# Dictionary

Topic: Tertiate
Definition:
TER'TIATE, v.t. [L. tertius, third; tertio, to do every third day.]
1.  To do any thing the third time.
2.  To examine the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or in general, to examine the thickness to ascertain the strength of ordnance.


Topic: Tesselate
Definition:
TES'SELATE, v.t. [L. tessela, a little square stone.]
To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.


Topic: Tesselated
Definition:
TES'SELATED, pp.  Checkered; formed in little squares or mosaic work; as a tesselated pavement.
1.  In botany, spotted or checkered like a chess board; as a tesselated leaf.


Topic: Test
Definition:
TEST, n. [L. testa, an earthen pot.]
1.  In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2.  Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
 Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune.
 Like purest gold--
3.  Means of trial.
 Each test and every light her muse will bear.
4.  That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.
 --Life, force and beauty must of all impart,
 At once the source, the end and test of art.
5.  Discriminative characteristic; standard.
 Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
6.  Judgment; distinction.
 Who would excel, when few can make a test
 Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
7.  In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property.  Thus ammonia is a test of copper, because it strikes a blue color with that metal, by which a minute quantity of it can be discovered when in combination with other substances.
TEST, n. [L. testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]
In England, an oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, are obliged to take within six months after their admission.  They were formerly obliged also to receive the sacrament, according to the usage of the church of England.  These requisitions are made by Stat. 25 Charles II. which is called the test act.  The test of 7 Jac.1. was removed in 1753.
TEST, v.t.  To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
 The true way of testing its character, is to suppose it [the system] will be persevered in.
 Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
 To test this position--
 In order to test the correctness of this system--
 This expedient has been already tested.
1.  To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
2.  In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test, by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.


Topic: Testalogy
Definition:
TESTAL'OGY, n. [L. testacea, or testa.]  The science of testaceous vermes, or of those soft and simple animals which have a testaceous covering; a branch of vermeology.  [Words thus formed of two languages are rather anomalous, and the first for its length is very objectionable.]


Topic: Testament
Definition:
TEST'AMENT, n. [L. testamentum, from testor, to make a will.]
1.  A solemn authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to the disposal of his estate and effects after his death. This is otherwise called a will.  A testament,to be valid, must be made when the testator is of sound mind, and it must be subscribed, witnessed and published in such manner as the law prescribes.
A man in certain cases may make a valid will by words only, and such will is called nuncupative.
2.  The name of each general division of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures; as the Old Testament; the New Testament.  The name is equivalent to covenant, and in our use of it, we apply it to the books which contain the old and new dispensations; that of Moses, and that of Jesus Christ.


Topic: Testamentary
Definition:
TESTAMENT'ARY, a.  Pertaining to a will or to wills; as testamentary causes in law.
1.  Bequeathed by will; given by testament; as testamentary charities.
2.  Done by testament or will.
Testamentary guardian of a minor, is one appointed by the deed or will of a father, until the child becomes of age.


Topic: Tester
Definition:
TEST'ER, n.  The top covering of a bed, consisting of some species of cloth, supported by the bedstead.
TEST'ER


Topic: Testicle
Definition:
TEST'ICLE, n. [L. testiculus; literally a hard mass, like testa, shell.]  The testicles are male organs of generation, consisting of glandular substances, whose office is to secrete the fecundating fluid.


Topic: Testification
Definition:
TESTIFICA'TION, n. [L. testificatio.  See Testify.]
The act of testifying or giving testimony or evidence; as a direct testification of our homage to God.


Topic: Testifier
Definition:
TEST'IFIER, n. [from testify.]  One who testifies; one who gives testimony or bears witness to prove any thing.


Topic: Testify
Definition:
TEST'IFY, v.i. [L. testificor; testis and facio.]
1.  To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.
 Jesus needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. John 2.
2.  In judicial proceedings, to make a solemn declaration under oath, for the purpose of establishing or making proof of some act to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
 One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Num.35.
3.  To declare a charge against one.
 O Israel, I will testify against thee. Ps.1.
4.  To protest; to declare against.
 I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Neh.13.
TEST'IFY, v.t.  To affirm or declare solemnly for the purpose of establishing a fact.
 We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John 3.
1.  In law, to affirm or declare under oath before tribunal, for the purpose of proving some fact.
2.  To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony.
 To testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts.20.
3.  To publish and declare freely.
 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts.20.


Topic: Testifying
Definition:
TEST'IFYING, ppr.  Affirming solemnly or under oath, for the purpose of establishing a fact; giving testimony; bearing witness; declaring.


Topic: Testimonial
Definition:
TESTIMO'NIAL, n. [L. testimonium.]  A writing or certificate in favor of one's character or good conduct.  Testimonials are required on many occasions.  A person must have testimonials of his learning and good conduct, before he can obtain license to preach.  Testimonials are to be signed by persons of known respectability of character.


Topic: Testimony
Definition:
TEST'IMONY, n. [L. testimonium.]  A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.  Such affirmation in judicial proceedings,may be verbal or written, but must be under oath.  Testimony differs from evidence; testimony is the declaration of a witness, and evidence is the effect of that declaration on the mind, or the degree of light which it affords.
1.  Affirmation; declaration.  These doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers.  The belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
2.  Open attestation; profession.
 Thou for the testimony of truth hast borne
 Universal reproach.
3.  Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
 Shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Mark 6.
4.  In Scripture, the two tables of the law.
 Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex.25.
5.  The book of the law.
 He brought forth the king's son--and gave him the testimony. 2 Kings 11.
6.  The gospel, which testifies of Christ and declares the will of God. 1 Cor. 2. 2 Tim.1.
7.  The ark.  Ex.16.
8.  The word of God; the Scriptures.
 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple Ps.19.
9.  The laws or precepts of God.  'I love thy testimonies.'  'I have kept thy testimonies.'
    10. That which is equivalent to a declaration; manifestation.
 Sacrifices were appointed by God for a testimony of his hatred of sin.
    11. Evidence suggested to the mind; as the testimony of conscience. 2 Cor.1.
    12. Attestation; confirmation.
TEST'IMONY, v.t.  To witness.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Testiness
Definition:
TEST'INESS, n. [from testy.]  Fretfulness; peevishness; petulance.
 Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry.


Topic: Testing
Definition:
TEST'ING, ppr. [from test.]  Trying for proof; proving by a standard or by experiment.
 A plan for testing alkalies--
TEST'ING, n.  The act of trying for proof.
1.  In metallurgy, the operation of refining large quantities of gold or silver by means of lead, in the vessel called a test.  In this process, the extraneous matter is vitrified, scarified or destroyed, and the metal left pure.  This operation is performed in the manner of cupellation.


Topic: Testoon
Definition:
TESTOON', n.  A silver coin in Italy and Portugal.  In Florence, the testoon is worth two lire or three paoli, about seventeen pence sterling, or thirty two cents.  At Lisbon, the testoon, as a money of account, is valued at 100 rees, about seven pence sterling, or twelve and a half cents.


Topic: Testudo
Definition:
TESTU'DO, n. [L.]  A tortoise.  Among the Romans, a cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other.  This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles.  A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards and moved on wheels.
1.  In medicine, a broad soft tumor between the skull and the skin, called also talpa or mole, as resembling the subterraneous windings of the tortoise or mole.


Topic: Testy
Definition:
TEST'Y, a.  Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
 Pyrrbus cured his testy courtiers with a kick.
 Must I stand and crouch under your testy humor?


Topic: Tetanus
Definition:
TET'ANUS, n. [Gr. stretched.]  A spasmodic contraction of the muscles of voluntary motion, particularly of those which shut the lower jaw; the locked jaw.


Topic: Tete
Definition:
TETE, n.  False hair; a kind of wig or cap of false hair.
Tete-a-tete, head to head; cheek by jowl; in private.


Topic: Tether
Definition:
TETH'ER, n.  [See Tedder.]  A rope or chain by which a beast is confined for feeding within certain limits.
TETH'ER, v.t.  To confine, as a beast, with a rope or chain for feeding within certain limits.  [It would be well to write this word uniformly tedder.]


Topic: Tetrachord
Definition:
TET'RACHORD, n. [Gr. four, and a chord.]  In ancient music, a diatessaron; a series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth.  These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.


Topic: Tetradiapason
Definition:
TETRADIAP'ASON, n. [Gr. four, and diapason.]  Quadruple diapason or octave; a musical chord, otherwise called a quadruple eighth or twenty ninth.


Topic: Tetradrachma
Definition:
TETRADRACH'MA, n. [Gr.]  In ancient coinage, a silver coin worth four drachmas, 3s.sterling, or 66 2/3 cents; the drachma being estimated at 9d. sterling, or 16 2/3 cents.


Topic: Tetradynamian
Definition:
TETRADYNAM'IAN, n. [Gr. power, strength.]  In botany, a plant having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.
TETRADYNAM'IAN, a.  Having six stamens, four or which are uniformly longer than the others.


Topic: Tetragon
Definition:
TET'RAGON, n. [Gr. four, and an angle.]
1.  In geometry, a figure having four angles; a quadrangle; as a square, a rhombus, &c.
2.  In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.


Topic: Tetragonal
Definition:
TETRAG'ONAL, a.  Pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides.  Thus a square, a parallelogram, a rhombus, and a trapezium, are tetragonal figures.
1.  In botany, having four prominent longitudinal angles, as a stem.


Topic: Tetrahedral
Definition:
TETRAHE'DRAL, a. [See Tetrahedron.]
1.  Having four equal triangles.
2.  In botany, having four sides, as a pod or silique.


Topic: Tetrahedron
Definition:
TETRAHE'DRON, n. [Gr. four, and side.]  In geometry, a figure comprehended under four  equilateral and equal triangles; or one of the five regular Platonic bodies of that figure.


Topic: Tetrahexahedral
Definition:
TETRAHEXAHE'DRAL, a. [Gr. four, and hexahedral.]  In crystallography, exhibiting four ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing six faces.


Topic: Tetrameter
Definition:
TETRAM'ETER, n. [Gr. four, and measure.]  In ancient poetry, an iambic verse consisting of four feet, found in the comic poets.

 A verse consisting of four measures or eight feet.


Topic: Tetrapetalous
Definition:
TETRAPET'ALOUS, a. [Gr. four, and leaf.]  In botany, containing four distinct petals or flower leaves; as a tetrapetalous corol.


Topic: Tetraphyllous
Definition:
TETRAPH'YLLOUS, a. [Gr. four and leaf.]  In botany, having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets; as a tetraphyllous calyx.


Topic: Tetraptote
Definition:
TET'RAPTOTE, n. [Gr. four, and case.]  In grammar, a noun that has four cases only.  As L. astus, &c.


Topic: Tetrarch
Definition:
TE'TRARCH, n. [Gr. four, and rule.]  A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; a subordinate prince.  In time, this word came to denote any petty king or sovereign.


Topic: Tetrarchate
Definition:
TETR`ARCHATE, n.  The fourth part of a province under a Roman tetrarch; or the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch.


Topic: Tetraspermous
Definition:
TETRASPERM'OUS, n. [Gr. four, and seed.]  In botany, containing four seeds.
 A tetraspermous plant, is one which produces four seeds in each flower, as the rough-leaved or verticillate plants.


Topic: Tetrastyle
Definition:
TET'RASTYLE, n. [Gr. four, and column.]  In ancient architecture, a building with four columns in front.


Topic: Tetter
Definition:
TET'TER, n. [L. titillo.]
1.  In medicine, a common name of several cutaneous diseases, consisting of an eruption of vesicles or pustules, in distinct or confluent clusters, spreading over the body in various directions and hardening into scabs or crusts.  It includes the shingles, ring-worm, milky scale (crusta lactea.) scald head, &c.
2.  In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, of the ring-worm kind, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching.
TET'TER, v.t.  To affect with the disease called tetters.


Topic: Teutonic
Definition:
TEUTON'IC, a.  Pertaining to the Teutons, a people of Germany, or to their language; as a noun, the language of the Teutons, the parent of the German Dutch, and Anglo Saxon or native English.
Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitallers.  It was composed chiefly of Teutons or Germans, who marched to the Holy Land in the crusades, and was established in that country for charitable purposes.  It increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia and Pomerania.


Topic: Tew
Definition:
TEW, v.t.  To work; to soften.  [Not in use.]  [See Taw.]
1.  To work; to pull or tease; among seamen.
TEW, n. [probably tow.]  Materials for any thing.  [Not in use.]
1.  An iron chain.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Text
Definition:
TEXT, n. [L. textus, woven.  See Texture.]  
1.  A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written.  Thus we speak of the text or original of the Scripture, in relation to the comments upon it.  Infinite pains have been taken to ascertain and establish the genuine original text.
2.  A verse or passage of Scripture which a preacher selects as the subject of a discourse.
 How oft, when Paul has serv'd us with a text,
 Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully preach'd.
3.  Any particular passage of Scripture, used an authority in argument for proof of a doctrine.  In modern sermons, texts of Scripture are not as frequently cited as they were formerly.
4.  In ancient law authors,the four Gospels, by way of eminence.
TEXT, v.t.  To write, as a text.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Text-hand
Definition:
TEXT-HAND, n.  A large hand in writing; so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand, and the notes in a smaller hand.


Topic: Textile
Definition:
TEXT'ILE, a. [L. textilis.]  Woven, or capable of being woven.
TEXT'ILE, n.  That which is or may be woven.


Topic: Texture
Definition:
TEX'TURE, n. [L. textura, textus, from texo, to weave.]
1.  The act of weaving.
2.  A web; that which is woven.
 Others, far in the grassy dale,
 Their humble texture weave.
3.  The disposition or connection of threads, filaments or other slender bodies interwoven; as the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
4.  The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other; or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; as the texture of earthy substances of fossils; the texture of a plant; the texture of paper, of a hat or skin; a loose texture; or a close compact texture.
5.  In anatomy.  [See Tissue.]


Topic: Thallite
Definition:
THAL'LITE, n. [Gr. a green twig.]  In mineralogy, a substance variously denominated by different authors.  It is the epidote of Hauy,the delphinite of Saussure,and the pistacite of Werner.  It occurs both crystallized and in masses.


Topic: Thammuz
Definition:
THAM'MUZ, n.  The tenth month of the Jewish civil year, containing 29 days, and answering to a part of June and a part of July.
1.  The name of a deity among the Phenicians.


Topic: Than
Definition:
THAN, adv.  This word is placed after some comparative adjective or adverb, to express comparison between what precedes and what follows.  Thus Elijah said, I am not better than my fathers.  Wisdom is better than strength.  Israel loved Joseph more than all his children.  All nations are counted less than nothing.  I who am less than the least of all saints.  The last error shall be worse than the first.  He that denies the faith is worse than an infidel.
After more, or an equivalent termination, the following word implies less, or worse; after less, or an equivalent termination, it implies more or better.


Topic: Thane
Definition:
THANE, n.  The thanes in England were formerly persons of some dignity; of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the Saxon and Danish kings in their courts, and held lands immediately of them; and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors, and who had a particular jurisdiction within their limits.  After the conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.


Topic: Thank
Definition:
THANK, v.t. 
1.  To express gratitude for a favor; to make acknowledgments to one for kindness bestowed.
 We are bound to thank God always for you. 2 Thess 1.
 Joab bowed himself and thanked the king. 2 Sam.14.
2.  It is used ironically.
 Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss,
 And thank yourself, if aught should fall amiss.
THANK


Topic: Thankful
Definition:
THANK'FUL, a.  Grateful; impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it.  The Lord's supper is to be celebrated with a thankful remembrance of his sufferings and death.
 Be thankful to him, and bless his name. Ps.100.


Topic: Thankfully
Definition:
THANK'FULLY, adv.  With a grateful sense of favor or kindness received.
 If you have liv'd, take thankfully the past'.


Topic: Thankfulness
Definition:
THANK'FULNESS,n.  Expression of gratitude; acknowledgment of a favor.
1.  Gratitude; a lively sense of good received.
 The celebration of these holy mysteries being ended, retire with all thankfulness of heart for having been admitted to that heavenly feast.


Topic: Thankless
Definition:
THANK'LESS, a.  Unthankful; ungrateful; not acknowledging favors.
 That she may feel
 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
 To have a thankless child.
1.  Not deserving thanks, or not likely to gain thanks; as a thankless office.


Topic: Thanks
Definition:
THANKS, n. generally in the plural.  Expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment made to express a sense of favor or kindness received. Gratitude is the feeling or sentiment excited by kindness; thanks are the expression of that sentiment. Luke 6.
 Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory. 1 Cor.15.
 Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. 2 Cor.9.
 He took bread and gave thanks to God. Acts.27.


Topic: Thanksgive
Definition:
THANKSGIVE, v.t. thanksgiv.'  [thanks and give.]
To celebrate or distinguish by solemn rites.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Thanksgiving
Definition:
THANKSGIV'ING, ppr.  Rendering thanks for good received.
THANKSGIV'ING, n.  The act of rendering thanks or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
 Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim.4.
1.  A public celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.  The practice of appointing an annual thanksgiving originated in New England.


Topic: That
Definition:
THAT, an adjective, pronoun or substitute.
1.  That is a word used as a definitive adjective, pointing to a certain person or thing before mentioned, or supposed to be understood.  'Here is that book we have been seeking this hour.'  'Here goes that man we were talking of.'
 It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Matt.10.
2.  That is used definitively, to designate a specific thing or person emphatically.
 The woman was made whole from that hour. Matt.9.
In these cases, that is an adjective.  In the two first examples,the may be substituted for it.  'Here is the book we have been seeking.'  'Here goes the man we were talking of.'  But in other cases, the cannot supply its place, and that may be considered as more emphatically definite than the.
3.  That is used as the representative of a noun, either a person or a thing.  In this use, it is often a pronoun and a relative. When it refers to persons, it is equivalent to who, and when it refers to a thing, it is equivalent to which.  In this use, it represents either the singular number or the plural.
 He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame. Prov.9.
 They that hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of my head. Ps.63.
 A judgment that is equal and impartial, must incline to the greater probabilities.
 They shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend. Matt.13.
4.  That is also the representative of a sentence or part of a sentence, and often of a series of sentences.  In this case, that is not strictly a pronoun, a word standing for a noun; but is, so to speak, a pro-sentence, the substitute for a sentence, to save the repetition of it.
 And when Moses heard that, he was content. Lev.10.
 That here stands for the whole of what Aaron had said, or the whole of the preceding verse.
 I will know your business,that I will.
 Ye defraud, and that your brethren. 1 Cor.6.
That sometimes in this use, precedes the sentence or clause to which it refers.
That be far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. Gen.18.
That here represents the clause in italics.
5.  That sometimes is the substitute for an adjective. You allege that the man is innocent; that he is not.
6.  That, in the following use, has been called a conjunction.  'I heard that the Greeks had defeated the Turks.'  But in this case, that has the same character as in No.4.  It is the representative of the part of the sentence which follows, as may be seen by inverting the order of the clauses.  'The Greeks had defeated the Turks; I heard that.'  'It is not that I love you less.'  That here refers to the latter clause of the sentence, as a kind of demonstrative.
7.  That was formerly used for that which, like what.
 We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. John 3.  [This use is no longer held legitimate.]
8.  That is used in opposition to this, or by way of distinction.
9.  When this and that refer to foregoing words, this, like the Latin hie, and French ceci, refers to the latter, and that to the former.  It is the same with these and those.
 Self-love and reason to one end aspire,
 Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire,
 But greedy that, its object would devour,
 This taste the honey, and not wound the flow'r.
    10. That sometimes introduces an explanation of something going before. 'Religion consists in living up to those principles; that is, in acting in conformity to them.'  Here that refers to the whole first clause of the sentence.
    11. 'Things are preached, not in that they are taught, but in that they are published.'  Here that refers to the words which follow it.
So when that begins a sentence, 'That we may fully understand the subject, let us consider the following propositions.'  That denotes purpose, or rather introduces the clause expressing purposes, as will appear by restoring the sentence to its natural order.  'Let us consider the following propositions, that, [for the purpose expressed in the following clause,] we may fully understand the subject.'  'Attend that you may receive instruction;' that referring to the last member.
In that, a phrase denoting consequence, cause or reason; that referring to the following sentence.


Topic: Thatch
Definition:
THATCH, n. [L. tego; Eng. deck.]  Straw or other substance used to cover the roofs of buildings, or stacks of hay or grain, for securing them from rain, &c.
THATCH, v.t.  To cover with straw, reeds or some similar substance; as, to thatch a house or a stable, or a stack of grain.


Topic: Thatching
Definition:
THATCH'ING, ppr.  Covering with straw or thatch.
THATCH'ING, n.  The act or art of covering buildings with thatch, so as to keep out water.


Topic: Thaw
Definition:
THAW, v.i.
1.  To melt, dissolve or become fluid, as ice or snow.  [It is remarkable that this word is used only of things that congeal by frost.  We never say, to thaw metal of any kind.]
2.  To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; used of weather.
THAW, v.t.  To melt; to dissolve; as ice, snow, hail or frozen earth.
THAW, n.  The melting of ice or snow; the resolution of ice into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat, of any thing congealed by frost.


Topic: The
Definition:
THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.
1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables.  The independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights,and the best bulwark against arbitrary power.  The sun is the source of light and heat.
 This he calls the preaching of the cross.
2.  The is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.
3.  In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.
 Th' adorning thee with so much art,
 Is but a barb'rous skill.
4.  The is used before adjectives in the comparative and superlative degree.  The longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.  The most strenuous exertions will be used to emancipate Greece.  The most we can do is to submit; the best we can do; the worst that can happen.


Topic: Theatre
Definition:
THE'ATRE, n. [L. theatrum; Gr. to see.]
1.  Among the ancients, an edifice in which spectacles or shows were exhibited for the amusement of spectators.
2.  In modern times, a house for the exhibition of dramatic performances, as tragedies, comedies and farces; a play-house; comprehending the stage, the pit, the boxes, galleries and orchester.
3.  Among the Italians, an assemblage of buildings, which by a happy disposition and elevation, represents an agreeable scene to the eye.
4.  A place rising by steps or gradations like the seats of a theater.
 Shade above shade, a woody theater
 Of stateliest view--
5.  A place of action or exhibition; as the theater of the world.
6.  A building for the exhibition of scholastic exercises, as at Oxford, or for other exhibitions.
Anatomical theater, a hall with several rows of seats, disposed in the manner of an amphitheater, and a table turning on a pivot in the middle, for anatomical demonstrations.


Topic: Theft
Definition:
THEFT, n.  The act of stealing.  In law, the private, unlawful, felonious taking of another person's goods or movables, with an intent to steal them.  To constitute theft, the taking must be in private or without the owner's knowledge, and it must be unlawful or felonious, that is, it must be with a design to deprive the owner of his property privately and against his will.  Theft differs from robbery, as the latter is a violent taking from the person, and of course not private.
1.  The thing stolen. Ex.22.


Topic: Their
Definition:
THEIR, a pronom.
1.  Their has the sense of a pronominal adjective, denoting of them, or the possession of two or more; as their voices; their garments; their houses; their land; their country.
2.  Theirs is used as a substitute for the adjective and the noun to which it refers, and in this case, it may be the nominative to a verb.  'Our land is the most extensive, but theirs is the best cultivated.'  Here theirs stands as the representative of their land, and is the nominative to is.
 Nothing but the name of zeal appears
 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs.
In this use, theirs is not in the possessive case, for then there would be a double possessive.


Topic: Theism
Definition:
THE'ISM, n. [from Gr. God.]  The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism.  Theism differs from deism, for although deism implies a belief in the existence of a God, yet it signifies in modern usage a denial of revelation, which theism does not.


Topic: Them
Definition:
THEM, pron. the objective case of they, and of both genders. [In our mother tongue, them is an adjective, answering to the, in the dative and ablative cases of both numbers.  The common people continue to use it in the plural number as an adjective, for they say, bring them horses, or them horses are to be led to water.]
 Go ye to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.  Matt.25.
 Then shall the king say to them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father-- Matt.25.


Topic: Theme
Definition:
THEME, n. [L. thema; Gr. to set or place.]
1.  A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks.  The preacher takes a text for the theme of his discourse.
 When a soldier was the theme, my name
 Was not far off.
2.  A short dissertation composed by a student.
3.  In grammar, a radical verb, or the verb in its primary absolute sense, not modified by inflections; as the infinitive mode in English.  But a large portion of the words called themes in Greek, are not the radical words, but are themselves derivative forms of the verb. The fact is the same in other languages.
4.  In music, a series of notes selected as the text or subject of a new composition.


Topic: Themselves
Definition:
THEMSELVES, a compound of them and selves, and added to they by way of emphasis or pointed distinction.  Thus we say, they themselves have done the mischief; they cannot blame others.  In this case, themselves is in the nominative case, and maybe considered as an emphatical pronoun.
In some cases, themselves is used without they, and strands as the only nominative to the following verb.  Themselves have done the mischief.
This word is used also in the objective case after a verb or preposition.  Things in themselves innocent, may under certain circumstances cease to be so.
 They open to themselves at length the way.


Topic: Then
Definition:
THEN, adv.
1.  At that time, referring to a time specified, either past or future.
 And the Canaanite was then in the land. Gen.12.
 That is, when Abram migrated and came into Canaan.
 Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known. 1 Cor.12.
2.  Afterward; soon afterward or immediately.
 First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Matt.5.
3.  In that case; in consequence. Gal.3. Job.3.
 If all this be so, then man has a natural freedom.
4.  Therefore; for this reason.
 Now then be all thy weighty cares away.
5.  At another time; as now and then, at one time and another.
6.  That time.
 Till then we knew
 The force of those dire arms?


Topic: Thence
Definition:
THENCE, adv. thens.
1.  From that place.
 When you depart thence,shake off the dust of your feet. Mark 6.
It is more usual, though not necessary, to use from before thence.
 Then will I send and fetch thee from thence. Gen.27.
2.  From that time.
 There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Is.65.
3.  For that reason.
 Not to sit idle with so great a gift
 Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him.


Topic: Thenceforth
Definition:
THENCEFORTH, adv. thens'forth. [thence and forth.]  From that time.
 If the salt hath lost its savor, it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt 5.
This is also preceded by from, though not from any necessity.
 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. John 19.


Topic: Theocracy
Definition:
THEOC'RACY, n.  [Gr. God, and power; to hold.]  Government of a state by the immediate direction of God; or the state thus governed.  Of this species the Israelites furnish an illustrious example. The theocracy lasted till the time of Saul.


Topic: Theocraticical
Definition:
THEOCRAT'IC'ICAL, a.  Pertaining to a theocracy; administered by the immediate direction of God; as the theocratical state of the Israelites.  The government of the Israelites was theocratic.


Topic: Theodolite
Definition:
THEOD'OLITE, n. [Gr. to run, and long.]  An instrument for taking the heights and distances of objects, or for measuring horizontal and vertical angles in land-surveying.


Topic: Theogony
Definition:
THEOG'ONY, n. [Gr. God, and to be born.]  In mythology, the generation of the gods; or that branch of heathen theology which taught the genealogy of their deities.  Hesiod composed a poem concerning that theogony, or the creation of the world and the descent of the gods.


Topic: Theologian
Definition:
THEOLO'GIAN, n. [See Theology.]  A divine; a person well versed in theology, or a professor of divinity.


Topic: Theologist
Definition:
THEOL'OGIST, n.  A divine; one studious in the science of divinity, or one well versed in that science.


Topic: Theology
Definition:
THEOL'OGY, n. [Gr. God, and discourse.]  Divinity; the science of God and divine things; or the science which teaches the existence, character and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe,and the duties we are to practice.  Theology consists of two branches, natural and revealed.  Natural theology is the knowledge we have of God from his works, by the light of nature and reason.  Revealed theology is that which is to be learned only from revelation.
Moral theology, teaches us the divine laws relating to our manners and actions, that is, our moral duties.theology, teaches or explains the doctrines of religion, as objects of faith.
Scholastic theology, is that which proceeds by reasoning, or which derives the knowledge of several divine things from certain established principles of faith.


Topic: Theomachy
Definition:
THEOM'ACHY, n. [supra.]   A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the giants with the gods. 
1.  Opposition to the divine will.


Topic: Theopathy
Definition:
THEOP'ATHY, n. [Gr. God, and passion.]  Religious suffering; suffering for the purpose of subduing sinful propensities.


Topic: Theorbo
Definition:
THEOR'BO, n.  A musical instrument made like a large lute, except that it has two necks or juga, the second and longer of which sustains the four last rows of chords, which are to give the deepest sounds.  The theorbo has eight base or thick strings twice as long as those of the lute, which excess of length renders the sound exceedingly soft, and continues it a great length of time.


Topic: Theorem
Definition:
THE'OREM, n. [Gr. to see.]
1.  In mathematics, a proposition which terminates in theory,and which considers the properties of things already made or done; or it is a speculative proposition deduced from several definitions compared together.
A theorem is a proposition to be proved by a chain of reasoning.  A theorem is something to be proved; a problem is something to be done.
2.  In algebra or analysis, it is sometimes used to denote a rule, particularly when that rule is expressed by symbols.
A universal theorem, extends to any quantity without restriction.
A particular theorem, extends only to a particular quantity.
A negative theorem, expresses the impossibility of any assertion.
A local theorem, is that which relates to a surface.
A solid theorem, is that which considers a space terminated by a solid, that is, by any of the three conic sections.


Topic: Theoretically
Definition:
THEORET'ICALLY, adv.  In or by theory; in speculation; speculatively; not practically.  Some things appear to be theoretically true, which are found to be practically false.


Topic: Theorist
Definition:
THE'ORIST, n.  One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation.
 The greatest theorists have given the preference to such a government as that of this kingdom.


Topic: Theorize
Definition:
THE'ORIZE, v.i.  To form a theory or theories; to speculate; as, to theorize on the existence of phlogiston.


Topic: Theory
Definition:
THE'ORY, n. [L. theoria; Gr. to see or contemplate.]
1.  Speculation; a doctrine or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice.  It is here taken in an unfavorable sense, as implying something visionary.
2.  An exposition of the general principles of any science; as the theory of music.
3.  The science distinguished from the art; as the theory and practice of medicine.
4.  The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Smith's theory of moral sentiments.
Theory is distinguished from hypothesis thus; a theory is founded on inferences drawn from principles which have been established on independent evidence; a hypothesis is a proposition assumed to account for certain phenomena, and has no other evidence of its truth, than that it affords a satisfactory explanation of those phenomena.


Topic: Theosophist
Definition:
THEOS'OPHIST, n.  One who pretends to divine illumination; one who pretends to derive his knowledge from divine revelation.


Topic: Therapeutic
Definition:
THERAPEU'TIC, a. [Gr. to nurse, serve or cure.]  Curative; that pertains to the healing art; that is concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases.
 Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.


Topic: Therapeutics
Definition:
THERAPEU'TICS, n.  That part of medicine which respects the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.  Therapeutics teaches the use of diet and of medicines.
1.  A religious sect described by Philo.  They were devotees to religion.


Topic: There
Definition:
THERE, adv.
1.  In that place.
 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.  Gen.2.
2.  It is sometimes opposed to here; there denoting the place most distant.
 Darkness there might well seem twilight here.
3.  Here and there, in one place and another; as here a little and there a little.
4.  It is sometimes used by way of exclamation; calling the attention to something distant; as there, there; see there; look there.
5.  There is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.
 Wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced.
 There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, thou art my beloved Son. Mark 1.
6.  In composition, there has the sense of a pronoun, as in Saxon; as thereby, which signifies by that.


Topic: Thereafter
Definition:
THERE`AFTER, adv. [there and after.]
1.  According to that; accordingly.
 When you can draw the head indifferently well, proportion the body thereafter.
2.  After that.


Topic: Thereat
Definition:
THEREAT', adv. [there and at.]  At that place.
 Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.  Matt 7.
1.  At that; at that thing or event; on that account.
 Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat.


Topic: Thereby
Definition:
THEREBY', adv. [there and by.]  By that; by that means; in consequence of that.
 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come to thee. Job 22.


Topic: Therefore
Definition:
THEREFORE, adv. ther'fore. [there and for.]
1.  For that; for that or this reason, referring to something previously stated.
 I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 
Luke 14.
2.  Consequently.
 He blushes; therefore he is guilty.
3.  In return or recompense for this or that.
 What shall we have therefore? Matt. 19.


Topic: Therefrom
Definition:
THEREFROM', adv. [there and from.]  From this or that.
 --Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. Josh. 23.


Topic: Therein
Definition:
THEREIN', adv. [there and in.]  In that or this place, time or thing.
 Bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein.  Gen.9.
 Ye shall keep the sabbath--whosoever doeth any work therein--that soul shall be cut off.  Ex.31.
 Therein our letters do not well agree.


Topic: Thereof
Definition:
THEREOF',adv. [there and of.]  Of that or this.
 In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen.2.


Topic: Thereupon
Definition:
THEREUPON', adv. [there and upon.]  Upon that or this.
 The remnant of the house of Judah, they shall feed thereupon. Zeph.2.
1.  In consequence of that.
 He hopes to find you forward,
 And thereupon he sends you this good news.
2.  Immediately.


Topic: Therewith
Definition:
THEREWITH', adv. [there and with.]   With that or this.
 I have learned in whatever state I am, therewith to be content. Phil.4.


Topic: Therewithal
Definition:
THEREWITHAL', adv. [there and withal.]
1.  Over and above.
2.  At the same time.
3.  With that.  [This word is obsolete.]
[The foregoing compounds of there with the prepositions, are for the most part deemed inelegant and obsolete.  Some of them however are in good use, and particularly in the law style.


Topic: Theriac
Definition:
THE'RIAC, n. [L. theriaca; Gr. treacle.]  A name given by the ancients to various compositions esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison, but afterwards restrained chiefly to what has been called Theriaca Andromachi, or Venice-treacle,which is a compound of sixty four drugs, prepared, pulverized,and reduced by means of honey to an electuary.
THE'RIAC


Topic: Thermal
Definition:
THER'MAL, a. [L. thermoe, warm baths; Gr. to warm.]
Pertaining to heat; warm.
Thermal waters, are warm or tepid mineral waters, whose heat varies from 92 deg. to 112 deg.


Topic: Thermolamp
Definition:
THER'MOLAMP, n. [Gr. warm, from heat, and lamp.]
An instrument for furnishing light by means of inflammable gas.


Topic: Thermometer
Definition:
THERMOM'ETER, n. [Gr. warm, from heat, and measure.]  An instrument for measuring heat; founded on the property which heat possesses of expanding all bodies, the rate or quantity of expansion being supposed proportional to the degree of heat applied, and hence indicating that degree.  The thermometer indicates only the sensible heat of bodies, and gives us no information respecting the quantity of latent heat, or of combined heat, which those bodies may contain.


Topic: Thermometrical
Definition:
THERMOMET'RICAL, a.  Pertaining to a thermometer; as the thermometrical scale or tube.
1.  Made by a thermometer; as thermometrical observations.


Topic: Thermoscope
Definition:
THER'MOSCOPE, n. [Gr. heat, and to see.]  An instrument showing the temperature of the air, or the degree of heat and cold.


Topic: These
Definition:
THESE, pron. plu. of this. pronounced theez, and used as an adjective or substitute.  These is opposed to those, as this is to that, and when two persons or things or collections of things are named, these refers to the things or persons which are nearest in place or order, or which are last mentioned.
 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease;
 Those call it pleasure, and contentment these
 Here these is a substitute for these persons, and for the persons last mentioned, who place their bliss in ease.


Topic: Thesis
Definition:
THE'SIS, n. [L. thesis; Gr. a position, to set.]
1.  A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument; a theme; a subject.
2.  In logic, every proposition may be divided into thesis and hypothesis.  Thesis contains the thing affirmed or denied, and hypothesis the conditions of the affirmation or negation.


Topic: Theurgy
Definition:
THE'URGY, n. [Gr. God, and work.]  The art of doing things which it is the peculiar province of God to do; or the power or act of performing supernatural things by invoking the names of God or of subordinate agents; magic.  This has been divided by some writers into three parts; theurgy, or the operation by divine or celestial means; natural magic, performed by the powers of nature; and necromancy, which proceeds by invoking demons.


Topic: They
Definition:
THEY, pron. plu.; objective case, them.]
1.  The men, the women, the animals, the things.  It is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun referring to persons, or as a substitute referring to things.
 They and their fathers have transgressed against me. Ezek.2.
 They of Italy salute you.  Heb.13.
 Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt.5.
2.  It is used indefinitely, as our ancestors used man, and as the French use on.  They say, [on dit,] that is, it is said by persons, indefinitely.


Topic: Thick
Definition:
THICK, a.
1.  Dense; not thin; as thick vapors; a thick fog.
2.  Inspissated; as, the paint is too thick.
3.  Turbid; muddy; feculent; not clear; as, the water of a river is thick after a rain.
4.  Noting the diameter of a body; as a piece of timber seven inches thick.
 My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.  1 Kings 12.
5.  Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; as a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper.
6.  Close; crowded with trees or other objects; as a thick forest or wood; thick grass; thick corn.
 The people were gathered thick together.
7.  Frequent; following each other in quick succession.  The shot flew thick as hail.
 Favors came thick upon him.
 Not thicker billows beat the Libyan main.
8.  Set with things close to each other; not easily pervious.
 Black was the forest, thick with beech it stood.
9.  Not having due distinction of syllables or good articulation; as a thick utterance.
 He speaks too thick.
    10. Dull; somewhat deaf; as thick of hearing.
THICK, n.  The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
 In the thick of the dust and smoke he presently entered his men.
1.  A thicket.  [Not in use.]
Thick and thin, whatever is in the way.
 Through thick and thin she follow'd  him.
THICK, adv.  Frequently; fast.
 I hear the trampling of thick beating feet.
1. Closely; as a plat of ground thick sown.
2.  To a great depth, or to a thicker depth than usual; as a bed covered thick with tan; land covered thick with manure.and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers.  [Not in use.]
THICK, v.i.  To become thick or dense.  [Not used.]


Topic: Thicken
Definition:
THICKEN, v.t. thik'n.  To make thick or dense.
1.  To make close; to fill up interstices; as, to thicken cloth.
2.  To make concrete; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint, mortar or a liquid.
3.  To strengthen; to confirm.
 And this may help to thicken other proofs.  [Not used.]
4.  To make frequent, or more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
5.  To make close, or more close; to make more numerous; as, to thicken the ranks.
THICKEN, v.i. thik'n.  To become thick or more thick; to become dense; as, the fog thickens.
1.  To become dark or obscure.
 Thy luster thickens
 When he shines by.
2.  To concrete; to be consolidated; as, the juices of plants thicken into wood.
3.  To be inspissated; as, vegetable juices thicken, as the more volatile parts are evaporated.
4.  To become close, or more close or numerous.
 The press of people thickens to the court.
5.  To become quick and animated.
 The combat thickens.
6.  To become more numerous; to press; to be crowded.  Proofs of the fact thicken upon us at every step.


Topic: Thickened
Definition:
THICK'ENED, pp.  Made dense, or more dense; made more close or compact; made more frequent; inspissated.


Topic: Thickening
Definition:
THICK'ENING, ppr. Making dense or more dense, more close, or more frequent; inspissating.
THICK'ENING, n.  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it more thick.


Topic: Thicket
Definition:
THICK'ET, n.  A wood or collection of trees or shrubs closely set; as a ram caught in a thicket.  Gen.22.


Topic: Thickness
Definition:
THICK'NESS, n.  The state of being thick; denseness; density; as the thickness of fog, vapor or clouds.
1.  The state of being concrete or inspissated; consistence; spissitude; as the thickness of paint or mortar; the thickness of honey; the thickness of the blood.
2.  The extent of a body from side to side, or from surface to surface; as the thickness of a tree; the thickness of a board; the thickness of the hand; the thickness of a layer of earth.
3.  Closeness of the parts; the state of being crowded or near; as the thickness of trees in a forest; the thickness of a wood.
4.  The state of being close, dense or impervious; as the thickness of shades.
5.  Dullness of the sense of hearing; want of quickness or acuteness; as thickness of hearing.


