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Teary

Wet with tears; tearful.

Tease

One who teases or plagues.

Teasel

To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

Teaseler

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

Teaseling

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.

Teaser

One who teases or vexes.

Teaspoon

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Teaspoonful

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon. In cooking, it is usually estimated as 4.9 milliliters, which is / of a fluid ounce, or / of a tablespoonful. In cooking recipes it may be abbreviated as t.

Teat

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

Teated

Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

Teatish

Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Teaze-hole

The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

Teazer

The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.

Tebeth

The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

Techiness

The quality or state of being techy.

Technic

The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

Technical

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.

Technicality

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

Technically

In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

Technicalness

The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

Technicals

Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Technician

a person trained or skilled in the technical details of a particular art or science, especially one skilled at operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment, in contrast to the theory or informational content of a craft; -- formerly also called a technicist.

Technicist

One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

Technicolor

the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively.

Technics

The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Techniphone

A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.

Technique

The method or manner of performance in any art; -- also called technic.

Techno

a form of music primarily created by computer sound synthizers rather than by musicians playing instruments.

Technobabble

technical jargon incomprehensible to non-specialists; -- sometimes used derogatorily of discussions using unnecessarily technical terminology and intended to impress or confuse, rather than inform, the listener.

technocrat

a technical specialist exercising governmental or managerial authority.

Technography

Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples.

Technologist

One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

Technology

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Techy

Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Tectibranch

One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Tectibranchiata

An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

Tectibranchiate

Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. A tectibranchiate mollusk.

Tectly

Covertly; privately; secretly.

Tectology

A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.

Tectonic

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

Tectonics

The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

Tectorial

Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.

Tectrices

The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Ted

To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

Tedesco

German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc.

Tedge

The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

Tedious

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

Tedium

Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

Tee

To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.

Tee-to-tum

A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon.

Teem

To produce; to bring forth.

Teemer

One who teems, or brings forth.

Teemless

Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.

Teenage

of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.

Teenager

a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.

Teenful

Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.

Teens

The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Teeny

Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.

Teest

A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

Teeswater

A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

Teetee

Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

Teeter

To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.

Teeter-tail

The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

Teeth

To breed, or grow, teeth.

Teething

The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

Teetotaler

One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Teetotalism

The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.

Teetotum

A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

Teg

A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

Tegmental

Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.

Tegmentum

A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.

Teguexin

A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.

Tegula

A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

Tegular

Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.

Tegulated

Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor.

Tegument

A cover or covering; an integument.

Tegumentary

Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

Teil

The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.

Teinland

Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.

Teinoscope

An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.

Teint

Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.

Tek

A Siberian ibex.

Tel-el-Amarna

A station on the Nile in Egypt, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the ancient city of Akhetaton, capital of Amenophis IV. (Akhenaton, or Amenhotep IV., of the 18th dynasty, king 1353-1336 B. C.), whose archive chamber was discovered there during extensive excavations in 1887-1888. A collection of about 300 clay tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna tablets, or the Amarna tablets) was found here, forming the diplomatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., with the kings of Asiatic countries (such as Babylonia, Assyria, and Palestine), written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c.. The name of the site is also spelled Tell-el-Amarna, Tell el Amarna, and Tel Amarna.

Telary

Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.

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