (Zo[94]l.), a two winged fly of the family {Bombyliid[91]}. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. {Bee garden}, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in; an apiary. --Mortimer. {Bee glue}, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also {propolis}. {Bee hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the honey buzzard. {Bee killer} (Zo[94]l.), a large two-winged fly of the family {Asilid[91]} (esp. {Trupanea apivora}) which feeds upon the honeybee. See {Robber fly}. {Bee louse} (Zo[94]l.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect ({Braula c[91]ca}) parasitic on hive bees. {Bee martin} (Zo[94]l.), the kingbird ({Tyrannus Carolinensis}) which occasionally feeds on bees. {Bee moth} (Zo[94]l.), a moth ({Galleria cereana}) whose larv[91] feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. {Bee wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of {Bee beetle}. {To have a bee in the head} [or] {in the bonnet}. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. --B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. [bd]She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Sandfish \Sand"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America ({Trichodon trichodon}) which buries itself in the sand. | |
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Trichotomous \Tri*chot"o*mous\, a. [See {Trichotomy}.] Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. --Martyn. | |
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Trichotomy \Tri*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. tri`cha threefold, in three parts + te`mnein to cut or divide: cf. F. trichotomie.] Division into three parts. | |
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Trick \Trick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tricked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tricking}.] 1. To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse. 2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. [bd] Trick her off in air.[b8] --Pope. People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. --Locke. They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been. --Macaulay. 3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. --B. Jonson. | |
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Trickster \Trick"ster\, n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat. | |
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Tricktrack \Trick"track`\, n. [F. trictrac. Cf. {Ticktack} backgammon.] An old game resembling backgammon. | |
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Trioctile \Tri*oc"tile\ (-[ocr]k"t[icr]l), n. [Pref. tri- + octile.] (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. --Hutton. | |
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Trioxide \Tri*ox"ide\, n. [Pref. tri- + oxide.] (Chem.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, {SO3}; -- formerly called {tritoxide}. | |
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Triquadrantal \Tri`quad*ran"tal\, a. [Pref. tri- + quadrantal.] (Spherical Trig.) Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles. | |
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Triquetrum \Tri*que"trum\, n.; pl. {Triquetra}. [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See {Cuneiform} (b) . | |
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Triquetral \Tri*que"tral\, a. Triquetrous. | |
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Triquetrous \Tri*que"trous\, a. [L. triquetrus.] Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal. | |
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Triquetrum \Tri*que"trum\, n.; pl. {Triquetra}. [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See {Cuneiform} (b) . | |
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Trist \Trist\, a. [F. triste, L. tristis.] Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] --Fairfax. | |
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Trist \Trist\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Triste}.] To trust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Trist \Trist\, n. [See {Tryst}.] 1. Trust. [Obs.] 2. A post, or station, in hunting. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See {Tryst}. [Obs.] George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally. --Letter dated Sept., 1543. | |
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Triste \Triste\, n. A cattle fair. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Trist \Trist\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Triste}.] To trust. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Tristearate \Tri*ste"a*rate\, n. Tristearin. | |
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Tristearin \Tri*ste"a*rin\, n. [Pref. tri- + stearin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See {Stearin}. | |
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Tristfully \Trist"ful*ly\, adv. In a tristful manner; sadly. | |
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Tristichous \Tris"tich*ous\, a. [Gr. [?] in three rows; [?] (see {Tri-}) + [?] a row.] (Bot.) Arranged in three vertical rows. | |
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Tristigmatic \Tri`stig*mat"ic\, Tristigmatose \Tri*stig"ma*tose`\, a. [Pref. tri- + stigma.] (Bot.) Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. --Gray. | |
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Tristigmatic \Tri`stig*mat"ic\, Tristigmatose \Tri*stig"ma*tose`\, a. [Pref. tri- + stigma.] (Bot.) Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. --Gray. | |
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Tristitiate \Tris*ti"ti*ate\, v. t. [L. tristitia sadness, fr. tristis sad.] To make sad. [Obs.] --Feltham. | |
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Tristtul \Trist"tul\, a. Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. --Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. --Longfellow. | |
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Tristy \Trist"y\, a. See {Trist}, a. [Obs.] --Ashmole. | |
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Trochite \Tro"chite\, n. [Gr. [?] a wheel.] (Paleon.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid. | |