Topic: Thief
Definition:
THIEF, n. plu. thieves.  
1.  One who secretly, unlawfully and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another.  The thief takes the property of another privately; the robber by open force.
2.  One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence.  Job.30.
3.  One who seduces by false doctrine. John 10.
4.  One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud; as a den of thieves. Matt. 21.
5.  An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.


Topic: Thief-catcher
Definition:
THIE'F-CATCHER, n. [thief and catch.]  One who catches thieves, or whose business is to detect thieves and bring them to justice.


Topic: Thief-taker
Definition:
THIE'F-TAKER, n. [thief and taker.]  One whose business is to find and take thieves and bring them to justice.


Topic: Thievery
Definition:
THIE'VERY, n.  The practice of stealing; theft.  [See Theft.]
 Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest.
1.  That which is stolen.


Topic: Thievish
Definition:
THIE'VISH, a.  Given to stealing; addicted to the practice of theft; as a thievish boy.
 Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce
 A thievish living on the common road.
1.  Secret; sly; acting by stealth; as thievish minutes.
2.  Partaking of the nature of theft; as a thievish practice.


Topic: Thigh
Definition:
THIGH, n.  That part of men, quadrupeds and fowls, which is between the leg and the trunk.
As the word signifies, it is the thick part of the lower limbs.


Topic: Thill
Definition:
THILL, n.  The shaft of a cart, gig or other carriage.  The thills are the two pieces of timber extending from the body of the carriage on each side of the last horse, by which the carriage is supported in a horizontal position.


Topic: Thill-horse
Definition:
THILL'-HORSE, n.  The horse which goes between the thills or shafts, and supports them.  In a team, the last horse.


Topic: Thin
Definition:
THIN, a. [L. tenuis; Gr. narrow.]
1.  Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite; as a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
2.  Rare; not dense; applied to fluids or to soft mixtures; as thin blood; thin milk; thin air.
 In the day, when the air is more thin.
3.  Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals that compose the thing in a close or compact state; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.  A thin audience in church is not uncommon.  Important legislative business should not be transacted in a thin house.
4.  Not full or well grown.
 Seven thin ears. Gen.41.
5.  Slim; small; slender; lean.  A person becomes thin by disease.  Some animals are naturally thin.
6.  Exile; small; fine; not full.
 Thin hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.
7.  Not thick or close; of a loose texture; not impervious to the sight; as a thin vail.
8.  Not crowded or well stocked; not abounding.
 Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
9.  Slight; not sufficient for a covering; as a thin disguise.
THIN, adv.  Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state; as seed sown thin.
 Spain is thin sown as people.
THIN, v.t. [L. tenuo.  See Attenuate.]
1.  To make thin; to make rare or less thick; to attenuate; as, to thin the blood.
2.  To make less close, crowded or numerous; as, to thin the ranks of an enemy; to thin the trees or shrubs of a thicket.
3.  To attenuate; to rarefy; to make less dense; as, to thin the air; to thin the vapors.


Topic: Thine
Definition:
THINE, pronominal adj. Thy; belonging to thee; relating to thee; being the property of thee. It was formerly used for thy, before a vowel.
 Then thou mightest eat grapes thy fill, at thine own pleasure.  Deut.32.
But in common usage, thy is now used before a vowel in all cases.
The principal use of thine now is when a verb is interposed between this word and the noun to which it refers.  I will not take any thing that is thine.  Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.
In the following passage, thine is used as a substitute for thy righteousness.
 I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. Ps.71.
In some cases, it is preceded by the sign of the possessive case, like nouns, and is then also to be considered as a substitute.
 If any of thine be driven out to the utmost parts of heaven-- Deut.30.
It is to be observed that thine, like thou, is used only in the solemn style.  In familiar and common language, your and yours are always used in the singular number as well as the plural.


Topic: Thing
Definition:
THING, n. [The primary sense of thing is that which comes, falls or happens, like event, from L. evenio.]
1.  An event or action; that which happens or falls out, or that which is done, told or proposed. This is the general signification of the word in the Scriptures; as after these things, that is, events.
 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.  Gen.21.
 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord. Gen.24.
 And Jacob said, all these things are against me. Gen.42.
 I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matt.21.
 These things said Esaias when he saw his glory. John 12.
 In learning French, choose such books as will teach you things as well as language.
2.  Any substance; that which is created; any particular article or commodity.
 He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt-- Gen.42.
 They took the things which Micah had made.  Judges 18.
3.  An animal; as every living thing; every creeping thing. Gen.1.
[This application of the word is improper, but common in popular and vulgar language.]
4.  A portion or part; something.
 Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom--
5.  In contempt.
 I have a thing in prose.
6.  Used of persons in contempt.
 See, sons, what things you are,
 The poor thing sigh'd.
 I'll be this abject thing no more.
7.  Used in a sense of honor.
 I see thee here, 
 Thou noble thing! 


Topic: Think
Definition:
THINK, v.i. pret. and pp. thought, pron. thaut.  [L. duco.]
1.  To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind.
 --For that I am
 I know, because I think.
 These are not matters to be slightly thought on.
2.  To judge; to conclude; to hold as a settled opinion.  I think it will rain tomorrow.  I think it not best to proceed on our journey.
 Let them marry to whom they think best. Num.36.
3.  To intend.
 Thou thought'st to help me.
 I thought to promote thee to great honor. Num.24.
4.  To imagine; to suppose; to fancy.
 Edmund, I think, is gone
 In pity of his misery, to dispatch
 His 'nighted life.
 Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 1 cor.10.
5.  To muse; to meditate.
 While Peter thought on the vision--Acts 10.
 Think much, speak little.
6.  To reflect; to recollect or call to mind.
 And when Peter thought thereon, he wept.  Mark 14.
7.  To consider; to deliberate.  Think how this thing could happen.
 He thought within himself, saying, what shall I do? 
Luke 12.
8.  To presume.
 Think not to say within yourselves,we have Abraham to our father-- Matt.3.
9.  To believe; to esteem.
To think on or upon, to muse on; to meditate on.
 If there by any virtue,and if there by any praise, think on these things.  Phil.4.
1.  To light on by meditation.  He has just thought on an expedient that will answer the purpose.
2.  To remember with favor.
 Think upon me, my God, for good. Neh.5.
To think of, to have ideas come into the mind.  He thought of what you told him.  I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem.
THINK, v.t.  To conceive; to imagine.
 Charity--thinketh no evil. 1 Cor.13.
1.  To believe; to consider; to esteem.
 Nor think superfluous others' aid.
2.  To seem or appear, as in the phrases, me thinketh or methinks, and methought.  These are genuine Saxon phrases, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me.  In these expressions, me is actually in the dative case; almost the only instance remaining in the language.  Sax 'genoh thuht,' satis visum est, it appeared enough or sufficient; 'me thineth,' mihi videtur, it seems to me; I perceive.
To think much, to grudge.
 He thought not much to clothe his enemies.
To think much of, to hold in high esteem.
To think scorn, to disdain.  Esth. 3.


Topic: Thinker
Definition:
THINK'ER, n.  One who thinks; but chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.


Topic: Thinking
Definition:
THINK'ING, ppr.  Having ideas; supposing; judging; imagining; intending; meditating.
1.  a. Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas.
 Man is a thinking being.
THINK'ING, n.  Imagination; cogitation; judgment.
 I heard a bird so sing,
 Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king.


Topic: Thinly
Definition:
THIN'LY, adv. [from thin.]  In a loose scattered manner; not thickly; as ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.


Topic: Thinness
Definition:
THIN'NESS, n.  The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; as the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin.
1.  Tenuity; rareness; as the thinness of air or other fluid.
2.  A state approaching to fluidity, or even fluidity; opposed to spissitude; as the thinness of honey, of white wash or of paint.
3.  Exility; as the thinness of a point.
4.  Rareness; a scattered state; paucity; as the thinness of trees in a forest; the thinness of inhabitants.


Topic: Third
Definition:
THIRD, a. thurd. [L. tertius.]  The first after the second; the ordinal of three.  The third hour in the day among the ancients, was nine o'clock in the morning.
Third estate, in the British nation, is the commons; or in the legislature, the house of commons.
Third order, among the Catholics,is a sort of religious order that observes the same rule and the same manner of life in proportion as some other two orders previously instituted; as the third order of Franciscans, instituted by St. Francis in 1221.
Third point or tierce point, in architecture,the point of section in the vertex of an equilateral triangle.
Third rate, in navies.  A third rate ship carries from 64 to 80 guns.
 
Third sound, in music.  See the noun Third.
THIRD, n. thurd.  The third part of any thing.  A man takes land and tills it for one third of the produce; the owner taking two thirds.
1.  The sixtieth part of a second of time.
2.  In music, an interval containing three diatonic sounds; the major composed to two tones, called by the Greeks ditone, and the minor called hemiditone, consisting of a tone and a half.


Topic: Thirdings
Definition:
THIRD'INGS, n.  The third year of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.


Topic: Thirds
Definition:
THIRDS, n. plu.  The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which by law the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.


Topic: Thirl
Definition:
THIRL, v.t. thurl.  To bore; to perforate.  It is now written drill and thrill.  [See these words, and see Nos tril.]


Topic: Thirlage
Definition:
THIRLAGE, n. thurl'age.  In English customs, the right which the owner of a mill possesses by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.


Topic: Thirst
Definition:
THIRST, n. thurst. [L. torreo.]
1.  A painful sensation of the throat or fauces, occasioned by the want of drink.
 Wherefore is it that thou hast brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?  Ex.17.
2.  A vehement desire of drink.  Ps.104.
3.  A want and eager desire after any thing.
 Thirst of worldly good.
 Thirst of knowledge.
 Thirst of praise.
 Thirst after happiness.
But for is now more generally used after thirst; as a thirst for worldly honors; a thirst for praise.
4.  Dryness; drouth.
 The rapid current, through veins
 Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn,
 Rose a fresh fountain--
THIRST, v.i. thurst.
1.  To experience a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
 The people thirsted there for water. Ex.17.
2.  To have a vehement desire for any thing.
 My soul thirsteth for the living God. Ps.42.
THIRST,v.t.  To want to drink; as, to thirst blood.  [Not English.]


Topic: Thirsty
Definition:
THIRST'Y, a. [from thirst.]  Feeling a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
 Give me a little water, for I am thirsty.  Judges 4.
 I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. Matt.25.
1.  Very dry; having no moisture; parched.
 The thirsty land shall become springs of water.  Is.35.
2.  Having a vehement desire of any thing; as in blood-thirsty. Is.44. 65.


Topic: Thirteenth
Definition:
THIRTEENTH, a. thur'teenth. [supra.]  The third after the tenth; the ordinal of thirteen; as the thirteenth day of the month.
THIRTEENTH, n. thur'teenth.  In music, an interval forming the octave of the sixth, or sixth of the octave.


Topic: Thirtieth
Definition:
THIRTIETH, a. thur'tieth. [from thirty.]  The tenth threefold; the ordinal of thirty; as the thirtieth day of the month.


Topic: Thirty
Definition:
THIRTY, a. thur'ty.  Thrice ten; ten three times repeated; or twenty and ten.  The month of June consists of thirty days.  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh.


Topic: This
Definition:
THIS, definitive adjective or substitute. plu. these.
1.  This is a definitive, or definitive adjective, denoting something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned.  Is this your younger brother?  What trespass is this which ye have committed?
 Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9.
 When they heard this, they were pricked to the heart.  Acts 2.
In the latter passage, this is a substitute for what had preceded, vix. the discourse of Peter just delivered.  In like manner, this often represents a word, a sentence or clause, or a series of sentences of events.
In some cases, it refers to what is future, or to be immediately related.
But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.  Matt.24.
Here this refers to the whole subsequent member of the sentence.
2.  By this, is used elliptically for by this time; as, by this the mail has arrived.
3.  This is used with words denoting time past; as, I have taken no snuff for this month; and often with plural words.  I have not wept this forty years.
In this case, this, in the singular, refers to the whole term of time, or period; this period of forty years.
4.  This is opposed to that.
 This way and that the wav'ring sails they bend.
 A body of this or that denomination is produced.
This and that, in this use, denote difference indefinitely.
5.  When this and that refer to different things before expressed, this refers to the thing last mentioned, and that to the thing first mentioned.  [See These.]
 Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow.
6.  It is sometimes opposed to other.
 Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him.


Topic: Thistle
Definition:
THISTLE, n. this'l.  The common name of numerous prickly plants of the class Syngenesia, and several genera; as the common corn thistle, or Canada thistle, of the genus Serratula or Cnicus; the spear thistle of the genus Cnicus; the milk thistle of the genus Carduus; the blessed thistle of the genus Centaurea; the globe thistle of the genus Echinops; the cotton thistle of the genus Onopordon; and the sow thistle of the genus Sonchus.  The name is also given to other prickly plants not of the class Syngenesia; as the fuller's thistle or teasel of the genus Dipsacus, and the melon thistle and torch thistle of the genus Cactus.
One species of thistle, (Cnicus arvensis,) grows in fields among grain, and is extremely troublesome to farmers.  It is called in America the Canada thistle, as it first appeared in Canada, where it was probably introduced from France, as it abounds in Normandy, and also in England.  A larger species in America (Cnicus lanceolatus,) is indigenous, but it spreads slowly and gives no trouble.
 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring froth to thee. Gen.3.


Topic: Thither
Definition:
THITH'ER, adv.  To that place; opposed to hither.
 This city is near, O let me escape thither.  Gen.19.
 Where I am, thither ye cannot come. John 7.
1.  To that end or point.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.


Topic: Thitherward
Definition:
THITH'ERWARD, adv. [thither and ward.]  Toward that place.
 They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward.  Jer. 1.


Topic: Thole
Definition:
THOLE, n.
1.  A pin inserted into the gunwale of a boat, to keep the oar in the row-lock,when used in rowing.
2.  The pin or handle of a sythe-snath.
THOLE, v.t. [L. tollo, tolero.]
To bear; to endure; to undergo.
THOLE, v.i. [supra.]  To wait.  [Local.]
THOLE, n. [L. tholus.]  The roof of a temple.  [Not used or local.]


Topic: Thomsonite
Definition:
THOM'SONITE, n. [from Thomson.]  A mineral of the zeolite family, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure.


Topic: Thong
Definition:
THONG, n. A strap of leather, used for fastening any thing.
 And nails for loosen'd spears, and thongs for shields provide.


Topic: Thoracic
Definition:
THORAC'IC, a. [L. thorax, the breast.]  Pertaining to the breast; as the thoracic arteries.
The thoracic duct, is the trunk of the absorbent vessels.  It runs up along the spine from the receptacle of the chyle to the left subclavian vein, in which it terminates.


Topic: Thoracics
Definition:
THORAC'ICS, n. plu.  In ichthyology, an order of bony fishes, respiring by means of gills only, the character of which is that the bronchia are ossiculated, and the ventral fins are placed underneath the thorax, or beneath the pectoral fins.


Topic: Thorax
Definition:
THO'RAX, n. [L.]  In anatomy, that part of the human skeleton which consists of the bones of the chest; also, the cavity of the chest.


Topic: Thorn
Definition:
THORN, n.
1.  A tree or shrub armed with spines or sharp ligneous shoots; as the black thorn; white thorn, &c.  The word is sometimes applied to a bush with prickles; as a rose on a thorn.
2.  A sharp ligneous or woody shoot from the stem of a tree or shrub; a sharp process from the woody part of a plant; a spine.  Thorn differs from prickle; the latter being applied to the sharp points issuing from the bark of a plant and not attached to the wood, as in the rose and bramble.  But in common usage, thorn is applied to the prickle of the rose, and in fact the two words are used promiscuously.
3.  Any thing troublesome.  St. Paul had a thorn in the flesh. 2 Cor.12.  Num.33.
4.  In Scripture, great difficulties and impediments.
 I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos.2.
5.  Worldly cares; things which prevent the growth of good principles.  Matt.13.


Topic: Thorny
Definition:
THORN'Y, a.  Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; as a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny diadem or crown.
1.  Troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing; as thorny care; the thorny path of vice.
2.  Sharp; pricking; vexatious; as thorny points.


Topic: Thorough
Definition:
THOROUGH, a. thur'ro.  
1.  Literally, passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.
2.  Passing through; as thorough lights in a house.
THOROUGH, prep. thur'ro.  From side to side, or from end to end.
1.  By means of. [Not now used.]  [See Through.]
THOROUGH, n. thur'ro.  An inter-furrow between two ridges.


Topic: Thorough-base
Definition:
THOROUGH-BASE, n. thur'ro-base. [thorough and base.]  In music, an accompaniment to a continued base by figures.


Topic: Thorough-fare
Definition:
THOROUGH-FARE, n. thur'ro-fare. [thorough and fare.]
1.  A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way.
2.  Power of passing.


Topic: Thorough-paced
Definition:
THOROUGH-PACED, a. thur'ro-paced. [thorough and paced.]
Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as a thorough-paced tory or whig.


Topic: Thorough-stitch
Definition:
THOROUGH-STITCH, adv. thur'ro-stitch. [thorough and stitch.]completely; going the whole length of any business.  [Not elegant.]


Topic: Thorough-wort
Definition:
THOROUGH-WORT, n. thur'ro-wort. The popular name of a plant, the Eupatorium perfoliatum, a native of N. America.  It is valued in medicine.


Topic: Thoroughly
Definition:
THOROUGHLY, adv. thur'roly.  Fully; entirely; completely; as a room thoroughly swept; a business thoroughly performed.  Let the matter be thoroughly sifted.  Let every part of the work be thoroughly finished.


Topic: Thorp
Definition:
THORP, [L. tribus.]  The primary sense is probably a house, a habitation, from fixedness; hence a hamlet, a village, a tribe; as in rude ages the dwelling of the head of a family was soon surrounded by the houses of his children and descendants.  In our language, it occurs now only in names of places and persons.


Topic: Thos
Definition:
THOS, n.  An animal of the wolf kind, but larger than the common wolf.  It is common Surinam.  It preys on poultry and water fowls.


Topic: Those
Definition:
THOSE, pron. s as z.  plu. of that; as those men; those temples.  When those and these are used in reference to two things or collections of things, those refers to the first mentioned,as these does to the last mentioned.  [See These, and the example there given.]


Topic: Thou
Definition:
THOU, pron. in the obj. thee.  The second personal pronoun, in the singular number; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn style.
 Art thou he that should come?  Matt.11.
 I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Ps.23.
Thou is used only in the solemn style, unless in very familiar language, and by the Quakers.
THOU, v.t.  To treat with familiarity.
 If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.
THOU, v.i.  To use thou and thee in discourse.


Topic: Though
Definition:
THOUGH, v.i. tho.
1.  Grant; admit; allow.  'If thy brother be waxen poor--thou shalt relieve him; yea, though he be a stranger.' Grant or admit the fact that he is stranger, yet thou shalt relieve him. Lev.25.
 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job.13.
 That is, grant or admit that he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him.
 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished. Prov.11.
 That is, admit the fact that the wicked unite their strength, yet this will not save them from punishment.
 Not that I so affirm, though so it seem.
 That is, grant that it seems so, yet I do not so affirm.
2.  Used with as.
 In the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded.  Gen.40.
 So we use as if; it was as if it budded; and if is gif, give.  The appearance was like the real fact, if admitted or true.
3.  It is used in familiar language, at the end of a sentence.
 A good cause would do well though.
This is generally or always elliptical, referring to some expression preceding or understood.
4.  It is compounded with all, in although, which see.


Topic: Thought
Definition:
THOUGHT, pret. and pp. of think; pronounced thaut.
THOUGHT, a. thaut. [primarily the passive participle of think, supra.
1.  Properly, that which the mind thinks.  Thought is either the act or operation of the mind, when attending to a particular subject or thing or it is the idea consequent on that operation.
We say, a man's thoughts are employed on government, on religion, on trade or arts, or his thoughts are employed on his dress or his means  of living.  By this we mean that the mind is directed to that particular subject or object; that is, according to the literal import of the verb think, the mind, the intellectual part of man, is set upon such an object, it holds it in view or contemplation, or it extends to it, it stretches to it.  
Thought cannot be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative.
2.  Idea; conception.  I wish to convey my thoughts to another person.  I employ words that express my thoughts, so that he may have the same ideas; in this case, our thoughts will be alike.
3.  Fancy; conceit; something framed by the imagination.
 Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject.
4.  Reflection; particular consideration.
 Why do you keep alone?
 Using those thoughts which should have died
 With them they think on.
5.  Opinion; judgment.
 Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thoughts.
6.  Meditation; serious consideration.
 Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
 Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought.
7.  Design; purpose.
 All their thoughts are against me for evil.  Ps.56. 33.
Jer.29.
8.  Silent contemplation.
9.  Solicitude; care; concern.
 Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end.
    10. Inward reasoning; the workings of conscience.
 Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Rom.2.
    11. A small degree or quantity; as a thought longer; a thought better. [Not in use.]
To take thought, to be solicitous or anxious.  Matt.6.


Topic: Thoughtful
Definition:
THOUGHT'FUL, a. Full of thought; contemplative; employed in meditation; as a man of thoughtful mind.
1.  Attentive; careful; having the mind directed to an object; as thoughtful of gain.
2.  Promoting serious thought; favorable to musing or meditation.
 War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades.
3.  Anxious; solicitous.
 Around her crowd distrust and doubt and fear,
 And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care.


Topic: Thoughtfulness
Definition:
THOUGHT'FULNESS, n.  Deep meditation.
1.  Serious attention to spiritual concerns.
2.  Anxiety; solicitude.


Topic: Thoughtless
Definition:
THOUGHT'LESS, a.  Heedless; careless; negligent.
 Thoughtless of the future.
1.  Gay; dissipated.
2.  Stupid; dull.
 Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain.


Topic: Thousand
Definition:
THOU'SAND, a. s as z.
1.  Denoting the number of ten hundred.
2. Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely.  It is a thousand chances to one that you succeed.
THOU'SAND, n.  The number of ten hundred.
 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps.91.
Thousand is sometimes used plurally without the plural termination, as in the passage above, ten thousand; but it often takes the plural termination.  In former times, how many thousands perished by famine!


Topic: Thousandth
Definition:
THOU'SANDTH, a.  The ordinal of thousand; as the thousandth part of a thing; also proverbially, very numerous.
THOU'SANDTH, n.  The thousandth part of any thing; as two thousandths of a tax.


Topic: Thralldom
Definition:
THRALL'DOM, n.  Slavery; bondage; a state of servitude.  The Greeks lived in thralldom under the Turks, nearly four hundred years.
 He shall rule, and she in thralldom live.
 [This word is in good use.]


Topic: Thrash
Definition:
THRASH, v.t.
1.  To beat out grain from the husk or pericarp with a flail; as, to thrash wheat, rye or oats.
2.  To beat corn off from the cob or spike; as, to thrash maiz.
3.  To beat soundly with a stick or whip; to drub.
THRASH, v.i.  To practice thrashing; to perform the business of thrashing; as a man who thrashes well.
1.  To labor; to drudge.
 I rather would be Mevius, thrash for rhymes,
 Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times--


Topic: Thrashing
Definition:
THRASH'ING, ppr.  Beating out of the husk or off the ear; beating soundly with a stick or whip.
THRASH'ING, n.  The act of beating out grain with a flail; a sound drubbing.


Topic: Thrasonical
Definition:
THRASON'ICAL, a. [from Thraso, a boaster in old comedy.]
1.  Boasting; given to bragging.
2.  Boastful; implying ostentatious display.


Topic: Threat
Definition:
THREAT, n. thret.  A menace; denunciation of ill; declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, loss or pain on another.
 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
THREAT, v.t. thret.  To threaten, which see.  Threat is used only in poetry.


Topic: Threaten
Definition:
THREATEN, v.t. thret'n.
1.  To declare the purpose of inflicting punishment, pain or other evil on another, for some sin or offense; to menace.  God threatens the finally impenitent with everlasting banishment from his presence.
2.  To menace; to terrify or attempt to terrify by menaces; as for extorting money.
 To send threatening letters is a punishable offense.
3.  To charge or enjoin with menace, or with implied rebuke; or to charge strictly.
 Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in his name. Acts 4.
4.  To menace by action; to present the appearance of coming evil; as, rolling billows threaten to overwhelm us.
5.  To exhibit the appearance of something evil or unpleasant approaching; as, the clouds threaten us with rain or a storm.


Topic: Threatening
Definition:
THREATENING, ppr. thret'ning.  Menacing; denouncing evil.
1.  a. Indicating a threat or menace; as a threatening look.
2.  Indicating something impending; as, the weather is threatening; the clouds have a threatening aspect.
THREATENING, n.  thret'ning.  The act of menacing; a menace; a denunciation of evil, or declaration of a purpose to inflict evil on a person or country, usually for sins and offenses.  The prophets are filled with God's threatenings against the rebellious Jews.  Acts 4.


Topic: Thred
Definition:
THRED, n.
1.  A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length.
2.  The filament of a flower.
3.  The filament of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
4.  A fine filament or line of gold or silver.
5.  Air-threads,the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders.
6.  Something continued in a long course or tenor; as the thread of a discourse.
7.  The prominent spiral part of a screw.


Topic: Thredbare
Definition:
THRED'BARE, a. [thread and bare.]  Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; as a threadbare coat; threadbare clothes.
1.  Worn out; trite; hackneyed; used till it has lost its novelty or interest; as a threadbare subject; state topics and threadbare quotations.


Topic: Three
Definition:
THREE, a. [L. tres.]
1.  Two and one.
 I offer thee three things. 2 Sam. 24.
2.  It is often used like other adjectives, without the noun to which it refers.
 Abishai--attained not to the first three.  2 Sam.23.
3.  Proverbially, a small number.
 Away, thou three-inched fool.  [I believe obsolete.]


Topic: Three-cornered
Definition:
THREE'-CORNERED, a. [three and corner.]
1.  Having three corners or angles; as a three-cornered hat.
2.  In botany, having three sides, or three prominent longitudinal angles, as a stem.


Topic: Three-leaved
Definition:
THREE'-LEAVED, a. [three and leaf.]  Consisting of three distinct leaflets; as a three-leaved calyx.


Topic: Three-lobed
Definition:
THREE'-LOBED, a. [three and lobe.]  A three-lobed leaf, is one that is divided to the middle into three parts, standing wide from each other and having convex margins.


Topic: Three-nerved
Definition:
THREE'-NERVED, a. [three and nerve.]  A three-nerved leaf, has three distinct vessels or nerves running longitudinally without branching.


Topic: Three-parted
Definition:
THREE'-P`ARTED, a. [three and parted.]  Tripartite.  A three-parted leaf, is divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.


Topic: Three-petaled
Definition:
THREE'-PETALED, a. [three and petal.]  Tripetalous; consisting of three distinct petals; as a corol.


Topic: Three-sided
Definition:
THREE'-SIDED, a. [three and side.]  Having three plane sides; as a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.


Topic: Three-valved
Definition:
THREE'-VALVED, a. [three and valve.]  Trivalvular; consisting of three valves; opening with three valves; as a three-valved pericarp.


Topic: Threefold
Definition:
THREE'FOLD, a. [three and fold.]  Three-double; consisting of three; or thrice repeated, as threefold justice.
 A threefold cord is not quickly broken.  Eccles.4.


Topic: Thresh
Definition:
THRESH, v.t.  To thrash.  [See Thrash.]  The latter is the popular pronunciation, but the word is written thrash or thresh, indifferently.  [See the derivation and definitions under Thrash.]


Topic: Threshhold
Definition:
THRESH'HOLD, n.
1.  The door-sill; the plank, stone or piece of timber which lies at the bottom or under a door, particularly of a dwelling house, church, temple or the like; hence, entrance; gate; door.
2.  Entrance; the place or point of entering or beginning.  He is now at the threshhold of his argument.
 Many men that stumble at the threshhold.


Topic: Thrice
Definition:
THRICE, adv. [from three; perhaps three, and L. vice.]
1.  Three times.
 Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.  Matt.26.
2.  Sometimes used by way of amplification; very.
 Thrice noble Lord, let me entreat of you
 To pardon me.


Topic: Thrid
Definition:
THRID, v.t.  To slide through a narrow passage; to slip, shoot or run through, as a needle, bodkin, or the like.
 Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair.


Topic: Thrift
Definition:
THRIFT, n. [from thrive.]  Frugality; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property.
 The rest--willing to fall to thrift; prove very good husbands.
1.  Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain.
 I have a mind presages me such thrift.
2.  Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
3.  In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.


Topic: Thriftiness
Definition:
THRIFT'INESS, n.  Frugality; good husbandry; as thriftiness to save; thriftiness in preserving one's own.
1.  Prosperity in business; increase of property.


Topic: Thrifty
Definition:
THRIFT'Y, a.  Frugal; sparing; using economy and good management of property.
 I am glad he has so much youth and vigor left, of which he has not been thrifty.
1. More generally, thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as a thrifty farmer or mechanic.
2.  Thriving; growing rapidly or vigorously; as a plant.
3.  Well husbanded.
 I have five hundred crowns,
 The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father.


Topic: Thrill
Definition:
THRILL, n. [See the Verb.]  A drill.
1.  A warbling.  [See Trill.]
2.  A breathing place or hole.
THRILL, v.t. 
1.  To bore; to drill; to perforate by turning a gimblet or other similar instrument. [But in the literal sense, drill is now chiefly or wholly used.  Spenser used it literally in the clause, 'with thrilling point of iron brand.']
2.  To pierce; to penetrate; as something sharp.
 The cruel word her tender heart so thrill'd,
 That sudden cold did run through every vein
 A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse.
THRILL, v.i.  To pierce; to penetrate; as something sharp; particularly, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.
 A faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
1.  To feel a sharp shivering sensation running through the body.
 To seek sweet safety out
 In vaults and prisons; and to thrill and shake--


Topic: Thrilling
Definition:
THRILL'ING, ppr.  Perforating; drilling.
1.  Piercing; penetrating; having the quality of penetrating; passing with a tingling, shivering sensation.
2.  Feeling a tingling, shivering sensation running through the system.


Topic: Thrive
Definition:
THRIVE, v.i.
1.  To prosper by industry, economy and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate. A farmer thrives by good husbandry.  When the body of laboring men thrive, we pronounce the state prosperous.
 Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.
2.  To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.
 O son, why sit we here, each other viewing
 Idly, while Satan our great author thrives?
 They by vices thrive.
3.  To grow; to increase in bulk or stature; to flourish.  Young cattle thrive in rich pastures; and trees thrive in a good soil.
4.  To grow; to advance; to increase or advance in any thing valuable.


Topic: Thriving
Definition:
THRI'VING, ppr.  Prospering in worldly goods.
1.  a. Being prosperous or successful; advancing in wealth; increasing; growing; as a thriving mechanic; a thriving trader.


Topic: Throat
Definition:
THROAT, n.
1.  The anterior part of the neck of an animal, in which are the gullet and windpipe, or the passages for the food and breath.
 In medicine, the fauces; all that hollow or cavity which may be seen when the mouth is wide open.
2.  In seamen's language, that end of a gaff which is next the mast.
3.  In ship-building, the inside of the knee-timber at the middle or turns of the arms; also, the inner part of the arms of an anchor where they join the shank; and the middle part of a floor-timber.
Throat-brails, brails attached to the gaff, close to the mast.
Throat-halliards, are those that raise the throat of the gaff.
THROAT, v.t.  To mow beans in a direction against their bending.  [Local.]


Topic: Throat-wort
Definition:
THROAT-WORT, n. [throat and wort.]  A plant of the genus Campanula, a perennial weed common in pasture-ground; also, a plant of the genus Trachelium.


Topic: Throb
Definition:
THROB, v.i. [perhaps allied to drive and to drub; at least its elements and signification coincide.]  To beat, as the heart or pulse, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate.  The heart throbs with joy, desire of fear; the violent action of the heart is perceived by a throbbing pulse.
 My heart throbs to know one thing.
 We apply the word also the breast.
 Here may his head live on my throbbing breast.
THROB, n. A beat or strong pulsation; a violent beating of the heart and arteries; a palpitation.
 Thou talk'st like one who never felt
 Th' impatient throbs and longings of a soul
 That pants and reaches after distant good.


Topic: Throbbing
Definition:
THROB'BING, ppr.  Beating with unusual force, as the heart and pulse; palpitating.
THROB'BING, n.  The act of beating with unusual force, as the heart and pulse; palpitation.


Topic: Throe
Definition:
THROE, n.  Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony.  It is particularly applied to the anguish of travail in child-birth.
 My throes came thicker, and my cries increas'd.
THROE, v.i.  To agonize; to struggle in extreme pain.
THROE, v.t.  To put in agony.


Topic: Throne
Definition:
THRONE, n. [L. thronus.]
1.  A royal seat; a chair of state.  The throne is sometimes an elegant chair richly ornamented with sculpture and gilding, raised a step above the floor, and covered with a canopy.
2.  The seat of a bishop.
3.  In Scripture, sovereign power and dignity.
 Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.  Gen.41.
 Thy throne, O God, is forever. Ps.45.
4.  Angels.  Col.1.
5.  The place where God peculiarly manifests his power and glory.
 The heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. Is.66.
THRONE, v.t.  To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
1.  To place in an elevated position; to give an elevated place to; to exalt.
 True image of the Father, whether thron'd
 In the bosom of bliss and light of light.


Topic: Throng
Definition:
THRONG, n.
1.  A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.
2.  A great multitude; as the heavenly throng.
THRONG, v.i.  To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.
 I have seen
 The dumb men throng to see him.
THRONG, v.t.  To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
 Much people followed him, and thronged him.  Mark 5.


Topic: Thronging
Definition:
THRONG'ING, ppr.  Crowding together; pressing with a multitude of persons.
THRONG'ING, n.  The act of crowding together.


Topic: Throstling
Definition:
THROS'TLING, n.  A disease of cattle of the ox kind, occasioned by a swelling under their throats, which unless checked, will choke them.


Topic: Throttle
Definition:
THROT'TLE, n. [from throat.]  The windpipe or larynx.
THROT'TLE, v.i.  To choke; to suffocate; or to obstruct so as to endanger suffocation.
1.  To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
THROT'TLE, v.t.  To utter with breaks and interruptions, as a person half suffocated.
 Throttle their practic'd accents in their fears.


Topic: Through
Definition:
THROUGH, prep. thru.
1.  From end to end, or from side to side; from one surface or limit to the opposite; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
2.  Noting passage; as, to pass through a gate or avenue.
 Through the gates of iv'ry he dismiss'd
 His valiant offspring.
3.  By transmission, noting the means of conveyance.
 Through these hands this science has passed with great applause.
 Material things are presented only through their senses.
4.  By means of; by the agency of; noting instrumentality.  This signification is a derivative of the last.
 Through the scent of water it will bud. Job 14.
 Some through ambition, or through thirst of gold,
 Have slain their brothers, and their country sold.
 Sanctify them through thy truth.  John 17.
 The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom.6.
5.  Over the whole surface or extent; as, to ride through the country.
 Their tongue walketh through the earth. Ps.73.
6.  Noting passage among or in the midst of; as, to move through water, as a fish; to run through a thicket, as a deer.
THROUGH, adv. thru.  From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.
1.  From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.
2.  To the end; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.
To carry through, to complete; to accomplish.
To go through, to prosecute a scheme to the end.
1.  To undergo; to sustain; as, to go through hardships.


Topic: Throughly
Definition:
THROUGHLY, adv. thru'ly.  Completely; fully; wholly.
1.  Without reserve; sincerely.
[For this, thoroughly is now used.]


Topic: Throughout
Definition:
THROUGHOUT, prep. thruout'. [through and out.]  Quite through; in every part; from one extremity to the other.  This is the practice throughout Ireland.  A general opinion prevails throughout England.  Throughout the whole course of his life, he avoided every species of vice.
THROUGHOUT, adv. throut'. In every part.  The cloth was of a piece throughout.


Topic: Throw
Definition:
THROW, v.t. pret. threw; pp. thrown. [Gr. to run; L. trochilus.]
1.  Properly, to hurl; to whirl; to fling or cast in a winding direction.
2.  To fling or cast in any manner; to propel; to send; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine.  Thus we throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a bomb throws a shell.  The Roman balista threw various weapons. A fire engine throws water to extinguish flames.
3.  To wind; as, to throw silk.
4.  To turn; as, to throw balls in a lathe.
 [Not in general use.]
5.  To venture at dice.
 Set less than thou throwest.
6.  To cast; to divest or strip one's self of; to put off; as, a serpent throws his skin.
7.  To cast; to send.
 I have thrown
 A brave defiance in king Henry's teeth.
8.  To put on; to spread carelessly.
 O'er his fair limbs a flow'ry vest he threw.
9.  To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
    10. To cast; to drive by violence; as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
To throw away, to lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
1.  To bestow without a compensation.
2.  To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
To throw by, to lay aside or neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment.
To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall.
1.  To bring down from a high station; to depress.
To throw in, to inject.
1.  To put in; to deposit with others; also, to give up or relinquish.
To throw off, to expel; to clear from; as, to throw off a disease.
1.  To reject; to discard; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
To throw on, to cast on; to load.
To throw out, to cast out; to reject or discard; to expel.
1.  To utter carelessly; to speak; as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
2.  To exert; to bring forth into act.
 She throws out thrilling shrieks.
3.  To distance; to leave behind.
4.  To exclude; to reject. The bill was thrown out on the second reading.
To throw up, to resign; as, to throw up a commission.
1.  To resign angrily.
 Bad games are thrown up too soon.
2.  To discharge from the stomach.
To throw one's self down, to lie down.
To throw one's self on, to resign one's self to the favor, clemency or sustaining power of another; to repose.
THROW, v.i.  To perform the act of throwing.
1.  To cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients.  [Not much used.]
THROW, n.  The act of hurling or flinging; a cast; a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.
 He heav'd a stone, and rising to the throw,
 He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.
1.  A cast of dice; and the manner in which dice fall when cast; as a good throw.  None but a fool hazards all upon one throw.
2.  The distance which a missile is or may be thrown; as a stone's throw.
3.  A stroke; a blow.
 Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.
4.  Effort; violent sally.
 Your youth admires
 The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.
5.  The agony of travail.  [See Throe.]
6.  A turner's lathe.  [Local.]


Topic: Thrum
Definition:
THRUM, n.  [Gr. a fragment; to break.]  The ends of weaver's threads.
1.  Any coarse yarn.
2.  Thrums, among gardeners, the thread-like internal bushy parts of flowers; the stamens.
THRUM, v.i.  To play coarsely on an instrument with the fingers.
THRUM, v.t.  To weave; to know; to twist; to fringe.
1.  Among seamen, to insert short pieces of rope-yard or spun yard in a sail or mat.


Topic: Thrush
Definition:
THRUSH, n.
1.  A bird, a species of Turdus, the largest of the genus; the Turdus viscivorus or missel-bird.
2.  An affection of the inflammatory and suppurating kind, in the feet of the horse and some other animals.  In the horse it is in the frog.
3.  In medicine, (L. apthoe,) ulcers in the mouth and fauces.


Topic: Thrust
Definition:
THRUST, v.t. pret. and pp. thrust. [L. trudo, trusum, trusito.]
1.  To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.
 Neither shall one thrust another. Joel 2. John 20.
2.  To drive; to force; to impel.
To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject.  Acts 7.
To thrust in, to push or drive in.
 Thrust in thy sickle and reap. Rev. 14.

To thrust on, to impel; to urge.
To thrust off, to push away.
To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. Num. 25. 2 Sam. 18.
To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. Ex.12.
To thrust one's self, to obtrude; to intrude; to enter where one is not invited or not welcome.
To thrust together, to compress.
THRUST, v.i.  To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
1.  To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
 And thrust between my father and the god.
2.  To intrude.
3.  To push forward; to come with force; to press on.
 Young, old, thrust there
 In mighty concourse.
THRUST, n. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing.
 Polites Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
 And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
1.  Attack; assault.
 There is one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
[Note.  Push and shove do not exactly express the sense of thrust.  The two former imply the application of force by one body already  in contact with the body to be impelled.  Thrust on the contrary, often implies the impulse or application of force by a moving body, a body in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.  This distinction does not extend to every case.]


