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   Teton Dakota
         n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which
               was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
               [syn: {Teton}, {Lakota}, {Teton Sioux}, {Teton Dakota}]

English Dictionary: Teton Dakota by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toad-in-the-hole
n
  1. sausage baked in batter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tooth and nail
adv
  1. with force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Totten trust
n
  1. a savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime; afterward the balance is payable to the previously named beneficiary
    Synonym(s): savings account trust, savings bank trust, trust account, trustee account, Totten trust
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tytonidae
n
  1. comprising only the barn owls [syn: Tytonidae, {family Tytonidae}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taut \Taut\, a. [Dan. t[91]t; akin to E. tight. See {Tight}.]
      1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a
            rope that is tightly strained.
  
      2. Snug; close; firm; secure.
  
      {Taut hand} (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is
            severe in discipline.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tetanoid \Tet"a*noid\, a. [Tetanus + -oid.] (Med. & Physiol.)
      Resembling tetanus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titanate \Ti"tan*ate\, n. (Chem.)
      A salt of titanic acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titanite \Ti"tan*ite\, n. [Cf. F. titanite; -- so called from
      containing titanic acid.] (Min.)
      See {Sphene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titanitic \Ti`tan*it"ic\, a.
      Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic
      mineral.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dam \Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dammed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Damming}.]
      1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine
            by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally
            used with in or up.
  
                     I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     A weight of earth that dams in the water.
                                                                              --Mortimer.
  
      2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
  
                     The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt
                     behind, and cowards.                           --Shak.
  
      {To dam out}, to keep out by means of a dam.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.]
      [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to
      Dan. d[94]e, Sw. d[94], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd[?]jan to
      harass), OFries. d[?]ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG.
      touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf.
      {Dead}, {Death}.]
      1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to
            live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of
            the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish;
            -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by,
            with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion
            of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by
            fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
  
                     To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
                     She will die from want of care.         --Tennyson.
  
      2. To suffer death; to lose life.
  
                     In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v.
                                                                              6.
  
      3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
            extinct; to be extinguished.
  
                     Letting the secret die within his own breast.
                                                                              --Spectator.
  
                     Great deeds can not die.                     --Tennyson.
  
      4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
            discouragement, love, etc.
  
                     His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
                                                                              Sam. xxv. 37.
  
                     The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
                     they died for Rebecca.                        --Tatler.
  
      5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
            to pleasure or to sin.
  
      6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
            vanish; -- often with out or away.
  
                     Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the
                     brightness.                                       --Spectator.
  
      7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as
            where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  
      8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  
      {To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die
            rather than surrender.
  
                     [bd]There is one certain way,[b8] replied the Prince
                     [William of Orange] [bd] by which I can be sure
                     never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the
                     last ditch.[b8]                                 --Hume (Hist.
                                                                              of Eng. ).
  
      {To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
            out.
  
      Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pain \Pain\, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty,
      punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. [?] penalty. Cf.
      {Penal}, {Pine} to languish, {Punish}.]
      1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil
            inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the
            commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer.
  
                     We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.
  
                     None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight
            uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from
            a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by
            violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a
            smart. [bd]The pain of Jesus Christ.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory
               nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some
               kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally
               referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.
  
      3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  
                     She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
                     upon her.                                          --1 Sam. iv.
                                                                              19.
  
      4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety;
            grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer.
  
                     In rapture as in pain.                        --Keble.
  
      5. See {Pains}, labor, effort.
  
      {Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}.
  
      {To die in the pain}, to be tortured to death. [Obs.]
            --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Dining}.] [F. d[8c]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
      an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
      fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and
      cf. {Dinner}, {D[?]jeuner}.]
      To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
  
               Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
  
      {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner; -- a
            phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from
            the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner
            hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of
            Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Duke \Duke\n. [F. duc, fr. L. dux, ducis, leader, commander, fr.
      ducere to lead; akin to AS. te[a2]n to draw; cf. AS. heretoga
      (here army) an army leader, general, G. herzog duke. See
      {Tue}, and cf. {Doge}, {Duchess}, {Ducat}, {Duct}, {Adduce},
      {Deduct}.]
      1. A leader; a chief; a prince. [Obs.]
  
                     Hannibal, duke of Carthage.               --Sir T.
                                                                              Elyot.
  
                     All were dukes once, who were [bd]duces[b8] --
                     captains or leaders of their people.   --Trench.
  
      2. In England, one of the highest order of nobility after
            princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four
            archbishops of England and Ireland.
  
      3. In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without
            the title of king.
  
      {Duke's coronet}. See {Illust}. of {Coronet}.
  
      {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner. See under
            {Dine}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dye \Dye\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Dyeing}.] [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. de[a0]gian.]
      To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as
      by the application of dyestuffs.
  
               Cloth to be dyed of divers colors.         --Trench.
  
               The soul is dyed by its thoughts.            --Lubbock.
  
      {To dye in the grain}, {To dye in the wool} (Fig.), to dye
            firmly; to imbue thoroughly.
  
                     He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the
                     revenue system dyed in the wool.         --Hawthorne.
  
      Syn: See {Stain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dye \Dye\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Dyeing}.] [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. de[a0]gian.]
      To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as
      by the application of dyestuffs.
  
               Cloth to be dyed of divers colors.         --Trench.
  
               The soul is dyed by its thoughts.            --Lubbock.
  
      {To dye in the grain}, {To dye in the wool} (Fig.), to dye
            firmly; to imbue thoroughly.
  
                     He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the
                     revenue system dyed in the wool.         --Hawthorne.
  
