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Tamability \Tam`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. | |
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Tamable \Tam"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- {Tam"a*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Tamable \Tam"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- {Tam"a*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Tameable \Tame"a*ble\, a. Tamable. --Bp. Wilkins. | |
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Tannable \Tan"na*ble\, a. That may be tanned. | |
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Teemful \Teem"ful\, a. 1. Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.] 2. Brimful. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. | |
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Teenful \Teen"ful\, a. Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. | |
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Templar \Tem"plar\, n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See {Temple} a church.] 1. One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple. Note: The order was first limited in numbers, and its members were bound by vows of chastity and poverty. After the conquest of Palestine by the Saracens, the Templars spread over Europe, and, by reason of their reputation for valor and piety, they were enriched by numerous donations of money and lands. The extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 1312. 2. A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See {Inner Temple}, and {Middle Temple}, under {Temple}. [Eng.] 3. One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars. | |
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Templar \Tem"plar\, a. Of or pertaining to a temple. [R.] Solitary, family, and templar devotion. --Coleridge. | |
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Template \Tem"plate\, n. Same as {Templet}. | |
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Templet \Tem"plet\, n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also {template}.] 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet. 2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. | |
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Template \Tem"plate\, n. Same as {Templet}. | |
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Templet \Tem"plet\, n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also {template}.] 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet. 2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, n. 1. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances. 2. A local organization of Odd Fellows. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] --Feltham. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to be the same word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or appointed time. See {Temporal} of time, and cf. {Tempo}, {Tense}, n.] 1. (Anat.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear. 2. One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. [?] a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t[82]mple, from the Latin. Cf. {Contemplate}.] 1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. [bd]The temple of mighty Mars.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. --John x. 23. 3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer? --Buckminster. 4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. [bd]The temple of his body.[b8] --John ii. 21. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? --1 Cor. iii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. --Bryant. {Inner Temple}, [and] {Middle Temple}, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [Cf. {Templet}.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. | |
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Templed \Tem"pled\, a. Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. --S. F. Smith. | |
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Templet \Tem"plet\, n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also {template}.] 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet. 2. (Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. | |
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Tenability \Ten`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness. | |
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Tenable \Ten"a*ble\, a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See {Thin}, and cf. {Continue}, {Continent}, {Entertain}, {Maintain}, {Tenant}, {Tent}.] Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Tenableness \Ten`a*ble*ness\, n. Same as {Tenability}. | |
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Tenfold \Ten"fold`\, a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. --Milton. | |
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Tenuifolious \Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous\, a. [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves. | |
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Thamnophile \Tham"no*phile\, n. [Gr. qa`mnos a bush + fi`los loving.] (Zo[94]l.) A bush shrike. | |
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Thimble \Thim"ble\, n. [OE. thimbil, AS. [?][?]mel, fr. [?][?]ma a thumb. [fb]56. See {Thumb}.] 1. A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle. 2. (Mech.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: (a) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. (b) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. (c) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called {ferrule} in England. 3. (Naut.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing. | |
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Bushing \Bush"ing\, n. [See 4th {Bush}.] 1. The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc. 2. (Mech.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a {thimble}. See 4th {Bush}. | |