Topic: Thrusting
Definition:
THRUST'ING, ppr.  Pushing with force; driving; impelling; pressing.
THRUST'ING, n.  The act of pushing with force.
1.  In dairies, the act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.  [Local.]


Topic: Thrustings
Definition:
THRUST'INGS, n.  In cheese-making, the white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
[The application of this word to cheese-making, is, I believe, entirely unknown in New England.]


Topic: Thum
Definition:
THUM, n.  The short thick finger of the human hand, or the corresponding member of other animals.  [The common orthography is corrupt.  The real word is thum.]


Topic: Thummim
Definition:
THUM'MIM, n. plu.  A Hebrew word denoting perfections.  The Urim and Thummim were worn in the breastplate of the high priest, but what they were, has never been satisfactorily ascertained.


Topic: Thump
Definition:
THUMP, n.  A heavy blow given with any thing that is thick, as with a club or the fist, or with a heavy hammer, or with the britch of a gun.
 The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
THUMP, v.t.  To strike or beat with something thick or heavy.
THUMP, v.i.  To strike or fall on with a heavy blow.
 A watchman at night thumps with his pole.


Topic: Thumping
Definition:
THUMP'ING, ppr.  Striking or beating with something thick or blunt.
1.  a. Heavy.
2.  Vulgarly, stout; fat; large.


Topic: Thunder
Definition:
THUN'DER, n. [L. tonitru, from tono, to sound.]
1.  The sound which follows an explosion of electricity or lightning; the report of a discharge of electrical fluid, that is, of its passage from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud. When this explosion is near to a person, the thunder is a rattling or clattering sound, and when distant, the sound is heavy and rumbling.  The fact is in some degree the same with the report of a cannon. This sharpness or acuteness of the sound when near, and the rumbling murmur when distant, are the principal distinctions in thunder.  [Thunder is not lightning, but the effect of it.  See Johnson's dictionary_webster1828, under thunder.]
 There were thunders and lightnings. Ex.19.
2.  Thunder is used for lightning, or for a thunderbolt, either originally through ignorance, or by way of metaphor, or because the lightning and thunder are closely united.
 The revenging gods
   'Gainst parricides all the thunder bend.
3.  Any loud noise; as the thunder of cannon.
 Sons of thunder.  Mark 3.
4.  Denunciation published; as the thunders of the Vatican.
THUN'DER, v.i.  To sound, rattle or roar, as an explosion of electricity.
 Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job 40.
1.  To make a loud noise, particularly a heavy sound of some continuance.
 His dreadful voice no more
 Would thunder in my ears.
2.  To rattle, or give a heavy rattling sound.
 And roll the thund'ring chariot o'er the ground.
THUN'DER, v.t.  To emit with noise and terror.
 Oracles severe
 Were daily thunder'd in our gen'ral's ear.
1.  To publish any denunciation or threat.
 An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.


Topic: Thunder-clap
Definition:
THUN'DER-CLAP, n. [thunder and clap.]  A burst of thunder; sudden report of an explosion of electricity.
 When suddenly the thunder-clap was heard.


Topic: Thunder-horse
Definition:
THUN'DER-HORSE, n.  An instrument for illustrating the manner in which buildings receive damage by lightning.


Topic: Thunder-storm
Definition:
THUN'DER-STORM, n. [thunder and storm.]  A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.  Thunder clouds are often driven by violent winds.  In America, the violence of the wind at the commencement, is sometimes equal to that of a hurricane, and at this time the explosions of electricity are the most terrible.  This violence of the wind seldom continues longer than a few minutes, and after this subsides, the rain continues, but the peals of thunder are less frequent.  These violent showers sometimes continue for hours; more generally, they are of shorter duration.
THUN'DER-STORM,  v.t. [thunder and strike.]
1.  To strike, blast or injure by lightning. [Little used in its literal sense.]
2.  To astonish or strike dumb, as with something terrible.  [Little used except in the participle.]


Topic: Thunder-struck
Definition:
THUN'DER-STRUCK, pp. or a. Astonished; amazed; struck dumb by something surprising or terrible suddenly presented to the mind or view.  [This is a word in common use.]


Topic: Thunderbolt
Definition:
THUN'DERBOLT, n. [thunder and bolt.]
1.  A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of the electrical fluid, passing from one part of the heavens to another, and particularly from the clouds to the earth. Ps.78.
2.  Figuratively, a daring or irresistible hero; as the Scipios, those thunderbolts of war.
3.  Fulmination; ecclesiastical denunciation.
 He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
4.  In mineralogy, thunder-stone.


Topic: Thundering
Definition:
THUN'DERING, ppr. Making the noise of an electrical explosion; uttering a loud sound; fulminating denunciations.
THUN'DERING, n.  The report of an electrical explosion; thunder.
 Entreat the Lord that there by no more mighty thunderings and hail. Ex.9.


Topic: Thurible
Definition:
THU'RIBLE, n. [L. thuribulum, from thus, thuris, frankincense.]
A censer; a pan for incense.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Thurification
Definition:
THURIFICA'TION, n. [L. thus, thuris, and facio, to make.]
The act of fuming with incense; or the act of burning incense.


Topic: Thursday
Definition:
THURSDAY, n. [The god of thunder, answering to the Jove of the Greeks and Romans, L. dies Jovis.]  
The fifth day of the week.


Topic: Thus
Definition:
THUS, adv.  In this or that manner; on this wise; as, thus saith the Lord; the Pharisee prayed thus.
 Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him. Gen.6.
1.  To this degree or extent; as thus wise; thus peaceable.
 Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds--
2.  In the phrase, thus much, it seems to be an adjective, equivalent to this much.


Topic: Thwack
Definition:
THWACK, v.t.  To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang; to beat or thrash.
THWACK, n. A heavy blow with something flat or heavy.


Topic: Thwaite
Definition:
THWAITE, n. A fish, a variety of the shad.
1.  A plain parcel of ground, cleared of wood and stumps, inclosed and converted to tillage.  [Local.


Topic: Thwart
Definition:
THWART, a. thwort. [L. verto, versus.]  Transverse; being across something else.
 Mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities.
THWART, v.t. thwort.  To cross; to be, lie or come across the direction of something.
 Swift as a shooting star
 In autumn thwarts the night.
1.  To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.  We say, to thwart a purpose, design or inclination; or to thwart a person.
 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
 The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
THWART, v.i.  To be in opposition.
 --A proposition that shall thwart at all with these internal oracles. [Unusual and improper.]
THWART, n.  The seat or bench of a boat on which the rowers sit.


Topic: Thwarting
Definition:
THWART'ING, ppr.  Crossing; contravening; defeating.
THWART'ING, n.  The act of crossing or frustrating.


Topic: Thy
Definition:
THY, a. [contracted from thine, or from some other derivative of thou.  It is probable that the pronoun was originally thig, thug or thuk, and the adjective thigen.  See Thou.]
Thy is the adjective of thou, or a pronominal adjective, signifying of thee, or belonging to thee, like tuus in Latin.  It is used in the solemn and grave style.
 These are thy works, parent of good.
Thyine wood, a precious wood, mentioned Rev.18.


Topic: Thyite
Definition:
THY'ITE, n.  The name of a species of indurated clay, of the morochthus kind, of a smooth regular texture, very heavy, of a shining surface, and of a pale green color.


Topic: Thyme
Definition:
THYME, n. usually pronounced improperly time. [L. thymus.]
A plant of the genus Thymus.  The garden thyme is a warm pungent aromatic,much used to give a relish to seasonings and soups.
Thymus. [Gr.]  In anatomy, a glandular body, divided into lobes, situated behind the sternum in the duplicature of the mediastinum.  It is largest in the fetus, diminishes after birth, and in adults often entirely disappears.  It has no excretory duct, and its use is unknown.  In calves it is called sweetbread.


Topic: Thyroid
Definition:
THY'ROID, a. [Gr. a shield,and form.]  Resembling a shield; applied to one of the cartilages of the larynx, so called from its figure, to a gland situated near that cartilage, and to the arteries and veins of the gland.
The thyroid cartilage constitutes the anterior,superior,and largest part of the larynx.
The thyroid gland is situated on the sides and front of the lower part of the larynx, and the upper part of the trachea.  It is copiously supplied with blood, but is not known to furnish any secretion.  It is the seat of the bronchocele or goiter.


Topic: Thyrse
Definition:
THYRSE, n. [L. thyrsus.]  In botany, a species of inflorescence; a panicle contracted into an ovate form, or a dense or close panicle, more or less of an ovate figure, as in the lilac.


Topic: Thyself
Definition:
THYSELF', pron. [thy and self.]  A pronoun used after thou, to express distinction with emphasis.  'Thou thyself shalt go;' that is, thou shalt go and no other.  It is sometimes used without thou, and in the nominative as well as objective case.
 These goods thyself can on thyself bestow.


Topic: Tibial
Definition:
TIB'IAL, a. [L. tibia, a flute, and the large bone of the leg.]
1.  Pertaining to the large bone of the leg; as the tibial artery; tibial nerve.
2.  Pertaining to a pipe or flute.


Topic: Tick
Definition:
TICK, n.  Credit; trust; as, to buy upon tick.
TICK, n.  A little animal of a livid color and globose-ovate form, that infests sheep,dogs, goats, cows, &c., a species of Acarus.
TICK, n. [L. tego; Eng. to deck.]  The cover or case of a bed, which contains the feathers, wool or other material.
TICK, v.i.  [from tick, credit.]  To run upon score.
1.  To trust.
TICK, v.i. [L. tango, tago.]  To beat; to pat; or to make a small noise by beating or otherwise; as a watch.


Topic: Ticket
Definition:
TICK'ET, n.
1.  A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition.
2.  A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder.
3.  A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number.  When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive.
TICK'ET, v.t.  To distinguish by a ticket.


Topic: Tickle
Definition:
TICK'LE, v.t. [L. titillo, corrupted.]
1.  To touch lightly and cause a peculiar thrilling sensation, which cannot be described.  A slight sensation of this kind may give pleasure, but when violent it is insufferable.
2.  To please by slight gratification.  A glass of wine may tickle the palate.
 Such a nature
 Tickled with good success.
TICK'LE, v.i.  To feel titillation.
 He with secret joy therefore
 Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
TICK'LE, a.  Tottering; wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
 Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if in love, may sign it off.
 The state of Normandy
 Stands on a tickle point.
[This word is wholly obsolete, at least in N. England.  Ticklish is the word used.]


Topic: Ticklish
Definition:
TICK'LISH, a.  Sensible to slight touches, easily tickled.  The bottom of the foot is very ticklish,as are the sides.  The palm of the hand, hardened by use, it not ticklish.
1.  Tottering; standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily moved or affected.
 Ireland was a ticklish and unsettled state.
2.  Difficult; nice; critical; as, these are ticklish times.


Topic: Ticklishness
Definition:
TICK'LISHNESS, n.  The state or quality of being ticklish or very sensible.
1.  The state of being tottering or liable to fall.
2.  Criticalness of condition or state.


Topic: Tide-gate
Definition:
TI'DE-GATE, n.  A gate through which water passes into a basin when the tide flows, and which is shut to retain the water from flowing back at the ebb.
1.  Among seamen, a place where the tide runs with great velocity.


Topic: Tide-mill
Definition:
TI'DE-MILL, n. [tide and mill.]  A mill that is moved by tide water; also, a mill for clearing lands from tide water.


Topic: Tide-waiter
Definition:
TI'DE-WAITER, n. [tide and waiter.]  An officer who watches the landing of goods, to secure the payment of duties.


Topic: Tides-man
Definition:
TI'DES-MAN, n.  An officer who remains on board of a merchant's ship till the goods are landed, to prevent the evasion of the duties.


Topic: Tidiness
Definition:
TI'DINESS, n.  Neatness without richness or elegance; neat simplicity; as the tidiness of dress.
1.  Neatness; as the tidiness of rooms.


Topic: Tidings
Definition:
TI'DINGS, n. plu.  News; advice; information; intelligence; account of what has taken place, and was not before known.
 I shall make my master glad with these tidings.
 Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  Luke 2.


Topic: Tidy
Definition:
TI'DY, a. [from tide, time, season.]
1.  In its primary sense, seasonable; favorable; being in proper time; as weather fair and tidy.
2.  Neat; dressed with neat simplicity; as a tidy lass; the children are tidy; their dress is tidy; that is primarily, proper for the time or occasion.
3.  Neat; being in good order.  The apartments are well furnished and tidy.


Topic: Tierce
Definition:
TIERCE, n. ters.  A cask whose content is one third of a pipe, that is, forty gallons; or it may be the measure.
1.  In Ireland, a weight by which provisions are sold.  The tierce of beef for the navy, is 304 lb. and for India, 336 lb.
2.  In music, a third.
3.  In gaming, a sequence of three cards of the same color.
4.  A thrust in fencing.


Topic: Tiff
Definition:
TIFF, n.  Liquor; or rather a small draught of liquor.  [Vulgar.]
1.  A pet or fit of peevishness.
[I know not where this word is used in the latter sense.]
TIFF, v.i.  To be in a pet.  [Low.]
TIFF, v.t.  To dress. [Not in use.]


Topic: Tiffany
Definition:
TIF'FANY, n.  [According to the Italian and Spanish Dictionaries, this word is to be referred to taffeta.]
A species of gauze or very thin silk.
Tiffe-de-mer, a species of sea plant, so called by Count Marsigli, from its resemblance to the heads of the Typha palustris, or cat's tail.  It has a smooth surface and a velvety look.  It grows to two feet in highth, and is elegantly branched.  It grows on rocks and stones, and when first taken out of the sea, is full of a yellow viscous water, but when this is pressed out and the substance is dried, it becomes of a dusky brown color.


Topic: Tiger
Definition:
TI'GER, n. [L. tigris.]  A fierce and rapacious animal of the genus Felis, one of the largest and most terrible of the genus, inhabiting Africa and Asia.  The American tiger is the Felis onca.  There is also the tiger cat or Felis capensis.


Topic: Tiger-shell
Definition:
TI'GER-SHELL, n. [tiger and shell.]  A name given to the red voluta, with large white spots.  In the Linnean system, the tiger-shell is a species of Cypraea.


Topic: Tight
Definition:
TIGHT, a. [L. taceo; that is, close, closely compressed.]
1.  Close; compact; not loose or open; having the joints so close that no fluid can enter or escape; not leaky; as a tight ship, or a tight cask.
2.  Close; not admitting much air; as a tight room.
3.  Sitting close to the body; as a tight coat or other garment.
4.  Close; not having holes or crevices; not loose; applied to many vessels, &c.
5.  Close; hard; as a tight bargain.  [In common use in America.]
6.  Close; parsimonious; saving; as a man tight in his dealings.  [In common use in America.]
7.  Closely dressed; not ragged.
 I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight.
8.  Hardy; adroit.
[Note. This is the taugt or taught of seamen, applied to a rope stretched.  The primary sense is strained.]


Topic: Tightness
Definition:
TIGHTNESS, n.  Closeness of joints; compactness; straitness.
1.  Neatness, as in dress.
2.  Parsimoniousness; closeness in dealing.


Topic: Tile
Definition:
TILE, n. [L. tegula; tego, to cover; Eng. to deck.]
1.  A plate or piece of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings.
 The pins for fastening tiles are made of oak or fir.
2.  In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
3.  A piece of baked clay used in drains.
TILE, v.t. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
1.  To cover, as tiles.
 The muscle, sinew and vein.
 Which tile this house, will come again.


Topic: Tiling
Definition:
TI'LING, ppr.  Covering with tiles.
TI'LING, n.  A roof covered with tiles. Luke 5.
1.  Tiles in general.


Topic: Tillage
Definition:
TILL'AGE, n.  The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops.  Tillage includes manuring, plowing, harrowing and rolling land, or whatever is done to bring it to a proper state to receive the seed, and the operations of plowing, harrowing and hoeing the ground, to destroy weeds and loosen the soil after it is planted; culture; a principal branch of agriculture.  Tillage of the earth is the principal as it was the first occupation of man, and no employment is more honorable.


Topic: Tiller-rope
Definition:
TILL'ER-ROPE, n.  The rope which forms a communication between the fore end of the tiller and the wheel.


Topic: Tilt
Definition:
TILT, n.
1.  A tent; a covering over head.
2.  The cloth covering of a cart or wagon.
3.  The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat.
TILT, v.t.  To cover with a cloth or awning.
TILT, n. [See the verb.]  A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.
1.  Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments.
2.  A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures.
3.  Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt.
TILT, v.t. [L. tollo.]
1.  To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2.  To point or thrust, as a lance.
 Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
3.  To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
4.  To cover with a tilt.
TILT, v.i.  To run or ride and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting at each other on horseback.
1.  To fight with rapiers.
 Swords out and tilting one at other's breast.
2.  To rush, as in combat.
3.  To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss.
 The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew.
4.  To lean; to fall, as on one side.
 The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.


Topic: Tilted
Definition:
TILT'ED, pp.  Inclined; made to stoop; covered with cloth or awning.
1.  Hammered; prepared by beating; as steel.


Topic: Tilter
Definition:
TILT'ER, n.  One who tilts; one who uses the exercise of pushing a lance on horseback; one who fights.
 Let me alone to match your tilter.
1.  One who hammers with a tilt.


Topic: Tilth
Definition:
TILTH, n.  That which is tilled; tillage ground. [Not in use.]
1.  The state of being tilled or prepared for a crop.  We say, land is in good tilth,when it is manured, plowed, broken and mellowed for receiving the seed.  We say also, ground is in bad tilth.  When we say, land is in tilth, we mean in good condition for the seed; not in tilth,in a bad condition.


Topic: Tilting
Definition:
TILT'ING, ppr.  Inclining; causing to stoop or lean; using the game of thrusting with the lance on horseback; also,hammering with a tilt-hammer.


Topic: Timber
Definition:
TIM'BER, n. [L. domus, a house; Gr. the body.]
1.  That sort of wood which is proper for building or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships and the like.  We apply the word to standing trees which are suitable for the uses above mentioned, as a forest contains excellent timber; or to the beams, rafters, scantling, boards, planks, &c. hewed or sawed from such trees.  Of all the species of trees useful as timber, in our climate, the white oak and the white pine hold the first place in importance.
2.  The body or stem of a tree.
3.  The materials; in irony.
 Such dispositions--are the fittest timber to make politics of.
4.  A single piece or squared stick of wood for building, or already framed.
 Many of the timbers were decayed.
5.  In ships, a timber is a rib or curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel in a vertical direction.  One timber is composed of several pieces united in one frame.
TIM'BER, v.t.  To furnish with timber.  [See Timbered.]
TIM'BER, v.i.  To light on a tree. [Not in use.]
1.  In falconry, to make a nest.
Timber or timmer of furs, as of martens, ermines, sables and the like, denotes forty skins; of other skins, one hundred and twenty.
Timber of ermine, in heraldry, denote the ranks or rows of ermine in noblemen's coats.


Topic: Timber-head
Definition:
TIM'BER-HEAD, n. [timber and head.]  In ships, the top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, &c.; otherwise called kevelhead.


Topic: Timbered
Definition:
TIM'BERED, pp. or a.  Furnished with timber; as a well timbered house.  In the United States, we say, land is well timbered,when it is covered with good timber trees.
1.  Built; formed; contrived. [Little used.]


Topic: Timbrel
Definition:
TIM'BREL, n. [L. tympanum.]  An instrument of music; a kind of drum, tabor or tabret,which has been in use from the highest antiquity.
 And Miriam took a timbrel in her hand--and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex.15.


Topic: Time
Definition:
TIME, n.  [L.tempus; tempora, the falls of the head, also tempest, &c. See Tempest.  Time is primarily equivalent to season; to the Gr.wpa in its original sense, opportunity, occasion, a fall, an event, that which comes.]
1.  A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.  The time was; the time has been; the time is; the time will be.
 Lost time is never found again.
 God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. Heb.1.
2.  A proper time; a season.
 There is a time to every purpose. Eccles.3.
 The time of figs was not yet. Mark 11.
3.  Duration.
 The equal and uniform flux of time does not affect our senses.
 Time is absolute or relative; absolute time is considered without any relation to bodies or their motions.  Relative time is the sensible measure of any portion of duration, by means of motion.  Thus the diurnal revolution of the sun measures a space of time or duration. Hence,
4.  A space or measured portion of duration.
We were in Paris two months,and all that time enjoyed good health.
5.  Life or duration, in reference to occupation.  One man spends his time in idleness; another devotes all his time to useful purposes.
 Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.
6.  Age; a part of duration distinct from other parts; as ancient times; modern times.  The Spanish armada was defeated in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
7.  Hour of travail.
 She was within one month of her time.
8.  Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition.  The physician visits his patient three times in a day.
9.  Repetition; doubling; addition of a number to itself; as, to double cloth four times; four times four amount to sixteen.
   10. Measure of sounds in music; as common time, and treble time. In concerts,it is all important, that the performers keep time, or exact time.
    11. The state of things at a particular period; as when we say, good times, or bad times, hard times,dull times for trade, &c. In this sense, the plural is generally used.
    12. In grammar, tense.
In time, in good season; sufficiently early.
 He arrived in time to see the exhibition.
1.  A considerable space of duration; process or continuation of duration.  You must wait patiently; you will in time recover your health and strength.
At times, at distinct intervals of duration.  At times he reads; at other times, he rides.
 The spirit began to move him at times.  Judges 13.
Time enough, in season; early enough.
 Stanley at Bosworth-field, came time enough to save his life.
To lose time, to delay.
1.  To go too slow; as, a watch or clock loses time.
Apparent time, in astronomy, true solar time, regulated by the apparent motions of the sun.
Mean time, equated time, a mean or average of apparent time.
Siderial time, is that which is shown by the diurnal revolutions of the stars.
TIME, v.t.  To adapt to the time or occasion; to bring, begin or perform at the proper season or time; as, the measure is well timed, or ill timed.  No small part of political wisdom consists in knowing how to time propositions and measures.
 Mercy is good, but kings mistake its timing.
1.  To regulate as to time; as, he timed the stroke.
2.  To measure; as in music or harmony.


Topic: Time-piece
Definition:
TI'ME-PIECE, n. [time and piece.]  A clock, watch or other instrument to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.


Topic: Time-pleaser
Definition:
TI'ME-PLEASER, n.  s as z.  [time and please.]  One who complies with the prevailing opinions, whatever they may be.


Topic: Time-server
Definition:
TI'ME-SERVER, n. [time and serve.]  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously complies with the ruling power.


Topic: Time-serving
Definition:
TI'ME-SERVING, a.  Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power.
TI'ME-SERVING, n.  An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.


Topic: Timeless
Definition:
TI'MELESS, a.  Unseasonable; done at an improper time.
 Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast
 Timeless--  [Not used.]
1.  Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as a timeless grave.  [Not used.]


Topic: Timely
Definition:
TI'MELY, a.  Seasonable; being in good time; sufficiently early. The defendant had timely notice of this motion. Timely care will often prevent great evils.
1.  Keeping time or measure.  [Not used.]
TI'MELY, adv.  Early; soon; in good season.
 Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun.


Topic: Timid
Definition:
TIM'ID, a. [L. timidus, from timeo, to fear.]  Fearful; wanting courage to meet danger; timorous; not bold.
 Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.


Topic: Timidity
Definition:
TIMID'ITY, n. [L. timiditas.]  Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice.  Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.


Topic: Timocracy
Definition:
TIMOC'RACY, n. [Gr. honor, worth, and to hold.]  Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income.


Topic: Timorous
Definition:
TIM'OROUS, a. [L. timor.  See Timid.]
1.  Fearful of danger; timid; destitute of courage; as a timorous doubts; timorous beliefs.


Topic: Timorously
Definition:
TIM'OROUSLY, adv.  Fearfully; timidly; without boldness; with much fear.
 Let dastard souls be timorously wise.


Topic: Tin
Definition:
TIN, n. [L. stannum; stagnum.]
1.  A white metal, with a slight tinge of yellow.  It is soft, non-elastic, very malleable, and when a bar of it is bent near the ear, distinguished by a crackling sound called the cry of tin.  It is used for culinary vessels, being for this purpose usually combined with lead, forming pewter; and alloyed with small proportions of antimony, copper and bismuth, is formed into various wares resembling silver, under the names of block-tin, brittania, &c.  Equal parts of tin and lead compose soder. Tin united with copper in different proportions, forms bronze, bell-metal, and speculum-metal.
2.  Thin plates of iron covered with tin.
TIN, v.t.  To cover with tin, or overlay with tinfoil.


Topic: Tinct
Definition:
TINCT,v.t. [L. tingo,tinctus.]  To stain or color; to imbue.
TINCT, n.  Stain; color.  [Obsolete.  We now use tinge and tincture.]


Topic: Tincture
Definition:
TINC'TURE, n. [L. tinctura.]
1.  The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a menstruum; or an extract of a part of the substance of a body, communicated to the menstruum.  Hence,
2.  In medicine, a spiritus solution of such of the proximate principles of vegetables and animals as are soluble in pure alcohol or proof-spirit; wine or spirits containing medicinal substances in solution.
3.  A tinge or shade of color; as a tincture of red.
4.  Slight taste superadded to any substance; as a tincture or orange-peel.
5.  Slight quality added to any thing; as a tincture of French manners.
 All manners take a tincture from our own.
TINC'TURE, v.t.  To tinge; to communicate a slight foreign color to; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
 A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.
1.  To imbue the mind; to communicate a portion of any thing foreign; as a mind tinctured with skepticism.


Topic: Tine
Definition:
TINE, v.t.  To kindle, to set on fire.  [See Tind.]
TINE, v.t. [L. teneo.]  To shut or inclose; to fill.  [Not in use or local.]
TINE, n. [L. dens.]
1.  The tooth or spike of a fork; a prong; also,the tooth of a harrow or drag.
2.  Trouble; distress.  [Not in use.]
TINE, v.i.  To rage; to smart; to fight.


Topic: Tineman
Definition:
TI'NEMAN, n.  Anciently an officer of the forest in England, who had the nocturnal care of vert and venison.


Topic: Tinet
Definition:
TI'NET, n. [tine, to shut, supra.]  In old writers, brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.


Topic: Ting
Definition:
TING, n. A sharp sound.  [Not in use.  Children use ding, dong.  See Tingle.]
TING, v.i.  To sound or ring.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Tinge
Definition:
TINGE, v.t. [L. tingo; Eng. to dye.]   To imbue or impregnate with something foreign; to communicate the qualities of one substance, in some degree, to another, either by mixture, or by adding them to the surface; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron; to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste. The jaundice tinges the eyes with yellow.
 The virtues of sir Roger, as well as his imperfections, are tinged with extravagance.
TINGE, n.  Color; dye; taste; or rather a slight degree of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; as a red color that has a tinge of blue; a dish of food that has a tinge of orange peel in its taste.


Topic: Tingent
Definition:
TING'ENT, a.  Having the power to tinge.
 As for the white part, it appeared much less enriched with the tingent property.  [Little used.]


Topic: Tingle
Definition:
TIN'GLE, v.i. [L. tinnio.]
1.  To feel a kind of thrilling sound.
 At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.  1 Sam.3.
2.  To feel a sharp thrilling pain.
 The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.
3.  To have a thrilling sensation, or a sharp slight penetrating sensation.
 They suck pollution through their tingling veins.


Topic: Tinkal
Definition:
TINK'AL, n.  Borax in its crude state or unrefined.  It consists of small crystals of a yellowish color, and is unctuous to the feel.


Topic: Tinkle
Definition:
TINK'LE, v.i.
1.  To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink.
 --And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor.13.  Is.3.
 The sprightly horse
 Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
 The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.
2.  To hear a small sharp sound.
 And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.
TINK'LE, v.t.  To cause to clink or make sharp quick sounds.


Topic: Tinkling
Definition:
TINK'LING, ppr.  Making a small quick sharp noise.
TINK'LING, n.  A small quick sharp sound.
 Making a tinkling with their feet. Is.3.


Topic: Tinning
Definition:
TIN'NING, ppr. [from tin.]  Covering with tin or tinfoil.
TIN'NING, n.  The act, art or practice of covering or lining any thing with melted tin or with tinfoil, as kitchen utensils, locks, bits, &c.


Topic: Tinsel
Definition:
TIN'SEL, n.  Something very shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
 Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?
 If the man will too curiously examine the superficial tinsel good, he undeceives himself to his cost.
1.  A kind of shining cloth.
2.  A kind of lace.
TIN'SEL, a.  Gaudy; showy to excess; specious; superficial.
TIN'SEL, v.t.  To adorn with something glittering and showy without much value; to make gaudy.
 She, tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying hues--


Topic: Tint
Definition:
TINT, n. [L. tinctus, tingo.  See Tinge.]  A dye; a color, or rather a slight coloring or tincture distinct from the ground or principal color; as red with a blue tint,or tint of blue.  In painting, tints are the colors considered as more or less bright, deep or thin, by the due use and intermixture of which a picture receives its shades, softness and variety.
 Or blend in beauteous tint the color'd mass.
 Their vigor sickens,and their tints decline.
TINT, v.t.  To tinge; to give a slight coloring to.


Topic: Tiny
Definition:
TIN'Y, a. [from the root of thin, which see.]  Very small; little; puny.  [A word used by children, and in burlesque.]
 When that I was a little tiny boy.


Topic: Tip
Definition:
TIP, n.
1.  The end; the point or extremity of any thing small; as the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear; the tip of the tongue; the tip of the ear.
2.  One part of the play at nine-pins.
3.  In botany, an anther.
TIP, v.t.  To form a point with something; to cover the tip, top or end; a, to tip any thing with gold or silver.
 With truncheon tipp'd with iron head.
 Tipp'd with jet,
 Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
1.  [for tap.]  To strike slightly, or with the end of any thing small; to tap.
 A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
2.  To lower one end, or throw upon the end; as, to tip a cart for discharging a load. [N. England.]
To tip the wink, to direct a wink, or to wink to another for notice.
TIP, v.i.  In the phrase, to tip off, that is, to fall headlong; hence, to die.


Topic: Tipple
Definition:
TIP'PLE, v.i.  To drink spiritus or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper use of spiritus liquors.  When a man begins to tipple, let his creditors secure their debts.
TIP'PLE, v.t.  To drink, as strong liquors, in luxury or excess.
 --Himself for saving charges.
 A peel'd, slic'd onion eats, and tipples verjuice.
TIP'PLE, n.  Drink; liquor taken in tippling.


Topic: Tippler
Definition:
TIP'PLER, n.  One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spiritus liquors; a drunkard; a sot.  It however signifies often a person who habitually drinks strong liquors, without absolute drunkenness.


Topic: Tippling
Definition:
TIP'PLING, ppr.  Indulging in the habitual use of strong or spiritus liquors.
TIP'PLING, n.  The habitual practice of drinking strong or spiritus liquors; a drinking to excess.


Topic: Tippling-house
Definition:
TIP'PLING-HOUSE, n. [tipple and house.]  A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, and where men are accustomed to spend their time and money in excessive drinking.


Topic: Tiptoe
Definition:
TIP'TOE, n. [tip and tow.]  The end of the toe.
 Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.
To be or to stand a tiptoe, to be awake or alive to any thing; to be roused; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.


Topic: Tirade
Definition:
TIRA'DE,  n.
1.  Formerly in French music, the filling of an interval by the intermediate diatonic notes.
2.  In modern usage, a strain or flight; a series of violent declamation.
 Here he delivers a violent tirade against all persons who profess to know any thing about angels.


Topic: Tire
Definition:
TIRE, n. [Heb. tur, a row or series.]
1.  A tier; a row or rank.  This is the same word as tier, differently written.  [See Tier and Tour.]
2.  A head dress; something that encompasses the head.  [See Tiara.]  Ezek.24.  Is.3.
 On her head she wore a tire of gold.
3.  Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.
4.  Attire.  [See Attire.]
5.  A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire.  This tire however is generally formed of different pieces, and is not one entire hoop.
TIRE, v.t.  To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head.  Obs. [See Attire.]  2 Kings 9.
TIRE, v.t.  [L. tero.]
1.  To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox.  A long day's work in summer will tire the laborer.
 Tir'd with toil, all hopes of safety past.
2.  To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness.  A dull advocate may tire the court and jury, and injure his cause.
To tire out, to weary or fatigue to excess; to harass.
TIRE, v.i.  To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted.  A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.


Topic: Tiresome
Definition:
TI'RESOME, a.  Wearisome; fatiguing; exhausting the strength; as a tiresome day's work; a tiresome journey.
1.  Tedious; exhausting the patience; as a tiresome discourse.  The debates in congress are said to be sometimes very tiresome.


Topic: Tiresomeness
Definition:
TI'RESOMENESS, n. The act or quality of tiring or exhausting strength or patience; wearisomeness; tediousness; as the tiresomeness of work or of a dull speaker.


Topic: Tirwit
Definition:
TIR'WIT, n.  A bird.  [L. vanellus.]
N.B.  The lapwing is called teewit in Scotland, (Ed Encyc.) and the lapwing is the vanellus.


Topic: Tisri
Definition:
TIS'RI, n.  The first Hebrew month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical; answering to a part of our September and a part of October.


Topic: Tissue
Definition:
TISSUE, n. tish'u.
1.  Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors.
 A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.
2.  In anatomy, texture or organization of parts.  The peculiar intimate structure of a part is called its tissue.  A part of a fibrous structure is called a fibrous tissue.  The organs of the body are made up of simpler elements, some generally diffused through the body,and others peculiar to particular organs.  These simpler structures are called the tissues of the body; as the cellular tissue; the mucous tissue, &c.  The cellular tissue is the cellular membrane.
3.  A connected series; as, the whole story is a tissue of forgeries or of falsehood.


Topic: Tit
Definition:
TIT, n.  The projecting part of the female breast; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman; the nipple.  It consists of an elastic erectile substance, embracing the lactiferous ducts, which terminate on its surface, and thus serves to convey milk to the young of animals.


Topic: Titanite
Definition:
TI'TANITE, n.  An ore or oxyd of titanium, commonly of a reddish brown color,when it is opake; it occurs also in prismatic crystals terminated by pyramids of a blood red color, and is then translucent or transparent.


Topic: Titanium
Definition:
TITA'NIUM, n.  In mineralogy, a metal of modern discovery, and of a dark copper color, first found in Cornwall in England.  It occurs in different states of oxydation or intermixture, in various parts of the world.  It exists in three different states of oxydation; the first is blue or purple, the second red, and the third white.  The ores of this metal are called menachanite, from Menachan in Cornwall, where it was originally found; iserine; from the river Iser, in Silesia; nigrine, from its black color; sphene, rutile, and octahedrite.


Topic: Tithe
Definition:
TITHE, n.  The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support.  Tithes are personal, predial, or mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are fed from the ground.
TITHE, v.t.  To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase.  Deut. 26.
 Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke 11.
TITHE, v.i.  To pay tithes.


Topic: Tithing
Definition:
TI'THING, ppr. Levying a tax on, to the amount of a tenth.
TI'THING, n.  A decennary; a number or company of ten householders, who dwelling near each other, were sureties or free- pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other.  The institution of tithings in England is ascribed to Alfred.


Topic: Tithingman
Definition:
TI'THINGMAN, n. [tithing and man.]
1.  The chief man of a tithing; a headborrough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
2.  A peace officer; an under constable.
3.  In New England, a parish officer annually elected to preserve good order in the church during divine service, and to make complaint of any disorderly conduct.


Topic: Titillation
Definition:
TITILLA'TION, n. [L. titillatio.]
1.  The act of tickling; or the state of being tickled.
2.  Any slight pleasure.
 The products of those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.


Topic: Title
Definition:
TI'TLE, n. [L. titulus.  This may belong to the family of Gr. to set or put.]
1.  An inscription put over any thing as a name by which it is known.
2.  The inscription in the beginning of a book, containing the subject of the work, and sometimes the author's name.
3.  In the civil and canon laws, a chapter or division of a book.
4.  An appellation of dignity, distinction or pre-eminence given to persons; as duke, marquis and the like.
5.  A name; an appellation.
 Ill worthy I such title should belong
 To me transgressor.
6.  Right; or that which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership; as a good title to an estate; or an imperfect title.  The lowest degree of title is naked possession, and lastly the right of property, all which united complete the title.
But possession is not essential to a complete title.  A title to personal property may be acquired by occupancy.  A claim is not a title.
7.  The instrument which is evidence of a right.
8.  In the canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.  This is true and valid, or colorable.  A valid title gives a right to the benefice.  A colorable title appears to be valid, but is not.
9.  In ancient church records, a church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
TI'TLE, v.t.  To name; to call; to entitle.


Topic: Titter
Definition:
TIT'TER, v.i.  To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint.
TIT'TER,  n.  A restrained laugh.
1.  A weed.


Topic: Tittle-tattle
Definition:
TIT'TLE-TATTLE, n. [tattle, doubled.]
1.  Idle trifling talk; empty prattle.
2.  An idle trifling talker.  [Less proper.]
TIT'TLE-TATTLE, v.i.  To talk idly; to prate.


Topic: Titular
Definition:
TIT'ULAR, a. [L. titulus.]
1.  Existing in title or name only; nominal; having or conferring the title only; as a titular king or prince.
2.  Having the title to an office or dignity without discharging the duties of it.
 Both Valerius and Austin were titular bishops.
TIT'ULAR


Topic: Titulary
Definition:
TIT'ULARY, n.  A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.


Topic: Tiver
Definition:
TIV'ER, n.  A kind of ocher which is used in marking sheep in some parts of England.  [Local.]
TIV'ER, v.t.  To mark sheep with tiver, in different ways and for different purposes.  [Local.]


Topic: Tivering
Definition:
TIV'ERING, ppr. Marking with tiver.  [Local.]
TIV'ERING, n.  The act or practice of marking with tiver.  [Local.]


Topic: To
Definition:
TO, prep.
1.  Noting motion towards a place; opposed to from, or placed after another word expressing motion towards.  He is going to church.
2.  Noting motion towards a state or condition. He is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
3.  Noting accord or adaptation; as an occupation suited to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.
4.  Noting address or compellation, or the direction of a discourse.  These remarks were addressed to a large audience.
 To you, my noble lord of Westmoreland;
 I pledge your grace.
5.  Noting attention or application.
 Go, buckle to the law.
 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them. 1 Tim.4.
6.  Noting addition.
 Add to your faith, virtue.  2 Pet.1.
 Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.
7.  Noting opposition.  They engaged hand to hand.
8.  Noting amount, rising to.  They met us, to the number of three hundred.
9.  Noting proportion; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty seven.  It is ten to one that you will offend by your officiousness.
    10. Noting possession or appropriation. We have a good seat; let us keep it to ourselves.
    11. Noting perception; as a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind.
    12. Noting the subject of an affirmation.
 I have a king's oath to the contrary.
    13. In comparison of.
 All that they did was piety to this.
    14. As far as.
 Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten.
    15. Noting intention.
 --Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter.
[In this sense, for is now used.]
    16. After an adjective, noting the object; as deaf to the cries of distress; alive to the sufferings of the poor. He was attentive to the company or to the discourse.
    17. Noting obligation; as duty to God and to our parents.
    18. Noting enmity; as a dislike to spiritus liquors.
    19. Towards; as, she stretched her arms to heaven.
    20. Noting effect or end. The prince was flattered to his ruin. He engaged in a war to this cost. Violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state.
 Numbers were crowded to death.
    21. To, as a sign of the infinitive, precedes the radical verb. Sometimes it is used instead of the ancient form, for to, noting purpose. David in his life time intended to build a temple. The legislature assembles annually to make and amend laws. The court will sit in February to try some important causes.
    22. It precedes the radical verb after adjectives, noting the object; as ready to go; prompt to obey; quick to hear, but slow to censure.
    23. It precedes the radical verb, noting the object.
 The delay of our hopes teaches us to mortify our desires.
    24. It precedes the radical verb, noting consequence.
 I have done my utmost to lead my life so pleasantly as to forget my misfortunes.
    25. It notes extent, degree or end. He languishes to death, even to death. The water rises to the highth of twenty feet. The line extends from one end to the other.
    26. After the substantive verb, and with the radical verb, it denotes futurity. The construction, we are to meet at ten o'clock, every man at death is to receive the reward of his deeds, is a particular form of expressing future time.
    27. After have, it denotes duty or necessity.
 I have a debt to pay on Saturday.
    28. To-day, to-night, to-morrow, are peculiar phrases derived from our ancestors. To in the two first, has the sense or force of this; this day, this night. In the last, it is equivalent to in or on; in or on the morrow. The words may be considered as compounds, to-day, to-night, to-morrow, and usually as adverbs. But sometimes they are used as nouns; as, to-day is ours.
To and from, backward and forward.  In this phrase, to is adverbial.
To the face, in presence of; not in the absence of.
 I withstood him face to face. Gal.2.
 To-morrow, to-morrow, and to-morrow,
 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
[Note.--In the foregoing explanation of to, it is to be considered that the definition given is not always the sense of to by itself, but the sense rather of the word preceding it, or connected with it, or of to in connection with other words.  In general, to is used in the sense of moving towards a place, or towards an object, or it expresses direction towards a place, end, object or purpose.]
To is often used adverbially to modify the sense of verbs; as, to come to; to heave to.  The sense of such phrases is explained under the verbs respectively.
In popular phrases like the following, 'I will not come; you shall to, or too, a genuine Saxon phrase, to denotes moreover, besides, L. insuper.


