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Tetrahedrite

A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

Tetrahedron

A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

Tetrahexahedron

A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

tetrahydrocannabinol

A chemical substance (C21H20O2) which is produced by the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa), and is the physiologically active agent of dried preparations of that plant, called variously marijuana, hashish, ganja, hemp, etc.; also called THC. It causes the euphoric effect for which the preparations are smoked or chewed. It is used in medicine in a purified form as an antiemetic (an antinausea agent), especially in conjunction with chemotherapy of cancer. It occurs primarily as the /1-3,4-trans isomer, also called /9-THC, with small amounts of the /6-3,4-trans isomer detectable at about 1%. It is a controlled substance, classified as a hallucinogen, and its possession or distribution is illegal in almost all states of the United States.

Tetrakosane

A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.

Tetralogy

A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.

Tetramera

A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.

Tetramerous

Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.

Tetrameter

A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

Tetramethylene

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives. Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds which are really related to butylene.

Tetramorph

The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

Tetrandria

A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens.

Tetraonid

A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.

Tetrapetalous

Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

Tetraphyllous

Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Tetrapla

A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

Tetrapneumona

A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.

Tetrapod

An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

Tetrapody

A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.

Tetrarchy

The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Tetraspore

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.

Tetrastich

A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.

Tetrastyle

Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. A tetrastyle building.

Tetrasyllable

A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Tetrathionic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H2S4O6, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.

Tetratomic

Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic. Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.

Tetravalence

The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.

Tetravalent

Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.

Tetraxile

Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.

Tetrazo-

A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.

Tetrazole

A crystalline acid substance, CH2N4, which may be regarded as pyrrol in which nitrogen atoms replace three CH groups; also, any of various derivatives of the same.

Tetrazone

Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

Tetrinic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.

Tetrodon

Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.

Tetrodont

Of or pertaining to the tetrodons. A tetrodon.

Tetrol

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetrolic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Tetrose

A monosaccharide derived from a certain alcohol.

Tetroxide

An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO4.

Tetryl

Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetrylene

Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetter-totter

A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.

Tetterous

Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.

Tetterwort

A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Tettigonian

Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Teufit

The lapwing; -- called also teuchit.

Teuton

One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.

Teutonic

The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

Teutonicism

A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.

Tew

A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.

Tewan

A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

Tewed

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship.

Tewel

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.

Tewhit

The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.

Tewtaw

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.

Texas

A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

Text

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Text-book

A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

Text-hand Text hand

A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

Textile

That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.

Textrine

Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.

Textual

Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.

Textually

In a textual manner; in the text or body of a work; in accordance with the text.

Textuary

One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman.

Texture

To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Textury

The art or process of weaving; texture.

Teyne

A thin plate of metal.

Thai

Of or pertaining to the Thai language, a member of the Tai group of languages.

Thalamencephalon

The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.

Thalamic

Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.

Thalamiflorous Thalamifloral

Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Thalamocoele

The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.

Thalamus

A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Thalassic

Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

Thalassinian

Any species of Thalassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.

thaler

A former German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents, around 1900.

Thalia

That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy. One of the three Graces. One of the Nereids.

Thaliacea

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

Thalian

Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.

Thallate

A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.

Thallene

A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

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