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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.

Thallic

Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous compounds; as, thallic oxide.

Thalline

An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

Thallium

A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.

Thallogen

One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf.

Thalloid

Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.

Thallophyta

A phylum of plants of very diverse habit and structure, including the algae, fungi, and lichens. The simpler forms, as many blue-green algae, yeasts, etc., are unicellular and reproduce vegetatively or by means of asexual spores; in the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algae, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of the above-named organs. Both asexual and sexual reproduction, often of a complex type, occur in these forms. The Thallophyta exist almost exclusively as gametophytes, the sporophyte being absent or rudimentary. By those who do not separate the Myxophyta from the Tallophyta as a distinct phylum the latter is treated as the lowermost group in the vegetable kingdom.

Thallous

Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.

Thallus

A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

Thalweg

A line following the lowest part of a valley, whether under water or not. The line of continuous maximum descent from any point on a land surface, or that cutting all contours and angles.

Thamyn

An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.

Thanage

The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

thanatopsis

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

Thanatopsis

The title of a poem by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), meditating on the subject of death. One of Bryant's best-remembered poems, it was written in 1811 and was discovered and rushed to publication in 1817 (in the North American Review) by Bryant's father, originally without the poet's knowledge. A revised version was published in 1821. In this elegy Bryant reflects that death comes to all men, common and great, and that all eventually shall rest together in the "mighty sepulchre" of the earth.

Thane

A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

thanedom

The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.

thanehood

The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively.

thaneship

The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.

thank

A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.

Thank

To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame.

Thankful

Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.

Thankless

Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful.

Thanksgiver

One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness.

Thanksgiving

The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.

Thankworthy

Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.

Tharos

A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent.

That

As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples.

Thatch

To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

Thatching

The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

Thaumatolatry

Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.

Thaumatrope

An optical instrument or toy for showing the persistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

thaumaturgist

One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker; a thaumaturge.

thaumaturgus

A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

thaumaturgy

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.

thaw

The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.

thawy

Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

The

By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.

The Iron Gates Iron Gate

A famous gorge, about 1/ miles long, cut by the Danube in the Carpathian mountains near the intersection of Hungary, Serbia, and Rumania.

the pits pits

The worst possible situation, person, or thing; something extremely bad, boring, or depressing; -- always used with the; as, cleaning the house is the pits.

Thea

A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.

theandric

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.

Thearchy

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

Theatine Theatin

One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Theatral

Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.

Theatre Theater

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

Theatrical

Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.

Theatricals

Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.

Theave

A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

Thebaic

Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

Thebaid

A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.

Thebaine

A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

Theban

A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man.

Theca

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

Thecal

Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

Thecaphore

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecae. See Basigynium.

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