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Tango
A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango.
Tarentula
See .
Tarsectomy
The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.
Tart
A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
Taunting
from ,
Tautochronous
Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tautozonal
Belonging to the same zone; .
Teasle
See .
Tectly
Covertly; privately; secretly.
Tenebricose
Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
Tenerity
Tenderness.
Tenia
See .
Terpsichore
The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Terreous
Consisting of earth; earthy; .
Testament
A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
Tetrazone
Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; .
Tetryl
Butyl; -- so called from the carbon atoms in the molecule.
Thankly
Thankfully.
thaumaturgist
One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker; a thaumaturge.
thaw
The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.
Thematic
Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See , , 4.
Theogonism
Theogony.
Theorist
One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.
Theosophism
Belief in theosophy.
Thermometer
An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompanied by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
Thesmothete
A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.
Thick
The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
Think
To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions or , and .
Though
Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
Thraldom
The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.
Thrill
A drill. See 3d , 1.
Thrusher
The song thrush.
Thunderstorm
A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Thwart
Across; athwart.
Thyroarytenoid
Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
Tiar
A tiara.
Tiger-foot
Same as .
Timepiece
A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Tinker
To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
Tip
A light touch or blow; a tap.
Titano-
A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain with some other elements; .
Titter
A restrained laugh.
Tollman
One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.
Top secret
containing information whose disclosure could result in grave danger to the national security; -- the highest of the three commonly known levels of national security classification, the others being and .
Topsman
The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
Torchbearer
One whose office it is to carry a torch.
Torment
An engine for casting stones.
Touchy
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Toze
To pull violently; to touse.
Trachytoid
Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.
Traditionalist
An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
Training
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Tramp
A foot journey or excursion; .
Transexion
Change of sex.
Transmeate
To pass over or beyond.
Traversing
Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
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.
Tressel
A trestle.
Trestle
A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
Trisoctahedron
A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Trochlea
A pulley.
Truck
To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; .
Trucker
One who trucks; a trafficker.
Trunk steamer
A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
Tumble
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; .
Tun
To put into tuns, or casks.
Turncoat
One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate; a defector to the enemy.
Turndown
An act of refusing or of being refused;
Turnover
Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; .
tux
Shortened form of .
Twang
A tang. See a state.
Twenty-fourmo
Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; .
Tychonic
Of or pertaining to , or his system of astronomy.
Tympan
A drum.
Tyrotoxicon
A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.