A drum.
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Tympanic.
The tympanic bone.
One who beats a drum.
A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.
Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.
To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.
Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.
The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
To shut; to close.
Anxiety; tine.
Small; tiny.
Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
The act or art of setting type.
To write with a typewriter.
An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.
The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
Inflammation of the caecum.
A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.
Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.
A low delirium common in typhus fever.
According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him.
A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.
Typhus.
A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.
Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.
A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
Typical.
Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.
One who, or that which, typifies.
To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.
a typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.
A representation of the world.
A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
A printer.
Of or pertaining to the act or art of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical.
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.
A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction.
A discourse or treatise on types.
Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetae of America.
A tyrant.
A female tyrant.
Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.
Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.
The act of killing a tyrant.
Like a tyrant; tyrannical.
To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.
Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; be to tyrannical.
To prey upon. See 4th Tire.
Same as 2nd tire, n., sense 5.
A native of Tyre.
A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship.
A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.
The state of being a tyro, or beginner.
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance--amino acid--> present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative.
A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.
Same as Tyrotoxicon.
A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.
The black guillemot.
See Tithe.
See Tithing.
The emperor of Russia. See Czar.
The empress of Russia. See Czarina.
Same as Tsetse.
Having the form of the letter U; of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.
Same as Ouakari.
Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.
Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.
The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness.
Ubiquitous.
One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also ubiquitist, and ubiquitary.
Quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous.
One who exists everywhere.
Same as Ubiquist.
Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.
Existence everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresence; as, the ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit his existence.
A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.
One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.
Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial.
In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.
Vars. of Odal, etc.; property held by udal, or allodial, right -- Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates a freehold, land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.
The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.
Having an udder or udders.
Destitute or deprived of an udder.
A rain gauge.
An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.
Ugly.
To disfigure; to make ugly.
In an ugly manner; with deformity.
The quality or state of being ugly.
To make ugly.
A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.
Ugly; offensive; loathsome.
One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.
An extinct genus of large Eocene ungulates allied to Dinoceras. This name is sometimes used for nearly all the known species of the group. See Dinoceras.
A foreigner; an outlander.
In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.
See Uhlan.
A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake (Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous.
To ulcerate.
Capable of ulcerating.
To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers.
Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.
The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
Ulcerous; ulcerated.
Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.
A little ulcer.
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