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Tyler (tīlẽr), n. See 2d .
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Tylopoda (tīlŏp�dȧ), n. pl. [NL., from tylh a cushion + -poda.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.
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Tylosis (?), n.; pl. Tyloses (#). [NL., fr. Gr. tylos a lump, knot.] (Bot.) An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.
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Tymbal (?), n. [F. timbale, Sp. timbal; cf. atabal; probably of Arabic origin. Cf. , .] A kind of kettledrum. [Written also timbal.]
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A tymbal's sound were better than my voice.
Prior.
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Tymp (?), n. [Cf. .] (Blast Furnace) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
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Tympan (?), n. [F., fr. L. tympanum a kettledrum, a panel of a door. See , and cf. .] 1. A drum. [Obs.]
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2. (Arch.) A panel; a tympanum.
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3. (Print.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
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Coloq. Tympan sheet (Print.), a sheet of paper of the same size as that to be printed, pasted on the tympan, and serving as a guide in laying the sheets evenly for printing. W. Savage.
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Tympanal (?), n. Tympanic.
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Tympanic (?; 277), a. [See .] 1. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.
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2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.
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Coloq. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. -- Coloq. Tympanic membrane . (Anat.) See the Note under .
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Tympanic, n. (Anat.) The tympanic bone.
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Tympanist (?), n. [L. tympaniste, Gr. tympanisths.] One who beats a drum. [R.]
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Tympanites (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. tympaniths, fr. tympanon a kettledrum.] (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
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Tympanitic (?), a. [L. tympaniticus one afflicted with tympanites.] (Med.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.
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Tympanitis (?), n. [NL. See , .] (Med.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.
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Tympanize (?), v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. tympanizein.] To drum. [R.] Coles.
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Tympanize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tympanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tympanizing (?).] To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] “Tympanized, as other saints of God were.” Oley.
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Tympano (?), n.; pl. Tympani (#). [It. timpano. See .] (Mus.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See . [Written also timpano.]
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Tympano- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.
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Tympanohyal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. -- n. The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.
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Tympanum (?), n.; pl. E. Tympanums (#), L. Tympana (#). [L., a kettledrum, a drum or wheel in machines, the triangular area in a pediment, the panel of a door, Gr. tympanon, typanon, fr. � to strike, beat. See , and cf. .] 1. (Anat.) (a) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See . (b) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
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3. (Arch.) (a) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table. (b) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
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4. (Mech.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
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Tympany (?), n. [Gr. �, fr. � a kettledrum. See .] 1. (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.
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2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. “Thine's a tympany of sense.” Dryden.
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A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence.
De Quincey.
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Tynd (?), v. t. [See to shut in.] To shut; to close. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Tyne (?), v. t. [Icel. tȳna.] To lose. [Obs. or Scot.] “His bliss gan he tyne.” Piers Plowman. Sir W. Scott.
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Tyne, v. i. To become lost; to perish. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Tyne, n. [See a prong.] (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
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Tyne, n. [See , n.] Anxiety; tine. [Obs.] “With labor and long tyne.” Spenser.
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Tyny (?), a. [See .] Small; tiny. [Obs.]
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Typal (?), a. Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.
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-type (?). [See , n.] A combining form signifying impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.
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Type (tīp), n. [F. type; cf. It. tipo, from L. typus a figure, image, a form, type, character, Gr. typos the mark of a blow, impression, form of character, model, from the root of typtein to beat, strike; cf. Skr. tup to hurt.] 1. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
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The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel.
Shak.
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2. Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
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Thy father bears the type of king of Naples.
Shak.
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3. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
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A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited.
South.
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4. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative. Specifically: (a) (Biol.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
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Since the time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types.
Haeckel.
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(b) (Fine Arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
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(c) (Chem.) A simple compound, used as a model or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
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☞ The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, HCl; water, H2O; ammonia, NH3; and methane, CH4.
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5. (Typog.) (a) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. (b) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.
