English Dictionary: Tytonidae | by the DICT Development Group |
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Taut \Taut\, a. [Dan. t[91]t; akin to E. tight. See {Tight}.] 1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. 2. Snug; close; firm; secure. {Taut hand} (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline. | |
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Tetanoid \Tet"a*noid\, a. [Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. & Physiol.) Resembling tetanus. | |
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Titanate \Ti"tan*ate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of titanic acid. | |
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Titanite \Ti"tan*ite\, n. [Cf. F. titanite; -- so called from containing titanic acid.] (Min.) See {Sphene}. | |
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Titanitic \Ti`tan*it"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral. | |
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Dam \Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Damming}.] 1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up. I'll have the current in this place dammed up. --Shak. A weight of earth that dams in the water. --Mortimer. 2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain. The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. --Shak. {To dam out}, to keep out by means of a dam. | |
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Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d[94]e, Sw. d[94], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd[?]jan to harass), OFries. d[?]ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. {Dead}, {Death}.] 1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. --Macaulay. She will die from want of care. --Tennyson. 2. To suffer death; to lose life. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v. 6. 3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. --Spectator. Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson. 4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. --Tatler. 5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. 6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. --Spectator. 7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. {To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. [bd]There is one certain way,[b8] replied the Prince [William of Orange] [bd] by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.[b8] --Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). {To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out. Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish. | |
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Pain \Pain\, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. [?] penalty. Cf. {Penal}, {Pine} to languish, {Punish}.] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. --Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. --Addison. 2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. [bd]The pain of Jesus Christ.[b8] --Chaucer. Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve. 3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. --1 Sam. iv. 19. 4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer. In rapture as in pain. --Keble. 5. See {Pains}, labor, effort. {Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}. {To die in the pain}, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dining}.] [F. d[8c]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and cf. {Dinner}, {D[?]jeuner}.] To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak. {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's. | |
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Duke \Duke\n. [F. duc, fr. L. dux, ducis, leader, commander, fr. ducere to lead; akin to AS. te[a2]n to draw; cf. AS. heretoga (here army) an army leader, general, G. herzog duke. See {Tue}, and cf. {Doge}, {Duchess}, {Ducat}, {Duct}, {Adduce}, {Deduct}.] 1. A leader; a chief; a prince. [Obs.] Hannibal, duke of Carthage. --Sir T. Elyot. All were dukes once, who were [bd]duces[b8] -- captains or leaders of their people. --Trench. 2. In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland. 3. In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king. {Duke's coronet}. See {Illust}. of {Coronet}. {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner. See under {Dine}. | |
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Dye \Dye\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dyeing}.] [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. de[a0]gian.] To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. --Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. --Lubbock. {To dye in the grain}, {To dye in the wool} (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. --Hawthorne. Syn: See {Stain}. | |
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Dye \Dye\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dyeing}.] [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. de[a0]gian.] To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. --Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. --Lubbock. {To dye in the grain}, {To dye in the wool} (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. --Hawthorne. Syn: See {Stain}. | |
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Eat \Eat\ ([emac]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([amac]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([emac]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [84]ta, Dan. [91]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. [bd]To eat grass as oxen.[b8] --Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. {To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}. {To eat of} (partitive use). [bd]Eat of the bread that can not waste.[b8] --Keble. {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under {Blurt}.) {To eat out}, to consume completely. [bd]Eat out the heart and comfort of it.[b8] --Tillotson. {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. | |
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Eat \Eat\, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13. 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. 3. To make one's way slowly. {To eat}, {To eat in} [or] {into}, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. [bd]A sword laid by, which eats into itself.[b8] --Byron. {To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel. | |
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Tend \Tend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tending}.] [Aphetic form of attend. See {Attend}, {Tend} to move, and cf. {Tender} one that tends or attends.] 1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks. --Shak. And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge. --Milton. There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. --Emerson. 2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. --Chapman. {To tend a vessel} (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable. | |
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{An end}. (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson. {End bulb} (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles. {End fly}, a bobfly. {End for end}, one end for the other; in reversed order. {End man}, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels. {End on} (Naut.), bow foremost. {End organ} (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally. {End plate} (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers. {End play} (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement. {End stone} (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play. {Ends of the earth}, the remotest regions of the earth. {In the end}, finally. --Shak. {On end}, upright; erect. {To the end}, in order. --Bacon. {To make both ends meet}, to live within one's income. --Fuller. {To put an end to}, to destroy. | |
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Tone \Tone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toning}.] 1. To utter with an affected tone. 2. To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See {Tune}, v. t. 3. (Photog.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. {To tone down}. (a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower tone to. (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius. Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. --C. Kingsley. (c) Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of; to soften. The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures. --Palfrey. {To tone up}, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen. | |
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5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See {Peristome}. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. {In spite of the teeth}, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort. {In the teeth}, directly; in direct opposition; in front. [bd]Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.[b8] --Pope. {To cast in the teeth}, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. {Tooth and nail}, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. [bd]I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright.[b8] --Charles Reade. {Tooth coralline} (Zo[94]l.), any sertularian hydroid. {Tooth edge}, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. {Tooth key}, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. {Tooth net}, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] --Jamieson. {Tooth ornament}. (Arch.) Same as {Dogtooth}, n., 2. | |
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5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See {Peristome}. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. {In spite of the teeth}, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort. {In the teeth}, directly; in direct opposition; in front. [bd]Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.[b8] --Pope. {To cast in the teeth}, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. {Tooth and nail}, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. [bd]I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright.[b8] --Charles Reade. {Tooth coralline} (Zo[94]l.), any sertularian hydroid. {Tooth edge}, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. {Tooth key}, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. {Tooth net}, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] --Jamieson. {Tooth ornament}. (Arch.) Same as {Dogtooth}, n., 2. | |
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Tut-mouthed \Tut"-mouthed`\, a. Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tahtim-hodshi the land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be, "the Hittites of Kadesh," the Hittite capital, on the Orontes. It was apparently some region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead. |