Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

A triplet.

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

A salt of terebic acid.

A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.

The turpentine tree.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.

The act of terebrating, or boring.

A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

A borer; the teredo.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in Appendix.

A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

A salt of terephthalic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.

Round; terete.

Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.

Terete.

Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.

Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Threefold; thrice-paired.

Carrying or bearing upon the back.

The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

The back of an animal. The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.

The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.

The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding.

Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

Same as Termatarium.

One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.

A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.

That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.

A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

Termination; ending.

To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

One who, or that which, terminates.

Terminative.

To terminate.

The doctrine held by the Terminists.

One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace.

Of or pertaining to terminology.

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time.

Term by term; every term.

Terminology.

Same as Termer, 2.

That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.

A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.

Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers.

Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

The number three; three things together; a ternary.

Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.

Terpenylic.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4 (called also terpentic acid), homologous with terebic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance by the oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid.

A polymeric form of terpene, resembling terbene.

A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.

The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

The earth; earth.

To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.

Cultivation on the earth; agriculture.

A region or limited area considered with reference to some special feature; as, the terrane of a river, that is, its drainage basin.

Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.

Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe.

See 2d Terrier, 2.

See /rass.

One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.

An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

See Turren.

Quality of being earthy; earthiness.

A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth.

An earthquake.

The earth's surface; the earth.

Earthiness; worldliness.

Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

Terrestrial; earthly.

An inhabitant of the earth.

To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy.

Terrestrial.

One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.

The arctic fox.

One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.

Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

Terrific.

In a terrific manner.

To make terrible.

Earthborn; produced by the earth.

A dish or pan, originally of earthenware, such as those in which various dishes are cooked and served; esp., an earthenware jar containing some table delicacy and sold with its contents.

Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

a pattern of behavior characterized by the marking and defense of a home territory, exhibited by certain male animals.

To enlarge by extension of territory.

In regard to territory; by means of territory.