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.

Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.

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.

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.

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball-- also, strike-->.

The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or against attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.

Same as Tenability.

The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.

Tenaciousness; obstinacy.

An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.

To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.

Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.

The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or Tinca vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.

The act of attending or waiting; attendance.

Tendency.