Topic: Toad
Definition:
TOAD, n.  A paddoc, an animal of the genus Rana, the Rana Bufo of Linne; a small clumsy animal, the body warty, thick and disgusting to the sight, but perfectly harmless, and indeed it is said to be useful in gardens by feeding on noxious worms.


Topic: Toad-stone
Definition:
TOAD-STONE, n. [toad and stone.]  In mineralogy, a sort of trap rock, of a brownish gray color.  The toad-stone of Derbyshire is generally a dark brown basaltic amygdaloid, composed of basalt and green earth, and containing oblong cavities filled with calcarious spar.


Topic: Toad-stool
Definition:
TOAD-STOOL, n. [toad and stoll.]  A sort of fungous plant that grows in moist and rich grounds like a mushroom.


Topic: Toast
Definition:
TOAST, v.t. [L. tostus.]
1.  To dry and scorch by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread or cheese.  [It is chiefly limited in its application to these two articles.]
2.  To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. [Not much used.]
3.  To name when a health is drank; to drink to the health in honor of; as, to toast a lady.  Addison writes 'to toast the health;' a form of expression I believe not now used.
TOAST, n.  Bread dried and scorched by the fire; or such bread dipped in melted butter, or in some liquor.  Dry toast is bread scorched, or it is scorched bread with butter spread upon it.  Soft toast is made by immersing toasted bread in melted butter, and called dipped toast.
1.  A female whose health is drank in honor or respect.
 The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast.
2.  He or that which is named in honor in drinking.


Topic: Tobacco
Definition:
TOBAC'CO, n. [so named from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, in Spanish America, where it was first found by the Spaniards.]
A plant, a native of America, of the genus Nicotiana, much used for smoking and chewing and in snuff.  As a medicine, it is narcotic.  Tobacco has a strong disagreeable smell, and an acrid taste.  When first used it sometimes occasions vomiting; but the practice of using it in any form, soon conquers distaste, and forms a relish for it that is strong and almost unconquerable.


Topic: Tobacco-pipe
Definition:
TOBAC'CO-PIPE, n. [tobacco and pipe.]  A pipe used for smoking tobacco, often made of clay and baked, sometimes of other material.


Topic: Tod
Definition:
TOD, n.
1.  A bush; a thick shrub.
2.  A quantity of wool of twenty eight pounds, or two stone.
3.  A fox.
TOD, v.t.  To weigh; to produce a tod.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Toddy
Definition:
TOD'DY, n.  A juice drawn from various kinds of the palm in the E. Indies; or a liquor prepared from it.
1.  A mixture of spirit and water sweetened.  Toddy differs from grog in having a greater proportion of spirit, and in being sweetened.


Topic: Toe
Definition:
TOE, n. [L. digitus .  Toe is contracted from tog, the primary word on which L. digitus is formed, coinciding with dug, and signifying a shoot.]
1.  One of the small members which form the extremity of the foot, corresponding to a finger on the hand.  The toes in their form and structure resemble the fingers, but are shorter.
2.  The fore part of the hoof of a horse, and of other hoofed animals.
3.  The member of a beast's foot corresponding to the toe in man.


Topic: Toft
Definition:
TOFT, n. [probably from the root of tuft.]
1.  A grove of trees.
2.  In law books, a place where a messuage has stood, but is decayed.


Topic: Together
Definition:
TOGETH'ER, adv.
1.  In company.  We walked together to the wood.
2.  In or into union.
 The king joined humanity and policy together.
3.  In the same place; as, to live together in one house.
4.  In the same time; as, to live together in the same age.
5.  In concert; as, the allies made war upon France together.
6.  Into junction or a state of union; as, to sew, knit, pin or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with.
 Take the bad together with the good.


Topic: Toil
Definition:
TOIL, v.i.  To labor; to work; to exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration.
 Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing.  Luke 5.
TOIL, v.t.  To toil out, to labor; to work out.
 Toil'd out my uncouth passage--
1.  To weary; to overlabor; as toil'd with works of war.
[Not in use nor proper.]
TOIL, n.  Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind.  Toil may be the labor of the field or the workshop, or of the camp. What toils men endure for the acquisition of wealth, power and honor!  Gen.5.
TOIL, n. [L. tela, a web; from spreading, extending or laying.] 
A net or snare; any thread, web or string spread for taking prey.
 A fly falls into the toils of a spider.


Topic: Toilet
Definition:
TOIL'ET, n. 
1. A covering or cloth of linen, silk or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room. Hence,
2.  A dressing table.


Topic: Toilsome
Definition:
TOIL'SOME, a.  Laborious; wearisome; attended with fatigue and pain; as toilsome work; a toilsome task.
 What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?
1. Producing toil; as a toilsome day or journey.


Topic: Toise
Definition:
TOISE, n. tois.  A fathom or long measure in France, containing six feet; but the French foot is longer than the English, 76 being equal to 81 English feet.


Topic: Tokay
Definition:
TOKA'Y, n.  A kind of wine produced at Tokay in Hungary, made of white grapes.  It is distinguished from other wines by its aromatic taste.  It is not good till it is about three years old, and it continues to improve as long as it is kept.


Topic: Token
Definition:
TOKEN, n. to'kn. [L. signum, dialetically varied, or from the same radix.]
1.  A sign; something intended to represent or indicate another thing or an event.  Thus the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.  The blood of the paschal lamb, sprinkled on the doors of the Hebrews, was a token to the destroying angel of God's will that he should pass by those houses.  Gen.9. Ex.12.
 Show me a token for good.  Ps.86.
2.  A mark.  In pestilential diseases, tokens are livid spots upon the body, which indicate the approach of death.
3.  A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind.
4.  In coinage, tokens were coins struck in the reign of Elizabeth in the cities of Bristol, Oxford and Worcester, and also by private persons, which were put into circulation, and upon being returned,the issuer gave the value of them in current money.
5.  In printing, ten quires of paper; an extra quire is usually added to every other token, when counted out for the press.


Topic: Told
Definition:
TOLD, pret. and pp. of tell.
 Who told thee that thou wast naked?  Gen.3.
 Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.  Judges 16.
 --Sheep and oxen that could not be told.  1 Kings 8.


Topic: Tole
Definition:
TOLE, v.t.  To draw or cause to follow by presenting something pleasing or desirable to view; to allure by some bait.  Thus our farmers tole sheep and make them follow, by holding to them a measure of corn or some portion of fodder.  In New England, it is applied only to the alluring of beasts.  Locke has applied it to men.


Topic: Tolerable
Definition:
TOL'ERABLE, a. [L. tolerabilis.  See Tolerate.]
1.  That may be borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.  The cold in Canada is severe, but tolerable.  The insults and indignities of our enemies are not tolerable.
 It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.  Matt. 10.
2.  Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment or opposition; as a tolerable translation; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable administration.


Topic: Tolerably
Definition:
TOL'ERABLY, adv.  Supportably; in a manner to be endured.
1.  Moderately well; passably; not perfectly; as a constitution tolerably firm.  The advocate speaks tolerably well.


Topic: Tolerance
Definition:
TOL'ERANCE, n. [L. tolerantia, from tolero, to bear.]  The power or capacity of enduring; or the act of enduring.
 Diogenes one frosty morning came to the market place shaking, to show his tolerance.
[Little used.  But intolerance is in common use.]


Topic: Tolerate
Definition:
TOL'ERATE, v.t. [L. tolero, from tollo, to lift.]  To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; as, to tolerate opinions or practices.  The protestant religion is tolerated in France, and the Roman Catholic in Great Britain.
 Crying should not be tolerated in children.
 The law of love tolerates no vice, and patronizes every virtue.


Topic: Toleration
Definition:
TOLERA'TION, n. [L. toleratio.]  The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved; appropriately, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state, when contrary to or different from those of the established church or belief.  Toleration implies a right in the sovereign to control men in their opinions and worship, or it implies the actual exercise of power in such control.  Where no power exists or none is assumed to establish a creed and a mode of worship, there can be no toleration, in the strict sense of the word, for one religious denomination has as good a right as another to the free enjoyment of its creed and worship.


Topic: Toll
Definition:
TOLL, n.  [Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll.  This is from the root of deal.  See Deal.]
1.  A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.
2.  A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
3.  A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
TOLL, v.i.  To pay toll or tallage.
1.  To take toll, as by a miller.
TOLL, v.i.  To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
 Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.
TOLL, v.t. [supra.]  To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral.  Tolling is a different thing from ringing.
TOLL, v.t. [L. tollo.]  To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.
1.  To draw.  [See Tole.]
TOLL, n.  A particular sounding of a bell.


Topic: Toll-booth
Definition:
TOLL-BOOTH, n. [toll and booth.]  A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
1.  A prison.
TOLL-BOOTH, v.t.  To imprison in a toll-booth.


Topic: Toll-house
Definition:
TOLL-HOUSE, n.  A house or shed placed by a road near a toll-gate, or at the end of a toll-bridge, or by a canal, where the man who takes the toll remains.


Topic: Tolling
Definition:
TOLLING, ppr.  Causing to sound in a slow grave manner.
1.  Taking away; removing.
2.  Sounding, as a bell.


Topic: Tomb
Definition:
TOMB, n. toom.  [L.  tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]
1.  A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
 As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
2.  A house or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof for the reception of the dead.
3.  A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
TOMB, v.t.  To bury; to inter.  [See Entomb.]


Topic: Tombac
Definition:
TOM'BAC, n.  A white allow of copper; a metallic composition made by mixing and fusing together a large quantity of zink with a smaller quantity of copper,with arsenic.


Topic: Tomboy
Definition:
TOM'BOY, n. [Tom, Thomas, and boy.]  A rude boisterous boy; also in sarcasm, a romping girl.  [Vulgar.]


Topic: Tombstone
Definition:
TOMBSTONE, n. [tomb and stone.]  A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased; a monument.


Topic: Tome
Definition:
TOME, n. [Gr. a piece or section, to cut off.]  A book; as many writings as are bound in a volume, forming the part of a larger work.  It may be applied to a single volume.


Topic: Tomentous
Definition:
TOMENT'OUS, a. [L. tomentum, down.]  In botany, downy; nappy; cottony; or flocky; covered with hairs so close as scarcely to be discernible, or with a whitish down, like wool; as a tomentous stem or leaf.


Topic: Ton
Definition:
TON, the termination of names of places,is town.
TON, n.  The prevailing fashion.
TON, n.  The weight of twenty hundred gross.  [See Tun.]  This is false orthography.  The word is from the Saxon tunna, a cask, and the sense of weight is taken from that of a cask or butt.


Topic: Tone
Definition:
TONE, n. [L. tonus; Gr. sound; L. tono; Gr. to sound, to strain or stretch.  The L. sonus is probably the same word in a different dialect.]
1.  Sound, or  modification of sound; any impulse or vibration of the air which is perceptible by the ear; as a low tone, high tone, or loud tone; a grave tone; an acute tone; a sweet tone; a harsh tone.
2.  Accent; or rather, a particular inflection of the voice, adapted to express emotion or passion; a rhetorical sense of the word.
 Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes.
3.  A whining sound; a whine; a kind of mournful strain of voice; as, children often read with a tone.
4.  An affected sound in speaking.
5.  In music, an interval of sound; as, the difference between the diapente and diatessaron, is a tone.  Of tones there are two kinds, major and minor.  The tone major is in the ratio of 8 to 9, which results from the difference between the fourth and fifth.  The tone minor is as 9 to 10, resulting from the difference between the minor third and the fourth.
6.  The tone of an instrument, is its peculiar sound with regard to softness, evenness and the like.
7.  In medicine,that state of organization in a body, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.  Tone, in its primary signification, is tension, and tension is the primary signification of strength.  Hence its application to the natural healthy state of animal organs.  Tone therefore in medicine, is the strength and activity of the organs, from which proceed healthy functions.  So we say, the body is in a sound state, the health is sound or firm.
TONE, v.t.  To utter with an affected tone.
1.  To tune.  [See Tune.]


Topic: Tongs
Definition:
TONGS, n. plu.  An instrument of metal, consisting of two parts or long shafts joined at one end; used for handling things, particularly fire or heated metals.  We say, a pair of tongs, a smith's tongs.


Topic: Tonnage
Definition:
TON'NAGE, n. [from ton, a corrupt orthography.  See Tun.]
1.  The weight of goods carried in a boat or ship.
2.  The cubical content or burthen of a ship in tuns; or the amount of weight which she may carry.
3.  A duty or impost on ships, estimated per tun; or a duty, toll or rate payable on goods per tun, transported on canals.


Topic: Tonsil
Definition:
TON'SIL, n. [L. tonsilloe. This word seems to be formed from tonsus, tondeo,to clip.]   In anatomy, a glandular body at the passage from the mouth to the pharynx. The tonsils are called also from their shape, amygdaloe, and in popular language, almonds. The tonsils have several excretory ducts opening into the mouth.
TON'SIL, a.  That may be clipped.


Topic: Tonsure
Definition:
TON'SURE, n. [L. tonsura, from tonsus, shaved; tondeo, to clip or shave.]
1.  The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the head; or the state of being shorn.
2.  In the Romish church, tonsure is the first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, who cuts off a part of his hair with prayers and benedictions. Hence tonsure is used to denote entrance or admission into holy orders.
3.  In the Romish church, the corona or crown which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank in the church.


Topic: Tontine
Definition:
TONTINE, n.  An annuity on survivorship; or a loan raised on life-annuities, with the benefit of survivorship.  Thus an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced.


Topic: Too
Definition:
TOO, adv.
1.  Over; more than enough; noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short,or too wide; too high; too many; too much.
 His will too strong to bend, too proud to learn.
2.  Likewise; also; in addition.
 A courtier and a patriot too.
 Let those eyes that view
 The daring crime, behold the vengeance too.
3.  Too, too, repeated, denotes excess emphatically; but this repetition is not in respectable use.


Topic: Toot
Definition:
TOOT, v.i.  [L. do, dedi.]
1.  To stand out or be prominent.  [Not in use.]
2.  To make a particular noise with the tongue articulating with the root of the upper teeth, at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to sound a horn in a particular manner.
 This writer should wear a tooting horn.
3.  To peep; to look narrowly.  [Not in use, and probably a mistaken interpretation.]
TOOT, v.t.  To sound; as, to toot the horn.


Topic: Tooth
Definition:
TOOTH, n. plu. teeth.  [L. dens.]
1.  A bony substance growing out of the jaws of animals, and serving as the instrument of mastication.  The teeth are also very useful in assisting persons in the utterance of words, and when well formed and sound, they are ornamental.  The teeth of animals differ in shape, being destined for different offices.  The front teeth in men and quadrupeds are called incisors, or incisive or cutting teeth; next to these are the pointed teeth, called canine or dog teeth; and on the sides of the jaws are the molar teeth or grinders.
2.  Taste; palate.
 These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.
3.  A tine; a prong; something pointed and resembling an animal tooth; as the tooth of a rake, a comb, a card, a harrow, a saw, or of a wheel.  The teeth of a wheel are sometimes called cogs,and are destined to catch corresponding parts of other wheels.
Tooth and nail, [by biting and scratching,] with one's utmost power; by all possible means.
To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face.
 That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth.
To cast in the teeth, to retort reproachfully; to insult to the face.
In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort.
To show the teeth, to threaten.
 When the law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
TOOTH, v.t.  To furnish with teeth; as, to tooth a rake.
1.  To indent; to cut into teeth; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
2.  To lock into each other.


Topic: Toothed
Definition:
TOOTH'ED, pp. or a.  Having teeth or jags.  In botany, dentate; having projecting points, remote from each other, about the edge.


Topic: Toothpicker
Definition:
TOOTH'PICKER, n.  [tooth and pick.]  An instrument for cleaning the teeth of substances lodged between them.


Topic: Toothwort
Definition:
TOOTH'WORT, n.  A plant whose roots resemble human teeth,such as the Lathroea squamaria, various species of Dentaria, the Ophrys corallorrhiza, &c.  This name is also given to the lead-wort, of the genus Plumbago, form its toothed corol.


Topic: Top
Definition:
TOP, n.
1.  The highest part of any thing; the upper end, edge or extremity; as the top of a tree; the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain.
2.  Surface; upper side; as the top of the ground.
3.  The highest place; as the top of preferment.
4.  The highest person; the chief.
5.  The utmost degree.
 The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.
 If you attain the top of your desires in fame--
6.  The highest rank. Each boy strives to be at the top of his class, or at the top of the school.
7.  The crown or upper surface of the head.
8.  The hair on the crown of the head; the forelock.
9.  The head of a plant.
    10. An inverted conoid which children play with by whirling it on its point, continuing the motion with a whip.
    11. In ship-building, a sort of platform, surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sides. It serves to extend the shrouds, by which means they more effectually support the mast; and in ships of war, the top furnishes a convenient stand for swivels and small arms to annoy the enemy.


Topic: Top-chain
Definition:
TOP'-CHAIN, n.  In ships, a chain to sling the lower yards in time of action, to prevent their falling when the ropes by which they are hung, are shot away.


Topic: Top-mast
Definition:
TOP'-MAST, n.  In ships, the second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast.  Above that is the top-gallant-mast.


Topic: Top-most
Definition:
TOP'-MOST, a. [top and most.]  Highest; uppermost; as the topmost cliff; the top-most branch of a tree.


Topic: Toparchy
Definition:
TO'PARCHY, n.  A little state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.  Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.


Topic: Topaz
Definition:
TO'PAZ, n. [Gr.]  A mineral, said to be so called from Topazos, a small isle in the Arabic gulf, where the Romans obtained a stone which they called by this name, but which is the chrysolite of the moderns.  The topaz is of a yellowish color.  It sometimes occurs in masses, but more generally crystallized in rectangular octahedrons.  Topaz is valued as a gem or precious stone, and is used in jewelry.  It consists of silex, fluoric acid and alumin, in the following proportions; alumin 57 parts, silex 34, and fluoric acid 7 or 8.
Of topaz there are three subspecies, common topaz, shorlite and physalite.


Topic: Tope
Definition:
TOPE, n.  A fish of the shark kind, the squalus galeus of Linne.
TOPE, v.i.  To drink hard; to drink strong or spiritus liquors to excess.
 If you tope in form, and treat--


Topic: Topet
Definition:
TOP'ET, n.  A small bird, the crested titmouse.
N.B.  The crested titmouse of Latham, Parus bicolor, is the toupet titmouse of Pennant.


Topic: Tophet
Definition:
TO'PHET, n. [Heb. tophet, a drum.]  Hell; so called from a place east of Jerusalem where children were burnt to Moloch, and where drums were used to drown their cries.


Topic: Topic
Definition:
TOP'IC, n. [Gr. place; L. topicus, topica.]
1.  Any subject of discourse or argument.  The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher,and topics infinitely interesting.
2.  In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact.  Aristotle wrote a book of topics.  Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.
3.  Principle of persuasion.
 Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.
4.  In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.
TOP'IC


Topic: Topical
Definition:
TOP'ICAL, a. [supra.]  Pertaining to a place, limited; local; as a topical remedy.
1.  Pertaining to a topic or subject of discourse, or to a general head.


Topic: Topically
Definition:
TOP'ICALLY, adv.  Locally; with limitation to a part.
1.  With application to a particular part; as a remedy topically applied.


Topic: Topman
Definition:
TOP'MAN, n. [top and man.]  The man who stands above in sawing.
1.  In ships, a man standing in the top.


Topic: Topographer
Definition:
TOPOG'RAPHER, n.  [See Topography.]  One who describes a particular place,town, city or tract of land.


Topic: Topography
Definition:
TOPOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr.place, and description.]  The description of a particular place,city, town, manor, parish or tract of land.  It is of more limited application than choreography.


Topic: Topping-lift
Definition:
TOP'PING-LIFT, n.  A large strong tackle employed to suspend or top the outer end of a gaff, or of the boom of a main-sail, in a brig or schooner.


Topic: Topple
Definition:
TOP'PLE, v.i. [from top.]  To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
 Though castles topple on their warders' heads.
[This word is used chiefly of children when beginning to walk.]


Topic: Topsy-turvy
Definition:
TOPSY-TUR'VY, adv.  In an inverted posture; with the top or head downwards; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.


Topic: Torch
Definition:
TORCH, n. [L. torqueo, tortus.]  A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood or of candles.
 They light the nuptial torch.


Topic: Torch-thistle
Definition:
TORCH'-THISTLE, n.  A plant of the genus Cactus.common name of a subdivision of the genus Cactus, called also cereus, from cera, wax, from the resemblance of the stems to a wax candle.  Torch-thistle is from the prickly stems, used by the Indians for torches.


Topic: Tore
Definition:
TORE, pret. of tear.  He tore his robe.
TORE, n.  The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.  [Used in New England.]
TORE, n. [L.torus.]  In architecture, a large round molding on the base of a column.  It is distinguished from the astragali by its size.  The bases of the Tuscan and Doric columns have only one tore, which is between the plinth and listel.  In the Attic base there are two.


Topic: Toreumatography
Definition:
TOREUMATOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. sculpture, and description.]  A description of ancient sculptures and basso-relievos.


Topic: Torment
Definition:
TOR'MENT, n. [L. tormentum.; torqueo, torno; Eng. tour; that is, from twisting, straining.]
1.  Extreme pain; anguish; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
 The more I see
 Pleasure about me, so much I feel
 Torment within me.
 Lest they also come into this place of torment.  Luke 16. Rev.9.  14.
2.  That which gives pain, vexation or misery.
 They brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.  Matt. 4.
3.  An engine for casting stones.


Topic: Tormentil
Definition:
TORMENT'IL, n.  A genus of plants,the septfoil.  The root is used in medicines as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes or tormina, whence its name.


Topic: Tormenting
Definition:
TORMENT'ING, ppr.  Paining to an extreme degree; inflicting severe distress and anguish; teasing; vexing.
TORMENT'ING, n.  In agriculture, an imperfect sort of horse-hoeing.


Topic: Tormentor
Definition:
TORMENT'OR, n.  He or that which torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
1.  In agriculture, an instrument for reducing a stiff soil.


Topic: Tornado
Definition:
TORNA'DO, n. [from the root of turn; that is, a whirling wind.]
A violent gust of wind, or a tempest, distinguished by a whirling motion. tornadoes of this kind happen after extreme heat, and sometimes in the United States, rend up fences and trees, and in a few instances have overthrown houses and torn them to pieces. Tornadoes are usually accompanied with severe thunder, lightning and torrents of rain; but they are of short duration, and narrow in breadth.


Topic: Torous
Definition:
TO'ROUS, a. [L. torosus.]  In botany, protuberant; swelling in knobs, like the veins and muscles; as a torous pericarp.


Topic: Torpedo
Definition:
TORPE'DO, n. [L. from torpeo, to be numb.]  The cramp fish or electric ray, Raia torpedo.  This fish is usually taken in forty fathoms water, on the coast of France and England, and in the Mediterranean.  A touch of this fish occasions a numbness in the limb, accompanied with an indescribable and painful sensation, and is really an electric shock.  When dead,the fish loses its power of producing this sensation.


Topic: Torpent
Definition:
TOR'PENT, a. [L. torpens, torpeo.]  Benumbed; torpid; having no motion or activity; incapable of motion.
 A frail and torpent memory.
TOR'PENT, n.  In medicine, that which diminishes the exertion of the irritative motions.


Topic: Torpid
Definition:
TOR'PID, a. [L. torpidus, torpeo.]
1.  Having lost motion or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; as a torpid limb.
 Without heat all things would be torpid.
2.  Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.  The mind as well as the body becomes torpid by indolence.  Impenitent sinners remain in a state of torpid security.


Topic: Torpidnesspitude
Definition:
TOR'PIDNESS'PITUDE, n.  The state of being torpid; numbness.  Torpidness may amount to total insensibility or loss of sensation.
1.  Dullness; inactivity; sluggishness; stupidity.


Topic: Torpor
Definition:
TOR'POR, n. [L.]  Numbness; inactivity; loss of motion, or of the power of motion.  Torpor may amount to a total loss of sensation, or complete insensibility.  It may however be applied to the state of a living body which has not lost all power of feeling and motion.
1.  Dullness; laziness; sluggishness; stupidity.


Topic: Torrefaction
Definition:
TORREFAC'TION, n. [L.torrefacio; torridus and facio.]
1.  The operation of drying by a fire.
2.  In metallurgy, the operation of roasting ores.
3.  In pharmacy, the drying or roasting of drugs on a metalline plate, placed over or before coals of fire, till they become friable to the fingers, or till some other desired effect is produced.


Topic: Torrefied
Definition:
TOR'REFIED,. pp.  Dried; roasted; scorched.  Torrefied earth, in agriculture, is that which has undergone the action of fire.


Topic: Torrefy
Definition:
TOR'REFY, v.t. [L. torrefacio; L. torridus, torreo,and facio.]
1.  To dry by a fire.
2.  In metallurgy, to roast or scorch, as metallic ores.
3.  In pharmacy, to dry or parch, as drugs, on a metalline plate till they are friable, or are reduced to any state desired.


Topic: Torrent
Definition:
TOR'RENT, n. [L. torrens.  This is the participle of torreo, to parch; Eng. tear.]
1.  A violent rushing stream of water or other fluid; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice; as a torrent of lava.
2.  A violent or rapid stream; a strong current; as a torrent of vices and follies; a torrent of corruption.
 Erasmus, that great injur'd name,
 Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barb'rous age.
TOR'RENT, a.  Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream; as waves of torrent fire.


Topic: Torricellian
Definition:
TORRICEL'LIAN, a.  Pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who discovered the true principle on which the barometer is constructed.
Torricellian tube, is a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at one end, and hermetically sealed at the other.
Torricellian vacuum, a vacuum produced by filling a tube with mercury, and allowing it to descend till it is counterbalanced by the weight of an equal column of the atmosphere, as in the barometer.


Topic: Torrid
Definition:
TOR'RID, a. [L. torridus, from torreo, to roast.]
1.  Parched; dried with heat; as a torrid plain or desert.
2.  Violently hot; burning or parching; as a torrid heat.
Torrid zone, in geography, that space or broad belt of the earth included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period every year, and where the heat is always great.


Topic: Torsion
Definition:
TOR'SION, n. [L. torsio, from torqueo, to twist.]  The act of turning or twisting.
Torsion balance, an instrument for estimating very minute forces by the motion of an index attached to the ends of two fine wires,which twist around each other.


Topic: Tort
Definition:
TORT, n. [L. tortus, twisted, from torqueo.  The primary sense is to turn or strain, hence to twist.]
1.  In law, any wrong or injury.  Torts are injuries done to the person or property of another, as trespass, assault and battery, defamation and the like.
2.  Mischief; calamity.  [Except in the legal sense above explained, it is obsolete.]


Topic: Tortil
Definition:
TORT'IL, a. [L. tortilis.]  Twisted; wreathed; coiled.  In botany, coiled like a rope; as a tortile awn.


Topic: Tortious
Definition:
TOR'TIOUS, a. [from tort.]  Injurious; done by wrong.
1.  In law, implying tort, or injury for which the law gives damages.


Topic: Tortoise
Definition:
TORTOISE, n. tor'tis.] from L. tortus, twisted.]
1.  An animal of the genus Testudo, covered with a shell or crust.
2.  In the military art, a defense used by the ancients, formed by the troops arranging themselves in close order and placing their bucklers over their heads, making a cover resembling a tortoise-shell.


Topic: Tortoise-shell
Definition:
TOR'TOISE-SHELL, n. [tortoise and shell.]  The shell or rather scales of the tortoise, used in inlaying and in various manufactures.


Topic: Tortuous
Definition:
TORT'UOUS, a. [L. tortuosus.]
1.  Twisted; wreathed; winding; as a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corol, in botany.
2.  Tortious.  [Not used.]  [See Tortious.]


Topic: Torture
Definition:
TORT'URE, n. [L. tortus, torqueo, to twist.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment.
 Ghastly spasm or racking torture.
2.  Severe pain inflicted judicially, either as a punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person.  Torture may be and is inflicted in a variety of ways, as by water or fire, or by the boot or thumbkin.  But the most usual mode is by the rack or wheel.
TORT'URE, v.t.  To pain to extremity; to torment.
1.  To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
2.  To vex; to harass.
3.  To keep on the stretch, as a bow.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Torvous
Definition:
TORV'OUS, a. [L. torvus, from the root of torqueo, to twist.]
Sour of aspect; stern; of a severe countenance.


Topic: Tory
Definition:
TO'RY, n. [said to be an Irish word, denoting a robber;perhaps from tor, a bush, as the Irish banditti lived in the mountains or among trees.]   The name given to an adherent to the ancient constitution of England and to the apostolical hierarchy. The tories form a party which are charged with supporting more arbitrary principles in government than the whigs, their opponents.
In America, during the revolution, those who opposed the war, and favored the claims of Great Britain, were called tories.


Topic: Toss
Definition:
TOSS, v.t. pret. and pp. tossed or tost.
1.  To throw with the hand; particularly, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
2.  To throw with violence.
3.  To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head; or to toss up the head.
 He toss'd his arm aloft.
4.  To cause to rise and fall; as, to be tossed on the waves.
 We, being exceedingly tossed with a tempest-- Acts 27.
5.  To move one way and the other.  Prov.21.
6.  To agitate; to make restless.
 Calm region once,
 And full of peace, now tost and turbulent.
7.  To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
TOSS, v.i.  To fling; to roll and tumble; to writhe; to be in violent commotion.
 To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.
1.  To be tossed.
To toss up, is to throw a coin into the air and wager on what side it will fall.
TOSS, n.  A throwing upward or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as the toss of a ball.
1.  A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.  It is much applied to horses, and may be applied to an affected manner of raising the head in men.


Topic: Tossing
Definition:
TOSS'ING, ppr.  Throwing upward with a jerk; raising suddenly; as the head.
TOSS'ING, n.  The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
 Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.


Topic: Total
Definition:
TO'TAL, a. [L. totalis, totus.]
1.  Whole; full; complete; as total darkness; a total departure from the evidence; a total loss; the total sum or amount.
2.  Whole; not divided.
 --Myself the total crime.
TO'TAL, n.  The whole; the whole sum or amount.  These sums added, make the grand total of five millions.


Topic: Totally
Definition:
TO'TALLY, adv.  Wholly; entirely; fully; completely; as, to be totally exhausted; all hope totally failed; he was totally absorbed in thought.


Topic: Tote
Definition:
TOTE, v.t.  To carry or convey. [A word used in slaveholding countries; said to have been introduced by the blacks.]


Topic: Totter
Definition:
TOT'TER, v.i.  [This may be allied to titter.]
1.  To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; as, an old man totters with age; a child totters when he beings to walk.
2.  To shake; to reel; to lean.
 As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. Ps.62.
 Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.


Topic: Tottery
Definition:
TOT'TERY, a.  Shaking; trembling or vacillating as if about to fall; unsteady.  [Not in use.]  [Spenser wrote tottle, as the common people of New England still pronounce it.]


Topic: Touch
Definition:
TOUCH, v.t. tuch. [L. tango, originally tago, [our vulgar tag.] pret. tetigi, pp. tactus.]
1.  To come in contact with; to hit or strike against.
 He touched the hollow of his thigh.  Gen. 32.  Matt.9.
 Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter. Esth.5.
2.  To perceive by the sense of feeling.
 Nothing but body can be touch'd or touch.
3.  To come to; to reach; to attain to.
 The god vindictive doom'd them never more,
 Ah men unbless'd! to touch that natal shore.
4.  To try, as gold with a stone.
 Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed--
5.  To relate to; to concern.
 The quarrel toucheth none but thee alone.
[This sense is now nearly obsolete.]
6.  To handle slightly.
7.  To meddle with.  I have not touched the books.
8.  To affect.
 What of sweet
 Hath touch'd my sense, flat seems to this.
9.  To move; to soften; to melt.
 The tender sire was touch'd with what he said.
    10. To mark or delineate slightly.
 The lines, though touch'd but faintly--
    11. To infect; as men touched with pestilent diseases. [Little used.]
    12. To make an impression on.
 Its face must be--so hard that the file will not touch it. 
    13. To strike, as an instrument of music; to play on.
 They touch'd their golden harps.
    14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
 No decree of mine,
 To touch with lightest moment of impulse
 His free will.
    15. To treat slightly. In his discourse, he barely touched upon the subject deemed the most interesting.
    16. To afflict or distress. Gen.26.
To touch up, to repair; or to improve by slight touches or emendations.
To touch the wind, in seamen's language, is to keep the ship as near the wind as possible.
TOUCH, v.i.  tuch.  To be in contact with; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between. Two spheres touch only at points.
1.  To fasten on; to take effect on.
 Strong waters will touch upon gold,that will not touch silver.
2.  To treat of slightly in discourse.
To touch at, to come or go to, without stay.
 The ship touched at Lisbon.
 The next day we touched at Sidon.  Acts 27.touch on or upon, to mention slightly.
 If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they have immediately quitted it.
1.  In the sense of touch at.  [Little used.]
TOUCH, n. tuch.  Contact; the hitting of two bodies; the junction of two bodies at the surface, so that there is no space between them.  The mimosa shrinks at the slightest touch.
1.  The sense of feeling; one of the five senses.  We say, a thing is cold or warm to the touch; silk is soft to the touch.
 The spider's touch how exquisitely fine!
2.  The act of touching. The touch of cold water made him shrink.
3.  The state of being touched.
 --That never touch was welcome to thy hand
 Unless I touch'd.
4.  Examination by a stone.
5.  Test; that by which any thing is examined.
 Equity, the true touch of all laws.
6.  Proof; tried qualities.
 My friends of noble touch.
7.  Single act of a pencil on a picture.
 Never give the least touch with your pencil, till you have well examined your design.
8.  Feature; lineament.
 Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
 To have the touches dearest priz'd.
9.  Act of the hand on a musical instrument.
 Soft stillness and the night
 Become the touches of sweet harmony.
    10. Power of exciting the affections.
 Not alone
 The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
 Do strongly speak t'us.
    11. Something of passion of affection.
 He both makes intercession to God for sinners, and exercises dominion over all men, with a true, natural and sensible touch of mercy.
    12. Particular application of any thing to a person.
 Speech of touch towards others should be sparingly used.
    13. A stroke; as a touch of raillery; a satiric touch.
    14. Animadversion; censure; reproof.
 I never bore any touch of conscience with greater regret.
    15. Exact performance of agreement.
 I keep touch with my promise.
    16. A small quantity intermixed.
 Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
    17. A hint; suggestion; slight notice.
 A small touch will put him in mind of them.
    18. A cant word for a slight essay.
 Print my preface in such forms, in the bookseller's phrase, will make a sixpenny touch.  [Not in use.]
    19. In music, the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as a heavy touch, or light touch.
    20. In music, an organ is said to have a good touch or stop,when the keys close well.
    21. In ship-building, touch is the broadest part of a plank worked top and butt; or the middle of a plank worked anchor-stock fashion; also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.


Topic: Touch-hole
Definition:
TOUCH-HOLE, n. tuch'-hole.  [touch and hole.]  The vent of a cannon or other species of fire-arms, by which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.  It is now called the vent.


Topic: Touch-needle
Definition:
TOUCH-NEEDLE, n. tuch'-needle. [touch and needle.]  Touch-needles are small bars of gold, silver and copper, each pure and in all proportions, prepared for trying gold and silver by the touchstone, by comparison with the mark they leave upon it.


Topic: Touch-wood
Definition:
TOUCH-WOOD, n. tuch'-wood. [touch and wood.]  Decayed wood, used like a match for taking fire from a spark.


Topic: Touching
Definition:
TOUCHING, ppr. tuch'ing. Coming on contact with; hitting; striking; affecting.
1.  Concerning; relating to; with respect to.
 Now as touching things offered to idols--  1 Cor.8.
2.  a.  Affecting; moving; pathetic.
TOUCHING, n. tuch'ing.  Touch; the sense of feeling.


Topic: Touchstone
Definition:
TOUCHSTONE, n. tuch'stone. [touch and stone.]
1.  A stone by which metals are examined; a black, smooth, glossy stone.  The touchstone of the ancients was called lapis Lydius, from Lydia in Asia Minor, where it was found.
2.  Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried; as money, the touchstone of common honesty.
Irish touchstone, is the basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's causey.  This is said also to be an excellent touchstone.


Topic: Touchy
Definition:
TOUCHY, a. tuch'y. [vulgarly techy.]  Peevish; irritable; irascible; apt to take fire.  [Not elegant.]


Topic: Tough
Definition:
TOUGH, a. tuf.
1.  Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking.  The ligaments of animals and of India rubber are remarkably tough.  Tough timber, like young ash, is the most proper for the shafts and springs of a carriage.
2.  Firm; strong; not easily broken; able to endure hardship; as an animal of a tough frame.
3.  Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; ropy; as tough phlegm.
4.  Stiff; not flexible.


Topic: Toughness
Definition:
TOUGHNESS, n. tuf'ness.  The quality of a substance which renders it in some degree flexible, without brittleness or liability to fracture; flexibility with a firm adhesion of parts; as the toughness of steel.
1.  Viscosity; tenacity; clamminess; glutinousness; as the toughness of mucus.
2.  Firmness; strength of constitution or texture.


Topic: Tour
Definition:
TOUR, n.
1.  Literally, a going round; hence, a journey in a circuit; as the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
2.  A turn; a revolution; as the tours of the heavenly bodies.  [Not now in use.]
3.  A turn; as a tour of duty; a military use of the word.
4.  A tress or circular border of hair on the head, worn sometimes by both sexes.
5.  A tower.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Tournament
Definition:
TOURNAMENT, n.  turn'ament.  A martial sport or exercise formerly performed by cavaliers to show their address and bravery.  These exercises were performed on horseback, and were accompanied with tilting, or attacks with blunted lances and swords.


Topic: Tournequet
Definition:
TOURNEQUET, n. turn'eket.  A surgical instrument or bandage which is straitened or relaxed with a screw, and used to check hemorrhages.


Topic: Touse
Definition:
TOUSE, v.t. touz.  To pull; to haul; to tear.  [Hence Towser.]
 As a bear whom angry curs have tous'd.


Topic: Tousel
Definition:
TOUS'EL, v.t. s as z.  The same as touse; to put into disorder; to tumble; to tangle.  [Used by the common people of New England.]


Topic: Tow
Definition:
TOW, v.t. [L. duco.]  To drag, as a boat or ship, through the water by means of a rope.  Towing is performed by another boat or ship, or by men on shore, or by horses.  Boats on canals are usually towed by horses.
TOW, n. [L. stupa.]  The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.


