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Tedium (?), n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper.
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To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson.
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The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.
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Tee (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tjā to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole in golf.
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Tee, n. 1. 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 in shape.
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2. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.
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Tee (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teeing.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.
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Teeing ground. (Golf) The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.
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Tee iron (?). See T iron, under .
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Teek (?), n. (Bot.) See . [Obs.]
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Teel (?), n. Sesame. [Sometimes written til.]
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Coloq. Teel oil , sesame oil.
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Teelseed (?), n. The seed of sesame.
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Teem (?), v. t. [Icel. tæma to empty, from tōmr empty; akin to Dan. tömme to empty, Sw. tömma. See to empty.] 1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.
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2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
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Teem, v. t. [See , a., and cf. .] To think fit. [Obs. or R.] G. Gifford.
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Teem, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming.] [OE. temen, AS. tēman, t�man, from teám. See .] 1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen. Shak.
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2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
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His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. Sir W. Scott.
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The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. F. Harrison.
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Teem, v. t. To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
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That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one. Shak.
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Teemer (?), n. One who teems, or brings forth.
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Teemful (?), a. 1. Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]
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2. Brimful. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
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Teeming, a. Prolific; productive.
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Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
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Teemless, a. Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. [Poetic] Dryden.
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Teen (?), n. [OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See .] Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser.
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With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.
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Teen, v. t. [AS. teónian, t�nan, to slander, vex. √64. See , n.] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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Teen, v. t. [See to shut.] To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Teen, n. a .
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Teenage (?), n. The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Teenage (tēnāj), n. of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.
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Teenager (tēnājẽr), n. a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.
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Teend (?), v. t. & i. [See .] To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.
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Teenful (?), a. Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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Teens (?), n. pl. [See .] The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
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Teeny (?), a. Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]
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Teeny (?), a. [See grief.] Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. [Prov. Eng.]
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Teeong (?), n. (Zoöl.) The mino bird.
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Teest (?), n. A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
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Teeswater (?), n. [From the river Tees, northern England.] 1. A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.
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2. An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.
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Teetan (?), n. (Zoöl.) A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
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Teetee (?), n. [Sp. tití.] 1. (Zoöl.) 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 .
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2. (Zoöl.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).
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Teeter (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Teetered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teetering.] [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel. titra to tremble, OHG. zittarōn, G. zittern.] 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. [U. S.]
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[The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down. H. W. Beecher.
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Teeter-tail (?), n. (Zoöl.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under .
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Teeth (?), n., pl. of .
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Teeth (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teethed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teething.] To breed, or grow, teeth.
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Teething (?), n. The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
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Teetotal (?), a. Entire; total. [Colloq.]
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Teetotaler (?), n. One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
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Teetotalism (?), n. The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
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Teetotally (?), adv. Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]
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Teetotum (?), n. [For T-totum. It was used for playing games of chance, and was four-sided, one side having the letter T on it, standing for Latin totum all, meaning, take all that is staked, whence the name. The other three sides each had a letter indicating an English or Latin word; as P meaning put down, N nothing or L. nil, H half. See .] A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.
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The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a teetotum nearly spent. Dickens.
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Tee-to-tum (?), n. [Cf. .] A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [Colloq. or Cant]
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Teetuck (?), n. The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
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Teeuck (?), n. The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
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Teewit (?), n. (Zoöl.) The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]
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Teg (?), n. A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Tegmen (?), n.; pl. Tegmina (#). [L., fr. tegere, tectum, to cover.] 1. A tegument or covering.
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2. (Bot.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.
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3. (Zoöl.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.
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4. pl. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Tegmental (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
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Tegmentum (?), n.; pl. Tegmenta (#). [L., a covering.] (Anat.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
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Teguexin (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.
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Tegula (?), n.; pl. Tegulæ (#). [L., a tile, dim. fr. tegere to cover.] (Zoöl.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
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Tegular (?), a. [LL. tegularis, from L. tegula a tile. See .] Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Tegularly, adv.
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Tegulated (?), a. Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.
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Tegument (?), n. [L. tegumentum, from tegere to cover. See , n., and cf. , .] 1. A cover or covering; an integument.
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2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
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Tegumentary (?), a. [Cf. F. tégumentaire.] Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
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Te-hee (?), n. & interj. A tittering laugh; a titter. “'Te-hee,' quoth she.” Chaucer.
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Te-hee, v. i. To titter; to laugh derisively.
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She cried, “Come, come; you must not look grave upon me.” Upon this, I te-heed. Madame D'Arblay.
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Teil (?), n. [OF. teil, til, L. tilia.] (Bot.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.
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Teind (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tīund. See .] A tithe. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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Teine (?), n. See . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Teinland (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.
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Teinoscope (?), n. [Gr. � to extend + -scope.] (Physics) 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. Sir D. Brewster.
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Teint (?), n. [F. teint, teinte. See .] Tint; color; tinge, See . [Obs.]
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Time shall . . . embrown the teint. Dryden.
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Teinture (?), n. [F. See .] Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.] Holland.
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Tek (?), n. (Zoöl.) A Siberian ibex.
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Telamones (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. � a bearer, fr. � to bear.] (Arch.) Same as .
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Telangiectasis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � end + � vessel + � extension.] (Med.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
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Telangiectasy (?), n. (Med.) Telangiectasis.
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Telarly (?), adv. In a weblike manner. [Obs.] “Telarly interwoven.” Sir T. Browne.
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Telary (?), a. [LL. telaris, fr. L. tela a web. See a snare.] Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. “Pictures of telary spiders.” Sir T. Browne.
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Telautogram (?), n. A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.
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Telautograph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + autograph.] A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. -- Telautographist (#), n.
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Telechirograph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + cheir, cheiros, hand + -graph.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.
