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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Texas snowbells | by the DICT Development Group |
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d8Thuja \[d8]Thu"ja\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also {thuya}.] See {Thyine wood}. Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[91]} of the Eastern and Northern United States. {T. gigantea} of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called {red cedar}, and {canoe cedar}, and furnishes a useful timber. | |
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Swallow \Swal"low\, n. [OE. swalowe, AS. swalewe, swealwe; akin to D. zwaluw, OHG. swalawa, G. schwalbe, Icel. & Sw. svala, Dan. svale.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family {Hirundinid[91]}, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under {Barn}), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under {Cliff}), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow ({Tachycineta bicolor}), and the bank swallow (see under {Bank}). The common European swallow ({Chelidon rustica}), and the window swallow, or martin ({Chelidon urbica}), are familiar species. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. 3. (Naut.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Swallow plover} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus {Glareola}, as {G. orientalis} of India; a pratincole. {Swallow shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family {Artamiid[91]}, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike ({Artamus fuscus}) is common in India. {Swallow warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus {Dic[91]um}. They are allied to the honeysuckers. | |
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Teguexin \Te*guex"in\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large South American lizard ({Tejus teguexin}). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species {Tejus rufescens} is called {red teguexin}. | |
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Note: {Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}. {Egyptian [or] East Indian}, {millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}. {Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.) {Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}. {Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}. {Wild millet}, or {Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tail grass growing in woods. | |
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Crystallization \Crys`tal*li*za"tion\ (kr[icr]s`t[ait]l*l[icr]*z[amac]"sh[ucr]n), n. [Cf. F. cristallization.] 1. (Chem. & Min.) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them. 1. {The Isometric, [or] Monometric, system} has the axes all equal, as in the cube, octahedron, etc. 2. {The Tetragonal, [or] Dimetric, system} has a varying vertical axis, while the lateral are equal, as in the right square prism. 3. {The Orthorhombic, [or] Trimetric, system} has the three axes unequal, as in the rectangular and rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called, respectively, macrodiagonal and brachydiagonal. -- The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles. The following are oblique. 4. {The Monoclinic system}, having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called respectively, clinodiagonal and orthodiagonal. 5. {The Triclinic system}, having all the three intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhomboidal prism. There is also: 6. {The Hexagonal system} (one division of which is called Rhombohedral), in which there are three equal lateral axes, and a vertical axis of variable length, as in the hexagonal prism and the rhombohedron. Note: The Diclinic system, sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic. | |
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Death \Death\, n. [OE. deth, dea[?], AS. de[a0][?]; akin to OS. d[?][?], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[?]i, Sw. & Dan. d[94]d, Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, v. i., and cf. {Dead}.] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Note: Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. --Huxley. 2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. --J. Peile. 3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. A death that I abhor. --Shak. Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii. 10. 4. Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. --Addison. 5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. --Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8. 6. Danger of death. [bd]In deaths oft.[b8] --2 Cor. xi. 23. 7. Murder; murderous character. Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon. 8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. To be [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] m[?][?][?][?][?] is death. --Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. --Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. --Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. {Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary. {Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone. {Death adder}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family {Elapid[91]}, of several species, as the {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}. {Death bell}, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle. {Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. {Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. {Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge. {Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life. {Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] [bd]Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.[b8] --Tennyson. {Death knell}, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. {Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. --Darwin. {Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. {Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. {Death stroke}, a stroke causing death. {Death throe}, the spasm of death. {Death token}, the signal of approaching death. {Death warrant}. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. {Death wound}. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. {Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. {The gates of death}, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job xxxviii. 17. {The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from God. --Rev. ii. 11. {To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make die. [bd]It was one who should be the death of both his parents.[b8] --Milton. Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}. Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. | |
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Signal \Sig"nal\, a. [From signal, n.: cf. F. signal[82].] 1. Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence. As signal now in low, dejected state As erst in highest, behold him where he lies. --Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer. {The signal service}, a bureau of the government (in the United States connected with the War Department) organized to collect from the whole country simultaneous raports of local meteorological conditions, upon comparison of which at the central office, predictions concerning the weather are telegraphed to various sections, where they are made known by signals publicly displayed. {Signal station}, the place where a signal is displayed; specifically, an observation office of the signal service. Syn: Eminent; remarkable; memorable; extraordinary; notable; conspicuous. | |
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d8Thecosomata \[d8]The`co*so"ma*ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Theca}, and {Soma}.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See {Pteropoda}. -- {The`co*so"ma*tous}, a. | |
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Thuggery \Thug"ger*y\, Thuggism \Thug"gism\, n. Thuggee. | |
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Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assigned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assigning}.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L. assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum mark, sign. See {Sign}.] 1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. --Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. --Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. --Prescott. 2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser. It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. --De Quincey. 3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. {To assign dower}, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. --Kent. | |
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Couch \Couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Couched} (koucht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Couching}.] [F. coucher to lay down, lie down, OF. colchier, fr. L. collocare to lay, put, place; col- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See {Locus}.] 1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. --Shak. 2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T. Burnet. 3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. --Bacon. 4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. 5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange. 6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. A well-couched invective. --Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. --Blackw. Mag. 8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. {To couch a} {spear [or] lance}, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W. Scott. {To couch malt}, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer. | |
