TEACH, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive taught. [Latin doceo; dico, dicto, and both these and the Gr. to show, may be of one family; all implying sending, passing, communicating, or rather leading, drawing.

1. To instruct; to inform; to communicate to another the knowledge of that of which he was before ignorant.

He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. Isaiah 2:3.

Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. Luke 11:1.

2. To deliver any doctrine, art, principles or words for instruction. One sect of ancient philosophers taught the doctrines of stoicism, another those of epicureanism.

In vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:1.

3. To tell; to give intelligence.

4. To instruct, or to practice the business of an instructor; to use or follow the employment of a preceptor; as, a man teaches school for a livelihood.

5. To show; to exhibit so as to impress on the mind.

If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others may practice them.

6. To accustom; to make familiar.

They have taught their tongue to speak lies. Jeremiah 9:20.

7. To inform or admonish; to give previous notice to.

For he taught his disciples, and said--Mark 9:1.

8. To suggest to the mind.

For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that same hour what ye ought to say. Luke 12:12.

9. To signify or give notice.

He teacheth with his fingers. Proverbs 6:13.

10. To counsel and direct. Habakkuk 2:19.

TEACH, verb intransitive To practice giving instruction; to perform the business of a preceptor.

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire. Micah 3:11.

TEACH, noun In sugar works, the last boiler.

TE'ACHABLE, adjective That may be taught; apt to learn; also, readily receiving instruction; docile.

We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased and teachable to learn our religion from the word of God.

TE'ACHABLENESS, noun The quality of being capable of receiving instruction; more generally, a willingness or readiness to be informed and instructed; docility; aptness to learn.

TE'ACHER, noun One who teaches or instructs.

1. An instructor; a preceptor; a tutor; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others.

2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel.

The teachers in all the churches assembled themselves.

3. One who preaches without regular ordination.

TE'ACHING, participle present tense Instructing; informing.

TE'ACHING, noun The act or business of instructing.

1. Instruction.

TEAD

TEAGUE, noun teeg. An Irishman; in contempt.

TEAGUE, n. teeg. An Irishman; in contempt.

TEAK

TEAL, noun An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the smallest of the duck kind.

TEAL, n. An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the smallest of the duck kind.

TEAM, noun

1. Two or more horses, oxen or other beasts harnessed together to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, chariot, wagon, cart, sled, sleigh and the like. It has been a great question whether teams of horses or oxen are most advantageously employed in agriculture. In land free from stones and stumps and of easy tillage, it is generally agreed that horses are preferable for teams.

2. Any number passing in a line; a long line.

Like a long team of snowy swans on high.

[This is the primary sense, but is rarely used.]

TE'AMSTER, noun [team and ster.] One who drives a team.

TEAR, noun

1. Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them. A tear in the singular, is a drop or a small quantity of that fluid. Tears are excited by passions, particularly by grief. This fluid is also called forth by any injury done to the eye. It serves to moisten the cornea and preserve its transparency, and to remove any dust or fine substance that enters the eye and gives pain.

2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.

TEAR, verb transitive [Latin tero.]

1. To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh. We use tear and rip in different senses. To tear is to rend or separate the texture of cloth; to rip is to open a seam, to separate parts sewed together.

2. To wound; to lacerate.

The women beat their breasts, their cheeks they tear

3. To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.

4. To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.

5. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

6. To remove by violence; to break up.

Or on rough seas from their foundation torn.

7. To make a violent rent.

In the midst, a tearing groan did break

The name of Antony.

To tear from, to separate and take away by force; as an isle torn from its possessor.

The hand of fate

Has torn thee from me.

To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.

To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes.

To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundations of government or order.

TEAR, verb intransitive To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.

TEAR, noun A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]

TEARER, noun One who tears or rends any thing.

1. One that rages or raves with violence.

TE'ARFUL, adjective [tear and full.] Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as tearful eyes.

TEARING, participle present tense [from tear, to rend.] Rending; pulling apart; lacerating; violent; raging.

TE'ARLESS, adjective Shedding no tears; without tears; unfeeling.

TEASE, verb transitive s as z.

1. To comb or card, as wool or flax.

2. To scratch, as cloth in dressing, for the purpose of raising a nap.

3. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery. Parents are often teased by their children into unreasonable compliances.

My friends tease me about him, because he has no estate.

TE'ASED, participle passive Carded.

1. Vexed; irritated or annoyed.

TE'ASEL, noun tee'zl. A plant of the genus Dipsacus, one kind of which bears a large burr which is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Hence,

1. The burr of the plant.

TE'ASELER, noun One who uses the teasel for raising a nap on cloth.

TE'ASER, noun One that teases or vexes.

TE'ASING, participle present tense Combing; carding; scratching for the purpose of raising a nap; vexing with importunity.

TEAT

TEATHE, noun The soil or fertility left on lands by feeding them. [Local.]

TEATHE, verb transitive To feed and enrich by live stock. [Local.]

TEATHE, n. The soil or fertility left on lands by feeding them. [Local.]

TEATHE, v.t. To feed and enrich by live stock. [Local.]

TECH'ILY, adverb [from techy, so written for touchy.]

Peevishly; fretfully; forwardly.

TECH'INESS, noun Peevishness; fretfulness.

TECH'NICAL, adjective [Latin technicus; Gr. art, artifice; to fabricate, make or prepare.]

1. Pertaining to art or the arts. A technical word is a word that belongs properly or exclusively to an art; as the verb to smelt, belongs to metallurgy. So we say, technical phrases, technical language. Every artificer has his technical terms.

2. Belonging to a particular profession; as, the words of an indictment must be technical

It is of the utmost importance clearly to understand the technical terms used by the eastern theologians.

TECHNICAL'ITY, noun The quality or state of being technical or peculiar to the arts.

TECH'NICALLY, adverb In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms of art or the professions.

TECH'NICALNESS

TECH'NICS, noun The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

TECHNOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Technology.]

1. Pertaining to technology.

2. Pertaining to the arts; as technological institutes.

TECHNOL'OGIST, noun One who discourses or treats of arts, or of the terms of art.

TECHNOL'OGY, noun [Gr. art, and word or discourse.]

1. A description of arts; or a treatise on the arts.

2. An explanation of the terms of the arts.

TECH'Y, adjective [so written for touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable. [More correctly touchy.]

TECN'NIC

TECTON'IC, adjective [Gr. to fabricate.] Pertaining to building.

TED, verb transitive A spread; tedu, to distend. Among farmers, to spread; to turn new mowed grass from the swath, and scatter it for drying. [Local.]

TED'DED, participle passive Spread from the swath; as tedded grass.

TED'DER, noun

1. A rope or chain by which an animal is tied that he may feed on the ground to the extent of the rope and no further. Hence the popular saying, a person has gone to the length of his tedder

2. That by which one is restrained.

TED'DER, verb transitive To tie with a tedder; to permit to feed to the length of a rope or chain.

1. To restrain to certain limits.

Te deum, a hymn to be sung in churches or on occasions of joy; so called from the first words.

Te deum was sung at St. Paul's after the victory.

TEDE, noun [Latin toeda.] A torch; a flambeau. [Not in use.]

TE'DIOUS, adjective [Latin toedium.]

1. Wearisome; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, or slowness which causes prolixity. We say, a man is tedious in relating a story; a minister is tedious in his sermon. We say also, a discourse is tedious when it wearies by its length or dullness.

2. Slow; as a tedious course.

TE'DIOUSLY, adverb In such a manner as to weary.

TE'DIOUSNES, noun Wearisomeness by length of continuance or by prolixity; as the tediousness of an oration or argument.

1. Prolixity; length.

2. Tiresomeness; quality of wearying; as the tediousness of delay.

3. Slowness that wearies.

TE'DIUM, noun [Latin toedium.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness.

TEEK, noun A tree of the East Indies, which furnishes an abundance of ship timber. The generic name given to it by Linne, is Tectona.

TEEM, verb intransitive

1. To bring forth, as young.

If she must teem

Create her child of spleen--

2. To be pregnant; to conceive; to engender young.

TEEMing buds and cheerful greens appear.

3. To be full; to be charged; as a breeding animal; to be prolific. Every head teems with politics.

4. To bring forth; to produce, particularly in abundance. The earth teems with fruits; the sea teems with fishes.

TEEM, verb transitive To produce; to bring forth.

What's the newest grief?

Each minute teems a new one.

[This transitive sense is not common.]

1. To pour. [Not in use.]

TEE'MER, noun One that brings forth young.