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Teledu (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.
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Telega (?), n. [Russ. telyega.] A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.
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Telegony (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + root of Gr. � to be born.] (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Telegonous (#), a.
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Telegram (?), n. [Gr. � far + -gram.] A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
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☞ “A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.” Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
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Telegrammic (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. [R.]
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Telegraph (?), n. [Gr. � far, far off (cf. Lith. toli) + -graph: cf. F. télégraphe. See .] 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.
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☞ The instruments used are classed as indicator, type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Coloq. Acoustic telegraph . See under . -- Coloq. Dial telegraph , a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station. -- Coloq. Electric telegraph , or Coloq. Electro-magnetic telegraph , a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. -- Coloq. Facsimile telegraph . See under . -- Coloq. Indicator telegraph . See under . -- Coloq. Pan-telegraph , an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station. -- Coloq. Printing telegraph , an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. -- Coloq. Signal telegraph , a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. -- Coloq. Submarine telegraph cable , a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. -- Coloq. Telegraph cable , a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean.
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Telegraph (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telegraphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Telegraphing (?).] [F. télégraphier.] To convey or announce by telegraph.
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Telegrapher (?), n. One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
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telegraphese n. 1. language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams.
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Telegraphic (?), a. [Cf. F. télégraphique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
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2. having only the essential information; brief; concise; terse; -- of communications, by analogy with the style of telegrams, which are short to avoid unnecessary expense. a telegraphic communication should have enough information to allow comprehension of the content, though it may leave out normally included words. If so much is left out that the communication becomes difficult or impossible to understand, it may be called cryptic. “Sighted sub. Sank same.” is a telegraphic message.
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Telegraphical (?), a. Telegraphic. -- Telegraphically, adv.
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Telegraphist (?), n. One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
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Telegraph plant (Bot.), A tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans formerly Desmodium gyrans), native of the East Indies; it is a leguminous plant whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.
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Telegraphone (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + � sound.] An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.
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Telegraphoscope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + -scope.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, relay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image. It is now (1999) obsolete, having been replaced by telefax and internet transmission of images.
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Telegraphy (?), n. [Cf. F. télégraphie.] The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
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Telegu, prop. a. & n. same as .
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Telehydrobarometer (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + hydrobarometer.] An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.
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Tele-iconograph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + iconograph.] 1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.
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2. A form of facsimile telegraph.
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telekinesis (tĕlŭkĭnēsĭs), n. the ability to move objects by means of thought alone, without physical means; -- an ability claimed by certain persons, such as mediums. the existence of this ability is disbelieved by most scientists.
Syn. -- psychokinesis
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Tel-el-Amarna (?), n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile in Egypt, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the ancient city of Akhetaton, capital of Amenophis IV. (Akhenaton, or Amenhotep IV., of the 18th dynasty, king 1353-1336 B. C.), whose archive chamber was discovered there during extensive excavations in 1887-1888. A collection of about 300 clay tablets (called the Coloq. Tel-el-Amarna tablets , or the Coloq. Amarna tablets ) was found here, forming the diplomatic correspondence ( Coloq. Tel-el-Amarna letters ) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., with the kings of Asiatic countries (such as Babylonia, Assyria, and Palestine), written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c.. The name of the site is also spelled Tell-el-Amarna, Tell el Amarna, and Tel Amarna.
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Telelectric (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + electric.] (Elec.) Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.
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Telelectroscope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + electro- + -scope.] Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.
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telemarketing n. the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion; calling potential customers by telephone for the purpose of selling something; -- applied especially to calls made to persons who have not previously contacted the seller.
Syn. -- teleselling.
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Telemechanic (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + mechanic.] Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. -- Telemechanism (#), n.
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Telemachus (?), prop. n. The son of Odysseus and Penelope, as told in Homer's Oddysey.
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Telemeteorograph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + meteorograph.] Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Telemeteorographic (#), a.
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Telemeter (?), n. [Gr. � far + -meter.] 1. 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.
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2. A measuring instrument which sends the information obtained from its sensors by radio to a distant station, usually to be recorded there; also, the complete system including measuring instrument, transmitter, and receiver. Such instruments are used, for example, to measure conditions in space or in other locations difficult of access for humans observers, or merely to allow one observer to monitor conditions in many places simultaneously.
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Telemetrograph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + metron measure + -graph.] A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Telemetrography (#), n. -- Telemetrographic (#), a.
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Telemetry (?), n. The science or process of making remote measurements and sending the data by radio; the use of a telemeter.
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Telemotor (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + motor.] (Naut.) A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.
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telencephalon n. 1. the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus.
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Telenergy (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + energy.] Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; now more commonly called telekinesis; -- applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Telenergic (#), a.
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Telengiscope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + � near + -scope.] (Optics) An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.
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Teleocephali (tēl��sĕfȧlī or tĕl��sĕfȧlī), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. teleos complete + kefalh head.] (Zoöl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
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Teleological (?), a. [Cf. F. téléologique.] 1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
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2. showing evidence of design or purpose, especially in natural phenomena.
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-- Teleologically, adv.
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Teleologist (?), n. (Biol.) One versed in teleology.
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Teleology (?), n. [Gr. �, teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F. téléologie.] The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.), 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.
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Teleophore (?), n. [Gr. teleos complete + ferein to bear.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Teleorganic (?), a. [Gr. teleos complete + E. organic.] (Physiol.) Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
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Teleosaur (?), n. (Paleon.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebræ.
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Teleosaurus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � complete, perfect + � a lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
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Teleost (?), n. [Gr. � complete + � bone.] (Zoöl.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
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Teleostean (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. -- n. A teleostean fish.
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Teleostei (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � complete + � bone.] (Zoöl.) A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
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