Topic: Towards
Definition:
TO'WARDS, prep. [L. versus, verto.]
1.  In the direction to.
 He set his face toward the wilderness.  Num. 24.
2.  With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect to; regarding.
 His eye shall be evil toward his brother.  Deut.28.
 Herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men. Acts. 24.
 Hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus Christ, and toward all saints. Philemon 5.
3.  With ideal tendency to.
 This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble.
4.  Nearly.
 I am towards nine years older since I left you.


Topic: Tower
Definition:
TOW'ER, n.  [L. turris.]
1.  A building, either round or square, raised to a considerable elevation and consisting of several stories.  When towers are erected with other buildings, as they usually are, they rise above the main edifice.  They are generally flat on the top, and thus differ from steeples or spires.  Before the invention of guns, places were fortified with towers and attacked with movable towers mounted on wheels, which placed the besiegers on a level with the walls.
2.  A citadel; a fortress.  Ps.61.
3.  A high head dress.
4.  High flight; elevation.
Tower bastion, in fortification, a small tower in the form of a bastion, with rooms or cells underneath for men and guns.
Tower of London, a citadel containing an arsenal.  It is also a palace where the kings of England have sometimes lodged.
TOW'ER, v.i.  To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty.
 Sublime thoughts, which tower above the clouds.


Topic: Towering
Definition:
TOW'ERING, ppr.  Rising aloft; mounting high; soaring.
1.  a. Very high; elevated; as a towering highth.


Topic: Town
Definition:
TOWN, n.
1.  Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety.  Rahab's house was on the town wall. Josh. 2.
 A town that hath gates and bars. 1 Sam. 23.
2.  Any collection of houses, larger than a village.  In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand.
3.  In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
A town, in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city.
In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not.  But a city is often called a town.
4.  The inhabitants of a town.  The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5.  In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.
6.  In England,the court end of London.
7.  The inhabitants of the metropolis.
8.  The metropolis.  The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country.  The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns.


Topic: Town-house
Definition:
TOWN'-HOUSE, n. [town and house.]  The house where the public business of the town is transacted by the inhabitants in legal meeting.
1.  A house in town; in opposition to a house in the country.


Topic: Township
Definition:
TOWN'SHIP, n.  The district or territory of a town.  In New England, the states are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads, providing for the poor, &c.


Topic: Townsman
Definition:
TOWNS'MAN, n. [town and man.]  An inhabitant of a place; or one of the same town with another.
1.  A selectman; an officer of the town in New England, who assists in managing the affairs of the town.  [See Selectmen.]


Topic: Toy
Definition:
TOY, n.
1.  A plaything for children; a bauble.
2.  A trifle; a thing for amusement, but of no real value.
3.  An article of trade of little value.
 They exchange gold and pearl for toys.
4.  Matter of no importance.
 Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
5.  Folly; trifling practice; silly opinion.
6.  Amorous dalliance; play; sport.
7.  An old story; a silly tale.
8.  Slight representation; as the toy of novelty.
9.  Wild fancy; odd conceit.
TOY, v.i.  To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
TOY, v.t.  To treat foolishly.  [Not used.]


Topic: Trace
Definition:
TRACE, n. [L. tractus, tracto.  See Track, and the verb Trace.]
1.  A mark left by any thing passing; a footstep; a track; a vestige; as the trace of a carriage or sled; the trade of a man or of a deer.
2.  Remains; a mark, impression or visible appearance of any thing left when the thing itself no longer exists.  We are told that there are no traces of ancient Babylon now to be seen.
 The shady empire shall retain no trace
 Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase.
TRACE, n.  Traces, in a harness, are the straps, chains or ropes by which a carriage or sleigh is drawn by horses.  [Locally these are called tugs.]
TRACE, v.t. [L. tracto, from traho; Eng. to draw, to drag.]
1.  To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; as, to race a figure with a pencil; to trace the outline of any thing.
2.  To follow by some mark that has been left by something which has preceded; to follow by footsteps or tracks.
 You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
 I feel thy power to trace the ways
 Of highest agents.
3.  To follow with exactness.
 That servile path thou nobly do'st decline,
 Of tracing word by word, and line by line.
4.  To walk over.
 We do trace this alley up and down.


Topic: Tracheocele
Definition:
TRA'CHEOCELE, n. [trachea and a tumor.]  An enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele or goiter.


Topic: Tracheotomy
Definition:
TRACHEOT'OMY, n. [trachea and to cut.]  In surgery, the operation of making an opening into the windpipe.


Topic: Trachyte
Definition:
TRA'CHYTE, n. [Gr.rough.]  A species of volcanic rock, composed of crystals of glassy feldspar, sometimes with crystals of hornblend, mica, iron pyrite, &c.


Topic: Tracing
Definition:
TRA'CING, ppr.  [from trace.]  Marking out; drawing in lines; following by marks or footsteps.
Tracing lines, in a ship, are lines passing through a block or thimble, and used to hoist a thing higher.
TRA'CING, n.  Course; regular track or path.


Topic: Track
Definition:
TRACK, n.
1.  A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh.
2.  A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast.  Savages are said to be wonderfully sagacious in finding the tracks of men in the forest.
3.  A road; a beaten path.
 Behold Torquatus the same track pursue.
4.  Course; way; as the track of a comet.
TRACK, v.t.  To follow when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps, or marks of the feet; as, to track a deer in the snow.
1.  To tow; to draw a boat on the water in a canal.


Topic: Tract
Definition:
TRACT, n. [L. tractus; traho.]
1.  Something drawn out or extended.
2.  A region, or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent.  We may apply tract to the sandy and barren desert of Syria and Arabia, or to the narrow vales of Italy and Sardinia.  We say, a rich tract of land in Connecticut or Ohio, a stony tract, or a mountainous tract.  We apply tract to a single farm, or to a township or state.
3.  A treatise; a written discourse or dissertation of indefinite length, but generally not of great extent.
4.  In hunting, the trace or footing of a wild beast.
5.  Treatment; exposition.  [Not in use.]
6.  Track.  [Not in use.]
7.  Continuity or extension of any thing; as a tract of speech.  [Not much used.]
8.  Continued or protracted duration; length; extend; as a long tract of time.
TRACT, v.t.  To trace out; to draw out.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Tractability
Definition:
TRACTABIL'ITY, n. [from tractable.]  The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.


Topic: Tractable
Definition:
TRACT'ABLE, a. [L. tractabilis, from tracto, to handle or lead.]
1.  That may be easily led, taught or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as tractable children; a tractable learner.
2.  Palpable; such as may be handled; as tractable measures.


Topic: Tractableness
Definition:
TRACT'ABLENESS, n.  The state or quality of being tractable or manageable; docility; as the tractableness of children.


Topic: Tractile
Definition:
TRACT'ILE, a. [L. tractus.]  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
 Bodies are tractile or intractile.


Topic: Traction
Definition:
TRAC'TION, n. [L. tractus, traho.]  The act of drawing, or state of being drawn; as the traction of a muscle.
1.  Attraction; a drawing towards.


Topic: Trade
Definition:
TRADE, n. [L. tracto, to handle, use, treat.]
1.  The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.  Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money.  It is however chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail.  Trade is either foreign, or domestic or inland.  Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries.  Domestic or home trade is the exchange or buying and selling of goods within a country.  Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels.
The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water.
2.  The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture.  Thus we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter or mason.  But we never say, the trade of a farmer or of a lawyer or physician.
3.  Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade.
 Hunting their sport, and plund'ring was their trade.
4.  Instruments of any occupation.
 The shepherd bears
 His house and household goods, his trade of war.
5.  Employment not manual; habitual exercise.
6.  Custom; habit; standing practice.
 Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
7.  Men engaged in the same occupation.  Thus booksellers speak of the customs of the trade.
TRADE, v.i.  To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business.  Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada.  The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants.  Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.
1.  To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, man treats with another for his farm, but cannot trade with him.  A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.
2.  To act merely for money.
 How did you dare
 To trade and traffic with Macbeth?
3.  To have a trade wind.
 They on the trading flood ply tow'rd the pole.  [Unusual.]
TRADE, v.t.  To sell or exchange in commerce.
 They traded the persons of men.  Ezek. 27.
[This, I apprehend, must be a mistake; at least it is not to be vindicated as a legitimate use of the verb.]


Topic: Trade-wind
Definition:
TRA'DE-WIND, n. [trade and wind.  A wind that favors trade.  A trade wind is a wind that blows constantly in the same direction, or a wind that blows for a number of months in one direction, and then changing, blows as long in the opposite direction.  These winds in the East Indies are called monsoons, which are periodical.  On the Atlantic, within the tropics, the trade winds blow constantly from the eastward to the westward.


Topic: Trader
Definition:
TRA'DER, n.  One engaged in trade or commerce; a dealer in buying and selling or barter; as a trader to the East Indies; a trader to Canada; a country trader.


Topic: Tradesman
Definition:
TRA'DESMAN, n. [trade and man.]  A shopkeeper.  A merchant is called a trader, but not a tradesman.
[In America, a shopkeeper is usually called a retailer.]


Topic: Trading
Definition:
TRA'DING, ppr. Trafficking; exchanging commodities by barter,or buying and selling them.
1.  a. Carrying on commerce; as a trading company.
TRA'DING, n.  The act or business of carrying on commerce.


Topic: Tradition
Definition:
TRADI'TION, n. [L. traditio, from trado, to deliver.]
1.  Delivery; the act of delivering into the hands of another.
 A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
 The sale of a movable is completed by simple tradition.
2.  The delivery of opinions,doctrines, practices,rites and customs from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any opinions or practice from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.  Thus children derive their vernacular language chiefly from tradition.  Most of our early notions are received by tradition from our parents.
3.  That which is handed down from age to age by oral communication.  The Jews pay great regard to tradition in matters of religion, as do the Romanists.  Protestants reject the authority of tradition in sacred things, and rely only on the written word.  Traditions may be good or bad, true or false.
 Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.  2 Thess. 2.
 Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions?  Matt. 15.


Topic: Traditionary
Definition:
TRADI'TIONARY, a.  Delivered orally from father to son; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as traditional opinions; traditional evidence; the traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
 The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivaled in the regions of absurdity.
2.  Observant of tradition.  [Not used.]


Topic: Traditive
Definition:
TRAD'ITIVE, a. [L. trado.]  Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age to age, by oral communication.
 Suppose we on things traditive divide.


Topic: Traditor
Definition:
TRAD'ITOR, n. [L.]  A deliverer; a name of infamy given to christians who delivered the Scriptures or the goods of the church to their persecutors,to save their lives.


Topic: Traduce
Definition:
TRADU'CE, v.t. [L. traduco; trans, over,and duco, to lead.]
1.  To represent as blamable; to condemn.
 The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church.
2.  To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent.
 As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing.
 He had the baseness to traduce me in libel.
3.  To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another.
 From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]


Topic: Traduction
Definition:
TRADUC'TION, n. [L. traductio.]  Derivation from one of the same kind; propagation.
 If by traduction came thy mind,
 Our wonder is the less to find
 A soul so charming from a stock so good.
1.  Tradition; transmission from one to another; as traditional communication and traduction of truth.  [Little used.]
2.  Conveyance; transportation; act of transferring; as the traduction of animals from Europe to America by shipping.
3.  Transition.


Topic: Traffick
Definition:
TRAF'FICK, n. [L. trans.] 
1.  Trade; commerce,either by barter or by buying and selling.  This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent,unless the business of retailing may be excepted.  It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
 My father,
 A merchant of great traffick through the world.
2.  Commodities for market.
TRAF'FICK, v.i.
1.  To trade; to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to barter; to buy and sell wares; to carry on commerce.  The English and Americans traffick with all the world.  Gen.42.
2.  To trade meanly or mercenarily.
TRAF'FICK, v.t. To exchange in traffick.


Topic: Tragacanth
Definition:
TRAG'ACANTH, n. [L. tragacanthum; Gr. a goat, and thorn.]
1.  Goat's thorn; a plant of the genus Astragalus, of several species, growing in Syria, Candia, &c. almost all of which were included by Linne in the tragacanthas, and all of which produce the gum tragacanth.
2.  A gum obtained from the goat's thorn.  It comes in small contorted pieces resembling worms.  It is of different colors; that which is white, clear, smooth and vermicular, is the best.  It is somewhat soft to the touch, but only imperfectly soluble.  It is softening, and used in coughs and catarrhs.


Topic: Tragedian
Definition:
TRAGE'DIAN, n.[L. tragoedus.  See Tragedy.]  A writer of tragedy.
1.  More generally, an actor of tragedy.


Topic: Tragedy
Definition:
TRAG'EDY, n. [Gr. said to be composed of a goat, and a song, because originally it consisted in a hymn sung in honor of Bacchus by a chorus of music, with dances and the sacrifice of a goat.]
1.  A dramatic poem representing some signal action performed by illustrious persons, and generally having a fatal issue.  Aeschylus is called the father of tragedy.
 All our tragedies are of kings and princes.
2.  A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more particularly by unauthorized violence.


Topic: Tragi-comedy
Definition:
TRAGI-COM'EDY, n.  A kind of dramatic piece representing some action passed among eminent persons, the event of which is not unhappy, in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a species of composition not now used, or held in little estimation.


Topic: Tragically
Definition:
TRAG'ICALLY, adv.  In a tragical manner; with fatal issue; mournfully; sorrowfully.  The play ends tragically.


Topic: Tragicalness
Definition:
TRAG'ICALNESS, n.  Fatality; mournfulness; sadness.
 We moralize the fable in the tragicalness of the event.


Topic: Trail
Definition:
TRAIL, v.t. [L. traho.]
1.  To hunt by the track.  [See the Norman, supra.]
2.  To draw along the ground.  Trail your pikes.
 And hung his head, and trail'd his legs along.
 They shall not trail me through the streets
 Like a wild beast.
 That long behind he trails his pompous robe.
3.  To lower; as, to trail arms.
4.  In America, to tread down gras by walking through; to lay flat; as, to trail grass.
TRAIL, v.i.  To be drawn out in length.
 When his brother saw the red blood trail.
TRAIL, n.  Track followed by the hunter; scent left on the ground by the animal pursued.
 How cheerfully on the false trail they cry.
1.  Any thing drawn to length; as the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
 When lightning shoots in glitt'ring trails along.
2.  Any thing drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
 And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
3.  The entrails of a fowl; applied sometimes to those of sheep.
boards, in ship-building, a term for the craved work between the cheeks of the head, at the heel of the figure.


Topic: Trailed
Definition:
TRAILED, pp. Hunted by the tracks; laid flat; drawn along on the ground; brought to a lower position; as trailed arms.


Topic: Trailing
Definition:
TRA'ILING, ppr.  Hunting by the track; drawing on the ground; trading down; laying flat; bringing to a lower position; drawing out in length.
 Since men of foot whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide.


Topic: Train
Definition:
TRAIN, v.t. [L. traho, to draw?]
1.  To draw along.
 In hollow cube he train'd
 His devilish enginery.
2.  Top draw; to entice; to allure.
 If but twelve French
 Were there in arms, they would be as a call
 To train ten thousand English to their side.
3.  To draw by artifice or stratagem.
 O train me not, sweet mermaid,with thy note.
4.  To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise.
 We did train him on.
5.  To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics.  Abram armed his trained servants.  Gen.14.
 The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
6.  To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen.
7.  In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees.
8.  In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head.
To train or train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
 Train up a child in the way he should go,and when he is old he will not depart from it.  Prov.22.
 The first christians were, by great hardships, trained
up for glory.
TRAIN, n.  Artifice; stratagem of enticement.
 Now to my charms,
 And to my wily trains.
1.  Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, &c.; as the train of a gown or robe.
2.  The tail of a fowl.
 The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of a ship.
3.  A retinue; a number of followers or attendants.
 My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
 The king;s daughter with a lovely train.
4.  A series; a consecution or succession of connected things.
 Rivers now stream and draw their humid train.
 Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.
 --The train of ills our love would draw behind it.
5.  Process; regular method; course.  Things are now in a train for settlement.
 If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature.
6.  A company in order; a procession.
 Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.
7.  The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time.
8.  A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution.
Train of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.


Topic: Train-band
Definition:
TRA'IN-BAND, n. [train and band.]  A band or company of militia.  Train-bands, in the plural,militia; so called because trained to military exercises.


Topic: Training
Definition:
TRA'INING, ppr.  Drawing; alluring; educating; teaching and forming by practice.
TRA'INING, n.  The act or process of drawing or educating; education.  In gardening, the operation or art of forming young trees to a wall or espalier, or of causing them to grow in a shape suitable for that end.


Topic: Trait
Definition:
TRAIT, n. [L. tractus.  See Tract and Treat.]
1.  A stroke; a touch.
 By this single trait, Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.
2.  A line; a feature; as a trait of character.


Topic: Traitor
Definition:
TRA'ITOR, n. [L. traditor; trado, to deliver.]
1.  One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to its enemy, or any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or who surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; or one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.  [See Treason.]
2.  One who betrays his trust.


Topic: Traitorous
Definition:
TRA'ITOROUS, a.  Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as a traitorous officer or subject.
1.  Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as a traitorous scheme or conspiracy.


Topic: Traitorously
Definition:
TRA'ITOROUSLY, adv.  In violation of allegiance and trust; treacherously; perfidiously.
 They had traitorously endeavored to subvert the fundamental laws.


Topic: Traject
Definition:
TRAJECT', v.t. [L. trajectus,trajicio; trans and jacio, to throw.]
To throw or cast through; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.


Topic: Trajectory
Definition:
TRAJECT'ORY, n.  The orbit of a comet; the path described by a comet in its motion, which Dr. Halley supposes to be elliptical.


Topic: Tralation
Definition:
TRALA'TION, n. [from L. translatio.]  A change in the use of a word, or the use of a word in a less proper, but more significant sense.


Topic: Trammel
Definition:
TRAM'MEL, n.
1.  A kind of long net for catching birds or fishes.
 The trammel differs not much from the shape of the bunt.
2.  A kind of shackles used for regulating the motions of a horse, and making him amble.
3.  An iron hook, of various forms and sizes, used for hanging kettles and other vessels over the fire.
4.  Trammels, in mechanics, a joiner's instrument for drawing ovals upon boards.  One part consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles; the other is a beam carrying two pins which slide in those grooves, and also the describing pencil.
TRAM'MEL, v.t.
1.  To catch; to intercept.
2.  To confine; to hamper; to shackle.


Topic: Trammeled
Definition:
TRAM'MELED, pp.  Caught; confined; shackled.
1.  In the manege, a horse is said to be trammeled, when he has blazes or white marks on the fore and hind foot of one side.


Topic: Tramontane
Definition:
TRAMON'TANE, n.  One living beyond the mountain; a stranger.
TRAMON'TANE, a. [L. trans, beyond, and mons, mountain.]  Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous.  The Italian painters apply this epithet to all such as live north of the Alps, as in Germany and France; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind.  The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane or ultramontane doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome.


Topic: Trample
Definition:
TRAM'PLE, v.t.
1.  To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.
 Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.  Matt. 7.
2.  To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
3.  To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
TRAM'PLE, v.i.  To tread in contempt.
 Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.
1.  To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, n.  The act of treading under foot with contempt.


Topic: Trance
Definition:
TR`ANCE, n. tr`ans. [L. transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo.]   An ecstasy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions.
 My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance.
 While they made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened.  Acts 10.


Topic: Trangram
Definition:
TRAN'GRAM, n.  An odd thing intricately contrived.  [It is said to be a cant word, and is not used.]
Trannel, used by Moxon, is a mistake for tree-nail, pronounced by ship-builders trunnel.


Topic: Tranquil
Definition:
TRAN'QUIL, a. [L. tranquillus.]  Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated.  The atmosphere is tranquil.  The state is tranquil. A tranquil retirement is desirable; but a tranquil mind is essential to happiness.


Topic: Tranquilize
Definition:
TRAN'QUILIZE, v.t.  To quiet; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.
 Religion haunts the imagination of the sinner, instead of tranquilizing his heart.


Topic: Tranquillity
Definition:
TRANQUIL'LITY, n.  [L. tranquillitas.]  Quietness; a calm state; freedom from disturbance or agitation. We speak of the tranquillity of public affairs, of the state, of the world, the tranquillity of a retired life, the tranquillity of mind proceeding from conscious rectitude.


Topic: Transact
Definition:
TRANSACT', v.t. [L. transactus, transigo; trans and ago; to act or drive through.]   To do; to perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business. We transact business in person or by an agent.


Topic: Transaction
Definition:
TRANSAC'TION, n.  The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair.
1.  That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction.
2.  In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.


Topic: Transalpine
Definition:
TRANSAL'PINE, a. [L. trans, beyond, and Alpine, of the Alps.]
Lying or being beyond the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west of the Alps; as Transalpine Gaul; opposed to Cisalpine.


Topic: Transanimation
Definition:
TRANSANIMA'TION, n. [L. trans and anima.]  Conveyance of the soul from one body to another; transmigration.  [The latter is the word generally used.]


Topic: Transatlantic
Definition:
TRANSATLAN'TIC, a. [L. trans, beyond, and Atlantic.]  Lying or being beyond the Atlantic.  When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa.  We apply it chiefly to something in Europe.


Topic: Transcend
Definition:
TRANSCEND', v.t. [L. transcendo; trans and scando, to climb.]
1.  To rise above; to surmount; as lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
2.  To pass over; to go beyond.
 It is dangerous opinion to such hopes as shall transcend their limits.
3.  To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed.
 How much her worth transcended all her kind.
TRANSCEND', v.i.  To climb.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Transcendent
Definition:
TRANSCEND'ENT, a. [L. transcendens.]  Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
 Cloth'd with transcendent brightness.


Topic: Transcendental
Definition:
TRANSCENDENT'AL, a.  Supereminent; surpassing others; as transcendental being or qualities.
Transcendental quantities, among geometricians, are indeterminate ones, or such as cannot be expressed or fixed to any constant equation.
Transcendental curve, is such as cannot be defined by any algebraic equation, or of which, when it is expressed by an equation, one of the terms is a variable quantity.


Topic: Transcendently
Definition:
TRANSCEND'ENTLY, adv.  Very excellently; supereminently; by way of eminence.
 The law of christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth.


Topic: Transcolate
Definition:
TRANS'COLATE, v.t. [L. trans and colo, to strain.]
To strain; to cause to pass through a sieve or colander.


Topic: Transcribe
Definition:
TRANSCRI'BE, v.t. [L. transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.]   To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.


Topic: Transcript
Definition:
TRAN'SCRIPT, n. [L. transcriptum.]  A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original.
 The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript, not an original.
1.  A copy of any kind.
 The Roman learning was a transcript of the Grecian.


Topic: Transcursion
Definition:
TRANSCUR'SION, n.  [supra.]  A rambling or ramble; a passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation; as the transcursion of a comet.
 I am to make often transcursions into the neighboring forests as I pass along.
[Note: Excursion has in a great measure superseded this word.]


Topic: Transelementation
Definition:
TRANSELEMENTA'TION, n. [trans and element.]  The change of the elements of one body into those of another, as of the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation.


Topic: Transept
Definition:
TRAN'SEPT, n. [L. trans and septum.]  In ancient churches, the aisle extending across the nave and main aisles.


Topic: Transfer
Definition:
TRANSFER', v.t. [L. transfero; trans and fero, to carry.]
1.  To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another.  The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany.  We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany.  Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.
2.  To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give.  The title to land is transferred by deed.  The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement.  Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.


Topic: Transferable
Definition:
TRANSFER'ABLE, a.  That may be transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.
1.  Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing. The stocks of the public and of companies are transferable.


Topic: Transferring
Definition:
TRANSFER'RING, ppr.  Removing from one place or person to another; conveying to another, as a right.


Topic: Transfiguration
Definition:
TRANSFIGURA'TION, n.
1.  A change of form; particularly, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount.  
See Matt. 17.
2.  A feast held by the Romish church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.


Topic: Transfigure
Definition:
TRANSFIG'URE, v.t. [L. trans and figura.]  To transform; to change the outward form or appearance.
 --And was transfigured before them.  Matt. 17.


Topic: Transfix
Definition:
TRANSFIX', v.t. [L. transfixus, transfigo; trans and figo.]
To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; as, to transfix one with a dart or spear.


Topic: Transform
Definition:
TRANSFORM', v.t. [L. trans and forma.]
1.  To change the form of; to change the shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as a caterpillar transformed into a butterfly.
2.  To change one substance into another; to transmute. The alchimists sought to transform lead into gold.
3.  In theology, to change the natural disposition and temper of man from a state of enmity to God and his law, into the image of God, or into a disposition and temper conformed to the will of God.
 Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. 12.
4.  To change the elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.
5.  Among the mystics, to change the contemplative soul into a divine substance, by which it is lost or swallowed up in the divine nature.
6.  In algebra, to change an equation into another of a different form, but of equal value.
TRANSFORM', v.i.  To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.
 His hair transforms to down.


Topic: Transformation
Definition:
TRANSFORMA'TION, n.  The act or operation of changing the form or external appearance.
1.  Metamorphosis; change of form in insects; as from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
2.  Transmutation; the change of one metal into another, as of copper or tin into gold.
3.  The change of the soul into a divine substance, as among the mystics.
4.  Transubstantiation.
5.  In theology, a change of heart in man, by which his disposition and temper are conformed to the divine image; a change from enmity to holiness and love.
6.  In algebra, the change of an equation into one of a different form, but of equal value.


Topic: Transforming
Definition:
TRANSFORM'ING, ppr.  Changing the form or external appearance; metamorphosing; transmuting; renewing.
1.  a. Effecting or able to effect a change of form or state; as the transforming power of true religion.


Topic: Transfretation
Definition:
TRANSFRETA'TION, n. [L. trans and fretum, a strait.]
The passing over a strait or narrow sea.  [Little used.]


Topic: Transfuse
Definition:
TRANSFUSE, v.t. transfu'ze.  [L. transfusus, transfundo; trans and fundo.]
1.  To pour, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.
2.  To transfer, as blood, from one animal to another.
3.  To cause to pass from one to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism from one to another; to transfuse a love of letters.


Topic: Transfusion
Definition:
TRANSFUSION, n. transfu'zhon.  The act of pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. In chimistry and pharmacy, transfusions of liquors are frequent.
1.  The act or operation of transferring the blood of one animal into the vascular system of another by means of a tube.


Topic: Transgress
Definition:
TRANSGRESS', v.t. [L. transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.]
1.  To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.
2.  In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral.  To transgress a divine law, is sin.  Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.
TRANSGRESS', v.i.  To offend by violating a law; to sin.  
Chron 2.


Topic: Transgression
Definition:
TRANSGRES'SION, n.  The act of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command.
 He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. Ezra 10.
 Forgive thy people all their transgressions.  1 Kings 8.
1.  Fault; offense; crime.


Topic: Transgressor
Definition:
TRANSGRESS'OR, n.  One who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.
 The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. 13.


Topic: Transient
Definition:
TRANSIENT, a. tran'shent. [L. transiens, transeo; trans and eo.]
1.  Passing; not stationary; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable.  How transient are the pleasures of this life!
 --Measur'd this transient world.
2.  Hasty; momentary; imperfect; as a transient view of a landscape.
Transient person, a person that is passing or traveling through a place; one without a settled habitation.


Topic: Transiently
Definition:
TRAN'SIENTLY, adv. [supra.]  In passage; for a short time; not with continuance.
 I touch here but transiently--on some few of those many rules of imitating nature, which Aristotle drew from Homer.


Topic: Transit
Definition:
TRANS'IT, n. [L. transitus, from transeo.]
1.  A passing; a passing over or through; conveyance; as the transit of goods through a country.
2.  In astronomy, the passing of one heavenly body over the disk of another and larger.  I witnessed the transit of Venus over the sun's disk, June 3, 1769.  When a smaller body passes behind  a larger, it is said to suffer an occultation.
3.  The passage of one heavenly body over the meridian of another.
TRANS'IT, v.t.  To pass over the disk of a heavenly body.


Topic: Transition
Definition:
TRANSI'TION, n. transizh'on.  [L. transitio.]  Passage from one place or state to another; change; as the transition of the weather form hot to cold.  Sudden transitions are sometimes attended with evil effects.
 The spots are of the same color throughout, there being an immediate transition from white to black.
1.  In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another.  This should be done by means of some connection in the parts of the discourse, so as to appear natural and easy.
 He with transition sweet new speech resumes.
2.  In music, a change of key from major to minor, or the contrary; or in short, a change from any one genus or key to another; also, the softening of a disjunct interval by the introduction of intermediate sounds.
Transition rocks, in geology, rocks supposed to have been formed when the world was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.  These rocks contain few organic remains, and when they occur with others, lie immediately over those which contain none, and which are considered as primitive.


Topic: Transitive
Definition:
TRANS'ITIVE, a.  Having the power of passing.
1.  In grammar, a transitive verb is one which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does, to the object on which it is done.  Thus, 'Cicero wrote letters to Atticus.'  In this sentence,the act of writing, performed by Cicero, the agent, terminates on letters, the object.  All verbs not passive, may be arranged in two classes, transitive and intransitive.  In English, this division is correct and complete.


Topic: Transitoriness
Definition:
TRANS'ITORINESS, n.  A passing with short continuance; speedy departure or evanescence.  Who is not convinced of the transitoriness of all sublunary happiness?


Topic: Transitory
Definition:
TRANS'ITORY, a. [L. transitorius.]  Passing without continuance; continuing a short time; fleeting; speedily vanishing.
 O Lord, comfort and succor all them who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.
1.  In law, a transitory action, is one which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, detinue, slander and the like. It is opposed to local.


Topic: Translate
Definition:
TRANSLA'TE, v.t. [L. translatus, from transfero; trans, over, and fero, to bear.]
1.  To bear, carry or remove from one place to another.  It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another.
 The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused.
2.  To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death.
 By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see  death.  Heb. 16.
3.  To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Sam. 3.
4.  To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
5.  To change.
 Happy is your grace,
 That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
 Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
6.  To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another.  The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ.  The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia.
7.  To explain.


Topic: Translated
Definition:
TRANSLA'TED, pp.  Conveyed from one place to another; removed to heaven without dying; rendered into another language.


Topic: Translating
Definition:
TRANSLA'TING, ppr.  Conveying or removing from one place to another; conveying to heaven without dying; interpreting in another language.


Topic: Translation
Definition:
TRANSLA'TION, n. [L. translatio.]
1.  The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast.
2.  The removal of a bishop from one see to another.
3.  The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death.
4.  The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer.
5.  That which is produced by turning into another language; a version.  We have a good translation of the Scriptures.


Topic: Translator
Definition:
TRANSLA'TOR, n.  One who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.


Topic: Translocation
Definition:
TRANSLOCA'TION, n. [L. trans and locatio, loco.]  Removal of things reciprocally to each others' places; or rather substitution of one thing for another.
 There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge.


Topic: Translucency
Definition:
TRANSLU'CENCY, n. [L. translucens; trans, through, and luceo, to shine.]
1.  The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable.
2.  Transparency.


Topic: Translucent
Definition:
TRANSLU'CENT, a.  In mineralogy, transmitting rays of light, but not so as to render objects distinctly visible.
1.  Transparent; clear.
 Replenish'd from the cool translucent springs.


Topic: Transmigrant
Definition:
TRANS'MIGRANT, a.  [See Transmigrate.]  Migrating; passing into another country or state for residence, or into another form or body.
TRANS'MIGRANT, n.  One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement.
1.  One who passes into another state or body.


Topic: Transmigrate
Definition:
TRANS'MIGRATE, v.i. [L. transmigro; trans and migro, to migrate.]
1.  To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families.
2.  To pass from one body into another.
 Their souls may transmigrate into each other.


Topic: Transmigration
Definition:
TRANSMIGRA'TION, n.  The passing of men from one country to another for the purpose of residence, particularly of a whole people.
1.  The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another.
2.  The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras.


Topic: Transmissible
Definition:
TRANSMIS'SIBLE, a. [See Transmit.]
1.  That may be transmitted or passed from one to another.
2.  That may be transmitted through a transparent body.


Topic: Transmission
Definition:
TRANSMIS'SION, n. [L. transmissio.]
1. The act of sending from one place or person to another; as the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights,titles or privileges from father to son, and from one generation to another.
2.  The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass.


Topic: Transmissive
Definition:
TRANSMIS'SIVE, a.  Transmitted; derived from one to another.
 Itself a sun, it with transmissive light
 Enlivens worlds denied to human sight.


Topic: Transmit
Definition:
TRANSMIT', v.t. [L. transmitto; trans and mitto, to send.]
1.  To send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or country to another.  Light is transmitted from the sun to the earth; sound is transmitted by means of vibrations of the air.  Our civil and religious privileges have been transmitted to us from our ancestors; and it is our duty to transmit them to our children.
2.  To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit electricity.


Topic: Transmutable
Definition:
TRANSMU'TABLE, a. [from transmute.]  Capable of being changed into a different substance, or into something of a different form or nature.
The fluids and solids of an animal body are transmutable into one another.


Topic: Transmutation
Definition:
TRANSMUTA'TION, n. [L. transmutatio.]
1.  The change of any thing into another substance, or into something of a different nature. For a long time, the transmutation of base metals into gold was deemed practicable, but nature proved refractory, and the alchimists were frustrated.
2.  In chimistry, the transmutation of one substance into another is very easy and common, as of water into gas or vapor, and of gases into water.
3.  In geometry, the change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form; as of a triangle into a square.
4.  The change of colors, as in the case of a decoction of the nephritic wood.
5.  In the vegetable economy, the change of a plant into another form; as of wheat into chess, according to the popular opinion.  [See Chess.]


Topic: Transmute
Definition:
TRANSMU'TE, v.t. [L. transmuto; trans and muto, to change.]
To change from one nature or substance into another.  Water may be transmuted into ice, and ice into water; the juices of plants are transmuted into solid substances; but human skill has not been able to transmute lead or copper into gold.
 A holy conscience sublimates every thing; it transmutes the common affairs of life into acts of solemn worship to God.
 The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends, transmute us into idols.


Topic: Transom
Definition:
TRAN'SOM, n. [L. transenna, from trans, over, across.]
1.  A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form.
2.  In architecture, the piece that is framed across a double light window; or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff.


Topic: Transparency
Definition:
TRANSPA'RENCY, n.  [See Transparent.]  That state or property of a body by which it suffers rays of light to pass through it, so that objects can be distinctly seen through it; diaphaneity.  This is a property of glass, water and air, which when clear, admit the free passage of light.  Transparency is opposed to opakeness.


Topic: Transparent
Definition:
TRANSPA'RENT, a. [L. trans and pareo, to appear.]
1.  Having the property of transmitting rays of light so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as transparent glass; a transparent diamond; opposed to opake.
2.  Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail.


Topic: Transpass
Definition:
TRANSP`ASS, v.t. [trans and pass.]  To pass over.  [Not in use.]
TRANSP`ASS, v.i.  To pass by or away.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Transpicuous
Definition:
TRANSPIC'UOUS, a. [L. trans and specio, to see.]  Transparent; pervious to the sight.
 The wide transpicuous air.


Topic: Transpierce
Definition:
TRANSPIERCE, v.t. transpers'.  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.
 His forceful spear the sides transpierc'd.


Topic: Transpiration
Definition:
TRANSPIRA'TION, n.  The act or process of passing off through the pores of the skin; cutaneous exhalation; as the transpiration of obstructed fluids.


Topic: Transpire
Definition:
TRANSPI'RE, v.t. [L. transpiro; trans and spiro.]  To emit through the pores of the skin; to send off in vapor.
TRANSPI'RE, v.i.  To be emitted through the pores of the skin; to exhale; to pass off in insensible perspiration; as, fluids transpire from the human body.
1.  To escape from secrecy; to become public.  The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired.
2.  To happen or come to pass.


Topic: Transplace
Definition:
TRANSPLA'CE, v.t. [trans and place.]  To remove; to put in a new place.
 It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican to a more eminent place.  [Little used.]


Topic: Transplant
Definition:
TRANSPLANT', v.t. [L. planto.]
1.  To remove and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
2.  To remove and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Salmaneser transplanted the Cuthites to Samaria.
3.  To remove.


Topic: Transplantation
Definition:
TRANSPLANTA'TION, n.  The act of transplanting; the removal of a plant or of a settled inhabitant to a different place for growth or residence.
1. Removal; conveyance form one to another.  Formerly men believed in the transplantation of diseases.


Topic: Transport
Definition:
TRANSPORT, v.t. [L. transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]
1.  To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.
2.  To carry into banishment, as a criminal.  Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes,which often amounts to banishment.
3.  To hurry or carry away by violence of passion.
 They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion.
4.  To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy.
5.  To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors.


Topic: Transportation
Definition:
TRANSPORTA'TION, n.  The act of carrying or conveying from one place to another, either on beasts or in vehicles, by land or water, or in air.  Goods in Asia are transported on camels; in Europe and America, either on beasts or on carriages or sleds.  But transportation by water is the great means of commercial intercourse.
1.  Banishment for felony.
2.  Transmission; conveyance.
3.  Transport; ecstasy.  [Little used.]
4.  Removal from one country to another; as the transportation of plants.


Topic: Transporting
Definition:
TRANSPORTING, ppr.  Conveying or carrying from one place to another; removing; banishing for a crime.
1.  a. Ravishing with delight; bearing away the soul in pleasure; extatic; as transporting joy.


Topic: Transposal
Definition:
TRANSPOSAL, n. transpo'zal.  [from transpose.]  The act of changing the places of things, and putting each in the place which was before occupied by the other.


Topic: Transpose
Definition:
TRANSPOSE, v.t. transpo'ze.
1.  To change the place or order of things by putting each in the place of the other; as, to transpose letters, words or propositions.
2.  To put out of place.
3. In algebra, to bring any term of an equation over to the other side.  Thus if a+b=c, and we make a=c-b, then b is said to be transposed.
4.  In grammar, to change the natural order of words.
5.  In music, to change the key.


Topic: Transposing
Definition:
TRANSPO'SING, ppr.  Changing the place of things and putting each in the place of the other.
1.  Bringing any term of an equation over to the other side.
2.  Changing the natural order of words.


Topic: Transposition
Definition:
TRANSPOSI'TION, n. [L. transpositio.]
1.  A changing of the places of things and putting each in the place before occupied by the other; as the transposition of words in a sentence.
2.  The state of being reciprocally changed in place.
3.  In algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation to the other side.
4.  In grammar, a change of the natural order of words in a sentence. The Latin and Greek languages admit transposition without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
5.  In music, a change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key.


Topic: Transubstantiate
Definition:
TRANSUBSTAN'TIATE, v.t.  To change to another substance; as, to transubstantiate the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ, according to the popish doctrine.


Topic: Transubstantiation
Definition:
TRANSUBSTANTIA'TION, n.  Change of substance.  In the Romish theology, the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ.


Topic: Transudation
Definition:
TRANSUDA'TION, n. [from transude.]  The act or process of passing off through the pores of a substance; as sweat or other fluid.


Topic: Transude
Definition:
TRANSU'DE, v.i. [L. trans and sudo, to sweat.]  To pass through the pores or interstices of texture, as perspirable matter or other fluid; as, liquor may transude through leather,or through wood.


Topic: Transume
Definition:
TRANSU'ME, v.t. [L. transumo; trans and sumo, to take.]
To take from one to another.  [Little used.]


Topic: Transverse
Definition:
TRANSVERSE, a. transvers'. [L. transversus; trans and versus, verto.]
1.  Lying or being across or in a cross direction; as a transverse diameter of axis.  Transverse lines are the diagonals of a square or parallelogram.  Lines which intersect perpendiculars, are also called transverse.
2.  In botany, a transverse partition, in a pericarp, is at right angles with the valves, as in a silique.


Topic: Transversely
Definition:
TRANSVERSELY, adv. transvers'ly.  In a cross direction; as, to cut a thing transversely.
 At Stonehenge, the stones lie transversely upon each other.


