Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 26

Tewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tew

Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

Tew (v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex.

Tew (v. i.) To work hard; to strive; to fuse.

Tew (v. t.) To tow along, as a vessel.

Tew (n.) A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.

Tewan (n.) A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

Tewed (a.) Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship.

Tewel (n.) A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.

Tewel (n.) The tuyere of a furnace.

Tewhit (n.) The lapwing; -- called also teewheep.

Tewtaw (v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.

Texas (n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

Text (n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

Text (n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

Text (n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

Text (n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

Text (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

Text (v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Text-book (n.) A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

Text-book (n.) A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

Text-hand (n.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

Textile (n.) That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.

Textmen (pl. ) of Textman

Textman (n.) One ready in quoting texts.

Textorial (a.) Of or pertaining to weaving.

Textrine (a.) Of or pertaining to weaving, textorial; as, the textrine art.

Textual (a.) Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.

Textual (a.) Serving for, or depending on, texts.

Textual (a.) Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.

Textualist (n.) A textman; a textuary.

Textually (adv.) In a textual manner; in the text or body of a work; in accordance with the text.

Textuarist (n.) A textuary.

Textuary (a.) Contained in the text; textual.

Textuary (a.) Serving as a text; authoritative.

Textuary (n.) One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman.

Textuary (n.) One who adheres strictly or rigidly to the text.

Textuel (a.) Textual.

Textuist (n.) A textualist; a textman.

Textural (a.) Of or pertaining to texture.

Texture (n.) The act or art of weaving.

Texture (n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.

Texture (n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

Texture (n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

Texture (n.) A tissue. See Tissue.

Textured (imp. & p. p.) of Texture

Texturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Texture

Texture (v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Textury (n.) The art or process of weaving; texture.

Teyne (n.) A thin plate of metal.

Th () In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

Thack () Alt. of Thacker

Thacker () See Thatch, Thatcher.

Thak (v. t.) To thwack.

Thalamencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.

Thalamic (a.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.

Thalamifloral (a.) Alt. of Thalamiflorous

Thalamiflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.

Thalamocoele (n.) The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.

Thalamophora (n. pl.) Same as Foraminifera.

Thalami (pl. ) of Thalamus

Thalamus (n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Thalamus (n.) Same as Thallus.

Thalamus (n.) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

Thalassian (n.) Any sea tortoise.

Thalassic (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

Thalassinian (n.) Any species of Thalaassinidae, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.

Thalassography (n.) The study or science of the life of marine organisms.

Thaler (n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.

Thalia (n.) That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.

Thalia (n.) One of the three Graces.

Thalia (n.) One of the Nereids.

Thaliacea (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

Thalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Thalia; hence, of or pertaining to comedy; comic.

Thallate (n.) A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.

Thallene (n.) A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.

Thallic (a.) 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 (a.) Consisting of a thallus.

Thalline (n.) 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.

Thallious (a.) See Thallous.

Thallium (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.

Thallophyte (n.) Same as Thallogen.

Thallous (a.) 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.

Thalli (pl. ) of Thallus

Thallus (n.) 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.

Thammuz (n.) Alt. of Tammuz

Tammuz (n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis.

Tammuz (n.) The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

Thamnophile (n.) A bush shrike.

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

Than (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.

Than (adv.) Then. See Then.

Thanage (n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

Thanatoid (a.) Deathlike; resembling death.

Thanatology (n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death.

Thanatopsis (n.) A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

Thane (n.) 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.

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