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Typhomalarial

Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.

Typhon

According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him.

Typhoon

A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.

Typhotoxin

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.

Typhous

Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.

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.

Typification

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

Typifier

One who, or that which, typifies.

Typify

To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

Typist

A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.

Typo

a typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.

Typograph

A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

Typographical Typographic

Of or pertaining to the act or art of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical.

Typography

The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.

Typolite

A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.

Typolithography

A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction.

Typology

A discourse or treatise on types.

Typothetae

Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetae of America.

Tyrannical Tyrannic

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.

Tyrannicidal

Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.

Tyrannize

To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.

Tyrannous

Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

Tyranny

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.

Tyrant

To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; be to tyrannical.

Tyre

To prey upon. See 4th Tire.

tyre

Same as 2nd tire, n., sense 5.

Tyro

A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

Tyrociny

The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship.

Tyrolite

A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

Tyronism

The state of being a tyro, or beginner.

Tyrosin

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.

Tyrotoxicon

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.

Tysonite

A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.

Tzar

The emperor of Russia. See Czar.

U-shaped

Having the form of the letter U; of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.

Uberous

Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.

Uberty

Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.

Ubiety Ubication

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness.

Ubiquitarian Ubiquist

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.

Ubiquitous

Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.

Ubiquity

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.

Uchees

A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.

Uckewallist

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.

Udal

Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial.

Udalman Udaler

In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.

Udalman Udaler Udalborn Udal

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.

Udder

The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.

Ugh

An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Uglify

To disfigure; to make ugly.

Uglily

In an ugly manner; with deformity.

Ugliness

The quality or state of being ugly.

Ugrian

A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.

Ugsome

Ugly; offensive; loathsome.

Uhlan

One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars.

Uintatherium

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.

Ukase

In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.

Ularburong

A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake (Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous.

Ulcerate

To affect with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers.

Ulcerated

Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.

Ulceration

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Ulcerative

Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.

Ulcerous

Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.

Ule

A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and Castilloa Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.

Ulema

A college or body composed of the hierarchy (the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice). That of Turkey alone now has political power; its head is the sheik ul Islam.

Ulexite

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

ullage

The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.

ullet

A European owl (Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color; -- called also uluia.

Ullmannite

A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.

Ulmaceous

Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

Ulmic

Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.

Ulmin

A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.

Ulmus

A genus of trees including the elm.

Ulna

The postaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

Ulnage

Measurement by the ell; alnage.

Ulnar

Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.

Ulnare

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.

Uloid

Resembling a scar; scarlike.

Ulonata

A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera.

Ulotrichan

Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. One of the Ulotrichi.

Ulotrichi

The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Ulotrichous

Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.

Ulster

A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

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