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Trochoid \Tro"choid\, n. [Gr. [?] a wheel + -oid; cf. F. trocho[8b]de. See {Troche}.] (Geom.) 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. | |
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Trochoid \Tro"choid\, a. 1. (Anat.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family {Trochid[91]}. | |
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Trochoidal \Tro*choid"al\, a. 1. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid. 2. (Anat. & Zo[94]l.) See {Trochoid}, a. | |
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Troostite \Troost"ite\, n. [So named after Dr. Gerard Troost, of Nashville, Tenn.] (Min.) Willemite. | |
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Dumpy level \Dump"y lev"el\ (Surv.) A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the {Troughton level}, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the {Gavatt level}. | |
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d8Trou-de-loup \[d8]Trou"-de-loup"\, n.; pl. {Trous-de-loup}. [F. trou hole + de of + loup wolf.] (Mil.) A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also {trapholes}. | |
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Trowsed \Trowsed\, a. Wearing trousers. [Obs.] | |
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Troy \Troy\, n. Troy weight. {Troy weight}, the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains. The avoirdupois pound contains 7000 troy grains; so that 175 pounds troy equal 144 pounds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 1[frac17x175] or 1.09714 ounce avoirdupois. Troy weight when divided, the pound into 12 ounces, the ounce into 8 drams, the dram into 3 scruples, and the scruple into 20 grains, is called apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the [frac1x10000] part. | |
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Trucidation \Tru`ci*da"tion\, n. [L. trucidatio, fr. trucidare to slaughter.] The act of killing. [Obs.] | |
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Truck \Truck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {trucking}.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin.] To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. --J. S. Mill. | |
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Touch \Touch\, n. [Cf. F. touche. See {Touch}, v. ] 1. The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. --Shak. 2. (Physiol.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See {Tactile sense}, under {Tactile}. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine. --Pope. Note: Pure tactile feelings are necessarily rare, since temperature sensations and muscular sensations are more or less combined with them. The organs of touch are found chiefly in the epidermis of the skin and certain underlying nervous structures. 3. Act or power of exciting emotion. Not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us. --Shak. 4. An emotion or affection. A true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy. --Hooker. 5. Personal reference or application. [Obs.] Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used. --Bacon. 6. A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. I never bare any touch of conscience with greater regret. --Eikon Basilike. 7. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design. --Dryden. 8. Feature; lineament; trait. Of many faces, eyes, and hearts, To have the touches dearest prized. --Shak. 9. The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. --Shak. 10. A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. Eyes La touch of Sir Peter Lely in them. --Hazlitt. Madam, I have a touch of your condition. --Shak. 11. A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. A small touch will put him in mind of them. --Bacon. 12. A slight and brief essay. [Colloq.] Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch. --Swift. 13. A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. [Obs.] [bd] Now do I play the touch.[b8] --Shak. A neat new monument of touch and alabaster. --Fuller. 14. Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. Equity, the true touch of all laws. --Carew. Friends of noble touch . --Shak. 15. (Mus.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch. 16. (Shipbilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see {Top and but}, under {Top}, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters. --J. Knowles. 17. (Football) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. --Encyc. of Rural Sports. 18. A boys' game; tag. {In touch} (Football), outside of bounds. --T. Hughes. {To be in touch}, to be in contact, or in sympathy. {To keep touch}. (a) To be true or punctual to a promise or engagement [Obs.]; hence, to fulfill duly a function. My mind and senses keep touch and time. --Sir W. Scott. (b) To keep in contact; to maintain connection or sympathy; -- with with or of. {Touch and go}, a phrase descriptive of a narrow escape. {True as touch} (i. e., touchstone), quite true. [Obs.] | |
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True \True\, a. [Compar. {Truer}; superl. {Truest}.] [OE. trewe, AS. tre[a2]we faithful, true, from tre[a2]w fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n., G. treu, adj., treue, n., OHG. gitriuwi, adj., triuwa, n., Icel. tryggr, adj., Dan. tro, adj. & n., Sw. trogen, adj., tro, n., Goth. triggws, adj., triggwa, n., trauan to trust, OPruss druwis faith. Cf. {Trow}, {Trust}, {Truth}.] 1. Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts. 2. Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original. Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. --Sir W. Scott. 3. Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge. Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled. --Milton. Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. --Herbert. 4. Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian. The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. --John i. 9. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. --Pope. Note: True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true. {Out of true}, varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.] {A true bill} (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true. {True time}. See under {Time}. | |