Topic: Tranters
Definition:
TRAN'TERS, n. plu. Men who carry fish from the sea coast to sell in the inland countries.  [Not American.]


Topic: Trap
Definition:
TRAP, n.
1.  An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap.
2.  An engine for catching men.  [Not used in the U. States.]
3.  An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.
 Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Rom.11.
4.  A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.
TRAP, n.  In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs.  Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt.  It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species; and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite.
TRAP, v.t.  To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.
1.  To ensnare; to take by stratagem.
 I trapp'd the foe.
2.  To adorn; to dress with ornaments.  [See Trappings.]  [the verb is little used.]
TRAP, v.i.  To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.


Topic: Trapezian
Definition:
TRAPE'ZIAN, a. [See Trapezium.]  In crystallography, having the lateral planes composed of trapeziums situated in two ranges, between two bases.


Topic: Trapezihedron
Definition:
TRAPEZIHE'DRON, n. [L. trapezium and Gr. side.]  
A solid bounded by twenty four equal and similar trapeziums.


Topic: Trapezium
Definition:
TRAPE'ZIUM, n. plu. trapezia or trapeziums. [L. from Gr. a little table.]
1.  In geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines, none of them parallel.
2.  In anatomy, a bone of the carpus.


Topic: Trapezoid
Definition:
TRAPEZOID', n. [L. trapezium.]  An irregular solid figure having four sides, no two of which are parallel to each other; also, a plane four sided figure having two of the opposite sides parallel to each other.


Topic: Trapezoidal
Definition:
TRAPEZOID'AL, a.  Having the form of a trapezoid.
1.  Having the surface composed of twenty four trapeziums, all equal and similar.


Topic: Trappings
Definition:
TRAP'PINGS, n. plu. [from trap.  The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]
1.  Ornaments of horse furniture.
 Caparisons and steeds,
 Bases and tinsel trappings--
2.  Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.
 These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
 Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.
 Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.


Topic: Trappous
Definition:
TRAP'POUS, a. [from trap,in geology.  It ought to be trappy.]
Pertaining to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities.


Topic: Trash
Definition:
TRASH, n.
1.  Any waste or worthless matter.
 Who steals my money, steals trash.
2.  Loppings of trees; bruised canes, &c.  In the West Indies,the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field-trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane-trash; and both are called trash.
3.  Fruit or other matter improper for food, but eaten by children, &c.  It is used particularly of unripe fruits.
4.  A worthless person.  [Not proper.]
5.  A piece of leather or other thing fastened to a dog's neck to retard his speed.
TRASH, v.t.  To lop; to crop.
1.  To strip of leaves; as, to trash ratoons.
2.  To crush; to humble; as, to trash the Jews.
3.  To clog; to encumber; to hinder.
TRASH, v.i.  To follow with violence and trampling.


Topic: Trass
Definition:
TRASS n. A volcanic earth, resembling puzzolana, used as a cement; or a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. The Dutch tarrass is made of a soft rock stone found near Collen, on the lower part of the Rhine. It is burnt like lime, and reduced to powder in mills. It is of a grayish color.


Topic: Traumatic
Definition:
TRAUMAT'IC, a. [Gr. a wound.]
1.  Pertaining to or applied to wounds.
2.  Vulnerary; adapted to the cure of wounds.
TRAUMAT'IC, n.  A medicine useful in the cure of wounds.


Topic: Travail
Definition:
TRAV'AIL, v.i. [L. trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]
1.  To labor with pain; to toil.
2.  To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Gen.35.
TRAV'AIL, v.t.  To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm.  [Not in use.]
TRAV'AIL, n.  Labor with pain; severe toil.
 As every thing of price, so doth this require travail.
1.  Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail.


Topic: Traveler
Definition:
TRAV'ELER, n.  
1.  One who travels in any way.  Job:31.
2.  One who visits foreign countries.
3.  In ships, an iron thimble or thimbles with a rope spliced round them, forming a kind of tail or a species of grommet.


Topic: Traveling
Definition:
TRAV'ELING, ppr.  
1.  Walking; going; making a journey.  Matt.25.
2.  a. Incurred by travel; as traveling expenses.
3.  Paid for travel; as traveling fees.


Topic: Traversable
Definition:
TRAV'ERSABLE, a. [See Traverse, in law.]  That may be traversed or denied; as a traversable allegation.


Topic: Traverse
Definition:
TRAV'ERSE, adv.  Athwart; crosswise.
 The ridges of the field lay traverse.
TRAV'ERSE, prep. [supra.]  Through crosswise.
 He traverse
 The whole battalion views their order due.  [Little used.]
TRAV'ERSE, a. [L. versus; transversus.]  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches.
 Oak--may be trusted in traverse work for summers.
TRAV'ERSE, n. [supra.]  Any thing laid or built across.
 There is a traverse placed in the loft where she sitteth.
1.  Something that thwarts, crosses or obstructs; a cross accident.  He is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not in his power.
2.  In fortification, a trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also, a wall raised across a work.
3.  In navigation, traverse-sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns, to one longer course.
4.  In law, a denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any state of the pleadings.  When the traverse or denial comes from the defendant, the issue is tendered in this manner, 'and of this he puts himself on the country.'  When the traverse lies on the plaintiff, he prays 'this may be inquired of by the country.'
The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
5.  A turning; a trick.
TRAV'ERSE, v.t.  To cross; to lay in a cross direction.
 The parts should be often traversed or crossed by the flowing of the folds.
1.  To cross by way of opposition; to thwart; to obstruct.
 Frog thought to traverse this new project.
2.  To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
 What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought.
3.  To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
 My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles and properties of this detestable vice, ingratitude.
4.  To turn and point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
5.  To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
6.  In law pleadings, to deny what the opposite party has alleged.  When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed.  So to traverse an indictment or an office, is to deny it.
To traverse a yard, in sailing, is to brace it aft.
TRAV'ERSE, v.i.  In fencing, to use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction.
 To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--
1.  To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel.  The needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
2.  In the manege, to cut the tread crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.


Topic: Traverse-board
Definition:
TRAV'ERSE-BOARD, n. [traverse and board.]  In a ship, a small board to be hung in the steerage, and bored full of holes upon lines, showing the points of compass upon it.  By moving a peg on this, the steersman keeps an account of the number of glasses a ship is steered on any point.


Topic: Traverse-table
Definition:
TRAV'ERSE-TABLE, n. [traverse and table.]  In navigation, a table of difference of latitude and departure.


Topic: Travesty
Definition:
TRAV'ESTY, a. [infra.]  Having an unusual dress; disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous.  It is applied to a book or composition translated in a manner to make it burlesque.
TRAV'ESTY, n.  A parody; a burlesque translation of a work.  Travesty may be intended to ridicule absurdity, or to convert a grave performance into a humorous one.
TRAV'ESTY, v.t.  To translate into such language as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
 G. Battista Lalli travestied Virgil, or turned him into Italian burlesque verse.


Topic: Travis
Definition:
TRAV'IS, n.  
1.  A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes. This is not used for horses in America, but a similar frame is used for confining oxen for shoeing.
2. Beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.


Topic: Tray
Definition:
TRAY, n. [L. trua.]  A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a piece of timber and made hollow, used for making bread in, chopping meat and other domestic purposes.


Topic: Treacherously
Definition:
TREACHEROUSLY, adv.  trech'erously.  By violating allegiance or faith pledged; by betraying a trust; faithlessly; perfidiously; as, to surrender a fort to an enemy treacherously; to disclose a secret treacherously.
 You treacherously practic'd to undo me.


Topic: Treacherousness
Definition:
TREACHEROUSNESS, n.  trech'erousness.  Breach of allegiance or of faith; faithlessness; perfidiousness.


Topic: Treachery
Definition:
TREACHERY, n. trech'ery.  Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery.  This is treason.  The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery.  The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery.  This is perfidy.


Topic: Treacle
Definition:
TRE'ACLE, n. [L. theriaca; Gr. a wild beast.]
1.  The spume of sugar in sugar refineries.  Treacle is obtained in refining sugar; molasses is the drainings of crude sugar.  Treacle however is often used for molasses.
2.  A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, &c.
3.  A medicinal compound of various ingredients.  [See Theriaca.]


Topic: Treacle-mustard
Definition:
TRE'ACLE-MUSTARD, n.  A plant of the genus Thlaspi, whose seeds are used in the theriaca; Mithridate mustard.


Topic: Treacle-water
Definition:
TRE'ACLE-WATER, n.  A compound cordial, distilled with a spiritous menstruum from any cordial and sudorific drugs and herbs, with a mixture of Venice treacle.


Topic: Tread
Definition:
TREAD, v.i. tred. pret. trod; pp. trod, troden. [L. trudo.]
1.  To set the foot.
 Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise.
 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
2.  To walk or go.
 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours. Deut.11.
3.  To walk with form or state.
 Ye that stately tread, or lowly creep.
4.  To copulate, as fowls.
To tread or tread on, to trample; to set the foot on in contempt.
 Thou shalt tread upon their high places.  Det.33.
TREAD, v.t. tred.  To step or walk on.
 Forbid to tread the promis'd land he saw.
1.  To press under the feet.
2.  To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.
3.  To walk in a formal or stately manner.
 He thought she trod the ground with greater grace.
4.  To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue.  Ps.44. 60.
5.  To compress, as a fowl.
To tread the state, to act as a stage-player; to perform a part in a drama.
To tread or tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.
 They tread their wine presses and suffer thirst. Job.24.
TREAD, n. tred.  A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread.
1.  Way; track; path. [Little used.]
2.  Compression of the male fowl.
3.  Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread.


Topic: Treason
Definition:
TREASON, n. tree'zn. [L. traho.  See Draw and Drag.]
Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.  Its signification is different in different countries.  In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.  In monarchies, the killing of the king, or an attempt to take his life, is treason.  In England, to imagine or compass the death of the king, or of the prince, or of the queen consort, or of the heir apparent of the crown, is high treason; as are many other offenses created by statute.
In the United States, treason is confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Treason in Great Britain, is of two kinds, high treason and petit treason.  High treason is a crime that immediately affects the king or state; such as the offenses just enumerated.  Petit treason involves a breach of fidelity, but affects individuals.  Thus for a wife to kill her husband, a servant his master or lord, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary, is petit treason.  But in the United States this crime is unknown; the killing in the latter cases being murder only.


Topic: Treasonable
Definition:
TREASONABLE, a. tree'znable.  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.
 Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices.


Topic: Treasure
Definition:
TREASURE, n. trezh'ur. [L. thesaurus.]
1.  Wealth accumulated; particularly, a stock or store of money in reserve.  Henry VII. was frugal and penurious, and collected a great treasure of gold and silver.
2.  A great quantity of any thing collected for future use.
 We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey.  Jer.41.
3.  Something very much valued.  Ps.135.
 Ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me. Ex.19.
4.  Great abundance.
 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Col.2.
TREASURE, v.t. trezh'ur. To hoard; to collect and reposit, either money or other things, for future use; to lay up; as, to treasure gold and silver; usually with up. Sinners are said to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath.  Rom.2.


Topic: Treasure-trove
Definition:
TREASURE-TROVE, n. trezh'ur-trove. Any money, bullion and the like, found in the earth, the owner of which is not known.


Topic: Treasurer
Definition:
TREASURER, n. trezh'urer. One who has the care of a treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders drawn by the proper authority. Incorporated companies and private societies have also their treasurers.
In England, the lord high treasurer is the principal officer of the crown, under whose charge is all the national revenue.
The treasurer of the household, in the absence of the lord-steward, has power with the controller and other officers of the Green-cloth, and the steward of the Marshalsea, to hear and determine treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the king's palace. There is also the treasurer of the navy, and the treasurers of the county.


Topic: Treasury
Definition:
TREASURY, n. trezh'ury.  A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government.
1.  A building appropriated for keeping public money.  John 8.
2.  The officer or officers of the treasury department.
3.  A repository of abundance. Ps.135.


Topic: Treat
Definition:
TREAT, v.t. [L. tracto.]
1.  To handle; to manage; to use.  Subjects are usually faithful or treacherous, according as they are well or ill treated.  To treat prisoners ill, is the characteristic of barbarians.  Let the wife of your bosom be kindly treated.
2.  To handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.
3.  To entertain without expense to the guest.
4.  To negotiate; to settle; as, to treat a peace.  [Not in use.]
5.  To manage in the application of remedies; as, to treat a disease or a patient.
TREAT, v.i. To discourse; to handle in writing or speaking; to make discussion.  Cicero treats of the nature of the gods; he treats of old age and of duties.
1.  To come to terms of accommodation.
 Inform us, will the emp'ror treat?
2.  To make gratuitous entertainment.  It is sometimes the custom of military officers to treat when first elected.
To treat with, to negotiate; to make and receive proposals for adjusting differences.  Envoys were appointed to treat with France, but without success.
TREAT, n.  An entertainment given; as a parting treat.
1.  Something given for entertainment; as a rich treat.
2.  Emphatically, a rich entertainment.


Topic: Treatable
Definition:
TRE'ATABLE, a.  Moderate; not violent.
 The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Treatise
Definition:
TRE'ATISE, n. [L. tractatus.]  A tract; a written composition on a particular subject, in which the principles of it are discussed or explained.  A treatise is of an indefinite length; but it implies more form and method than an essay, and less fullness or copiousness than a system.


Topic: Treatment
Definition:
TRE'ATMENT, n.  Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.
1.  Usage; manner of using; good of bad behavior towards.
 Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
2.  Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as the treatment of a disease.
3.  Manner of applying remedies to; as the treatment of a patient.


Topic: Treaty
Definition:
TRE'ATY, n.  Negotiation; act of treating for the adjustment of differences, or for forming an agreement; as, a treaty is on the carpet.
 He cast by treaty and by trains
 Her to persuade.
1.  An agreement, league or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns or the supreme power of each state.  Treaties are of various kinds, as treaties for regulating commercial intercourse, treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, treaties for hiring troops, treaties of peace, &c.
2.  Intreaty.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Treaty-making
Definition:
TRE'ATY-MAKING, a. The treaty-making power is lodged in the executive government.  In monarchies, it is vested in the king or emperor; in the United States of America, it is vested in the president, by and with the consent of the senate.


Topic: Treble
Definition:
TREBLE, a. trib'l. [L. triplex, triplus; tres, three, and plexus, fold.  This should be written trible.]
1.  Threefold; triple; as a lofty tower with treble walls.
2.  In music, acute; sharp; as a treble sound.
3.  That plays the highest part or most acute sounds; that plays the treble; as a treble violin.
TREBLE, n. trib'l.  In music, the part of a symphony whose sounds are highest or most acute.  This is divided into first or highest treble, and second or base treble.
TREBLE, v.t. trib'l. [L. triplico.]   To make thrice as much; to make threefold. Compound interest soon trebles a debt.
TREBLE, v.i.  trib'l.  To become threefold. A debt at compound interest soon trebles in amount.


Topic: Treddle
Definition:
TRED'DLE, n.  The part of a loom or other machine which is moved by the tread or foot.
1.  The albuminous cords which unite the yolk of the egg to the white.


Topic: Tree
Definition:
TREE, n.
1.  The general name of the largest of the vegetable kind, consisting of a firm woody stem springing from woody roots, and spreading above into branches which terminate in leaves.  A tree differs from a shrub principally in size, many species of trees growing to the highth of fifty or sixty feet, and some species to seventy or eighty, and a few, particularly the pine, to a much greater highth.
Trees are of various kinds; as nuciferous, or nut-bearing trees; bacciferous, or berry-bearing; coniferous, or cone-bearing, &c.  Some are forest-trees, and useful  for timber or fuel; others are fruit trees, and cultivated in gardens and orchards; others are used chiefly for shade and ornament.
2.  Something resembling a tree, consisting of a stem or stalk and branches; as a genealogical tree.
3.  In ship-building, pieces of timber are called chess-trees, cross-trees, roof-trees, tressel-trees, &c.
4.  In Scripture, a cross.
 --Jesus, whom they slew and hanged on a tree.  Act.10.
5.  Wood.


Topic: Tree-nail
Definition:
TREE'-NAIL, n. [tree and nail; commonly pronounced trunnel.]
A long wooden pin, used in fastening the planks of a ship to the timbers.


Topic: Tree-toad
Definition:
TREE'-TOAD, noun [tree and toad.] A small species of toad in North America, found on trees. This animal croaks chiefly in the evening and after a rain.


Topic: Trefoil
Definition:
TRE'FOIL, n. [L. trifolium; tres, three, and folium, leaf.]
The common name for many plants of the genus Trifolium; also, in agriculture, a name of the medicago tupulina, a plant resembling clover, with yellow flowers, much cultivated for hay and fodder.


Topic: Treillage
Definition:
TREILLAGE, n. trel'lage.  In gardening, a sort of rail-work, consisting of light posts and rails for supporting espaliers, and sometimes for wall trees.


Topic: Trellis
Definition:
TREL'LIS, n. In gardening, a structure or frame of cross-barred work, or lattice work, used like the treillage for supporting plants.


Topic: Tremble
Definition:
TREM'BLE, v.i. [L. tremo.]
1.  To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder.
 Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke.
2.  To shake; to quiver; to totter.
 Sinai's gray top shall tremble.
3.  To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles.


Topic: Tremendous
Definition:
TREMEN'DOUS, a. [L. tremendus, from tremo, to tremble.]
1.  Such as may excite fear or terror; terrible; dreadful.  Hence,
2.  Violent; such as may astonish by its force and violence; as a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall; a tremendous noise.


Topic: Tremolite
Definition:
TREM'OLITE, n.  A mineral, so called from Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was discovered.  It is classed by Hauy with hornblend or amphibole, and called amphibole grammatite.  It is of three kinds, asbestos, common, and glassy tremolite; all of a fibrous or radiated structure, and of a pearly color.
Tremolite is a subspecies of straight edged augite.


Topic: Tremor
Definition:
TRE'MOR, n. [L. from tremo.]  An involuntary trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm or old.
 He fell into a universal tremor.


Topic: Tremulous
Definition:
TREM'ULOUS, a. [L. tremulus, from tremo, to tremble.]
1.  Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling christian.
2. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.


Topic: Trench
Definition:
TRENCH, v.t.
1.  To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth.  We trench land for draining.  [This is the appropriate sense of the word.]
2.  To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch.  [In this sense, entrench is more generally used.]
3.  To furrow; to form with deep furrows by plowing.
4.  To cut a long gash.  [Not in use.]
TRENCH, v.i.  To encroach.  [See Entrench.]
TRENCH, n.  A long narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as a trench for draining land.
1.  In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy.  The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench, as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials,  Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, &c.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.


Topic: Trencher
Definition:
TRENCH'ER, n.  A wooden plate.  Trenchers were in use among the common people of New England till the revolution.
1.  The table.
2.  Food; pleasures of the table.
 It would be no ordinary declension that would bring some men to place their summum bonum upon their trenchers.


Topic: Trend
Definition:
TREND, v.i.  [This word seems to be allied to trundle, or to run.]
To run; to stretch; to tend; to have a particular direction; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
TREND, n.  That part of the stock of an anchor from which the size is taken.
TREND, v.t.  In rural economy, to free wool from its filth.  [Local.]


Topic: Trending
Definition:
TREND'ING, ppr.  Running; tending.
1.  Cleaning wool.  [Local.]
TREND'ING, n.  The operation of freeing wool from filth of various kinds.


Topic: Trepan
Definition:
TREPAN', n. [L. tero, terebra, on the root Rp.]   In surgery, a circular saw for perforating the skull. It resembles a wimble.
TREPAN', v.t.  To perforate the skull and take out a piece; a surgical operation for relieving the brain from pressure or irritation.
Trepan, a snare, and trepan, to ensnare, are from trap, and written trepan, which see.


Topic: Trepanning
Definition:
TREPAN'NING, ppr.  Perforating the skull with a trepan.
TREPAN'NING, n.  The operation of making an opening in the skull, for relieving the brain from compression or irritation.


Topic: Trephine
Definition:
TREPH'INE, n. [See Trepan.]  An instrument for trepanning, more modern than the trepan.  It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimblet, and a little sharp perforator, called the center-pin.
TREPH'INE, v.t.  To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.


Topic: Trepidation
Definition:
TREPIDA'TION, n. [L. trepidatio, form trepido, to tremble.]
1.  An involuntary trembling; a quaking or quivering, particularly from fear or terror; hence, a state of terror.  The men were in great trepidation.
2.  A trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections.
3.  In the old astronomy, a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament, to account for the changes and motion of the axis of the world.
4.  Hurry; confused haste.


Topic: Trespass
Definition:
TRES'PASS, v.i. [L. trans, beyond, and passer, to pass.]
1.  Literally, to pass beyond; hence primarily, to pass over the boundary line of another's land; to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.  A man may trespass by walking over the ground of another, and the law gives a remedy for damages sustained.
2.  To commit any offense or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude to the injury of another.
 If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him-- 1 Kings 8.  See Luke 17. 3. and 4.
3.  In a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty.
 In the time of his disease did he trespass yet more.  2 Chron.28.
 We have trespassed against our God. Ezra 10.
4.  To intrude; to go too far; to put to inconvenience by demand or importunity; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
TRES'PASS, n.  In law, violation of another's rights, not amounting to treason, felony, or misprision of either.  Thus to enter another's close, is a trespass; to attack his person is a trespass.  When violence accompanies the act, it is called a trespass vi et armis.
1.  Any injury or offense done to another.
 If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  Matt.6.
2.  Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. Col.2.
 You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.  Eph.2.


Topic: Trespasser
Definition:
TRES'PASSER, n.  One who commits a trespass; one who enters upon another's land or violates his rights.
1. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.


Topic: Trespassing
Definition:
TRES'PASSING, ppr.  Entering another man's inclosure; injuring or annoying another; violating the divine law or moral duty.


Topic: Trestle
Definition:
TRES'TLE, n. tres'l.
1.  The frame of a table.
2.  A movable form for supporting any thing.
3.  In bridges, a frame consisting of two posts with a head or cross beam and braces, on which rest the string-pieces.  [This is the use of the word in New England.  It is vulgarly pronounced trussel or trussl.]
Trestle-trees, in a ship, are two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast-head, to support the frame of the top and the top-mast.


Topic: Tret
Definition:
TRET, n. [probably from L. tritus, tero, to wear.]
In commerce, an allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four per cent on the weight of commodities.  It is said this allowance is nearly discontinued.


Topic: Trethings
Definition:
TRETH'INGS, n.  Taxes; imposts.  [I know not where used.  It is unknown, I believe, in the United States.]


Topic: Triable
Definition:
TRI'ABLE, a. [from try.]  That may be tried; that may be subjected to trial or test.
1.  That may undergo a judicial examination; that may properly come under the cognizance of a court.  A cause may be triable before one court, which is not triable in another.  In England, testamentary causes are triable in the ecclesiastical courts.


Topic: Triacontahedral
Definition:
TRIACONTAHE'DRAL, a. [Gr. thirty, and side.]   Having thirty sides. In mineralogy, bounded by thirty rhombs.


Topic: Triad
Definition:
TRI'AD, n. [L. trias, from tres, three.]   The union of three; three united. In music, the common chord or harmony, consisting of the third, fifth and eighth.


Topic: Trial
Definition:
TRI'AL, n. [from try.]  Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining its effect, or what can be done. A man tries to lift a stone, and on trial finds he is not able.  A team attempts to draw a load, and after unsuccessful trial, the attempt is relinquished.
1.  Examination by a test; experiment; as in chimistry and metallurgy.
2. Experiment; act of examining by experience.  In gardening and agriculture, we learn by trial what land will produce; and often, repeated trials are necessary.
3.  Experience; suffering that puts strength, patience of faith to the test; afflictions or temptations that exercise and prove the graces or virtues of men.
 Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings.  Heb.11.
4.  In law, the examination of a cause in controversy between parties, before a proper tribunal.  Trials are civil or criminal. Trial in civil causes, may be by record or inspection; it may be by witnesses and jury, or by the court.  By the laws of England and of the United States, trial by jury, in criminal cases, is held sacred.  No criminal can be legally deprived of that privilege.
5.  Temptation; test of virtue.
 Every station is exposed to some trials.
6.  State of being tried.


Topic: Triangle
Definition:
TRI'ANGLE, n. [L. triangulum; tres, tria, three, and angulus, a corner.]   In geometry, a figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. The three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or the number of degrees in a semicircle.
If the three lines or sides of a triangle are all right, it is a plane or rectilinear triangle.
If all the three sides are equal, it is an equilateral triangle.
If two of the sides only are equal, it is an isosceles or equicrural triangle.
If all the three sides are unequal, it is a scalene or scalenous triangle.
If one of the angles is a right angle, the triangle is rectangular.
If one of the angles is obtuse, the triangle is called obtusangular or amblygonous.
If all the angles are acute, the triangle is acutangular or oxygonous.
If the three lines of a triangle are all curves, the triangle is said to be curvilinear.
If some of the sides are right and others curve, the triangle is said to be mixtilinear.
If the sides are all arcs of great circles of the sphere, the triangle is said to be spherical.


Topic: Triangular
Definition:
TRIAN'GULAR, a.  Having three angles.
In botany, a triangular stem has three prominent longitudinal angles; a triangular leaf has three prominent angles, without any reference to their measurement or direction.


Topic: Tribe
Definition:
TRIBE, n. [L. tribus.]
1.  A family, race or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
2.  A division, class or distinct portion of people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated. The city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.  Rome was originally divided into three tribes; afterward the people were distributed into thirty tribes, and afterwards into thirty five.
3.  A number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common; as a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
Linneus distributed the vegetable kingdom into three tribes, viz. monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations.
By recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a division of animals or vegetables, intermediate between order and genus.  Cuvier divides his orders into families, and his families into tribes, including under the latter one or more genera.  Leach, in his arrangement of insects, makes his tribes, on the contrary, the primary subdivisions of his orders, and his families subordinate to them, and immediately including the genera.
Tribes of plants, in gardening, are such as are related to teach other by some natural affinity or resemblance; as by their duration, the annual, biennial, and perennial tribes; by their roots, as the bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous-rooted tribes; by the loss or retention of their leaves, as the deciduous and ever-green tribes; by their fruits and seeds, as the leguminous, bacciferous, coniferous, nuciferous and pomiferous tribes, &c.
4.  A division; a number considered collectively.
5.  A nation of savages; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as the tribes of the six nations; the Seneca tribe in America.
6.  A number of persons of any character or profession; in contempt; as the scribbling tribe.
TRIBE, v.t.  To distribute into tribes or classes. [Not much used.]


Topic: Tribrach
Definition:
TRI'BRACH, n. [Gr. three, and short.]  In ancient prosody, a poetic foot of three short syllables, as melius.


Topic: Tribulation
Definition:
TRIBULA'TION, n. [L. tribulo, to thrash, to beat.]   Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution.
 When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, he is offended.  Matt.13.
 In the world ye shall have tribulation.  John 16.


Topic: Tribunal
Definition:
TRIBU'NAL, n. [L. tribunal, from tribunus, a tribune, who administered justice.]
1.  Properly, the seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
2.  More generally, a court of justice; as, the house of lords in England is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
3.  In France, a gallery or eminence in a church or other place, in which the musical performers are placed for a concert.


Topic: Tribune
Definition:
TRIB'UNE, n. [L. tribunus, from tribus, tribe.]
1.  In ancient Rome, an officer or magistrate chosen by the people to protect them from the oppression of the patricians or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.  These magistrates were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten.  There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, each of whom commanded a division or legion.  In the year of Rome 731, the senate transferred the authority of the tribunes to Augustus and his successors.  There were also other officers called tribunes; as tribunes of the treasury, of the horse, of the making of arms, &c.
2.  In France, a pulpit or elevated place in the chamber of deputies, where a speaker stands to address the assembly.


Topic: Tributary
Definition:
TRIB'UTARY, a. [from tribute.]  Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. The republic of Ragusa is tributary to the grand seignor.  Many of the powers of Europe are tributary to the Barbary states.
1.  Subject; subordinate.
 He, to grace his tributary gods--
2.  Paid in tribute.
 No flatt'ry tunes these tributary lays.
3.  Yielding supplies of any thing.  The Ohio has many large tributary streams; and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
TRIB'UTARY, n.  One that pays tribute or a stated sum to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.  What a reproach to nations that they should be the tributaries of Algiers!


Topic: Tribute
Definition:
TRIB'UTE, n. [L. tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.]
1.  An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.  The Romans made all their conquered countries pay tribute, as do the Turks at this day; and in some countries the tribute is paid in children.
2.  A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect.
3.  Something given or contributed.


Topic: Tricapsular
Definition:
TRICAP'SULAR, a. [L. tres, three, and capsula, a little chest.]
In botany, three-capsuled; having three capsules to each flower.


Topic: Trice
Definition:
TRICE, v.t.  In seamen's language, to haul and tie up by means of a small rope or line.
TRICE, n.  A very short time; an instant; a moment.
 If they get never so great spoil at any time, they waste the same in a trice.
 A man shall make his fortune in a trice.


Topic: Trichotomous
Definition:
TRICHOT'OMOUS, a. [See Trichotomy.]  Divided into three parts, or divided by threes; as a trichotomous stem.


Topic: Trick
Definition:
TRICK, n.  [L. tricor, to play tricks, to trifle, to baffle.  We see the same root in the Low L. intrico, to fold, and in intrigue.  Trick is from drawing, that is, a drawing aside, or a folding, interweaving, implication.]
1.  An artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception; a fraudful contrivance for an evil purpose, or an underhand scheme to impose upon the world; a cheat or cheating.  We hear of tricks in bargains, and tricks of state.
 He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick.
2.  A dexterous artifice.
 On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate.
3.  Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth.
4.  The sly artifice or legerdemain of a juggler; as the tricks of a merry Andrew.
5.  A collection of cards laid together.
6.  An unexpected event.
 Some trick not worth an egg. [Unusual.]
7. A particular habit or manner; as, he has a trick of drumming with his fingers, or a trick of frowning.  [This word is in common use in America, and by no means vulgar.]
TRICK, v.t.  To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
TRICK, v.t.  To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically.
 Trick her off in air.
 It is often followed by up, off, or out.
 People are lavish in tricking up their children in fine clothes, yet starve their minds.
TRICK, v.i. To live by deception and fraud.


Topic: Tricking
Definition:
TRICK'ING, ppr.  Deceiving; cheating; defrauding.
1.  Dressing; decorating.
TRICK'ING, n. Dress; ornament.


Topic: Trickle
Definition:
TRICK'LE, v.i.  [allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.]
To flow in a small gentle stream; to run down; as, tears trickle down the cheek; water trickles from the eaves.
 Fast beside there trickled softly down
 A gentle stream.


Topic: Trickling
Definition:
TRICK'LING, ppr.  Flowing down in a small gentle stream.
TRICK'LING, n. The act of flowing in a small gentle stream.
 He wakened by the trickling of his blood.


Topic: Tricliniary
Definition:
TRICLIN'IARY, a. [L. tricliniaris, from triclinium, a couch to recline on at dinner.]   Pertaining to a couch for dining, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.


Topic: Tricoccous
Definition:
TRICOC'COUS, a. [L. tres, three, and coccus, a berry.]   A tricoccous or three-grained capsule is one which is swelling out in three protuberances, internally divided into three cells, with one seed in each; as in Euphorbia.


Topic: Tricuspidate
Definition:
TRICUS'PIDATE, a. [L. tres, three, and cuspis, a point.]
In botany, three-pointed; ending in three points; as a tricuspidate stamen.


Topic: Trident
Definition:
TRI'DENT, n. [L. tridens; tres, three, and dens, tooth.]
In mythology, a kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, which the fables of antiquity put into the hands of Neptune, the deity of the ocean.
TRI'DENT


Topic: Tridodecahedral
Definition:
TRIDODECAHE'DRAL, a. [Gr. three, and dodecahedral.]
In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each containing twelve faces.


Topic: Triduan
Definition:
TRID'UAN, a. [L. triduum; tres and dies, day.]    Lasting three days, or happening every third day. [Little used.]


Topic: Triennial
Definition:
TRIEN'NIAL, a. [L. triennis, triennium; tres, three, and annus, year.]
1.  Continuing three years; as triennial parliaments.
2.  Happening every three years; as triennial elections.  Triennial elections and parliaments were established in England in 1695; but these were discontinued in 1717, and septennial elections and parliaments were adopted, which still continue.


Topic: Trier
Definition:
TRI'ER, n. [from try.]  One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines any thing by a test or standard.
1.  One who tries judicially; a judge who tries a person or cause; a juryman.  [See Trior.]
2.  A test; that which tries or approves.


Topic: Trierarch
Definition:
TRI'ERARCH, n. [Gr. a trireme, and a chief.]  In ancient Greece, the commander of a trireme; also, a commissioner who was obliged to build ships and furnish them at his own expense.


Topic: Triet
Definition:
TRIET, a. [L. tritus, from tero, to wear.]  Worn out; common; used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest; as a trite remark; a trite subject.


Topic: Trieterical
Definition:
TRIETER'ICAL, a. [L. trietericus; tres, three, and Gr. year.]
Triennial; kept or occurring once in three years. [Little used.]


Topic: Trifid
Definition:
TRIF'ID, a. [L. trifidus; tres, three, and findo, to divide.]
In botany, divided into three parts by linear sinuses with strait margins; three-cleft.


Topic: Trifle
Definition:
TRI'FLE, n.  A thing of very little value or importance; a word applicable to any thing and every thing of this character.
 With such poor trifles playing.
 Moments make the year, and trifles, life.
 Trifles
 Are to the jealous confirmations strong.
TRI'FLE, v.i.  To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity.
 They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.
1.  To indulge in light amusements.
To trifle with, to mock; to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness.
To trifle with, to spend in vanity; to waste.
To trifle away, to no good purpose; as, to trifle with time, or to trifle away time; to trifle with advantages.
TRI'FLE, v.t. To make of no importance.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Trifling
Definition:
TRI'FLING, ppr.  Acting or talking with levity, or without seriousness or being in earnest.
1.  a. Being of small value or importance; trivial; as a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
TRI'FLING, n. Employment about things of no importance.


Topic: Triflorous
Definition:
TRIF'LOROUS, a. [L. tres, three, and flos, floris, flower.]  Three-flowered; bearing three flowers; as a triflorous peduncle.


Topic: Triform
Definition:
TRI'FORM, a. [L. triformis; tres and forma.]  Having a triple form or shape; as the triform countenance of the moon.


Topic: Trig
Definition:
TRIG, v.t.  To fill; to stuff.  [Not in use.]
1.  To stop; as a wheel.
TRIG, a.  Full; trim; neat.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Trigamy
Definition:
TRIG'AMY, n. [Gr. three, and marriage.]  State of being married tree times; or the state of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.


Topic: Trigger
Definition:
TRIG'GER, n.
1.  A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
2.  The catch of a musket or pistol; the part which being pulled, looses the lock for striking fire.


Topic: Triglyph
Definition:
TRIG'LYPH, n. [Gr. three, and sculpture.]  An ornament in the frieze of the Doric column, repeated at equal intervals.  Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels, cut to a right angle, called glyphs, and separated by three interstices, called femora.


Topic: Trigon
Definition:
TRIG'ON, n. [Gr. three, and angle.]
1.  A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
2.  A kind of triangular lyre or harp.


Topic: Trigonometry
Definition:
TRIGONOM'ETRY, n. [Gr. a triangle, and to measure.]  The measuring of triangles; the science of determining the sides and angles of triangles, by means of certain parts which are given. When this science is applied to the solution of plane triangles, it is called plane trigonometry; when its application is to spherical triangles, it is called spherical trigonometry.


Topic: Trigonous
Definition:
TRIG'ONOUS, a.  Triangular; having three angles or corners.
1.  In botany, having three prominent longitudinal angles.


Topic: Trijugous
Definition:
TRIJU'GOUS, a.  [L. tres, three, and jugum, yoke.]  In botany, having three pairs.  A trijugous leaf is a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.


Topic: Triliteral
Definition:
TRILIT'ERAL, a. [L. tres, three, and litera, letter.]  Consisting of three letters; as a triliteral root or word.
TRILIT'ERAL, n.  A word consisting of three letters.


Topic: Trill
Definition:
TRILL, n.  A quaver; a shake of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument.  [See Shake.]
TRILL, v.t.  To utter with a quavering or tremulousness of voice; to shake.
 The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
TRILL, v.i.  To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
 And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
 Her delicate cheek.
1.  To shake or quaver; to play in tremulous vibrations of sound.
 To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.


Topic: Trillion
Definition:
TRILLION, n. tril'yun. [a word formed arbitrarily of three, or Gr. million.]   The product of a million multiplied by a million, and that product multiplied by a million; or the product of the square of a million multiplied by a million. Thus 1,000,000 x 1,000,000=1,000,000,000,000, and this product multiplied by a million= 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.


Topic: Trilocular
Definition:
TRILOC'ULAR, a. [L. tres and locus, a cell.]   In botany, three-celled; having three cells for seeds; as a trilocular capsule.


Topic: Trim
Definition:
TRIM, a.  Firm; compact; tight; snug; being in good order.  We say of a ship, she is trim, or trim-built; every thing about the man is trim. We say of a person, he is trim, when his body is well shaped and firm; and we say, his dress is trim, when it sits closely to his body and appears tight and snug; and of posture we say, a man or a soldier is trim, when he stands erect.  It is particularly applicable to soldiers, and in Saxon, truma is a troop or body of soldiers.
TRIM, v.t.
1.  In a general sense, to make right, that is, to put in due order for any purpose.
 The hermit trimm'd his little fire.
2.  To dress; to put the body in a proper state.
I was trimm'd in Julia's gown.
3.  To decorate; to invest or embellish with extra ornaments; as, to trim a gown with lace.
4.  To clip, as the hair of the head; also, to shave; that is, to put in due order.
5.  To lop, as superfluous branches; to prune; as, to trim trees.
6.  To supply with oil; as, to trim a lamp.
7.  To make neat; to adjust.
 I found her trimming up the diadem
 On her dead mistress--
8.  In carpentry, to dress, as timber; to make smooth.
9.  To adjust the cargo of a ship, or the weight of persons or goods in a boat, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well.  Thus we say, to trim a ship or a boat.
    10. To rebuke; to reprove sharply; a popular use of the word.
    11. To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.
To trim in, in carpentry, to fit, as a piece of timber into other work.
To trip up, to dress; to put in order.
TRIM, v.i.  To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.
TRIM, n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
1.  The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, &c., by which she is well prepared for sailing.
Trim of the masts, is their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distant,far forward or much aft, erect or raking.
Trim of sails, is that position and arrangement which is best adapted to impel the ship forward.


Topic: Trimetrical
Definition:
TRIMET'RICAL, a. [Gr. three measures.]  Consisting of three poetical measures, forming an iambic of six feet.


Topic: Trimmer
Definition:
TRIM'MER, n.  One that trims; a timeserver.
1.  A piece of timber fitted in.
 All the joists and the trimmers for the staircase--


Topic: Trimming
Definition:
TRIM'MING, ppr.  Putting in due order; dressing; decorating; pruning; balancing; fluctuating between parties.
TRIM'MING, n.  Ornamental appendages to a garment, as lace, ribbons and the like.


Topic: Trine
Definition:
TRINE, a.  Threefold; as trine dimension, that is, length, breadth and thickness.
TRINE, n. [supra.]  In astrology, the aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, forming the figure of a trigon or triangle.
TRINE, v.t. To put in the aspect of a trine.


Topic: Trinervate
Definition:
TRINERV'ATE, a. [L. tres and nervus.]  In botany, having three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting behind or beyond the base.


Topic: Tringle
Definition:
TRIN'GLE, n.  In architecture, a little square member or ornament, as a listel, reglet, platband and the like, but particularly a little member fixed exactly over every triglyph.


