Terebration
Ter′e‐bra″tion (?), n. [L. terebratio.] The act of terebrating, or boring. Bacon.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Terebratula
‖Ter′e‐brat″u‐la (?), n.; pl.Terebratulæ (#). [Nl., dim. fr. terebratus, p. p., perforated.] (Zoöl.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. T...
Terebratulid
Ter′e‐brat″u‐lid (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.
Terebratuliform
Ter′e‐bra‐tu″li‐form (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having the general form of a terebratula shell.
Teredine
Ter″e‐dine (?), n. [F. térédine.] (Zoöl.) A borer; the teredo.
Teredo
Te‐re″do (?), n.; pl. E. Teredos (#), L. Teredines (#). [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. �, L. terere to rub.] (Zoöl.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike ...
Terek
Ter″ek (?), n. [Because found on the Terek River in the Caucasus.] A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migra...
Terephthalate
Ter‐eph″tha‐late (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of terephthalic acid.
Terephthalic
Ter′eph‐thal″ic (?), a. [Terebene + phthalic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a...
Teret
Ter″et (?), a. Round; terete. Fotherby.
Terete
Te‐rete″ (?), a. [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off, fr. terere to rub.] Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
Teretial
Te‐re″tial (?), a. [See Terete.] (Anat.) Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.
Teretous
Ter″e‐tous (?), a. Terete.
Tergal
Ter″gal (?), a. [L. tergum the back.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.
Tergant
Ter″gant (?), a.(Her.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant. [Written also tergiant.]
Tergeminal
{ Ter‐gem″i‐nal (?), Ter‐gem″i‐nate (?), } a. [See Tergeminous.] (Bot.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Tergeminous
Ter‐gem″i‐nous (?), a. [L. tergeminus; ter thrice + geminus doubled at birth, twin-born. Cf. Trigeminous.] Threefold; thrice-paired. Blount.
Tergiferous
Ter‐gif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. tergum the back + -ferous.] Carrying or bearing upon the back.Tergiferous plants(Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ...
Tergite
Ter″gite (?), n.(Zoöl.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
Tergiversate
Ter″gi‐ver‐sate (?), v. i. [L. tergiversatus, p. p. of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse.] To shift; to pract...
Tergiversation
Ter′gi‐ver‐sa″tion (?), n. [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.] 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.Writing is to be preferred before verb...
Tergiversator
Ter″gi‐ver‐sa′tor (?), n. One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
Tergum
‖Ter″gum (?), n.; pl.Terga (#). (Zoöl.) (a) The back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a c...
Terin
Te″rin (?), n. [F. tarin, Prov. F. tairin, térin, probably from the Picard tère tender.] (Zoöl.) A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Call...
Term
Term (?), n. [F. terme, L. termen, -inis, terminus, a boundary limit, end; akin to Gr. �, �. See Thrum a tuft, and cf. Terminus, Determine, Exterminate.] 1. That which limits th...
Term (2)
Term (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Termed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Terming.] [See Term, n., and cf. Terminate.] To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.Men term what is beyond ...
Term day
Term day. A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of...