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Thimble \Thim"ble\, n. [OE. thimbil, AS. [?][?]mel, fr. [?][?]ma a thumb. [fb]56. See {Thumb}.] 1. A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle. 2. (Mech.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: (a) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. (b) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. (c) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called {ferrule} in England. 3. (Naut.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing. | |
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Bushing \Bush"ing\, n. [See 4th {Bush}.] 1. The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc. 2. (Mech.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a {thimble}. See 4th {Bush}. | |
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Thimbleberry \Thim"ble*ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry ({Rubus occidentalis}), common in America. | |
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Thimbleeye \Thim"ble*eye`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The chub mackerel. See under {Chub}. | |
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Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.] (Zo[94]l.) A species to fresh-water fish of the {Cyprinid[91]} or Carp family. The common European species is {Leuciscus cephalus}; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera {Semotilus}, {Squalius}, {Ceratichthys}, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the {tautog}, {black bass}, etc. {Chub mackerel} (Zo[94]l.), a species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also {bull mackerel}, {thimble-eye}, and {big-eye mackerel}. {Chub sucker} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water fish of the United States ({Erimyzon sucetta}); -- called also {creekfish}. | |
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Thimbleeye \Thim"ble*eye`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The chub mackerel. See under {Chub}. | |
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Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.] (Zo[94]l.) A species to fresh-water fish of the {Cyprinid[91]} or Carp family. The common European species is {Leuciscus cephalus}; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera {Semotilus}, {Squalius}, {Ceratichthys}, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the {tautog}, {black bass}, etc. {Chub mackerel} (Zo[94]l.), a species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also {bull mackerel}, {thimble-eye}, and {big-eye mackerel}. {Chub sucker} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water fish of the United States ({Erimyzon sucetta}); -- called also {creekfish}. | |
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Thimbleful \Thim"ble*ful\, n.; pl. {Thimblefuls}. As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. --Dryden. | |
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Thimbleful \Thim"ble*ful\, n.; pl. {Thimblefuls}. As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. --Dryden. | |
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Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, n. A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea. | |
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Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thimblerigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thimblerigging}.] To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick. | |
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Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thimblerigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thimblerigging}.] To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick. | |
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Thimblerigger \Thim"ble*rig`ger\, n. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain. | |
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Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thimblerigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thimblerigging}.] To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick. | |
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Thimbleweed \Thim"ble*weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus {Rudbeckia}, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles. | |
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Thumb \Thumb\, n. [OE. thombe, thoumbe, [thorn]ume, AS. [thorn][umac]ma; akin to OFries. th[umac]ma, D. duim, G. daumen, OHG. d[umac]mo, Icel. [thorn]umall, Dan. tommelfinger, Sw. tumme, and perhaps to L. tumere to swell. [fb]56. Cf. {Thimble}, {Tumid}.] The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See {Pollex}. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer. {Thumb band}, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. --Mortimer. {Thumb blue}, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. {Thumb latch}, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. {Thumb mark}. (a) The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. --Longfellow. (b) The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers. {Thumb nut}, a nut for a screw, having wings to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same perpose. {Thumb ring}, a ring worn on the thumb. --Shak. {Thumb stall}. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work. (b) (Mil.) A buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded. {Under one's thumb}, completely under one's power or influence; in a condition of subservience. [Colloq.] | |