TEE'MFUL, adjective Pregnant; prolific.

1. Brimful.

TEE'MING, participle present tense Producing young.

TEE'MLESS, adjective Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as the teemless earth.

TEEN, noun [infra.] Grief; sorrow. [Not in use.]

TEEN, verb transitive To excite; to provoke., [Not in use.]

TEENS, noun [from teen, ten.] The years of one's age reckoned by the termination teen. These years begin with thirteen, and end with nineteen. Miss is in her teens

TEETH, plural of tooth, which see.

In the teeth directly; in direct opposition; in front.

Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth

TEETH, verb intransitive [from the noun.] To breed teeth

TEE'THING, participle present tense Breeding teeth; undergoing dentition.

TEE'THING, noun The operation or process of the first growth of teeth, or the process by which they make their way through the gums, called dentition.

TEG'ULAR, adjective [Latin tegula, a tile, from tego, to cover or make close.] Pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile; consisting of tiles.

TEG'ULARLY, adverb In the manner of tiles on a roof.

TEG'UMENT, noun [Latin tegumentum, from tego, to cover.]

A cover or covering; seldom used except in reference to the covering of a living body. [See Integument.]

TEH'HEE, a sound made in laughing.

TEIL

TEIL-TREE, noun [Latin tilia.] The lime tree, otherwise called the linden.

TEINT, noun [Latin tingo, to dye.] Color; tinge. [See Tint.]

TEL'ARY, adjective [Latin tela, a web.] Pertaining to a web.

1. Spinning webs; as a telary spider. [Little used.]

TEL'EGRAPH, noun [Gr. at a distance, and to write.] A machine for communicating intelligence from a distance by various signals or movements previously agreed on; which signals represent letters, words or ideas which can be transmitted form one station to another, as far as the signals can be seen. This machine was invented by the French about the year 1793 or 1794, and is now adopted by other nations.

TELEGRAPH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the telegraph; made by a telegraph; as telegraphic movements or signals; telegraphic art.

1. Communicated by a telegraph; as telegraphic intelligence.

TELEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. end, and discourse.] The science of the final causes of things.

TEL'ESCOPE, noun [Gr. end, or at a distance, probably the latter, and to see.] An optical instrument employed in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. It assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and secondly, by collecting and conveying to the eye a larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ, and thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct or invisible. Its essential parts are the object glass, which collects the beam of light and forms an image of the object, and the eye glass, which is a microscope by which the image is magnified.

TELESCOP'IC

TELESCOP'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope; as a telescopic view.

1. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as telescopic stars.

TELESCOP'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope; as a telescopic view.

TELE'SIA, noun Sapphire.

TEL'ESM, noun A kind of amulet or magical charm.

TELESMAT'IC

TELESMAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to telesms; magical.

TELESMAT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to telesms; magical.

TELES'TIC, noun [Gr. end, and a verse.] A poem in which the final letters of the lines make a name.

TELL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive told. [Latin telum; Latin appello and peal, Latin pello.]

1. To utter; to express in words; to communicate to others.

I will not eat till I have told my errand. Genesis 24:23.

2. To relate; to narrate; to rehearse particulars; as, to tell a story. Genesis 37:16.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

3. To teach; to inform; to make known; to show by words. tell us the way.

Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen 12.

4. To discover; to disclose; to betray.

They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. Numbers 14:14.

5. To count; to number.

Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars. Gen 15.

6. To relate in confession; to confess or acknowledge.

TELL me now what thou hast done. Joshua 7:19.

7. To publish.

TELL it not in Gath. 2 Samuel 1:4.

8. To unfold; to interpret; to explain. Ezekiel 24:19.

9. To make excuses.

Tush, never tell me. [Not elegant.]

10. To make known.

Our feelings tell us how long they ought to have submitted.

11. To discover; to find; to discern. The colors are so blended that I cannot tell where one ends and the other begins.

TELL, though equivalent in some respects to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell this, that or what, to tell a story, to tell a word, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands. tell me the whole story; tell me all you know, or all that was said. tell has frequently the sense of narrate; which speak and say have not.

TELL, verb intransitive To give an account; to make report.

--That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psalms 36:1.

To tell of

To tell on - to inform. You must not disobey; I will tell of you if you do. This is a common popular use of the word. To tell on, is quite vulgar as well as improper.

TELL'ER, noun One that tells, relates or communicates the knowledge of something.

1. One who numbers.

2. In the exchequer of England, there are four officers called tellers, whose business is to receive all moneys due to the crown, and throw down a bill through a pipe into the tally-court, where it is received by the auditor's clerks, who write the words of the bill on a tally, and deliver it to be entered by the clerk of the pell. The tally is then split by the two deputy chamberlains, who have their seals, and while the senior deputy reads the one part, the junior examines the other with the other two clerks. [This word is supposed to be from tally, being in ancient records written tallier.]

TEL'LINITE, noun [from tellina, a genus of testaceous animals.]

Petrified or fossil shells of the genus Tellina.

TEL'LURATE, noun A compound of tellurium and a base.

TEL'LURETED, adjective tellureted hydrogen is hydrogen combined with tellurium in a gaseous form.

TELLU'RIUM, noun A metal recently discovered by Klaproth, combined with gold and silver in the ores, and received from the bannat of Temeswar. The ores are denominated native, graphic, yellow, and black. The native tellurium is of a color between tin and silver, and sometimes inclines to a steel gray. The graphic tellurium is stell gray; but sometimes white, yellow or lead gray. These ores are found massive or crystallized.

TEM'ACHIS, noun [Gr. a piece.] A genus of fossils of the class of gypsums, softer than others, and of a bright glittering hue.

TEMERA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin temerarius; from the root of time, tempest, which see. The sense is rushing or advancing forward.]

1. Rash; headstrong; unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; as temerarious folly.

2. Careless; heedless; done at random; as the temerarious dash of an unguided pen.

[This word is not much used.]

TEMERA'RIOUSLY, adverb Rashly; with excess of boldness.

TEMER'ITY, noun [Latin temeritas; properly a rushing forward.]

1. Rashness; unreasonable contempt of danger; as the temerity of a commander in war.

2. Extreme boldness.

The figures are bold even to temerity

TEM'IN, noun A money of account in Algiers, equivalent to 2 carubes, or 29 aspers, about 34 cents, or 17d sterling.

TEM'PER, verb transitive [Latin tempero, to mix or moderate]

1. To mix so that one part qualifies the other; to bring to a moderate state; as, to temper justice with mercy.

2. To compound; to form by mixture; to qualify, as by an ingredient; or in general, to mix, unite or combine two or more things so as to reduce the excess of the qualities of either, and bring the whole to the desired consistence or state.

Thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy. Exodus 30:35.

3. To unite in due proportion; to render symmetrical; to adjust, as parts to each other.

God hath tempered the body together. 1 Corinthians 12:24.

4. To accommodate; to modify.

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

5. To soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm; to reduce any violence or excess.

Solon--labored to temper the warlike courages of the Athenians with sweet delights of learning.

Woman! nature made thee

To temper man; we had been brutes without you.

6. To form to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

The temper'd metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

7. To govern; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

8. In music, to modify or amend a false or imperfect concord by transferring to it a part of the beauty of a perfect one, that is, by dividing the tones.

TEM'PER, noun Due mixture of different qualities; or the state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; as the temper of mortar.

1. Constitution of body. [In this sense we more generally use temperament.]

2. Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper This is applicable to beasts as well as to man.

Remember with what mild

And gracious temper he both heard and judg'd.

3. Calmness of mind; moderation.

Restore yourselves unto your tempers, fathers.

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

4. Heat of mind or passion; irritation. The boy showed a great deal of temper when I reproved him.

So we say, a man of violent temper when we speak of his irritability. [This use of the word is common, though a deviation from its original and genuine meaning.]

5. The state of a metal, particularly as to its hardness; as the temper of iron or steel.

6. Middle course; mean or medium.

7. In sugar works, white lime or other substance stirred into a clarifier filled with cane-juice, to neutralize the super abundant acid.

TEM'PERAMENT, noun [Latin temperamentum.]

1. Constitution; state with respect to the predominance of any quality; as the temperament of the body.

Bodies are denominated hot and cold, in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied.

2. Medium; due mixture of different qualities.

The common law--has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament

3. In music, temperament is an operation which, by means of a slight alteration in the intervals, causes the difference between two contiguous sounds to disappear, and makes each of them appear identical with the other.

