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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Tĕr'cel, n. p. 1365The male of the falcon, especially of the common falcon. Red tercel, the male in its first year.Tērçe'-mā'jor, n. p. 1365(Card-playing.) A sequence of the three best cards.Ter-cen'te-na-ry, a. p. 1365Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years.Tēr'çet, n. p. 1365(Mus.) A third. Crabb.Tēr'çine, n. p. 1365(Bot.) The outer coat of the nucleus of the ovule of a plant. Lindley.Tēr'e-binth, n. p. 1365The turpentine-tree. Spenser.Tēr'e-bin'thi-nate, a. p. 1365Impregnated with the qualities of turpentine; terebinthine.Tēr'e-bin'thine, a. p. 1365Of, or pertaining to, turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.Tĕr'e-brāte, v. t. p. 1365To perforate, as with a gimlet; to bore; to pierce. [R.]Tēr'e-brā'ting, p. a. p. 1365Boring; perforating; — applied to mollusks which form holes in rocks, wood, or the like. Humble.Tĕr′-e-brā′tion, n. p. 1365The act of terebrating or boring. [Rare.]Tĕr'e-brăt'ū-lă, n. p. 1365(Zool.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, of the order of Brachiopods, in which one of the valves is perforated for the transmission of a tendinous ligament, by which the animal fixes itself to submarine…Tĕr'e-bra-tū'li-fōrm, a. p. 1365Having the general form of terebratula shell.Tĕr'e-dīne, n. p. 1365(Zoöl.) A borer; the teredo.Tĕ-rē'do, n. p. 1365(Zoöl.) A genus of acephalous testaceous mollusks that bore and penetrate the bottom of ships, and other submersed wood; the ship-worm.Tēr'et, a. p. 1365Terete; also, round; rounded. [Obs.]Te-rēte',, a. p. 1365(Bot.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.Tēr'e-tōis, a. p. 1365Terete. [Obs.] “Teretous or long round leaves.” Browne.Tēr'gal, a. p. 1365(Anat.) Pertaining to the back; dorsal.Tēr'gant, a. p. 1365(Her.) Showing the back; as, an eagle tergant. [Written also tergiant.]Ter-gēm'i-nāl, a. p. 1365Ter-gēm'i-nate p. 1365Thrice double; as, a tergeminate leaf. Martyn.Ter-gĕm’i-noǔs, a. p. 1365Threefold. Blount.Tēr'gi-ant, a. p. 1365The same as TERGANT, q. v.Ter-gĭf'er-oŭs, a. p. 1365Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.Tĕr'gi-ver-sāte, v. i. p. 1365To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges. [Rare.] Bailey.Tēr'gi-ver-sā'tion, n. p. 1365The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being more free from passion and tergiversation. Bramhall. 2. Fickleness of…Tēr'gi-ver-sā'tor, n. p. 1365One who tergiversates; one who shuffles or evades.Tēr'gum, n. p. 1365(Entom.) The upper surface of the abdomen. Brande.Tē'rin, n. p. 1365A small singing-bird of a yellow color, with the head of an ash-color. Chaucer.Tērm, n. p. 1365A bound or boundary; the extremity of any thing; that which limits its extent; a limit. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature’s two terms or boundaries. Bacon. 2. The…Tērm, v. t. p. 1365To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate. Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe “imaginary space.” Locke.Tēr'ma-gan-cy, n. p. 1365The state or quality of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper. Baker.Tĕr’ma-gant, a. p. 1365Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous or furious; quarrelsome; scolding. The eldest was a termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench. Arbuthnot.Tēr’ma-gant, n. p. 1365A vociferous, tumultuous deity. The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and on Mahound. Fairfax. 2. A boisterous, brawling, turbulent woman;—formerly applied both to males and…Tēr’mā-gant-ly, adv. p. 1365In a termagant, turbulent, or scolding manner.Tĕrm'er, n. p. 1365One who travels to attend a law term, particularly in order to practice tricks. Spenser. 2. (Law.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.Tēr'mēz, n. p. 1365A neuropterous insect; a species of ant mostly found within the tropics, and which is very destructive to trees, wood-work, as of houses, and the like; white ant.Tĕrm'-fee, n. p. 1365(Law.) A fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause, for each or any term it is in court.Tēr’mi-na-ble, a. p. 1365Capable of being bounded; limitable.Tēr’mi-na-ble-ness, n. p. 1365The state of being terminable.Tēr’mi-nal, a. p. 1365Pertaining to, or forming, the end or extremity; as, a terminal edge. 2. (Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal scape, flower, or spike. Terminal figure. See TERM…Tĕr′mi-nal, n. p. 1365That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.Tĕr'mi-nā'li-ă, n. pl. p. 1365(Rom. Antiq.) Annual festivals held by the Romans in February in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.Tēr'mi-nāte, v. t. p. 1366To set a term or limit to; to set the extreme point or side of by bounds or limits; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. 2. To put an end to; to end; as, to terminate a…Tēr′mi-nāte, v. i. p. 1366To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, a line terminates at the equator; the torrid zone terminates at the tropics. 2. To come to a limit in time…Tēr′/mi-nā′/tion, n. p. 1366The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding. 2. Limit in space or extent; bound; as, the termination of a line. 3. End in time or existence; as, the…Tēr'mi-nā'tion-al, a. p. 1366Of, pertaining to, or forming, a termination.Tér'mi-na-tive, a. p. 1366Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; absolute; definitive. Bp. Rust.Tĕr'mi-na-tĭve-ly, adv. p. 1366In a terminative manner; absolutely. Bp. Taylor.Tēr'mi-nā'tor, n. p. 1366One who, or that which, terminates. 2. (Astron.) The dividing line between the enlightened and the unenlightened part of the moon.Tēr'mi-na-to-ry, a. p. 1366Terminating; limiting.Tēr'mīne, v. t. p. 1366To terminate. [Obs.]Tér'mi-ner, n. p. 1366A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See OYER.Tĕr'mi-nĭsm, n. p. 1366The doctrine held by Terminists.Tĕr′/mi-nīst, n. p. 1366(Eccl.) One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer of grace. Murdoch.Tēr'mi-nōl'o-gy, n. p. 1366The doctrine of terms; a treatise on terms; a theory of terms or appellations. 2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; as, the terminology of chemistry.…Ter-mīn’thus, n. p. 1366(Med.) A tumor surmounted by a black pustule resembling the fruit of the turpentine-tree. [Obs.]Tĕr’mi-nŭs, n. p. 1366Literally, a boundary; a border. 2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, and the like, but…Tēr'mite, n. p. 1366The white ant. See TERMES.