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   Tachyglossidae
         n 1: echidnas [syn: {Tachyglossidae}, {family Tachyglossidae}]

English Dictionary: Texas longhorn by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tachyglossus
n
  1. type genus of the family Tachyglossidae [syn: Tachyglossus, genus Tachyglossus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Texas leaguer
n
  1. (baseball) a fly ball that falls between and infielder and an outfielder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Texas longhorn
n
  1. long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States
    Synonym(s): longhorn, Texas longhorn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thigh-slapper
n
  1. a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toxicologic
adj
  1. of or relating to toxicology [syn: toxicological, toxicologic]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toxicological
adj
  1. of or relating to toxicology [syn: toxicological, toxicologic]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toxicologist
n
  1. one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toxicology
n
  1. the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Texas Leaguer \Tex"as Leagu"er\ [From the Texas (baseball)
      League.] (Baseball)
      A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an
      infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder.
      [Cant]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Social \So"cial\, a. [L. socialis, from socius a companion; akin
      to sequi to follow: cf. F. social. See {Sue} to follow.]
      1. Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in
            society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social
            interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits;
            social happiness; social duties. [bd]Social phenomena.[b8]
            --J. S. Mill.
  
      2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse;
            companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
  
      3. Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
  
                     Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social
                     communication.                                    --Milton.
  
      4. (Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of
            many individual plants of the same species.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Living in communities consisting of males, females,
                  and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
            (b) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
                  basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
  
      {Social science}, the science of all that relates to the
            social condition, the relations and institutions which are
            involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member
            of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself
            with questions of the public health, education, labor,
            punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the
            like.
  
      {Social whale} (Zo[94]l.), the blackfish.
  
      {The social evil}, prostitution.
  
      Syn: Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly;
               familiar; communicative; convival; festive.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thesicle \Thes"i*cle\, n. [Dim. of thesis.]
      A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tisic \Tis"ic\, Tisical \Tis"ic*al\, a. [For phthisic,
      phthisical.]
      Consumptive, phthisical.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action
            of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often
            with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the
            hands.
  
                     Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.
                                                                              --Acts xxii.
                                                                              16.
  
                     The tide will wash you off.               --Shak.
  
      5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
            lightly and thinly.
  
      6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
            with silver.
  
      {To wash gold}, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed
            ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other
            metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity.
  
      {To wash the hands of}. See under {Hand}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toxic \Tox"ic\, Toxical \Tox"ic*al\, a. [L. toxicum poison,
      originally, a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr.
      toxiko`n (sc. [?]) poison for smearing arrows with, fr.
      toxiko`s of or for the bow, from to`xon bow, arrow. Cf.
      {Intoxicate}.]
      Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toxicological \Tox`i*co*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf.F. toxicologique. ]
      Of or pertaining to toxicology. -- {Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toxicological \Tox`i*co*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf.F. toxicologique. ]
      Of or pertaining to toxicology. -- {Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toxicologist \Tox`i*col"o*gist\, n.
      One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on
      poisons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toxicology \Tox`i*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. toxiko`n poison + -logy;
      cf. F. toxicologie. See {Toxic}. ]
      The science which treats of poisons, their effects,
      antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on
      the science.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tussah silk \Tus"sah silk`\ [Probably fr. Hind. tasar a shuttle,
      Skr. tasara, trasara.]
      (a) A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other
            than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.
      (b) The silk fiber itself. [Written also {tusseh silk}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tussah silk \Tus"sah silk`\ [Probably fr. Hind. tasar a shuttle,
      Skr. tasara, trasara.]
      (a) A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other
            than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.
      (b) The silk fiber itself. [Written also {tusseh silk}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tussicular \Tus*sic"u*lar\, a. [L. tussicularis, fr. tussicula,
      dim. of tussis a cough.]
      Of or pertaining to a cough. --Dunglison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Two-cycle \Two"-cy`cle\, n. (Thermodynamics)
      A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine. --
      {Two"-cy`cle}, a.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Tiki Island, TX (village, FIPS 72989)
      Location: 29.29870 N, 94.91418 W
      Population (1990): 537 (441 housing units)
      Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water)
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