Temperament is the accommodation or adjustment of the imperfect sounds, by transferring a part of their defects to the more perfect ones, to remedy in part the false intervals of instruments of fixed sounds, as the organ, harpsichord, forte piano, etc.

The harshness of a given concord increases with the temperament

TEMPERAMENT'AL, adjective Constitutional. [Not much used.]

TEM'PERANCE, noun [Latin temperantia, from tempero.]

1. Moderation; particularly, habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; as temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth. temperance in eating and drinking is opposed to gluttony and drunkenness, and in other indulgences, to excess.

2. Patience; calmness; sedateness; moderation of passion.

He calm'd his wrath with goodly temperance [Unusual.]

TEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin temperatus.] Moderate; not excessive; as temperate heat; a temperate climate; temperate air.

1. Moderate in the indulgence of the appetites and passions; as temperate in eating and drinking; temperate in pleasures; temperate in speech.

Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy.

2. Cool; calm; not marked with passion; not violent; as a temperate discourse or address; temperate language.

3. Proceeding from temperance; as temperate sleep.

4. Free from ardent passion.

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

Temperate zone, the space on the earth between the tropics and the polar circles, where the heat is less than in the tropics, and the cold less than in the polar circles.

TEM'PERATELY, adverb Moderately; without excess or extravagance.

1. Calmly; without violence of passion; as, to reprove one temperately

2. With moderate force.

Winds that temperately blow.

TEM'PERATENESS, noun Moderation; freedom from excess; as the temperateness of the weather or of a climate.

1. Calmness; coolness of mind.

TEM'PERATIVE, adjective Having the power or quality of tempering.

TEM'PERATURE, noun [Latin temperature ]

1. In physics, the state of a body with regard to heat or cold, as indicated by the thermometer; or the degree of free caloric which a body possesses, when compared with other bodies. When a body applied to another, either excites the sensation of heat, or expands that body, we say it is of a higher temperature; that is, it possesses more free caloric. When it excites the sensation of cold, or contracts another body, it is said to be of a lower temperature Thus we speak of the temperature of air, of water, of a climate, etc.; two countries of the same temperature

2. Constitution; state; degree of any quality.

Memory depends upon the consistence and temperature of the brain.

3. Moderation; freedom from immoderate passions.

In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,

Most goodly temperature you may descry.

[Not in use.]

TEM'PERED, participle passive Duly mixed or modified; reduced to a proper state; softened; allayed; hardened.

1. Adjusted by musical temperament.

2. adjective Disposed; as a well tempered good tempered or bad tempered man.

TEM'PERING, participle present tense Mixing and qualifying; qualifying by mixture; softening; mollifying; reducing to a state of moderation; hardening.

TEM'PEST, noun [Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to fall or come suddenly, or rather to drive, to rush. Time is properly a coming, a season, that which presents itself, or is present. The sense of tempest is from the sense of rushing or driving. See Temerity and Temerarious.

1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence; a storm of extreme violence. We usually apply the word to a steady wind of long continuance; but we say also of a tornado, it blew a tempest The currents of wind are named, according to their respective degrees of force or rapidity, a breeze, a gale, a storm, a tempest; but gale is also used as synonymous with storm, and storm with tempest Gust is usually applied to a sudden blast of short duration. A tempest may or may not be attended with rain, snow or hail.

We, caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd

Each on his rock transfix'd--

2. A violent tumult or commotion; as a popular or political tempest; the tempest of war.

3. Perturbation; violent agitation; as a tempest of the

passions.

TEM'PEST, verb transitive To disturb as by a tempest of the passions. [Little used.]

TEMPESTIV'ITY, noun [Latin tempestivus.] Seasonableness. [Not in use.]

TEMPEST'UOUS, adjective

1. Very story; turbulent; rough with wind; as tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night.

2. Blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind.

TEMPEST'UOUSLY, adverb With great violence of wind or great commotion; turbulently.

TEMPEST'UOUSNESS, noun Storminess; the state of being tempestuous or disturbed by violent winds; as the tempestuousness of the winter or of weather.

TEM'PLAR, noun [from the Temple, a house near the Thames, which originally belonged to the knights Templars. The latter took their denomination from an apartment of the palace of Baldwin II. in Jerusalem, near the temple.]

1. A student of the law.

2. Templars, knights of the Temple, a religious military order, first established at Jerusalem in favor of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. The order originated with some persons who, in 1118, devoted themselves to the service of God, promising to live in perpetual chastity, obedience and poverty, after the manner of canons. In 1228, this order was confirmed in the council of Troyes, and subjected to a rule of discipline. It flourished, became immensely rich, and its members became so insolent and vicious, that the order was suppressed by the council of Vienne, in 1312.

TEM'PLE, noun [Latin templum.]

1. A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people assembled to worship. Originally, temples were open places, as the Stonehenge in England. In Rome, some of the temples were open, and called sacella; others were roofed, and called oedes. The most celebrated of the ancient pagan temples were that of Belus in Babylon, that of Vulcan at Memphis, that of Jupiter at Thebes, that of Diana at Ephesus, that of Apollo in Miletus, that of Jupiter Olympius in Athens, and that of Apollo at Delphi. The most celebrated and magnificent temple erected to the true God, was that built by Solomon in Jerusalem.

In Scripture, the tabernacle is sometimes called by this name. 1 Samuel 1:9-3.

2. A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.

Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God, enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?

3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21.

4. In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars. They are called the Inner and the Middle temple

TEM'PLE, noun [Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]

1. Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.

2. In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.

TEM'PLE, verb transitive To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]

TEM'PLET, noun A piece of timber in a building; as a templet under a girder.

TEM'PORAL, adjective [Latin temporalis, from tempus, time.]

1. Pertaining to this life or this world or the body only; secular; as temporal concerns; temporal affairs. In this sense, it is opposed to spiritual. Let not temporal affairs or employments divert the mind from spiritual concerns, which are far more important.

In this sense also it is opposed to ecclesiastical; as temporal power, that is, secular, civil or political power; temporal courts, those which take cognizance of civil suits. temporal jurisdiction is that which regards civil and political affairs.

2. Measured or limited by time, or by this life or this state of things; having limited existence; opposed to eternal.

The things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18.

3. In grammar, relating to a tense; as a temporal augment.

4. Pertaining to the temple or temples of the head; as the temporal bone; a temporal artery or vein; temporal muscle.

TEMPORAL'ITIES

TEM'PORALLY, adverb With respect to time or this life only.

TEM'PORALLY, adv. With respect to time or this life only.

TEM'PORALNESS, noun Worldliness. [Not used.]

TEM'PORALS, noun Secular possessions; revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay-fees, tithes and the like. It is opposed to spiritualities.

TEM'PORALTY, noun The laity; secular people. [Little used.]

1. Secular possessions. [See Temporalities.]

TEMPORA'NEOUS, adjective Temporary. [Little used.]

TEM'PORARILY, adverb For a time only; not perpetually.

TEM'PORARINESS, noun [from temporary.] The state of being temporary; opposed to perpetuity.

TEM'PORARY, adjective [Latin temporarius.] Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. There is a temporary cessation of hostilities. There is a temporary supply of provisions. In times of great danger, Rome appointed a temporary dictator.

TEMPORIZA'TION, noun The act of temporizing.

TEM'PORIZE, verb intransitive [Latin tempus, time.]

1. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor or yield to the current of opinion or to circumstances; a conduct that often indicates obsequiousness.

They might their grievance inwardly complain,

But outwardly they needs must temporize

2. To delay; to procrastinate.

Well, you till temporize with the hours. [Little used.]

3. To comply. [Not in use.]

TEM'PORIZER, noun One who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions or occasions; a trimmer.

TEM'PORIZING, participle present tense Complying with the time, or with the prevailing humors and opinions of men; time-serving.

TEMPT, verb transitive [Latin tento; teneo; Gr. the primary sense is to strain, urge, press.]

1. To incite or solicit to an evil act; to entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement.

My lady Gray tempts him to this harsh extremity.

Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. James 1:13.

2. To provoke; to incite.

TEMPT not the brave and needy to despair.

3. To solicit; to draw; without the notion of evil.

Still his strength conceal'd,

Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.

4. To try; to venture on; to attempt.

E'er leave be giv'n to tempt the nether skies.

5. In Scripture, to try; to prove; to put to trial for proof.

God did tempt Abraham. Genesis 22:1.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 6:16.

TEMPT'ABLE, adjective Liable to be tempted.

TEMPTA'TION, noun The act of tempting; enticement to evil by arguments, by flattery, or by the offer of some real or apparent good.

