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Time (tīm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed (tīmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.] 1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. Bacon.
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2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
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Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. Addison.
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. Shak.
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3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
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4. To measure, as in music or harmony.
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Time, v. i. 1. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
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With oar strokes timing to their song. Whittier.
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2. To pass time; to delay. [Obs.]
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Timeful (tīmfụl), a. Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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Time-honored (tīmŏnẽrd), a. Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
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Timekeeper (tīmkēpẽr), n. 1. A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
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2. A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time. Specifically: --
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(a) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
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(b) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
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(c) One who marks the time in musical performances.
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(d) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
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Timeless (tīmlĕs), a. 1. Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.]
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Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast
Timeless, indecent. Pope.
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2. Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.]
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Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death? Shak.
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3. Having no end; interminable; unending. “Timeless night and chaos.” Young.
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Timelessly, adv. In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] Milton.
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Timeliness (tīmlēnĕs), n. The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
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Timeling (tīmlĭng), n. A timeserver. [Obs.]
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Timely (tīmlē), a. [Compar. Timelier (tīmlēẽr); superl. Timeliest.] 1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. “The timely dew of sleep.” Milton.
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2. Keeping time or measure. Spenser.
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Timely, adv. Early; soon; in good season.
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Timely advised, the coming evil shun. Prior.
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Thanks to you,
That called me timelier than my purpose hither,
For I have gained by it. Shak.
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Timenoguy (t�mĕn�gī), n. (Naut.) A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
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Timeous (?), a. Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] -- Timeously, adv. [R. or Scot.]
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Timepiece (?), n. A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
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Timepleaser (?), n. One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.
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Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
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Time policy. (Insurance) A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.
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Timer (?), n. 1. A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
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2. (Internal-combustion Engines) In electric ignition, an adjustable device for automatically timing the spark.
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Timesaving (?), a. Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
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Timeserver (?), n. One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
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Timeserving, a. Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
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Timeserving, n. An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
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Syn. -- Temporizing. -- , . Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible.
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Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. South.
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[I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both. Shak.
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Time signature. (Music) A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.
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Time-table (?), n. 1. A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.
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2. (Railroad) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.
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3. (Mus.) A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.
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Timid (?), a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.] Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
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Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.
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Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint-hearted; shrinking; retiring.
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-- Timidly, adv. -- Timidness, n.
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Timidity (?), n. [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidité.] The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
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Timidous (?), a. Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.
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Timist (?), n. [Written also timeist.] 1. (Mus.) A performer who keeps good time.
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2. A timeserver. [Obs.] Overbury.
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Timmer (?), n. Same as 1st . [Scot.]
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Timocracy (?), n. [Gr. �; � honor, worth (fr. � to honor) + � to govern: cf. F. timocratie.] (Gr. Antiq.) (a) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive. (b) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
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Timocratic (?), a. Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy. Sir G. C. Lewis.
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Timoneer (?), n. [F. timonier, fr. timon a helm, fr. L. temo, -onis, a pole.] A helmsman. [R.]
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Timorous (?), a. [LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear; akin to timere to fear. See .] 1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak.
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2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. “The timorous apostasy of chuchmen.” Milman.
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-- Timorously, adv. -- Timorousness, n.
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Timorsome (?), a. Easily frightened; timorous. [Written also timersome.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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{ Timothy (?), n., or Timothy grass (?) }. [From Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.] (Bot.) A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Timothy (Bible) A disciple and companion of St. Paul. He was the son of a Greek and a Jewess, and his home was either at Derbe, or Lystra in Lycaonia. Paul set him apart as a minister of the new gospel, and after preaching in Macedonia and Achaia, he went, at Paul's request to Ephesus, and accompanied the apostle to Jerusalem. It was to him that the two epistles to Timothy were addressed by the apostle Paul. According to tradition, Timothy suffered martyrdom under Domitian. The Student's Cyclopedia, 1897.
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Timour (tēm�r), prop. n. See .
Syn. -- Tamerlane, Timur.
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Timous (?), a. [Cf. .] Timely; seasonable. [Obs.] Bacon. -- Timously, adv. [Obs.]
