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Tabes
Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
Tabulate
To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
Tackling
Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.
Tnioglossate
Of or pertaining to the Tnioglossa.
Tag day
A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.
Taliation
Retaliation.
Tambreet
The duck mole.
Tangalung
An East Indian civet ().
Taper
A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
Tapiroid
Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
Tardity
Slowness; tardiness.
Tarry
To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tassel
A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
Technicist
One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
Teetotalism
The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Telegraph
An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
Temperature
Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
Tenerity
Tenderness.
Tenn
A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
Tentacled
Having tentacles.
Tenth
The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
Terebene
A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also . By extension, any one of a group of related substances.
Terpinol
Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.
Test
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Testimonial
Relating to, or containing, testimony.
Tether
A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
Teuk
The redshank.
thanehood
The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively.
Theftbote
The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.
Theologize
To frame a system of theology; to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.
Theopneustic
Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
Theoretics
The speculative part of a science; speculation.
Thermantidote
A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties.
Theromorpha
See .
Thiefly
Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.
Thomson process
A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
Thoroughwort
Same as .
Thrackscat
Metal still in the mine.
Throp
A thorp.
Thurible
A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.
Thwart
Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
Till
A drawer.
Timely
Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.
Toadstone
A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German , meaning , that is, stone which contains no ores.
Tobacconist
A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
Toneless
Having no tone; unmusical.
Tonicity
The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
Toothed
Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
Tortive
Twisted; wreathed.
Torulose
Same as
Touchhole
The vent of a cannon or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
Trachelipodous
Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertaining to the Trachelipoda.
Tradition
To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Transaudient
Permitting the passage of sound.
Transmissive
Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another.
Trapper
One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
Trashy
Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; .
Traunter
Same as .
Treble
To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
Trichord
An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
Tricycle
A three-wheeled velocipede. See under . Cf. .
Trigrammic
Same as .
Trituberculy
A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the or and this stage the or . The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared.
Trochlea
A pulley.
Troll
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
Tromp
A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
Trub
A truffle.
Tufthunting
The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
Tugan
Same as .
Tupian
Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes. Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest. The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called .
turbo
Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus or family , usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
Turcoman
A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.
Twelfth-second
A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 10 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.
Twigger
A fornicator.