When the devil had ended all the temptation he departed from him for a season. Luke 4:13.

1. Solicitation of the passions; enticements to evil proceeding from the prospect of pleasure or advantage.

2. The state of being tempted or enticed to evil. When by human weakness you are led into temptation resort to prayer for relief.

3. Trial.

Lead us not into temptation

4. That which is presented to the mind as an inducement to evil.

Dare to be great without a guilty crown,

View it, and lay the bright temptation down.

5. In colloquial language, an allurement to any thing indifferent, or even good.

TEMPT'ED, participle passive Enticed to evil; provoked; tried.

TEMPT'ER, noun One that solicits or entices to evil.

Those who are bent to do wickedly, will never want tempters to urge them on.

1. The great adversary of man; the devil. Matthew 4:3.

TEMPT'ING, participle present tense Enticing to evil; trying.

1. adjective Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.

TEMPT'INGLY, adverb In a manner to entice to evil; so as to allure.

TEMPT'RESS, noun A female who entices.

TEMSEBREAD

TEM'SED-BREAD, noun Bread made of flour better sifted than common flour. [I know not where this word is used.]

TEM'ULENCE

TEM'ULENCY, noun [Latin temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [Not used.]

TEM'ULENCY, n. [L. temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [Not used.]

TEM'ULENT, adjective [Latin temulentus.] Intoxicated. [Not in use.]

TEM'ULENTIVE, adjective Drunken; in a state of inebriation. [Not in use.]

TEN, adjective [Latin decem.]

1. Twice five; nine and one.

With twice ten sail I cross'd the Phrygian sea.

2. It is a kind of proverbial number.

There's a proud modesty in merit,

Averse to begging, and resolv'd to pay

TEN times the gift it asks.

The meaning in this use is, a great deal more, indefinitely.

TEN'ABLE, adjective [Latin teneo, to hold. See Tenant.]

That may be held, maintained or defended against an assailant, or against attempts to take it; as a tenable fortress. The works were not deemed tenable The ground taken in the argument is not tenable

TENA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin tenax, from teneo, to hold.]

1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as men tenacious of their just rights. Men are usually tenacious of their opinions, as well as of their property.

2. Retentive; apt to retain long what is committed to it; as a tenacious memory.

3. Adhesive; apt to adhere to another substance; as oily, glutinous or viscous matter. Few substances are to tenacious as tar.

4. Niggardly; close fisted.

TENA'CIOUSLY, adverb With a disposition to hold fast what is possessed.

1. Adhesively.

2. Obstinately; with firm adherence.

TENA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of holding fast; unwillingness to quit, resign or let go; as a man's tenaciousness of his rights or opinions.

2. Adhesiveness; stickiness; as the tenaciousness of clay or glue.

3. Retentiveness; as the tenaciousness of memory.

TENAC'ITY, noun [Latin tenacitas, from teneo, to hold.]

1. Adhesiveness; that quality of bodies which makes them stick or adhere to others; glutinousness; stickiness; as the tenacity of oils, of glue, of tar, of starch and the like.

2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting; without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; opposed to brittleness or fragility.

TEN'ACY, noun Tenaciousness. [Not in use.]

TENA'IL, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.] In fortification, an outwork consisting of two parallel sides with front, in which is a re-entering angle. It is simple or double.

TEN'AILLON, noun In fortification, tenaillons are works constructed on each side of the ravelins, like the lunets, but differing in this, that one of the faces of the tenaillon is in the direction of the ravelin, whereas that of the lunet is perpendicular to it.

TEN'ANCY, noun [Latin tenens.] In law, a holding or possession of lands or tenements; tenure; as tenancy in fee simple; tenancy in tail; tenancy by the curtesy; tenancy at will. tenancy in common happens where there is a unity of possession merely.

TEN'ANT, noun [Latin teneo; Gr. to strain, stretch, extend.]

1. A person holding land or other real estate under another, either by grant, lease or at will; one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements whose title is in another; as a tenant in tail; tenant in common; tenant by the curtesy; tenant in parcenary; tenant for life; tenant at will; tenant in dower.

2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller.

The happy tenant of your shade.

Tenant in capite, or tenant in chief, by the laws of England, is one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is stiled lord paramount. Such tenants however are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession.

TEN'ANT, verb transitive To hold or possess as a tenant

Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.

TEN'ANTABLE, adjective Fit to be rented; in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.

TEN'ANTED, participle passive Held by a tenant.

TEN'ANTING, participle present tense Holding as a tenant.

TEN'ANTLESS, adjective Having no tenant; unoccupied; as a tenantless mansion.

TEN'ANTRY, noun The body of tenants; as the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

1. Tenancy. [Not in use.]

TENCH, noun [Latin tinca.] A fish of the genus Cyprinus, found in ponds and rivers.

TEND, verb transitive [contracted from attend, Latin attendo; ad and tendo, to stretch.]

1. To watch; to guard; to accompany as an assistant or protector.

And flaming ministers to watch and tend

Their earthly charge--

There is a pleasure in that simplicity, in beholding princes tending their flocks.

2. To hold and take care of; as, to tend a child.

3. To be attentive to.

Unsuck'd of lamb or kid that tend their play.

TEND, verb transitive [Latin tendo; teneo.]

1. To move in a certain direction.

Having overheard two gentlemen tending towards that sight--

Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends.

2. To be directed to any end or purpose; to aim at; to have or give a leaning.

The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind.

3. To contribute. Our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.

4. [for attend.] To attend; to wait as attendants or servants.

He tends upon my father. [Colloquial.]

5. To attend as something inseparable. [Not in use.]

6. To wait; to expect. [Not in use.]

7. To swing round an anchor, as a ship.

TEND'ANCE, noun Attendance; state of expectation.

1. Persons attending.

2. Act of waiting; attendance.

3. Care; act of tending.

[This word is entirely obsolete in all its senses. We now use attendance.]

TEND'ED, participle passive Attended; taken care of; nursed; as an infant, or a sick person.

TEND'ENCY, noun [from tend; Latin tendens, tending.] Drift; direction or course towards any place, object, effect or result. Read such books only as have a good moral tendency Mild language has a tendency to allay irritation.

Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.

TEND'ER, noun [from tend.] One that attends or takes care of; a nurse.

1. A small vessel employed to attend a larger one for supplying her with provisions and other stores, or to convey intelligence and the like.

2. In law, an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture which would be incurred by non-payment or non-performance; as the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note or bond with interest. To constitute a legal tender such money must be offered as the law prescribes; the offer of bank notes is not a legal tender So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.

There is also a tender of issue in pleadings, a tender of an oath, etc.

3. Any offer for acceptance. The gentleman made me a tender of his services.

4. The thing offered. This money is not a legal tender

5. Regard; kind concern. [Not in use.]

TEND'ER, verb transitive [Latin tendo.]

1. To offer in words; or to exhibit or present for acceptance.

All conditions, all minds tender down

Their service to lord Timon.

2. To hold; to esteem.

Tender yourself more dearly. [Not in use.]

3. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, for saving a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

TEN'DER, adjective [Latin tener; allied probably to thin, Latin tenuis.]

1. Soft; easily impressed, broken, bruised or injured; not firm or hard; as tender plants; tender flesh; tender grapes. Deuteronomy 32:2. Song of Solomon 2:13.

2. Very sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.

3. Delicate; effeminate; not hardy or able to endure hardship.

The tender and delicate woman among you. Deuteronomy 28:54.

4. Weak; feeble; as tender age. Genesis 33:13.

5. Young and carefully educated. Proverbs 9:1.

6. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; easily affected by the distresses of another, or anxious for another's good; as the tender kindness of the church; a tender heart.

7. Compassionate; easily excited to pity, forgiveness or favor.

The Lord is pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:11.

Luke 1:78.

8. Exciting kind concern.

I love Valentine;

His life's as tender to me as his soul.

9. Expressive of the softer passions; as a tender strain.

10. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; with of. Be tender of your neighbor's reputation.

The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.

11. Gentle; mild; unwilling to pain.

You that are so tender o'er his follies,

Will never do him good.

12. Apt to give pain; as, that is a tender subject; things that are tender and unpleasing.

13. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; pathetic; as tender expressions; tender expostulations.

TEND'ERED, participle passive Offered for acceptance.

TEND'ERING, participle present tense Offering for acceptance.

TEN'DERLING, noun A fondling; one made tender by too much kindness.

1. The first horns of a deer.

TEN'DERLOIN, noun A tender part of flesh in the hind quarter of beef.

