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.

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.

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.

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.

Having great tenderness; easily moved.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.

One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.

Attendance; care.

A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

Tendinous.

See Tenosynovitis.

Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

Tender feeling or fondness; affection.

Tender feeling; fondness.

Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.

A tendril.

A tender; an offer.

See 1st and 2d Teen.

The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.

Tenebrific.

Tenebrous.

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.

That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.

Capable of being leased; held by tenants.

A tenet.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.