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Tailrace
See , , 6.
Tameless
Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.
Tangalung
An East Indian civet ().
Tangent
Touching; touching at a single point
Taphouse
A house where liquors are retailed.
Tappen
An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
Tarragon
A plant of the genus (), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.
Tassel
To put forth a tassel or flower; .
Taur
The constellation Taurus.
Tautologist
One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tax certificate
The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purchaser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument of conveyance (called a ) of the land, to be executed by the proper officer.
taxi
same as .
Techy
Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Telemetrograph
A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects.
Telescope
To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force.
Telharmonium
An instrument for producing music ( []), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.
Temperamental
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
Temporal
Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from or .
Tenebr
The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.
Tentative
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Terrestrial
Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; .
Tertian
Occurring every third day; .
Tertiary
Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; .
Test
A witness.
Test-market
to market (a product) in a limited area for a period of time to determine the probable demand.
Textrine
Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; .
thaler
A former German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents, around 1900.
Thane
A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and took its place.
Thea
A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.
Theobromic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the ), peanut oil (from ), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.
Thermomagnetism
Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.
Thibetan
Of or pertaining to Thibet.
Thinkable
Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Thoroughfare
A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
Thoughtless
Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; .
Thraw
See .
Threadbareness
The state of being threadbare.
Thuja
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
Till
A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
Timber
To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Timeful
Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.
Tipple
Liquor taken in tippling; drink.
Tithonicity
The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.
Tittle
A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
Tolane
A hydrocarbon, , related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also .
Tone
To utter with an affected tone.
Toot
To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter ; to blow; to sound.
Topstone
A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.
Torulose
Same as
Tost
of Toss.
Town-crier
A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Toxoglossa
A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See of , , 4, , and .
Trachelobranchiate
Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.
Tracheophon
A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
Trade
To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
Transgressional
Of pertaining to transgression; involving a transgression.
Translocation
removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.
Transpass
To pass by; to pass away.
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 .
Triassic
Of the age of, or pertaining to, the .
Tricky
Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
Tridentiferous
Bearing a trident.
Trifle
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.
Triolein
See .
Triose
A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol
Triply
In a triple manner.
Trumpets
A plant () with long, hollow leaves.
Tube-nosed
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Tubman
One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. , 2.
Tucuma
A Brazilian palm () which furnishes an edible fruit.
Tumefy
To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.
Tweel
See .
Twittle-twattle
Tattle; gabble.
Tylarus
One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.
Tyne
To become lost; to perish.