TEN'DERLY, adverb With tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain.

Brutus tenderly reproves.

1. Kindly; with pity or affection.

TEN'DERNESS, noun The state of being tender or easily broken, bruised or injured; softness; brittleness; as the tenderness of a thread; the tenderness of flesh.

1. The state of being easily hurt; soreness; as the tenderness of flesh when bruised or inflamed.

2. Susceptibility of the softer passions; sensibility.

Well we know your tenderness of heart.

3. Kind attention; anxiety for the good of another, or to save him from pain.

4. Scrupulousness; caution; extreme care or concern not to give or to commit offense; as tenderness of conscience.

5. Cautious care to preserve or not to injure; as a tenderness of reputation.

6. Softness of expression; pathos.

TEND'ING, participle present tense Having a certain direction; taking care of.

TEND'ING, noun In seaman's language, a swinging round or movement of a ship upon her anchor.

TEN'DINOUS, adjective [Latin tendines, tendons, from tendo, to stretch.]

1. Pertaining to a tendon; partaking of the nature of tendons.

2. Full of tendons; sinewy; as nervous and tendinous parts.

TEND'MENT, noun Attendance; care.

TEN'DON, noun [Latin tendo; teneo, tendo.] In anatomy, a hard insensible cord or bundle of fibers, by which a muscle is attached to a bone.

TEN'DRAC, noun An animal of the hedgehog kind, found in the E. Indies.

TEN'DRIL, noun A clasp or clasper of a vine or other climbing or creeping plant; a filiform spiral shoot, that winds round another body. Tendrils or claspers are given to plants that have weak stalks.

They are also given to creeping vines, which require support on the earth.

TEN'DRIL, adjective Clasping; climbing; as a tendril

TENE'BRIOUS, adjective [Latin tenebrosus, from tenebroe, darkness.]

Dark; gloomy.

TENEBROS'ITY, noun Darkness; gloom.

TEN'EBROUS

TENE'BROUSNESS

TEN'EMENT, noun [Low Latin tenementum, from teneo, to hold.]

1. In common acceptation, a house; a building for a habitation; or an apartment in a building, used by one family.

2. A house or lands depending on a manor; or a fee farm depending on a superior.

3. In law, any species of permanent property that may be held, as land, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, etc. These are called free or frank tenements.

The thing held is a tenement, and the possessor of it a tenant, and the manner of possession is called tenure.

TENE'BROUSNESS

TEN'EMENT, n. [Low L. tenementum, from teneo, to hold.]

TENEMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to tenanted lands; that is or may be held by tenants.

Tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants.

TENEMENT'ARY, adjective That is or may be leased; held by tenants.

TENER'ITY, noun Tenderness. [Not in use.]

TENES'MUS, noun [Latin literally a straining or stretching.]

A painful, ineffectual and repeated effort, or a continual and urgent desire to go to stool.

TEN'ET, noun [Latin tenet he holds.] Any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine which a person believes or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. The tenets of christians are adopted from the Scriptures; but different interpretations give rise to a great diversity of tenets.

TEN'FOLD, adjective [ten and fold.] Ten times more.

Fire kindled into tenfold rage.

TEN'NANTITE, noun [from Tennant.] A subspecies of gray copper; a mineral of a lead color, or iron black, massive or crystallized, found in Cornwall, England.

TEN'NIS, noun A play in which a ball is driven continually or kept in motion by rackets.

TEN'NIS, verb transitive To drive a ball.

TEN'ON, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.] In building and cabinet work, the end of a piece of timber, which is fitted to a mortise for insertion, or inserted, for fastening two pieces of timber together. The form of a tenon is various, as square, dovetailed, etc.

TEN'OR, noun [Latin tenor from teneo, to hold.]

1. Continued run or currency; whole course or strain. We understand a speaker's intention or views from the tenor of his conversation, that is, from the general course of his ideas, or general purport of his speech.

Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?

2. Stamp; character. The conversation was of the same tenor as that of the preceding day.

This success would look like chance, if it were not perpetual and always of the same tenor

3. Sense contained; purport; substance; general course or drift; as close attention to the tenor of the discourse. Warrants are to be executed according to their form and tenor

Bid me tear the bond.

--When it is paid according to the tenor

4. In music, the natural pitch of a man's voice in singing; hence, the part of a tune adapted to a man's voice, the second of the four parts, reckoning from the base; and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxiliary.

5. The persons who sing the tenor or the instrument that plays it.

TENSE, adjective tens. [Latin tensus, from tendo, to stretch.] Stretched; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as a tense fiber.

For the free passage of the sound into the ear, it is requisite that the tympanum be tense

TENSE, noun tens. [Latin tempus.] In grammar, time, or a particular form of a verb, or a combination of words, used to express the time of action, or of that which is affirmed; or tense is an inflection of verbs by which they are made to signify or distinguish the time of actions or events.

The primary simple tenses are three; those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages. The English language is rich in tenses, beyond any other language in Europe.

TENSENESS, noun tens'ness. The state of being tense or stretched to stiffness; stiffness; opposed to laxness; as the tenseness of a string or fiber; tenseness of the skin.

TENS'IBLE, adjective Capable of being extended.

TENS'ILE, adjective Capable of extension.

TEN'SION, noun [Latin tensio, tendo.]

1. The act of stretching or straining; as the tension of the muscles.

2. The state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; or the state of being bent or strained; as, different degrees of tension in chords give different sounds; the greater the tension the more acute the sound.

3. Distension.

TENS'IVE, adjective Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness or contraction; as a tensive pain.

TENS'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle that extends or stretches a part.

TENSURE, the same as tension, and not used.

TENT, noun [Latin tentorium, from tendo, to stretch.]

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles; used for sheltering persons from the weather, particularly soldiers in camp. The wandering Arabs and Tartars lodge in tents. The Israelites lodged in tents forty years, while they were in the desert.

2. In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.

TENT, noun [Latin tinctus.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

TENT, verb intransitive To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle.

TENT, verb transitive To probe; to search as with a tent; as, to tent a wound.

I'll tent him to the quick.

1. To keep open with a tent

TEN'TACLE, noun [Latin tentacula.] A filiform process or organ, simple or branched, on the bodies of various animals of the Linnean class Vermes, and of Cuvier's Mollusca, Annelides, Echinodermata, Actinia, Medusae, Polypi, etc. either an organ of feeling, prehension or motion, sometimes round the mouth, sometimes on other parts of the body.

TENT'AGE, noun An encampment. [Unusual.]

TENTA'TION, noun [Latin tentatio; tento, to try.]

Trial; temptation. [Little used.]

TENT'ATIVE, adjective Trying; essaying.

TENT'ATIVE, noun An essay; trial.

TENT'ED, adjective Covered or furnished with tents; as soldiers.

1. Covered with tents; as a tented field.

TENT'ER, noun [Latin tendo, tentus, to stretch.]

A hook for stretching cloth on a frame.

To be on the tenters, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness or suspense.

TENT'ER, verb transitive To hang or stretch on tenters.

TENT'ER, verb intransitive To admit extension.

Woolen cloths will tenter

TENT'ERED, participle passive Stretched or hung on tenters.

TEN'TERING, participle present tense Stretching or hanging on tenters.

TENTH, adjective [from ten.] The ordinal of ten; the first after the ninth.

TENTH, noun The tenth part.

1. Tithe; the tenth part of annual produce or increase. The tenth of income is payable to the clergy in England, as it was to the priests among the Israelites.

2. In music, the octave of the third; an interval comprehending nine conjoint degrees, or ten sounds, diatonically divided.

TENTH'LY, adverb In the tenth place.

TENTIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin tentigo, a stretching.]

Stiff; stretched. [Not in use.]

TENT'ORY, noun [Latin tentorium.] The awning of a tent.

TENT'WORT, noun [tent and wort.] A plant of the genus Asplenium.

TENUIFO'LIOUS, adjective [Latin tenuis and folium.]

Having thin or narrow leaves.

TENU'ITY, noun [Latin tenuitas, from tenuis, thin. See Thin.]

1. Thinness, smallness in diameter; exility; thinness, applied to a broad substance, and slenderness, applied to one that is long; as the tenuity of paper or of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair or filament.

2. Rarity; rareness; thinness; as of a fluid; as the tenuity of the air in the higher regions of the atmosphere; the tenuity of the blood.

3. Poverty. [Not in use.]

TEN'UOUS, adjective [Latin tenuis.] Thin; small; minute.

1. Rare.

TEN'URE, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.]