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Thumb \Thumb\, n. [OE. thombe, thoumbe, [thorn]ume, AS. [thorn][umac]ma; akin to OFries. th[umac]ma, D. duim, G. daumen, OHG. d[umac]mo, Icel. [thorn]umall, Dan. tommelfinger, Sw. tumme, and perhaps to L. tumere to swell. [fb]56. Cf. {Thimble}, {Tumid}.] The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See {Pollex}. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer. {Thumb band}, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. --Mortimer. {Thumb blue}, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. {Thumb latch}, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. {Thumb mark}. (a) The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. --Longfellow. (b) The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers. {Thumb nut}, a nut for a screw, having wings to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same perpose. {Thumb ring}, a ring worn on the thumb. --Shak. {Thumb stall}. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work. (b) (Mil.) A buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded. {Under one's thumb}, completely under one's power or influence; in a condition of subservience. [Colloq.] | |
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Thumbless \Thumb"less\, a. Without a thumb. --Darwin. | |
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Timbal \Tim"bal\, n. A kettledrum. See {Tymbal}. | |
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Time \Time\, n.; pl. {Times}. [OE. time, AS. t[c6]ma, akin to t[c6]d time, and to Icel. t[c6]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. [fb]58. See {Tide}, n.] 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. --Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. --Reid. 2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. --Heb. i. 1. 3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times. 4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. --Buckminster. 5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. --Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. --Mark xi. 13. 6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. --Clarendon. 7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. --Milton. 8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. --Keble. 9. (Gram.) Tense. 10. (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. --Beau. & Fl. Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self-explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time-scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. {Absolute time}, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time. {Apparent time}, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. {Astronomical time}, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next. {At times}, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides. {Civil time}, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight. {Common time} (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute. {Equation of time}. See under {Equation}, n. {In time}. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength. {Mean time}. See under 4th {Mean}. {Quick time} (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute. {Sidereal time}. See under {Sidereal}. {Standard time}, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time. {Time ball}, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. --Nichol. {Time bargain} (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future. | |
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{Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.] {Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. {Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. {Time enough}, in season; early enough. [bd]Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life.[b8] --Bacon. {Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. {Time immemorial}, [or] {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See under {Immemorial}. {Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. {Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as [bd]good morning,[b8] [bd]good evening,[b8] and the like; greeting. {To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t. {To make time}. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. {To move}, {run}, [or] {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. {True time}. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. | |
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Time policy \Time policy\ (Insurance) A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with {voyage policy}. | |
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Timeful \Time"ful\, a. Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
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Timepleaser \Time"pleas`er\, n. One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. --Shak. | |
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Tin \Tin\, n. [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. & Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4. 2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. 3. Money. [Cant] --Beaconsfield. {Block tin} (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also {bar tin}. {Butter of tin}. (Old Chem.) See {Fuming liquor of Libavius}, under {Fuming}. {Grain tin}. (Metal.) See under {Grain}. {Salt of tin} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. {Stream tin}. See under {Stream}. {Tin cry} (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. {Tin foil}, tin reduced to a thin leaf. {Tin frame} (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. {Tin liquor}, {Tin mordant} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. {Tin penny}, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] --Bailey. {Tin plate}, thin sheet iron coated with tin. {Tin pyrites}. See {Stannite}. | |
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Tin \Tin\, n. [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. & Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4. 2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. 3. Money. [Cant] --Beaconsfield. {Block tin} (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also {bar tin}. {Butter of tin}. (Old Chem.) See {Fuming liquor of Libavius}, under {Fuming}. {Grain tin}. (Metal.) See under {Grain}. {Salt of tin} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. {Stream tin}. See under {Stream}. {Tin cry} (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. {Tin foil}, tin reduced to a thin leaf. {Tin frame} (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. {Tin liquor}, {Tin mordant} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. {Tin penny}, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] --Bailey. {Tin plate}, thin sheet iron coated with tin. {Tin pyrites}. See {Stannite}. | |