Topic: Trinitarian
Definition:
TRINITA'RIAN, a.  Pertaining to the Trinity, or to the doctrine of the Trinity.
TRINITA'RIAN, n.  One who believes the doctrine of the Trinity.
1.  One of an order of religious, who made it their business to redeem christians from infidels.


Topic: Trinity
Definition:
TRIN'ITY, n. [L. trinitas; tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.]
In theology, the union of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
 In my whole essay, there is not any thing like an objection against the Trinity.


Topic: Trinket
Definition:
TRINK'ET, n.
1.  A small ornament, as a jewel, a ring and the like.
2.  A thing of little value; tackle; tools.


Topic: Trinomial
Definition:
TRINO'MIAL, a. [L. tres and nomen.]  In mathematics, a trinomial root, is a root consisting of three parts, connected by the signs + or -.  Thus x+y+z, or a+b-c.
TRINO'MIAL, n.  A root of three terms or parts.


Topic: Triobolar
Definition:
TRIOB'OLAR, a. [L. triobolaris; tres and obolus.]  Of the value of three oboli; mean; worthless. [Not used.]


Topic: Trioctahedral
Definition:
TRIOCTAHE'DRAL, a. [tri and octahedral.]  In crystallography, presenting three ranges of faces, one above another, each range containing eight faces.


Topic: Trioctile
Definition:
TRIOC'TILE, n. [L. tres, three, and octo, eight.]  In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are three octants or eight parts of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.


Topic: Trip
Definition:
TRIP, v.t.
1.  To supplant; to cause to fall by striking the feet suddenly from under the person; usually followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling; to trip up the heels.
2.  To supplant; to overthrow by depriving of support.
3.  To catch; to detect.
4.  To loose an anchor from the bottom by its cable or buoy-rope.
TRIP, v.i.  To stumble; to strike the foot against something, so as to lose the step and come near to fall; or to stumble and fall.
1.  To err; to fail; to mistake; to be deficient.
 Virgil pretends sometimes to trip.
TRIP, v.i.
1.  To run or step lightly; to walk with a light step.
 She bounded by and tripp'd so light.
 They had not time to take a steady sight.
 Thus from the lion trips the trembling doe.
2.  To take a voyage or journey.
TRIP, n.  A stroke or catch by which a wrestler supplants his antagonist.
 And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
1.  A stumble by the loss of foot-hold, or a striking of the foot against an object.
2.  A failure; a mistake.
 Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
3.  A journey; or a voyage.
 I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
4.  In navigation, a single board in plying to windward.
5.  Among farmers, a small flock of sheep, or a small stock of them.  [Local.]


Topic: Tripartite
Definition:
TRIP'ARTITE, a. [L. tripartitus; tres, three, and partitus, divided; partior.]
1.  Divided into three parts.  In botany, a tripartite leaf is one which is divided into three parts down to the base, but not wholly separate.
2.  Having three corresponding parts or copies; as indentures tripartite.


Topic: Tripe
Definition:
TRIPE, n.
1.  Properly, the entrails; but in common usage, the large stomach of ruminating animals, prepared for food.
2.  In ludicrous language, the belly.


Topic: Tripetalous
Definition:
TRIPET'ALOUS, a. [Gr. three, and leaf.]  In botany, three-petaled; having three petals or flower leaves.


Topic: Triphthong
Definition:
TRIPH'THONG, n. [Gr. three, and sound.]  A coalition of three vowels in one compound sound, or in one syllable, as in adieu, eye.


Topic: Tripinnate
Definition:
TRIPIN'NATE, a. [L. tres and penna or pinna.]  In botany, a tripinnate leaf is a species of superdecompound leaf, when a petiole has bipinnate leaves ranged on each side of it, as in common fern.


Topic: Triple
Definition:
TRIP'LE, a.[L. triplex, triplus; tres and plico, to fold.]
1.  Threefold; consisting of three united; as a triple knot; a triple tie.
By thy triple shape as thou are seen--
2.  Treble; three times repeated.  [See Treble.]
Triple time, in music, is that in which each bar is divided into three measures or equal parts, as three minims, three crotchets, three quavers, &c.
TRIP'LE, v.t.  To treble; to make threefold or thrice as much or as many.  [Usually written treble.]


Topic: Triplet
Definition:
TRIP'LET, n. [from triple.]  Three of a kind, or three united.
1.  In poetry, three verses rhyming together.
2.  In music, three notes sung or played in the time of two.


Topic: Triplicate
Definition:
TRIP'LICATE, a. [L. triplicatus, triplico; tres and plico, to fold.]   Made thrice as much; threefold.
Triplicate ratio, is the ratio which cubes bear to each other.


Topic: Triplication
Definition:
TRIPLICA'TION, n.  The act of trebling or making threefold, or adding three together.
1.  In the civil law, the same as sur-rejoinder in common law.


Topic: Triply-ribbed
Definition:
TRIP'LY-RIBBED, a. [triple and rib.]  In botany, having a pair of large ribs branching off from the main one above the base, as in the leaves of many species of sunflower.


Topic: Tripod
Definition:
TRI'POD, n. [L. tripus, tripodis; Gr. three, and foot.]
A bench, stool or seat supported by three legs, on which the priest and sibyls in ancient times were placed to render oracles.


Topic: Tripoli
Definition:
TRIP'OLI, n.  In mineralogy, a mineral originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals.  It has a dull argillaceous appearance, but is not compact.  It has a fine hard grain, but does not soften by water, or mix with it.  It is principally composed of silex.


Topic: Tripping
Definition:
TRIP'PING, ppr.  Supplanting; stumbling; falling; stepping nimbly.
1.  a.  Quick; nimble.
TRIP'PING, n.  The act of tripping.
1.  A light dance.
2.  The loosing of an anchor from the ground by its cable or buoy-rope.


Topic: Trippingly
Definition:
TRIP'PINGLY, adv.  Nimbly; with a light nimble quick step; with agility.
 Sing and dance it trippingly.
 Speak the speech trippingly on the tongue.


Topic: Tripyramid
Definition:
TRIPYR'AMID, n. [L. tres and pyramis.]  In mineralogy, a genus of spars, the body of which is composed of single pyramids, each of three sides, affixed by their base to some solid body.


Topic: Triquetrous
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TRIQUE'TROUS, a. [L. triquetrus, from triquetra, a triangle.]
Three-sided; having three plane sides.


Topic: Trireme
Definition:
TRI'REME, n. [L. triremis; tres and remus.]   A galley or vessel with three benches or ranks of oars on a side.


Topic: Trisacramentarian
Definition:
TRISACRAMENTA'RIAN, n. [L. tres, three, and sacrament.]
One of a religious sect who admit of three sacraments and no more.


Topic: Trisection
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TRISEC'TION, n. [L. tres and sectio, a cutting.]   The division of a thing into three parts; particularly in geometry, the division of an angle into three equal parts.


Topic: Trispermous
Definition:
TRISPERM'OUS, a. [Gr. three, and seed.]  Three-seeded; containing three seeds; as a trispermous capsule.


Topic: Triteness
Definition:
TRI'TENESS, n.  Commonness; staleness; a state of being worn out; as the triteness of an observation or a subject.


Topic: Triternate
Definition:
TRITERN'ATE, a. [L. tres, three, and ternate.]  Having three biternate leaves, or the divisions of a triple petiole subdivided into threes; a species of superdecompound leaf.


Topic: Tritheist
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TRITHE'IST, n.  One who believes that there are three distinct Gods in the Godhead, that is, three distinct substances, essences of hypostases.


Topic: Trithing
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TRI'THING, n. [from three.]  One of the divisions of the county of York in England, which is divided into three parts.  It is now called Riding.


Topic: Triton
Definition:
TRI'TON, n.  In mythology, a fabled sea demi-god, supposed to be the trumpeter of Neptune.  He is represented by poets and painters as half man and half fish.
1.  A genus of the molluscal order of worms.
2.  A bird of the West Indies, famous for its notes.


Topic: Tritone
Definition:
TRI'TONE, n. [L. tres and tonus.]  In music, a false concord, consisting of three tones,two major and one minor tone, or of two tones and two semitones; a dissonant interval.


Topic: Triturable
Definition:
TRIT'URABLE, a.  [See Triturate.]  Capable of being reduced to a fine powder by pounding, rubbing or grinding.


Topic: Triturate
Definition:
TRIT'URATE, v.t. [L. trituro, from tritus, tero, to wear.]  To rub or grind to a very fine powder, and properly to a finer powder than that made by pulverization.


Topic: Triumph
Definition:
TRI'UMPH, n. [L. triumphus.]
1.  Among the ancient Romans, a pompous ceremony performed in honor of a victorious general, who was allowed to enter the city crowned, originally with laurel, but in later times with gold, bearing a truncheon in one hand and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a chariot drawn by two white horses, and followed by the kings, princes and generals whom he had vanquished, loaded with chains and insulted by mimics and buffoons. The triumph was of two kinds, the greater and the less.  The lesser triumph was granted for a victory over enemies of less considerable power, and was called an ovation.
2. State of being victorious.
 Hercules from Spain
 Arriv'd in triumph, from Geryon slain.
3.  Victory; conquest.
 The vain coquets the trifling triumphs boast.
4.  Joy or exultation for success.
 Great triumph and rejoicing was in heav'n.
5.  A card that takes all others; now written trump, which see.
TRI'UMPH, v.i.  To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory.
 How long shall the wicked triumph? Ps.94.
1.  To obtain victory.
 There fix thy faith, and triumph o'er the world.
 Attir'd with stars, we shall forever sit
 Triumphing over death.
2.  In insult upon an advantage gained.
 Let not my enemies triumph over me. Ps.25.
 Sorrow on all the pack of you
 That triumph thus upon my misery.
3.  To be prosperous; to flourish.
 Where commerce triumph'd on the favoring gales.
triumph over,to succeed in overcoming; to surmount; as, to triumph over all obstacles.


Topic: Triumphal
Definition:
TRIUMPH'AL, a. [L. triumphalis.]  Pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; as a triumphal crown or car; a triumphal arch.
TRIUMPH'AL, n. A token of victory.


Topic: Triumphant
Definition:
TRIUMPH'ANT, a. [L. triumphans.]  Celebrating victory; as a triumphant chariot.
1.  Rejoicing as for victory.
 Successful beyond hope to lead you forth
 Triumphant out of this infernal pit.
2.  Victorious; graced with conquest.
 So shall it be in the church triumphant.
 Athena, war's triumphant maid--
3.  Celebrating victory; expressing joy for success; as a triumphant song.


Topic: Triumphantly
Definition:
TRIUMPH'ANTLY, adv.  In a triumphant manner; with the joy and exultation that proceeds from victory or success.
 Through armed ranks triumphantly she drives.
1.  Victoriously; with success.
 Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin.
2.  With insolent exultation.


Topic: Triumpher
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TRI'UMPHER, n.  One who triumphs or rejoices for victory; one who vanquishes.
1.  One who was honored with a triumph in Rome.


Topic: Triumphing
Definition:
TRI'UMPHING, ppr.  Celebrating victory with pomp; vanquishing; rejoicing for victory; insulting on an advantage.


Topic: Triumvir
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TRI'UMVIR, n. [L. tres, three, and vir, man.]  One of three men united in office.  The triumvirs, L. triumviri, of Rome, were three men who jointly obtained the sovereign power in Rome.  The first of these were Caesar, Crassus and Pompey.


Topic: Triumvirate
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TRIUM'VIRATE, a.  A coalition of three men; particularly, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.
1.  Government by three men in coalition.


Topic: Triune
Definition:
TRI'UNE, a. [L. tres and unus.]  Three in one; an epithet applied to God, to express the unity of the Godhead in a trinity of persons.


Topic: Triverbial
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TRIVERB'IAL, a. [L. triverbium.]  Triverbial days, in the Roman calendar, were juridical or court days, days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes; called also dies fasti.  There were only twenty eight in the year.


Topic: Trivial
Definition:
TRIV'IAL, a. [L. trivialis; probably from Gr.; L. tero, trivi, to wear, or from trivium, a highway.]
1.  Trifling; of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; as a trivial subject; a trivial affair.
2.  Worthless; vulgar.
Trivial name, in natural history, the common name for the species, which added to the generic name forms the complete denomination of the species; the specific name.  Thus in Lathyrus aphaca, Lathyrus is the generic name, and aphaca the trivial or specific name, and the two combined form the complete denomination of the species.  Linne at first applied the term specific name to the essential character of the species, now called the specific definition or difference; but it is now applied solely to the trivial name.


Topic: Trochanter
Definition:
TROCHAN'TER, n. [Gr.]  In anatomy, the trochanters are two processes of the thigh bone, called major and minor, the major on the outside, and the minor on the inside.


Topic: Troche
Definition:
TRO'CHE, n. [Gr. a wheel.]  A form of medicine in a cake or tablet, or a stiff paste cut into proper portions and dried.  It is made by mixing the medicine with sugar and the mucilage of gum tragacanth, intended to be gradually dissolved in the mouth and slowly swallowed, as a demulcent to sheath the epiglottis, and as a remedy for the bronchocele.


Topic: Trochee
Definition:
TRO'CHEE, n. [L. trochoeus.]  In verse, a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.


Topic: Trochil
Definition:
TRO'CHIL,  n. [L. trochilus; Gr. to run.]
1.  An aquatic bird, a swift runner, with long legs, which is said to get its meat out of the crocodile's mouth.
2.  A name given to the golden crowned wren.
3.  In zoology, the humming bird or honeysucker, a kind of beautiful little birds, natives of America.
4.  In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.


Topic: Trochite
Definition:
TRO'CHITE, n. [L. trochus; Gr. to run.]
1.  In natural history, a kind of figured fossil stone, resembling parts of plants, called St. Cuthbert's beads.  These stones are usually of a brownish color; they break like spar, and are easily dissolved in vinegar.  Their figure is generally cylindrical, sometimes a little tapering.  Two, three or more of these joined, constitute an entrochus.
2.  Fossil remains of the shells called trochus.


Topic: Trochlea
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TROCH'LEA, n. [L. a pulley, from Gr. to run.]  A pulley-like cartilage, through which the tendon of the trochleary muscle passes.


Topic: Trochleary
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TROCH'LEARY, a. [from L. trochlea.]   Pertaining to the trochlea; as the trochleary muscle, the superior oblique muscle of the eye; the trochleary nerve, the pathetic nerve, which goes to that muscle.


Topic: Trochoid
Definition:
TRO'CHOID, n. [L. trochus, to run.]   In geometry, a curve generated by the motion of a wheel; the cycloid.


Topic: Troglodyte
Definition:
TROG'LODYTE, n. [Gr. a cavern, and to enter.]  The Troglodytes were a people of Ethiopia, represented by the ancients as living in caves, about whom we have many fables.


Topic: Troll
Definition:
TROLL, v.t. To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.
 They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.
 Troll about the bridal bow.
TROLL, v.i.  To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.
1.  Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.


Topic: Tronco
Definition:
TRON'CO, n. [L. truncus.]  A term in Italian music, directing a note or sound to be cut short, or just uttered and then discontinued.


Topic: Troop
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TROOP, n.
1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. Gen.49.  2 Sam.23.  Hos.7.
 That which should accompany old age,
 As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
 I must not look to have.
2.  A body of soldiers.  But applied to infantry, it is now used in the plural, troops, and this word signifies soldiers in general, whether more or less numerous, including infantry, cavalry and artillery. We apply the word to a company, a regiment or an army.  The captain ordered his troops to halt; the colonel commanded his troops to wheel and take a position on the flank; the general ordered his troops to attack; the troops of France amounted to 400,000 men.
3.  Troop, in the singular, a small body or company of cavalry, light horse or dragoons, commanded by a captain.
4.  A company of stage-players.
TROOP, v.i.  To collect in numbers.
 Armies at the call of trumpet,
 Troop to their standard.
1.  To march in a body.
 I do not, as an enemy to peace,
 Troop in the throngs of military men.
2.  To march in haste or in company.


Topic: Trope
Definition:
TROPE, n. [L. tropus; Gr. to turn.]  In rhetoric, a word or expression used in a different sense from that which it properly signifies; or a word changed from its original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea, as when we call a stupid fellow an ass, or a shrewd man a fox.
Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.  Some authors make figure the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.


Topic: Trophy
Definition:
TRO'PHY, n. [L. tropoeum.]
1.  Among the ancients, a pile of arms taken from a vanquished enemy, raised on the field of battle by the conquerors; also, the representation of such a pile in marble, on medals and the like; or according to others, trophies were trees planted in conspicuous places of the conquered provinces, and hung with the spoils of the enemy, in memory of the victory.  Hence,
2.  Any thing taken and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards and the like, taken from an enemy.
 Around the posts hung helmets, darts and spears,
 And captive chariots, axes, shields and bars,
 And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
3.  In architecture, an ornament representing the stem of a tree, charged or encompassed with arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
4.  Something that is evidence of victory; memorial of conquest.
 Present every hearer to Christ as a trophy of grace.


Topic: Trophy-money
Definition:
TRO'PHY-MONEY, n.  A duty paid in England annually by house-keepers, towards providing harness, drums, colors, &c. for the militia.


Topic: Tropic
Definition:
TROP'IC, n. [L. tropicus; from Gr. a turning; to turn.]
1.  In astronomy, a circle of the sphere drawn through a solstitial point, parallel to the equator; or the line which bounds the sun's declination from the equator, north or south.  This declination is twenty-three degrees and a half nearly.  There are two tropics; the tropic of Cancer, on the north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn on the south.
2. Tropics, in geography, are two lesser circles of the globe, drawn parallel to the equator through the beginning of Cancer and of Capricorn.


Topic: Tropic-bird
Definition:
TROP'IC-BIRD, n. An aquatic fowl of the genus Phaeton, with a long slender tail and remarkable powers of flight.


Topic: Tropical
Definition:
TROP'ICAL, a.  Pertaining to the tropics; being within the tropics; as tropical climates; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical winds.
1.  Incident to the tropics; as tropical diseases.
2.  [from trope.]  Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense.
 The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable, and the thing intended by it.
Tropical writing or hieroglyphic, is such as represents a thing by qualities which resemble it.


Topic: Tropist
Definition:
TRO'PIST, n. [from trope.]  One who explains the Scriptures by tropes and figures of speech; one who deals in tropes.


Topic: Tropological
Definition:
TROPOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Tropology.]   Varied by tropes; changed from the original import of the words.


Topic: Tropology
Definition:
TROPOL'OGY, n. [Gr. trope, and discourse.]  A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or change from the original import of the word.


Topic: Trot
Definition:
TROT, v.i.
1.  To move faster than in walking, as a horse or other quadruped, by lifting one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time.
2.  To walk or move fast; or to run.
 He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.
TROT, n.  The pace of a horse or other quadruped, when he lifts one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side at the same time. This pace is the same as that of a walk, but more rapid.  The trot is often a jolting hard motion, but in some horses, it is as easy as the amble or pace, and has a more stately appearance.
1.  An old woman; in contempt.


Topic: Troth
Definition:
TROTH, n.
1.  Belief; faith; fidelity; as,to plight one's troth.
2.  Truth; verity; veracity; as in troth; by my troth.


Topic: Trouble
Definition:
TROUBLE, v.t. trub'l. [L. turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn.  The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in L. turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind.  Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.
1.  To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.
 God looking forth will trouble all his host.
 An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.  John 5.
2.  To disturb; to perplex.
 Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure.
3.  To afflict; to grieve; to distress.
 Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved.  Ps.13.
4.  To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.
 Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things.  Luke 10.
5.  To tease; to vex; to molest.
 The boy so troubles me,
 'Tis past enduring.
6.  To give occasion for labor to.  I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.  I will not trouble myself in this affair.
7.  To sue for a debt.  He wishes not to trouble his debtors.
TROUBLE, n. trub'l.  Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.
1.  Affliction; calamity.
 He shall deliver thee in six troubles.  Job 5.
 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.  Ps.25.
2.  Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance. 
 Lest the fiend some new trouble raise.
3.  Uneasiness; vexation.
4.  That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.


Topic: Troubler
Definition:
TROUBLER, n. trub'ler.  One who disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as a troubler of the peace.
 The rich troublers of the world's repose.


Topic: Troublesome
Definition:
TROUBLESOME, a. trub'lsome.  Giving trouble or disturbance; molesting; annoying; vexatious.  In warm climates, insects are very troublesome.
1.  Burdensome; tiresome; wearisome.
 My mother will never be troublesome to me.
2.  Giving inconvenience to.  I wish not to be troublesome as a guest.
3.  Teasing; importunate; as a troublesome applicant.


Topic: Troublesomeness
Definition:
TROUBLESOMENESS, n.  trub'lsomeness.
1.  Vexatiousness; the quality of giving trouble or of molesting.
2.  Unseasonable intrusion; importunity.


Topic: Troubling
Definition:
TROUBLING, ppr.  trub'ling.  Disturbing; agitating; molesting; annoying; afflicting.
TROUBLING, n. trub'ling.  The act of disturbing or putting in commotion. John 5.
1.  The act of afflicting.


Topic: Troublous
Definition:
TROUBLOUS, a. trub'lus.  Agitated; tumultuous; full of commotion.
 A tall ship toss'd in troublous seas.
1.  Full of trouble or disorder; tumultuous; full of affliction.
 The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  Dan.9.


Topic: Trough
Definition:
TROUGH, n. trauf.
1.  A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.
2.  A tray.  [This is the same word dialectically altered.]
3.  A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.
4.  The channel that conveys water, as in mills.
The trough of the sea, the hollow between waves.


Topic: Trout
Definition:
TROUT, n. [L. trutta.]  A river fish of the genus Salmo, variegated with spots, and esteemed as most delicate food.


Topic: Trover
Definition:
TRO'VER, n.  Trover is properly the finding of any thing.  Hence,
1.  In law, the gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.
2.  An action which a man has against another who has found or obtained possession of any of his goods, and who refuses to deliver them on demand.  This is called an action of trover and conversion.  In this case, the trover or finding is an immaterial fact, but the plaintiff must prove his own property, and the possession and conversion of the goods by the defendant.


Topic: Trow
Definition:
TROW, v.i.  To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
TROW, is used in the imperative, as a word of inquiry.  What means the fool, trow?


Topic: Trowel
Definition:
TROW'EL, n. [L. trulla.]
1.  A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
2.  A gardener's tool, somewhat like a trowel, made of iron and scooped; used in taking up plants and for other purposes.


Topic: Trowsers
Definition:
TROWS'ERS, n. plu. s as z.  A loose garment worn by males, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering the lower limbs.


Topic: Truant
Definition:
TRU'ANT, a.  Idle; wandering from business; loitering; as a truant boy.
 While truant Jove, in infant price,
 Play'd barefoot on Olympus'side.
TRU'ANT, n.  An idler; an idle boy.
TRU'ANT. v.i.  To idle away time; to loiter or be absent from employment.


Topic: Truce
Definition:
TRUCE, n.
1.  In war, a suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders; a temporary cessation of hostilities, either for negotiation or other purpose.
2.  Intermission of action, pain or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.
 There he may find
 Truce to his restless thoughts.


Topic: Truce-breaker
Definition:
TRU'CE-BREAKER, n. [truce and breaker.]  One who violates a truce, covenant or engagement.  2 Tim.3.


Topic: Truck
Definition:
TRUCK, v.i. [L. trochus, a round thing; Eng. truck.]  To exchange commodities; to barter.  Our traders truck with the Indians, giving them whiskey and trinkets for skins.  [Truck is now vulgar.]
TRUCK, v.t.  To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.  [Vulgar.]
TRUCK, n.  Permutation; exchange of commodities; barter.
1.  A small wooden wheel not bound with iron; a cylinder.
2.  A small wheel; hence trucks, a low carriage for carrying goods, stone, &c.  Indeed this kind of carriage is often called a truck, in the singular.


Topic: Truckle
Definition:
TRUCK'LE, n.  A small wheel or caster.
TRUCK'LE, v.i. [dim. of truck.]  To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.  Small states must truckle to large ones.
 Religion itself is forced to truckle with worldly policy.


Topic: Truckle-bed
Definition:
TRUCK'LE-BED, n. [truckle and bed.]  A bed that runs on wheels and may be pushed under another; a trundle-bed.


Topic: Truculence
Definition:
TRU'CULENCE, n. [L. truculentia, from trux, fierce, savage.]
1.  Savageness of manners; ferociousness.
2.  Terribleness of countenance.


Topic: Truculent
Definition:
TRU'CULENT, a. Fierce; savage; barbarous; as the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
1.  Of a ferocious aspect.
2.  Cruel; destructive; as a truculent plague.


Topic: Trudge
Definition:
TRUDGE, v.i. To travel on foot.  The father rode; the son trudged on behind.
1. To travel or march with labor.
 --And trudg'd to Rome upon my naked feet.


Topic: True
Definition:
TRUE, a.
1.  Conformable to fact; being in accordance with the actual state of things; as a true relation or narration; a true history.  A declaration is true, when it states the facts.  In this sense, true is opposed to false.
2.  Genuine; pure; real; not counterfeit, adulterated or false; as true balsam; the true bark; true love of country; a true christian.
--The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.  John 1.
3.  Faithful; steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince or to the state; loyal; not false, fickle or perfidious; as a true friend; a true lover; a man true to his king, true to his country, true to his word; a husband true to his wife; a wife true to her husband; a servant true to his master; an officer true to his charge.
4.  Free from falsehood; as a true witness.
5.  Honest; not fraudulent; as good men and true.
 If king Edward be as true and just--
6.  Exact; right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; as a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
7.  Straight; right; as a true line; the true course of a ship.
8.  Not false or pretended; real; as, Christ was the true Messiah.
9.  Rightful; as, George IV is the true king of England.


Topic: Trueborn
Definition:
TRUEBORN, a. [true and born.]  Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as a true born Englishman.


Topic: Truebred
Definition:
TRUEBRED, a. [true and bred.]  Of a genuine or right breed; as a truebred beast.
1.  Being of genuine breeding or education; as a truebred gentleman.


Topic: Truehearted
Definition:
TRUEHE`ARTED,  a.  [true and heart.]  Being of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as a truehearted friend.


Topic: Truelove-knot
Definition:
TRUELOVE-KNOT, n.  A knot composed of lines united with many involutions; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagements.


Topic: Trueness
Definition:
TRUENESS, n.  Faithfulness; sincerity.
1.  Reality; genuineness.
2.  Exactness; as the trueness of a line.


Topic: Truffle
Definition:
TRUF'FLE, n.  A subterraneous vegetable production, or a kind of mushroom, of a fleshy fungous structure and roundish figure; an esculent substance, much esteemed.  It is of the genus Tuber.


Topic: Trug
Definition:
TRUG, n.  A hod.  This is our trough and tray; the original pronunciation being retained in some parts of England. The word was also used formerly for a measure of wheat, as much, I suppose as was carried in a trough; three trugs making two bushels.


Topic: Truism
Definition:
TRU'ISM, n. [from true.]  An undoubted or self-evident truth.
 Trifling truisms clothed in great swelling words of vanity--


Topic: Truly
Definition:
TRU'LY, adv. [from true.]  In fact; in deed; in reality.
1.  According to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to see things truly; the facts are truly represented.
2.  Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover.  The citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
3.  Exactly; justly; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.


Topic: Trump
Definition:
TRUMP, n.  
1.  A trumpet; a wind instrument of music; a poetical word used for trumpet.  It is seldom used in prose, in common discourse; but is used in Scripture, where it seems peculiarly appropriate to the grandeur of the subject.
 At the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised. 1 Cor.15. 1 Thess 4.
2.  [contracted from triumph.]  A winning card; one of the suit of cards which takes any of the other suits.
3.  An old game with cares.
To put to the trumps,
To put on the trumps,  to reduce to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion of power.
TRUMP, v.i. To take with a trump card.
1.  To obtrude; also, to deceive.  [Not in use.]
To trump up, to devise; to seek and collect from every quarter.
TRUMP, v.i.  To blow a trumpet.


Topic: Trumpery
Definition:
TRUMP'ERY, n.  Falsehood; empty talk.
1.  Useless matter; things worn out and cast side.
[This is the sense of the word in New England.]


Topic: Trumpet
Definition:
TRUMP'ET, n.
1.  A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises.  It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships.  There is a speaking trumpet, and a hearing trumpet.  They both consist of long tubular bodies, nearly in the form of a parabolic conoid, with wide mouths.
 The trumpet's loud clangor
 Excites us to arms.
2.  In the military style, a trumpeter.
 He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass.
3.  One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it.  A great politician was pleased to be the trumpet of his praises.
TRUMP'ET, v.t.  To publish by sound of trumpet; also, to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
 They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.


Topic: Trumpet-shell
Definition:
TRUMP'ET-SHELL, n.  The name of a genus of univalvular shells, of the form of a trumpet,(Buccinum, Linne.)


Topic: Trumpeter
Definition:
TRUMP'ETER, n.  One who sounds a trumpet.
1.  One who proclaims, publishes or denounces.
 These men are good trumpeters.
2.  A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon.  Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet.


Topic: Truncate
Definition:
TRUNC'ATE, v.t. [L. trunco, to cut off.]   To cut off; to lop; to maim.
TRUNC'ATE, a.  In botany, appearing as if cut off at the tip; ending in a transverse line; as a truncate leaf.


Topic: Truncated
Definition:
TRUNC'ATED, pp.  Cut off; cut short; maimed.  A truncated cone is one whose vertex is cut off by a plane parallel to its base.
1.  Appearing as if cut off; plane; having no edge; as a mineral substance.


Topic: Truncheon
Definition:
TRUN'CHEON, n. [L. truncus.]  A short staff; a club; a cudgel; a battoon; used by kings and great officers as a mark of command.
 The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe.
TRUN'CHEON, v.t.  To beat with a truncheon; to cudgel.


Topic: Trundle
Definition:
TRUN'DLE, v.i.
1.  To roll, as on little wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
2.  To roll; as a bowl.
TRUN'DLE, v.t.  To roll, as a thing on little wheels; as,to trundle a bed or a gun-carriage.
TRUN'DLE, n.  A round body; a little wheel, or a kind or low cart with small wooden wheels.


Topic: Trunk
Definition:
TRUNK, n. [L. truncus, from trunco, to cut off.
1.  The stem or body of a tree, severed form its roots.  This is the proper sense of the word.  But surprising as it may seem, it is used most improperly to signify the stem of a standing tree or vegetable, in general.
2.  The body of an animal without the limbs.
3.  The main body of any thing; as the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
4.  The snout or proboscis of an elephant; the limb or instrument with which he feeds himself.
5.  A slender, oblong, hollow body, joined to the fore part of the head of many insects by means of which they suck the blood of animals or the juices of vegetables.
6.  In architecture, the fust or shaft of a column.
7.  A long tube through which pellets of clay are blown.
8.  A box or chest covered with skin.
Fire-trunks, in fire ships, wooden funnels fixed under the shrouds to convey or lead the flames to the masts and rigging.
TRUNK, v.t.  To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. [Not in use.]


Topic: Trunnion
Definition:
TRUN'NION, n.  The trunnions of a piece of ordnance, are two knobs which project from the opposite sides of a piece,whether gun, mortar or howitzer, and serve to support it on the cheeks of the carriage.


Topic: Trunnion-plate
Definition:
TRUN'NION-PLATE, n.  The trunnion plates are two plates in traveling carriages, mortars and howitzers, which cover the upper parts of the side-pieces, and go under the trunnions.


Topic: Truss
Definition:
TRUSS, n.
1.  In a general sense, a bundle; as a truss of hay or straw. A truss of hay in England is half a hundred.  A truss of straw is of different weights in different places.
2.  In surgery, a bandage or apparatus used in cases of ruptures, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
3. Among botanists, a truss or bunch is a tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk or stem of certain plants.
4.  In navigation, a machine to pull a lower yard close to its mast and retain it firmly in that position.
5.  [See Trous.]
TRUSS, v.t. To bind or pack close.
1. To skewer; to make fast.
To truss up, to strain; to make close or tight.


Topic: Trust
Definition:
TRUST, n.
1.  Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
 He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Prov.29.
2.  He or that which is the ground of confidence.
 O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Ps.71.
3.  Charge received in confidence.
 Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
4.  That which is committed to one's care.  Never violate a sacred trust.
5.  Confident opinion of any event.
 His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd 
 Equal in strength.
6.  Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust.
7.  Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust.
8.  Something committed to a person's care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered.  Every man's talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable.
9.  Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty.
    10. State of him to whom something is entrusted.
 I serve him truly, that will put me in trust.
    11. Care; management. 1 Tim.6.
    12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another.
TRUST, v.t.  To place confidence in; to rely on.  We cannot trust those who have deceived us.
 He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived.
1.  To believe; to credit.
 Trust me, you look well.
2.  To commit to the care of, in confidence.  Trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.
3.  To venture confidently.
 Fool'd by thee, to trust thee from my side.
4.  To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.  The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions.
 It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust.
TRUST, v.i.  To be confident of something present or future.
 I trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 12.
 We trust we have a good conscience.  Heb.13.
1.  To be credulous; to be won to confidence.
 Well, you may fear too far--
 Safer than trust too far.
To trust in, to confide in; to place confidence in; to rely on; a use frequent in the Scriptures.
 Trust in the Lord, and do good. Ps.37.
 They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Is.42.
To trust to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.
 The men of Israel--trusted to the liars in wait. Judges 20.


Topic: Trusted
Definition:
TRUST'ED, pp. Confided in; relied on; depended on; applied to persons.
1.  Sold on credit; as goods or property.
2.  Delivered in confidence to the care of another; as letters or goods trusted to a carrier or bailee.


Topic: Trustee
Definition:
TRUSTEE', a.  A person to whom any thing or business is committed, in confidence that he will discharge his duty. The trustee of an estate is one to whom it is devised or granted in trust, or for the use of another.
1.  A person to whom is confided the management of an institution; as the trustees of a college or of an academy.


Topic: Trustiness
Definition:
TRUST'INESS, n. [from trusty.]  That quality of a person by which he deserves the confidence of others; fidelity; faithfulness; honesty; as the trustiness of a servant.


Topic: Trusty
Definition:
TRUST'Y, a.  That may be safely trusted; that justly deserves confidence; fit to be confided in; as a trusty servant.
1.  That will not fail; strong; firm; as a trusty sword.


Topic: Truth
Definition:
TRUTH, n.
1.  Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.  The truth of history constitutes its whole value.  We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.
 My mouth shall speak truth. Prov.8.
 Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.  John. 17.
2.  True state of facts or things.  The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth.  Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
3.  Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth.
 Shall truth fail to keep her word?
4.  Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth.
5.  Correct opinion.
6.  Fidelity; constancy.
 The thoughts of past pleasure and truth.
7.  Honesty; virtue.
 It must appear
 That malice bears down truth.
8.  Exactness; conformity to rule.
 Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work.  [Not in use.]
9.  Real fact of just principle; real state of things.  There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted.
    10. Sincerity.
 God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4.
    11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Ps.71.
 Or his revealed will.
 I have walked in thy truth. Ps.26.
    12. Jesus Christ is called the truth. John 14.
    13. It is sometimes used by way of concession.
 She said, truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums-- Matt 15.
That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true.
In truth, in reality; in fact.
Of a truth, in reality; certainly.
To do truth, is to practice what God commands.  John 3.


Topic: Truttaceous
Definition:
TRUTTA'CEOUS, a. [from L. trutta, trout.]  Pertaining to the trout; as fish of the truttaceous genus.


Topic: Try
Definition:
TRY, v.i.  To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt.  Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]
TRY, v.t.  To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.
 Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
1.  To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.
 Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.
2.  To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.
3. To act upon as a test.
 The fire sev'n times tried this.
4.  To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.
5.  To essay; to attempt.
 Let us try advent'rous work.
6.  To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.
7.  To search carefully into. Ps.11.
8.  To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.
9.  To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.
To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.
To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.


Topic: Trying
Definition:
TRY'ING, ppr.  Exerting strength; attempting.
1.  Examining by searching or comparison with a test; proving; using; straining, &c.
2. a. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial.


Topic: Tub
Definition:
TUB, n.
1.  An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading and hoops; used for various domestic purposes, as for washing, for making cheese, &c.
2.  A state of salivation; so called because the patient was formerly sweated in a tub. [Not in use.]
3.  A certain quantity; as a tub of tea, which is 60 pounds; a tub of camphor, from 56 to 80 pounds; a tub of vermilion, from 3 to 4 hundred pounds.  [local.]
4.  A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather.
TUB, v.t.  To plant or set in a tub.


Topic: Tubber
Definition:
TUB'BER, n.  In Cornwall, a mining instrument, called in other places a beele.  The man who uses this tool is called tubber-man or beel-man.


Topic: Tube
Definition:
TUBE, n. [L. tubus.]  A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes.
1.  A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
2.  In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle.
3.  In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.
TUBE, v.t.  To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.


Topic: Tubercle
Definition:
TU'BERCLE, n.[L. tuberculum, from tuber, a bunch.]
1.  A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on animal bodies.
2.  A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification.


Topic: Tuberose
Definition:
TU'BEROSE, n. [L. tuberosa.]  A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Polianthus tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth.


Topic: Tuberous
Definition:
TU'BEROUS, a.  [from L. tuber, a bunch.]  Knobbed.  In botany, consisting of roundish fleshy bodies, or tubers, connected into a bunch by intervening threads; as the roots of artichokes and potatoes.


Topic: Tubular
Definition:
TU'BULAR, a. [from L. tubus.]  Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as a tubular snout; a tubular calyx.


Topic: Tubulous
Definition:
TU'BULOUS, a.  Longitudinally hollow.
1. Containing tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as a tubulous compound flower.
2.  In botany, having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as a tubulous floret.


Topic: Tuck
Definition:
TUCK, n.
1.  A long narrow sword.
2. A kind of net.
3.  [from the verb following.]  In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern.
4.  A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]
TUCK, v.t. [In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, as cloth.]
1.  To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything.
2.  To inclose by tucking close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed.
3.  To full, as cloth. [Local.]
TUCK, v.i.  To contract; to draw together.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Tucker
Definition:
TUCK'ER, n.  A small piece of linen for shading the breast of women.
1.  A fuller, whence the name.  [Local.]


Topic: Tuf
Definition:
TUF, n. A stone or porous substance formed by depositions from springs or rivulets, containing much earthy matter in solution. Tufa is also formed by the concretion of loose volcanic dust or cinders, cemented by water, or by the consolidation of mud thrown out of volcanoes. The disintegration and subsequent consolidation of basaltic rocks, forms a kind of tufa, called by the German geologists, trap-tuff.


Topic: Tuffoon
Definition:
TUFFOON', n.  [a corruption of typhon.]  A violent tempest or tornado with thunder and lightning, frequent in the Chinese sea and the gulf of Tonquin.


Topic: Tuft
Definition:
TUFT, n.
1.  A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair.  A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird..
2.  A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.
3.  In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass.  The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like.
TUFT, v.t.  To separate into tufts.
1. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.


Topic: Tufted
Definition:
TUFT'ED, pp. or a.  Adorned with a tuft, as the tufted duck; growing in a tuft or clusters, as a tufted grove.


Topic: Tug
Definition:
TUG, v.t. [L. duco.  See Tow, to draw.]
1.  To pull or draw with great effort; to drag along with continued exertion; to haul along.
 There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.
2.  To pull; to pluck.
 --To ease the pain
 His tugg'd ears suffer'd with a strain.
TUG, v.i.  To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
1.  To labor; to strive; to struggle.
 They long wrestled and strenuously tugged for their liberty.  [This is not elegant.]
TUG, n.  A pull with the utmost effort.
 At the tug he falls--
 Vast ruins come along--
1.  A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things.
2.  In some parts of New England, the traces of a harness are called tugs.


Topic: Tuition
Definition:
TUI'TION, n. [L. tuitio, from tueor, to see, behold, protect, &c; L. duco, to lead.]
1.  Guardianship; superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.
2.  More especially, instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning.  We place our children under the preceptors of academies for tuition.  [This is now the common acceptation of the word.]
3.  The money paid for instruction.  In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year.