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Timpano (?), n.; pl. Timpani (#). [It.] (Mus.) See .
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Timur, Timur-leng prop. n. See .
Syn. -- Tamerlane, Timour.
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Tim-whiskey (?), n. A kind of carriage. See . Southery.
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Tin (?), n. [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. & Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft silvery-white crystalline metal, with a tinge of yellowish-blue, and a high luster. It is malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is softer than gold and can be beaten out into very thin strips called tinfoil. It is ductile at 2120, when it can be drawn out into wire which is not very tenacious; it melts at 4420, and at a higher temperature burns with a brilliant white light. Air and moisture act on tin very slightly. The peculiar properties of tin, especially its malleability, its brilliancy and the slowness with which it rusts make it very serviceable. With other metals it forms valuable alloys, as bronze, gun metal, bell metal, pewter and solder. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
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2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
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3. Money. [Cant] Beaconsfield.
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Coloq. Block tin (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also bar tin. -- Coloq. Butter of tin . (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under . -- Coloq. Grain tin . (Metal.) See under . -- Coloq. Salt of tin (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. -- Coloq. Stream tin . See under . -- Coloq. Tin cry (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. -- Coloq. Tin foil , tin reduced to a thin leaf. -- Coloq. Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. -- Coloq. Tin liquor , Coloq. Tin mordant (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. -- Coloq. Tin penny , a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Coloq. Tin plate , thin sheet iron coated with tin. -- Coloq. Tin pyrites . See .
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Tin (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tinning.] To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
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Tinamides (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.
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Tinamou (?), n. [From the native name: cf. F. tinamous.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.
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☞ In general appearance and habits they resemble grouse and partridges, but in anatomical characters they are allied to the ostriches and other struthious birds. Their wings are of moderate length, and they are able to fly a considerable distance.
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Tincal (?), n. [Ar., Per. & Hind. tinkār; cf. Malay tingkal; all fr. Skr. �a�ka�a. Cf. .] (Chem.) Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. .
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Tinchel (?), n. [Written also tinchill.] [Gael. timchioll a circuit, compass.] A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass. [Scot.]
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We'll quell the savage mountaineer,
As their tinchel cows the game! Sir W. Scott.
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Tinct (?), a. [L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to tinge. See .] Tined; tinged. [Archaic] Spenser.
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Tinct, n. [See .] Color; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] “Blue of heaven's own tinct.” Shak.
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All the devices blazoned on the shield,
In their own tinct. Tennyson.
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Tinct, v. t. [See .] To color or stain; to imblue; to tint. [Archaic] Bacon.
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Tinctorial (?), a. [L. tinctorius, from tinctor a dyer, tingere, tinctum, to dye: cf. F. tinctorial. See .] Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter. Ure.
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Tincture (?), n. [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere, tinctum, to tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F. teinture, L. tinctura. See .] 1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
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2. (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
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☞ There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors and their representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner. The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair, counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See Illustration in Appendix.
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3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
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4. (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
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☞ According to the United States Pharmacopœia, the term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic solutions of volatile substances being called spirits.
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Coloq. Ethereal tincture , a solution of medicinal substance in ether.
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5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
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6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
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All manners take a tincture from our own. Pope.
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Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture. Macaulay.
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Tincture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tincturing.] 1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
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A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts.
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2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
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The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul. Barrow.
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Tind (?), v. t. [OE. tenden, AS. tendan; akin to G. zünden, OHG. zunten, Icel. tendra, Sw. tända, Dan. tænde, Goth. tandjan to kindle, tundnan to be kindled, to burn. Cf. .] To kindle. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
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Tindal (?), n. [From the native name: cf. Malayalam ta��al.] 1. A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.
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2. An attendant on an army. [India] Simmonds.
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Tinder (?), n. [OE. tinder, tunder, AS. tynder, tyndre; akin to tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra, Icel. tundr, Sw. tunder, Dan. tönder. See .] Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
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Coloq. German tinder . Same as . -- Coloq. Tinder box , a box in which tinder is kept.
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