English Dictionary: tenor | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tamer \Tam"er\, n. One who tames or subdues. | |
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Tame \Tame\, a. [Compar. {Tamer}; superl. {Tamest}.] [AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. [?], Skr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. [fb]61. Cf. {Adamant}, {Diamond}, {Dame}, {Daunt}, {Indomitable}.] 1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird. 2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. --Roscommon. 3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery. Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See {Gentle}. | |
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Tanier \Tan"i*er\, n. (Bot.) An aroid plant ({Caladium sagitt[91]folium}), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also {tannier}.] | |
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Tanner \Tan"ner\, n. [Etym. uncertain.] A sixpence. [Slang, Eng.] | |
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Tanner \Tan"ner\, n. One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. | |
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Tannery \Tan"ner*y\, n.; pl. {Tanneries}. [Cf. F. tannerie.] 1. A place where the work of tanning is carried on. 2. The art or process of tanning. [R.] --Carlyle. | |
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Tanier \Tan"i*er\, n. (Bot.) An aroid plant ({Caladium sagitt[91]folium}), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also {tannier}.] | |
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Tannier \Tan"ni*er\, n. (Bot.) See {Tanier}. | |
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Tanier \Tan"i*er\, n. (Bot.) An aroid plant ({Caladium sagitt[91]folium}), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also {tannier}.] | |
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Tannier \Tan"ni*er\, n. (Bot.) See {Tanier}. | |
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Tawny \Taw"ny\, a. [Compar. {Tawnier}; superl. {Tawniest}.] [F. tann[82], p. p. of tanner to tan. See {Tan}, v. t. & n. Cf. {Tenn[82]}.] Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. [bd]A leopard's tawny and spotted hide.[b8] --Longfellow. | |
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Teemer \Teem"er\, n. One who teems, or brings forth. | |
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Tenor \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See {Tenable}, and cf. {Tenor} a kind of voice.] 1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray. 2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. --Shak. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? --Spart. 3. Stamp; character; nature. This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden. 4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. --Bouvier. 5. [F. t[82]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called because the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.) (a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it. {Old Tenor}, {New Tenor}, {Middle Tenor}, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century. | |
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Tenure \Ten"ure\, n. [F. tenure, OF. teneure, fr. F. tenir to hold. See {Tenable}.] 1. The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. --Bancroft. 2. (Eng. Law) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property in the United States, where the title to land is essentially allodial, and almost all lands are held in fee simple, not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner. Tenure, in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by courtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc. 3. The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land. 4. Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure. All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. --Cowper. {Tenure by fee alms}. (Law) See {Frankalmoigne}. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
More \More\, adv. 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle. Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. --Milton. (b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. --Shak. 2. In addition; further; besides; again. Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. {More and more}, with continual increase. [bd]Amon trespassed more and more.[b8] --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. {The more}, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified. {The more -- the more}, by how much more -- by so much more. [bd]The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.[b8] --Milton. {To be no more}, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more. Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron. | |
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Thenal \The"nal\, Thenar \The"nar\, a. [NL., fr. Gr. [?].] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar. | |
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Thenar \The"nar\, n. (Anat.) (a) The palm of the hand. (b) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot. | |
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Thin \Thin\, a. [Compar. {Thiner}; superl. {Thinest}.] [OE. thinne, thenne, thunne, AS. [thorn]ynne; akin to D. dun, G. d[81]nn, OHG. dunni, Icel. [thorn]unnr, Sw. tunn, Dan. tynd, Gael. & Ir. tana, W. teneu, L. tenuis, Gr. [?] (in comp.) stretched out, [?] stretched, stretched out, long, Skr. tanu thin, slender; also to AS. [?]enian to extend, G. dehnen, Icel. [?]enja, Goth. [?]anjan (in comp.), L. tendere to stretch, tenere to hold, Gr. [?] to stretch, Skr. tan. [fb]51 & 237. Cf. {Attenuate}, {Dance}, {Tempt}, {Tenable}, {Tend} to move, {Tenous}, {Thunder}, {Tone}.] 1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering. 2. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. --Shak. In the day, when the air is more thin. --Bacon. Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused. --Milton. 3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. --Addison. 4. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind. --Gen. xli. 6. 5. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease. 6. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. --Dryden. 7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. My tale is done, for my wit is but thin. --Chaucer. Note: Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the like. {Thin section}. See under {Section}. | |