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Truss \Truss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trussing}.] [F. trousser. See {Truss}, n.] 1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. --Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. --Chaucer. 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. --Spenser. 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] --Sir W. Scott. {To truss a person} [or] {one's self}, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] [bd]Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.[b8] --J. Webster (1607). {To truss up}, to strain; to make close or tight. {Trussed beam}, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord. | |
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Truss \Truss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trussing}.] [F. trousser. See {Truss}, n.] 1. To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. --Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. --Chaucer. 2. To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon. [Obs.] Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey. --Spenser. 3. To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. 4. To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it. 5. To execute by hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] --Sir W. Scott. {To truss a person} [or] {one's self}, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] [bd]Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself.[b8] --J. Webster (1607). {To truss up}, to strain; to make close or tight. {Trussed beam}, a beam which is stiffened by a system of braces constituting a truss of which the beam is a chord. | |
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Trust \Trust\, n. 1. An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a {passive trust} the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary. 2. A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions. | |
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Trust \Trust\, n. [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tr[94]st comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See {True}, and cf. {Tryst}.] 1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. [bd]O ever-failing trust in mortal strength![b8] --Milton. Most take things upon trust. --Locke. 2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust. 3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. [bd]Such trust have we through Christ.[b8] --2 Cor. iii. 4. His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength. --Milton. 4. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit. 5. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust. --Shak. Reward them well, if they observe their trust. --Denham. 6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. --Ps. lxxi. 5. 7. (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust. 8. An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant] Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation. {Trust deed} (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use. | |
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Trust \Trust\, a. Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney. | |
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Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trusting}.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See {Trust}, n.] 1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. --Shak. He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson. 2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Trust me, you look well. --Shak. 3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12. We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18. 4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden. 5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay. 6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. 7. To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton. | |
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Trust \Trust\, v. i. 1. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. More to know could not be more to trust. --Shak. 2. To be confident, as of something future; to hope. I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2. 3. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust. --Johnson. {To trust in}, {To trust on}, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. [bd]Trust in the Lord, and do good.[b8] --Ps. xxxvii. 3. [bd]A priest . . . on whom we trust.[b8] --Chaucer. Her widening streets on new foundations trust. --Dryden. {To trust} {to [or] unto}, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on. They trusted unto the liers in wait. --Judges xx. 36. | |
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Trust company \Trust company\ Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business. | |
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Trust \Trust\, n. [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tr[94]st comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See {True}, and cf. {Tryst}.] 1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. [bd]O ever-failing trust in mortal strength![b8] --Milton. Most take things upon trust. --Locke. 2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust. 3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. [bd]Such trust have we through Christ.[b8] --2 Cor. iii. 4. His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength. --Milton. 4. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit. 5. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust. --Shak. Reward them well, if they observe their trust. --Denham. 6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. --Ps. lxxi. 5. 7. (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust. 8. An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant] Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation. {Trust deed} (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee, for some specific use. | |
