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Tabor
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
Tartish
Somewhat tart.
Tartlet
A small tart.
Teaseling
The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
Tee
A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter in shape.
Telharmonic
Of or pertaining to telharmonium.
Temeration
Temerity.
Temporalness
Worldliness.
Ten-o'clock
A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under .
Terebic
Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, , obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.
Tetanic
A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
Thenceforth
From that time; thereafter.
Thermotension
A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.
Thinly
In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly;
Thirdings
The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
Thirtieth
Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of ; .
Tho
Then.
Thoracic
One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
Three-nerved
Having three nerves.
Three-sided
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; .
Throng
A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
Throve
of .
Throw back
to revert to an ancestral type or character.
Tice
A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Tiffany
A species of gause, or very silk.
Tine
A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
Tithonicity
The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.
To-
An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in -beat, -break, -hew, -rend, -tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on , or , under ,
Toom
To empty.
Topology
The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
Tore
Same as .
Torpescence
The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.
Torsion electrometer
A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion.
Torula
A chain of special bacteria.
Tot
Lit., so much; -- a term used in the English exchequer to indicate that a debt was good or collectible for the amount specified, and often written opposite the item.
T'other
A colloquial contraction of , and formerly a contraction for . See the Note under , 2.
Totipalmate
Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See under .
Townspeople
The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
Towy
Composed of, or like, tow.
Toxicology
The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.
Tozy
Soft, like wool that has been teased.
Trabeated
Furnished with an entablature.
Track-road
A towing path.
Traduct
To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer.
Traffic
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Trafficless
Destitute of traffic, or trade.
Tramp
To travel; to wander; to stroll.
Transmutable
Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable.
Treasure-house
A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
Treasury stock
Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
Treat
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward;
Treget
Guile; trickery.
Tren
A fish spear.
Trench
To encroach; to intrench.
Trephine
To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Tres-tyne
In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See under , and under .
Trichromatic
Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.
Tride
Short and ready; fleet; ; -- a term used by sportsmen.
Trinervate
Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf.
Tripolitan
Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
Tristfully
In a tristful manner; sadly.
Triternate
Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
Tritorium
Same as .
Troller
One who trolls.
Trolley wire
A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current.
Tropeine
Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
Trouble
Troubled; dark; gloomy.
Trustless
That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.
Truth-lover
One who loves the truth.
Tschakmeck
The chameck.
Tuberculum
A tubercle.
tuppence
A former U.K. silver ; a U.K. bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.
Tur
The .
Twirl
To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.
Tyrannicidal
Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.