English Dictionary: titan | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tahitian \Ta*hi"ti*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. -- n. A native inhabitant of Tahiti. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tedium \Te"di*um\, n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also {t[91]dium}.] --Cowper. To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. --Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. --Dickens. | |
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Teetan \Tee"tan\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A pipit. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Tetany \Tet"a*ny\, n. (Med.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms. | |
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Teuton \Teu"ton\, n.; pl. E. {Teutons}, L. {Teutones}. [L. Teutones, Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin to E. Dutch. Cf. {Dutch}.] 1. One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race. 2. A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family. | |
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Heathen \Hea"then\ (?; 277), n.; pl. {Heathens}or collectively {Heathen}. [OE. hethen, AS. h[?][?]en, prop. an adj. fr. h[?][?] heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus village); akin to OS. h[?][?]in, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G. heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei[?]inn, adj., Sw. heden, Goth. haipn[?], n. fem. See {Heath}, and cf. {Hoiden}.] 1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater. 2. An irreligious person. If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. --V. Knox. {The heathen}, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. --Ps. ii. 8. Syn: Pagan; gentile. See {Pagan}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Theatin \The"a*tin\, Theatine \The"a*tine\, n. [F. th[82]atin, It. theatino.] (R. C. Ch.) 1. One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction. Note: Their name is derived from Theate, or Chieti, a city of Naples, the archbishop of which was a principal founder of the order; but they bore various names; as, Regular Clerks of the Community, Pauline Monks, Apostolic Clerks, and Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence. The order never flourished much out of Italy. 2. (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Theatin \The"a*tin\, Theatine \The"a*tine\, n. [F. th[82]atin, It. theatino.] (R. C. Ch.) 1. One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction. Note: Their name is derived from Theate, or Chieti, a city of Naples, the archbishop of which was a principal founder of the order; but they bore various names; as, Regular Clerks of the Community, Pauline Monks, Apostolic Clerks, and Regular Clerks of the Divine Providence. The order never flourished much out of Italy. 2. (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618. | |
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Thedom \The"dom\, n. [Thee to prosper + -dom.] Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.] Evil thedom on his monk's snout. --Chaucer. | |
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Thetine \The"tine\, n. [Thio + ether + sulphine.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulphines. | |
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Titan \Ti"tan\, a. Titanic. The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. --I. Taylor. | |
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Titano- \Ti"tan*o-\ (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc. | |
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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. | |
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Hit \Hit\, v. i. 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? --Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. --Woodward. 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift. {To hit on} [or] {upon}, to light upon; to come to by chance. [bd]None of them hit upon the art.[b8] --Addison. | |
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Fume \Fume\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fuming}.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See {Fume}, n.] 1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor. Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton. Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon. 2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Keep his brain fuming. --Shak. 3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne. 4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott. {To tame away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes. | |
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Toe \Toe\, v. i. To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way). {To toe in}, to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other. {To toe out}, to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot. | |
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{To wait on} [or] {upon}. (a) To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. [bd]Authority and reason on her wait.[b8] --Milton. [bd]I must wait on myself, must I?[b8] --Shak. (b) To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. (c) To follow, as a consequence; to await. [bd]That ruin that waits on such a supine temper.[b8] --Dr. H. More. (d) To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] [bd]It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.[b8] --Bacon. (e) To attend to; to perform. [bd]Aaron and his sons . . . shall wait on their priest's office.[b8] --Num. iii. 10. (f) (Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk. --Encyc. Brit. | |
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Whet \Whet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whetting}.] [AS. hwettan; akin to D. wetten, G. wetzen, OHG. wezzen, Icel. hvetja, Sw. v[84]ttja, and AS. hw[91]t vigorous, brave, OS. hwat, OHG. waz, was, sharp, Icel. hvatr, bold, active, Sw. hvass sharp, Dan. hvas, Goth. hwassaba sharply, and probably to Skr. cud to impel, urge on.] 1. To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife. The mower whets his scythe. --Milton. Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak. --Byron. 2. To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage. Since Cassius first did whet me against C[91]sar, I have not slept. --Shak. {To whet on}, {To whet forward}, to urge on or forward; to instigate. --Shak. | |
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Totem \To"tem\, n. [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which a person or place belongs.] A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. --Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends to the clan and watches over it. --Bagehot. | |
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Tuition \Tu*i"tion\, n. [L. tuitio protection, guarding, from tueri, p. p. tuitus, to see, watch, protect: cf. F. tuition. Cf. {Tutor}.] 1. Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship. 2. Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough. 3. The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction. | |
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Two-to-one \Two"-to-one"\, a. (Mach.) Designating, or pert. to, a gear for reducing or increasing a velocity ratio two to one. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tatamy, PA (borough, FIPS 76144) Location: 40.74122 N, 75.25527 W Population (1990): 873 (330 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tatum, NM (town, FIPS 76620) Location: 33.25529 N, 103.31530 W Population (1990): 768 (382 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 88267 Tatum, SC (town, FIPS 71305) Location: 34.64380 N, 79.58674 W Population (1990): 49 (23 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Tatum, TX (city, FIPS 71924) Location: 32.31470 N, 94.51867 W Population (1990): 1289 (492 housing units) Area: 9.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75691 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Teton, ID (city, FIPS 80380) Location: 43.88775 N, 111.66849 W Population (1990): 570 (202 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83451 | |
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Tetonia, ID (city, FIPS 80470) Location: 43.81593 N, 111.15885 W Population (1990): 132 (74 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83452 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tieton, WA (town, FIPS 71400) Location: 46.70175 N, 120.75286 W Population (1990): 693 (282 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98947 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tatnai gift, a Persian governor (Heb. pehah, i.e., "satrap;" modern "pasha") "on this side the river", i.e., of the whole tract on the west of the Euphrates. This Hebrew title _pehah_ is given to governors of provinces generally. It is given to Nehemiah (5:14) and to Zerubbabel (Hag. 1:1). It is sometimes translated "captain" (1 Kings 20:24; Dan. 3:2, 3), sometimes also "deputy" (Esther 8:9; 9:3). With others, Tatnai opposed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 5:6); but at the command of Darius, he assisted the Jews (6:1-13). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tatnai, that gives; the overseer of the gifts and tributes |