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Employ \Em*ploy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Employed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Employing}.] [F. employer, fr. L. implicare to fold into, infold, involve, implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf. {Imply}, {Implicate}.] 1. To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. --Addison. (b) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. (c) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. --Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. --Dryden. {To employ one's self}, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self. Syn: To use; busy; apply; exercise; occupy; engross; engage. See {Use}. | |
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Oar \Oar\, n [AS. [be]r; akin to Icel. [be]r, Dan. aare, Sw. [86]ra; perh. akin to E. row, v. Cf. {Rowlock}.] 1. An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom. Note: An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat. 2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. {Oar cock} (Zo[94]l), the water rail. [Prov. Eng.] {Spoon oar}, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. {To boat the oars}, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. {To feather the oars}. See under {Feather}., v. t. {To lie on the oars}, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. {To muffle the oars}, to put something round that part which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. {To put in one's oar}, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. {To ship the oars}, to place them in the rowlocks. {To toss the oars}, To peak the oars, to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. {To trail oars}, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. {To unship the oars}, to take them out of the rowlocks. | |
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Tombless \Tomb"less\, a. Destitute of a tomb. | |
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Tomfool \Tom"fool`\, n. [Tom (see {Tomboy}) + fool.] A great fool; a trifler. | |
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Tomfoolery \Tom`fool"er*y\, n. Folly; trifling. | |
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Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tumbling}.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.] 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South. 3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe. {To tumble home} (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. {Wall-sided}. | |
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Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. t. 1. To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers. 2. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed. | |
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Tumble \Tum"ble\, n. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall. | |
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Tumblebug \Tum"ble*bug`\, n. See {Tumbledung}. | |
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Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tumbling}.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.] 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South. 3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe. {To tumble home} (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. {Wall-sided}. | |
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Tumble-down \Tum"ble-down`\, a. Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.] | |
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Tumbledung \Tum"ble*dung`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to {Scarab[91]us}, {Copris}, {Phan[91]us}, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it. | |
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Tumbler \Tum"bler\, n. 1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat. 2. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking. 3. (Firearms) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. 6. (Zo[94]l.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits. 7. A kind of cart; a tumbrel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Tumblerful \Tum"bler*ful\, n.; pl. {Tumblerfuls}. As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler. | |
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Tumblerful \Tum"bler*ful\, n.; pl. {Tumblerfuls}. As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler. | |
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Dove \Dove\, n. [OE. dove, duve, douve, AS. d[?]fe; akin to OS. d[?]ba, D. duif, OHG. t[?]ba, G. taube, Icel. d[?]fa, Sw. dufva, Dan. due, Goth. d[?]b[?]; perh. from the root of E. dive.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A pigeon of the genus {Columba} and various related genera. The species are numerous. Note: The domestic dove, including the varieties called {fantails}, {tumblers}, {carrier pigeons}, etc., was derived from the {rock pigeon} ({Columba livia}) of Europe and Asia; the {turtledove} of Europe, celebrated for its sweet, plaintive note, is {C. turtur} or {Turtur vulgaris}; the {ringdove}, the largest of European species, is {C. palumbus}; the {Carolina dove}, or {Mourning dove}, is {Zenaidura macroura}; the {sea dove} is the little auk ({Mergulus alle} or {Alle alle}). See {Turtledove}, {Ground dove}, and {Rock pigeon}. The dove is a symbol of innocence, gentleness, and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the typical symbol of the Holy Ghost. | |
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Tumbleweed \Tum"ble*weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, {Amarantus albus}, etc. | |