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☞ Type are mostly made by casting type metal in a mold, though some of the larger sizes are made from maple, mahogany, or boxwood. In the cut, a is the body; b, the face, or part from which the impression is taken; c, the shoulder, or top of the body; d, the nick (sometimes two or more are made), designed to assist the compositor in distinguishing the bottom of the face from te top; e, the groove made in the process of finishing, -- each type as cast having attached to the bottom of the body a jet, or small piece of metal (formed by the surplus metal poured into the mold), which, when broken off, leaves a roughness that requires to be removed. The fine lines at the top and bottom of a letter are technically called ceriphs, and when part of the face projects over the body, as in the letter f, the projection is called a kern.
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The type which compose an ordinary book font consist of Roman CAPITALS, small capitals, and lower-case letters, and Italic CAPITALS and lower-case letters, with accompanying figures, points, and reference marks, -- in all about two hundred characters. Including the various modern styles of fancy type, some three or four hundred varieties of face are made. Besides the ordinary Roman and Italic, some of the most important of the varieties are --
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Old English. Black Letter.
Old Style. French Elzevir.
Boldface. Antique.
Clarendon. Gothic.
Typewriter. Script.
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The smallest body in common use is diamond; then follow in order of size, pearl, agate, nonpareil, minion, brevier, bourgeois (or two-line diamond), long primer (or two-line pearl), small pica (or two-line agate), pica (or two-line nonpareil), English (or two-line minion), Columbian (or two-line brevier), great primer (or two-line bourgeois), paragon (or two-line long primer), double small pica (or two-line small pica), double pica (or two-line pica), double English (or two-line English), double great primer (or two-line great primer), double paragon (or two-line paragon), canon (or two-line double pica). Above this, the sizes are called five-line pica, six-line pica, seven-line pica, and so on, being made mostly of wood. The following alphabets show the different sizes up to great primer.
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Brilliant . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Diamond . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Pearl . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Agate . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Nonpareil . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Minion . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Brevier . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Bourgeois . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Long primer . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Small pica . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Pica . . . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
English . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Columbian . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Great primer . . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use of by American type founders, but is substantially correct for England. Agate, however, is called ruby, in England, where, also, a size intermediate between nonpareil and minion is employed, called emerald.
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Coloq. Point system of type bodies (Type Founding), a system adopted by the type founders of the United States by which the various sizes of type have been so modified and changed that each size bears an exact proportional relation to every other size. The system is a modification of a French system, and is based on the pica body. This pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed “points,” and every type body consist of a given number of these points. Many of the type founders indicate the new sizes of type by the number of points, and the old names are gradually being done away with. By the point system type founders cast type of a uniform size and height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other type made by different founders would often vary slightly so that they could not be used together. There are no type in actual use corresponding to the smaller theoretical sizes of the point system. In some cases, as in that of ruby, the term used designates a different size from that heretofore so called.
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1 American 9 Bourgeois
11/2 German
2 Saxon 10 Long Primer
21/2 Norse
3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica
31/2 Ruby 12 Pica
4 Excelsior
41/2 Diamond 14 English
5 Pearl 16 Columbian
51/2 Agate
6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer
7 Minion
8 Brevier 20 Paragon
Diagram of the points by which sizes of Type are graduated in the Point System.
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Coloq. Type founder , one who casts or manufacture type. -- Coloq. Type foundry , Coloq. Type foundery , a place for the manufacture of type. -- Coloq. Type metal , an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper. -- Coloq. Type wheel , a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. -- Coloq. Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. Darwin.
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Type (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Typing.] 1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White (Johnson).
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2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]
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Let us type them now in our own lives.
Tennyson.
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Typesetter (?), n. One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
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Typesetting, n. The act or art of setting type.
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Typewrite (?), v. t. & i. To write with a typewriter. [Recent]
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Typewriter (?), n. 1. 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.
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2. One who uses such an instrument.
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Typewriting, n. The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
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Typhlitis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � blind, closed (as applied to the cæcum) + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the cæcum.
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Typhlosole (?), n. [Gr. � blind + � channel.] (Zoöl.) A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
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Typhoëan (?), a. [L. Typhoius, from Typhoeus, Gr. �, �.] Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t�fōūs), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.
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☞ Sometimes incorrectly written and pronounced Ty-phœan (�), or Ty-phe an.
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Typhoid (?), a. [Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. �. See .] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
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Coloq. Typhoid fever , a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See . -- Coloq. Typhoid state , a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.
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