Tegmen (n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.
Tegmen (n.) Same as Tectrices.
Tegmental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
Tegmenta (pl. ) of Tegmentum
Tegmentum (n.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
Teguexin (n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
Tegulae (pl. ) of Tegula
Tegula (n.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Tegular (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
Tegulated (a.) Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor.
Tegument (n.) A cover or covering; an integument.
Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Te-hee (n. & interj.) A tittering laugh; a titter.
Te-hee (v. i.) To titter; to laugh derisively.
Teil (n.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.
Teind (n.) A tithe.
Teine (n.) See Teyne.
Teinland (n.) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.
Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
Teint (n.) Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.
Teinture (n.) Color; tinge; tincture.
Tek (n.) A Siberian ibex.
Telamones (n. pl.) Same as Atlantes.
Telangiectasis (n.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
Telangiectasy (n.) Telangiectasis.
Telarly (adv.) In a weblike manner.
Telary (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.
Teledu (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard.
Telegram (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Telegrammic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
Telegraph (n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
Telegraphed (imp. & p. p.) of Telegraph
Telegraphing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telegraph
Telegraph (v. t.) To convey or announce by telegraph.
Telegrapher (n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
Telegraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
Telegraphical (a.) Telegraphic.
Telegraphist (n.) One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Telegraphy (n.) The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
Telemeter (n.) An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.
Teleocephial (n. pl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
Teleological (a.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
Teleologist (n.) One versed in teleology.
Teleology (n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things
Teleology (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
Teleophore (n.) Same as Gonotheca.
Teleorganic (a.) Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
Teleosaur (n.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
Teleosaurus (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
Teleost (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Teleostean (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
Teleostean (n.) A teleostean fish.
Teleostei (n. pl.) A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
Teleostomi (n. pl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
Teleozoic (a.) Having tissued composed of cells.
Teleozoon (n.) A metazoan.
Telepathy (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Telepheme (n.) A message by a telephone.
Telephone (n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
Telephone (v. t.) To convey or announce by telephone.
Telephonic (a.) Conveying sound to a great distance.
Telephonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.
Telephonically (adv.) By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.
Telephony (n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
Telepolariscope (n.) A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
Telerythin (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Telescoped (imp. & p. p.) of Telescope
Telescoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telescope
Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
Telescope (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
Telescopic (a.) Alt. of Telescopical
Telescopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.
Telescopical (a.) Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.
Telescopical (a.) Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision.
Telescopical (a.) Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
Telescopically (adv.) In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
Telescopist (n.) One who uses a telescope.
Telescopy (n.) The art or practice of using or making telescopes.
Telesm (n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm.
Telesmatic (a.) Alt. of Telesmatical
Telesmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to telesms; magical.
Telespectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
Telestereoscope (n.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
Telestic (a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.
Telestich (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
Telethermometer (n.) An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
Telic (a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.
Told (imp. & p. p.) of Tell
Telling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell
Tell (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
Tell (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
Tell (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
Tell (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
Tell (v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
Tell (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
Tell (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
Tell (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.