      Syn: See {Stain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eat \Eat\ ([emac]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([amac]t; 277),
      Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. p. {Eaten}
      ([emac]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries.
      eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [84]ta,
      Dan. [91]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere,
      Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub,
      {Edible}.]
      1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
            of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. [bd]To eat grass as
            oxen.[b8] --Dan. iv. 25.
  
                     They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
                                                                              cvi. 28.
  
                     The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
                                                                              --Gen. xli.
                                                                              20.
  
                     The lion had not eaten the carcass.   --1 Kings
                                                                              xiii. 28.
  
                     With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the
                     junkets eat.                                       --Milton.
  
                     The island princes overbold Have eat our substance.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
                     His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
            cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
            cause to disappear.
  
      {To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.
  
      {To eat of} (partitive use). [bd]Eat of the bread that can
            not waste.[b8] --Keble.
  
      {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the
            Citation under {Blurt}.)
  
      {To eat out}, to consume completely. [bd]Eat out the heart
            and comfort of it.[b8] --Tillotson.
  
      {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
            windward of her.
  
      Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eat \Eat\, v. i.
      1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
            distinction from liquid, food; to board.
  
                     He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
                                                                              ix. 13.
  
      2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
  
      3. To make one's way slowly.
  
      {To eat}, {To eat in} [or] {into}, to make way by corrosion;
            to gnaw; to consume. [bd]A sword laid by, which eats into
            itself.[b8] --Byron.
  
      {To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when
            closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tend \Tend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tending}.] [Aphetic form of attend. See {Attend}, {Tend} to
      move, and cf. {Tender} one that tends or attends.]
      1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the
            wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds
            tend their flocks. --Shak.
  
                     And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their
                     earthly charge.                                 --Milton.
  
                     There 's not a sparrow or a wren, There 's not a
                     blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not
                     tend And tides of life and increase lend. --Emerson.
  
      2. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
  
                     Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not
                     tend My way well down.                        --Chapman.
  
      {To tend a vessel} (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when
            the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle
            the cable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {An end}.
            (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser
            (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson.
  
      {End bulb} (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some
            sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and
            mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.
  
      {End fly}, a bobfly.
  
      {End for end}, one end for the other; in reversed order.
  
      {End man}, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the
            extremities of a line of minstrels.
  
      {End on} (Naut.), bow foremost.
  
      {End organ} (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber
            ends, either peripherally or centrally.
  
      {End plate} (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which
            motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
  
      {End play} (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such
            movement.
  
      {End stone} (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a
            timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
  
      {Ends of the earth}, the remotest regions of the earth.
  
      {In the end}, finally. --Shak.
  
      {On end}, upright; erect.
  
      {To the end}, in order. --Bacon.
  
      {To make both ends meet}, to live within one's income.
            --Fuller.
  
      {To put an end to}, to destroy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tone \Tone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Toning}.]
      1. To utter with an affected tone.
  
      2. To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See
            {Tune}, v. t.
  
      3. (Photog.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required
            shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
  
      {To tone down}.
            (a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower
                  tone to.
            (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less
                  brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition
                  of color, by making it more harmonius.
  
                           Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. --C.
                                                                              Kingsley.
            (c) Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the
                  striking characteristics of; to soften.
  
                           The best method for the purpose in hand was to
                           employ some one of a character and position
                           suited to get possession of their confidence,
                           and then use it to tone down their religious
                           strictures.                                 --Palfrey.
  
      {To tone up}, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to
            give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten;
            to strengthen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a
            tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant;
            specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of
            the capsule of a moss. See {Peristome}.
  
      6. (Zo[94]l.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in
            the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or
            procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
  
      {In spite of the teeth}, in defiance of opposition; in
            opposition to every effort.
  
      {In the teeth}, directly; in direct opposition; in front.
            [bd]Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.[b8]
            --Pope.
  
      {To cast in the teeth}, to report reproachfully; to taunt or
            insult one with.
  
      {Tooth and nail}, as if by biting and scratching; with one's
            utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. [bd]I
            shall fight tooth and nail for international
            copyright.[b8] --Charles Reade.
  
      {Tooth coralline} (Zo[94]l.), any sertularian hydroid.
  
      {Tooth edge}, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating
            sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen
            acids.
  
      {Tooth key}, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion
            resembling that of turning a key.
  
      {Tooth net}, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.]
            --Jamieson.
  
      {Tooth ornament}. (Arch.) Same as {Dogtooth}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      5. (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a
            tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant;
            specifically (Bot.), one of the appendages at the mouth of
            the capsule of a moss. See {Peristome}.
  
      6. (Zo[94]l.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in
            the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or
            procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
  
      {In spite of the teeth}, in defiance of opposition; in
            opposition to every effort.
  
      {In the teeth}, directly; in direct opposition; in front.
            [bd]Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.[b8]
            --Pope.
  
      {To cast in the teeth}, to report reproachfully; to taunt or
            insult one with.
  
      {Tooth and nail}, as if by biting and scratching; with one's
            utmost power; by all possible means. --L'Estrange. [bd]I
            shall fight tooth and nail for international
            copyright.[b8] --Charles Reade.
  
      {Tooth coralline} (Zo[94]l.), any sertularian hydroid.
  
      {Tooth edge}, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating
            sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen
            acids.
  
      {Tooth key}, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion
            resembling that of turning a key.
  
      {Tooth net}, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.]
            --Jamieson.
  
      {Tooth ornament}. (Arch.) Same as {Dogtooth}, n., 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tut-mouthed \Tut"-mouthed`\, a.
      Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous. [Obs.] --Holland.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Tahtim-hodshi
      the land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is
      conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be,
      "the Hittites of Kadesh," the Hittite capital, on the Orontes.
      It was apparently some region east of the Jordan and north of
      Gilead.
     
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