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Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tumbling}.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.] 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South. 3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe. {To tumble home} (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. {Wall-sided}. | |
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Tumbling \Tum"bling\, a. & vb. n. from {Tumble}, v. {Tumbling barrel}. Same as {Rumble}, n., 4. {Tumbling bay}, an overfall, or weir, in a canal. | |
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Tumbling \Tum"bling\, a. & vb. n. from {Tumble}, v. {Tumbling barrel}. Same as {Rumble}, n., 4. {Tumbling bay}, an overfall, or weir, in a canal. | |
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Tumbling \Tum"bling\, a. & vb. n. from {Tumble}, v. {Tumbling barrel}. Same as {Rumble}, n., 4. {Tumbling bay}, an overfall, or weir, in a canal. | |
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Tumpline \Tump"line`\, n. A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett. | |
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Tunable \Tun"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- {Tun"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tun"a*bly}, adv. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. --Milton. | |
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Tunable \Tun"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- {Tun"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tun"a*bly}, adv. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. --Milton. | |
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Tunable \Tun"a*ble\, a. Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- {Tun"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tun"a*bly}, adv. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. --Milton. | |
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Tun-bellied \Tun"-bel`lied\, a. Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied. | |
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Tuneful \Tune"ful\, a. Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. [bd] Tuneful birds.[b8] --Milton. -- {Tune"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tune"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Tuneful \Tune"ful\, a. Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. [bd] Tuneful birds.[b8] --Milton. -- {Tune"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tune"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Tuneful \Tune"ful\, a. Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. [bd] Tuneful birds.[b8] --Milton. -- {Tune"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Tune"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Twin \Twin\, a. [OE. twin double, AS. getwinne two and two, pl., twins; akin to D. tweeling a twin, G. zwilling, OHG. zwiniling, Icel. tvennr, tvinnr, two and two, twin, and to AS. twi- two. See {Twice}, {Two}.] 1. Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister. 2. Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts. 4. (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See {Twin}, n., 4. {Twin boat}, [or] {Twin ship} (Naut.), a vessel whose deck and upper works rest on two parallel hulls. {Twin crystal}. See {Twin}, n., 4. {Twin flower} (Bot.), a delicate evergreen plant ({Linn[91]a borealis}) of northern climates, which has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk. {Twin-screw steamer}, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel. | |
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Tymbal \Tym"bal\, n. [F. timbale, Sp. timbal; cf. atabal; probably of Arabic origin. Cf. {Atabal}, {Timbrel}.] A kind of kettledrum. [Written also {trimbal}.] A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. --Prior. | |
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Taneyville, MO (village, FIPS 72232) Location: 36.73747 N, 93.03474 W Population (1990): 279 (136 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65759 | |
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Temple, GA (city, FIPS 75832) Location: 33.73456 N, 85.03148 W Population (1990): 1870 (717 housing units) Area: 16.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30179 Temple, ME Zip code(s): 04984 Temple, ND Zip code(s): 58852 Temple, NH Zip code(s): 03084 Temple, OK (town, FIPS 72750) Location: 34.27351 N, 98.23472 W Population (1990): 1223 (617 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73568 Temple, PA (borough, FIPS 76320) Location: 40.40830 N, 75.92104 W Population (1990): 1491 (708 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19560 Temple, TX (city, FIPS 72176) Location: 31.09766 N, 97.36346 W Population (1990): 46109 (20718 housing units) Area: 111.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76501, 76502, 76504 | |
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Temple City, CA (city, FIPS 78148) Location: 34.10263 N, 118.05708 W Population (1990): 31100 (11548 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 91780 | |
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Temple Hills, MD (CDP, FIPS 77100) Location: 38.80981 N, 76.94876 W Population (1990): 6865 (2972 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20748 | |