1. A holding. In English law, the manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. All the species of ancient tenures may be reduced to four, three of which subsist to this day. 1. tenure by knight service, which was the most honorable. This is now abolished. 2. tenure in free socage, or by a certain and determinate service, which is either free and honorable, or villain and base. 3. tenure by copy of court roll, or copyhold tenure 4. tenure in ancient demain. There was also tenure in frankalmoign, or free alms. The tenure in free and common socage has absorbed most of the others.

In the United States, almost all lands are held in fee simple; not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner.

Tenure in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by curtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc.

2. The consideration, condition or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

3. Manner of holding in general. In absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure

TEPEFAC'TION, noun [Latin tepefacio; tepidus, warm, and facio, to make.]

The act or operation of warming, making tepid or moderately warm.

TEP'EFY, verb transitive [Latin tepefacio.] To make moderately warm.

TEP'EFY, verb intransitive To become moderately warm.

TEP'ID, adjective [Latin tepidus, form tepeo, to be warm.]

Moderately warm; lukewarm; as a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.

Tepid mineral waters, are such as have less sensible cold than common water.

TEP'IDNESS, noun Moderate warmth; lukewarmness.

TE'POR, noun [Latin] Gentle heat; moderate warmth.

COLEOPTER, TERA, noun The coleopters, in Linnes system of entomology, are an order of insects, having crustaceous elytra or shells, which shut and form a longitudinal suture along the back, as the beetle.

TER'APHIM, noun [Heb.] Household deities or images.

TERATOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a prodigy, and discourse.]

Bombast in language; affectation of sublimity. [Not used.]

TERCE, noun ters. A cask whose contents are 42 gallons, the third of a pipe or butt.

TER'CEL, noun The male of the common falcon. [Falco Peregrinus.]

TER'EBINTH, noun The turpentine tree.

TEREBIN'THINATE, adjective Terebinthine; impregnated with the qualities of turpentine.

TEREBIN'THINE, adjective [Latin terebinthinus, from terebinthina, turpentine.] Pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

TER'EBRATE, verb transitive [Latin terebro, tero.] To bore; to perforate with a gimlet. [Little used.]

TEREBRA'TION, noun The act of boring. [Little used.]

TEREBRAT'ULITE, noun Fossil terebratula, a kind of shell.

TERE'DO, noun [Latin from tero, to wear.] A worm that bores and penetrates the bottom of ships; or rather a genus of worms, so called.

TER'EK, noun A water fowl with long legs.

TER'ET

TERE'TE, adjective [Latin teres.] Round and tapering; columnar; as the stem of a plant.

TERE'TE, a. [L. teres.] Round and tapering; columnar; as the stem of a plant.

TERGEM'INAL

TERGEM'INATE, adjective [Latin tergeminus.] Thrice double; as a tergeminate leaf.

TERGEM'INATE, a. [L. tergeminus.] Thrice double; as a tergeminate leaf.

TERGEM'INOUS, adjective [supra.] Threefold.

TERGIF'ETOUS, adjective tergifetous plants, are such as bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

TER'GIVERSATE, verb intransitive [Latin tergum, the back, and verto, to turn.]

To shift; to practice evasion. [Little used.]

TERGIVERSA'TION, noun A shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being more free from passion and tergiversation

1. Change; fickleness of conduct.

The colonel, after all his tergiversation lost his life in the king's service.

TERM, noun [Latin terminus, a limit or boundary.]

1. A limit; a bound or boundary; the extremity of any thing; that which limits its extent.

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms or boundaries.

2. The time for which any thing lasts; any limited time; as the term of five years; the term of life.

3. In geometry, a point or line that limits. A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

4. In law, the limitation of an estate; or rather the whole time or duration of an estate; as a lease for the term of life, for the term of three lives, for the term of twenty one years.

5. In law, the time in which a court is held or open for the trial of causes. In England, there are four terms in the year; Hilary term from January 23d to February 12th; Easter term from Wednesday, fortnight after Easter, to the Monday next after Ascension day; Trinity term from Friday next after Trinity Sunday to the Wednesday, fortnight after; and Michaelmas term from November 6th to the 28th. These terms are observed by the courts of king's bench, the common pleas and exchequer, but not by the parliament, the chancery or by inferior courts. The rest of the year is called vacation. In the United States, the terms to be observed by the tribunals of justice, are prescribed by the statutes of congress and of the several states.

6. In universities and colleges, the time during which instruction is regularly given to students, who are obliged by the statutes and laws of the institution to attend to the recitations, lectures and other exercises.

7. In grammar, a word or expression; that which fixes or determines ideas.

In painting, the greatest beauties cannot be always expressed for want of terms.

8. In the arts, a word or expression that denotes something peculiar to an art; as a technical term

9. In logic, a syllogism consists of three terms, the major, the minor, and the middle. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term because it is the most general, and the subject of the conclusion is called the minor term because it is less general. These are called the extremes; and the third term introduced as a common measure between them, is called the mean or middle term Thus in the following syllogism.

Every vegetable is combustible;

Every tree is vegetable;

Therefore every tree is combustible.

Combustible is the predicate of the conclusion, or the major term; every tree is the minor term; vegetable is the middle term

10. In architecture, a kind of statues or columns adorned on the top with the figure of a head, either of a man, woman or satyr. Terms are sometimes used as consoles, and sustain entablatures; and sometimes as statues to adorn gardens.

11. Among the ancients, terms, termini miliares, were the heads of certain divinities placed on square land-marks of stone, to mark the several stadia on roads. These were dedicated to Mercury, who was supposed to preside over highways.

12. In algebra, a member of a compound quantity; as a, in a+b; or ab, in ab+cd.

13. Among physicians, the monthly courses of females are called terms.

14. In contracts, terms, in the plural, are conditions; propositions stated or promises made, which when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties. A engages to build a house for B for a specific sum of money, in a given time; these are his terms. When B promises to give to A that sum for building the house, he has agreed to the terms; the contract is completed and binding upon both parties.

TERMs of proportion, in mathematics, are such numbers, letters or quantities as are compared one with another.

To make terms, to come to an agreement.

To come to terms, to agree; to come to an agreement.

To bring to terms, to reduce to submission or to conditions.

TERM, verb transitive To name; to call; to denominate.

Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe, imaginary space.

TER'MAGANCY, noun [from termagant.] Turbulence; tumultuousness; as a violent termagancy of temper.

TER'MAGANT, adjective Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous or furious; quarrelsome; scolding.

The eldest was a termagant imperious, prodigal, profligate wench.

TER'MAGANT, noun A boisterous, brawling, turbulent woman. It seems in Shakespeare to have been used of men. In ancient farces and puppet-shows, termagant was a vociferous, tumultuous deity.

She threw his periwig into the fire. Well, said he, thou are a brave termagant

The sprites of fiery termagants in flame--

TERM'ED, participle passive Called; denominated.

TERM'ER, noun One who travels to attend a court term.

TERM'ER

TERM'INABLE, adjective [from term.] That may be bounded; limitable.

TERM'INAL, adjective [from Latin terminus.] In botany, growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as a terminal scape, flower or spike.

1. Forming the extremity; as a terminal edge.

TERM'INATE, verb transitive [termino; terminus.]

1. To bound; to limit; to set the extreme point or side of a thing; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

2. To end; to put an end to; as, to terminate a controversy.

TERM'INATE, verb intransitive To be limited; to end; to come to the furthest point in space; as, a line terminates at the equator; the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

1. To end; to close; to come to a limit in time. The session of congress, every second year, must terminate on the third of March.

The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on this side heaven.

TERM'INATED, participle passive Limited; bounded; ended.

TERM'INATING, participle present tense Limiting; ending; concluding.

TERMINA'TION, noun The act of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding.

1. Bound; limit in space or extent; as the termination of a line.

2. End in time or existence; as the termination of the year or of life; the termination of happiness.

3. In grammar, the end or ending of a word; the syllable or letter that ends a word. Words have different terminations to express number, time and sex.

4. End; conclusion; result.

5. Last purpose.

6. Word; term. [Not in use.]

TERMINA'TIONAL, adjective Forming the end or concluding syllable.

TERM'INATIVE, adjective Directing termination.

TERM'INATIVELY, adverb Absolutely; so as not to respect any thing else.

TERM'INATOR, noun In astronomy, a name sometimes given to the circle of illumination, form its property of terminating the boundaries of light and darkness.

TERM'INER, noun A determining; as in oyer and terminer

TERM'ING, participle present tense Calling; denominating.