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Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trusting}.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See {Trust}, n.] 1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. --Shak. He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson. 2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Trust me, you look well. --Shak. 3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12. We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18. 4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden. 5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay. 6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. 7. To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton. | |
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Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. {Trustee process} (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the {process of foreign attachment}, {garnishment}, or {factorizing process}. [U. S.] | |
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Trustee \Trus*tee"\, v. t. 1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate. 2. (Law) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U. S.] | |
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Trustee process \Trus*tee" proc"ess\ (Law) The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.] | |
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Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. {Trustee process} (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the {process of foreign attachment}, {garnishment}, or {factorizing process}. [U. S.] | |
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Trustee stock \Trustee stock\ (Finance) High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.] | |
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Trusteeship \Trus*tee"ship\, n. The office or duty of a trustee. | |
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Truster \Trust"er\, n. 1. One who trusts, or credits. 2. (Scots Law) One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee. | |
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Trustful \Trust"ful\, a. 1. Full of trust; trusting. 2. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- {Trust"ful*ly},adv. -- {Trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Trustful \Trust"ful\, a. 1. Full of trust; trusting. 2. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- {Trust"ful*ly},adv. -- {Trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Trustful \Trust"ful\, a. 1. Full of trust; trusting. 2. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- {Trust"ful*ly},adv. -- {Trust"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Trusty \Trust"y\, a. [Compar. {Trustier}; superl. {Trustiest}.] 1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his aid. --Spenser. 3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Trusty \Trust"y\, a. [Compar. {Trustier}; superl. {Trustiest}.] 1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his aid. --Spenser. 3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Trustily \Trust"i*ly\, adv. In a trusty manner. | |
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Trustiness \Trust"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being trusty. | |
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Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trusting}.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See {Trust}, n.] 1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. --Shak. He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson. 2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Trust me, you look well. --Shak. 3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12. We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18. 4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden. 5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay. 6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. 7. To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton. | |
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Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- {Trust"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- {Trust"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Trustless \Trust"less\, a. That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- {Trust"less*ness}, n. | |
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Trustless \Trust"less\, a. That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- {Trust"less*ness}, n. | |
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Trustworthy \Trust"wor`thy\, a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- {Trust"wor`thi*ness}, n. | |
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Trustworthy \Trust"wor`thy\, a. Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- {Trust"wor`thi*ness}, n. | |
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Trusty \Trust"y\, a. [Compar. {Trustier}; superl. {Trustiest}.] 1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his aid. --Spenser. 3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Tryst \Tryst\, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.] | |
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Tryst \Tryst\, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See {Trust}, n.] 1. Trust. [Obs.] 2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] {To bide tryst}, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. --Tennyson. | |
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Tryst \Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See {Tryst}, n.] 1. To trust. [Obs.] 2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] --Burns. | |
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Tryster \Tryst"er\, n. One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another. | |
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Trysting \Tryst"ing\, n. An appointment; a tryst. {Trysting day}, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. --Macaulay. {Trysting place}, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. --Byron. | |
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Trysting \Tryst"ing\, n. An appointment; a tryst. {Trysting day}, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. --Macaulay. {Trysting place}, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. --Byron. | |