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Temple Terrace, FL (city, FIPS 71400) Location: 28.04245 N, 82.38220 W Population (1990): 16444 (6850 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Templeton, CA (CDP, FIPS 78162) Location: 35.55389 N, 120.70844 W Population (1990): 2887 (1100 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93465 Templeton, IA (city, FIPS 77340) Location: 41.91809 N, 94.94227 W Population (1990): 321 (141 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51463 Templeton, MA Zip code(s): 01468 Templeton, PA Zip code(s): 16259 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Templeville, MD (town, FIPS 77200) Location: 39.13476 N, 75.76804 W Population (1990): 66 (31 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tenafly, NJ (borough, FIPS 72420) Location: 40.91715 N, 73.95517 W Population (1990): 13326 (4898 housing units) Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07670 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Timblin, PA (borough, FIPS 76744) Location: 40.96612 N, 79.19935 W Population (1990): 165 (73 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15778 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tomball, TX (city, FIPS 73316) Location: 30.09695 N, 95.61641 W Population (1990): 6370 (2727 housing units) Area: 25.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77375 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Townville, PA (borough, FIPS 77232) Location: 41.67962 N, 79.88196 W Population (1990): 358 (141 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16360 Townville, SC Zip code(s): 29689 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tumbling Shoals, AR Zip code(s): 72581 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Twin Falls, ID (city, FIPS 82810) Location: 42.56151 N, 114.46284 W Population (1990): 27591 (11009 housing units) Area: 27.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83301 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Twin Falls County, ID (county, FIPS 83) Location: 42.35332 N, 114.66192 W Population (1990): 53580 (21158 housing units) Area: 4986.1 sq km (land), 8.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Twin Valley, MN (city, FIPS 65938) Location: 47.25776 N, 96.25844 W Population (1990): 821 (386 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56584 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
template code {Pseudocode} generated by an automated {CASE} system and requiring further hand-coding before compilation. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TEMPLOG Extension of {Prolog} to handle a clausal subset of first-order {temporal logic} with discrete time. Proposed by M. Abadi and Z. Manna of {Stanford University}. ["Temporal Logic in Programming", M. Abadi et al, INtl Symp Logic Prog pp.4-16 (1987)]. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Temple first used of the tabernacle, which is called "the temple of the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ's human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called "the temple of God" (1 Cor. 3:16, 17). The Church is designated "an holy temple in the Lord" (Eph. 2:21). Heaven is also called a temple (Rev. 7:5). We read also of the heathen "temple of the great goddess Diana" (Acts 19:27). This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God. It is called "the temple" (1 Kings 6:17); "the temple [R.V., 'house'] of the Lord" (2 Kings 11:10); "thy holy temple" (Ps. 79:1); "the house of the Lord" (2 Chr. 23:5, 12); "the house of the God of Jacob" (Isa. 2:3); "the house of my glory" (60:7); an "house of prayer" (56:7; Matt. 21:13); "an house of sacrifice" (2 Chr. 7:12); "the house of their sanctuary" (2 Chr. 36:17); "the mountain of the Lord's house" (Isa. 2:2); "our holy and our beautiful house" (64:11); "the holy mount" (27:13); "the palace for the Lord God" (1 Chr. 29:1); "the tabernacle of witness" (2 Chr. 24:6); "Zion" (Ps. 74:2; 84:7). Christ calls it "my Father's house" (John 2:16). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Temple, Herod's The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Judea. The building had suffered considerably from natural decay as well as from the assaults of hostile armies, and Herod, desirous of gaining the favour of the Jews, proposed to rebuild it. This offer was accepted, and the work was begun (B.C. 18), and carried out at great labour and expense, and on a scale of surpassing splendour. The main part of the building was completed in ten years, but the erection of the outer courts and the embellishment of the whole were carried on during the entire period of our Lord's life on earth (John 2:16, 19-21), and the temple was completed only A.D. 65. But it was not long permitted to exist. Within forty years after our Lord's crucifixion, his prediction of its overthrow was accomplished (Luke 19: 41-44). The Roman legions took the city of Jerusalem by storm, and notwithstanding the strenuous efforts Titus made to preserve the temple, his soldiers set fire to it in several places, and it was utterly destroyed (A.D. 70), and was never rebuilt. Several remains of Herod's stately temple have by recent explorations been brought to light. It had two courts, one intended for the Israelites only, and the other, a large outer court, called "the court of the Gentiles," intended for the use of strangers of all nations. These two courts were separated by a low wall, as Josephus states, some 4 1/2 feet high, with thirteen openings. Along the top of this dividing wall, at regular intervals, were placed pillars bearing in Greek an inscription to the effect that no stranger was, on the pain of death, to pass from the court of the Gentiles into that of the Jews. At the entrance to a graveyard at the north-western angle of the Haram wall, a stone was discovered by M. Ganneau in 1871, built into the wall, bearing the following inscription in Greek capitals: "No stranger is to enter within the partition wall and enclosure around the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will be responsible to himself for his death, which will ensue." There can be no doubt that the stone thus discovered was one of those originally placed on the boundary wall which separated the Jews from the Gentiles, of which Josephus speaks. It is of importance to notice that the word rendered "sanctuary" in the inscription was used in a specific sense of the inner court, the court of the Israelites, and is the word rendered "temple" in John 2:15 and Acts 21:28, 29. When Paul speaks of the middle wall of partition (Eph. 2:14), he probably makes allusion to this dividing wall. Within this partition wall stood the temple proper, consisting of, (1) the court of the women, 8 feet higher than the outer court; (2) 10 feet higher