TERM'INIST, noun In ecclesiastical history, a sect of christians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of particular persons, during which time they have the offer of grace, but after which God no longer wills their salvation.

TERMINOL'OGY, noun [Latin terminus.] The doctrine of terms; a treatise on terms.

1. In natural history, that branch of the science which explains all the terms used in the description of natural objects.

TERMIN'THUS, noun [Gr. a pine nut.] In surgery, a large painful tumor on the skin, thought to resemble a pine nut.

TERM'LESS, adjective Unlimited; boundless; as termless joys.

TERM'LY, adjective Occurring every term; as a termly fee.

TERM'LY, adverb Term by term; every term; as a fee termly given.

TERM'OR, noun One who has an estate for a term of years of life.

TERM'-FEE, noun Among lawyers, a fee or certain sum charged to a suitor for each term his cause is in court.

TERN, noun [Latin sterna.] A common name of certain aquatic fowls of the genus Sterna; as the great tern or sea swallow, (S. hirundo, )

the black tern the lesser tern or hooded tern and the foolish tern or noddy, (S. stolida.) The brown tern or brown gull, (S. obscura, ) is considered as the young of the pewit gull or sea-crow, before molting.

TERN, adjective [Latin ternus.] Threefold; consisting of three.

TERN leaves, in threes, or three by three; expressing the number of leaves in each whorl or set.

TERN peduncles, three growing together from the same axil.

TERN flowers, growing three and three together.

TERN'ARY, adjective [Latin ternarius, of three.] Proceeding by threes; consisting of three.

The ternary number, in antiquity, was esteemed a symbol of perfection and held in great veneration.

TERN'ARY

TERN'ATE, adjective [Latin ternus, terni.] In botany, a ternate leaf, is one that has three leaflets on a petiole, as in trefoil, strawberry, bramble, etc. There are leaves also biternate and triternate, having three ternate or three biternate leaflets.

These leaves must not be confounded with folia terna, which are leaves that grow three together in a whorl, on a stem or branch.

Ternate bat, a species of bat of a large kind, found in the isle ternate and other East India isles. [See Vampyre.]

Terra Japonica, catechu, so called.

Terra Lemnia, a species of red bolar earth.

Terra ponderosa, baryte; heavy spar.

Sienna, a brown bole or ocher from Sienna in Italy.

TERN'ION, noun [Latin ternarius, ternio.] The number three.

TER'RACE, noun [Latin terra, the earth.]

1. In gardening, a raised bank of earth with sloping sides, laid with turf, and graveled on the top for a walk.

2. A balcony or open gallery.

3. The flat roof of a house. All the buildings of the oriental nations are covered with terraces, where people walk or sleep.

TER'RACE, verb transitive To form in to a terrace

1. To open to the air and light.

TER'RACED, participle passive Formed into a terrace; having a terrace.

TER'RACING, participle present tense Forming into a terrace; opening to the air.

TER'RAPIN, noun A name given to a species of tide-water tortoise.

TERRA'QUEOUS, adjective [Latin terra, earth, and aqua, water.] Consisting of land and water, as the globe or earth. This epithet is given to the earth in regard to the surface, of which more than three fifths consist of water, and the remainder of earth or solid materials.

TER'RAR, noun A register of lands. [Not in use.]

TER'RASS

TERRE-BLUE, noun A kind of earth.

TER'REL, noun [from terra.] Little earth, a magnet of a just spherical figure, and so placed that its poles, equator, etc. correspond exactly to those of the world.

TERRE'NE, adjective [Latin terrenus, form terra.

1. Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as terrene substance.

2. Earthly; terrestrial.

God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene

TER'REOUS, adjective [Latin terreus, from terra, earth.] Earthy; consisting of earth; as terreous substances; terreous particles.

TERRES'TRIAL, adjective [Latin terrestris, from terra, the earth.]

1. Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial 1 Corinthians 15:40.

2. Consisting of earth; as the terrestrial globe.

3. Pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary. Death puts and end to all terrestrial scenes.

TERRES'TRIALLY, adverb After an earthly manner.

TERRES'TRIOUS, adjective Earthy. [Little used.]

1. Pertaining to the earth; being or living on the earth; terrestrial.

TER'RIBLE, adjective [Latin terribilis, from terreo, to frighten.]

1. Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.

Prudent in peace, and terrible in war.

The form of the image was terrible Daniel 2:31.

2. Adapted to impress dread, terror or solemn awe and reverence.

The Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible Deuteronomy 7:21.

Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy. Psalms 99:3.

He hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10:17.

3. adverb Severely; very; so as to give pain; as terrible cold; a colloquial phrase.

TER'RIBLENESS, noun Dreadfulness; formidableness; the quality or state of being terrible; as the terribleness of a sight.

TER'RIBLY, adverb Dreadfully; in a manner to excite terror or fright.

When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Isaiah 2:19.

1. Violently; very greatly.

The poor man squalled terribly

TER'RIER, noun A dog or little hound, that creeps into the ground after animals that burrow.

1. A lodge or hole where certain animals, as foxes, rabbits, badgers and the like, secure themselves.

2. Originally, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, etc.; at present, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, etc.

3. A wimble, auger or borer. [Latin tero.]

TERRIF'IC, adjective [Latin terrifieus, from terreo, terror, and facio.]

Dreadful; causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; as a terrific form; terrific sight.

TER'RIFIED, participle passive Frightened; affrighted.

TER'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin terror and facio, to make.]

To frighten; to alarm or shock with fear.

They were terrified and affrighted. Luke 24:37.

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified. Luke 21:9. Job 7:14.

TER'RIFYING, participle present tense Frightening; affrighting.

TERRIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin terrigena, one born of the earth; terra and gigno.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.

TERRITO'RIAL, adjective [from territory.] Pertaining to territory or land; as territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

1. Limited to a certain district. Rights may be personal or territorial

TERRITO'RIALLY, adverb In regard to territory; by means of territory.

TER'RITORY, noun [Latin territorium, from terra, earth.]

1. The extent or compass of land within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdiction of any state, city or other body.

Linger not in my territories.

They erected a house within their own territory

Arts and sciences took their rise and flourished only in those small territories where the people were free.

2. A tract of land belonging to and under the dominion of a prince or state, lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as the territories of the East India Company; the territories of the United States; the territory of Michigan; Northwest territory These districts of country, when received into the union and acknowledged to be states, lose the appellation of territory

TER'ROR, noun [Latin terror from terreo, to frighten.]

1. Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind.

The sword without, and terror within. Deuteronomy 32:25.

The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Job 6:4.

2. That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear.

Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Romans 13:3.

Those enormous terrors of the Nile.

3. In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors.Psalms 73:19.

4. The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14.

5. Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11.

6. Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.

TERSE, adjective ters. [Latin tersus, from tergo, to wipe.]

Cleanly written; neat; elegant without pompousness; as terse language; a terse style.

Diffus'd, yet terse poetical, though plain.

TERSELY, adverb ters'ly. Neatly.

TERSENESS, noun ters'ness. Neatness of style; smoothness of language.

TER-TEN'ANT, noun The occupant of land.

TER'TIALS, noun In ornithology, feathers near the junction of the wing with the body.

TER'TIAN, adjective [Latin tertianus, from tertius, third.]

Occurring every other day; as a tertian fever.

TER'TIAN, noun A disease or fever whose paroxysms return every other day; an intermittent occurring after intervals of about forty eight hours.

1. A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.

TER'TIARY, adjective Third; of the third formation. tertiary mountains are such as result from the ruins of other mountains promiscuously heaped together.

Tertiary formation, in geology, a series of horizontal strata, more recent than chalk beds, consisting chiefly of sand and clay, and frequently embracing vast quantities of organic remains of the larger animals. It comprehends the alluvial formation, which embraces those deposits only which have resulted from causes still in operation; and the diluvial formation, which is constituted of such deposits as are supposed to have been produced by the deluge.

TER'TIATE, verb transitive [Latin 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.

TESSARA'IC, adjective [Latin tessera, a square thing.]

Diversified by squares; tesselated.

TES'SELATE, verb transitive [Latin tessela, a little square stone.]

To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.

TES'SELATED, participle passive 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.

TESSELA'TION, noun Mosaic work, or the operation of making it.

TEST, noun [Latin 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, noun [Latin 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, verb transitive 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.

TEST'ABLE, adjective [Latin testor. See Testament.]

That may be devised or given by will.

TESTACEOG'RAPHY, noun [See Testaceology.]