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Trysting \Tryst"ing\, n. An appointment; a tryst. {Trysting day}, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. --Macaulay. {Trysting place}, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. --Byron. | |
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Turgid \Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.] 1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. --Boyle. 2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- {Tur"gid*ly}, adv. -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n. | |
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Turgidity \Tur*gid"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being turgid. | |
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Turgid \Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.] 1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. --Boyle. 2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- {Tur"gid*ly}, adv. -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n. | |
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Turgid \Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.] 1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. --Boyle. 2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- {Tur"gid*ly}, adv. -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n. | |
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Turgidous \Tur"gid*ous\, a. Turgid. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Wheat \Wheat\ (hw[emac]t), n. [OE. whete, AS. hw[aemac]te; akin to OS. hw[emac]ti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See {White}.] (Bot.) A cereal grass ({Triticum vulgare}) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses. {Buck wheat}. (Bot.) See {Buckwheat}. {German wheat}. (Bot.) See 2d {Spelt}. {Guinea wheat} (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. {Indian wheat}, [or] {Tartary wheat} (Bot.), a grain ({Fagopyrum Tartaricum}) much like buckwheat, but only half as large. {Turkey wheat} (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. {Wheat aphid}, [or] {Wheat aphis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap of growing wheat. {Wheat beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, slender, rusty brown beetle ({Sylvanus Surinamensis}) whose larv[91] feed upon wheat, rice, and other grains. (b) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle ({Anobium paniceum}) whose larv[91] eat the interior of grains of wheat. {Wheat duck} (Zo[94]l.), the American widgeon. [Western U. S.] {Wheat fly}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Wheat midge}, below. {Wheat grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Agropyrum caninum}) somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts of Europe and America. {Wheat jointworm}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jointworm}. {Wheat louse} (Zo[94]l.), any wheat aphid. {Wheat maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a wheat midge. {Wheat midge}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small two-winged fly ({Diplosis tritici}) which is very destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America. The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the larv[91] suck the juice of the young kernels and when full grown change to pup[91] in the earth. (b) The Hessian fly. See under {Hessian}. {Wheat moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth whose larv[91] devour the grains of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See {Angoumois Moth}, also {Grain moth}, under {Grain}. {Wheat thief} (Bot.), gromwell; -- so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See {Gromwell}. {Wheat thrips} (Zo[94]l.), a small brown thrips ({Thrips cerealium}) which is very injurious to the grains of growing wheat. {Wheat weevil}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The grain weevil. (b) The rice weevil when found in wheat. | |
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Turkey-trot \Tur"key-trot`\, n. An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the {bunny hug} and {grizzly bear}, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing. | |
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Turk \Turk\, n. [Per. Turk; probably of Tartar origin: cf. F. Turc.] 1. A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey. 2. A native or inhabitant of Turkey. 3. A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey. It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. --Chillingworth. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The plum weevil. See {Curculio}, and {Plum weevil}, under {Plum}. {Turk's cap}. (Bot.) (a) Turk's-cap lily. See under {Lily}. (b) A tulip. (c) A plant of the genus {Melocactus}; Turk's head. See {Melon cactus}, under {Melon}. {Turk's head}. (a) (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. --R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See {Turk's cap} (c) above. {Turk's turban} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Ranunculus}; crowfoot. | |
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Turk \Turk\, n. [Per. Turk; probably of Tartar origin: cf. F. Turc.] 1. A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey. 2. A native or inhabitant of Turkey. 3. A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey. It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. --Chillingworth. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The plum weevil. See {Curculio}, and {Plum weevil}, under {Plum}. {Turk's cap}. (Bot.) (a) Turk's-cap lily. See under {Lily}. (b) A tulip. (c) A plant of the genus {Melocactus}; Turk's head. See {Melon cactus}, under {Melon}. {Turk's head}. (a) (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. --R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See {Turk's cap} (c) above. {Turk's turban} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Ranunculus}; crowfoot. | |
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Turk's-head \Turk's"-head`\, n. 1. (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. 2. (a) The melon cactus. [West Indies] (b) Any of several species of {Echinocactus}. [California] 3. A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc. [Colloq. or Dial.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Teresita, MO Zip code(s): 65573 | |