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through. By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South. 8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak. 9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28. 10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott. 11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York. His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden. 12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law. Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc. {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired. {To go about}. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8] --Acts ix. 29. They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. {To go abraod}. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. {To go against}. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to. {To go ahead}. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed. {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}. {To go aside}. (a) To withdraw; to retire. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29. {To go back on}. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] {To go below} (Naut), to go below deck. {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}. {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board. {To go down}. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. {To go far}. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. {To go for}. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price). {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. {To go forth}. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate. The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2. {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger. {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.] {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9. {To go in for}. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. {To go in to} [or] {unto}. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.] {To go into}. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). {To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}. {To go off}. (a) To go away; to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell. {To go on}. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. {To go out}. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak. What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. {To go over}. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts. If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. {To go through}. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. {To go to ground}. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. {To go under}. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. {To go with}. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. {To go} ( {well}, {ill}, [or] {hard}) {with}, to affect (one) in such manner. {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of. {To go wrong}. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release. | |
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Grain \Grain\, n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See {Corn}, and cf. {Garner}, n., {Garnet}, {Gram} the chick-pea, {Granule}, {Kernel.}] 1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food. 2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak. 3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. --Milton. 4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See {Gram.} 5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to {Tyrian purple}. All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection. 6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain. Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden. 7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. --Shak. 8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. 9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. --Knight. 10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called {draff.} 11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See {Grained}, a., 4. 12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward. 13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. --Chaucer. {Against the grain}, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. --Swift.--Saintsbury. {A grain of allowance}, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. {Grain binder}, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. {Grain colors}, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. {Grain leather}. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. {Grain moth} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small moths, of the family {Tineid[91]} (as {Tinea granella} and {Butalis cerealella}), whose larv[91] devour grain in storehouses. {Grain side} (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to {flesh side.} {Grains of paradise}, the seeds of a species of amomum. {grain tin}, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. {Grain weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. {Grain worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain moth}, above. {In grain}, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. [bd]Anguish in grain.[b8] --Herbert. {To dye in grain}, to dye of a fast color by means of the coccus or kermes grain [see {Grain}, n., 5]; hence, to dye firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material. See under {Dye.} The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser. {To go against the grain of} (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble. | |
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2. To take possession of by force. At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons. --Milton. 3. To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient. Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul. --Pope. 4. (law) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. [Obs.] As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. --Spenser. 6. To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea. 7. (Naut.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes. Note: This word, by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase to be seised of (an estate), as also, in composition, disseise, disseisin. {To be seized of}, to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. [bd]Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize.[b8] --Chapman. {To seize on} [or] {upon}, to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly. Syn: To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take; capture. | |
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Shake \Shake\, v. t. [imp. {Shook}; p. p. {Shaken}, ({Shook}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shaking}.] [OE. shaken, schaken, AS. scacan, sceacan; akin to Icel. & Sw. skaka, OS. skakan, to depart, to flee. [root]161. Cf. {Shock}, v.] 1. To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. --Rev. vi. 13. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis. --Milton. 2. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. --Atterbury. Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced. --Milton. 3. (Mus.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. 4. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. --Shak. 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age. --Shak. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. --Bunyan. {To shake a cask} (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. {To shake hands}, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. {To shake out a reef} (Naut.), to untile the reef points and spread more canvas. {To shake the bells}. See under {Bell}. {To shake the sails} (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sails to shiver. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Suck \Suck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sucking}.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s[?]can, s[?]gan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s[?]gan, Icel. s[?]ga, sj[?]ga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. {Honeysuckle}, {Soak}, {Succulent}, {Suction}.] 1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air. 2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. 3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. 4. To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. --Thomson. 5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. --Dryden. {To suck in}, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. {To suck out}, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. {To suck up}, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption. | |
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Toxicant \Tox"i*cant\, n. A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant. | |
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Toxicomania \Tox`i*co*ma"ni*a\, n. [See. {Toxic}, and {Mania}.] 1. (Med.) Toxiphobia. --A. S. Taylor. 2. (Med.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. --B. W. Richardson. | |
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Tussock \Tus"sock\, n. [From {Tuz}.] [Written also {tussuck}.] 1. A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. --Latimer. 2. (Bot.) Same as {Tussock grass}, below. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also {tussock caterpillar}. See {Orgyia}. {Tussock grass}. (Bot.) (a) A tall, strong grass of the genus {Dactylis} ({D. c[91]spitosa}), valuable for fodder, introduced into Scotland from the Falkland Islands. (b) A tufted grass ({Aira c[91]spitosa}). (c) Any kind of sedge ({Carex}) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place. {Tussock moth} (Zo[94]l.), the imago of any tussock caterpillar. They belong to {Orgyia}, {Halecidota}, and allied genera. | |
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Tychism \Ty"chism\, n. [Gr. ty`chh fortune, chance + -ism.] Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous. | |
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Texas Instruments A TI engineer, {Jack Kilby} invented the {integrated circuit} in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start {Compaq}. The {COOL} and {OATH} {C++} {class} libraries were developed at TI, as were {PDL2} and the {ASC} computer, {PC-Scheme} and {Texas Instruments Pascal}. {(ftp://ti.com/)}. (1994-09-26) | |
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Tukey, John {John Tukey} | |
