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Tableau
A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
Tachygraph
An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
Taciturn
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
Tanka
A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also .
Tarboosh
A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See .
Tartrated
Containing, or derived from, tartar; combined with tartaric acid.
Taur
The constellation Taurus.
Tazza
An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
Tchick
A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse.
Telescopy
The art or practice of using or making telescopes.
Temperable
Capable of being tempered.
Temporization
The act of temporizing.
Tenpenny
Denoting a size of nails. See 1st .
Tentmaker
One whose occupation it is to make tents.
Tenuirostres
An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
Teretous
Terete.
Terminology
The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
Territorial
Of or pertaining to territory or land;
Tessera
A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Tetraphyllous
Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.
Teutonic
The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.
Thanksgive
To give or dedicate in token of thanks.
Thar
It needs; need.
Tharms
Twisted guts.
The
By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; .
Thereat
At that place; there.
Thereto
To that or this.
Thereupon
Upon that or this; thereon.
Thermology
A discourse on, or an account of, heat.
Thermotherapy
Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.
Thiocarbonate
A sulphocarbonate.
Thomsenolite
A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland.
Threadbare
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; clothes.
Three-cornered
Having three corners, or angles; .
Thwart
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
Tibio-
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate , or , ; .
Timepiece
A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Timorsome
Easily frightened; timorous.
Tithingman
The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
Titlark
Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to , , and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit ().
Title
An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
Titmal
The blue titmouse.
Tittuppy
Given to tittuping; gay; lively; prancing; also, shaky; unsteady.
Tomorn
To-morrow.
Tomorrow
The day after the present; the morrow.
Toned
Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; .
Tool
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; ; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
Toparchy
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; .
Topsoil
The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
Tort
Stretched tight; taut.
Tough
Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; .
Tracheophon
A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
Tralucent
Translucent.
Translate
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; .
Translucid
Translucent.
Transmittance
Transmission.
Transversal
A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.
Trap
Of or pertaining to trap rock; .
Trapan
A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d .
Trecentist
A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.
Tremble
To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.
Trench
To encroach; to intrench.
Trimming
from ,
Trinoctial
Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
Triole
Same as .
Trional
A compound similar to sulphonal, used as a hypnotic in medicine.
Triphthongal
Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Trope
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
Tropeine
Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
Troubadour
One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Troublous
Full of trouble; causing trouble.
Troupial
Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to and allied genera, especially , a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called in America.
Trussing
The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
Trypsinogen
The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
Tubulate
Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.
Tuffoon
See .
Tule
A large bulrush (, and ) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.
Turbillion
A whirl; a vortex.
Turf
That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
Tush
An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; .
Twittingly
In a twitting manner; with upbraiding.
Typology
A discourse or treatise on types.