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.

Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.

In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.

Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of sections or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, telescoping tripod legs; a telescoping table, etc.; -- a term replacing the formerly used telescope.

One who uses a telescope.

The art or practice of using or making telescopes.

A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument.

A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

A kind of amulet or magical charm.

Of or pertaining to telesms; magical.

A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.

An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.

A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.

Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.

Of or pertaining to telharmonium.

An instrument for producing music (Tel*har"mo*ny [/]), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.

Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.

A hill or mound.

Capable of being told.

Any species of Tellina.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

The office or employment of a teller.

A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

Of or pertaining to the earth.

A salt of telluric acid.

A telluride.

Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

A dweller on the earth.

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence.

A salt of tellurous acid.

A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2.

To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.

Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.

Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

See Telugu.

An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.

Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids.

An electric telegraph which prints the messages in letters and not in signs.

A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.

An earthquake.

Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.

Temerity.

Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

Temerarious.

To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.

A mode or process of painting; distemper.

Capable of being tempered.

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.

Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

Temperance.

To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.

In a temperate manner.

The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.

Having power to temper.

Constitution; state; degree of any quality.

Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.

One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.

The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.

To storm.

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers.

The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.

Of or pertaining to a temple.

Same as Templet.

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.

Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

The rate or degree of movement in time.

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.

In a temporal manner; secularly.

Worldliness.

The laity; secular people.

Temporarity.

In a temporary manner; for a time.

The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.

Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.

A temporizer.

The act of temporizing.

To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.

One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.

In a temporizing or yielding manner.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

Time.

See Temse.

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.

Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.

The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.

Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin.

Tempting.

One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.

Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.

A woman who entices.

A sieve.

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness.

Intoxicated; drunken.

Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink.

The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.

A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.