Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 14

Technic (a.) Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

Technical (a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.

Technicalities (pl. ) of Technicality

Technicality (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

Technicality (n.) That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

Technically (adv.) In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

Technicalness (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

Technicals (n. pl.) Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Technicist (n.) One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

Technicological (a.) Technological; technical.

Technicology (n.) Technology.

Technics (n.) The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Technique (n.) Same as Technic, n.

Technism (n.) Technicality.

Technologic (a.) Technological.

Technological (a.) Of or pertaining to technology.

Technologist (n.) One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

Technology (n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Techy (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Tectibranch (n.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Tectibranchia (n. pl.) Same as Tectibranchiata.

Tectibranchiata (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

Tectibranchiate (a.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.

Tectibranchiate (n.) A tectibranchiate mollusk.

Tectly (adv.) Covertly; privately; secretly.

Tectology (n.) A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.

Tectonic (a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

Tectonics (n.) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

Tectorial (a.) Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.

Tectrices (n. pl.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Tecum (n.) See Tucum.

Tedded (imp. & p. p.) of Ted

Tedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ted

Ted (v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

Tedder (n.) Same as Tether.

Teddered (imp. & p. p.) of Tedder

Teddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tedder

Tedder (v. t.) Same as Tether.

Te Deum () An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.

Te Deum () A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part.

Tedge (n.) The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

Tediosity (n.) Tediousness.

Tedious (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

Tedium (n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

Tee (n.) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

Tee (n.) The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.

Tee (n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

Tee iron () See T iron, under T.

Teek (n.) See Teak.

Teel (n.) Sesame.

Teelseed (n.) The seed of sesame.

Teem (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.

Teem (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

Teem (a.) To think fit.

Teemed (imp. & p. p.) of Teem

Teeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teem

Teem (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Teem (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.

Teem (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.

Teemer (n.) One who teems, or brings forth.

Teemful (a.) Pregnant; prolific.

Teemful (a.) Brimful.

Teeming (a.) Prolific; productive.

Teemless (a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.

Teen (n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

Teen (n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.

Teen (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.

Teenage (n.) The longer wood for making or mending fences.

Teend (v. t. & i.) To kindle; to burn.

Teenful (a.) Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.

Teens (n. pl.) The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Teeny (a.) Very small; tiny.

Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.

Teeong (n.) The mino bird.

Teest (n.) A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

Teetan (n.) A pipit.

Teetee (n.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

Teetee (n.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).

Teetered (imp. & p. p.) of Teeter

Teetering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teeter

Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.

Teeter-tail (n.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

Teeth (n.) pl. of Tooth.

Teethed (imp. & p. p.) of Teeth

Teething (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teeth

Teeth (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

Teething (n.) The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

Teetotal (a.) Entire; total.

Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Teetotalism (n.) The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.

Teetotally (adv.) Entirely; totally.

Teetotum (n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

Teetuck (n.) The rock pipit.

Teeuck (n.) The lapwing.

Teewit (n.) The pewit.

Teg (n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.

Tegmina (pl. ) of Tegmen

Tegmen (n.) A tegument or covering.

Tegmen (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

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