Webster's Dictionary 1828

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TERMINABLE

TERM'INABLE, adjective [from term.] That may be bounded; limitable.

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TERMINAL

TERM'INAL, adjective [from Latin terminus.] In botany, growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as a terminal scape, flower or spike.1. Forming the extremity; as a t...

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TERMINATE

TERM'INATE, verb transitive [termino; terminus.]1. To bound; to limit; to set the extreme point or side of a thing; as, to terminate a surface by a line.2. To end; to put an end...

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TERMINATED

TERM'INATED, participle passive Limited; bounded; ended.

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TERMINATING

TERM'INATING, participle present tense Limiting; ending; concluding.

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TERMINATION

TERMINA'TION, noun The act of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding.1. Bound; limit in space or extent; as the termination of a line.2. End in time or exis...

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TERMINATIONAL

TERMINA'TIONAL, adjective Forming the end or concluding syllable.

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TERMINATIVE

TERM'INATIVE, adjective Directing termination.

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TERMINATIVELY

TERM'INATIVELY, adverb Absolutely; so as not to respect any thing else.

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TERMINATOR

TERM'INATOR, noun In astronomy, a name sometimes given to the circle of illumination, form its property of terminating the boundaries of light and darkness.

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TERMINER

TERM'INER, noun A determining; as in oyer and terminer

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TERMING

TERM'ING, participle present tense Calling; denominating.

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TERMINIST

TERM'INIST, noun In ecclesiastical history, a sect of christians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of particular persons, during which time they h...

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TERMINOLOGY

TERMINOL'OGY, noun [Latin terminus.] The doctrine of terms; a treatise on terms.1. In natural history, that branch of the science which explains all the terms used in the descri...

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TERMINTHUS

TERMIN'THUS, noun [Gr. a pine nut.] In surgery, a large painful tumor on the skin, thought to resemble a pine nut.

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TERMLESS

TERM'LESS, adjective Unlimited; boundless; as termless joys.

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TERMLY

TERM'LY, adjective Occurring every term; as a termly fee.TERM'LY, adverb Term by term; every term; as a fee termly given.

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TERMOR

TERM'OR, noun One who has an estate for a term of years of life.TERM'-FEE, noun Among lawyers, a fee or certain sum charged to a suitor for each term his cause is in court.

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TERN

TERN, noun [Latin sterna.] A common name of certain aquatic fowls of the genus Sterna; as the great tern or sea swallow, (S. hirundo,)the black tern the lesser tern or hooded te...

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TERNARY

TERN'ARY, adjective [Latin ternarius, of three.] Proceeding by threes; consisting of three.The ternary number, in antiquity, was esteemed a symbol of perfection and held in grea...

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TERNATE

TERN'ATE, adjective [Latin ternus, terni.] In botany, a ternate leaf, is one that has three leaflets on a petiole, as in trefoil, strawberry, bramble, etc. There are leaves also...

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TERNION

TERN'ION, noun [Latin ternarius, ternio.] The number three.

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TERRACE

TER'RACE, noun [Latin terra, the earth.]1. In gardening, a raised bank of earth with sloping sides, laid with turf, and graveled on the top for a walk.2. A balcony or open galle...

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TERRACED

TER'RACED, participle passive Formed into a terrace; having a terrace.

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TERRACING

TER'RACING, participle present tense Forming into a terrace; opening to the air.

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TERRAPIN

TER'RAPIN, noun A name given to a species of tide-water tortoise.

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TERRAQUEOUS

TERRA'QUEOUS, adjective [Latin terra, earth, and aqua, water.] Consisting of land and water, as the globe or earth. This epithet is given to the earth in regard to the surface, ...