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Thinner \Thin"ner\, n. One who thins, or makes thinner. | |
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Timer \Tim"er\, n. (Internal-combustion Engines) In electric ignition, an adjustable device for automatically timing the spark. | |
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Timer \Tim"er\, n. A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc. | |
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Timber \Tim"ber\, n. [Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; cf. Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL. timbrium. Cf. {Timmer}.] (Com.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also {timmer}. [Written also {timbre}.] | |
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Timmer \Tim"mer\, n. Same as 1st {Timber}. [Scot.] | |
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Timber \Tim"ber\, n. [Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; cf. Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL. timbrium. Cf. {Timmer}.] (Com.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also {timmer}. [Written also {timbre}.] | |
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Timmer \Tim"mer\, n. Same as 1st {Timber}. [Scot.] | |
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Tiny \Ti"ny\, a. [Compar. {Tinier}; superl. {Tiniest}.] [Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.] Very small; little; puny. When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak. | |
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Tinner \Tin"ner\, n. 1. One who works in a tin mine. 2. One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman. | |
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Tinware \Tin"ware`\, n. Articles made of tinned iron. | |
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Morrow \Mor"row\, n. [OE. morwe, morwen, AS. morgen. See {Morn}.] 1. Morning. [Obs.] [bd]White as morrow's milk.[b8] --Bp. Hall. We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine. --Chaucer. 2. The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood. --Lev. vii. 16. Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn. --Crashaw. 3. The day following the present; to-morrow. {Good morrow}, good morning; -- a form of salutation. {To morrow}. See {To-morrow} in the Vocabulary. | |
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Tomorrow \To*mor"row\, adv. [Prep. to + morrow.] On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. --Shak. | |
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Tomorrow \To*mor"row\, n. The day after the present; the morrow.[bd]To-morrow is our wedding day.[b8] -- Cowper. One today is worth two to-morrows. --Franklin. | |
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Tumor \Tu"mor\, n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tume[a3]r. See {Tumid}.] 1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [R.] Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. --De Quincey. {Encysted tumor}, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. {Fatty tumor}. See under {Fatty}. {Innocent tumor}, [or] {Benign tumor}, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation. {Malignant tumor}, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death. | |
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Tuner \Tun"er\, n. One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments. | |
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Twiner \Twin"er\, n. (Bot.) Any plant which twines about a support. | |
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Twinner \Twin"ner\, n. One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. --Tusser. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tamaroa, IL (village, FIPS 74444) Location: 38.13536 N, 89.22887 W Population (1990): 780 (341 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62888 | |
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Tamora, NE (village, FIPS 48340) Location: 40.89575 N, 97.22407 W Population (1990): 51 (17 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Tanner, AL Zip code(s): 35671 Tanner, WV Zip code(s): 26179 | |
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Towner, CO Zip code(s): 81071 Towner, ND (city, FIPS 79420) Location: 48.34761 N, 100.40719 W Population (1990): 669 (362 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Tyner, NC Zip code(s): 27980 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Tony Hoare {Anthony Hoare} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tamar palm. (1.) A place mentioned by Ezekiel (47:19; 48:28), on the southeastern border of Palestine. Some suppose this was "Tadmor" (q.v.). (2.) The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she was married (Gen. 38:6). After her husband's death, she was married to Onan, his brother (8), and on his death, Judah promised to her that his third son, Shelah, would become her husband. This promise was not fulfilled, and hence Tamar's revenge and Judah's great guilt (38:12-30). (3.) A daughter of David (2 Sam. 13:1-32; 1 Chr. 3:9), whom Amnon shamefully outraged and afterwards "hated exceedingly," thereby illustrating the law of human nature noticed even by the heathen, "Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris", i.e., "It is the property of human nature to hate one whom you have injured." (4.) A daughter of Absalom (2 Sam. 14:27). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tamar, palm; palm-tree |