Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 93

Typed (imp. & p. p.) of Type

Typing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Type

Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

Type (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

Typesetter (n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

Typesetting (n.) The act or art of setting type.

Typewrite (v. t. & i.) To write with a typewriter.

Typewriter (n.) 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.

Typewriter (n.) One who uses such an instrument.

Typewriting (n.) The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

Typhlitis (n.) Inflammation of the caecum.

Typhlosole (n.) A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.

Typhoean (a.) Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.

Typhoid (a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.

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

Typhomania (n.) A low delirium common in typhus fever.

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

Typhon (n.) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.

Typhoon (n.) A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.

Typhos (n.) Typhus.

Typhotoxin (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.

Typhus (n.) 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.

Typic (a.) Typical.

Typical (a.) Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

Typical (a.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.

Typification (n.) The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

Typifier (n.) One who, or that which, typifies.

Typified (imp. & p. p.) of Typify

Typifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Typify

Typify (v. t.) To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

Typo (n.) A compositor.

Typocosmy (n.) A representation of the world.

Typographer (n.) A printer.

Typographic (a.) Alt. of Typographical

Typographical (a.) Of or pertaining to the act or act of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical.

Typographical (a.) Of or pertaining to typography or printing; as, the typographic art.

Typography (n.) The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.

Typography (n.) The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.

Typolite (n.) A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.

Typology (n.) A discourse or treatise on types.

Typology (n.) The doctrine of types.

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

Tyran (n.) A tyrant.

Tyranness (n.) A female tyrant.

Tyrannic (a.) Alt. of Tyrannical

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

Tyrannicide (n.) The act of killing a tyrant.

Tyrannicide (n.) One who kills a tyrant.

Tyrannish (a.) Like a tyrant; tyrannical.

Tyrannized (imp. & p. p.) of Tyrannize

Tyrannizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tyrannize

Tyrannize (v. i.) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.

Tyrannize (v. t.) To subject to arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical treatment; to oppress.

Tyrannous (a.) Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

Tyranny (n.) 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.

Tyranny (n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

Tyranny (n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

Tyrant (n.) An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.

Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.

Tyrant (n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.

Tyrant (v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.

Tyre () Curdled milk.

Tyre (n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.

Tyre (v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.

Tyrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.

Tyrian (a.) Being of the color called Tyrian purple.

Tyrian (n.) A native of Tyre.

Tyros (pl. ) of Tyro

Tyro (n.) 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 (n.) The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship.

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

Tyronism (n.) The state of being a tyro, or beginner.

Tyrosin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance 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 (n.) 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.

Tyrotoxine (n.) Same as Tyrotoxicon.

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

Tystie (n.) The black guillemot.

Tythe (n.) See Tithe.

Tything (n.) See Tithing.

Tzar (n.) The emperor of Russia. See Czar.

Tzarina (n.) Alt. of Tzaritza

Tzaritza (n.) The empress of Russia. See Czarina.

Tzetze (n.) Same as Tsetse.

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