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Thurston, NE (village, FIPS 48900) Location: 42.17654 N, 96.69986 W Population (1990): 98 (54 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68062 Thurston, OH (village, FIPS 76764) Location: 39.84128 N, 82.54498 W Population (1990): 539 (188 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Thurston County, NE (county, FIPS 173) Location: 42.15707 N, 96.55040 W Population (1990): 6936 (2548 housing units) Area: 1020.0 sq km (land), 6.3 sq km (water) Thurston County, WA (county, FIPS 67) Location: 46.92512 N, 122.82751 W Population (1990): 161238 (66464 housing units) Area: 1883.1 sq km (land), 120.7 sq km (water) | |
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Tower City, ND (city, FIPS 79340) Location: 46.92531 N, 97.67606 W Population (1990): 233 (117 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58071 Tower City, PA (borough, FIPS 77184) Location: 40.58955 N, 76.55377 W Population (1990): 1518 (676 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 17980 | |
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Tracyton, WA (CDP, FIPS 72205) Location: 47.60960 N, 122.65450 W Population (1990): 2621 (995 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water) | |
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Traskwood, AR (town, FIPS 69830) Location: 34.45193 N, 92.66674 W Population (1990): 488 (170 housing units) Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72167 | |
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Tri-City, OR (CDP, FIPS 74650) Location: 42.98466 N, 123.31046 W Population (1990): 3585 (1333 housing units) Area: 22.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Trousdale County, TN (county, FIPS 169) Location: 36.39317 N, 86.15639 W Population (1990): 5920 (2537 housing units) Area: 295.9 sq km (land), 6.2 sq km (water) | |
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Truesdale, IA (city, FIPS 79095) Location: 42.72948 N, 95.18273 W Population (1990): 132 (48 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Truesdale, MO (city, FIPS 73960) Location: 38.81101 N, 91.12507 W Population (1990): 285 (142 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Truscott, TX Zip code(s): 79260 | |
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Truxton, MO (village, FIPS 74014) Location: 39.00220 N, 91.24061 W Population (1990): 90 (45 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63381 Truxton, NY Zip code(s): 13158 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
tourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}. ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare {twink}, {lurker}, {read-only user}. 2. [IRC] An {IRC} user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see {channel hopping}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
tourist information n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time. The `bytes free' information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir' display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a Unix `ps(1)' display. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
touristic adj. Having the quality of a {tourist}. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum'. Often spelled `turistic' or `turistik', so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum'. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
turist /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of {tourist}, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'. Poss. influenced by {luser} and `Turing'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
target {SCSI target} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Target-Machine Description Language (TMDL) The machine-description language used in the Graham-Glanville {code generator}. ["Table-Driven Code Generation", S.L. Graham, IEEE Computer 13(8):25-34 (Aug 1980)]. (1995-02-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tourist logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, {electronic mail}, {games} and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the {ITS} culture's penchant for six-letterisms). Compare {twink}, {read-only user}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tourist information Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time. The "bytes free" information at the bottom of an {MS-DOS} "dir" display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a {Unix} "ps(1)" display. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tractor feed {sprocket feed} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tri state which allows a connector (pin) to either act as a normal output, driving a signal onto a line, or to be "tri stated" - set to a high-impedance ("high Z") condition. This allows other outputs to drive signals onto the line. Often the same connector also functions as an input when its output circuitry is tri stated. Tri-state outputs are typically used for the connection of several digital circuits to a shared {bus} onto which any one of them may output data for the others to input. (1996-07-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Truchet point 0.188 mm. (2002-03-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
turist /too'rist/ Variant spelling of {tourist}. Possibly influenced by {luser} and "{Turing}". [{Jargon File}] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Target (1 Sam. 17:6, A.V., after the LXX. and Vulg.), a kind of small shield. The margin has "gorget," a piece of armour for the throat. The Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (kidon) by "javelin." The same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 8:18 (A.V., "spear;" R.V., "javelin"); Job 39:23 (A.V., "shield;" R.V., "javelin"); 41:29 (A.V., "spear;" R.V., "javelin"). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tirshatha a word probably of Persian origin, meaning "severity," denoting a high civil dignity. The Persian governor of Judea is so called (Ezra 2:63; Neh. 7:65, 70). Nehemiah is called by this name in Neh. 8:9; 10:1, and the "governor" (pehah) in 5:18. Probably, therefore, tirshatha=pehah=the modern pasha. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tirshatha, a governor |