Topic: Tulip
Definition:
TULIP, n. [L. tulipa.]  A plant and a flower of the genus Tulipa, of a great variety of colors, and much cultivated for its beauty.


Topic: Tulip-tree
Definition:
TU'LIP-TREE, n.  An American tree bearing flowers resembling the tulip, of the genus Liriodendron.  Also, a tree of the genus Magnolia.


Topic: Tumble
Definition:
TUM'BLE, v.i. [L. tumulus, tumultus, tumeo.]
1.  To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
2.  To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
3.  To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill.
4.  To play mountebank tricks.
TUM'BLE, v.t. To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes.  [To tumble over in thought, is not elegant.]
1.  To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.
To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.
TUM'BLE, n.  A fall.


Topic: Tumbler
Definition:
TUM'BLER, n.  One who tumbles; one who plays the tricks of a mountebank.
1.  A large drinking glass.
2.  A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight.  It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain color, black, blue or white.
3.  A sort of dog, so called form his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey.


Topic: Tumbling
Definition:
TUM'BLING, ppr.  Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling.
Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.


Topic: Tumbrel
Definition:
TUM'BREL, n.
1.  A ducking stool for the punishment of scolds.
2.  A dung-cart.
3.  A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, for conveying the tools of pioneers, cartridges and the like.


Topic: Tumbril
Definition:
TUM'BRIL, n. A contrivance of the basket kind, or a kind of cage of osiers, willows, &c. for keeping hay and other food for sheep.


Topic: Tumefaction
Definition:
TUMEFAC'TION, n. [L. tumefacio, to make tumid.  See Tumid.]  The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.


Topic: Tumefy
Definition:
TU'MEFY, v.t. [L. tumefacio; tumidus, tumeo, and facio.]
To swell, or cause to swell.
TU'MEFY, v.i.  To swell; to rise in a tumor.


Topic: Tumid
Definition:
TU'MID, a. [L. tumidus, from tumeo, to swell.]
1.  Being swelled, enlarged or distended; as a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
2.  Protuberant; rising above the level.
 So high as heav'd the tumid hills.
3.  Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; bombastic; falsely sublime; as a tumid expression; a tumid style.


Topic: Tumor
Definition:
TU'MOR, n. [L. from tumeo, to swell.]  In surgery, a swelling; a morbid enlargement of any part of the body; a word of very comprehensive signification.
The morbid enlargement of a particular part, without being caused by inflammation.
Any swelling which arises from the growth of distinct superfluous parts or substances, which did not make any part of the original structure of the body, or from a morbid increase in the bulk of other parts, which naturally and always existed in the human frame.
The term tumor is limited by Abernathy to such swellings as arise from new productions, and includes only the sarcomatous and encysted tumors.
An encysted tumor is one which is formed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance.  There are also fatty tumors, called lipomatous or adipose, (adipose sarcoma,) formed by an accumulation of fat in a limited extent of the cellular substance.
1.  Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.  [Little used.]


Topic: Tumorous
Definition:
TU'MOROUS, a.  Swelling; protuberant.
1. Vainly pompous; bombastic; as language or style. [Little used.]


Topic: Tump
Definition:
TUMP, n. [infra.]   A little hillock.
TUMP, v.t. [L. tumulus.  See Tomb.]  In gardening, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round a plant; as, to tump teasel.  [This English phrase is not used in America, but it answers nearly to our hilling.  See Hill.]


Topic: Tumult
Definition:
TU'MULT, n. [L. tumultus, a derivative from tumeo, to swell.]
1.  The commotion, disturbance or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar and confusion of voices.
 What meaneth the noise of this tumult? 1 Sam 4.
 Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
2.  Violent commotion or agitation with confusion of sounds; as the tumult of the elements.
3.  Agitation; high excitement; irregular or confused motion; as the tumult of the spirits or passions.
4.  Bustle; stir.
TU'MULT, v.i.  To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.


Topic: Tumultuary
Definition:
TUMULT'UARY, a.  [L. tumultus.]
1.  Disorderly; promiscuous; confused; as a tumultuary conflict.
2.  Restless; agitated; unquiet.
 Men who live without religion, live always in a tumultuary and restless state.


Topic: Tumultuation
Definition:
TUMULTUA'TION, n.  Commotion; irregular or disorderly movement; as the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.


Topic: Tumultuous
Definition:
TUMULT'UOUS, a.  Conducted with tumult; disorderly; as a tumultuous conflict; a tumultuous retreat.
1.  Greatly agitated; irregular; noisy; confused; as a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
2.  Agitated; disturbed; as a tumultuous breast.
3.  Turbulent; violent; as a tumultuous speech.
4.  Full of tumult and disorder; as a tumultuous state or city.


Topic: Tun
Definition:
TUN, n. [L. teneo, to hold; Gr. to stretch.]
1.  In a general sense, a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops.
2.  A certain measure for liquids,as for wine, oil, &c.
3.  A quantity of wine, consisting of two pipes or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons.  In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
4.  In commerce, the weight of twenty hundreds gross, each hundred consisting of 112 lb = 2240 lb.  But by a law of Connecticut, passed June 1827, gross weight is abolished, and a tun is the weight of 2000 lb.  It is also a practice in N. York to sell by 2000 lb. to the tun.
5.  A certain weight by which the burden of a ship is estimated; as a ship of three hundred tuns, that is, a ship that will carry three hundred times two thousand weight.  Forty two cubic feet are allowed to a tun.
6.  A certain quantity of timber, consisting of forty solid feet if round, or fifty four feet if square.
7.  Proverbially, a large quantity.
8.  In burlesque, a drunkard.
9.  At the end of names, tun, ton, or don, signifies town, village, or hill.
TUN, v.t.  To put into casks.


Topic: Tunable
Definition:
TU'NABLE, a. [from tune.]  Harmonious; musical.
 And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.
1.  That may be put in tune.


Topic: Tune
Definition:
TUNE, n. [L. tonus.]
1.  A series of musical notes in some particular measure, and consisting of a single series, for one voice or instrument, the effect of which is melody; or a union of two or more series or parts to be sung or played in concert, the effect of which is harmony.  Thus we say, a merry tune, a lively tune, a grave tune, a psalm tune, a martial tune.
2.  Sound; note.
3.  Harmony; order; concert of parts.
 A continual parliament I thought would but keep the commonweal in tune.
4.  The state of giving the proper sounds; as when we say, a harpsichord is in tune; that is, when the several chords are of that tension, that each gives its proper sound, and the sounds of all are at due intervals, both of tones and semitones.
5.  Proper state for use or application; right disposition; fit temper or humor.  The mind is not in tune for mirth.
 A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune,as he will when he is dragged to this task.
TUNE, v.t.  To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; as, to tune a forte-piano; to tune a violin.
 Tune your harps.
1.  To sing with melody or harmony.
 Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow
 Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
So we say of birds, they tune their notes or lays.
2.  To put into a state proper for any purpose, or adapted to produce a particular effect.  [Little used.]
TUNE, v.i.  To form one sound to another.
 While tuning to the waters'fall
 The small birds sang to her.
1.  To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice.


Topic: Tung
Definition:
TUNG, n.  [Ant.L. tingua; digitus and dug.  Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.]
1.  In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals,the instrument of taste.  It is also an instrument of deglutition.  In some animals,the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, &c.  Other animals lap their drink, as dogs.
The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes,and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus.
2.  Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech.
 Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
3.  The power of articulate utterance; speech.
 Parrots imitating human tongue.
4.  Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking.
 Keep a good tongue in thy head.
 The tongue of the wise is health.  Prov.12.
5.  A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation.  The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America.
6.  Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions.
 Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.  1 John 3.
7.  A nation, as distinguished by their language.
 I will gather all nations and tongues. Is.66.
8.  A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance.
9.  A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake.
    10. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, &c. to the size of the mast-head.
To hold the tongue, to be silent.


Topic: Tungless
Definition:
TUNG'LESS, a.  Having no tongue.
1.  Speechless; as a tongueless block.
2.  Unnamed; not spoken of.
 One good deed dying tongueless.  [Not used.]


Topic: Tungsten
Definition:
TUNG'STEN, n.  In mineralogy, a mineral of a yellowish or grayish white color, of a lamellar structure, and infusible by the blowpipe.  It occurs massive or crystallized, usually in octahedral crystals.  This is an ore.  The same name is given to the metal obtained from this ore.  This metal is procured in small panes as fine as sand, of a strong metallic luster, an iron gray color, and slightly agglutinated.  It is one of the hardest of the metals, and very brittle.


Topic: Tunic
Definition:
TU'NIC, n. [L. tunica.  See Town and Tun.]
1.  A kind of waistcoat or under garment worn by men in ancient Rome and the east.  In the later ages of the republic, the tunic was a long garment with sleeves.
2.  Among the religious, a woolen shirt or under garment.
3.  In anatomy, a membrane that covers or composes some part or organ; as the tunics or coats of the eye; the tunics of the stomach, or the membranous and muscular layers which compose it.
4.  A natural covering; an integument; as the tunic of a seed.
The tunic of the seed, is the arillus, a covering attached to the base only of the seed, near the hilum or scar, and enveloping the rest of the seed more or less completely and closely.


Topic: Tunicated
Definition:
TU'NICATED, a.  In botany, covered with a tunic or membranes; coated; as a stem.
A tunicated bulb, is one composed of numerous concentric coats, as an onion.


Topic: Tuning
Definition:
TU'NING, ppr. Uttering harmoniously or melodiously; putting in due order for making the proper sounds.


Topic: Tuning-fork
Definition:
TU'NING-FORK, n.  A steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle; used for tuning instruments.


Topic: Tunker
Definition:
TUNK'ER, n.  The tunkers are a religious sect in Pennsylvania, of German origin, resembling English baptists.


Topic: Tunnage
Definition:
TUN'NAGE, a.  [from tun.]  The amount of tuns that a ship will carry; the content or burthen of a ship.  A ship pays duty according to her tunnage.
1.  The duty charged on ships according to their burthen, or the number of tuns at which they are rated.
2.  A duty laid on liquors according to their measure.
3.  A duty paid to mariners by merchants for unloading their ships, after a rate by the tun.
4.  The whole amount of shipping, estimated by the tuns.  


Topic: Tunnel
Definition:
TUN'NEL, n.  A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, and a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor into casks.
1.  The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; called generally a funnel.
2.  A large subterraneous arch through a hill for a canal and the passage of boats.  Smaller drains or culverts are also called tunnels.
TUN'NEL, v.t.  To form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
1.  To catch in a net called a tunnel-net.
2.  To form with net-work.


Topic: Tunnel-kiln
Definition:
TUN'NEL-KILN, n.  A lime-kiln in which coal is burnt, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used.


Topic: Tunnel-pit
Definition:
TUN'NEL-PIT, n.  A shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of an intended tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones.


Topic: Tunny
Definition:
TUN'NY, n. [L. thynnus.]  A fish of the genus Scomber, the Spanish mackerel.  The largest weigh upwards of four hundred pounds.


Topic: Turban
Definition:
TUR'BAN, n.  A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits.  The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton.  The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.
1.  In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.


Topic: Turban-shell
Definition:
TUR'BAN-SHELL, n.  In natural history, a genus of shells, or rather of sea urchins, (echinodermata,) of a hemispheric or spheroidal shape, the Cidaris of Klein.


Topic: Turbary
Definition:
TUR'BARY, n. [from turf; Latinized, turbaria.]
1.  In law, a right of digging turf on another man's land.  Common of turbary, is the liberty which a tenant enjoys of digging turf on the lord's waste.
2.  The place where turf is dug.


Topic: Turbid
Definition:
TUR'BID, a. [L. turbidus, from turbo, to disturb,that is, to stir, to turn.]  Properly, having the lees disturbed; but in a more general sense, muddy; foul with extraneous matter; thick; not clear; used of liquids of any kind; as turbid water; turbid wine.  Streams running on clay generally appear to be turbid.  This is often the case with the river Seine.


Topic: Turbulent
Definition:
TUR'BULENT, a. [L. turbulentus, from turbo, to disturb.]
1.  Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; being in violent commotion; as the turbulent ocean.
 Calm region once,
 And full of peace, now tost and turbulent.
 The turbulent mirth of wine.
2.  Restless; unquiet; refractory; disposed to insubordination and disorder; as turbulent spirits.
3.  Producing commotion.
 Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.


Topic: Turf
Definition:
TURF, n.
1.  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.  This is otherwise called sward and sod.
2.  Peat; a peculiar kind of blackish, fibrous, vegetable, earthy substance, used as fuel.  [Dryden and Addison wrote turfs, in the plural.  But when turf or peat is cut into small pieces, the practice now is to call them turves.]
3.  Race-ground; or horse-racing.
 The honors of the turf are all our own.
TURF, v.t.  To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank or the border of a terrace.


Topic: Turfiness
Definition:
TURF'INESS, n. [from turfy.]  The state of abounding with turf, or of having the consistence or qualities of turf.


Topic: Turfing
Definition:
TURF'ING, ppr.  Covering with turf.
TURF'ING, n.  The operation of laying down turf, or covering with turf.


Topic: Turgent
Definition:
TUR'GENT, a. [L. turgens, form turgeo, to swell.]   Swelling; tumid; rising into a tumor or puffy state; as when the humors are turgent.


Topic: Turgid
Definition:
TUR'GID, a. [L. turgidus, from turgeo, to swell.]
1.  Swelled; bloated; distended beyond its natural state by some internal agent or expansive force.
 A bladder held by the fire grew turgid.
More generally, the word is applied to an enlarged part of the body; as a turgid limb.
2.  Tumid; pompous; inflated; bombastic; as a turgid style; a turgid manner of talking.


Topic: Turgidness
Definition:
TUR'GIDNESS, n.  A swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond its natural state by some internal force or agent, as in a limb.
1.  Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast; as the turgidness of language or style.


Topic: Turkois
Definition:
TURK'OIS, n.  A mineral, called also calaite, brought from the east; of a beautiful light green color, occurring in thin layers, or in rounded masses, or in reniform masses, with a botryoidal surface.  It is susceptible of a high polish,and is used in jewelry.  It is usually written in the French manner.


Topic: Turky
Definition:
TUR'KY, n. [As this fowl was not brought from Turkey, it would be more correct to write the name turky.]   A large fowl, the Meleagris gallopavo, a distinct genus. It is a native of America, and its flesh furnishes most delicious food. Wild turkies abound in the forests of America, and domestic turkies are bred in other countries, as well as in America.


Topic: Turmalin
Definition:
TUR'MALIN, n.  [probably a corruption of tournamal, a name given to this stone in Ceylon.]  In mineralogy, a silicious stone, sometimes used as a gem by jewelers, remarkable for exhibiting electricity by heat or friction.  It occurs in long prisms deeply striated.  Its fracture is conchoidal, and its internal luster vitreous.
Turmalin is considered as a variety of shorl.


Topic: Turmeric
Definition:
TUR'MERIC, n.  Indian saffron; a medicinal root brought from the East Indies, the root of the Curcuma longa.  It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep lively yellow or saffron color.  It has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste.  It is used for dyeing, and in some cases, as a medicine.  This name is sometimes given to the blood-root of America.


Topic: Turmoil
Definition:
TURMOIL', n.  [I know not the origin of this word; but it is probably from the root of the L. turba,turbo, turma, or of turn.]
Disturbance, tumult; harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult.
 There I'll rest, as after much turmoil
 A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
TURMOIL', v.t.  To harass with commotion.
 It is her fatal misfortune--to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
1.  To disquiet; to weary.
TURMOIL', v.i.  To be disquieted; to be in commotion.


Topic: Turn
Definition:
TURN, v.t. [L. turnus; torniare, to turn; tornare, to return; torneare, tornire, to turn, to fence round, to tilt; torniamento, tournament.]
1.  To cause to move in a circular course; as, to turn a wheel; to turn a spindle; to turn the body.
2.  To change or shift sides; to put the upper side downwards, or one side in the place of the other.  It is said a hen turns her eggs often when sitting.
3.  To alter, as a position.
 Expert
 When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway of battle.
4.  To cause to preponderate; to change the state of a balance; as, to turn the scale.
5.  To bring the inside out; as,to turn a coat.  
6.  To alter, as the posture of the body, or direction of the look.
 The monarch turns him to his royal guest.
7.  To form on a lathe; to make round.
8.  To form; to shape; used in the participle; as a body finely turned.
 Him limbs how turn'd.
9.  To change; to transform; as,to turn evil to good; to turn goods into money.
 Impatience turns an ague into a fever.
  I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.  2 Sam.15.
    10. To metamorphose; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect.
    11. To alter or change, as color; as, to turn green to blue.
    12. To change or alter in any manner; to vary.
    13. To translate; as, to turn Greek into English.
 --Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.
    14. To change, as the manner of writing; as,to turn prose into verse.
    15. To change, as from one opinion or party to another; as, to turn one from a tory to whig; to turn Mohammedan or a pagan to a Christian.
    16. To change in regard to inclination or temper.
 Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me.  Ps.25.
    17. To change or alter from one purpose or effect to another.
 God will make these evils the occasion of greater good, by turning them to our advantage.
    18. To transfer.
 Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David. 1 Chron 10.
    19. To cause to nauseate or lothe; as, to turn the stomach.
    20. To make giddy.
 Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
 And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
    21. To infatuate; to make mad, wild or enthusiastic; as, to turn the brain.
    22. To change direction to or from any point; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn the eyes from a disgusting spectacle.
    23. To direct by a change to a certain purpose or object; to direct, as the inclination, thoughts or mind. I have turned my mind to the subject.
 My thoughts are turn'd on peace.
    24. To revolve; to agitate in the mind.
 Turn those ideas about in your mind.
    25. To bend from a perpendicular direction; as, to turn the edge of an instrument.
    26. To move from a direct course or strait line; to cause to deviate; as, to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course. 
    27. To apply by a change of use.
 When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle.
    28. To reverse.
 The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee.  Deut.30.
    29. To keep passing and changing in the course of trade; as, to turn money or stock two or three times in the year.
    30. To adapt the mind; chiefly in the participle.
 He was perfectly well turned for trade.
    31. To make acid; to sour; as, to turn cider or wine; to turn milk. 
    32. To persuade to renounce an opinion; to dissuade from a purpose, or cause to change sides. You cannot turn a firm man.
   
To turn aside, to avert.
To turn away, to dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant.
1.  To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil.
To turn back, to return; as, to turn back goods to the seller.  [Little used.]
To turn down, to fold or double down.
To turn in, to fold or double; as, to turn in the edge of cloth.
To turn off, to dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or parasite.
1. To give over; to resign.  We are not so wholly turned off from that reversion.
2. To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects.
To be turned of, to be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty six.
To turn out, to drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors, or out of the house.
1.  To put to pasture; as cattle or horses.
To turn over, to change sides; to roll over.
1.  To transfer; as, to turn over a business to another hand.
2.  To open and examine one leaf after another; as, to turn over a concordance.
3.  To overset.
turn to, to have recourse to.
 Helvetius' tables may be turned to on all occasions.
To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself.
To turn the back, to flee; to retreat.  Ex.23.
To turn the back upon, to quit with contempt; to forsake.
To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.
TURN, v.i.  To move round; to have a circular motion; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
1.  To be directed.
 The understanding turns inwards on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
2.  To show regard by directing the look towards any thing.
 Turn mighty monarch, turn this way;
 Do not refuse to hear.
3.  To move the body round.  He turned to me with a smile.
4.  To move; to change posture. Let your body be at rest; do not turn in the least.
5.  To deviate; as, to turn from the road or course.
6.  To alter; to be changed or transformed; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another.
7.  To become by change; as, the fur of certain animals turns in winter.
 Cygnets from gray turn white.
8.  To change sides.  A man in a fever turns often.
9.  To change opinions or parties; as, to turn Christian or Mohammedan.
    10. To change the mind or conduct.
 Turn from thy fierce wrath.  Ex.32.
    11. To change to acid; as,mild turns suddenly during a thunder storm.
    12. To be brought eventually; to result or terminate in. This trade has not turned to much account or advantage. The application of steam turns to good account, both on land and water.
    13. To depend on for decision. The question turns on a single fact or point.
    14. To become giddy.
 I'll look no more,
 Lest my brain turn.
    15. To change a course of life; to repent.
 Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die? Ezek. 33.
    16. To change the course or direction; as, the tide turns.
To turn about, to move the face to another quarter.
To turn away, to deviate.
1.  To depart from; to forsake.turn in, to bend inwards.
1.  To enter for lodgings or entertainment.  Gen.19.
2.  To go to bed.
To turn off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course. The road turns off to the left.
To turn on or upon, to reply or retort.
1.  To depend on.
To turn out, to move from its place, as a bone.
1.  To bend outwards; to project.
2.  To rise from bed; also, to come abroad.
To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble.
1.  To change sides or parties.
To turn to, to be directed; as, the needle turns to the magnetic pole.
To turn under, to bend or be folded downwards.
To turn up, to bend or be doubled upwards.
TURN, n.  The act of turning; movement or motion in a circular direction, whether horizontally, vertically or otherwise; a revolution; as the turn of a wheel.
1.  A winding; a meandering course; a bend or bending; as the turn of river.
2.  A walk to and from.
 I will take a turn in your garden.
3.  Change; alteration; vicissitude; as the turns and varieties of passions.
 Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.
4.  Successive course.
 Nobleness and bounty--which virtues had their turns in the king's nature.
5.  Manner of proceeding; change of direction. This affair may take a different turn from that which we expect.
6.  Chance; hap; opportunity.
 Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
7.  Occasion; incidental opportunity.
 An old dog falling from his speed, was loaded at every turn with blows and reproaches.
8.  Time at which, by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done.  They take each other's turn.
 His turn will come to laugh at you again.
9.  Action of kindness or malice.
 Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay'd.
 Some malicious natures place their delight in doing ill turns.
    10. Reigning inclination or course. Religion is not to be adapted to the turn and fashion of the age.
   11. A step off the ladder at the gallows.
    12. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
    13. Form; cast; shape; manner; in a literal or figurative sense; as the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
 The turn of his thoughts and expression is unharmonious.
 Female virtues are of a domestic turn.
 The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.
    14. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.
    15. Change; new position of things. Some evil happens at every turn of affairs.
    16. Change of direction; as the turn of the tide from flood to ebb.
    17. One round of a rope or cord.
    18. In mining, a pit sunk in some part of a drift.
    19. Turn or tourn, in law. The sheriff's turn is a court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. [England.]
By turns, one after another; alternately.
They assist each other by turns.
1.  At intervals.
 They feel by turns the bitter change.
To take turns, to take each other's places alternately.


Topic: Turnep
Definition:
TUR'NEP, n.  [L. napus, a turnep.]  A bulbous root or plant of the genus Brassica, of great value for food; an esculent root of several varieties.


Topic: Turnerite
Definition:
TURN'ERITE, n. A rare mineral occurring in small crystals of a yellowish brown color, externally brilliant and translucent.


Topic: Turnery
Definition:
TURN'ERY, n.  The art of forming into a cylindrical shape by the lathe.
1.  Things made by a turner or in the lathe.


Topic: Turning
Definition:
TURN'ING, ppr.  Moving in a circle; changing; winding.
TURN'ING, n. A winding; a bending course; flexure; meander.
1.  Deviation from the way or proper course.


Topic: Turnpike
Definition:
TURN'PIKE, n. [turn and pike.]  Strictly, a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of breasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
1.  A gate set across a road to stop travelers and carriages till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair.
2.  A turnpike road.
3.  In military affairs, a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage.
TURN'PIKE, v.t. To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw the path of a road into a rounded form.


Topic: Turnpike-road
Definition:
TURN'PIKE-ROAD, n.  A road on which turnpikes or toll-gates are established by law, and which are made and kept in repair by the toll collected from travelers or passengers who use the road.


Topic: Turnserving
Definition:
TURN'SERVING, n.  [turn and serve.]  The act or practice of serving one's turn or promoting private interest.


Topic: Turnsole
Definition:
TURN'SOLE, n. [turn and L. sol, the sun.]   A plant of the genus Heliotropium, so named because its flower is supposed to turn towards the sun.


Topic: Turnspit
Definition:
TURN'SPIT, n. [turn and spit.]  A person who turns a spit.
 His lordship is his majesty's turnspit.
1.  A variety of the dog, so called from turning the spit.


Topic: Turnstone
Definition:
TURN'STONE, n. [turn and stone.]  A bird, called the sea-dotterel, the Tringa morinella, a little larger than an English blackbird. This bird takes its name from its practice of turning up small stones in search of insects.


Topic: Turpentine
Definition:
TUR'PENTINE, a. [L. terebinthina.]  A transparent resinous substance, flowing naturally or by incision from several species of trees, as from the pine, larch, fir, &c. Common turpentine is of about the consistence of honey; but there are several varieties.


Topic: Turpentine-tree
Definition:
TUR'PENTINE-TREE, n.  A tree of the genus Pistacia, which produces not only its proper fruit, but a kind of horn which grows on the surface of its leaves.  This is found to be an excrescence, the effect of the puncture of an insect, and is produced in the same manner as the galls of other plants.


Topic: Turpeth
Definition:
TUR'PETH, n.  A root brought from the East Indies, particularly from Cambaya, Surat and Goa, or from Ceylon.  It is the cortical part of the root of a species of Convolvulus.  That sold in the shops is a longish root, of the thickness of the finger, resinous, heavy, and of a brownish hue without, but whitish within.  It is cathartic.
Turbith or turpeth mineral, is the yellow precipitate of mercury, called sometimes yellow subsulphate of mercury, or subdeutosulphate.


Topic: Turpitude
Definition:
TURP'ITUDE, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis, foul, base.]
1.  Inherent baseness or vileness of principle in the human heart; extreme depravity.
2.  Baseness or vileness of words or actions; shameful wickedness.


Topic: Turret
Definition:
TUR'RET, n. [l. turris.]  A little tower; a small eminence or spire attached to a building and rising above it.
 And lift her turrets nearer to the sky.
1.  In the art of war, movable turrets, used formerly by the Romans, were buildings of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, moved on wheels.  They were employed in approaches to a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting-bridges and other necessaries.


Topic: Turtle
Definition:
TUR'TLE, n. [L. turtur.]
1.  A fowl of the genus Columba; called also the turtle dove, and turtle pigeon.  It is a wild species, frequenting the thickest parts of the woods, and its note is plaintive and tender.
2.  The name sometimes given to the common tortoise.
3.  The name given to the large sea-tortoise.


Topic: Tuscan
Definition:
TUS'CAN, a.  Pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; an epithet given to one of the orders of columns, the most ancient and simple.
TUS'CAN, n.  An order of columns.


Topic: Tush
Definition:
TUSH, an exclamation, indicating check, rebuke or contempt.  Tush, tush, never tell me such a story as that.
TUSH, n. A tooth.


Topic: Tusk
Definition:
TUSK, n. The long pointed tooth of certain rapacious, carnivorous or fighting animals; as the tusks of the boar.
TUSK, v.i.  To gnash the teeth, as a boar.


Topic: Tutelage
Definition:
TU'TELAGE, n. [from L. tutela, protection, from tueor,to defend.]
1.  Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king's right of seignory and tutelage.
2.  State of being under a guardian.


Topic: Tutenag
Definition:
TU'TENAG, n. The Chinese name of zink.  Sometimes the word is used to denote a metallic compound brought from China,  called Chinese copper or white copper, consisting of copper, zink and iron.


Topic: Tutor
Definition:
TU'TOR, n. [L. from tuero, to defend.]
1.  In the civil law, a guardian; one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate.
2.  One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of human learning.  Some gentlemen employ a tutor to teach in their families, others to attend a son in his travels.
3.  In universities and colleges, an officer or member of some hall, who has the charge of instructing the students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
In the American colleges, tutors are graduates selected by the governors or trustees, for the instruction of undergraduates of the three first years. They are usually officers of the institution, who have a share, with the president and professors, in the government of the students.
TU'TOR, v.t.  To teach; to instruct.
1.  To treat with authority or severity.
2.  To correct.


Topic: Tutorage
Definition:
TU'TORAGE, n.  In the civil law, guardianship; the charge of a pupil and his estate.  In France, tutorage does not expire till the pupil is twenty five years of age.
1.  The authority or solemnity of a tutor.  [Little used.]


Topic: Tutty
Definition:
TUT'TY, n. [Low L. tutia.]  An argillaceous ore of zink, found in Persia, formed on cylindric molds into tubular pieces, like the bark of a tree.  It is said to be made of a glutinous, argillaceous earth, like clay, which is put into pots, moistened and baked.


Topic: Twain
Definition:
TWAIN, a. or n. Two.
 When old winter splits the rocks in twain.
[Nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.]


Topic: Twang
Definition:
TWANG, v.i.  To sound with a quick sharp noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as the twanging bows.
TWANG, v.t.  To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.
 Sound the tough horn, and twang the quivering string.
TWANG, n.  A sharp quick sound; as the twang of a bowstring; a twang of the nose.
1.  An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.
 He has a twang in his discourse.


Topic: Twattle
Definition:
TWAT'TLE, v.i.  To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; as a twattling gossip.
TWAT'TLE, v.t.  To pet; to make much of.  [Local.]


Topic: Twattling
Definition:
TWAT'TLING, ppr. or a.  Prating; gabbling; chattering.
TWAT'TLING, n.  The act of prating; idle talk.


Topic: Tweel
Definition:
TWEEL, v.t.  To weave with multiplied leases in the harness, by increasing the number of threads in each split of the reed, and the number of treddles, &c.


Topic: Tweezers
Definition:
TWEE'ZERS, n.  [This seems to be formed on the root of vise, an instrument for pinching.]  Nippers; small pinchers used to pluck out hairs.


Topic: Twelvemonth
Definition:
TWELVEMONTH, n.  twelv'month.  [twelve and month.]  A year, which consists of twelve calendar months.
 I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence.


Topic: Twenty
Definition:
TWEN'TY, a. [L. decem.]
1.  Twice ten; as twenty men; twenty years.
2.  Proverbially, an indefinite number.
 Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man.


Topic: Twice
Definition:
TWICE, adv. [from two.]  Two times.
 He twice essay'd to cast his son in gold.
1.  Doubly; as twice the sum.  He is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.
2.  Twice is used in composition; as in twice-told, twice-born, twice-planted, twice-conquered.


Topic: Twifallowing
Definition:
TWI'FALLOWING, ppr.  Plowing a second time.
TWI'FALLOWING, n.  The operation of plowing a second time, as fallow land, in preparing it for seed.


Topic: Twig
Definition:
TWIG, n. [L. vigeo, with a prefix.]  A small shoot or branch of a  tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
 The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides.


Topic: Twilight
Definition:
TWI'LIGHT, n.
1.  The faint light which is reflected upon the earth after sunset and before sunrise; crepuscular light.  In latitudes remote from the equator, the twilight is of much longer duration than at and near the equator.
2.  Dubious or uncertain view; as the twilight or probability.
TWI'LIGHT, a.  Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; shaded.
 O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves.
1.  Seen or done by twilight.


Topic: Twin
Definition:
TWIN, n.
1. One of two young produced at a birth by an animal that ordinarily brings but one; used mostly in the plural, twins; applied to the young of beasts, as well as to human beings.
2.  A sign of the zodiac; Gemini.
3.  One very much resembling another.
TWIN, a.  Noting one of two born at a birth; as a twin brother or sister.
1.  Very much resembling.
2.  In botany, swelling out into two protuberances, as an anther or germ.
TWIN, v.i.  To be born at the same birth.
1.  To bring two at once.
2.  To be paired; to be suited. [This verb is little used.]
TWIN, v.t.  To separate into two parts.


Topic: Twine
Definition:
TWINE, v.t.
1.  To twist; to wind, as one thread or cord around another, or as any flexible substance around another, or as any flexible substance around another body; as fine twined linen.  Ex.39.
2.  To unite closely; to cling to; to embrace.
3.  To gird; to wrap closely about.
 Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine.
TWINE, v.i.  To unite closely, or by interposition of parts.
 Friends now fast sworn, who twine in love--
1.  To wind; to bend; to make turns.
 As rivers, though they bend and twine--
2.  To turn round; as,her spindles twine.
TWINE, n.  A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together; used for binding small parcels, and for sewing sails to their bolt-ropes, &c.  Twine of a stronger kind is used for nets.
1.  A twist; a convolution; as Typhon's snaky twine.
2.  Embrace; act of winding round.


Topic: Twinge
Definition:
TWINGE, v.t. twinj.
1.  To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
 The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.
2.  To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.
TWINGE, v.t. twinj.  to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen spasmodic or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.  [This is the sense in which this word is generally used within the limits of my acquaintance.
TWINGE, n.  twinj.  A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side.
1.  A sharp rebuke of conscience.
2.  A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.


Topic: Twinging
Definition:
TWING'ING, ppr.  Suffering a sharp local pain of short continuance; pinching with a sudden pull.
TWING'ING, n.  The act of pinching with a sudden twitch; a sudden, sharp, local pain.


Topic: Twining
Definition:
TWI'NING, ppr. Twisting; winding round; uniting closely to; embracing.
1.  In botany, ascending spirally around a branch, stem or prop.


Topic: Twinkle
Definition:
TWIN'KLE, v.i.
1.  To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light.  The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.
 These stars do not twinkle, when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
2.  To open and shut the eye by turns; as the twinkling owl.
3.  To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle.
TWIN'KLE


Topic: Twinkling
Definition:
TWIN'KLING, n.  A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.
1.  A motion of the eye.
2.  A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.
 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible.  1 Cor.15.
TWIN'KLING, ppr. Sparkling.


Topic: Twirl
Definition:
TWIRL, v.t. twurl.  To move or turn round with rapidity; to whirl round.
 See ruddy maids,
 Some taught with dextrous hand to twirl the wheel--
TWIRL, v.i.  To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round.
TWIRL, n.  A rapid circular motion; quick rotation.
1.  Twist; convolution.


Topic: Twist
Definition:
TWIST, v.t.
1.  To unite by winding one thread, strand or other flexible substance round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as to twist yarn or thread.  So we say, to double and twist.
2.  To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
3.  To contort; to writhe; as, to twist a thing into a serpentine form.
4.  To wreathe; to wind; to encircle.
 --Pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame.
5.  To form; to weave; as, to twist a story.
6.  To unite by intertexture of parts; as, to twist bays with ivy.
7.  To unite; to enter by winding; to insinuate; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
8.  To pervert; as, to twist a passage in an author.
9.  To turn from a straight line.
TWIST, v.i.  To be contorted or united by winding round each other.  Some strands will twist more easily than others.
TWIST, n.  A cord, thread or any thing flexible,formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
1.  A cord; a string; a single cord.
2.  A contortion; a writhe.
3.  A little roll of tobacco.
4.  Manner of twisting.
5.  A twig.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Twisting
Definition:
TWIST'ING, ppr.  Winding different strands or threads round each other; forming into a thread by twisting.


Topic: Twit
Definition:
TWIT, v.t. [L. ad, to.]  To reproach; to upbraid; as for some previous act.  He twitted his friend of falsehood.
 With this these scoffers twitted the christians.
 Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.


Topic: Twitch
Definition:
TWITCH, v.t. To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
TWITCH, n.  A pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as a twitch by the sleeve.
1.  A short spasmodic contraction of the fibers or muscles; as a twitch in the side; convulsive twitches.


Topic: Twitter
Definition:
TWIT'TER, v.t.
1.  To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises; as, the swallow twitters.
2.  To make the sound of a half suppressed laugh.
TWIT'TER, n. [from twit.]   One who twits or reproaches.
TWIT'TER, n.  A small intermitted noise, as in half suppressed laughter; or the sound of a swallow.


Topic: Twittering
Definition:
TWIT'TERING, ppr.  Uttering a succession of small interrupted sounds, as in a half suppressed laugh, or as a swallow.


Topic: Two
Definition:
TWO, a. [L. duo.]
1.  One and one. Two similar horses used together, are called a span, or a pair.
2.  Two is used in composition; as in two-legged. Man is a two-legged animal.


Topic: Two-seeded
Definition:
TWO-SEEDED, a.  In botany, dispermous; containing two seeds, as a fruit; having two seeds to a flower, as a plant.


Topic: Twofold
Definition:
TWOFOLD, a. [two and fold.]  Two of the same kind, or two different things existing together; as twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.
1.  Double; as twofold strength or desire.
2.  In botany, two and two together, growing form the same place; as twofold leaves.
TWOFOLD, adv.  Doubly; in a double degree.  Matt.23.


Topic: Twy-blade
Definition:
TWY-BLADE, n. [tway and blade.]  A plant of the genus Ophris; a polypetalous flower, consisting of six dissimilar leaves, of which the five upper ones are so disposed as to represent, in some measure, a helmet, the under one being headed and shaped like a man.


Topic: Tye
Definition:
TYE, v.t. [L. taceo, to be silent.]
1.  To bind; to fasten with a band or cord and knot.
 My son, keep thy father's commandments-- bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Prov.6.
2.  To fold and make fast; as, to tie a knot.
3.  To knit; to complicate.
 We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument.
4.  To fasten; to hold; to unite so as not to be easily parted.
 In bond of virtuous love together tied.
5.  To oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. People in their jealousy, may tie the hands of their ministers and public agents, so as to prevent them from doing good.
 Not tied to rules of policy, you find
 Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
6.  In music, to unite notes by a cross line, or by a curve line drawn over them.
To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action; as, to tie up the tongue; to tie up the hands.
To tie down, to fasten so as to prevent from rising.
1.  To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.


Topic: Tying
Definition:
TY'ING, ppr.  [See Tie and Tye.]  Binding; fastening.  [As this participle must be written with y, it might be well to write the verb tye.]


Topic: Tympan
Definition:
TYM'PAN, n. [L. tympanum.  See Tymbal.]
1.  A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum.
2.  The area of a pediment; also, the part of a pedestal called the trunk or dye.
3.  The pannel of a door.
4.  A triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually enriched with figures.
5.  Among printers, a frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.


Topic: Tympanize
Definition:
TYM'PANIZE, v.i.  To act the part of a drummer.
TYM'PANIZE, v.t.  To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.


Topic: Type
Definition:
TYPE, n. [L. typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]
1.  The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.
 Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose,
 Type of sweet rule and gentle majesty.
2.  A sign; a symbol; a figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ.  To this word is opposed antitype.  Christ, in this case, is the antitype.
3. A  model or form of a letter in metal or other hard material; used in printing.
4.  In medicine, the form or character of a disease, in regard to the intension and remission of fevers, pulses, &c.; the regular progress of a fever.
5.  In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.
6.  A stamp or mark.
TYPE, v.t. To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand.  [Little used.]


Topic: Typhus
Definition:
TY'PHUS, a.  [from Gr. to inflame or heat.  Hippocrates gave this name to a fever which produced great heat in the eyes.]  A typhus disease or fever is accompanied with great debility. The word is sometimes used as a noun.


Topic: Typify
Definition:
TYP'IFY, v.t.  To represent by an image, form, model or resemblance.  The washing of baptism typifies the cleansing of the soul from sin by the blood of Christ. Our Savior was typified by the goat that was slain.


Topic: Typographically
Definition:
TYPOGRAPH'ICALLY, adv.  By means of types; after the manner of printers.
1.  Emblematically; figuratively.


Topic: Typography
Definition:
TYPOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. type, and to write.]
1.  The art of printing, or the operation of impressing letters and words on forms of types.
2.  Emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.


Topic: Typolite
Definition:
TYP'OLITE, n.[Gr. form, and stone.]  In natural history, a stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.


Topic: Tyrannicide
Definition:
TYRAN'NICIDE, n. [L. tyrannus, tyrant, and coedo, to fill.]
1.  The act of killing a tyrant.
2.  One who kills a tyrant.


Topic: Tyrannize
Definition:
TYR'ANNIZE, v.i.  To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power over others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government.  A prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; republican legislatures sometimes tyrannize over their fellow citizens, masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.  A husband may not tyrannize over his wife and children.