than this court was the court of Israel; (3) the court of the priests, again 3 feet higher; and lastly (4) the temple floor, 8 feet above that; thus in all 29 feet above the level of the outer court. The summit of Mount Moriah, on which the temple stood, is now occupied by the Haram esh-Sherif, i.e., "the sacred enclosure." This enclosure is about 1,500 feet from north to south, with a breadth of about 1,000 feet, covering in all a space of about 35 acres. About the centre of the enclosure is a raised platform, 16 feet above the surrounding space, and paved with large stone slabs, on which stands the Mohammedan mosque called Kubbet es-Sahkra i.e., the "Dome of the Rock," or the Mosque of Omar. This mosque covers the site of Solomon's temple. In the centre of the dome there is a bare, projecting rock, the highest part of Moriah (q.v.), measuring 60 feet by 40, standing 6 feet above the floor of the mosque, called the sahkra, i.e., "rock." Over this rock the altar of burnt-offerings stood. It was the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite. The exact position on this "sacred enclosure" which the temple occupied has not been yet definitely ascertained. Some affirm that Herod's temple covered the site of Solomon's temple and palace, and in addition enclosed a square of 300 feet at the south-western angle. The temple courts thus are supposed to have occupied the southern portion of the "enclosure," forming in all a square of more than 900 feet. It is argued by others that Herod's temple occupied a square of 600 feet at the south-west of the "enclosure." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Temple, Solomon's Before his death David had "with all his might" provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the city, on the spot where Abraham had offered up Isaac (Gen. 22:1-14). In the beginning of his reign Solomon set about giving effect to the desire that had been so earnestly cherished by his father, and prepared additional materials for the building. From subterranean quarries at Jerusalem he obtained huge blocks of stone for the foundations and walls of the temple. These stones were prepared for their places in the building under the eye of Tyrian master-builders. He also entered into a compact with Hiram II., king of Tyre, for the supply of whatever else was needed for the work, particularly timber from the forests of Lebanon, which was brought in great rafts by the sea to Joppa, whence it was dragged to Jerusalem (1 Kings 5). As the hill on which the temple was to be built did not afford sufficient level space, a huge wall of solid masonry of great height, in some places more than 200 feet high, was raised across the south of the hill, and a similar wall on the eastern side, and in the spaces between were erected many arches and pillars, thus raising up the general surface to the required level. Solomon also provided for a sufficient water supply for the temple by hewing in the rocky hill vast cisterns, into which water was conveyed by channels from the "pools" near Bethlehem. One of these cisterns, the "great sea," was capable of containing three millions of gallons. The overflow was led off by a conduit to the Kidron. In all these preparatory undertakings a space of about three years was occupied; and now the process of the erection of the great building began, under the direction of skilled Phoenician builders and workmen, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, 480 years after the Exodus (1 Kings 6; 2 Chr. 3). Many thousands of labourers and skilled artisans were employed in the work. Stones prepared in the quarries underneath the city (1 Kings 5:17, 18) of huge dimension (see {QUARRIES}) were gradually placed on the massive walls, and closely fitted together without any mortar between, till the whole structure was completed. No sound of hammer or axe or any tool of iron was heard as the structure arose (6:7). "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprang." The building was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. The engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund, in their explorations around the temple area, discovered what is believed to have been the "chief corner stone" of the temple, "the most interesting stone in the world." It lies at the bottom of the south-eastern angle, and is 3 feet 8 inches high by 14 feet long. It rests on the solid rock at a depth of 79 feet 3 inches below the present surface. (See {PINNACLE}.) In examining the walls the engineers were "struck with admiration at the vastness of the blocks and the general excellence of the workmanship." At length, in the autumn of the eleventh year of his reign, seven and a half years after it had been begun, the temple was completed in all its architectural magnificence and beauty. For thirteen years there it stood, on the summit of Moriah, silent and unused. The reasons for this strange delay in its consecration are unknown. At the close of these thirteen years preparations for the dedication of the temple were made on a scale of the greatest magnificence. The ark was solemnly brought from the tent in which David had deposited it to the place prepared for it in the temple, and the glory-cloud, the symbol of the divine presence, filled the house. Then Solomon ascended a platform which had been erected for him, in the sight of all the people, and lifting up his hands to heaven poured out his heart to God in prayer (1 Kings 8; 2 Chr. 6, 7). The feast of dedication, which lasted seven days, followed by the feast of tabernacles, marked a new era in the history of Israel. On the eighth day of the feast of tabernacles, Solomon dismissed the vast assemblage of the people, who returned to their homes filled with joy and gladness, "Had Solomon done no other service beyond the building of the temple, he would still have influenced the religious life of his people down to the latest days. It was to them a perpetual reminder and visible symbol of God's presence and protection, a strong bulwark of all the sacred traditions