TESTACEOL'OGY

TESTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin testaceus, from testa, a shell. The primary sense of testa, testis, testor, etc. is to thrust or drive; hence the sense of hardness, compactness, in testa and testis; and hence the sense of attest, context, detest, testator, testament, all implying a sending, driving, etc.]

Pertaining to shells; consisting of a hard shell, or having a hard continuous shell.

Testaceous animals are such as have a strong thick entire shell, as oysters and clams; and are thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several pieces jointed, as lobsters.

Testaceous medicines, are all preparations of shells and like substances, as the powders of crabs' claws, pearl, etc.

TESTAL'OGY, noun [Latin 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.]

TEST'AMENT, noun [Latin 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.

TESTAMENT'ARY, adjective 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.

TESTAMENTA'TION, noun The act or power of giving by will. [Little used.]

TEST'ATE, adjective [Latin testatus.] Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate

TESTA'TION, noun [Latin testatio.] A witnessing or witness.

TESTA'TOR, noun [Latin] A man who makes and leaves a will or testament at death.

TESTA'TRIX, noun A woman who makes and leaves a will at death.

TEST'ED, participle passive Tried or approved by a test.

TEST'ER, noun The top covering of a bed, consisting of some species of cloth, supported by the bedstead.

TEST'ER

TEST'ICLE, noun [Latin 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.

TESTIC'ULATE, adjective In botany, shaped like a testicle.

TESTIFICA'TION, noun [Latin testificatio. See Testify.]

The act of testifying or giving testimony or evidence; as a direct testification of our homage to God.

TESTIFICA'TOR, noun One who gives witness or evidence.

TEST'IFIED, participle passive [from testify.] Given in evidence; witnessed; published; made known.

TEST'IFIER, noun [from testify.] One who testifies; one who gives testimony or bears witness to prove any thing.

TEST'IFY, verb intransitive [Latin 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 2:25.

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. Numbers 35:30.

3. To declare a charge against one.

O Israel, I will testify against thee. Psalms 1:1.

4. To protest; to declare against.

I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. Nehemiah 13:1.

TEST'IFY, verb transitive 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 3:11.

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 20:24.

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 20:24.

TEST'IFYING, participle present tense Affirming solemnly or under oath, for the purpose of establishing a fact; giving testimony; bearing witness; declaring.

TEST'ILY, adverb [from testy.] Fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

TESTIMO'NIAL, noun [Latin 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.

TEST'IMONY, noun [Latin 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 6:11.

4. In Scripture, the two tables of the law.

Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Exodus 25:16.

5. The book of the law.

He brought forth the king's son--and gave him the testimony 2 Kings 11:12.

6. The gospel, which testifies of Christ and declares the will of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1. 2 Timothy 1:8.

7. The ark. Exodus 16:34.

8. The word of God; the Scriptures.

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple Psalms 19:7.

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 Corinthians 1:12.

12. Attestation; confirmation.

TEST'IMONY, verb transitive To witness. [Not in use.]

TEST'INESS, noun [from testy.] Fretfulness; peevishness; petulance.

Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry.

TEST'ING, participle present tense [from test.] Trying for proof; proving by a standard or by experiment.

A plan for testing alkalies--

TEST'ING, noun 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.

TEST'ON, noun A French coin, of the value of about six pence sterling.

TESTOON', noun 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.

TEST'-PAPER, noun A paper impregnated with a chimical re-agent, as litmus, etc.

TESTU'DINAL, adjective Pertaining to the tortoise, or resembling it.

TESTU'DINATED, adjective [Latin testudo, a tortoise.] Roofed; arched.

TESTUDIN'EOUS, adjective Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

TESTU'DO, noun [Latin] 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.

TEST'Y, adjective Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

Pyrrbus cured his testy courtiers with a kick.

Must I stand and crouch under your testy humor?

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

TETAUG', noun The name of a fish on the coast of New England; called also black fish.

TETCH'INESS

TETCH'Y See Techiness, Techy. [corrupted from touchy, touchiness.] [Not in use.]

TETCH'Y See Techiness, Techy. [corrupted from touchy, touchiness.] [Not in use.]

TETE, noun False hair; a kind of wig or cap of false hair.

TETE-a-tete, head to head; cheek by jowl; in private.

TETH'ER, noun [See Tedder.] A rope or chain by which a beast is confined for feeding within certain limits.

TETH'ER, verb transitive 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.]

TET'RACHORD, noun [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.

TET'RAD, noun [Gr. the number four.] The number four; a collection of four things.

TETRADAC'TYLOUS, adjective [Gr.] Having four toes.

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

TETRADRACH'MA, noun [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.

TETRADYNAM'IAN, noun [Gr. power, strength.] In botany, a plant having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

TETRADYNAM'IAN, adjective Having six stamens, four or which are uniformly longer than the others.

TET'RAGON, noun [Gr. four, and an angle.]

1. In geometry, a figure having four angles; a quadrangle; as a square, a rhombus, etc.

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.

TETRAG'ONAL, adjective 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.

TET'RAGONISM, noun The quadrature of the circle.

TET'RAGYN, noun [Gr. four, and a female.] In botany, a plant having four pistils.

TETRAGYN'IAN, adjective Having four pistils.

TETRAHE'DRAL, adjective [See Tetrahedron.]

1. Having four equal triangles.

2. In botany, having four sides, as a pod or silique.

TETRAHE'DRON, noun [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.

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

TETRAM'ETER, noun [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.

TETRAN'DER, noun [Gr. four and a male.] In botany, a plant having four stamens.

TETRAN'DRIAN, adjective Having four stamens.

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

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

TET'RAPTOTE, noun [Gr. four, and case.] In grammar, a noun that has four cases only. As Latin astus, etc.

TE'TRARCH, noun [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.

TETR'ARCHATE, noun The fourth part of a province under a Roman tetrarch; or the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch.

TETR'ARCHICAL, adjective Pertaining to a tetrarchy.

TET'RARCHY, noun The same as tetrarchate.

TETRASPERM'OUS, noun [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.

TETRAS'TICH, noun [Gr. four, and verse.] A stanza, epigram or poem consisting of four verses.

TET'RASTYLE, noun [Gr. four, and column.] In ancient architecture, a building with four columns in front.

TETRASYLLAB'IC

TETRASYLLAB'ICAL, adjective Consisting of four syllables.

TETRASYLLAB'ICAL, a. Consisting of four syllables.

TETRASYL'LABLE, noun [Gr. four, and syllable.] A word consisting of four syllables.

TET'RIC

TET'RICAL

TETRIC'ITY, noun Crabbedness; perverseness. [Not in use.]

TETRIC'ITY, n. Crabbedness; perverseness. [Not in use.]

TET'RICOUS, adjective [Latin tetricus.] Froward; perverse; harsh, sour; rugged. [Not in use.]

TET'TER, noun [Latin 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, etc.

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, verb transitive To affect with the disease called tetters.

TET'TISH, adjective Captious; testy. [Not in use.]

TEUTON'IC, adjective 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.

TEW, verb transitive To work; to soften. [Not in use.] [See Taw.]

1. To work; to pull or tease; among seamen.

TEW, noun [probably tow.] Materials for any thing. [Not in use.]

1. An iron chain. [Not in use.]

TEW'EL, noun An iron pipe in a forge to receive the pipe of a bellows.

TEW'TAW, verb transitive To beat; to break. [Not in use.] [See Tew.]

TEXT, noun [Latin 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, verb transitive To write, as a text [Not much used.]

TEXT'-BOOK, noun In universities and colleges, a classic author written with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for the observations or interpretation dictated by the master or regent.

1. A book containing the leading principles or most important points of a science or branch of learning, arranged in order for the use of students.

TEXT'ILE, adjective [Latin textilis.] Woven, or capable of being woven.

TEXT'ILE, noun That which is or may be woven.

TEXT'-MAN, noun A man ready in the quotation of texts.

TEXTO'RIAL, adjective [Latin textor.] Pertaining to weaving.

TEXT'RINE, adjective Pertaining to weaving; as the textrine art.

TEXT'UAL, adjective Contained in the text.

1. Serving for texts.

TEXT'UALIST

TEXT'UARY , noun One who is well versed in the Scriptures, and can readily quote texts.

1. One who adheres to the text.

TEXT'UARY, adjective Textual; contained in the text.

1. Serving as a text; authoritative.

TEXT'UARY , n. One who is well versed in the Scriptures, and can readily quote texts.

TEXT'UARY, a. Textual; contained in the text.

TEXT'UIST, noun One ready in the quotation of texts.

TEX'TURE, noun [Latin 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.]