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 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.

language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams.

Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.

Telegraphic.

One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image. It is now (1999) obsolete, having been replaced by telefax and internet transmission of images.

The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.

same as Telugu.

An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.

the ability to move objects by means of thought alone, without physical means; -- an ability claimed by certain persons, such as mediums.

Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

The son of Odysseus and Penelope, as told in Homer's Oddysey.

the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion; calling potential customers by telephone for the purpose of selling something; -- applied especially to calls made to persons who have not previously contacted the seller.

Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance.

Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office.

An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.

A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects.

The science or process of making remote measurements and sending the data by radio; the use of a telemeter.

A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus.

Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; now more commonly called telekinesis; -- applied to mediumistic phenomena.

An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.

An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.

Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.

One versed in teleology.

The doctrine of the final causes of things the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.

Same as Gonotheca.

Vital; as, teleorganic functions.

Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.

A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.

One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to the teleosts. A teleostean fish.

A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.

An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.

Having tissued composed of cells.

A metazoan.

The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

A message by a telephone.

To convey or announce by telephone.

Conveying sound to a great distance.

By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.

The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

of or relating to photography with a telephoto lens.

a telephoto lens.

a special compound camera lens with a long effective focal length but used in a camera with a short focal length, allowing large images to be obtained of distant objects when used in a camera in place of an ordinary lens; -- called also telephotographic lens.

a photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography.

Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.

A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.

Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.; -- now more commonly replaced by the term telescoping.