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Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.
The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.
See Teasel.
The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
See Teasel.
The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.
In a techy manner.
The quality or state of being techy.
The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.
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.
The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.
In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
The quality or state of being technical; technicality.
Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
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.
One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
Technological; technical.
Technology.
the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively.
The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.
A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.
The method or manner of performance in any art; -- also called technic.
Technicality.
a form of music primarily created by computer sound synthizers rather than by musicians playing instruments.
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.
government by technical specialists.
a technical specialist exercising governmental or managerial authority.
Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples.
Technological.
Of or pertaining to technology.
One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.
Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Peevish; fretful; irritable.
One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
Same as 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.
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. A tectibranchiate mollusk.
Covertly; privately; secretly.
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.
Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
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.
Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.
The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
See Tucum.
To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Same as Tether.
German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc.
The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.
Tediousness.
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.
A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon.
See Teak.
Sesame.
The seed of sesame.
To produce; to bring forth.
One who teems, or brings forth.
Pregnant; prolific.
Prolific; productive.
Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.
a teenager.
of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.
a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.
To kindle; to burn.
Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.
The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
The mino bird.
A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
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.
A pipit.
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.
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.
The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.
To breed, or grow, teeth.
The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
Entire; total.
One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Entirely; totally.
A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.
The rock pipit.
The lapwing.
The pewit.
A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.
A tegument or covering.
Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
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.
A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor.
A cover or covering; an integument.
Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.
A tithe.
See Teyne.
Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.
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.
Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.
Color; tinge; tincture.
A Siberian ibex.
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.
Same as Atlantes.
Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
Telangiectasis.
In a weblike manner.
Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.
A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.
A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves.
An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.
An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.
An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard.
A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.
The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father.
A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
To convey or announce by telegraph.
One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
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