of the law, a witness to duty, an impulse to historic study, an inspiration of sacred song." The temple consisted of, (1.) The oracle or most holy place (1 Kings 6:19; 8:6), called also the "inner house" (6:27), and the "holiest of all" (Heb. 9:3). It was 20 cubits in length, breadth, and height. It was floored and wainscotted with cedar (1 Kings 6:16), and its walls and floor were overlaid with gold (6:20, 21, 30). There was a two-leaved door between it and the holy place overlaid with gold (2 Chr. 4:22); also a veil of blue purple and crimson and fine linen (2 Chr. 3:14; comp. Ex. 26:33). It had no windows (1 Kings 8:12). It was indeed the dwelling-place of God. (2.) The holy place (q.v.), 1 Kings 8:8-10, called also the "greater house" (2 Chr. 3:5) and the "temple" (1 Kings 6:17). (3.) The porch or entrance before the temple on the east (1 Kings 6:3; 2 Chr. 3:4; 29:7). In the porch stood the two pillars Jachin and Boaz (1 Kings 7:21; 2 Kings 11:14; 23:3). (4.) The chambers, which were built about the temple on the southern, western, and northern sides (1 Kings 6:5-10). These formed a part of the building. Round about the building were, (1.) The court of the priests (2 Chr. 4:9), called the "inner court" (1 Kings 6:36). It contained the altar of burnt-offering (2 Chr. 15:8), the brazen sea (4:2-5, 10), and ten lavers (1 Kings 7:38, 39). (2.) The great court, which surrounded the whole temple (2 Chr. 4:9). Here the people assembled to worship God (Jer. 19:14; 26:2). This temple erected by Solomon was many times pillaged during the course of its history, (1) 1 Kings 14:25, 26; (2) 2 Kings 14:14; (3) 2 Kings 16:8, 17, 18; (4) 2 Kings 18:15, 16. At last it was pillaged and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24:13; 2 Chr. 36:7). He burned the temple, and carried all its treasures with him to Babylon (2 Kings 25:9-17; 2 Chr. 36:19; Isa. 64:11). These sacred vessels were at length, at the close of the Captivity, restored to the Jews by Cyrus (Ezra 1:7-11). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Temple, the Second After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming a band of 42,360, including children, having completed the long and dreary journey of some four months, from the banks of the Euphrates to Jerusalem, were animated in all their proceeding by a strong religious impulse, and therefore one of their first cares was to restore their ancient worship by rebuilding the temple. On the invitation of Zerubbabel, the governor, who showed them a remarkable example of liberality by contributing personally 1,000 golden darics (probably about $6,000), besides other gifts, the people with great enthusiasm poured their gifts into the sacred treasury (Ezra 2). First they erected and dedicated the altar of Jehovah on the exact spot where it had formerly stood, and they then cleared away the charred heaps of debris which occupied the site of the old temple; and in the second month of the second year (B.C. 535), amid great public excitement and rejoicing (Ps. 116; 117; 118), the foundations of the second temple were laid. A wide interest was felt in this great movement, although it was regarded with mingled feelings by the spectators (Hag. 2:3; Zech. 4:10). The Samaritans made proposals for a co-operation in the work. Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the elders, however, declined all such cooperation: Judah must build the temple without help. Immediately evil reports were spread regarding the Jews. The Samaritans sought to "frustrate their purpose" (Ezra 4:5), and sent messengers to Ecbatana and Susa, with the result that the work was suspended. Seven years after this Cyrus died ingloriously, having killed himself in Syria when on his way back from Egypt to the east, and was succeeded by his son Cambyses (B.C. 529-522), on whose death the "false Smerdis," an imposter, occupied the throne for some seven or eight months, and then Darius Hystaspes became king (B.C. 522). In the second year of this monarch the work of rebuilding the temple was resumed and carried forward to its completion (Ezra 5: 6-17; 6:1-15), under the stimulus of the earnest counsels and admonitions of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. It was ready for consecration in the spring of B.C. 516, twenty years after the return from captivity. This second temple had not the ark, the Urim and Thummim, the holy oil, the sacred fire, the tables of stone, the pot of manna, and Aaron's rod. As in the tabernacle, there was in it only one golden lamp for the holy place, one table of shewbread, and the incense altar, with golden censers, and many of the vessels of gold that had belonged to Solomon's temple that had been carried to Babylon but restored by Cyrus (Ezra 1:7-11). This second temple also differed from the first in that, while in the latter there were numerous "trees planted in the courts of the Lord," there were none in the former. The second temple also had for the first time a space, being a part of the outer court, provided for proselytes who were worshippers of Jehovah, although not subject to the laws of Judaism. The temple, when completed, was consecrated amid great rejoicings on the part of all the people (Ezra 6:16), although there were not wanting outward evidences that the Jews were no longer an independent people, but were subject to a foreign power. Hag. 2:9 is rightly rendered in the Revised Version, "The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former," instead of, "The glory of this latter house," etc., in the Authorized Version. The temple, during the different periods of its existence, is regarded as but one house, the one only house of God (comp. 2:3). The glory here predicted is spiritual glory and not material splendour. "Christ himself, present bodily in the temple on Mount Zion during his life on earth, present spiritually in the Church now, present in the holy city, the heavenly Jerusalem, of which he is the temple, calling forth spiritual worship and devotion is the glory here predicted" (Perowne). |